Text: There is no chapter break here in the 1830 edition. This verse is both a conclusion and a transition for the next verse. While this verse ends part of the story of the establishment of churches, the net social effect of that change comes in the next verse. Whether Mormon explicitly understood the creation of the churches as the enabler for the social divisions he next described we cannot tell. The next chapter, however, focuses on those divisions. Thus, this verse sets up the contrast between the initial outpouring of the Spirit and the religious contentions that will follow.