Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'same' occurs 575 times in the standard works.

129 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'same' in the standard works and contain 22.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 54 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Cor. 12:4-9 (6 in 6 verses)

Hel. 6:26-29 (5 in 4 verses)

Ex. 37:21-25 (5 in 5 verses)

Moro. 10:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 25:35-36 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 23:28-30 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 47:34-36 (4 in 3 verses)


JS-H 1:44-46 (4 in 3 verses)

 1:44 I lay musing on the singularity of the scene, and marveling greatly at what had been told to me by this extraordinary messenger; when, in the midst of my meditation, I suddenly discovered that my room was again beginning to get lighted, and in an instant, as it were, the same heavenly messenger was again by my bedside.

 1:45 He commenced, and again related the very same things which he had done at his first visit, without the least variation; which having done, he informed me of great judgments which were coming upon the earth, with great desolations by famine, sword, and pestilence; and that these grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation. Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.

 1:46 By this time, so deep were the impressions made on my mind, that sleep had fled from my eyes, and I lay overwhelmed in astonishment at what I had both seen and heard. But what was my surprise when again I beheld the same messenger at my bedside, and heard him rehearse or repeat over again to me the same things as before; and added a caution to me, telling me that Satan would try to tempt me (in consequence of the indigent circumstances of my father's family), to get the plates for the purpose of getting rich. This he forbade me, saying that I must have no other object in view in getting the plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any other motive than that of building his kingdom; otherwise I could not get them.




D&C 38:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 88:28-31 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Cor. 1:10 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 17:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 29:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 7:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 24:2 (2 in 1 verse)

John 1:33 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 12:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 34:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:17 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 41:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:135 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 19:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 6:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 23:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 9:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 23:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:50-13:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 16:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 1:32-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 9:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

James 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 29:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:67-68 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:71-72 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 158 11 169
NT 174 4 178
BM 114 5 119
DC 102 0 102
PGP 27 0 27
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 5 0 5
JS-M 2 0 2
JS-H 12 0 12
A of F 2 0 2
TOTAL 575 20 595

JS-H 1:3
I was born in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and five, on the twenty-third day of December, in the town of Sharon, Windsor county, State of Vermont ... My father, Joseph Smith, Sen., left the State of Vermont, and moved to Palmyra, Ontario (now Wayne) county, in the State of New York, when I was in my tenth year, or thereabouts. In about four years after my father's arrival in Palmyra, he moved with his family into Manchester in the same county of Ontario--

JS-H 1:12
Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.

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 1:44
I lay musing on the singularity of the scene, and marveling greatly at what had been told to me by this extraordinary messenger; when, in the midst of my meditation, I suddenly discovered that my room was again beginning to get lighted, and in an instant, as it were, the same heavenly messenger was again by my bedside.

JS-H 1:45
He commenced, and again related the very same things which he had done at his first visit, without the least variation; which having done, he informed me of great judgments which were coming upon the earth, with great desolations by famine, sword, and pestilence; and that these grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation. Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.

JS-H 1:46
By this time, so deep were the impressions made on my mind, that sleep had fled from my eyes, and I lay overwhelmed in astonishment at what I had both seen and heard. But what was my surprise when again I beheld the same messenger at my bedside, and heard him rehearse or repeat over again to me the same things as before; and added a caution to me, telling me that Satan would try to tempt me (in consequence of the indigent circumstances of my father's family), to get the plates for the purpose of getting rich. This he forbade me, saying that I must have no other object in view in getting the plates but to glorify God, and must not be influenced by any other motive than that of building his kingdom; otherwise I could not get them.

JS-H 1:49
The first thing that I can recollect was a voice speaking unto me, calling me by name. I looked up, and beheld the same messenger standing over my head, surrounded by light as before. He then again related unto me all that he had related to me the previous night, and commanded me to go to my father and tell him of the vision and commandments which I had received.

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.

JS-H 1:59
At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate. On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.

JS-H 1:71
Accordingly we went and were baptized. I baptized him first, and afterwards he baptized me-- after which I laid my hands upon his head and ordained him to the Aaronic Priesthood, and afterwards he laid his hands on me and ordained me to the same Priesthood-- for so we were commanded.

JS-H 1:72
The messenger who visited us on this occasion and conferred this Priesthood upon us, said that his name was John, the same that is called John the Baptist in the New Testament, and that he acted under the direction of Peter, James and John, who held the keys of the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which Priesthood, he said, would in due time be conferred on us, and that I should be called the first Elder of the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand of this messenger, and baptized.