Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'vessel' occurs 52 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'vessel' in the standard works and contain 28.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 11:32-34 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 60:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 15:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 4:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 18:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 35 143 178
NT 11 11 22
BM 6 10 16
Alma 4 0 4
3 Ne. 0 1 1
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 1 8 9
Moro. 0 1 1
DC 0 3 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 52 167 219

Alma 7:10
And behold, he shall be born of Mary, at Jerusalem which is the land of our forefathers, she being a virgin, a precious and chosen vessel, who shall be overshadowed and conceive by the power of the Holy Ghost, and bring forth a son, yea, even the Son of God.

Alma 60:23
Do ye suppose that God will look upon you as guiltless while ye sit still and behold these things? Behold I say unto you, Nay. Now I would that ye should remember that God has said that the inward vessel shall be cleansed first, and then shall the outer vessel be cleansed also.

Alma 60:24
And now, except ye do repent of that which ye have done, and begin to be up and doing, and send forth food and men unto us, and also unto Helaman, that he may support those parts of our country which he has regained, and that we may also recover the remainder of our possessions in these parts, behold it will be expedient that we contend no more with the Lamanites until we have first cleansed our inward vessel, yea, even the great head of our government.

Morm. 5:18
But now, behold, they are led about by Satan, even as chaff is driven before the wind, or as a vessel is tossed about upon the waves, without sail or anchor, or without anything wherewith to steer her; and even as she is, so are they.

Ether 2:2
And they did also lay snares and catch fowls of the air; and they did also prepare a vessel, in which they did carry with them the fish of the waters.