Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'beginning' occurs 249 times in the standard works.

56 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'beginning' in the standard works and contain 22.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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4 Ne. 1:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 77:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 94:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 1:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 21:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Jn. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)


1 Ne. 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 5:12 And also a record of the Jews from the beginning, even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah, king of Judah;

 5:13 And also the prophecies of the holy prophets, from the beginning, even down to the commencement of the reign of Zedekiah; and also many prophecies which have been spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah.




Jacob 5:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 87:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 3 57
NT 52 1 53
BM 56 0 56
DC 60 0 60
PGP 27 0 27
TOTAL 249 4 253

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