Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'plead' occurs 56 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'plead' in the standard works and contain 25% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 6:31-32 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)


Hosea 2:2 (2 in 1 verse)

 2:2 Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;




Mosiah 23:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 20:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 39 7 46
NT 0 1 1
BM 14 2 16
DC 3 3 6
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 56 13 69

Judg. 6:31
And Joash said unto all that stood against him, Will ye plead for Baal? will ye save him? he that will plead for him, let him be put to death whilst it is yet morning: if he be a god, let him plead for himself, because one hath cast down his altar.

Judg. 6:32
Therefore on that day he called him Jerubbaal, saying, Let Baal plead against him, because he hath thrown down his altar.

1 Sam. 24:15
The Lord therefore be judge, and judge between me and thee, and see, and plead my cause, and deliver me out of thine hand.

1 Sam. 25:39
And when David heard that Nabal was dead, he said, Blessed be the Lord, that hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and hath kept his servant from evil: for the Lord hath returned the wickedness of Nabal upon his own head. And David sent and communed with Abigail, to take her to him to wife.

Job 9:19
If I speak of strength, lo, he is strong: and if of judgment, who shall set me a time to plead?

Job 13:6
Hear now my reasoning, and hearken to the pleadings of my lips.

Job 13:19
Who is he that will plead with me? for now, if I hold my tongue, I shall give up the ghost.

Job 16:21
O that one might plead for a man with God, as a man pleadeth for his neighbour!

Job 19:5
If indeed ye will magnify yourselves against me, and plead against me my reproach:

Job 23:6
Will he plead against me with his great power? No; but he would put strength in me.

Ps. 35:1
Plead my cause, O Lord, with them that strive with me: fight against them that fight against me.

Ps. 43:1
Judge me, O God, and plead my cause against an ungodly nation: O deliver me from the deceitful and unjust man.

Ps. 74:22
Arise, O God, plead thine own cause: remember how the foolish man reproacheth thee daily.

Ps. 119:154
Plead my cause, and deliver me: quicken me according to thy word.

Prov. 22:23
For the Lord will plead their cause, and spoil the soul of those that spoiled them.

Prov. 23:11
For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

Prov. 31:9
Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy.

Isa. 1:17
Learn to do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

Isa. 3:13
The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

Isa. 43:26
Put me in remembrance: let us plead together: declare thou, that thou mayest be justified.

Isa. 51:22
Thus saith thy Lord the Lord, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, even the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

Isa. 59:4
None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

Isa. 66:16
For by fire and by his sword will the Lord plead with all flesh: and the slain of the Lord shall be many.

Jer. 2:9
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children's children will I plead.

Jer. 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 2:35
Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.

Jer. 12:1
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Jer. 25:31
A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.

Jer. 30:13
There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

Jer. 50:34
Their Redeemer is strong; the Lord of hosts is his name: he shall throughly plead their cause, that he may give rest to the land, and disquiet the inhabitants of Babylon.

Jer. 51:36
Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her springs dry.

Lam. 3:58
O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

Ezek. 17:20
And I will spread my net upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare, and I will bring him to Babylon, and will plead with him there for his trespass that he hath trespassed against me.

Ezek. 20:35
And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

Ezek. 20:36
Like as I pleaded with your fathers in the wilderness of the land of Egypt, so will I plead with you, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 38:22
And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

Hosea 2:2
Plead with your mother, plead: for she is not my wife, neither am I her husband: let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight, and her adulteries from between her breasts;

Joel 3:2
I will also gather all nations, and will bring them down into the valley of Jehoshaphat, and will plead with them there for my people and for my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations, and parted my land.

Micah 6:2
Hear ye, O mountains, the Lord's controversy, and ye strong foundations of the earth: for the Lord hath a controversy with his people, and he will plead with Israel.

Micah 7:9
I will bear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute judgment for me: he will bring me forth to the light, and I shall behold his righteousness.

Acts 19:38
Wherefore if Demetrius, and the craftsmen which are with him, have a matter against any man, the law is open, and there are deputies: let them implead one another.

