Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'fight' occurs 144 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 'fight' in the standard works and contain 27.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 29:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 43:43-44 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 35:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 11:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 35:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 6:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 27:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 53:17 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 1:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 17:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 20:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 22:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 18:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 21:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Ne. 6:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 6:12 And blessed are the Gentiles, they of whom the prophet has written; for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants which he has made unto his children; and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

 6:13 Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet; and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah.




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 96 6 102
NT 11 2 13
BM 30 9 39
1 Ne. 6 0 6
2 Ne. 6 2 8
W of M 1 0 1
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 12 3 15
3 Ne. 0 1 1
Morm. 2 0 2
Ether 1 2 3
Moro. 0 1 1
DC 7 0 7
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 144 17 161

2 Ne. 6:12
And blessed are the Gentiles, they of whom the prophet has written; for behold, if it so be that they shall repent and fight not against Zion, and do not unite themselves to that great and abominable church, they shall be saved; for the Lord God will fulfil his covenants which he has made unto his children; and for this cause the prophet has written these things.

2 Ne. 6:13
Wherefore, they that fight against Zion and the covenant people of the Lord shall lick up the dust of their feet; and the people of the Lord shall not be ashamed. For the people of the Lord are they who wait for him; for they still wait for the coming of the Messiah.

2 Ne. 10:13
And he that fighteth against Zion shall perish, saith God.

2 Ne. 10:16
Wherefore, he that fighteth against Zion, both Jew and Gentile, both bond and free, both male and female, shall perish; for they are they who are the whore of all the earth; for they who are not for me are against me, saith our God.

2 Ne. 25:14
And behold it shall come to pass that after the Messiah hath risen from the dead, and hath manifested himself unto his people, unto as many as will believe on his name, behold, Jerusalem shall be destroyed again; for wo unto them that fight against God and the people of his church.

2 Ne. 27:3
And all the nations that fight against Zion, and that distress her, shall be as a dream of a night vision; yea, it shall be unto them, even as unto a hungry man which dreameth, and behold he eateth but he awaketh and his soul is empty; or like unto a thirsty man which dreameth, and behold he drinketh but he awaketh and behold he is faint, and his soul hath appetite; yea, even so shall the multitude of all the nations be that fight against Mount Zion.

2 Ne. 29:14
And it shall come to pass that my people, which are of the house of Israel, shall be gathered home unto the lands of their possessions; and my word also shall be gathered in one. And I will show unto them that fight against my word and against my people, who are of the house of Israel, that I am God, and that I covenanted with Abraham that I would remember his seed forever.