Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'after' occurs 1927 times in the standard works.

623 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'after' in the standard works and contain 32.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 254 minutes to read the entire list.

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Neh. 3:16-31 (16 in 16 verses)

1 Ne. 18:1-9 (9 in 9 verses)

Gen. 1:21-26 (8 in 6 verses)

Moses 2:21-26 (8 in 6 verses)

Abr. 4:21-26 (8 in 6 verses)

1 Ne. 10:10-17 (8 in 8 verses)

Alma 9:19-22 (6 in 4 verses)

Rom. 8:1-5 (6 in 5 verses)

Gen. 10:31-32 (5 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 17:33-34 (5 in 2 verses)

Gen. 17:7-10 (5 in 4 verses)

Lev. 11:19-22 (5 in 4 verses)

Gen. 7:10-14 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Sam. 20:10-14 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:2-6 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 31:19-23 (5 in 5 verses)

Moses 6:17-21 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Sam. 24:14 (4 in 1 verse)

Lev. 20:5-6 (4 in 2 verses)

Josh. 8:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:34-35 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

Heb. 7:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 13:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 47:28-30 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 3:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 4:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 110:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 26:41-44 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 13:26-29 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 102:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

Abr. 2:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 6:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:43 (3 in 1 verse)

Col. 2:8 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:15 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:57 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 1:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 34:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 19:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 5:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 10:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 2:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 95:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 2:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 4:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:47-48 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 48:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 14:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 38:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 11:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 4:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 6:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 12:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 14:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 2:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 4:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 11:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 15:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 23:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 25:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 9:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Eph. 1:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Eph. 1:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 11:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 17:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 18:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 22:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 4:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 2:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 13:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 35:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 26:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 28:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 10:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 12:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 64:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 104:40-42 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:56-58 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 10:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 10:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 26:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 18:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 3:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 1:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:30 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 25:42 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 17:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 2:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 13:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 10:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 18:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 6:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 10:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 30:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 42:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 11:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 20:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 5:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 19:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 5:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Gal. 4:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 7:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 3:15 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 21:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 31:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 3:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 7:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 21:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:27 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:12 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:15 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 14:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 15:31 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:95 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:48 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 112:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:123 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 5:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 5:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 11:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 18:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 23:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 7:85-86 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 26:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ruth 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 19:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 21:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 22:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 25:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 35:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 1:22-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 42:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 13:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 16:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 30:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 40:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 15:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 20:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 24:27-25:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 9:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 1:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 11:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 6:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 10:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Pet. 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 3:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 11:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 32:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 6:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Enos 1:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 25:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 28:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:43-19:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 15:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 6:9-7:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:88-89 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:81-82 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:62-63 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 883 64 947
NT 296 31 327
BM 506 19 525
DC 154 33 187
PGP 88 8 96
Moses 32 2 34
Abr. 32 2 34
JS-M 4 0 4
JS-H 19 4 23
A of F 1 0 1
TOTAL 1927 155 2082

Moses 1:5
Wherefore, no man can behold all my works, except he behold all my glory; and no man can behold all my glory, and afterwards remain in the flesh on the earth.

Moses 1:16
Get thee hence, Satan; deceive me not; for God said unto me: Thou art after the similitude of mine Only Begotten.

Moses 2:11
And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself upon the earth, and it was so even as I spake.

Moses 2:12
And the earth brought forth grass, every herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed should be in itself, after his kind; and I, God, saw that all things which I had made were good;

Moses 2:21
And I, God, created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and I, God, saw that all things which I had created were good.

Moses 2:24
And I, God, said: Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind, and it was so;

Moses 2:25
And I, God, made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and everything which creepeth upon the earth after his kind; and I, God, saw that all these things were good.

Moses 2:26
And I, God, said unto mine Only Begotten, which was with me from the beginning: Let us make man in our image, after our likeness; and it was so. And I, God, said: Let them have dominion over the fishes of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Moses 4:6
And Satan put it into the heart of the serpent, (for he had drawn away many after him,) and he sought also to beguile Eve, for he knew not the mind of God, wherefore he sought to destroy the world.

Moses 5:1
And it came to pass that after I, the Lord God, had driven them out, that Adam began to till the earth, and to have dominion over all the beasts of the field, and to eat his bread by the sweat of his brow, as I the Lord had commanded him. And Eve, also, his wife, did labor with him.

Moses 5:6
And after many days an angel of the Lord appeared unto Adam, saying: Why dost thou offer sacrifices unto the Lord? And Adam said unto him: I know not, save the Lord commanded me.

Moses 5:42
And Cain knew his wife, and she conceived and bare Enoch, and he also begat many sons and daughters. And he builded a city, and he called the name of the city after the name of his son, Enoch.

