Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'overcome' occurs 57 times in the standard works.

12 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'overcome' in the standard works and contain 21.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 49:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 12:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:48 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Pet. 2:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 9 0 9
NT 13 11 24
BM 14 0 14
1 Ne. 4 0 4
Jacob 8 0 8
Alma 1 0 1
3 Ne. 1 0 1
DC 19 1 20
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 57 12 69

1 Ne. 1:7
And it came to pass that he returned to his own house at Jerusalem; and he cast himself upon his bed, being overcome with the Spirit and the things which he had seen.

1 Ne. 1:8
And being thus overcome with the Spirit, he was carried away in a vision, even that he saw the heavens open, and he thought he saw God sitting upon his throne, surrounded with numberless concourses of angels in the attitude of singing and praising their God.

1 Ne. 12:20
And it came to pass that I beheld, and saw the people of the seed of my brethren that they had overcome my seed; and they went forth in multitudes upon the face of the land.

1 Ne. 15:5
And it came to pass that I was overcome because of my afflictions, for I considered that mine afflictions were great above all, because of the destruction of my people, for I had beheld their fall.