Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'could' occurs 485 times in the standard works.

140 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'could' in the standard works and contain 28.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 52 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 42:9-17 (9 in 9 verses)

Alma 42:13-21 (9 in 9 verses)

Ether 12:19-24 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 60:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

3 Ne. 8:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:13 (3 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 28:39 (3 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:24 (3 in 1 verse)

Ether 3:26 (3 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:31 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Morm. 6:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Job 16:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 33:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 47:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 32:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 11:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 25:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 24:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 49:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 58:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 8:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 5:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 1:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 7:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 20:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 27:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 48:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 50:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 111 3 114
NT 55 2 57
BM 281 0 281
1 Ne. 13 0 13
2 Ne. 12 0 12
Jacob 8 0 8
Enos 1 0 1
Jarom 1 0 1
Omni 1 0 1
Mosiah 49 0 49
Alma 100 0 100
Hel. 25 0 25
3 Ne. 28 0 28
4 Ne. 2 0 2
Morm. 15 0 15
Ether 24 0 24
Moro. 2 0 2
DC 15 0 15
PGP 23 0 23
TOTAL 485 5 490

2 Ne. 1:26
And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of the power of the word of God, which was in him; and that which ye call anger was the truth, according to that which is in God, which he could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your iniquities.

2 Ne. 1:27
And it must needs be that the power of God must be with him, even unto his commanding you that ye must obey. But behold, it was not he, but it was the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not shut it.

2 Ne. 2:11
For it must needs be, that there is an opposition in all things. If not so, my firstborn in the wilderness, righteousness could not be brought to pass, neither wickedness, neither holiness nor misery, neither good nor bad. Wherefore, all things must needs be a compound in one; wherefore, if it should be one body it must needs remain as dead, having no life neither death, nor corruption nor incorruption, happiness nor misery, neither sense nor insensibility.

2 Ne. 2:13
And if ye shall say there is no law, ye shall also say there is no sin. If ye shall say there is no sin, ye shall also say there is no righteousness. And if there be no righteousness there be no happiness. And if there be no righteousness nor happiness there be no punishment nor misery. And if these things are not there is no God. And if there is no God we are not, neither the earth; for there could have been no creation of things, neither to act nor to be acted upon; wherefore, all things must have vanished away.

2 Ne. 2:16
Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other.

2 Ne. 5:16
And I, Nephi, did build a temple; and I did construct it after the manner of the temple of Solomon save it were not built of so many precious things; for they were not to be found upon the land, wherefore, it could not be built like unto Solomon's temple. But the manner of the construction was like unto the temple of Solomon; and the workmanship thereof was exceedingly fine.

2 Ne. 9:7
Wherefore, it must needs be an infinite atonement-- save it should be an infinite atonement this corruption could not put on incorruption. Wherefore, the first judgment which came upon man must needs have remained to an endless duration. And if so, this flesh must have laid down to rot and to crumble to its mother earth, to rise no more.

2 Ne. 11:7
For if there be no Christ there be no God; and if there be no God we are not, for there could have been no creation. But there is a God, and he is Christ, and he cometh in the fulness of his own time.

2 Ne. 15:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.

2 Ne. 17:1
And it came to pass in the days of Ahaz the son of Jotham, the son of Uzziah, king of Judah, that Rezin, king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah, king of Israel, went up toward Jerusalem to war against it, but could not prevail against it.

2 Ne. 32:2
Do ye not remember that I said unto you that after ye had received the Holy Ghost ye could speak with the tongue of angels? And now, how could ye speak with the tongue of angels save it were by the Holy Ghost?