"WICKEDNESS NEVER WAS HAPPINESS “not always suffer them to take happiness in sin” There is some short term pleasure in sin, if not, sin wouldn’t be tempting. But following any short-term pleasure is long term guilt, remorse, regret and pain. The old saying is, “there are two kinds of pain in life, the pain of discipline, and the pain of regret; discipline weighs ounces, but regret weights tons.” “Wickedness never was happiness,” Alma taught, but that does not mean that wickedness might appear to bring happiness, at least for a while. The wicked will have “joy in their works for a season” (3 Nephi 27:11), but the temporary pleasure ends and the inevitable consequences of sin begin."

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