

Statistics: See how many chapters and verses each book of scripture has.Standard Works: An overview of the Latter-day Saint canon of scripture.When paragraphs or headings refer to an entire book or group of chapters, they are counted as paragraphs or headings in the first chapter of the book or chapter group.These added headings are usually printed in italics. “Headings” refers to chapter summaries and other explanatory paragraphs added inline as study helps in the Latter-day Saint editions of the scriptures (not including footnotes or book/chapter titles).“Paragraphs” refers to headers, footers, or other paragraphs that aren’t numbered as verses, but are part of the translated scripture text.Non-KJV translations of the Bible, in English or other languages, sometimes have slightly different chapter or verse numbers (usually within one chapter or verse sometimes two).Number of books, chapters, verses, and paragraphs should be consistent across all editions of the King James Bible however, headings will vary in different editions.

The Latter-day Saint edition of the Bible in English is the King James Version, with footnotes and study helps.Statistics are from the 2013 edition of the standard works in English.

These charts show statistics for each collection and scripture book in the Latter-day Saint standard works. (This is a work in progress, and I may make slight adjustments from time to time.Scriptures Statistics Scripture Resources Just come back here and look at what the reading assignment is for that day’s date. Reading by date is nice because you don’t really need to keep track of what day you’re on. You can start reading on any day of the year and read either by day number (i.e., if you’re starting on March 27, you’d start with 1 Nephi 1) or by date (i.e., if you’re starting on March 27, you’d start with Jacob 7). The average number of verses read per day is about 18, but the actual number can be anywhere from 9 to 29. Each day’s assignment ends either with the end of a chapter or with a somewhat logical stopping point in the text itself. There are plenty of 365-day and one-year Book of Mormon reading schedules and charts out there, but I didn’t like any of them, so I made my own. **CLICK HERE FOR THE PRINTABLE (1-PAGE) PDF VERSION OF THIS CHART! (311 KB)**
