Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'comfort' occurs 82 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'comfort' in the standard works and contain 20.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 31:31-32 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 1:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 19:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 40:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 51:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 8:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 42 42 84
Gen. 4 4 8
Judg. 2 0 2
Ruth 0 1 1
2 Sam. 1 5 6
1 Chr. 3 1 4
2 Chr. 0 2 2
Job 6 3 9
Ps. 5 5 10
Eccl. 0 2 2
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 9 9 18
Jer. 3 1 4
Lam. 4 2 6
Ezek. 2 4 6
Hosea 0 1 1
Nahum 0 1 1
Zech. 2 1 3
NT 24 23 47
BM 13 17 30
DC 2 28 30
PGP 1 3 4
TOTAL 82 113 195

Zech. 1:13
And the Lord answered the angel that talked with me with good words and comfortable words.

Zech. 1:17
Cry yet, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; My cities through prosperity shall yet be spread abroad; and the Lord shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

Zech. 10:2
For the idols have spoken vanity, and the diviners have seen a lie, and have told false dreams; they comfort in vain: therefore they went their way as a flock, they were troubled, because there was no shepherd.