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
1 Ne. 5 0 5
2 Ne. 18 1 19
Jacob 3 0 3
Enos 1 0 1
Mosiah 12 2 14
Alma 30 0 30
Hel. 4 0 4
3 Ne. 2 1 3
Morm. 4 0 4
Ether 1 1 2
Moro. 9 1 10
DC 69 2 71
PGP 9 0 9
TOTAL 214 8 222

Morm. 5:14
And behold, they shall go unto the unbelieving of the Jews; and for this intent shall they go-- that they may be persuaded that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God; that the Father may bring about, through his most Beloved, his great and eternal purpose, in restoring the Jews, or all the house of Israel, to the land of their inheritance, which the Lord their God hath given them, unto the fulfilling of his covenant;

Morm. 6:22
O that ye had repented before this great destruction had come upon you. But behold, ye are gone, and the Father, yea, the Eternal Father of heaven, knoweth your state; and he doeth with you according to his justice and mercy.

Morm. 8:22
For the eternal purposes of the Lord shall roll on, until all his promises shall be fulfilled.

Morm. 9:13
And because of the redemption of man, which came by Jesus Christ, they are brought back into the presence of the Lord; yea, this is wherein all men are redeemed, because the death of Christ bringeth to pass the resurrection, which bringeth to pass a redemption from an endless sleep, from which sleep all men shall be awakened by the power of God when the trump shall sound; and they shall come forth, both small and great, and all shall stand before his bar, being redeemed and loosed from this eternal band of death, which death is a temporal death.