Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wo' occurs 112 times in the standard works.

62 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wo' in the standard works and contain 55.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 25 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 9:30-38 (9 in 9 verses)

2 Ne. 28:24-29 (6 in 6 verses)

Hel. 13:11-16 (6 in 6 verses)

3 Ne. 9:2 (4 in 1 verse)


2 Ne. 28:15-16 (4 in 2 verses)

 28:15 O the wise, and the learned, and the rich, that are puffed up in the pride of their hearts, and all those who preach false doctrines, and all those who commit whoredoms, and pervert the right way of the Lord, wo, wo, wo be unto them, saith the Lord God Almighty, for they shall be thrust down to hell!

 28:16 Wo unto them that turn aside the just for a thing of naught and revile against that which is good, and say that it is of no worth! For the day shall come that the Lord God will speedily visit the inhabitants of the earth; and in that day that they are fully ripe in iniquity they shall perish.




3 Ne. 29:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 38:6 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 7:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 3:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 56:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:94-95 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 4083 4083
NT 0 1617 1617
BM 88 2589 2677
DC 19 855 874
PGP 5 204 209
TOTAL 112 9348 9460

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