<div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200000">Book of Mormon</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1205133">3 Nephi</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1205273">Chapter 6</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1205290">Verse 17</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1205289">&laquo; Previous Verse</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1205291">Next Verse &raquo;</a></span></div></div><p><em>Original Chapter 3. Comprising chapters 6 and 7.</em></p><p>And thus, in the commencement of the thirtieth year--the people having been delivered up for the space of a long time to be carried about by the temptations of the devil whithersoever he desired to carry them, and to do whatsoever iniquity he desired they should--and thus in the commencement of this, the thirtieth year, they were in a state of awful wickedness.</p><div class="scripturelog_navigation"><div> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1200000">Book of Mormon</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1205133">3 Nephi</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1205273">Chapter 6</a> &raquo; <a href="?page_id=1205290">Verse 17</a></div><div><span class="scripturelog_navigation_previous"><a href="?page_id=1205289">&laquo; Previous Verse</a></span> &bull; <span class="scripturelog_navigation_next"><a href="?page_id=1205291">Next Verse &raquo;</a></span></div></div><div class="lds_official">[<a href="http://scriptures.lds.org/en/3_ne/6/17">View 3 Nephi Chapter 6 Verse 17 at the Official LDS Website</a>]</div>