The time cometh, saith the Lamb of God,
that I will work a great and a marvelous work
among the children of men;
a work which shall be everlasting,
either on the one hand or on the other—
either to the convincing of them
unto peace and life eternal,
or unto the deliverance of them
to the hardness of their hearts
and the blindness of their minds
unto their being brought down into captivity,
and also into destruction,
both temporally and spiritually,
according to the captivity of the devil,
of which I have spoken.
(1 Nephi 14:7)