Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'friends' occurs 93 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'friends' in the standard works and contain 17.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 84:77 (3 in 1 verse)

John 15:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Jn. 1:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 1:41 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:45 (2 in 1 verse)


Ether 1:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

 1:36 Then Jared said unto his brother: Cry again unto the Lord, and it may be that he will turn away his anger from them who are our friends, that he confound not their language.

 1:37 And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon their friends and their families also, that they were not confounded.




D&C 121:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 30 1 31
NT 19 1 20
BM 19 0 19
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 2 0 2
3 Ne. 6 0 6
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 8 0 8
DC 24 0 24
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 93 2 95

Ether 1:36
Then Jared said unto his brother: Cry again unto the Lord, and it may be that he will turn away his anger from them who are our friends, that he confound not their language.

Ether 1:37
And it came to pass that the brother of Jared did cry unto the Lord, and the Lord had compassion upon their friends and their families also, that they were not confounded.

Ether 1:41
Go to and gather together thy flocks, both male and female, of every kind; and also of the seed of the earth of every kind; and thy families; and also Jared thy brother and his family; and also thy friends and their families, and the friends of Jared and their families.

Ether 2:1
And it came to pass that Jared and his brother, and their families, and also the friends of Jared and his brother and their families, went down into the valley which was northward, (and the name of the valley was Nimrod, being called after the mighty hunter) with their flocks which they had gathered together, male and female, of every kind.

Ether 6:16
And the friends of Jared and his brother were in number about twenty and two souls; and they also begat sons and daughters before they came to the promised land; and therefore they began to be many.

Ether 8:17
And it was the daughter of Jared who put it into his heart to search up these things of old; and Jared put it into the heart of Akish; wherefore, Akish administered it unto his kindred and friends, leading them away by fair promises to do whatsoever thing he desired.

Ether 9:1
And now I, Moroni, proceed with my record. Therefore, behold, it came to pass that because of the secret combinations of Akish and his friends, behold, they did overthrow the kingdom of Omer.