Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'brethren' occurs 1166 times in the standard works.

475 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'brethren' in the standard works and contain 40.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 220 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 25:9-31 (23 in 23 verses)

Alma 27:15-28:1 (17 in 17 verses)

Alma 24:5-20 (16 in 16 verses)

Gen. 37:4-14 (11 in 11 verses)

Alma 26:21-27 (9 in 7 verses)

Alma 27:2-9 (8 in 8 verses)

Mosiah 23:33-37 (6 in 5 verses)

1 Chr. 15:5-10 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 45:22-46:3 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 53:10-15 (6 in 6 verses)

Mosiah 7:13-16 (5 in 4 verses)

Num. 27:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 13:10-14 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 20:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 20:24-28 (5 in 5 verses)

Gen. 45:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 15:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Jacob 2:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

Enos 1:9-11 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 45:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 12:46-49 (4 in 4 verses)

Mark 3:31-34 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 7:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Jacob 7:24-27 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 25:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 16:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 25:17-26:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 31:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Ether 2:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Sam. 17:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezra 3:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 15:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 42:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 47:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 16:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 26:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 8:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 5:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 11:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 12:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 8:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Thes. 5:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 17:52-54 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 9:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 21:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 3:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 12:36-13:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 22:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 24:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 25:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 48:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 7:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 103:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 31:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 46:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 17:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 18:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 10:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 9:38 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 24:31 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 19:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 11:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 21:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 17:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 28:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 38:14 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 3:7 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 42:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 42:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 47:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 47:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 50:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 50:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 26:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 35:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 4:23-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 7:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 15:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 23:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 16:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 2:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

James 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 3:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 3:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:36-16:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 18:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 3:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:54-10:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 30:18-31:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:21-32:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 2:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:18-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:53-54 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:35-23:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 23:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 23:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 26:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 26:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 29:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 31:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 35:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 15:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:132-133 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 112:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 122:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 123:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 333 0 333
NT 231 0 231
Matt. 16 0 16
Mark 7 0 7
Luke 10 0 10
John 6 0 6
Acts 53 0 53
Rom. 14 0 14
1 Cor. 28 0 28
2 Cor. 8 0 8
Gal. 11 0 11
Eph. 2 0 2
Philip. 8 0 8
Col. 2 0 2
1 Thes. 17 0 17
2 Thes. 7 0 7
1 Tim. 3 0 3
2 Tim. 1 0 1
Heb. 8 0 8
James 15 0 15
1 Pet. 3 0 3
2 Pet. 1 0 1
1 Jn. 4 0 4
3 Jn. 3 0 3
Rev. 4 0 4
BM 543 0 543
DC 51 0 51
PGP 8 0 8
TOTAL 1166 0 1166

1 Thes. 1:4
Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

1 Thes. 2:1
For yourselves, brethren, know our entrance in unto you, that it was not in vain:

1 Thes. 2:9
For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

1 Thes. 2:14
For ye, brethren, became followers of the churches of God which in Judaea are in Christ Jesus: for ye also have suffered like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews:

1 Thes. 2:17
But we, brethren, being taken from you for a short time in presence, not in heart, endeavoured the more abundantly to see your face with great desire.

1 Thes. 3:7
Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith:

1 Thes. 4:1
Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

1 Thes. 4:10
And indeed ye do it toward all the brethren which are in all Macedonia: but we beseech you, brethren, that ye increase more and more;

1 Thes. 4:13
But I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hope.

1 Thes. 5:1
But of the times and the seasons, brethren, ye have no need that I write unto you.

1 Thes. 5:4
But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

1 Thes. 5:12
And we beseech you, brethren, to know them which labour among you, and are over you in the Lord, and admonish you;

1 Thes. 5:14
Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

1 Thes. 5:25
Brethren, pray for us.

1 Thes. 5:26
Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

1 Thes. 5:27
I charge you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the holy brethren.