Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'destruction' occurs 262 times in the standard works.

54 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'destruction' in the standard works and contain 20.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ether 8:21-25 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 27:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 14:3 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 11:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 35:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 4:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 7:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:10 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-M 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 5:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 10:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 3:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 10:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 82 3 85
NT 12 0 12
BM 154 8 162
1 Ne. 16 1 17
2 Ne. 12 2 14
Jacob 4 0 4
Enos 1 1 2
W of M 2 0 2
Mosiah 6 0 6
Alma 45 1 46
Hel. 32 0 32
3 Ne. 11 2 13
Morm. 7 0 7
Ether 16 1 17
Moro. 2 0 2
DC 8 2 10
PGP 6 0 6
TOTAL 262 13 275

1 Ne. 1:18
Therefore, I would that ye should know, that after the Lord had shown so many marvelous things unto my father, Lehi, yea, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, behold he went forth among the people, and began to prophesy and to declare unto them concerning the things which he had both seen and heard.

1 Ne. 7:13
And if it so be that we are faithful to him, we shall obtain the land of promise; and ye shall know at some future period that the word of the Lord shall be fulfilled concerning the destruction of Jerusalem; for all things which the Lord hath spoken concerning the destruction of Jerusalem must be fulfilled.

1 Ne. 11:36
And it came to pass that I saw and bear record, that the great and spacious building was the pride of the world; and it fell, and the fall thereof was exceedingly great. And the angel of the Lord spake unto me again, saying: Thus shall be the destruction of all nations, kindreds, tongues, and people, that shall fight against the twelve apostles of the Lamb.

1 Ne. 14:3
And that great pit, which hath been digged for them by that great and abominable church, which was founded by the devil and his children, that he might lead away the souls of men down to hell-- yea, that great pit which hath been digged for the destruction of men shall be filled by those who digged it, unto their utter destruction, saith the Lamb of God; not the destruction of the soul, save it be the casting of it into that hell which hath no end.

1 Ne. 14:7
For the time cometh, saith the Lamb of God, that I will work a great and a marvelous work among the children of men; a work which shall be everlasting, either on the one hand or on the other-- either to the convincing of them unto peace and life eternal, or unto the deliverance of them to the hardness of their hearts and the blindness of their minds unto their being brought down into captivity, and also into destruction, both temporally and spiritually, according to the captivity of the devil, of which I have spoken.

1 Ne. 15:5
And it came to pass that I was overcome because of my afflictions, for I considered that mine afflictions were great above all, because of the destruction of my people, for I had beheld their fall.

1 Ne. 15:24
And I said unto them that it was the word of God; and whoso would hearken unto the word of God, and would hold fast unto it, they would never perish; neither could the temptations and the fiery darts of the adversary overpower them unto blindness, to lead them away to destruction.

1 Ne. 17:14
Yea, and the Lord said also that: After ye have arrived in the promised land, ye shall know that I, the Lord, am God; and that I, the Lord, did deliver you from destruction; yea, that I did bring you out of the land of Jerusalem.

1 Ne. 17:32
And after they had crossed the river Jordan he did make them mighty unto the driving out of the children of the land, yea, unto the scattering them to destruction.

1 Ne. 17:35
Behold, the Lord esteemeth all flesh in one; he that is righteous is favored of God. But behold, this people had rejected every word of God, and they were ripe in iniquity; and the fulness of the wrath of God was upon them; and the Lord did curse the land against them, and bless it unto our fathers; yea, he did curse it against them unto their destruction, and he did bless it unto our fathers unto their obtaining power over it.

1 Ne. 18:20
And there was nothing save it were the power of God, which threatened them with destruction, could soften their hearts; wherefore, when they saw that they were about to be swallowed up in the depths of the sea they repented of the thing which they had done, insomuch that they loosed me.

1 Ne. 19:4
Wherefore, I, Nephi, did make a record upon the other plates, which gives an account, or which gives a greater account of the wars and contentions and destructions of my people. And this have I done, and commanded my people what they should do after I was gone; and that these plates should be handed down from one generation to another, or from one prophet to another, until further commandments of the Lord.

1 Ne. 21:19
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants; and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

1 Ne. 22:17
Wherefore, he will preserve the righteous by his power, even if it so be that the fulness of his wrath must come, and the righteous be preserved, even unto the destruction of their enemies by fire. Wherefore, the righteous need not fear; for thus saith the prophet, they shall be saved, even if it so be as by fire.