Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'recommend' occurs 3 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 'recommend' in the standard works and contain 66.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 9:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

 9:21 Behold, my son, I cannot recommend them unto God lest he should smite me.

 9:22 But behold, my son, I recommend thee unto God, and I trust in Christ that thou wilt be saved; and I pray unto God that he will spare thy life, to witness the return of his people unto him, or their utter destruction; for I know that they must perish except they repent and return unto him.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 0 0
NT 0 2 2
BM 2 0 2
DC 1 2 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 3 4 7

Acts 14:26
And thence sailed to Antioch, from whence they had been recommended to the grace of God for the work which they fulfilled.

Acts 15:40
And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.

Moro. 9:21
Behold, my son, I cannot recommend them unto God lest he should smite me.

Moro. 9:22
But behold, my son, I recommend thee unto God, and I trust in Christ that thou wilt be saved; and I pray unto God that he will spare thy life, to witness the return of his people unto him, or their utter destruction; for I know that they must perish except they repent and return unto him.

D&C 52:41
And again, let my servants Joseph Smith, Jun., and Sidney Rigdon and Edward Partridge take with them a recommend from the church. And let there be one obtained for my servant Oliver Cowdery also.

D&C 72:19
And now, verily I say unto you, let every elder who shall give an account unto the bishop of the church in this part of the vineyard be recommended by the church or churches, in which he labors, that he may render himself and his accounts approved in all things.

D&C 112:21
And again, I say unto you, that whosoever ye shall send in my name, by the voice of your brethren, the Twelve, duly recommended and authorized by you, shall have power to open the door of my kingdom unto any nation whithersoever ye shall send them--