Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'perfect' occurs 152 times in the standard works.

43 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'perfect' in the standard works and contain 28.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 128:15-18 (6 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 9:13-14 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 4:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Job 9:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 7:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 25:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 101:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 5:48 (2 in 1 verse)

James 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:26 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:48 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:69 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 57 12 69
NT 42 18 60
BM 37 10 47
2 Ne. 6 1 7
Jacob 2 0 2
Mosiah 0 1 1
Alma 15 2 17
Hel. 1 0 1
3 Ne. 2 0 2
Morm. 1 5 6
Ether 1 0 1
Moro. 9 1 10
DC 15 13 28
PGP 1 1 2
TOTAL 152 54 206

2 Ne. 9:46
Prepare your souls for that glorious day when justice shall be administered unto the righteous, even the day of judgment, that ye may not shrink with awful fear; that ye may not remember your awful guilt in perfectness, and be constrained to exclaim: Holy, holy are thy judgments, O Lord God Almighty-- but I know my guilt; I transgressed thy law, and my transgressions are mine; and the devil hath obtained me, that I am a prey to his awful misery.

Mosiah 8:10
And behold, also, they have brought breastplates, which are large, and they are of brass and of copper, and are perfectly sound.

Alma 27:27
And they were among the people of Nephi, and also numbered among the people who were of the church of God. And they were also distinguished for their zeal towards God, and also towards men; for they were perfectly honest and upright in all things; and they were firm in the faith of Christ, even unto the end.

Alma 32:26
Now, as I said concerning faith-- that it was not a perfect knowledge-- even so it is with my words. Ye cannot know of their surety at first, unto perfection, any more than faith is a perfect knowledge.

Morm. 8:12
And whoso receiveth this record, and shall not condemn it because of the imperfections which are in it, the same shall know of greater things than these. Behold, I am Moroni; and were it possible, I would make all things known unto you.

Morm. 9:31
Condemn me not because of mine imperfection, neither my father, because of his imperfection, neither them who have written before him; but rather give thanks unto God that he hath made manifest unto you our imperfections, that ye may learn to be more wise than we have been.

Morm. 9:33
And if our plates had been sufficiently large we should have written in Hebrew; but the Hebrew hath been altered by us also; and if we could have written in Hebrew, behold, ye would have had no imperfection in our record.

Moro. 10:32
Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God.