Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'created' occurs 138 times in the standard works.

80 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'created' in the standard works and contain 58% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 27 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moses 3:3-11 (10 in 9 verses)

Ether 3:15-16 (4 in 2 verses)

Moses 1:32-33 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 1:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:27 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 5:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 22:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 45:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 54:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Col. 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:36 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:27 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 22:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 8:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 2:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)


Mosiah 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

 2:20 I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another--

 2:21 I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another-- I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.




Alma 18:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 33 0 33
NT 12 0 12
BM 50 0 50
1 Ne. 4 0 4
2 Ne. 7 0 7
Jacob 4 0 4
Mosiah 13 0 13
Alma 9 0 9
Hel. 1 0 1
3 Ne. 3 0 3
4 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 4 0 4
Ether 4 0 4
DC 10 0 10
PGP 33 0 33
TOTAL 138 0 138

Mosiah 2:20
I say unto you, my brethren, that if you should render all the thanks and praise which your whole soul has power to possess, to that God who has created you, and has kept and preserved you, and has caused that ye should rejoice, and has granted that ye should live in peace one with another--

Mosiah 2:21
I say unto you that if ye should serve him who has created you from the beginning, and is preserving you from day to day, by lending you breath, that ye may live and move and do according to your own will, and even supporting you from one moment to another-- I say, if ye should serve him with all your whole souls yet ye would be unprofitable servants.

Mosiah 2:23
And now, in the first place, he hath created you, and granted unto you your lives, for which ye are indebted unto him.

Mosiah 2:25
And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, Nay. Ye cannot say that ye are even as much as the dust of the earth; yet ye were created of the dust of the earth; but behold, it belongeth to him who created you.

Mosiah 4:2
And they had viewed themselves in their own carnal state, even less than the dust of the earth. And they all cried aloud with one voice, saying: O have mercy, and apply the atoning blood of Christ that we may receive forgiveness of our sins, and our hearts may be purified; for we believe in Jesus Christ, the Son of God, who created heaven and earth, and all things; who shall come down among the children of men.

Mosiah 4:9
Believe in God; believe that he is, and that he created all things, both in heaven and in earth; believe that he has all wisdom, and all power, both in heaven and in earth; believe that man doth not comprehend all the things which the Lord can comprehend.

Mosiah 4:12
And behold, I say unto you that if ye do this ye shall always rejoice, and be filled with the love of God, and always retain a remission of your sins; and ye shall grow in the knowledge of the glory of him that created you, or in the knowledge of that which is just and true.

Mosiah 4:21
And now, if God, who has created you, on whom you are dependent for your lives and for all that ye have and are, doth grant unto you whatsoever ye ask that is right, in faith, believing that ye shall receive, O then, how ye ought to impart of the substance that ye have one to another.

Mosiah 5:15
Therefore, I would that ye should be steadfast and immovable, always abounding in good works, that Christ, the Lord God Omnipotent, may seal you his, that you may be brought to heaven, that ye may have everlasting salvation and eternal life, through the wisdom, and power, and justice, and mercy of him who created all things, in heaven and in earth, who is God above all. Amen.

Mosiah 7:27
And because he said unto them that Christ was the God, the Father of all things, and said that he should take upon him the image of man, and it should be the image after which man was created in the beginning; or in other words, he said that man was created after the image of God, and that God should come down among the children of men, and take upon him flesh and blood, and go forth upon the face of the earth--

Mosiah 26:23
For it is I that taketh upon me the sins of the world; for it is I that hath created them; and it is I that granteth unto him that believeth unto the end a place at my right hand.