RLDS Verse Context
Inspired Version, 1908 Book of Mormon, DC 1-144
2 Nephi 1:87 - 2 Nephi 1:97
87 Wherefore, this thing must needs destroy the wisdom of God, and his eternal purposes; and also, the power, and the mercy, and the justice of God.
88 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin.
89 And if ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness.
90 And if there be no righteousness, there be no happiness.
91 And if there be no righteousness nor happiness, there be no punishment nor misery.
92 And if these things are not, there is no God.
93 And if there is no God, we are not, neither the earth, for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.
94 And now, my son, I speak unto you these things, for your profit and learning:
95 For there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them is;
96 Both things to act, and things to be acted upon;
97 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man, after he had created our first parents, and the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and in fine, all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition;
88 And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin.
89 And if ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness.
90 And if there be no righteousness, there be no happiness.
91 And if there be no righteousness nor happiness, there be no punishment nor misery.
92 And if these things are not, there is no God.
93 And if there is no God, we are not, neither the earth, for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.
94 And now, my son, I speak unto you these things, for your profit and learning:
95 For there is a God, and he hath created all things, both the heavens and the earth, and all things that in them is;
96 Both things to act, and things to be acted upon;
97 And to bring about his eternal purposes in the end of man, after he had created our first parents, and the beasts of the field and the fowls of the air, and in fine, all things which are created, it must needs be that there was an opposition;