Oliver Cowdery

“ Do we not then come to the irresistible conclusion that the professing christian world with all their zeal, and apparent sanctity, are preaching and inculcating another gospel?—The scriptures have told us what the true gospel is, and the effect of it, and when we compare the modern with the ancient we find it suffer in the comparison, therefore, we strongly suspect it is not the same. ”

“ Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived; neither fornicators nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves to the mankind, nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God. ”

“ We are warned by the apostle not to be deceived and he names the characters that should not inherit the kingdom of God. And most certainly a deception would be as fatal, from an erroneous principle, a spurious gospel, a false religion, as from the wicked practices of those who embraced a correct principle. ”

“ Any argument, to either evade or enforce it, is entirely superfluous. We can no more evade it than we can do away a self-evident fact by sophistry: it still tells against the perpetrators of all such crimes, and sounds the knell of departed peace incessantly in their ears. ”

“ The manner of his rebuke is directly calculated to exalt the character of God, and the inestimably privilege of the saints; when he says know ye not that ye shall judge angels. Truly this must be an exalted station, and yet the Corinthian church had become so corrupt, and so far departed from the holy commandments given unto them, as to lose their confidence in their brethren, and go to law before the unjust and not before the saints. O the great contrast between those who keep the commandments of God and those who do not! ”

“ Rather, then let us be wise, let us bring our bodies into subjection to the will of God, by yielding obedience to all his commands, that we may have right to the tree of life—and be admitted thro' the gate into the city to go no more out forever ”

“ No unrighteous act can be approbated by the Judge of heaven and earth, for the reason that all unrighteousness is sin, and he cannot look upon sin with any allowance or approbation. He has said that the soul that sinneth it shall die. ”

“ Although such characters may be surrounded with the temporal blessings of a bountiful providence, and riot in voluptuous ease, they are destitute of that peace, that comforter, that leads into all truth, and if we are destitute of that, we have not the spirit of Christ, and if have not the spirit of Christ, it is plainly said, we are none of his. ”