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)

 4:15 But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

 4:16 Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.




Alma 31:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 31 18 49
NT 65 70 135
Matt. 8 5 13
Mark 6 5 11
Luke 9 6 15
Acts 8 8 16
Rom. 1 3 4
1 Cor. 7 1 8
2 Cor. 3 6 9
Gal. 2 2 4
Eph. 0 1 1
Philip. 2 2 4
Col. 0 3 3
1 Thes. 1 2 3
2 Thes. 1 0 1
1 Tim. 2 1 3
2 Tim. 4 2 6
Heb. 3 7 10
James 0 1 1
1 Pet. 6 11 17
2 Pet. 0 2 2
Jude 0 1 1
Rev. 2 1 3
BM 118 107 225
DC 23 30 53
PGP 1 3 4
TOTAL 238 228 466

1 Pet. 1:11
Searching what, or what manner of time the Spirit of Christ which was in them did signify, when it testified beforehand the sufferings of Christ, and the glory that should follow.

1 Pet. 2:19
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

1 Pet. 2:20
For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

1 Pet. 2:21
For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

1 Pet. 2:23
Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:

1 Pet. 3:14
But and if ye suffer for righteousness' sake, happy are ye: and be not afraid of their terror, neither be troubled;

1 Pet. 3:17
For it is better, if the will of God be so, that ye suffer for well doing, than for evil doing.

1 Pet. 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

1 Pet. 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

1 Pet. 4:1
Forasmuch then as Christ hath suffered for us in the flesh, arm yourselves likewise with the same mind: for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

1 Pet. 4:13
But rejoice, inasmuch as ye are partakers of Christ's sufferings; that, when his glory shall be revealed, ye may be glad also with exceeding joy.

1 Pet. 4:15
But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men's matters.

1 Pet. 4:16
Yet if any man suffer as a Christian, let him not be ashamed; but let him glorify God on this behalf.

1 Pet. 4:19
Wherefore let them that suffer according to the will of God commit the keeping of their souls to him in well doing, as unto a faithful Creator.

1 Pet. 5:1
The elders which are among you I exhort, who am also an elder, and a witness of the sufferings of Christ, and also a partaker of the glory that shall be revealed:

1 Pet. 5:10
But the God of all grace, who hath called us unto his eternal glory by Christ Jesus, after that ye have suffered a while, make you perfect, stablish, strengthen, settle you.