25 Therefore, choose you by the ^avoice of this people, judges, that ye may be ^bjudged according to the ^claws which have been given you by our fathers, which are correct, and which were given them by the hand of the Lord.

  5 Nevertheless, it came to pass that Pahoran was appointed by the ^avoice of the people to be chief judge and a governor over the people of Nephi.

  19 Yea, well did Mosiah say, who was our last king, when he was about to deliver up the kingdom, having no one to confer it upon, causing that this people should be governed by their own voices—yea, well did he say that if the time should come that the voice of this people should ^achoose iniquity, that is, if the time should come that this people should fall into transgression, they would be ripe for destruction.

  40 And thus we see that they were in an awful state, and ^aripening for an everlasting destruction.

  11 And now behold, I command you, that ye shall go and declare unto this people, that thus saith the Lord God, who is the Almighty: Except ye repent ye shall be smitten, even unto ^adestruction.

  6 Behold, the ^aworld is ^bripening in iniquity; and it must needs be that the children of men are stirred up unto repentance, both the ^cGentiles and also the house of Israel.

  31 And in that place they shall lift up their voices unto God against that people, yea, unto him whose anger is ^akindled against their wickedness, a people who are well-nigh ^bripened for destruction.