Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'needs' occurs 93 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'needs' in the standard works and contain 32.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 2:11-17 (7 in 7 verses)

2 Ne. 9:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:33-34 (3 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 51:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 28:37 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:6 (2 in 1 verse)


3 Ne. 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

 5:1 And now behold, there was not a living soul among all the people of the Nephites who did doubt in the least the words of all the holy prophets who had spoken; for they knew that it must needs be that they must be fulfilled.

 5:2 And they knew that it must be expedient that Christ had come, because of the many signs which had been given, according to the words of the prophets; and because of the things which had come to pass already they knew that it must needs be that all things should come to pass according to that which had been spoken.




D&C 48:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 0 6
NT 10 0 10
BM 45 0 45
1 Ne. 8 0 8
2 Ne. 19 0 19
Jacob 1 0 1
Jarom 1 0 1
Mosiah 1 0 1
Alma 5 0 5
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Ether 1 0 1
Moro. 4 0 4
DC 32 0 32
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 93 0 93

3 Ne. 5:1
And now behold, there was not a living soul among all the people of the Nephites who did doubt in the least the words of all the holy prophets who had spoken; for they knew that it must needs be that they must be fulfilled.

3 Ne. 5:2
And they knew that it must be expedient that Christ had come, because of the many signs which had been given, according to the words of the prophets; and because of the things which had come to pass already they knew that it must needs be that all things should come to pass according to that which had been spoken.

3 Ne. 23:2
For surely he spake as touching all things concerning my people which are of the house of Israel; therefore it must needs be that he must speak also to the Gentiles.

3 Ne. 28:37
But behold, since I wrote, I have inquired of the Lord, and he hath made it manifest unto me that there must needs be a change wrought upon their bodies, or else it needs be that they must taste of death;