Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'tongue' occurs 170 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'tongue' in the standard works and contain 15.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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James 3:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 98:33-36 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 31:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezra 4:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 9:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 32:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 120:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 96 9 105
NT 33 28 61
BM 24 20 44
DC 16 10 26
PGP 1 4 5
JS-H 1 2 3
A of F 0 2 2
TOTAL 170 71 241

JS-H 1:15
After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

JS-H 1:33
He called me by name, and said unto me that he was a messenger sent from the presence of God to me, and that his name was Moroni; that God had a work for me to do; and that my name should be had for good and evil among all nations, kindreds, and tongues, or that it should be both good and evil spoken of among all people.

JS-H 1:61
The excitement, however, still continued, and rumor with her thousand tongues was all the time employed in circulating falsehoods about my father's family, and about myself. If I were to relate a thousandth part of them, it would fill up volumes. The persecution, however, became so intolerable that I was under the necessity of leaving Manchester, and going with my wife to Susquehanna county, in the State of Pennsylvania. While preparing to start-- being very poor, and the persecution so heavy upon us that there was no probability that we would ever be otherwise-- in the midst of our afflictions we found a friend in a gentleman by the name of Martin Harris, who came to us and gave me fifty dollars to assist us on our journey. Mr. Harris was a resident of Palmyra township, Wayne county, in the State of New York, and a farmer of respectability.

A of F 1:7
We believe in the gift of tongues, prophecy, revelation, visions, healing, interpretation of tongues, and so forth.