Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'despair' occurs 7 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'despair' in the standard works and contain 28.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 10:22 (2 in 1 verse)

 10:22 And if ye have no hope ye must needs be in despair; and despair cometh because of iniquity.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 2 0 2
NT 1 1 2
BM 3 0 3
DC 0 0 0
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 7 1 8

1 Sam. 27:1
And David said in his heart, I shall now perish one day by the hand of Saul: there is nothing better for me than that I should speedily escape into the land of the Philistines; and Saul shall despair of me, to seek me any more in any coast of Israel: so shall I escape out of his hand.

Eccl. 2:20
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

2 Cor. 1:8
For we would not, brethren, have you ignorant of our trouble which came to us in Asia, that we were pressed out of measure, above strength, insomuch that we despaired even of life:

2 Cor. 4:8
We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair;

Alma 26:19
Oh then, why did he not consign us to an awful destruction, yea, why did he not let the sword of his justice fall upon us, and doom us to eternal despair?

Moro. 10:22
And if ye have no hope ye must needs be in despair; and despair cometh because of iniquity.

JS-H 1:16
But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction-- not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being-- just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.