#538: "Not Willing That Any Should Perish"

9 The Lord is not slack concerning his promise and coming, as some men count slackness; but longsuffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance. ...

17 Ye therefore, beloved, seeing ye know  before the things which are coming, beware lest ye also being led away with the error of the wicked, fall from your own  steadfastness.*

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*New Testament | JST 2 Peter 3:9, 17 (bea)

Saint Peter ... (born Shimon bar Yonah; 1 BC – AD 64/68),[1] also known as Peter the Apostle, Simon Peter, Simeon, Simon, or Cephas, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus and one of the first leaders of the early Christian Church. He appears repeatedly and prominently in all four New Testament gospels, as well as the Acts of the Apostles. Catholic and Orthodox tradition treats Peter as the first bishop of Rome – or pope – and also as the first bishop of Antioch. According to Christian tradition, Peter was crucified in Rome under Emperor Nero.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter

#537: Proverbial Advice to Princes & Kings

7 Excellent speech becometh not a fool: much less do lying lips a prince.

4 The king by judgment establisheth the land: but he that receiveth gifts overthroweth it.

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* Old Testament | Proverbs 17:7
** Old Testament | Proverbs 29:4

#536: "According to His Desires"

5 Yea, and I know that good and evil have come before all men; he that knoweth not good from evil is blameless; but he that knoweth good and evil, to him it is given according to his desires, whether he desireth good or evil, life or death, joy or remorse of conscience.*

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*Book of Mormon | Alma 29:5 (bea)

#535: "More Powerful ... Than the Sword"

5 And now, as the preaching of the word had a great tendency to lead the people to do that which was just—yea, it had had more powerful effect upon the minds of the people than the sword, or anything else, which had happened unto them—therefore Alma thought it was expedient that they should try the virtue of the word of God.*

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*Book of Mormon | Alma 31:5 (bea)