Pervert,means to twist, or to turn to error, to cause deviation from the right or true course; to lead astray, or to corrupt. In the manner of baptizing little children, Mormon pronounces wo upon those who insist that they should be. To perish will surely be the lot of them that do not repent; such a fate is possible to him in whom love does not abide. He who twists and turns (perverts) the right ways of the Lord, and corrupts the great saving principles of the Gospel of Christ, destroys himself. If one wants to make himself of no value in God's Kingdom, just break the laws by which it is governed. That is what Mormon meant when he said: "Wo be unto them that pervert the ways of the Lord." There is no surer way to pervert God's holy laws than not to keep them.
Mormon spoke boldly to his son, because he spoke by the authority of God, and with God at his side, Mormon feared no man. Let the dissidents declaim their beliefs, and the infirm of mind, their indifference, but Mormon, unlike them, had the truth with him and it made him strong. With the Word of God in his mouth, and the God of Truth nearby, Mormon knew no weakness. Fearing only the Lord Who is the Savior of all God's children, he without the restraint of the wicked, proclaimed Salvation through the mercy of Christ to "all little children...and also all they that are without the law." (v. 22)