Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'body' occurs 277 times in the standard works.

125 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'body' in the standard works and contain 45.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 46 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Cor. 12:12-27 (18 in 16 verses)

Alma 11:43-45 (6 in 3 verses)

Alma 40:18-23 (6 in 6 verses)

Matt. 6:22-25 (5 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 13:22-25 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Cor. 6:16-20 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Cor. 15:44 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 12:2-3 (4 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:34-36 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 15:35-38 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 28:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Matt. 27:58-59 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

John 19:38-40 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 6:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 7:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Eph. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 41:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 43:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:37 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 130:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 9:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

James 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:109-110 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 89:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 39 0 39
NT 136 3 139
Matt. 15 0 15
Mark 6 0 6
Luke 13 1 14
John 5 0 5
Acts 2 1 3
Rom. 10 0 10
1 Cor. 44 0 44
2 Cor. 9 0 9
Gal. 1 0 1
Eph. 9 0 9
Philip. 3 0 3
Col. 8 0 8
1 Thes. 1 0 1
Heb. 3 0 3
James 5 0 5
1 Pet. 1 1 2
Jude 1 0 1
BM 78 0 78
DC 21 0 21
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 277 4 281

1 Cor. 5:3
For I verily, as absent in body, but present in spirit, have judged already, as though I were present, concerning him that hath so done this deed,

1 Cor. 6:13
Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.

1 Cor. 6:16
What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

1 Cor. 6:18
Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body.

1 Cor. 6:19
What? know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own?

1 Cor. 6:20
For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God's.

1 Cor. 7:4
The wife hath not power of her own body, but the husband: and likewise also the husband hath not power of his own body, but the wife.

1 Cor. 7:34
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

1 Cor. 9:27
But I keep under my body, and bring it into subjection: lest that by any means, when I have preached to others, I myself should be a castaway.

1 Cor. 10:16
The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

1 Cor. 10:17
For we being many are one bread, and one body: for we are all partakers of that one bread.

1 Cor. 11:24
And when he had given thanks, he brake it, and said, Take, eat: this is my body, which is broken for you: this do in remembrance of me.

1 Cor. 11:27
Wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread, and drink this cup of the Lord, unworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord.

1 Cor. 11:29
For he that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh damnation to himself, not discerning the Lord's body.

1 Cor. 12:12
For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

1 Cor. 12:13
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

1 Cor. 12:14
For the body is not one member, but many.

1 Cor. 12:15
If the foot shall say, Because I am not the hand, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

1 Cor. 12:16
And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?

1 Cor. 12:17
If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

1 Cor. 12:18
But now hath God set the members every one of them in the body, as it hath pleased him.

1 Cor. 12:19
And if they were all one member, where were the body?

1 Cor. 12:20
But now are they many members, yet but one body.

1 Cor. 12:22
Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

1 Cor. 12:23
And those members of the body, which we think to be less honourable, upon these we bestow more abundant honour; and our uncomely parts have more abundant comeliness.

1 Cor. 12:24
For our comely parts have no need: but God hath tempered the body together, having given more abundant honour to that part which lacked:

1 Cor. 12:25
That there should be no schism in the body; but that the members should have the same care one for another.

1 Cor. 12:27
Now ye are the body of Christ, and members in particular.

1 Cor. 13:3
And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.

1 Cor. 15:35
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

1 Cor. 15:37
And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

1 Cor. 15:38
But God giveth it a body as it hath pleased him, and to every seed his own body.

1 Cor. 15:44
It is sown a natural body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a natural body, and there is a spiritual body.