Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'great' occurs 1841 times in the standard works.

663 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'great' in the standard works and contain 36% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 283 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 8:10-25 (16 in 16 verses)

Alma 18:2-13 (14 in 12 verses)

JS-H 1:5-12 (9 in 8 verses)

Rev. 16:14-17:1 (9 in 9 verses)

Ezek. 17:3-9 (7 in 7 verses)

Hel. 13:12-18 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 19:24-27 (6 in 4 verses)

Hel. 3:32-36 (6 in 5 verses)

Rev. 18:16-21 (6 in 6 verses)

3 Ne. 19:34-36 (5 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:21-23 (5 in 3 verses)

Ether 11:4-7 (5 in 4 verses)

Alma 60:5-9 (5 in 5 verses)

Hel. 7:22-26 (5 in 5 verses)

3 Ne. 4:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 22:13-14 (4 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:8-10 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 2:26-28 (4 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 7:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 26:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 45:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

Hel. 4:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 10:18-11:1 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 34:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

Josh. 17:14-17 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 3:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Rev. 11:17-12:1 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 13:26-29 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 14:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 14:26-29 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 14:29-15:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 34:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 46:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 8:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 18:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 14:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 51:11 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 135:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 26:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 9:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:54-55 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 3:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

James 3:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 5:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 21:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 28:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 28:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 7:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 2:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 32:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Joel 2:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 8:37-39 (3 in 3 verses)

Acts 8:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 11:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 17:18-18:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 21:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 11:36-12:2 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 15:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 18:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 1:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 3:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 33:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 4:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 4:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 11:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 22:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 61:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 5:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 6:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 11:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 12:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 6:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 6:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 17:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 39:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 43:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 138:41-43 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 29:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 18:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 24:14 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 21:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 28:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 12:43 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 1:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 36:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 95:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 104:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 147:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 10:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 2:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 2:48 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 11:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Mal. 1:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 5:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 21:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 4:33 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 7:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 1:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 4:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:53 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 28:18 (2 in 1 verse)

W of M 1:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 58:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 11:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 14:23 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 3:24 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 7:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 14:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 43:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 64:33 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 50:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 32:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 32:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 8:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 14:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 34:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 9:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 25:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 5:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 16:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 6:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 6:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 7:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 21:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 24:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 9:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 9:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 9:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 37:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 40:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 48:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 71:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 99:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 126:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 145:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 21:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 31:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 47:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 47:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 10:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Jonah 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 20:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 24:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 5:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 6:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 8:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 19:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 19:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 23:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 17:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 19:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 20:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 26:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 8:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 27:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 26:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 29:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 31:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 38:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 57:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 3:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 3:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 12:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 12:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 6:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 7:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 15:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:93-94 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 110:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 133:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 708 143 851
NT 254 74 328
BM 682 80 762
DC 138 33 171
PGP 59 19 78
Moses 20 7 27
Abr. 13 9 22
JS-M 4 0 4
JS-H 21 3 24
A of F 1 0 1
TOTAL 1841 349 2190

Moses 1:8
And it came to pass that Moses looked, and beheld the world upon which he was created; and Moses beheld the world and the ends thereof, and all the children of men which are, and which were created; of the same he greatly marveled and wondered.

Moses 1:28
And he beheld also the inhabitants thereof, and there was not a soul which he beheld not; and he discerned them by the Spirit of God; and their numbers were great, even numberless as the sand upon the sea shore.

Moses 2:7
And I, God, made the firmament and divided the waters, yea, the great waters under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so even as I spake.

Moses 2:16
And I, God, made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night, and the greater light was the sun, and the lesser light was the moon; and the stars also were made even according to my word.

Moses 2:21
And I, God, created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind; and I, God, saw that all things which I had created were good.

Moses 4:22
Unto the woman, I, the Lord God, said: I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception. In sorrow thou shalt bring forth children, and thy desire shall be to thy husband, and he shall rule over thee.

Moses 5:25
And it shall be said in time to come-- That these abominations were had from Cain; for he rejected the greater counsel which was had from God; and this is a cursing which I will put upon thee, except thou repent.

