Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'prophet' occurs 330 times in the standard works.

95 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'prophet' in the standard works and contain 28.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 41 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 28:5-29:1 (16 in 14 verses)

1 Ne. 19:11-17 (7 in 7 verses)

Deut. 18:18-22 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 19:23-24 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 14:7-10 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 22:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 10:41 (3 in 1 verse)


Hel. 13:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

 13:26 Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil.

 13:27 But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth-- and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet.




D&C 138:46-47 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 12:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 11:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 1:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 25:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 29:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 37:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 38:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 9:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 3:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 171 156 327
NT 72 91 163
BM 64 123 187
1 Ne. 22 13 35
2 Ne. 7 12 19
Jacob 3 6 9
Enos 0 1 1
Jarom 0 2 2
W of M 0 4 4
Mosiah 3 10 13
Alma 6 11 17
Hel. 13 9 22
3 Ne. 8 36 44
4 Ne. 0 1 1
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 1 16 17
Moro. 0 2 2
DC 19 43 62
PGP 4 4 8
TOTAL 330 417 747

Hel. 8:9
Yea, and behold, if he had not been a prophet he could not have testified concerning those things.

Hel. 8:16
And now behold, Moses did not only testify of these things, but also all the holy prophets, from his days even to the days of Abraham.

Hel. 8:19
And now I would that ye should know, that even since the days of Abraham there have been many prophets that have testified these things; yea, behold, the prophet Zenos did testify boldly; for the which he was slain.

Hel. 8:20
And behold, also Zenock, and also Ezias, and also Isaiah, and Jeremiah, (Jeremiah being that same prophet who testified of the destruction of Jerusalem) and now we know that Jerusalem was destroyed according to the words of Jeremiah. O then why not the Son of God come, according to his prophecy?

Hel. 9:2
Behold, now we will know of a surety whether this man be a prophet and God hath commanded him to prophesy such marvelous things unto us. Behold, we do not believe that he hath; yea, we do not believe that he is a prophet; nevertheless, if this thing which he has said concerning the chief judge be true, that he be dead, then will we believe that the other words which he has spoken are true.

Hel. 9:16
And now it came to pass that the judges did expound the matter unto the people, and did cry out against Nephi, saying: Behold, we know that this Nephi must have agreed with some one to slay the judge, and then he might declare it unto us, that he might convert us unto his faith, that he might raise himself to be a great man, chosen of God, and a prophet.

Hel. 9:27
Has Nephi, the pretended prophet, who doth prophesy so much evil concerning this people, agreed with thee, in the which ye have murdered Seezoram, who is your brother?

Hel. 9:40
And now there were some among the people, who said that Nephi was a prophet.

Hel. 11:18
And behold, the people did rejoice and glorify God, and the whole face of the land was filled with rejoicing; and they did no more seek to destroy Nephi, but they did esteem him as a great prophet, and a man of God, having great power and authority given unto him from God.

Hel. 11:22
And also they had peace in the seventy and eighth year, save it were a few contentions concerning the points of doctrine which had been laid down by the prophets.

Hel. 13:24
Yea, wo unto this people, because of this time which has arrived, that ye do cast out the prophets, and do mock them, and cast stones at them, and do slay them, and do all manner of iniquity unto them, even as they did of old time.

Hel. 13:25
And now when ye talk, ye say: If our days had been in the days of our fathers of old, we would not have slain the prophets; we would not have stoned them, and cast them out.

Hel. 13:26
Behold ye are worse than they; for as the Lord liveth, if a prophet come among you and declareth unto you the word of the Lord, which testifieth of your sins and iniquities, ye are angry with him, and cast him out and seek all manner of ways to destroy him; yea, you will say that he is a false prophet, and that he is a sinner, and of the devil, because he testifieth that your deeds are evil.

Hel. 13:27
But behold, if a man shall come among you and shall say: Do this, and there is no iniquity; do that and ye shall not suffer; yea, he will say: Walk after the pride of your own hearts; yea, walk after the pride of your eyes, and do whatsoever your heart desireth-- and if a man shall come among you and say this, ye will receive him, and say that he is a prophet.

Hel. 13:33
O that I had repented, and had not killed the prophets, and stoned them, and cast them out. Yea, in that day ye shall say: O that we had remembered the Lord our God in the day that he gave us our riches, and then they would not have become slippery that we should lose them; for behold, our riches are gone from us.

Hel. 15:7
And behold, ye do know of yourselves, for ye have witnessed it, that as many of them as are brought to the knowledge of the truth, and to know of the wicked and abominable traditions of their fathers, and are led to believe the holy scriptures, yea, the prophecies of the holy prophets, which are written, which leadeth them to faith on the Lord, and unto repentance, which faith and repentance bringeth a change of heart unto them--

Hel. 15:11
Yea, even if they should dwindle in unbelief the Lord shall prolong their days, until the time shall come which hath been spoken of by our fathers, and also by the prophet Zenos, and many other prophets, concerning the restoration of our brethren, the Lamanites, again to the knowledge of the truth--

Hel. 16:13
But it came to pass in the ninetieth year of the reign of the judges, there were great signs given unto the people, and wonders; and the words of the prophets began to be fulfilled.