The contrast to those spoken of in verses 13–15 of this chapter come in these final verses. Where there are some who have departed from God’s way, those who do fear the Lord are not left without support. They are written into the book of remembrance, indicating that Jehovah knows who they are, and they are His. This is explicit in verse 17.
At the end times, all the house of Israel will be judged. The righteous “shall … return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.”
There is no chapter break at this point in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon.