Mosiah 12:25

And now Abinadi said unto them:

Are you priests, and pretend to teach this people,

and to understand the spirit of prophesying,

and yet desire to know of me what these things mean?

Mosiah 12:26

I say unto you,

wo be unto you for perverting the ways of the Lord!

For if ye understand these things ye have not taught them;

therefore, ye have perverted the ways of the Lord.

Mosiah 12:27

Ye have not applied your hearts to understanding;

therefore, ye have not been wise.

Therefore, what teach ye this people?

Mosiah 12:28

And they said:

We teach the law of Moses.

Mosiah 12:29

And again he said unto them:

If ye teach the law of Moses

why do ye not keep it?

Why do ye set your hearts upon riches?

Why do ye commit whoredoms and spend your strength with harlots,

yea, and cause this people to commit sin,

that the Lord has cause to send me to prophesy against this people,

yea, even a great evil against this people?

Mosiah 12:30

Know ye not that I speak the truth?

Yea, ye know that I speak the truth;

and you ought to tremble before God.

Mosiah 12:31

And it shall come to pass that ye shall be smitten for your iniquities,

for ye have said that ye teach the law of Moses.

And what know ye concerning the law of Moses?

Doth salvation come by the law of Moses?

What say ye?

Mosiah 12:32

And they answered and said

that salvation did come by the law of Moses.

Mosiah 12:33

But now Abinadi said unto them:

I know if ye keep the commandments of God ye shall be saved;

yea, if ye keep the commandments

which the Lord delivered unto Moses in the mount of Sinai, saying:

Mosiah 12:34

I am the Lord thy God,

who hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt,

out of the house of bondage.

Mosiah 12:35

Thou shalt have no other God before me.

Mosiah 12:36

Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image,

or any likeness of any thing in heaven above,

or things which are in the earth beneath.

Mosiah 12:37

Now Abinadi said unto them,

Have ye done all this?

I say unto you,

Nay, ye have not.

And have ye taught this people that they should do all these things?

I say unto you,

Nay, ye have not.