Moses 5:31
And Cain said: Truly I am Mahan, the master of this great secret, that I may murder and get gain. Wherefore Cain was called Master Mahan, and he gloried in his wickedness.

Moses 5:38
And Cain said unto the Lord: Satan tempted me because of my brother's flocks. And I was wroth also; for his offering thou didst accept and not mine; my punishment is greater than I can bear.

Moses 5:49
For Lamech having entered into a covenant with Satan, after the manner of Cain, wherein he became Master Mahan, master of that great secret which was administered unto Cain by Satan; and Irad, the son of Enoch, having known their secret, began to reveal it unto the sons of Adam;

Moses 6:15
And the children of men were numerous upon all the face of the land. And in those days Satan had great dominion among men, and raged in their hearts; and from thenceforth came wars and bloodshed; and a man's hand was against his own brother, in administering death, because of secret works, seeking for power.

Moses 7:5
And it came to pass that I beheld in the valley of Shum, and lo, a great people which dwelt in tents, which were the people of Shum.

Moses 7:13
And so great was the faith of Enoch that he led the people of God, and their enemies came to battle against them; and he spake the word of the Lord, and the earth trembled, and the mountains fled, even according to his command; and the rivers of water were turned out of their course; and the roar of the lions was heard out of the wilderness; and all nations feared greatly, so powerful was the word of Enoch, and so great was the power of the language which God had given him.

Moses 7:14
There also came up a land out of the depth of the sea, and so great was the fear of the enemies of the people of God, that they fled and stood afar off and went upon the land which came up out of the depth of the sea.

Moses 7:17
The fear of the Lord was upon all nations, so great was the glory of the Lord, which was upon his people. And the Lord blessed the land, and they were blessed upon the mountains, and upon the high places, and did flourish.

Moses 7:26
And he beheld Satan; and he had a great chain in his hand, and it veiled the whole face of the earth with darkness; and he looked up and laughed, and his angels rejoiced.

Moses 7:36
Wherefore, I can stretch forth mine hands and hold all the creations which I have made; and mine eye can pierce them also, and among all the workmanship of mine hands there has not been so great wickedness as among thy brethren.

Moses 7:57
And as many of the spirits as were in prison came forth, and stood on the right hand of God; and the remainder were reserved in chains of darkness until the judgment of the great day.

Moses 7:61
And the day shall come that the earth shall rest, but before that day the heavens shall be darkened, and a veil of darkness shall cover the earth; and the heavens shall shake, and also the earth; and great tribulations shall be among the children of men, but my people will I preserve;

Moses 7:66
But before that day he saw great tribulations among the wicked; and he also saw the sea, that it was troubled, and men's hearts failing them, looking forth with fear for the judgments of the Almighty God, which should come upon the wicked.

Moses 8:4
And there came forth a great famine into the land, and the Lord cursed the earth with a sore curse, and many of the inhabitants thereof died.

Moses 8:21
And also, after that they had heard him, they came up before him, saying: Behold, we are the sons of God; have we not taken unto ourselves the daughters of men? And are we not eating and drinking, and marrying and giving in marriage? And our wives bear unto us children, and the same are mighty men, which are like unto men of old, men of great renown. And they hearkened not unto the words of Noah.

Moses 8:22
And God saw that the wickedness of men had become great in the earth; and every man was lifted up in the imagination of the thoughts of his heart, being only evil continually.

Abr. 1:2
And, finding there was greater happiness and peace and rest for me, I sought for the blessings of the fathers, and the right whereunto I should be ordained to administer the same; having been myself a follower of righteousness, desiring also to be one who possessed great knowledge, and to be a greater follower of righteousness, and to possess a greater knowledge, and to be a father of many nations, a prince of peace, and desiring to receive instructions, and to keep the commandments of God, I became a rightful heir, a High Priest, holding the right belonging to the fathers.

Abr. 1:20
Behold, Potiphar's Hill was in the land of Ur, of Chaldea. And the Lord broke down the altar of Elkenah, and of the gods of the land, and utterly destroyed them, and smote the priest that he died; and there was great mourning in Chaldea, and also in the court of Pharaoh; which Pharaoh signifies king by royal blood.

