Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'belong' occurs 59 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'belong' in the standard works and contain 32.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 5:62-6:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 1:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 29:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 1:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 4:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 51:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 9 34 43
NT 3 4 7
BM 31 20 51
1 Ne. 1 3 4
2 Ne. 2 1 3
Mosiah 5 5 10
Alma 15 5 20
Hel. 5 5 10
3 Ne. 2 0 2
Morm. 1 1 2
DC 14 20 34
PGP 2 1 3
TOTAL 59 79 138

Mosiah 1:1
And now there was no more contention in all the land of Zarahemla, among all the people who belonged to king Benjamin, so that king Benjamin had continual peace all the remainder of his days.

Mosiah 2:25
And now I ask, can ye say aught of yourselves? I answer you, Nay. Ye cannot say that ye are even as much as the dust of the earth; yet ye were created of the dust of the earth; but behold, it belongeth to him who created you.

Mosiah 4:22
And if ye judge the man who putteth up his petition to you for your substance that he perish not, and condemn him, how much more just will be your condemnation for withholding your substance, which doth not belong to you but to God, to whom also your life belongeth; and yet ye put up no petition, nor repent of the thing which thou hast done.

Mosiah 5:14
And again, doth a man take an ass which belongeth to his neighbor, and keep him? I say unto you, Nay; he will not even suffer that he shall feed among his flocks, but will drive him away, and cast him out. I say unto you, that even so shall it be among you if ye know not the name by which ye are called.

Mosiah 25:18
Therefore, Alma did go forth into the water and did baptize them; yea, he did baptize them after the manner he did his brethren in the waters of Mormon; yea, and as many as he did baptize did belong to the church of God; and this because of their belief on the words of Alma.

Mosiah 26:38
And now all these things did Alma and his fellow laborers do who were over the church, walking in all diligence, teaching the word of God in all things, suffering all manner of afflictions, being persecuted by all those who did not belong to the church of God.

Mosiah 27:2
And it came to pass that king Mosiah sent a proclamation throughout the land round about that there should not any unbeliever persecute any of those who belonged to the church of God.

Mosiah 29:6
Now I declare unto you that he to whom the kingdom doth rightly belong has declined, and will not take upon him the kingdom.

Mosiah 29:7
And now if there should be another appointed in his stead, behold I fear there would rise contentions among you. And who knoweth but what my son, to whom the kingdom doth belong, should turn to be angry and draw away a part of this people after him, which would cause wars and contentions among you, which would be the cause of shedding much blood and perverting the way of the Lord, yea, and destroy the souls of many people.