Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'persecute' occurs 43 times in the standard works.

7 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'persecute' in the standard works and contain 16.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 1:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 24:8 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 16 6 22
NT 9 20 29
BM 13 7 20
2 Ne. 2 1 3
Jacob 1 1 2
Mosiah 3 3 6
Alma 4 0 4
3 Ne. 2 2 4
4 Ne. 1 0 1
DC 2 4 6
PGP 3 2 5
TOTAL 43 39 82

Alma 1:19
But it came to pass that whosoever did not belong to the church of God began to persecute those that did belong to the church of God, and had taken upon them the name of Christ.

Alma 1:20
Yea, they did persecute them, and afflict them with all manner of words, and this because of their humility; because they were not proud in their own eyes, and because they did impart the word of God, one with another, without money and without price.

Alma 1:21
Now there was a strict law among the people of the church, that there should not any man, belonging to the church, arise and persecute those that did not belong to the church, and that there should be no persecution among themselves.

Alma 4:8
For they saw and beheld with great sorrow that the people of the church began to be lifted up in the pride of their eyes, and to set their hearts upon riches and upon the vain things of the world, that they began to be scornful, one towards another, and they began to persecute those that did not believe according to their own will and pleasure.