Abr. 2:9
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood unto all nations;

Abr. 3:2
And I saw the stars, that they were very great, and that one of them was nearest unto the throne of God; and there were many great ones which were near unto it;

Abr. 3:3
And the Lord said unto me: These are the governing ones; and the name of the great one is Kolob, because it is near unto me, for I am the Lord thy God: I have set this one to govern all those which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

Abr. 3:5
And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the night, is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years.

Abr. 3:6
And the Lord said unto me: Now, Abraham, these two facts exist, behold thine eyes see it; it is given unto thee to know the times of reckoning, and the set time, yea, the set time of the earth upon which thou standest, and the set time of the greater light which is set to rule the day, and the set time of the lesser light which is set to rule the night.

Abr. 3:13
And he said unto me: This is Shinehah, which is the sun. And he said unto me: Kokob, which is star. And he said unto me: Olea, which is the moon. And he said unto me: Kokaubeam, which signifies stars, or all the great lights, which were in the firmament of heaven.

Abr. 3:16
If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them; therefore Kolob is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam that thou hast seen, because it is nearest unto me.

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.

Abr. 3:22
Now the Lord had shown unto me, Abraham, the intelligences that were organized before the world was; and among all these there were many of the noble and great ones;

Abr. 4:10
And the Gods pronounced the dry land, Earth; and the gathering together of the waters, pronounced they, Great Waters; and the Gods saw that they were obeyed.

Abr. 4:16
And the Gods organized the two great lights, the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night; with the lesser light they set the stars also;

Abr. 4:21
And the Gods prepared the waters that they might bring forth great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters were to bring forth abundantly after their kind; and every winged fowl after their kind. And the Gods saw that they would be obeyed, and that their plan was good.

Abr. 4:22
And the Gods said: We will bless them, and cause them to be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas or great waters; and cause the fowl to multiply in the earth.

JS-M 1:18
For then, in those days, shall be great tribulation on the Jews, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, such as was not before sent upon Israel, of God, since the beginning of their kingdom until this time; no, nor ever shall be sent again upon Israel.

JS-M 1:22
For in those days there shall also arise false Christs, and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders, insomuch, that, if possible, they shall deceive the very elect, who are the elect according to the covenant.

JS-M 1:36
And, as I said before, after the tribulation of those days, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken, then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in heaven, and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn; and they shall see the Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven, with power and great glory;

JS-M 1:37
And whoso treasureth up my word, shall not be deceived, for the Son of Man shall come, and he shall send his angels before him with the great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together the remainder of his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

JS-H 1:5
Some time in the second year after our removal to Manchester, there was in the place where we lived an unusual excitement on the subject of religion. It commenced with the Methodists, but soon became general among all the sects in that region of country. Indeed, the whole district of country seemed affected by it, and great multitudes united themselves to the different religious parties, which created no small stir and division amongst the people, some crying, "Lo, here!" and others, "Lo, there!" Some were contending for the Methodist faith, some for the Presbyterian, and some for the Baptist.

JS-H 1:6
For, notwithstanding the great love which the converts to these different faiths expressed at the time of their conversion, and the great zeal manifested by the respective clergy, who were active in getting up and promoting this extraordinary scene of religious feeling, in order to have everybody converted, as they were pleased to call it, let them join what sect they pleased; yet when the converts began to file off, some to one party and some to another, it was seen that the seemingly good feelings of both the priests and the converts were more pretended than real; for a scene of great confusion and bad feeling ensued-- priest contending against priest, and convert against convert; so that all their good feelings one for another, if they ever had any, were entirely lost in a strife of words and a contest about opinions.

JS-H 1:8
During this time of great excitement my mind was called up to serious reflection and great uneasiness; but though my feelings were deep and often poignant, still I kept myself aloof from all these parties, though I attended their several meetings as often as occasion would permit. In process of time my mind became somewhat partial to the Methodist sect, and I felt some desire to be united with them; but so great were the confusion and strife among the different denominations, that it was impossible for a person young as I was, and so unacquainted with men and things, to come to any certain conclusion who was right and who was wrong.

