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)

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

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.