Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'marvelous' occurs 67 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'marvelous' in the standard works and contain 25.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 28:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 1:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 27:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 10:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 37:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)


Alma 9:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

 9:5 Now they knew not that God could do such marvelous works, for they were a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.

 9:6 And they said: Who is God, that sendeth no more authority than one man among this people, to declare unto them the truth of such great and marvelous things?




3 Ne. 17:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 0 0
NT 0 0 0
BM 54 0 54
1 Ne. 5 0 5
2 Ne. 6 0 6
Jacob 1 0 1
Mosiah 3 0 3
Alma 11 0 11
Hel. 6 0 6
3 Ne. 12 0 12
4 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 5 0 5
Ether 4 0 4
DC 12 0 12
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 67 0 67

Alma 9:5
Now they knew not that God could do such marvelous works, for they were a hard-hearted and a stiffnecked people.

Alma 9:6
And they said: Who is God, that sendeth no more authority than one man among this people, to declare unto them the truth of such great and marvelous things?

Alma 10:5
Nevertheless, after all this, I never have known much of the ways of the Lord, and his mysteries and marvelous power. I said I never had known much of these things; but behold, I mistake, for I have seen much of his mysteries and his marvelous power; yea, even in the preservation of the lives of this people.

Alma 19:6
Now, this was what Ammon desired, for he knew that king Lamoni was under the power of God; he knew that the dark veil of unbelief was being cast away from his mind, and the light which did light up his mind, which was the light of the glory of God, which was a marvelous light of his goodness-- yea, this light had infused such joy into his soul, the cloud of darkness having been dispelled, and that the light of everlasting life was lit up in his soul, yea, he knew that this had overcome his natural frame, and he was carried away in God--

Alma 26:3
Behold, I answer for you; for our brethren, the Lamanites, were in darkness, yea, even in the darkest abyss, but behold, how many of them are brought to behold the marvelous light of God! And this is the blessing which hath been bestowed upon us, that we have been made instruments in the hands of God to bring about this great work.

Alma 26:15
Yea, they were encircled about with everlasting darkness and destruction; but behold, he has brought them into his everlasting light, yea, into everlasting salvation; and they are encircled about with the matchless bounty of his love; yea, and we have been instruments in his hands of doing this great and marvelous work.

Alma 36:20
And oh, what joy, and what marvelous light I did behold; yea, my soul was filled with joy as exceeding as was my pain!

Alma 37:41
Nevertheless, because those miracles were worked by small means it did show unto them marvelous works. They were slothful, and forgot to exercise their faith and diligence and then those marvelous works ceased, and they did not progress in their journey;

Alma 57:26
And now, their preservation was astonishing to our whole army, yea, that they should be spared while there was a thousand of our brethren who were slain. And we do justly ascribe it to the miraculous power of God, because of their exceeding faith in that which they had been taught to believe-- that there was a just God, and whosoever did not doubt, that they should be preserved by his marvelous power.