JS-H 1:9
My mind at times was greatly excited, the cry and tumult were so great and incessant. The Presbyterians were most decided against the Baptists and Methodists, and used all the powers of both reason and sophistry to prove their errors, or, at least, to make the people think they were in error. On the other hand, the Baptists and Methodists in their turn were equally zealous in endeavoring to establish their own tenets and disprove all others.

JS-H 1:12
Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.

JS-H 1:16
But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction-- not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being-- just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

JS-H 1:21
Some few days after I had this vision, I happened to be in company with one of the Methodist preachers, who was very active in the before mentioned religious excitement; and, conversing with him on the subject of religion, I took occasion to give him an account of the vision which I had had. I was greatly surprised at his behavior; he treated my communication not only lightly, but with great contempt, saying it was all of the devil, that there were no such things as visions or revelations in these days; that all such things had ceased with the apostles, and that there would never be any more of them.

JS-H 1:22
I soon found, however, that my telling the story had excited a great deal of prejudice against me among professors of religion, and was the cause of great persecution, which continued to increase; and though I was an obscure boy, only between fourteen and fifteen years of age, and my circumstances in life such as to make a boy of no consequence in the world, yet men of high standing would take notice sufficient to excite the public mind against me, and create a bitter persecution; and this was common among all the sects-- all united to persecute me.

JS-H 1:23
It caused me serious reflection then, and often has since, how very strange it was that an obscure boy, of a little over fourteen years of age, and one, too, who was doomed to the necessity of obtaining a scanty maintenance by his daily labor, should be thought a character of sufficient importance to attract the attention of the great ones of the most popular sects of the day, and in a manner to create in them a spirit of the most bitter persecution and reviling. But strange or not, so it was, and it was often the cause of great sorrow to myself.

JS-H 1:28
During the space of time which intervened between the time I had the vision and the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three-- having been forbidden to join any of the religious sects of the day, and being of very tender years, and persecuted by those who ought to have been my friends and to have treated me kindly, and if they supposed me to be deluded to have endeavored in a proper and affectionate manner to have reclaimed me-- I was left to all kinds of temptations; and, mingling with all kinds of society, I frequently fell into many foolish errors, and displayed the weakness of youth, and the foibles of human nature; which, I am sorry to say, led me into divers temptations, offensive in the sight of God. In making this confession, no one need suppose me guilty of any great or malignant sins. A disposition to commit such was never in my nature. But I was guilty of levity, and sometimes associated with jovial company, etc., not consistent with that character which ought to be maintained by one who was called of God as I had been. But this will not seem very strange to any one who recollects my youth, and is acquainted with my native cheery temperament.

JS-H 1:38
And again, he quoted the fifth verse thus: Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

JS-H 1:44
I lay musing on the singularity of the scene, and marveling greatly at what had been told to me by this extraordinary messenger; when, in the midst of my meditation, I suddenly discovered that my room was again beginning to get lighted, and in an instant, as it were, the same heavenly messenger was again by my bedside.

JS-H 1:45
He commenced, and again related the very same things which he had done at his first visit, without the least variation; which having done, he informed me of great judgments which were coming upon the earth, with great desolations by famine, sword, and pestilence; and that these grievous judgments would come on the earth in this generation. Having related these things, he again ascended as he had done before.

JS-H 1:56
In the year 1823 my father's family met with a great affliction by the death of my eldest brother, Alvin. In the month of October, 1825, I hired with an old gentleman by the name of Josiah Stoal, who lived in Chenango county, State of New York. He had heard something of a silver mine having been opened by the Spaniards in Harmony, Susquehanna county, State of Pennsylvania; and had, previous to my hiring to him, been digging, in order, if possible, to discover the mine. After I went to live with him, he took me, with the rest of his hands, to dig for the silver mine, at which I continued to work for nearly a month, without success in our undertaking, and finally I prevailed with the old gentleman to cease digging after it. Hence arose the very prevalent story of my having been a money-digger.

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.

A of F 1:9
We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.