Chapter 51—Moral Pollution I have been shown that we live amid the perils of the last days. Because iniquity abounds, the love of many waxes cold. The word “many” refers to the professed followers of Christ. They are affected by the prevailing iniquity and backslide from God, but it is not necessary that they should be thus affected. The cause of this declension is that they do not stand clear from this iniquity. The fact that their love to God is waxing cold because iniquity abounds shows that they are, in some sense, partakers in this iniquity, or it would not affect their love for God and their zeal and fervor in His cause. {2T 346.1}

(354) [»Eller ved I ikke, at jeres legeme er et tempel for Helligånden, som er i jer og som I har fra Gud og at I ikke tilhører jer selv? I er jo købt og prisen betalt; ær derfor Gud i jeres legeme!« 1Kor 6,19.20