Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'enemy' occurs 162 times in the standard works.

33 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'enemy' in the standard works and contain 20.4% 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 98:25-31 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 101:51-54 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 98:39-40 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Lam. 2:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 16:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 16:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 7:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)


Mosiah 2:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

 2:37 I say unto you, that the man that doeth this, the same cometh out in open rebellion against God; therefore he listeth to obey the evil spirit, and becometh an enemy to all righteousness; therefore, the Lord has no place in him, for he dwelleth not in unholy temples.

 2:38 Therefore if that man repenteth not, and remaineth and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt, which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord, and doth fill his breast with guilt, and pain, and anguish, which is like an unquenchable fire, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever.




JS-H 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 99 0 99
NT 11 0 11
BM 20 0 20
2 Ne. 3 0 3
Mosiah 8 0 8
Alma 6 0 6
3 Ne. 1 0 1
Moro. 2 0 2
DC 30 0 30
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 162 0 162

Mosiah 2:37
I say unto you, that the man that doeth this, the same cometh out in open rebellion against God; therefore he listeth to obey the evil spirit, and becometh an enemy to all righteousness; therefore, the Lord has no place in him, for he dwelleth not in unholy temples.

Mosiah 2:38
Therefore if that man repenteth not, and remaineth and dieth an enemy to God, the demands of divine justice do awaken his immortal soul to a lively sense of his own guilt, which doth cause him to shrink from the presence of the Lord, and doth fill his breast with guilt, and pain, and anguish, which is like an unquenchable fire, whose flame ascendeth up forever and ever.

Mosiah 3:19
For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father.

Mosiah 4:14
And ye will not suffer your children that they go hungry, or naked; neither will ye suffer that they transgress the laws of God, and fight and quarrel one with another, and serve the devil, who is the master of sin, or who is the evil spirit which hath been spoken of by our fathers, he being an enemy to all righteousness.

Mosiah 16:5
But remember that he that persists in his own carnal nature, and goes on in the ways of sin and rebellion against God, remaineth in his fallen state and the devil hath all power over him. Therefore he is as though there was no redemption made, being an enemy to God; and also is the devil an enemy to God.

Mosiah 19:4
And now there was a man among them whose name was Gideon, and he being a strong man and an enemy to the king, therefore he drew his sword, and swore in his wrath that he would slay the king.

Mosiah 27:9
And he became a great hinderment to the prosperity of the church of God; stealing away the hearts of the people; causing much dissension among the people; giving a chance for the enemy of God to exercise his power over them.