1 Ne. 7:19
And it came to pass that they were angry with me again, and sought to lay hands upon me; but behold, one of the daughters of Ishmael, yea, and also her mother, and one of the sons of Ishmael, did plead with my brethren, insomuch that they did soften their hearts; and they did cease striving to take away my life.

1 Ne. 7:20
And it came to pass that they were sorrowful, because of their wickedness, insomuch that they did bow down before me, and did plead with me that I would forgive them of the thing that they had done against me.

2 Ne. 8:22
Thus saith thy Lord, the Lord and thy God pleadeth the cause of his people; behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of trembling, the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again.

2 Ne. 13:13
The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

Jacob 3:1
But behold, I, Jacob, would speak unto you that are pure in heart. Look unto God with firmness of mind, and pray unto him with exceeding faith, and he will console you in your afflictions, and he will plead your cause, and send down justice upon those who seek your destruction.

Mosiah 17:2
But there was one among them whose name was Alma, he also being a descendant of Nephi. And he was a young man, and he believed the words which Abinadi had spoken, for he knew concerning the iniquity which Abinadi had testified against them; therefore he began to plead with the king that he would not be angry with Abinadi, but suffer that he might depart in peace.

Mosiah 19:13
And it came to pass that those who tarried with their wives and their children caused that their fair daughters should stand forth and plead with the Lamanites that they would not slay them.

Mosiah 20:25
And it came to pass that they followed the king, and went forth without arms to meet the Lamanites. And it came to pass that they did meet the Lamanites; and the king of the Lamanites did bow himself down before them, and did plead in behalf of the people of Limhi.

Mosiah 23:33
And it came to pass that Amulon did plead with the Lamanites; and he also sent forth their wives, who were the daughters of the Lamanites, to plead with their brethren, that they should not destroy their husbands.

Mosiah 28:5
And it came to pass that they did plead with their father many days that they might go up to the land of Nephi.

Alma 14:7
And it came to pass that he began to cry unto the people, saying: Behold, I am guilty, and these men are spotless before God. And he began to plead for them from that time forth; but they reviled him, saying: Art thou also possessed with the devil? And they spit upon him, and cast him out from among them, and also all those who believed in the words which had been spoken by Alma and Amulek; and they cast them out, and sent men to cast stones at them.

Alma 20:7
And he said unto Ammon: Come, I will go with thee down to the land of Middoni, and there I will plead with the king that he will cast thy brethren out of prison.

Alma 20:21
Now when the king saw that Ammon could slay him, he began to plead with Ammon that he would spare his life.

Alma 55:23
And thus they saw that the Nephites had power over them; and in these circumstances they found that it was not expedient that they should fight with the Nephites; therefore their chief captains demanded their weapons of war, and they brought them forth and cast them at the feet of the Nephites, pleading for mercy.

Hel. 11:8
And the people began to plead with their chief judges and their leaders, that they would say unto Nephi: Behold, we know that thou art a man of God, and therefore cry unto the Lord our God that he turn away from us this famine, lest all the words which thou hast spoken concerning our destruction be fulfilled.

D&C 38:4
I am the same which have taken the Zion of Enoch into mine own bosom; and verily, I say, even as many as have believed in my name, for I am Christ, and in mine own name, by the virtue of the blood which I have spilt, have I pleaded before the Father for them.

D&C 45:3
Listen to him who is the advocate with the Father, who is pleading your cause before him--

D&C 90:36
But verily I say unto you, that I, the Lord, will contend with Zion, and plead with her strong ones, and chasten her until she overcomes and is clean before me.

D&C 102:20
But should the remaining councilors, who have not spoken, or any one of them, after hearing the evidences and pleadings impartially, discover an error in the decision of the president, they can manifest it, and the case shall have a re-hearing.

D&C 109:32
Therefore we plead before thee for a full and complete deliverance from under this yoke;

D&C 124:75
And let him lift up his voice long and loud, in the midst of the people, to plead the cause of the poor and the needy; and let him not fail, neither let his heart faint; and I will accept of his offerings, for they shall not be unto me as the offerings of Cain, for he shall be mine, saith the Lord.