The Book of Mormon

Alma 13:20

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Now I need not rehearse the matter; what I have said, may suffice. Behold, the Scriptures are before you; if ye will arrest them, it shall be to your own destruction.

Influences

2 Peter 3:16 (KJV)
As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

Changes

Now I need not rehearse the matter; what I have said, may suffice. Behold, the Sscriptures are before you; if ye will arwrest them, it shall be to your own destruction.

Simple English

I don’t need to say more about this. What I have said is enough. The scriptures are in front of you. If you twist them, it will destroy you.

Paraphrase

I don’t need to go over all the details. What I’ve said should be enough. Look, the scriptures are right in front of you. If you twist them, it will only destroy you.