Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'promise' occurs 137 times in the standard works.

40 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'promise' in the standard works and contain 29.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gal. 3:17-19 (4 in 3 verses)

Neh. 5:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 3:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 2:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Heb. 11:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 12:17 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 62:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:75 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 26:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 9:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 96:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 8 37 45
Ex. 0 1 1
Num. 1 1 2
Deut. 0 10 10
Josh. 0 5 5
2 Sam. 0 1 1
1 Kgs. 1 8 9
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 4 5
Neh. 3 2 5
Esth. 0 1 1
Ps. 2 0 2
Jer. 0 2 2
NT 45 27 72
BM 41 52 93
DC 41 23 64
PGP 2 2 4
TOTAL 137 141 278

Num. 14:34
After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

1 Kgs. 8:56
Blessed be the Lord, that hath given rest unto his people Israel, according to all that he promised: there hath not failed one word of all his good promise, which he promised by the hand of Moses his servant.

2 Chr. 1:9
Now, O Lord God, let thy promise unto David my father be established: for thou hast made me king over a people like the dust of the earth in multitude.

Neh. 5:12
Then said they, We will restore them, and will require nothing of them; so will we do as thou sayest. Then I called the priests, and took an oath of them, that they should do according to this promise.

Neh. 5:13
Also I shook my lap, and said, So God shake out every man from his house, and from his labour, that performeth not this promise, even thus be he shaken out, and emptied. And all the congregation said, Amen, and praised the Lord. And the people did according to this promise.

Ps. 77:8
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?

Ps. 105:42
For he remembered his holy promise, and Abraham his servant.