Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'suffer' occurs 238 times in the standard works.

49 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'suffer' in the standard works and contain 20.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 20 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 4:14-17 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 17:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Hel. 14:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 16:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 8:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 13:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 19:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 76:104-106 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 12:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Omni 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 39:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 44:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 56:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 11:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Pet. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 31:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 31 18 49
Gen. 0 3 3
Ex. 2 1 3
Lev. 3 0 3
Num. 1 1 2
Deut. 0 2 2
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 3 1 4
1 Sam. 0 1 1
2 Sam. 1 1 2
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 4 1 5
Ps. 8 4 12
Prov. 3 0 3
Eccl. 2 0 2
Jer. 0 2 2
Ezek. 1 0 1
NT 65 70 135
BM 118 107 225
DC 23 30 53
PGP 1 3 4
TOTAL 238 228 466

Gen. 20:6
And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

Gen. 31:7
And your father hath deceived me, and changed my wages ten times; but God suffered him not to hurt me.

Gen. 31:28
And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

Ex. 34:6
And the Lord passed by before him, and proclaimed, The Lord, The Lord God, merciful and gracious, longsuffering, and abundant in goodness and truth,

Num. 14:18
The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

Deut. 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deut. 18:14
For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

Judg. 3:28
And he said unto them, Follow after me: for the Lord hath delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. And they went down after him, and took the fords of Jordan toward Moab, and suffered not a man to pass over.

1 Sam. 24:7
So David stayed his servants with these words, and suffered them not to rise against Saul. But Saul rose up out of the cave, and went on his way.

2 Sam. 21:10
And Rizpah the daughter of Aiah took sackcloth, and spread it for her upon the rock, from the beginning of harvest until water dropped upon them out of heaven, and suffered neither the birds of the air to rest on them by day, nor the beasts of the field by night.

1 Chr. 16:21
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes,

Job 31:30
Neither have I suffered my mouth to sin by wishing a curse to his soul.

Ps. 66:9
Which holdeth our soul in life, and suffereth not our feet to be moved.

Ps. 86:15
But thou, O Lord, art a God full of compassion, and gracious, longsuffering, and plenteous in mercy and truth.

Ps. 105:14
He suffered no man to do them wrong: yea, he reproved kings for their sakes;

Ps. 107:38
He blesseth them also, so that they are multiplied greatly; and suffereth not their cattle to decrease.

Jer. 15:15
O Lord, thou knowest: remember me, and visit me, and revenge me of my persecutors; take me not away in thy longsuffering: know that for thy sake I have suffered rebuke.