Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'strength' occurs 397 times in the standard works.

100 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'strength' in the standard works and contain 25.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 40 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 10:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 28:7-29:1 (4 in 4 verses)

Job 6:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Job 18:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)


Ps. 68:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

 68:34 Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

 68:35 O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.




Alma 26:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 84:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 90:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 25:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 44:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 10:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 56:56 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 58:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:26 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:55 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 16:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 2:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 16:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 18:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 33:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 96:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 30:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 40:31-41:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 49:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 21:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:65-66 (2 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 27:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 31:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 61:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 24:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 113:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 1:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 225 71 296
Gen. 3 1 4
Ex. 6 0 6
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 2 0 2
Deut. 2 1 3
Josh. 3 0 3
Judg. 8 3 11
1 Sam. 6 1 7
2 Sam. 2 1 3
1 Kgs. 1 1 2
2 Kgs. 3 0 3
1 Chr. 5 1 6
2 Chr. 2 13 15
Ezra 0 3 3
Neh. 2 2 4
Job 24 4 28
Ps. 74 11 85
Prov. 10 2 12
Eccl. 3 1 4
Isa. 35 7 42
Jer. 3 1 4
Lam. 3 0 3
Ezek. 5 7 12
Dan. 10 6 16
Hosea 2 1 3
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 2 2 4
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 1 0 1
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 1 2 3
NT 17 10 27
BM 119 29 148
DC 29 13 42
PGP 7 0 7
TOTAL 397 123 520

Ps. 8:2
Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength because of thine enemies, that thou mightest still the enemy and the avenger.

Ps. 18:1
I will love thee, O Lord, my strength.

Ps. 18:2
The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.

Ps. 18:32
It is God that girdeth me with strength, and maketh my way perfect.

Ps. 18:39
For thou hast girded me with strength unto the battle: thou hast subdued under me those that rose up against me.

Ps. 19:14
Let the words of my mouth, and the meditation of my heart, be acceptable in thy sight, O Lord, my strength, and my redeemer.

Ps. 20:2
Send thee help from the sanctuary, and strengthen thee out of Zion;

Ps. 20:6
Now know I that the Lord saveth his anointed; he will hear him from his holy heaven with the saving strength of his right hand.

Ps. 21:1
The king shall joy in thy strength, O Lord; and in thy salvation how greatly shall he rejoice!

Ps. 21:13
Be thou exalted, Lord, in thine own strength: so will we sing and praise thy power.

Ps. 22:15
My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my jaws; and thou hast brought me into the dust of death.

Ps. 22:19
But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my strength, haste thee to help me.

Ps. 27:1
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear? the Lord is the strength of my life; of whom shall I be afraid?

Ps. 27:14
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord.

Ps. 28:7
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.

Ps. 28:8
The Lord is their strength, and he is the saving strength of his anointed.

Ps. 29:1
Give unto the Lord, O ye mighty, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

Ps. 29:11
The Lord will give strength unto his people; the Lord will bless his people with peace.

Ps. 31:4
Pull me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my strength.

Ps. 31:10
For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

Ps. 31:24
Be of good courage, and he shall strengthen your heart, all ye that hope in the Lord.

Ps. 33:16
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host: a mighty man is not delivered by much strength.

Ps. 33:17
An horse is a vain thing for safety: neither shall he deliver any by his great strength.

Ps. 37:39
But the salvation of the righteous is of the Lord: he is their strength in the time of trouble.

Ps. 38:10
My heart panteth, my strength faileth me: as for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

Ps. 39:13
O spare me, that I may recover strength, before I go hence, and be no more.

Ps. 41:3
The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing: thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness.

Ps. 43:2
For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

Ps. 46:1
God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.

Ps. 52:7
Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.

Ps. 54:1
Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me by thy strength.

Ps. 59:9
Because of his strength will I wait upon thee: for God is my defence.

Ps. 59:17
Unto thee, O my strength, will I sing: for God is my defence, and the God of my mercy.

