RLDS Verse Context

Inspired Version, 1908 Book of Mormon, DC 1-144

3 Nephi 2:80 - 3 Nephi 2:90


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80 And their hearts were swollen with joy, unto the gushing out of many tears, because of the great goodness of God in delivering them out of the hands of their enemies;

81 And they knew it was because of their repentance and their humility that they had been delivered from an everlasting destruction.

82 And now behold there was not a living soul among all the people of the Nephites, who did doubt in the least the words of all the holy prophets who had spoken;

83 For they knew that it must needs be that they must be fulfilled; and they knew that it must be expedient that Christ had come, because of the many signs which had been given, according to the words of the prophets,

84 And because of the things which had come to pass already, they knew that it must needs be that all things should come to pass according to that which had been spoken;

85 Therefore they did forsake all their sins and their abominations, and their whoredoms, and did serve God with all diligence day and night.

86 And now it came to pass that when they had taken all the robbers prisoners, insomuch that none did escape who were not slain, they did cast their prisoners into prison, and did cause the word of God to be preached unto them;

87 And as many as would repent of their sins and enter into a covenant that they would murder no more, were set at liberty;

88 But as many as there were who did not enter into a covenant, and who did still continue to have those secret murders in their hearts; yea; as many as were found breathing out threatenings against their brethren, were condemned and punished according to the law.

89 And thus they did put an end to all those wicked, and secret, and abominable combinations, in the which there was so much wickedness, and so many murders committed.

90 And thus had the twenty and second year passed away, and the twenty and third year also, and the twenty and fourth, and the twenty and fifth;

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