I came across Gently Hew Stone blog post The Condensed Book of Mormon, In 15 Verses and thought I'd share it. She came across the post The Bible in 66 Verses. Here, I am combining both of their posts in one place.
I found this very informative and have created a very basic printable to keep in my scriptures. Click here for the printable.
The Bible:
Genesis
"In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" (1:1)
Exodus
"I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage." (20:2)
Leviticus
"Speak unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, and say unto them, Ye shall be holy: for I the Lord your God am holy" (19:2)
Numbers
"And it came to pass, when the ark set forward, that Moses said, Rise up, Lord, and let thine enemies be scattered; and let them that hate thee flee before thee." (10:35)
Deuteronomy
"Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God is one Lord." (6:4)
Joshua
"And if it seem evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell; but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (24:15)
Judges
"In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes." (17:6)
Ruth
"And Ruth said, Intreat me not to leave thee, or to return from following after thee: for whither thou goest, I will go; and where thou lodgest, I will lodge: thy people shall be my people, and thy God my God:" (1:16)
1 Samuel
"And the Lord said unto Samuel, Hearken unto the voice of the people in all that they say unto thee: for they have not rejected thee, but they have rejected me, that I should not reign over them." (8:7)
2 Samuel
"And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against the Lord. And Nathan said unto David, The Lord also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die." (12:13)
1 Kings
"And hearken thou to the supplication of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, when they shall pray toward this place: and hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and when thou hearest, forgive." (8:30)
2 Kings
"And it was so, when Elisha the man of God had heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel." (5:8)
1 Chronicles
"Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou are exalted as head above all." (29:11)
2 Chronicles
"And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord." (34:30)
Ezra
"And kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with joy: for the Lord had made them joyful, and turned the heart of the king of Assyria unto them, to strengthen their hand in the work of the house of God, the God of Israel." (6:22)
Nehemiah
"Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared: for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye sorry; for the joy of the Lord is your strength." (8:10)
Esther
"For if thou altogether holdest thy peace at this time, then shall there enlargement and deliverance arise to the Jews from another place; but thou and thy father's house shall be destroyed: and who knoweth whether thou art come to the kingdom for such a time as this?" (4:14)
Job
"Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth? declare, if thou has understanding." (38:4)
Psalms
"The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want." (23:1)
Proverbs
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction." (1:7)
Ecclesiastes
"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity." (1:2)
Song of Solomon
"My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies." (2:16)
Isaiah
"But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his stripes we are healed." (53:5)
Jeremiah
"But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people." (31:33)
Lamentations
"The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation." (2:5)
Ezekiel
"And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest." (37:3)
Daniel
"I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him." (7:13)
Hosea
"And I will betroth thee unto me fore ever; yea, I will betroth thee unto me in righteousness, and in Judgment, and in lovingkindness, and in mercies." (2:19)
Joel
"And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:" (2:28)
Amos
"But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream." (5:24)
Obadiah
"For the day of the Lord is near upon all the heathen: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee: thy reward shall return upon thine own head." (1:15)
Jonah
"And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice." (2:2)
Micah
"He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?" (6:8)
Nahum
"Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off." (1:15)
Habbakkuk
"Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith." (2:4)
Zephaniah
"Seek ye the Lord, all ye meek of the earth, which have wrought his judgment; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye shall be hid in the day of the Lord's anger." (2:3)
Haggai
"The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts." (2:9)
Zechariah
"Yea, they made their hearts as an adamant stone, lest they should hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hosts hath sent in his spirit by the former prophets: therefore came a great wrath from the Lord of hosts." (7:12)
Malachi
"Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts." (3:1)
Matthew
"Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect." (5:48)
Mark
"For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many." (10:45)
Luke
"It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found." (15:32)
John
"Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall live:" (11:25)
Acts
"But ye shall receive power, after that the Holy Ghost is come upon you: and ye shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea, and in Samaria, and unto the uttermost part of the earth." (1:8)
Romans
"Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law." (3:28)
1 Corinthians
"Because the foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than men." (1:25)
2 Corinthians
"For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him." (5:21)
Galatians
"And because ye are sons, God hath sent forth the Spirit of his Son into your hearts, crying, Abba, Father." (4:6)
Ephesians
"One Lord, one faith, one baptism," (4:5)
Philippians
"And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself, and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross." (2:8)
Colossians
"Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature:" (1:15)
1 Thessalonians
"Rejoice evermore." (5:16)
2 Thessalonians
"But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil." (3:3)
1 Timothy
"Fight the good fight of faith, lay hold on eternal life, whereunto thou art also called, and hast professed a good profession before many witnesses." (6:12)
