Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'having' occurs 474 times in the standard works.

174 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'having' in the standard works and contain 36.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 54 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 9:19-22 (13 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 15:8-9 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:1-4 (5 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 17:20-18:4 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 15:16-16:1 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 1:10 (4 in 1 verse)

Jacob 1:10 (4 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:35 (4 in 1 verse)

Alma 47:36-48:2 (4 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 8:8 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 9:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 13:29 (3 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 7:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Eph. 6:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 25:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 27:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 6:7-7:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 17:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:66-68 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 41:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 8:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 15:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 11:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 16:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 6:2 (2 in 1 verse)

W of M 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 16:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 20:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 21:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 23:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 17:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 51:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 2:6 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 19:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:49 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:45 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:56 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:74 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 18:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 22:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

John 13:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 10:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 11:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 15:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 17:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 1:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 35:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 77:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 38 0 38
NT 155 0 155
BM 226 0 226
DC 36 0 36
PGP 19 0 19
Moses 3 0 3
Abr. 2 0 2
JS-H 14 0 14
TOTAL 474 0 474

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 6:6
And by them their children were taught to read and write, having a language which was pure and undefiled.

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. 1:5
My fathers, having turned from their righteousness, and from the holy commandments which the Lord their God had given unto them, unto the worshiping of the gods of the heathen, utterly refused to hearken to my voice;

JS-H 1:15
After I had retired to the place where I had previously designed to go, having looked around me, and finding myself alone, I kneeled down and began to offer up the desires of my heart to God. I had scarcely done so, when immediately I was seized upon by some power which entirely overcame me, and had such an astonishing influence over me as to bind my tongue so that I could not speak. Thick darkness gathered around me, and it seemed to me for a time as if I were doomed to sudden destruction.

JS-H 1:19
I was answered that I must join none of them, for they were all wrong; and the Personage who addressed me said that all their creeds were an abomination in his sight; that those professors were all corrupt; that: "they draw near to me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, they teach for doctrines the commandments of men, having a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof."

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 1:45
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 1:52
Having removed the earth, I obtained a lever, which I got fixed under the edge of the stone, and with a little exertion raised it up. I looked in, and there indeed did I behold the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate, as stated by the messenger. The box in which they lay was formed by laying stones together in some kind of cement. In the bottom of the box were laid two stones crossways of the box, and on these stones lay the plates and the other things with them.

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 1:59
At length the time arrived for obtaining the plates, the Urim and Thummim, and the breastplate. On the twenty-second day of September, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven, having gone as usual at the end of another year to the place where they were deposited, the same heavenly messenger delivered them up to me with this charge: that I should be responsible for them; that if I should let them go carelessly, or through any neglect of mine, I should be cut off; but that if I would use all my endeavors to preserve them, until he, the messenger, should call for them, they should be protected.

JS-H 1:66
On the 5th day of April, 1829, Oliver Cowdery came to my house, until which time I had never seen him. He stated to me that having been teaching school in the neighborhood where my father resided, and my father being one of those who sent to the school, he went to board for a season at his house, and while there the family related to him the circumstances of my having received the plates, and accordingly he had come to make inquiries of me.

JS-H 1:68
We still continued the work of translation, when, in the ensuing month (May, 1829), we on a certain day went into the woods to pray and inquire of the Lord respecting baptism for the remission of sins, that we found mentioned in the translation of the plates. While we were thus employed, praying and calling upon the Lord, a messenger from heaven descended in a cloud of light, and having laid his hands upon us, he ordained us, saying:

JS-H 1:74
Our minds being now enlightened, we began to have the scriptures laid open to our understandings, and the true meaning and intention of their more mysterious passages revealed unto us in a manner which we never could attain to previously, nor ever before had thought of. In the meantime we were forced to keep secret the circumstances of having received the Priesthood and our having been baptized, owing to a spirit of persecution which had already manifested itself in the neighborhood.