Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'strengthen' occurs 63 times in the standard works.

7 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'strengthen' in the standard works and contain 11.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 23:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 32:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 30:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 29 42 71
Gen. 0 1 1
Deut. 1 0 1
Judg. 1 2 3
1 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 0 13 13
Ezra 1 2 3
Neh. 1 1 2
Job 1 3 4
Ps. 7 4 11
Prov. 0 2 2
Eccl. 0 1 1
Isa. 6 1 7
Jer. 1 0 1
Ezek. 5 2 7
Dan. 1 5 6
Hosea 0 1 1
Amos 1 1 2
Zech. 2 0 2
NT 3 7 10
BM 21 8 29
DC 10 3 13
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 63 60 123

Ezek. 7:13
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

Ezek. 13:22
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Ezek. 16:49
Behold, this was the iniquity of thy sister Sodom, pride, fulness of bread, and abundance of idleness was in her and in her daughters, neither did she strengthen the hand of the poor and needy.

Ezek. 30:24
And I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and put my sword in his hand: but I will break Pharaoh's arms, and he shall groan before him with the groanings of a deadly wounded man.

Ezek. 30:25
But I will strengthen the arms of the king of Babylon, and the arms of Pharaoh shall fall down; and they shall know that I am the Lord, when I shall put my sword into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall stretch it out upon the land of Egypt.

Ezek. 34:4
The diseased have ye not strengthened, neither have ye healed that which was sick, neither have ye bound up that which was broken, neither have ye brought again that which was driven away, neither have ye sought that which was lost; but with force and with cruelty have ye ruled them.

Ezek. 34:16
I will seek that which was lost, and bring again that which was driven away, and will bind up that which was broken, and will strengthen that which was sick: but I will destroy the fat and the strong; I will feed them with judgment.