unrighteousness

• mars human minds

9:5.7Too of­ten, all too of­ten, you mar your minds by in­sin­cer­ity and sear them with un­righ­teous­ness; you sub­ject them to an­i­mal fear and dis­tort them by use­less anx­i­ety. There­fore, though the source of mind is di­vine, mind as you know it on your world of as­cen­sion can hardly be­come the ob­ject of great ad­mi­ra­tion, much less of ado­ra­tion or wor­ship. The con­tem­pla­tion of the im­ma­ture and in­ac­tive hu­man in­tel­lect should lead only to re­ac­tions of hu­mil­ity.

• is contemptible

131:3.3“Un­righ­teous­ness is con­temptible; sin is de­spi­ca­ble. Evil is de­grad­ing, whether held in thought or wrought out in deeds. Pain and sor­row fol­low in the path of evil as the dust fol­lows the wind. Hap­pi­ness and peace of mind fol­low pure think­ing and vir­tu­ous liv­ing as the shadow fol­lows the sub­stance of ma­te­rial things. Evil is the fruit of wrongly di­rected think­ing. It is evil to see sin where there is no sin; to see no sin where there is sin. Evil is the path of false doc­trines. Those who avoid evil by see­ing things as they are gain joy by thus em­brac­ing the truth. Make an end of your mis­ery by loathing sin. When you look up to the No­ble One, turn away from sin with a whole heart. Make no apol­ogy for evil; make no ex­cuse for sin. By your ef­forts to make amends for past sins you ac­quire strength to re­sist fu­ture ten­den­cies thereto. Re­straint is born of re­pen­tance. Leave no fault un­con­fessed to the No­ble One.

• rejoice in him who has power to deliver us from all u.

165:3.3“Soon, very soon, will the things which our en­e­mies now plan in se­crecy and in dark­ness be brought out into the light and be pro­claimed from the house­tops. But I say to you, my friends, when they seek to de­stroy the Son of Man, be not afraid of them. Fear not those who, al­though they may be able to kill the body, af­ter that have no more power over you. I ad­mon­ish you to fear none, in heaven or on earth, but to re­joice in the knowl­edge of Him who has power to de­liver you from all un­righ­teous­ness and to pre­sent you blame­less be­fore the judg­ment seat of a uni­verse.

• in little and much

169:2.6“I af­firm that he who is faith­ful in lit­tle will also be faith­ful in much, while he who is un­righ­teous in lit­tle will also be un­righ­teous in much. If you have not shown fore­sight and in­tegrity in the af­fairs of this world, how can you hope to be faith­ful and pru­dent when you are trusted with the stew­ard­ship of the true riches of the heav­enly king­dom? If you are not good stew­ards and faith­ful bankers, if you have not been faith­ful in that which is an­other’s, who will be fool­ish enough to give you great trea­sure in your own name?