2 Timothy
"That good thing which was committed unto thee keep by the Holy Ghost which dwelleth in us." (1:14)
Titus
"Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, y the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;" (3:5)
Philemon
"Whom I have sent again: thou therefore receive him, that is, mine own bowels:" (12)
Hebrews
"Wherefore seeing we also are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses, let us lay aside every weight, and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us," (12:1)
James
"Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world." (1:27)
1 Peter
"But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; hat ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light:" (2:9)
2 Peter
"Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust." (1:4)
1 John
"He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love." (4:8)
2 John
"And not I beseech thee, lady, not as though I wrote a new commandment unto thee, but that which we had from the beginning, that we love one another." (5)
3 John
"Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;" (5)
Jude
"Beloved, when I gave all diligence to write unto you of the common salvation, it was needful for me to write unto you, and exhort you that ye should earnestly contend for the faith which was once delivered unto the saints." (3)
Revelation
"And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." (21:1)
The Book of Mormon:
1 Nephi
"And when the Jews heard these things they were angry with him; yea, even as with the prophets of old, whom they had cast out, and stoned, and slain; and they also sought his life, that they might take it away. But behold, I, Nephi, will show unto you that the tender mercies of the Lord are over all those whom he hath chosen, because of their faith, to make them mighty even unto the power of deliverance." (1:20)
2 Nephi
"And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins." (25:26)
Jacob
"Behold, ye have done greater iniquities than the Lamanites, our brethren. Ye have broken the hearts of your tender wives, and lost the confidence of your children, because of your bad examples before them; and the sobbings of their hearts ascend up to God against you. And because of the strictness of the word of God, which cometh down against you, many hearts died, pierced with deep wounds." (2:35)
Enos
"And my soul hungered; and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own should; and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens." (1:4)
Jarom
"Wherefore, the prophets, and the priests, and the teachers, did labor diligently, exhorting with all long-suffering the people to diligence; teaching the law of Moses, and the intent for which it was given; persuading them to look forward unto the Messiah, and believe in him to come as though he already was. And after this manner did they teach them." (1:11)
Omni
"And it came to pass that he did according as the Lord had commanded him. And they departed out of the land into the wilderness, as many as would hearken unto the voice of the Lord; and they were led by many preachings and prophesyings, And they were admonished continually by the word of God; and they were led by the power of his arm, through the wilderness until they came down into the land which is called the land of Zarahemla." (1:13)
Words of Mormon
"And it is many hundred years after the coming of Christ that I deliver these records into the hands of my son; and it supposeth me that he will witness the entire destruction of my people. But may God grant that he may survive them, that he may write somewhat concerning them, and somewhat concerning Christ, that perhaps some day it may profit them." (1:2)
Mosiah
"For the natural man is an enemy to God, and has been from the fall of Adam, and will be, forever and ever, unless he yields to the enticings of the Holy Spirit, and putteth off the natural man and becometh a saint through the atonement of Christ the Lord, and becometh as a child, submissive, meek, humble, patient, full of love, willing to submit to all things which the Lord seeth fit to inflict upon him, even as a child doth submit to his father." (3:19)
Alma
"And this he did that he himself might go forth among his people, or among the people of Nephi, that he might preach the word of God unto them, to stir the up in remembrance of their duty, and that he might pull down, by the word of God, all the pride and craftiness and all the contentions which were among his people, seeing no way that he might reclaim them save it were in bearing down in pure testimony against them." (4:19)
Helaman
"Yea, and we may see at the vey time when he doth prosper his people, yea, in the increase of their fields, their flocks and their herds, and in gold, and in silver, and in all manner of precious things of every kind and art; sparing their lives, and delivering them out of the hands of their enemies; softening the hearts of their enemies that they should not declare wars against them; yea, and in find, doing all things for the welfare and happiness of his people; yea, then is the time that they do harden their hearts, and do forget the Lord their God, and do trample under their feet the Holy One—yea, and this because of their ease, and their exceedingly great prosperity." (12:2)
3 Nephi
"Verily, verily, I say unto you, this is my gospel; and ye know the things that ye must do in my church; for the works which ye have seen me do that shall ye also do; for that which ye have seen me do even that shall ye do;" (27:21)
4 Nephi
"There were no robbers, nor murderers, neither were there Lamanites, nor any manner of -ites; but they were in one, the children of Christ, and heirs to the kingdom of God." (1:17)
Mormon
"O ye fair ones, how could ye have departed from the ways of the Lord! O ye fair ones, how could ye have rejected that Jesus, who stood with open arms to receive you!" (6:17)
Ether
"For he did cry from the morning, even until the going down of the sun, exhorting the people to believe in God unto repentance lest they should be destroyed, saying unto them that by faith all things are fulfilled—" (12:3)
Moroni
"Yea, come unto Christ, and be perfected in him, and deny yourselves of all ungodliness; and if ye shall deny yourselves of all ungodliness, and love God with all your might, mind and strength, then is his grace sufficient for you, that by his grace ye may be perfect in Christ; and if by the grace of God ye are perfect in Christ, ye can in nowise deny the power of God." (10:32)
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