Connection Between God’s Moral Law and Laws of the Physical World—There is a close relation between the moral law and the laws that God had established in the physical world. If men would be obedient to the law of God, carrying out in their lives the principles of its ten precepts, the principles of righteousness that it teaches would be a safeguard against wrong habits. But as through the indulgence of perverted appetite they have declined in virtue, so they have become weakened through their own immoral practices and their violation of physical laws. {2MCP 567.2}

Forbindelsen mellem Guds morallov og den fysiske verdens lov — Der er en tæt forbindelse mellem moralloven og de love som Gud har oprettet i den fysiske verden. Hvis mennesker ville være lydig mod Guds love, føre den ud i deres liv ville grundsætningerne for dets ti forskrifter, grundsætningerne for den retfærdighed den lærer, være en sikker grund imod forkerte levevaner. Men eftersom en forvansket appetit har fået frie tøjler har de slækket på dydigheden, så at de svækkes gennem deres amoralske skikke og deres overtrædelse af fysiske love.