Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'need' occurs 112 times in the standard works.

25 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'need' in the standard works and contain 22.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 29:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 29:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 101:47-49 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 12:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 5:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 31:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 22:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 1:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 29:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:109-110 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 55 61
NT 43 26 69
Matt. 7 2 9
Mark 4 2 6
Luke 7 4 11
John 1 4 5
Acts 2 5 7
Rom. 1 1 2
1 Cor. 4 1 5
2 Cor. 1 1 2
Eph. 0 1 1
Philip. 2 1 3
1 Thes. 3 0 3
2 Tim. 0 1 1
Heb. 5 1 6
James 0 1 1
1 Pet. 1 0 1
1 Jn. 2 0 2
Jude 0 1 1
Rev. 3 0 3
BM 46 56 102
DC 16 58 74
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 112 197 309

Matt. 3:14
But John forbad him, saying, I have need to be baptized of thee, and comest thou to me?

Matt. 6:8
Be not ye therefore like unto them: for your Father knoweth what things ye have need of, before ye ask him.

Matt. 6:32
(For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Matt. 9:12
But when Jesus heard that, he said unto them, They that be whole need not a physician, but they that are sick.

Matt. 14:16
But Jesus said unto them, They need not depart; give ye them to eat.

Matt. 18:7
Woe unto the world because of offences! for it must needs be that offences come; but woe to that man by whom the offence cometh!

Matt. 19:24
And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Matt. 21:3
And if any man say ought unto you, ye shall say, The Lord hath need of them; and straightway he will send them.

Matt. 26:65
Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Mark 2:17
When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

Mark 2:25
And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

Mark 10:25
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Mark 11:3
And if any man say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye that the Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him hither.

Mark 13:7
And when ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars, be ye not troubled: for such things must needs be; but the end shall not be yet.

Mark 14:63
Then the high priest rent his clothes, and saith, What need we any further witnesses?

Luke 5:31
And Jesus answering said unto them, They that are whole need not a physician; but they that are sick.

Luke 9:11
And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

Luke 10:42
But one thing is needful: and Mary hath chosen that good part, which shall not be taken away from her.

Luke 11:8
I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

Luke 12:30
For all these things do the nations of the world seek after: and your Father knoweth that ye have need of these things.

Luke 14:18
And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a piece of ground, and I must needs go and see it: I pray thee have me excused.

Luke 15:7
I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

Luke 18:25
For it is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

Luke 19:31
And if any man ask you, Why do ye loose him? thus shall ye say unto him, Because the Lord hath need of him.

Luke 19:34
And they said, The Lord hath need of him.

Luke 22:71
And they said, What need we any further witness? for we ourselves have heard of his own mouth.

John 2:25
And needed not that any should testify of man: for he knew what was in man.

John 4:4
And he must needs go through Samaria.

John 13:10
Jesus saith to him, He that is washed needeth not save to wash his feet, but is clean every whit: and ye are clean, but not all.

John 13:29
For some of them thought, because Judas had the bag, that Jesus had said unto him, Buy those things that we have need of against the feast; or, that he should give something to the poor.

John 16:30
Now are we sure that thou knowest all things, and needest not that any man should ask thee: by this we believe that thou camest forth from God.

Acts 1:16
Men and brethren, this scripture must needs have been fulfilled, which the Holy Ghost by the mouth of David spake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jesus.

Acts 2:45
And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

Acts 4:35
And laid them down at the apostles' feet: and distribution was made unto every man according as he had need.

Acts 15:5
But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

Acts 17:3
Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

Acts 17:25
Neither is worshipped with men's hands, as though he needed any thing, seeing he giveth to all life, and breath, and all things;

Acts 21:22
What is it therefore? the multitude must needs come together: for they will hear that thou art come.

Rom. 13:5
Wherefore ye must needs be subject, not only for wrath, but also for conscience sake.

Rom. 16:2
That ye receive her in the Lord, as becometh saints, and that ye assist her in whatsoever business she hath need of you: for she hath been a succourer of many, and of myself also.

1 Cor. 5:10
Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

1 Cor. 7:36
But if any man think that he behaveth himself uncomely toward his virgin, if she pass the flower of her age, and need so require, let him do what he will, he sinneth not: let them marry.

1 Cor. 12:21
And the eye cannot say unto the hand, I have no need of thee: nor again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

1 Cor. 12:24
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

2 Cor. 3:1
Do we begin again to commend ourselves? or need we, as some others, epistles of commendation to you, or letters of commendation from you?

2 Cor. 11:30
If I must needs glory, I will glory of the things which concern mine infirmities.

Eph. 4:28
Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Philip. 1:24
Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

Philip. 4:12
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound: every where and in all things I am instructed both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.

Philip. 4:19
But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

1 Thes. 1:8
For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

1 Thes. 4:9
But as touching brotherly love ye need not that I write unto you: for ye yourselves are taught of God to love one another.

1 Thes. 5:1
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

2 Tim. 2:15
Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.

Heb. 4:16
Let us therefore come boldly unto the throne of grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find grace to help in time of need.

Heb. 5:12
For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat.

Heb. 7:11
If therefore perfection were by the Levitical priesthood, (for under it the people received the law,) what further need was there that another priest should rise after the order of Melchisedec, and not be called after the order of Aaron?

Heb. 7:27
Who needeth not daily, as those high priests, to offer up sacrifice, first for his own sins, and then for the people's: for this he did once, when he offered up himself.

Heb. 10:36
For ye have need of patience, that, after ye have done the will of God, ye might receive the promise.

James 2:16
And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

1 Pet. 1:6
Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

1 Jn. 2:27
But the anointing which ye have received of him abideth in you, and ye need not that any man teach you: but as the same anointing teacheth you of all things, and is truth, and is no lie, and even as it hath taught you, ye shall abide in him.

1 Jn. 3:17
But whoso hath this world's good, and seeth his brother have need, and shutteth up his bowels of compassion from him, how dwelleth the love of God in him?

Jude 1:3
Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints.

Rev. 3:17
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:

Rev. 21:23
And the city had no need of the sun, neither of the moon, to shine in it: for the glory of God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof.

Rev. 22:5
And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.