Alma 24: 30

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THE BOOK OF ALMA
THE SON OF ALMA

CHAPTER 24

30 And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once ^aenlightened by the ^bSpirit of God, and have had great ^cknowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have ^dfallen away into sin and transgression, they become more ^ehardened, and thus their state becomes ^fworse than though they had never known these things.

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30a	Matt. 12: 45. 45 Then goeth ^ahe, and taketh with himself seven other ^bspirits more wicked than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last ^cstate of that man is ^dworse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this wicked generation.
b	TG God, Spirit of.
c	Heb. 10: 26 (26-27). 26 For if we ^asin ^bwilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins, Alma 47: 36. 36 Now these ^adissenters, having the same instruction and the same information of the Nephites, yea, having been instructed in the same ^bknowledge of the Lord, nevertheless, it is strange to relate, not long after their dissensions they became more hardened and ^cimpenitent, and more wild, wicked and ferocious than the Lamanites—drinking in with the ^dtraditions of the Lamanites; giving way to ^eindolence, and all manner of lasciviousness; yea, entirely forgetting the Lord their God.
d	2 Ne. 31: 14. 14 But, behold, my beloved brethren, thus came the voice of the Son unto me, saying: After ye have repented of your sins, and witnessed unto the Father that ye are willing to keep my commandments, by the baptism of water, and have received the baptism of fire and of the Holy Ghost, and can speak with a new tongue, yea, even with the tongue of angels, and after this should ^adeny me, it would have been ^bbetter for you that ye had not known me. Alma 9: 19. 19 For he will not suffer you that ye shall live in your iniquities, to ^adestroy his people. I say unto you, Nay; he would rather suffer that the Lamanites might destroy all his people who are called the people of Nephi, if it were possible that they could ^bfall into sins and transgressions, after having had so much light and so much knowledge given unto them of the Lord their God; Alma 31: 8. 8 Now the Zoramites were ^adissenters from the Nephites; therefore they had had the word of God preached unto them. D&C 93: 19. 19 I give unto you these sayings that you may understand and know how to worship, and ^aknow what you worship, that you may come unto the Father in my name, and in due time receive of his fulness. TG Apostasy of Individuals. TG Holy Ghost, Loss of.
e	TG Hardheartedness.
f	2 Chr. 33: 9. 9 So Manasseh made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to err, and to do ^aworse than the ^bheathen, whom the Lord had destroyed before the children of Israel. Ezek. 5: 6. 6 And she hath changed my judgments into ^awickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have ^brefused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them. 2 Pet. 2: 20 (20-21). 20 For if after they have ^aescaped the ^bpollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are ^cagain ^dentangled therein, and ^eovercome, the latter end is ^fworse with them than the beginning.