Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'church' occurs 714 times in the standard works.

434 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'church' in the standard works and contain 60.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 188 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 20:65-21:1 (21 in 21 verses)

Alma 4:4-18 (16 in 15 verses)

D&C 51:4-13 (12 in 10 verses)

3 Ne. 26:21-27:10 (11 in 11 verses)

D&C 107:72-82 (11 in 11 verses)

1 Ne. 14:9-17 (10 in 9 verses)

Mosiah 26:33-27:2 (10 in 9 verses)

Alma 5:62-6:8 (10 in 9 verses)

D&C 102:1-10 (10 in 10 verses)

D&C 42:31-37 (9 in 7 verses)

Alma 1:19-23 (7 in 5 verses)

D&C 20:37-43 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 72:19-25 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 42:78-81 (6 in 4 verses)

Alma 1:28-32 (6 in 5 verses)

D&C 127:12-128:4 (6 in 5 verses)

D&C 23:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 42:8-13 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 83:1-6 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 107:32-37 (6 in 6 verses)

JS-H 1:1-2 (5 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 25:18-22 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 26:4-8 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 26:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 27:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 5:2-6 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 46:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 107:58-59 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

Hel. 3:24-26 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 10:53-55 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 10:67-69 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 28:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 69:7-70:1 (4 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:26-29 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 28:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 30:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 107:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 18:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Hel. 3:33 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:30 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 41:9 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 46:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 8:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 21:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:72-73 (3 in 2 verses)

Eph. 5:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 13:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 20:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 20:53-55 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 20:61-63 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 33:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 38:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 46:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 102:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:65-67 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 109:71-73 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:124-126 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 18:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 6:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 11:21 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:12 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 6:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 18:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 50:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 58:35 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 58:49 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 82:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:111 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 86:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:127 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 107:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 107:98 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 15:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Col. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Jn. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 45:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 21:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 26:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 37:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 41:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:60-61 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 70:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 72:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 72:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 72:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 75:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 75:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 106:8-107:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:91-92 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 119:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:136-137 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 0 0
NT 77 37 114
BM 226 32 258
1 Ne. 22 4 26
2 Ne. 4 6 10
Mosiah 42 7 49
Alma 101 3 104
Hel. 16 0 16
3 Ne. 23 0 23
4 Ne. 6 5 11
Morm. 2 7 9
Moro. 10 0 10
DC 401 28 429
PGP 10 0 10
TOTAL 714 97 811

Hel. 3:1
And now it came to pass in the forty and third year of the reign of the judges, there was no contention among the people of Nephi save it were a little pride which was in the church, which did cause some little dissensions among the people, which affairs were settled in the ending of the forty and third year.

Hel. 3:24
And it came to pass that in this same year there was exceedingly great prosperity in the church, insomuch that there were thousands who did join themselves unto the church and were baptized unto repentance.

Hel. 3:25
And so great was the prosperity of the church, and so many the blessings which were poured out upon the people, that even the high priests and the teachers were themselves astonished beyond measure.

Hel. 3:26
And it came to pass that the work of the Lord did prosper unto the baptizing and uniting to the church of God, many souls, yea, even tens of thousands.

Hel. 3:33
And in the fifty and first year of the reign of the judges there was peace also, save it were the pride which began to enter into the church-- not into the church of God, but into the hearts of the people who professed to belong to the church of God--

Hel. 4:1
And it came to pass in the fifty and fourth year there were many dissensions in the church, and there was also a contention among the people, insomuch that there was much bloodshed.

Hel. 4:11
Now this great loss of the Nephites, and the great slaughter which was among them, would not have happened had it not been for their wickedness and their abomination which was among them; yea, and it was among those also who professed to belong to the church of God.

Hel. 4:23
And because of their iniquity the church had begun to dwindle; and they began to disbelieve in the spirit of prophecy and in the spirit of revelation; and the judgments of God did stare them in the face.

Hel. 5:35
Now there was one among them who was a Nephite by birth, who had once belonged to the church of God but had dissented from them.

Hel. 6:3
Nevertheless, the people of the church did have great joy because of the conversion of the Lamanites, yea, because of the church of God, which had been established among them. And they did fellowship one with another, and did rejoice one with another, and did have great joy.

Hel. 11:21
And it came to pass that the seventy and sixth year did end in peace. And the seventy and seventh year began in peace; and the church did spread throughout the face of all the land; and the more part of the people, both the Nephites and the Lamanites, did belong to the church; and they did have exceedingly great peace in the land; and thus ended the seventy and seventh year.