Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'hold' occurs 276 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'hold' in the standard works and contain 12.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 15 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 7:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 9:49 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 41:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 8:23 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 22:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 1:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 6:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 50:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 64:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:123-124 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 139 1264 1403
NT 46 270 316
Matt. 8 69 77
Mark 8 15 23
Luke 7 59 66
John 0 19 19
Acts 3 31 34
Rom. 1 6 7
1 Cor. 1 3 4
2 Cor. 0 9 9
Gal. 0 3 3
Eph. 0 1 1
Philip. 1 2 3
Col. 0 2 2
1 Thes. 1 0 1
2 Thes. 1 1 2
1 Tim. 2 2 4
2 Tim. 1 1 2
Titus 0 1 1
Heb. 5 3 8
James 0 9 9
1 Pet. 0 3 3
1 Jn. 0 1 1
Jude 0 1 1
Rev. 7 29 36
BM 43 1696 1739
DC 46 506 552
PGP 2 75 77
TOTAL 276 3811 4087

1 Tim. 1:19
Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

1 Tim. 3:9
Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

1 Tim. 6:12
Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses.

1 Tim. 6:19
Laying up in store for themselves a good foundation against the time to come, that they may lay hold on eternal life.