Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'counsel' occurs 196 times in the standard works.

31 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'counsel' in the standard works and contain 15.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Sam. 17:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Chr. 10:6-8 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 16:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 25:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 39:10 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:84 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 12:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 12:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 33:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 19:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 46:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:40-104:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 124 47 171
NT 19 4 23
Matt. 4 0 4
Mark 1 1 2
Luke 2 1 3
John 2 0 2
Acts 7 0 7
Rom. 0 1 1
1 Cor. 0 1 1
Eph. 1 0 1
Heb. 1 0 1
Rev. 1 0 1
BM 15 9 24
DC 34 36 70
PGP 4 6 10
TOTAL 196 102 298

Matt. 22:15
Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

Matt. 27:1
When the morning was come, all the chief priests and elders of the people took counsel against Jesus to put him to death:

Matt. 27:7
And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in.

Matt. 28:12
And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,

Mark 3:6
And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Luke 7:30
But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.

Luke 23:51
(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

John 11:53
Then from that day forth they took counsel together for to put him to death.

John 18:14
Now Caiaphas was he, which gave counsel to the Jews, that it was expedient that one man should die for the people.

Acts 2:23
Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

Acts 4:28
For to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel determined before to be done.

Acts 5:33
When they heard that, they were cut to the heart, and took counsel to slay them.

Acts 5:38
And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

Acts 9:23
And after that many days were fulfilled, the Jews took counsel to kill him:

Acts 20:27
For I have not shunned to declare unto you all the counsel of God.

Acts 27:42
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Eph. 1:11
In whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will:

Heb. 6:17
Wherein God, willing more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promise the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by an oath:

Rev. 3:18
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.