Moses 5:49
For Lamech having entered into a covenant with Satan, after the manner of Cain, wherein he became Master Mahan, master of that great secret which was administered unto Cain by Satan; and Irad, the son of Enoch, having known their secret, began to reveal it unto the sons of Adam;

Moses 6:10
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his own image, and called his name Seth.

Moses 6:11
And the days of Adam, after he had begotten Seth, were eight hundred years, and he begat many sons and daughters;

Moses 6:14
And Seth lived, after he begat Enos, eight hundred and seven years, and begat many sons and daughters.

Moses 6:17
And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan. And Enos and the residue of the people of God came out from the land, which was called Shulon, and dwelt in a land of promise, which he called after his own son, whom he had named Cainan.

Moses 6:18
And Enos lived, after he begat Cainan, eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat many sons and daughters. And all the days of Enos were nine hundred and five years, and he died.

Moses 6:19
And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel; and Cainan lived after he begat Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Cainan were nine hundred and ten years, and he died.

Moses 6:20
And Mahalaleel lived sixty-five years, and begat Jared; and Mahalaleel lived, after he begat Jared, eight hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters. And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred and ninety-five years, and he died.

Moses 6:21
And Jared lived one hundred and sixty-two years, and begat Enoch; and Jared lived, after he begat Enoch, eight hundred years, and begat sons and daughters. And Jared taught Enoch in all the ways of God.

Moses 6:67
And thou art after the order of him who was without beginning of days or end of years, from all eternity to all eternity.

Moses 7:23
And after that Zion was taken up into heaven, Enoch beheld, and lo, all the nations of the earth were before him;

Moses 7:55
And the Lord said unto Enoch: Look, and he looked and beheld the Son of Man lifted up on the cross, after the manner of men;

Moses 8:6
And Methuselah lived, after he begat Lamech, seven hundred and eighty-two years, and begat sons and daughters;

Moses 8:10
And Lamech lived, after he begat Noah, five hundred and ninety-five years, and begat sons and daughters;

Moses 8:12
And Noah was four hundred and fifty years old, and begat Japheth; and forty-two years afterward he begat Shem of her who was the mother of Japheth, and when he was five hundred years old he begat Ham.

Moses 8:19
And the Lord ordained Noah after his own order, and commanded him that he should go forth and declare his Gospel unto the children of men, even as it was given unto Enoch.

Moses 8:21
And also, after that they had heard him, they came up before him, saying: Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown. And they hearkened not unto the words of Noah.

Abr. 1:9
And it came to pass that the priest made an offering unto the god of Pharaoh, and also unto the god of Shagreel, even after the manner of the Egyptians. Now the god of Shagreel was the sun.

Abr. 1:11
Now, this priest had offered upon this altar three virgins at one time, who were the daughters of Onitah, one of the royal descent directly from the loins of Ham. These virgins were offered up because of their virtue; they would not bow down to worship gods of wood or of stone, therefore they were killed upon this altar, and it was done after the manner of the Egyptians.

Abr. 1:13
It was made after the form of a bedstead, such as was had among the Chaldeans, and it stood before the gods of Elkenah, Libnah, Mahmackrah, Korash, and also a god like unto that of Pharaoh, king of Egypt.

Abr. 1:24
When this woman discovered the land it was under water, who afterward settled her sons in it; and thus, from Ham, sprang that race which preserved the curse in the land.

Abr. 1:25
Now the first government of Egypt was established by Pharaoh, the eldest son of Egyptus, the daughter of Ham, and it was after the manner of the government of Ham, which was patriarchal.

Abr. 1:28
But I shall endeavor, hereafter, to delineate the chronology running back from myself to the beginning of the creation, for the records have come into my hands, which I hold unto this present time.

Abr. 1:29
Now, after the priest of Elkenah was smitten that he died, there came a fulfilment of those things which were said unto me concerning the land of Chaldea, that there should be a famine in the land.

Abr. 1:31
But the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood, the Lord my God preserved in mine own hands; therefore a knowledge of the beginning of the creation, and also of the planets, and of the stars, as they were made known unto the fathers, have I kept even unto this day, and I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me.

Abr. 2:4
Therefore I left the land of Ur, of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Canaan; and I took Lot, my brother's son, and his wife, and Sarai my wife; and also my father followed after me, unto the land which we denominated Haran.

Abr. 2:6
But I, Abraham, and Lot, my brother's son, prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord appeared unto me, and said unto me: Arise, and take Lot with thee; for I have purposed to take thee away out of Haran, and to make of thee a minister to bear my name in a strange land which I will give unto thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession, when they hearken to my voice.

