Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mormon' occurs 58 times in the standard works.

26 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mormon' in the standard works and contain 44.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 18:30 (6 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:12 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 26:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 1:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 18:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 135:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 0 0
NT 0 0 0
BM 43 0 43
W of M 3 0 3
Mosiah 14 0 14
Alma 3 0 3
3 Ne. 6 0 6
4 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 12 0 12
Ether 1 0 1
Moro. 3 0 3
DC 13 1 14
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 58 1 59

Morm. 1:1
And now I, Mormon, make a record of the things which I have both seen and heard, and call it the Book of Mormon.

Morm. 1:5
And I, Mormon, being a descendant of Nephi, (and my father's name was Mormon) I remembered the things which Ammaron commanded me.

Morm. 2:12
And it came to pass that when I, Mormon, saw their lamentation and their mourning and their sorrow before the Lord, my heart did begin to rejoice within me, knowing the mercies and the long-suffering of the Lord, therefore supposing that he would be merciful unto them that they would again become a righteous people.

Morm. 3:11
And it came to pass that I, Mormon, did utterly refuse from this time forth to be a commander and a leader of this people, because of their wickedness and abomination.

Morm. 4:23
And now I, Mormon, seeing that the Lamanites were about to overthrow the land, therefore I did go to the hill Shim, and did take up all the records which Ammaron had hid up unto the Lord.

Morm. 5:8
And now behold, I, Mormon, do not desire to harrow up the souls of men in casting before them such an awful scene of blood and carnage as was laid before mine eyes; but I, knowing that these things must surely be made known, and that all things which are hid must be revealed upon the house-tops--

Morm. 6:2
And I, Mormon, wrote an epistle unto the king of the Lamanites, and desired of him that he would grant unto us that we might gather together our people unto the land of Cumorah, by a hill which was called Cumorah, and there we could give them battle.

Morm. 6:6
And it came to pass that when we had gathered in all our people in one to the land of Cumorah, behold I, Mormon, began to be old; and knowing it to be the last struggle of my people, and having been commanded of the Lord that I should not suffer the records which had been handed down by our fathers, which were sacred, to fall into the hands of the Lamanites, (for the Lamanites would destroy them) therefore I made this record out of the plates of Nephi, and hid up in the hill Cumorah all the records which had been entrusted to me by the hand of the Lord, save it were these few plates which I gave unto my son Moroni.

Morm. 8:1
Behold I, Moroni, do finish the record of my father, Mormon. Behold, I have but few things to write, which things I have been commanded by my father.

Morm. 8:13
Behold, I make an end of speaking concerning this people. I am the son of Mormon, and my father was a descendant of Nephi.