Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'promise' occurs 137 times in the standard works.

40 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'promise' in the standard works and contain 29.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gal. 3:17-19 (4 in 3 verses)

Neh. 5:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 3:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 2:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Heb. 11:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 12:17 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 62:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:75 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 26:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 9:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 96:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 8 37 45
Ex. 0 1 1
Num. 1 1 2
Deut. 0 10 10
Josh. 0 5 5
2 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 1 8 9
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 4 5
Neh. 3 2 5
Esth. 0 1 1
Ps. 2 0 2
Jer. 0 2 2
NT 45 27 72
BM 41 52 93
DC 41 23 64
PGP 2 2 4
TOTAL 137 141 278

Num. 14:34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

Num. 14:40
And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up into the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we be here, and will go up unto the place which the Lord hath promised: for we have sinned.