Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beginning' occurs 249 times in the standard works.

56 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beginning' in the standard works and contain 22.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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4 Ne. 1:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 77:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 94:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Jn. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 87:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 3 57
NT 52 1 53
BM 56 0 56
DC 60 0 60
PGP 27 0 27
Moses 13 0 13
Abr. 11 0 11
JS-M 2 0 2
JS-H 1 0 1
TOTAL 249 4 253

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.