Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'last' occurs 281 times in the standard works.

77 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'last' in the standard works and contain 27.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jacob 5:62-71 (10 in 10 verses)

Alma 34:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 88:59 (3 in 1 verse)

Matt. 20:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 13:40-42 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 29:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 112:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 19:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 10:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 13:30 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 14:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 11:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 17:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 43:28 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

John 6:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:30-3:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 33:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:75-76 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 26:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 27:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:44-53:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:69-70 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 32 100 132
NT 53 27 80
BM 117 64 181
DC 73 77 150
PGP 6 3 9
Moses 2 1 3
Abr. 0 1 1
JS-M 1 0 1
JS-H 3 1 4
TOTAL 281 271 552

Moses 7:53
And the Lord said: Blessed is he through whose seed Messiah shall come; for he saith-- I am Messiah, the King of Zion, the Rock of Heaven, which is broad as eternity; whoso cometh in at the gate and climbeth up by me shall never fall; wherefore, blessed are they of whom I have spoken, for they shall come forth with songs of everlasting joy.

Moses 7:60
And the Lord said unto Enoch: As I live, even so will I come in the last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfil the oath which I have made unto you concerning the children of Noah;

Moses 7:65
And it came to pass that Enoch saw the day of the coming of the Son of Man, in the last days, to dwell on the earth in righteousness for the space of a thousand years;

Abr. 2:6
But I, Abraham, and Lot, my brother's son, prayed unto the Lord, and the Lord appeared unto me, and said unto me: Arise, and take Lot with thee; for I have purposed to take thee away out of Haran, and to make of thee a minister to bear my name in a strange land which I will give unto thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession, when they hearken to my voice.

JS-M 1:44
Then shall be fulfilled that which is written, that in the last days, two shall be in the field, the one shall be taken, and the other left;

JS-H 1:34
He said there was a book deposited, written upon gold plates, giving an account of the former inhabitants of this continent, and the source from whence they sprang. He also said that the fulness of the everlasting Gospel was contained in it, as delivered by the Savior to the ancient inhabitants;

JS-H 1:36
After telling me these things, he commenced quoting the prophecies of the Old Testament. He first quoted part of the third chapter of Malachi; and he quoted also the fourth or last chapter of the same prophecy, though with a little variation from the way it reads in our Bibles. Instead of quoting the first verse as it reads in our books, he quoted it thus:

JS-H 1:41
He also quoted the second chapter of Joel, from the twenty-eighth verse to the last. He also said that this was not yet fulfilled, but was soon to be. And he further stated that the fulness of the Gentiles was soon to come in. He quoted many other passages of scripture, and offered many explanations which cannot be mentioned here.

JS-H 1:54
Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going to do, and how and in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.