Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'eternal' occurs 214 times in the standard works.

47 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'eternal' in the standard works and contain 22% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 128:22-23 (4 in 2 verses)

Moro. 4:3-5:2 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 20:77-79 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 3:26 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 4:17-5:1 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 2:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 15:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 11:38-40 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 42:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 121:32 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:55 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:59 (2 in 1 verse)

John 17:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 9:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 2 0 2
NT 45 0 45
BM 89 6 95
DC 69 2 71
PGP 9 0 9
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 2 0 2
A of F 1 0 1
TOTAL 214 8 222

Moses 1:39
For behold, this is my work and my glory-- to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

Moses 5:11
And Eve, his wife, heard all these things and was glad, saying: Were it not for our transgression we never should have had seed, and never should have known good and evil, and the joy of our redemption, and the eternal life which God giveth unto all the obedient.

Moses 6:59
That by reason of transgression cometh the fall, which fall bringeth death, and inasmuch as ye were born into the world by water, and blood, and the spirit, which I have made, and so became of dust a living soul, even so ye must be born again into the kingdom of heaven, of water, and of the Spirit, and be cleansed by blood, even the blood of mine Only Begotten; that ye might be sanctified from all sin, and enjoy the words of eternal life in this world, and eternal life in the world to come, even immortal glory;

Moses 7:35
Behold, I am God; Man of Holiness is my name; Man of Counsel is my name; and Endless and Eternal is my name, also.

Moses 7:45
And it came to pass that Enoch looked; and from Noah, he beheld all the families of the earth; and he cried unto the Lord, saying: When shall the day of the Lord come? When shall the blood of the Righteous be shed, that all they that mourn may be sanctified and have eternal life?

Abr. 2:11
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee (that is, in thy Priesthood) and in thy seed (that is, thy Priesthood), for I give unto thee a promise that this right shall continue in thee, and in thy seed after thee (that is to say, the literal seed, or the seed of the body) shall all the families of the earth be blessed, even with the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of salvation, even of life eternal.

Abr. 3:18
Howbeit that he made the greater star; as, also, if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal.

A of F 1:1
We believe in God, the Eternal Father, and in His Son, Jesus Christ, and in the Holy Ghost.