2  Therefore, I contended with my brethren in the wilderness, for I would that our ruler should make a treaty with them; but he being an austere and a blood-thirsty man commanded that I should be slain; but I was rescued by the shedding of much blood; for father fought against father, and brother against brother, until the greater number of our army was destroyed in the wilderness; and we returned, those of us that were spared, to the land of Zarahemla, to relate that tale to their wives and their children.

  30  And again, because iniquity shall abound, the love of men shall wax ^acold; but he that shall not be overcome, the same shall be saved.

  21  And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man's sword shall be against his ^abrother.

  2  The good man is perished out of the earth: and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his ^abrother with a net.