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THE BOOK OF HELAMAN
CHAPTER 7
  5 Condemning the righteous because of their righteousness; letting the guilty and the wicked go aunpunished because of their bmoney; and moreover to be held in office at the head of government, to rule and do according to their wills, that they might get gain and glory of the cworld, and, moreover, that they might the more easily commit adultery, and steal, and kill, and do according to their own wills—

Footnotes
5a
Job 12: 6.
  6 The atabernacles of robbers bprosper, and they that provoke God are secure; into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.
Job 21: 7.
  7 Wherefore do the wicked live, become old, yea, are amighty in power?
Ps. 73: 12.
  12 Behold, these are the ungodly, who aprosper in the bworld; they increase in riches.
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c
Matt. 13: 22.
  22 He also that received seed among the thorns is he that heareth the word; and the care of this aworld, and the bdeceitfulness of criches, choke the word, and he becometh unfruitful.
D&C 39: 9.
  9 Nevertheless, thou hast seen great asorrow, for thou hast brejected me many times because of pride and the cares of the cworld.