Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'destroy' occurs 461 times in the standard works.

129 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'destroy' in the standard works and contain 28% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 50 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 2:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 6:29-7:2 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 19:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 26:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 118:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 10:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 10:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 18:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 33:52 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 9:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 11:20 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 18:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 20:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 6:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 9:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 106:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 36:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 65:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 2:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 9:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 5:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 11:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 30:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 19:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 24:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:13 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:17 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:57 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 18:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 18:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 7:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 9:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 12:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 20:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Esth. 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 25:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 23:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 27:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 9:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 15:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 5:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 228 183 411
NT 33 21 54
Matt. 8 2 10
Mark 6 1 7
Luke 5 2 7
John 2 0 2
Acts 1 4 5
Rom. 2 1 3
1 Cor. 3 4 7
2 Cor. 0 1 1
Gal. 0 2 2
2 Thes. 1 0 1
Heb. 1 1 2
James 1 0 1
2 Pet. 0 1 1
1 Jn. 1 0 1
Jude 0 1 1
Rev. 2 1 3
BM 166 128 294
DC 27 18 45
PGP 7 3 10
TOTAL 461 353 814

Matt. 22:7
But when the king heard thereof, he was wroth: and he sent forth his armies, and destroyed those murderers, and burned up their city.

Matt. 27:40
And saying, Thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days, save thyself. If thou be the Son of God, come down from the cross.

Mark 15:29
And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, thou that destroyest the temple, and buildest it in three days,

Luke 17:27
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Luke 17:29
But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

Acts 3:23
And it shall come to pass, that every soul, which will not hear that prophet, shall be destroyed from among the people.

Acts 9:21
But all that heard him were amazed, and said; Is not this he that destroyed them which called on this name in Jerusalem, and came hither for that intent, that he might bring them bound unto the chief priests?

Acts 13:19
And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

Acts 19:27
So that not only this our craft is in danger to be set at nought; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana should be despised, and her magnificence should be destroyed, whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

Rom. 6:6
Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.

1 Cor. 10:9
Neither let us tempt Christ, as some of them also tempted, and were destroyed of serpents.

1 Cor. 10:10
Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

1 Cor. 15:26
The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.

2 Cor. 4:9
Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

Gal. 1:23
But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

Gal. 2:18
For if I build again the things which I destroyed, I make myself a transgressor.

Heb. 11:28
Through faith he kept the passover, and the sprinkling of blood, lest he that destroyed the firstborn should touch them.

2 Pet. 2:12
But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

Jude 1:5
I will therefore put you in remembrance, though ye once knew this, how that the Lord, having saved the people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed them that believed not.

Rev. 8:9
And the third part of the creatures which were in the sea, and had life, died; and the third part of the ships were destroyed.