Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'concerning' occurs 740 times in the standard works.

229 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'concerning' in the standard works and contain 30.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 89 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 10:5-12 (8 in 8 verses)

Jer. 27:19-21 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 19:20-22 (5 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 4:1-3 (5 in 3 verses)

Jer. 16:3 (4 in 1 verse)

Jer. 18:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

W of M 1:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Jacob 2:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 51:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 15:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 21:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 9:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Morm. 1:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Acts 28:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 2:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 35:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 54:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 56:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 56:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 57:15-58:1 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 58:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 30:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 4:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 22:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 17:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 8:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 1:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 36:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 45:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 30:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 33:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 49:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 14:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 21:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 1:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 7:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 15:7 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 22:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 6:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 13:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 26:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 7:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 41:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 50:31 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 21:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 66:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 22:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 11:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 30:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 1:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 17:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 33:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 47:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 57:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 8:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:73-74 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 125:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 181 0 181
NT 60 0 60
BM 346 0 346
DC 137 0 137
PGP 16 0 16
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 4 0 4
JS-M 4 0 4
JS-H 2 0 2
TOTAL 740 0 740

Moses 1:36
And it came to pass that Moses spake unto the Lord, saying: Be merciful unto thy servant, O God, and tell me concerning this earth, and the inhabitants thereof, and also the heavens, and then thy servant will be content.

Moses 1:40
And now, Moses, my son, I will speak unto thee concerning this earth upon which thou standest; and thou shalt write the things which I shall speak.

Moses 2:1
And it came to pass that the Lord spake unto Moses, saying: Behold, I reveal unto you concerning this heaven, and this earth; write the words which I speak. I am the Beginning and the End, the Almighty God; by mine Only Begotten I created these things; yea, in the beginning I created the heaven, and the earth upon which thou standest.

Moses 5:10
And in that day Adam blessed God and was filled, and began to prophesy concerning all the families of the earth, saying: Blessed be the name of God, for because of my transgression my eyes are opened, and in this life I shall have joy, and again in the flesh I shall see God.

Moses 7:60
And the Lord said unto Enoch: As I live, even so will I come in the last days, in the days of wickedness and vengeance, to fulfil the oath which I have made unto you concerning the children of Noah;

Moses 8:9
And he called his name Noah, saying: This son shall comfort us concerning our work and toil of our hands, because of the ground which the Lord hath cursed.

Abr. 1:4
I sought for mine appointment unto the Priesthood according to the appointment of God unto the fathers concerning the seed.

Abr. 1:29
Now, after the priest of Elkenah was smitten that he died, there came a fulfilment of those things which were said unto me concerning the land of Chaldea, that there should be a famine in the land.

Abr. 1:31
But the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood, the Lord my God preserved in mine own hands; therefore a knowledge of the beginning of the creation, and also of the planets, and of the stars, as they were made known unto the fathers, have I kept even unto this day, and I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me.

Abr. 5:5
According to all that which they had said concerning every plant of the field before it was in the earth, and every herb of the field before it grew; for the Gods had not caused it to rain upon the earth when they counseled to do them, and had not formed a man to till the ground.

JS-M 1:2
And Jesus went out, and departed from the temple; and his disciples came to him, for to hear him, saying: Master, show us concerning the buildings of the temple, as thou hast said-- They shall be thrown down, and left unto you desolate.

JS-M 1:4
And Jesus left them, and went upon the Mount of Olives. And as he sat upon the Mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying: Tell us when shall these things be which thou hast said concerning the destruction of the temple, and the Jews; and what is the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world, or the destruction of the wicked, which is the end of the world?

JS-M 1:12
When you, therefore, shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, concerning the destruction of Jerusalem, then you shall stand in the holy place; whoso readeth let him understand.

JS-M 1:21
Behold, these things I have spoken unto you concerning the Jews; and again, after the tribulation of those days which shall come upon Jerusalem, if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there, believe him not;

JS-H 1:50
I obeyed; I returned to my father in the field, and rehearsed the whole matter to him. He replied to me that it was of God, and told me to go and do as commanded by the messenger. I left the field, and went to the place where the messenger had told me the plates were deposited; and owing to the distinctness of the vision which I had had concerning it, I knew the place the instant that I arrived there.

JS-H 1:73
Immediately on our coming up out of the water after we had been baptized, we experienced great and glorious blessings from our Heavenly Father. No sooner had I baptized Oliver Cowdery, than the Holy Ghost fell upon him, and he stood up and prophesied many things which should shortly come to pass. And again, so soon as I had been baptized by him, I also had the spirit of prophecy, when, standing up, I prophesied concerning the rise of this Church, and many other things connected with the Church, and this generation of the children of men. We were filled with the Holy Ghost, and rejoiced in the God of our salvation.