Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'shortly' occurs 25 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'shortly' in the standard works and contain 8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 3 0 3
NT 12 0 12
BM 6 0 6
1 Ne. 1 0 1
Alma 1 0 1
Hel. 2 0 2
3 Ne. 1 0 1
Morm. 1 0 1
DC 2 0 2
PGP 2 0 2
TOTAL 25 0 25

1 Ne. 22:18
Behold, my brethren, I say unto you, that these things must shortly come; yea, even blood, and fire, and vapor of smoke must come; and it must needs be upon the face of this earth; and it cometh unto men according to the flesh if it so be that they will harden their hearts against the Holy One of Israel.

Alma 16:19
Holding forth things which must shortly come; yea, holding forth the coming of the Son of God, his sufferings and death, and also the resurrection of the dead.

Hel. 16:4
For behold, Nephi was baptizing, and prophesying, and preaching, crying repentance unto the people, showing signs and wonders, working miracles among the people, that they might know that the Christ must shortly come--

Hel. 16:5
Telling them of things which must shortly come, that they might know and remember at the time of their coming that they had been made known unto them beforehand, to the intent that they might believe; therefore as many as believed on the words of Samuel went forth unto him to be baptized, for they came repenting and confessing their sins.

3 Ne. 1:17
And they began to know that the Son of God must shortly appear; yea, in fine, all the people upon the face of the whole earth from the west to the east, both in the land north and in the land south, were so exceedingly astonished that they fell to the earth.

Morm. 8:34
Behold, the Lord hath shown unto me great and marvelous things concerning that which must shortly come, at that day when these things shall come forth among you.