Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'cold' occurs 25 times in the standard works.

3 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'cold' in the standard works and contain 12% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rev. 3:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

 3:15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

 3:16 So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 10 0 10
NT 8 0 8
BM 1 0 1
DC 4 0 4
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 25 0 25

Gen. 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Job 24:7
They cause the naked to lodge without clothing, that they have no covering in the cold.

Job 37:9
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north.

Ps. 147:17
He casteth forth his ice like morsels: who can stand before his cold?

Prov. 20:4
The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

Prov. 25:13
As the cold of snow in the time of harvest, so is a faithful messenger to them that send him: for he refresheth the soul of his masters.

Prov. 25:20
As he that taketh away a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to an heavy heart.

Prov. 25:25
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

Jer. 18:14
Will a man leave the snow of Lebanon which cometh from the rock of the field? or shall the cold flowing waters that come from another place be forsaken?

Nahum 3:17
Thy crowned are as the locusts, and thy captains as the great grasshoppers, which camp in the hedges in the cold day, but when the sun ariseth they flee away, and their place is not known where they are.

Matt. 10:42
And whosoever shall give to drink unto one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Matt. 24:12
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

John 18:18
And the servants and officers stood there, who had made a fire of coals; for it was cold: and they warmed themselves: and Peter stood with them, and warmed himself.

Acts 28:2
And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

2 Cor. 11:27
In weariness and painfulness, in watchings often, in hunger and thirst, in fastings often, in cold and nakedness.

Rev. 3:15
I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

Rev. 3:16
So then because thou art lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.

2 Ne. 1:14
Awake! and arise from the dust, and hear the words of a trembling parent, whose limbs ye must soon lay down in the cold and silent grave, from whence no traveler can return; a few more days and I go the way of all the earth.

D&C 45:27
And the love of men shall wax cold, and iniquity shall abound.

D&C 84:92
He that receiveth you not, go away from him alone by yourselves, and cleanse your feet even with water, pure water, whether in heat or in cold, and bear testimony of it unto your Father which is in heaven, and return not again unto that man.

D&C 89:13
And it is pleasing unto me that they should not be used, only in times of winter, or of cold, or famine.

D&C 135:4
When Joseph went to Carthage to deliver himself up to the pretended requirements of the law, two or three days previous to his assassination, he said: "I am going like a lamb to the slaughter; but I am calm as a summer's morning; I have a conscience void of offense towards God, and towards all men. I shall die innocent, and it shall yet be said of me-- he was murdered in cold blood."-- The same morning, after Hyrum had made ready to go-- shall it be said to the slaughter? yes, for so it was-- he read the following paragraph, near the close of the twelfth chapter of Ether, in the Book of Mormon, and turned down the leaf upon it:

JS-M 1:10
And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold;

JS-M 1:30
And again, because iniquity shall abound, the love of men shall wax cold; but he that shall not be overcome, the same shall be saved.