Helaman 12: 4

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THE BOOK OF HELAMAN

CHAPTER 12

4 O how ^afoolish, and how vain, and how evil, and devilish, and how ^bquick to do iniquity, and how slow to do good, are the children of men; yea, how quick to hearken unto the words of the evil one, and to set their ^chearts upon the vain things of the world!

Footnotes

4a	TG Foolishness.
b	Ex. 32: 8. 8 They have ^aturned aside ^bquickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a ^cmolten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt. Judg. 2: 17. 17 And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a ^awhoring after other ^bgods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned ^cquickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so. Isa. 59: 7. 7 Their feet ^arun to ^bevil, and they make ^chaste to ^dshed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths. Jer. 4: 22. 22 For my people is ^afoolish, they have not ^bknown me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do ^cevil, but to do good they have no knowledge.
c	Gen. 6: 5. 5 ¶ And God saw that the ^awickedness of man was great in the earth, and that ^bevery imagination of the ^cthoughts of his ^dheart was only ^eevil continually. Matt. 15: 19. 19 For out of the ^aheart proceed evil thoughts, ^bmurders, ^cadulteries, ^dfornications, thefts, ^efalse witness, ^fblasphemies: Heb. 3: 12. 12 Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil ^aheart of ^bunbelief, in ^cdeparting from the living God.