Abr. 2:9
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood unto all nations;

Abr. 2:10
And I will bless them through thy name; for as many as receive this Gospel shall be called after thy name, and shall be accounted thy seed, and shall rise up and bless thee, as their father;

Abr. 2:11
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee (that is, in thy Priesthood) and in thy seed (that is, thy Priesthood), for I give unto thee a promise that this right shall continue in thee, and in thy seed after thee (that is to say, the literal seed, or the seed of the body) shall all the families of the earth be blessed, even with the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of salvation, even of life eternal.

Abr. 2:12
Now, after the Lord had withdrawn from speaking to me, and withdrawn his face from me, I said in my heart: Thy servant has sought thee earnestly; now I have found thee;

Abr. 3:4
And the Lord said unto me, by the Urim and Thummim, that Kolob was after the manner of the Lord, according to its times and seasons in the revolutions thereof; that one revolution was a day unto the Lord, after his manner of reckoning, it being one thousand years according to the time appointed unto that whereon thou standest. This is the reckoning of the Lord's time, according to the reckoning of Kolob.

Abr. 3:9
And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord's time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

Abr. 3:14
And it was in the night time when the Lord spake these words unto me: I will multiply thee, and thy seed after thee, like unto these; and if thou canst count the number of sands, so shall be the number of thy seeds.

Abr. 3:18
Howbeit that he made the greater star; as, also, if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal.

Abr. 3:28
And the second was angry, and kept not his first estate; and, at that day, many followed after him.

Abr. 4:2
And the earth, after it was formed, was empty and desolate, because they had not formed anything but the earth; and darkness reigned upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of the Gods was brooding upon the face of the waters.

Abr. 4:11
And the Gods said: Let us prepare the earth to bring forth grass; the herb yielding seed; the fruit tree yielding fruit, after his kind, whose seed in itself yieldeth its own likeness upon the earth; and it was so, even as they ordered.

Abr. 4:12
And the Gods organized the earth to bring forth grass from its own seed, and the herb to bring forth herb from its own seed, yielding seed after his kind; and the earth to bring forth the tree from its own seed, yielding fruit, whose seed could only bring forth the same in itself, after his kind; and the Gods saw that they were obeyed.

Abr. 4:21
And the Gods prepared the waters that they might bring forth great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters were to bring forth abundantly after their kind; and every winged fowl after their kind. And the Gods saw that they would be obeyed, and that their plan was good.

Abr. 4:24
And the Gods prepared the earth to bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind; and it was so, as they had said.

Abr. 4:25
And the Gods organized the earth to bring forth the beasts after their kind, and cattle after their kind, and every thing that creepeth upon the earth after its kind; and the Gods saw they would obey.

Abr. 4:26
And the Gods took counsel among themselves and said: Let us go down and form man in our image, after our likeness; and we will give them dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.

Abr. 5:13
But of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it; for in the time that thou eatest thereof, thou shalt surely die. Now I, Abraham, saw that it was after the Lord's time, which was after the time of Kolob; for as yet the Gods had not appointed unto Adam his reckoning.

JS-M 1:1
For I say unto you, that ye shall not see me henceforth and know that I am he of whom it is written by the prophets, until ye shall say: Blessed is he who cometh in the name of the Lord, in the clouds of heaven, and all the holy angels with him. Then understood his disciples that he should come again on the earth, after that he was glorified and crowned on the right hand of God.

JS-M 1:21
Behold, these things I have spoken unto you concerning the Jews; and again, after the tribulation of those days which shall come upon Jerusalem, if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe him not;

JS-M 1:33
And immediately after the tribulation of those days, the sun shall be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven shall be shaken.

JS-M 1:36
And, as I said before, after the tribulation of those days, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken, then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory;

JS-H 1:1
Owing to the many reports which have been put in circulation by evil-disposed and designing persons, in relation to the rise and progress of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, all of which have been designed by the authors thereof to militate against its character as a Church and its progress in the world-- I have been induced to write this history, to disabuse the public mind, and put all inquirers after truth in possession of the facts, as they have transpired, in relation both to myself and the Church, so far as I have such facts in my possession.

JS-H 1:3
I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, State of Vermont ... My father, Joseph Smith, Sen., left the State of Vermont, and moved to Palmyra, Ontario (now Wayne) county, in the State of New York, when I was in my tenth year, or thereabouts. In about four years after my father's arrival in Palmyra, he moved with his family into Manchester in the same county of Ontario--

JS-H 1:5
Some time in the second year after our removal to Manchester, there was in the place where we lived an unusual excitement on the subject of religion. It commenced with the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in that region of country. Indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it, and great multitudes united themselves to the different religious parties, which created no small stir and division amongst the people, some crying, "Lo, here!" and others, "Lo, there!" Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.

