Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'purposes' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'purposes' in the standard works and contain 8.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Ne. 19:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 5 0 5
NT 0 0 0
BM 11 0 11
1 Ne. 3 0 3
2 Ne. 2 0 2
Alma 5 0 5
Morm. 1 0 1
DC 7 0 7
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 23 0 23

1 Ne. 4:13
Behold the Lord slayeth the wicked to bring forth his righteous purposes. It is better that one man should perish than that a nation should dwindle and perish in unbelief.

1 Ne. 19:3
And after I had made these plates by way of commandment, I, Nephi, received a commandment that the ministry and the prophecies, the more plain and precious parts of them, should be written upon these plates; and that the things which were written should be kept for the instruction of my people, who should possess the land, and also for other wise purposes, which purposes are known unto the Lord.