Alma 47: 36

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THE BOOK OF ALMA
THE SON OF ALMA

CHAPTER 47

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.

Footnotes

36a	TG Apostasy of Individuals.
b	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 24: 30. 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.
c	Jer. 8: 12. 12 Were they ^aashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be ^bcast down, saith the Lord.
d	TG Peer Influence.
e	3 Ne. 4: 5. 5 And it came to pass that in the *nineteenth year Giddianhi found that it was expedient that he should go up to battle against the Nephites, for there was ^ano way that they could subsist save it were to plunder and rob and murder.