“In the scriptures, to ‘wrest’ means to twist, distort, or pervert, in the sense of accommodating one’s personal interpretation” (Ogden and Skinner, Book of Mormon, 1:419). Perhaps “one reason the city of Ammonihah had gone into such a spiritual decline was that the people and their leaders had begun to ‘wrest,’ or distort, the scriptures for their own unrighteous purposes” (Williams, “Using the Book of Mormon,” 35).