I wrote a little script to pull down all the talks from the latest conference and then adapted some code from my Scripture Scratcher to pull out all of the scriptures referenced therein. Wanna know what scriptures were cited the most? Do you? OKAY!
The most frequently cited verse from General Conference was Helaman 5:12! It was used six times! Here is the text in full so that you can ponder on it immediately.
And now, my sons, remember, remember that it is upon the rock of our Redeemer, who is Christ, the Son of God, that ye must build your foundation; that when the devil shall send forth his mighty winds, yea, his shafts in the whirlwind, yea, when all his hail and his mighty storm shall beat upon you, it shall have no power over you to drag you down to the gulf of misery and endless wo, because of the rock upon which ye are built, which is a sure foundation, a foundation whereon if men build they cannot fall.
There were five verses tied for second place with five uses each:
And three verses came in third with four uses each:
26 verses were used thrice, 91 verses twice, and 502 verses were cited once.
In all 628 verses were referenced in General Conference which is just about 1.5% of all the 41,996 verses there are in the standard works. Not too shabby!
Here is the full list of scriptures referenced in case that interests you: genconf.tsv!
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