Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'perish' occurs 244 times in the standard works.

45 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'perish' in the standard works and contain 18.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 9:22-24 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 2:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 17:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 34:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 13:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

John 3:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 8:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 90 26 116
NT 30 10 40
Matt. 6 1 7
Mark 1 0 1
Luke 7 1 8
John 4 1 5
Acts 2 1 3
Rom. 1 0 1
1 Cor. 2 1 3
2 Cor. 2 0 2
Col. 1 0 1
2 Thes. 1 0 1
Heb. 1 1 2
James 0 1 1
1 Pet. 0 1 1
2 Pet. 2 1 3
Jude 0 1 1
BM 115 22 137
DC 7 2 9
PGP 2 1 3
TOTAL 244 61 305

Matt. 5:29
And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matt. 5:30
And if thy right hand offend thee, cut it off, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.

Matt. 8:25
And his disciples came to him, and awoke him, saying, Lord, save us: we perish.

Matt. 9:17
Neither do men put new wine into old bottles: else the bottles break, and the wine runneth out, and the bottles perish: but they put new wine into new bottles, and both are preserved.

Matt. 18:14
Even so it is not the will of your Father which is in heaven, that one of these little ones should perish.

Matt. 26:52
Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Mark 4:38
And he was in the hinder part of the ship, asleep on a pillow: and they awake him, and say unto him, Master, carest thou not that we perish?

Luke 5:37
And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine will burst the bottles, and be spilled, and the bottles shall perish.

Luke 8:24
And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.

Luke 13:3
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Luke 13:5
I tell you, Nay: but, except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish.

Luke 13:33
Nevertheless I must walk to day, and to morrow, and the day following: for it cannot be that a prophet perish out of Jerusalem.

Luke 15:17
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!

Luke 21:18
But there shall not an hair of your head perish.

John 3:15
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have eternal life.

John 3:16
For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life.

John 10:28
And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

John 11:50
Nor consider that it is expedient for us, that one man should die for the people, and that the whole nation perish not.

Acts 8:20
But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

Acts 13:41
Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

Rom. 2:12
For as many as have sinned without law shall also perish without law: and as many as have sinned in the law shall be judged by the law;

1 Cor. 1:18
For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God.

1 Cor. 8:11
And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

2 Cor. 2:15
For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

2 Cor. 4:16
For which cause we faint not; but though our outward man perish, yet the inward man is renewed day by day.

Col. 2:22
Which all are to perish with the using;) after the commandments and doctrines of men?

2 Thes. 2:10
And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

Heb. 1:11
They shall perish; but thou remainest; and they all shall wax old as doth a garment;

2 Pet. 2:12
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

2 Pet. 3:9
The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.