Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'anger' occurs 347 times in the standard works.

85 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'anger' in the standard works and contain 24.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 37 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 11:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Deut. 32:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 85:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 7:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Lam. 2:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 11:28-12:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 9:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 25:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 35:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 49:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 25:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 32:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 29:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 29:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 78:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 103:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 10:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Ne. 20:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

 20:4 Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

 20:5 O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is their indignation.




2 Ne. 28:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 229 191 420
NT 5 39 44
BM 89 21 110
1 Ne. 3 0 3
2 Ne. 21 3 24
Jacob 1 0 1
Mosiah 9 2 11
Alma 26 8 34
Hel. 17 0 17
3 Ne. 2 5 7
Morm. 1 2 3
Ether 6 0 6
Moro. 3 1 4
DC 21 10 31
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 347 261 608

2 Ne. 1:26
And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of the power of the word of God, which was in him; and that which ye call anger was the truth, according to that which is in God, which he could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your iniquities.

2 Ne. 4:29
Do not anger again because of mine enemies. Do not slacken my strength because of mine afflictions.

2 Ne. 5:1
Behold, it came to pass that I, Nephi, did cry much unto the Lord my God, because of the anger of my brethren.

2 Ne. 5:2
But behold, their anger did increase against me, insomuch that they did seek to take away my life.

2 Ne. 12:6
Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

2 Ne. 15:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

2 Ne. 15:25
Therefore, is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them; and the hills did tremble, and their carcasses were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 17:4
And say unto him: Take heed, and be quiet; fear not, neither be faint-hearted for the two tails of these smoking firebrands, for the fierce anger of Rezin with Syria, and of the son of Remaliah.

2 Ne. 19:12
The Syrians before and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 19:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows; for every one of them is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 19:21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 20:4
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

2 Ne. 20:5
O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is their indignation.

2 Ne. 20:25
For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

2 Ne. 22:1
And in that day thou shalt say: O Lord, I will praise thee; though thou wast angry with me thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

2 Ne. 23:3
I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones, for mine anger is not upon them that rejoice in my highness.

2 Ne. 23:9
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh, cruel both with wrath and fierce anger, to lay the land desolate; and he shall destroy the sinners thereof out of it.

2 Ne. 23:13
Therefore, I will shake the heavens, and the earth shall remove out of her place, in the wrath of the Lord of Hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

2 Ne. 24:1
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

2 Ne. 24:6
He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.

2 Ne. 26:6
And they shall be visited with thunderings, and lightnings, and earthquakes, and all manner of destructions, for the fire of the anger of the Lord shall be kindled against them, and they shall be as stubble, and the day that cometh shall consume them, saith the Lord of Hosts.

2 Ne. 28:19
For the kingdom of the devil must shake, and they which belong to it must needs be stirred up unto repentance, or the devil will grasp them with his everlasting chains, and they be stirred up to anger, and perish;

2 Ne. 28:20
For behold, at that day shall he rage in the hearts of the children of men, and stir them up to anger against that which is good.