JS-H 1:15
After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

JS-H 1:21
Some few days after I had this vision, I happened to be in company with one of the Methodist preachers, who was very active in the before mentioned religious excitement; and, conversing with him on the subject of religion, I took occasion to give him an account of the vision which I had had. I was greatly surprised at his behavior; he treated my communication not only lightly, but with great contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there were no such things as visions or revelations in these days; that all such things had ceased with the apostles, and that there would never be any more of them.

JS-H 1:29
In consequence of these things, I often felt condemned for my weakness and imperfections; when, on the evening of the above-mentioned twenty-first of September, after I had retired to my bed for the night, I betook myself to prayer and supplication to Almighty God for forgiveness of all my sins and follies, and also for a manifestation to me, that I might know of my state and standing before him; for I had full confidence in obtaining a divine manifestation, as I previously had one.

JS-H 1:36
After telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He first quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi; and he quoted also the fourth or last chapter of the same prophecy, though with a little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles. Instead of quoting the first verse as it reads in our books, he quoted it thus:

JS-H 1:43
After this communication, I saw the light in the room begin to gather immediately around the person of him who had been speaking to me, and it continued to do so until the room was again left dark, except just around him; when, instantly I saw, as it were, a conduit open right up into heaven, and he ascended till he entirely disappeared, and the room was left as it had been before this heavenly light had made its appearance.

JS-H 1:47
After this third visit, he again ascended into heaven as before, and I was again left to ponder on the strangeness of what I had just experienced; when almost immediately after the heavenly messenger had ascended from me for the third time, the cock crowed, and I found that day was approaching, so that our interviews must have occupied the whole of that night.

JS-H 1:48
I shortly after arose from my bed, and, as usual, went to the necessary labors of the day; but, in attempting to work as at other times, I found my strength so exhausted as to render me entirely unable. My father, who was laboring along with me, discovered something to be wrong with me, and told me to go home. I started with the intention of going to the house; but, in attempting to cross the fence out of the field where we were, my strength entirely failed me, and I fell helpless on the ground, and for a time was quite unconscious of anything.

JS-H 1:56
In the year 1823 my father's family met with a great affliction by the death of my eldest brother, Alvin. In the month of October, 1825, I hired with an old gentleman by the name of Josiah Stoal, who lived in Chenango county, State of New York. He had heard something of a silver mine having been opened by the Spaniards in Harmony, Susquehanna county, State of Pennsylvania; and had, previous to my hiring to him, been digging, in order, if possible, to discover the mine. After I went to live with him, he took me, with the rest of his hands, to dig for the silver mine, at which I continued to work for nearly a month, without success in our undertaking, and finally I prevailed with the old gentleman to cease digging after it. Hence arose the very prevalent story of my having been a money-digger.

JS-H 1:58
Owing to my continuing to assert that I had seen a vision, persecution still followed me, and my wife's father's family were very much opposed to our being married. I was, therefore, under the necessity of taking her elsewhere; so we went and were married at the house of Squire Tarbill, in South Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York. Immediately after my marriage, I left Mr. Stoal's, and went to my father's, and farmed with him that season.

JS-H 1:62
By this timely aid was I enabled to reach the place of my destination in Pennsylvania; and immediately after my arrival there I commenced copying the characters off the plates. I copied a considerable number of them, and by means of the Urim and Thummim I translated some of them, which I did between the time I arrived at the house of my wife's father, in the month of December, and the February following.

JS-H 1:63
Sometime in this month of February, the aforementioned Mr. Martin Harris came to our place, got the characters which I had drawn off the plates, and started with them to the city of New York. For what took place relative to him and the characters, I refer to his own account of the circumstances, as he related them to me after his return, which was as follows:

JS-H 1:67
Two days after the arrival of Mr. Cowdery (being the 7th of April) I commenced to translate the Book of Mormon, and he began to write for me.

JS-H 1:70
He said this Aaronic Priesthood had not the power of laying on hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, but that this should be conferred on us hereafter; and he commanded us to go and be baptized, and gave us directions that I should baptize Oliver Cowdery, and that afterwards he should baptize me.

JS-H 1:71
Accordingly we went and were baptized. I baptized him first, and afterwards he baptized me-- after which I laid my hands upon his head and ordained him to the Aaronic Priesthood, and afterwards he laid his hands on me and ordained me to the same Priesthood-- for so we were commanded.

JS-H 1:73
Immediately on our coming up out of the water after we had been baptized, we experienced great and glorious blessings from our Heavenly Father. No sooner had I baptized Oliver Cowdery, than the Holy Ghost fell upon him, and he stood up and prophesied many things which should shortly come to pass. And again, so soon as I had been baptized by him, I also had the spirit of prophecy, when, standing up, I prophesied concerning the rise of this Church, and many other things connected with the Church, and this generation of the children of men. We were filled with the Holy Ghost, and rejoiced in the God of our salvation.

A of F 1:13
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-- We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.