“Every Kind of Sin and the Awful Consequences of Them”

D. Kelly Ogden, Andrew C. Skinner

The authors know from personal experience that at times a kind of carefree attitude toward morality has been exhibited by some Latter-day Saints—one that says, “Oh, I can sin now, and I can always repent later; it only takes a few months of waiting and I can go on a mission, or I can enter the temple.” Our minds return to the words of Jacob, who also felt the urgency to warn his people about the inevitable outcome of their behavior: “[As] ye look upon me as a teacher, it must needs be expedient that I teach you the consequences of sin” (2 Nephi 9:48). “And now I, Jacob, spake many … things unto the people of Nephi, warning them against fornication and lasciviousness [looseness, lustfulness, immoral desires], and every kind of sin, telling them the awful consequences of them” (Jacob 3:12).

“The Awful Consequences Of Fornication And Lasciviousness”

The authors know from personal experience that at times a kind of carefree attitude toward morality has been exhibited by some Latter-day Saints—one that says, “Oh, I can sin now, and I can always repent later; it only takes a few months of waiting and I can go on a mission, or I can enter the temple.” Our minds return to the words of Jacob, who also felt the urgency to warn his people about the inevitable outcome of their behavior: “[As] ye look upon me as a teacher, it must needs be expedient that I teach you the consequences of sin” (2 Nephi 9:48). “And now I, Jacob, spake many … things unto the people of Nephi, warning them against fornication and lasciviousness [looseness, lustfulness, immoral desires], and every kind of sin, telling them the awful consequences of them” (Jacob 3:12).

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