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THE
DOCTRINE AND COVENANTS
OF THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS
SECTION 103
  3 For I have suffered them thus far, that they might afill up the measure of their iniquities, that their cup might be full;

Footnotes
3a
Gen. 15: 16.
  16 But in the afourth generation they shall come bhither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet cfull.
Matt. 23: 32 (30-36).
  32 Fill ye up then the ameasure of your bfathers.
Alma 14: 11 (10-11).
  11 But Alma said unto him: The Spirit constraineth me that I must not stretch forth mine hand; for behold the Lord receiveth them up unto himself, in aglory; and he doth suffer that they may do this thing, or that the people may do this thing unto them, according to the hardness of their hearts, that the bjudgments which he shall exercise upon them in his wrath may be just; and the cblood of the dinnocent shall stand as a witness against them, yea, and cry mightily against them at the last day.
Alma 60: 13.
  13 For the Lord suffereth the arighteous to be slain that his justice and bjudgment may come upon the wicked; therefore ye need not suppose that the righteous are lost because they are slain; but behold, they do enter into the rest of the Lord their God.