Ps. 60:7
Gilead is mine, and Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Ps. 62:7
In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge, is in God.

Ps. 65:6
Which by his strength setteth fast the mountains; being girded with power:

Ps. 68:28
Thy God hath commanded thy strength: strengthen, O God, that which thou hast wrought for us.

Ps. 68:34
Ascribe ye strength unto God: his excellency is over Israel, and his strength is in the clouds.

Ps. 68:35
O God, thou art terrible out of thy holy places: the God of Israel is he that giveth strength and power unto his people. Blessed be God.

Ps. 71:9
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Ps. 71:16
I will go in the strength of the Lord God: I will make mention of thy righteousness, even of thine only.

Ps. 71:18
Now also when I am old and grayheaded, O God, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come.

Ps. 73:4
For there are no bands in their death: but their strength is firm.

Ps. 73:26
My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Ps. 74:13
Thou didst divide the sea by thy strength: thou brakest the heads of the dragons in the waters.

Ps. 77:14
Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.

Ps. 78:4
We will not hide them from their children, shewing to the generation to come the praises of the Lord, and his strength, and his wonderful works that he hath done.

Ps. 78:51
And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham:

Ps. 78:61
And delivered his strength into captivity, and his glory into the enemy's hand.

Ps. 80:2
Before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasseh stir up thy strength, and come and save us.

Ps. 81:1
Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.

Ps. 84:5
Blessed is the man whose strength is in thee; in whose heart are the ways of them.

Ps. 84:7
They go from strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God.

Ps. 86:16
O turn unto me, and have mercy upon me; give thy strength unto thy servant, and save the son of thine handmaid.

Ps. 88:4
I am counted with them that go down into the pit: I am as a man that hath no strength:

Ps. 89:17
For thou art the glory of their strength: and in thy favour our horn shall be exalted.

Ps. 89:21
With whom my hand shall be established: mine arm also shall strengthen him.

Ps. 90:10
The days of our years are threescore years and ten; and if by reason of strength they be fourscore years, yet is their strength labour and sorrow; for it is soon cut off, and we fly away.

Ps. 93:1
The Lord reigneth, he is clothed with majesty; the Lord is clothed with strength, wherewith he hath girded himself: the world also is stablished, that it cannot be moved.

Ps. 95:4
In his hand are the deep places of the earth: the strength of the hills is his also.

Ps. 96:6
Honour and majesty are before him: strength and beauty are in his sanctuary.

Ps. 96:7
Give unto the Lord, O ye kindreds of the people, give unto the Lord glory and strength.

Ps. 99:4
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Ps. 102:23
He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.

Ps. 103:20
Bless the Lord, ye his angels, that excel in strength, that do his commandments, hearkening unto the voice of his word.

Ps. 104:15
And wine that maketh glad the heart of man, and oil to make his face to shine, and bread which strengtheneth man's heart.

Ps. 105:4
Seek the Lord, and his strength: seek his face evermore.

Ps. 105:36
He smote also all the firstborn in their land, the chief of all their strength.

Ps. 108:8
Gilead is mine; Manasseh is mine; Ephraim also is the strength of mine head; Judah is my lawgiver;

Ps. 110:2
The Lord shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.

Ps. 118:14
The Lord is my strength and song, and is become my salvation.

Ps. 119:28
My soul melteth for heaviness: strengthen thou me according unto thy word.

Ps. 132:8
Arise, O Lord, into thy rest; thou, and the ark of thy strength.

Ps. 138:3
In the day when I cried thou answeredst me, and strengthenedst me with strength in my soul.

Ps. 140:7
O God the Lord, the strength of my salvation, thou hast covered my head in the day of battle.

Ps. 144:1
Blessed be the Lord my strength, which teacheth my hands to war, and my fingers to fight:

Ps. 147:10
He delighteth not in the strength of the horse: he taketh not pleasure in the legs of a man.

Ps. 147:13
For he hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; he hath blessed thy children within thee.