Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'mercy' occurs 387 times in the standard works.

123 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'mercy' in the standard works and contain 31.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 51 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 136:1-26 (26 in 26 verses)

Ex. 25:17-22 (7 in 6 verses)

Alma 42:21-25 (6 in 5 verses)

Lev. 16:13-15 (5 in 3 verses)

Ex. 37:6-9 (5 in 4 verses)

Rom. 9:15-18 (5 in 4 verses)

Rom. 11:30-32 (4 in 3 verses)

Ps. 118:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 34:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

James 2:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 123:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 42:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 33:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 16:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 20:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 2:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 16:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 18:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 24:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:40 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 109:54 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 14:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 59:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 86:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 100:5-101:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 20:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 18:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 38:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 42:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 109:69-70 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 217 0 217
NT 59 1 60
BM 84 0 84
DC 24 0 24
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 387 1 388

D&C 1:29
And after having received the record of the Nephites, yea, even my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., might have power to translate through the mercy of God, by the power of God, the Book of Mormon.

D&C 29:1
Listen to the voice of Jesus Christ, your Redeemer, the Great I Am, whose arm of mercy hath atoned for your sins;

D&C 43:25
How oft have I called upon you by the mouth of my servants, and by the ministering of angels, and by mine own voice, and by the voice of thunderings, and by the voice of lightnings, and by the voice of tempests, and by the voice of earthquakes, and great hailstorms, and by the voice of famines and pestilences of every kind, and by the great sound of a trump, and by the voice of judgment, and by the voice of mercy all the day long, and by the voice of glory and honor and the riches of eternal life, and would have saved you with an everlasting salvation, but ye would not!

D&C 54:6
But blessed are they who have kept the covenant and observed the commandment, for they shall obtain mercy.

D&C 84:102
Glory, and honor, and power, and might, Be ascribed to our God; for he is full of mercy, Justice, grace and truth, and peace, Forever and ever, Amen.

D&C 88:35
That which breaketh a law, and abideth not by law, but seeketh to become a law unto itself, and willeth to abide in sin, and altogether abideth in sin, cannot be sanctified by law, neither by mercy, justice, nor judgment. Therefore, they must remain filthy still.

D&C 88:40
For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own; justice continueth its course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all things.

D&C 97:2
Verily, verily I say unto you, blessed are such, for they shall obtain; for I, the Lord, show mercy unto all the meek, and upon all whomsoever I will, that I may be justified when I shall bring them unto judgment.

D&C 97:6
And to the residue of the school, I, the Lord, am willing to show mercy; nevertheless, there are those that must needs be chastened, and their works shall be made known.

D&C 99:3
And who receiveth you as a little child, receiveth my kingdom; and blessed are they, for they shall obtain mercy.

D&C 101:9
Verily I say unto you, notwithstanding their sins, my bowels are filled with compassion towards them. I will not utterly cast them off; and in the day of wrath I will remember mercy.

D&C 106:7
Therefore, blessed is my servant Warren, for I will have mercy on him; and, notwithstanding the vanity of his heart, I will lift him up inasmuch as he will humble himself before me.

D&C 109:1
Thanks be to thy name, O Lord God of Israel, who keepest covenant and showest mercy unto thy servants who walk uprightly before thee, with all their hearts--

D&C 109:34
O Jehovah, have mercy upon this people, and as all men sin, forgive the transgressions of thy people, and let them be blotted out forever.

D&C 109:50
Have mercy, O Lord, upon the wicked mob, who have driven thy people, that they may cease to spoil, that they may repent of their sins if repentance is to be found;

D&C 109:54
Have mercy, O Lord, upon all the nations of the earth; have mercy upon the rulers of our land; may those principles, which were so honorably and nobly defended, namely, the Constitution of our land, by our fathers, be established forever.

D&C 109:62
We therefore ask thee to have mercy upon the children of Jacob, that Jerusalem, from this hour, may begin to be redeemed;

D&C 109:69
Have mercy, O Lord, upon his wife and children, that they may be exalted in thy presence, and preserved by thy fostering hand.

D&C 109:70
Have mercy upon all their immediate connections, that their prejudices may be broken up and swept away as with a flood; that they may be converted and redeemed with Israel, and know that thou art God.

D&C 109:77
O Lord God Almighty, hear us in these our petitions, and answer us from heaven, thy holy habitation, where thou sittest enthroned, with glory, honor, power, majesty, might, dominion, truth, justice, judgment, mercy, and an infinity of fulness, from everlasting to everlasting.

D&C 110:7
For behold, I have accepted this house, and my name shall be here; and I will manifest myself to my people in mercy in this house.

D&C 128:19
Now, what do we hear in the gospel which we have received? A voice of gladness! A voice of mercy from heaven; and a voice of truth out of the earth; glad tidings for the dead; a voice of gladness for the living and the dead; glad tidings of great joy. How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of those that bring glad tidings of good things, and that say unto Zion: Behold, thy God reigneth! As the dews of Carmel, so shall the knowledge of God descend upon them!