Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'temptation' occurs 34 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'temptation' in the standard works and contain 11.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Cor. 10:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 15:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 1 3 4
NT 15 5 20
BM 9 10 19
1 Ne. 0 3 3
2 Ne. 0 2 2
Jacob 1 0 1
Mosiah 2 1 3
Alma 2 3 5
3 Ne. 3 1 4
Morm. 1 0 1
DC 9 2 11
PGP 0 2 2
TOTAL 34 22 56

Jacob 1:7
Wherefore we labored diligently among our people, that we might persuade them to come unto Christ, and partake of the goodness of God, that they might enter into his rest, lest by any means he should swear in his wrath they should not enter in, as in the provocation in the days of temptation while the children of Israel were in the wilderness.

Mosiah 15:5
And thus the flesh becoming subject to the Spirit, or the Son to the Father, being one God, suffereth temptation, and yieldeth not to the temptation, but suffereth himself to be mocked, and scourged, and cast out, and disowned by his people.

Alma 31:10
Neither would they observe the performances of the church, to continue in prayer and supplication to God daily, that they might not enter into temptation.

Alma 37:33
Preach unto them repentance, and faith on the Lord Jesus Christ; teach them to humble themselves and to be meek and lowly in heart; teach them to withstand every temptation of the devil, with their faith on the Lord Jesus Christ.

3 Ne. 13:12
And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.

3 Ne. 18:18
Behold, verily, verily, I say unto you, ye must watch and pray always lest ye enter into temptation; for Satan desireth to have you, that he may sift you as wheat.

3 Ne. 18:25
And ye see that I have commanded that none of you should go away, but rather have commanded that ye should come unto me, that ye might feel and see; even so shall ye do unto the world; and whosoever breaketh this commandment suffereth himself to be led into temptation.

Morm. 9:28
Be wise in the days of your probation; strip yourselves of all uncleanness; ask not, that ye may consume it on your lusts, but ask with a firmness unshaken, that ye will yield to no temptation, but that ye will serve the true and living God.