Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'own' occurs 977 times in the standard works.

297 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'own' in the standard works and contain 30.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 101 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 104:49-50 (6 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:4-8 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 22:13 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

Abr. 4:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)


1 Cor. 7:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

 7:2 Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

 7:3 Let the husband render unto the wife due benevolence: and likewise also the wife unto the husband.

 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.




2 Ne. 27:20-22 (4 in 3 verses)

Dan. 11:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Mark 6:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Luke 6:41-44 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 5:25-6:2 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 58:13 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:68 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 106:39-40 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:53-54 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:76-77 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Prov. 5:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 11:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 7:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 2:24-3:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 14:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 6:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 7:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 22:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 1:52 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 20:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 14:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 18:27 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 19:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 6:29 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 32:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 44:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 81:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 94:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 1:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 1:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 27:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 4:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 13:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 36:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 37:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 48:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 49:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 36:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 13:57 (2 in 1 verse)

John 1:11 (2 in 1 verse)

John 5:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 5:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 1:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 13:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Philem. 1:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 1:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 20:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 21:26 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 6:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 14:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 23:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 3:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 54:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 16:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 16:15 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 3:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 3:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 3:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 6:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:57 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 11:29 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 20:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 35:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 38:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 39:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 45:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 76:111 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:109 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:40 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:48 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 11:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 17:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 18:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 28:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 36:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 23:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 13:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 19:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 10:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 14:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 6:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Gal. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 5:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Pet. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Pet. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

W of M 1:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 27:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 54:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 20:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 390 1248 1638
NT 206 398 604
Matt. 16 41 57
Mark 8 33 41
Luke 22 76 98
John 25 55 80
Acts 25 69 94
Rom. 13 12 25
1 Cor. 24 22 46
2 Cor. 6 10 16
Gal. 5 3 8
Eph. 6 8 14
Philip. 4 3 7
Col. 1 2 3
1 Thes. 5 1 6
2 Thes. 2 0 2
1 Tim. 7 1 8
2 Tim. 3 5 8
Titus 4 0 4
Philem. 3 0 3
Heb. 7 9 16
James 4 4 8
1 Pet. 4 2 6
2 Pet. 6 4 10
1 Jn. 1 7 8
2 Jn. 0 1 1
Jude 4 0 4
Rev. 1 30 31
BM 226 549 775
DC 122 183 305
PGP 33 40 73
TOTAL 977 2418 3395

1 Cor. 1:15
Lest any should say that I had baptized in mine own name.

1 Cor. 2:8
Which none of the princes of this world knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory.

1 Cor. 2:16
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ.

1 Cor. 3:8
Now he that planteth and he that watereth are one: and every man shall receive his own reward according to his own labour.

1 Cor. 3:19
For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. For it is written, He taketh the wise in their own craftiness.

1 Cor. 4:3
But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man's judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

1 Cor. 4:12
And labour, working with our own hands: being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer it:

1 Cor. 6:14
And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

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. 7:2
Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

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. 7:35
And this I speak for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is comely, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

1 Cor. 7:37
Nevertheless he that standeth steadfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

1 Cor. 8:3
But if any man love God, the same is known of him.

1 Cor. 9:7
Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock?

1 Cor. 9:11
If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

1 Cor. 9:25
And every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. Now they do it to obtain a corruptible crown; but we an incorruptible.

1 Cor. 10:5
But with many of them God was not well pleased: for they were overthrown in the wilderness.

1 Cor. 10:7
Neither be ye idolaters, as were some of them; as it is written, The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.

1 Cor. 10:24
Let no man seek his own, but every man another's wealth.

1 Cor. 10:29
Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man's conscience?

1 Cor. 10:33
Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

1 Cor. 11:21
For in eating every one taketh before other his own supper: and one is hungry, and another is drunken.

1 Cor. 13:5
Doth not behave itself unseemly, seeketh not her own, is not easily provoked, thinketh no evil;

1 Cor. 13:12
For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

1 Cor. 14:2
For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

1 Cor. 14:4
He that speaketh in an unknown tongue edifieth himself; but he that prophesieth edifieth the church.

1 Cor. 14:7
And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

1 Cor. 14:9
So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye shall speak into the air.

1 Cor. 14:13
Wherefore let him that speaketh in an unknown tongue pray that he may interpret.

1 Cor. 14:14
For if I pray in an unknown tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

1 Cor. 14:19
Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

1 Cor. 14:25
And thus are the secrets of his heart made manifest; and so falling down on his face he will worship God, and report that God is in you of a truth.

1 Cor. 14:27
If any man speak in an unknown tongue, let it be by two, or at the most by three, and that by course; and let one interpret.

1 Cor. 15:23
But every man in his own order: Christ the firstfruits; afterward they that are Christ's at his coming.

1 Cor. 15:24
Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

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

1 Cor. 15:42
So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

1 Cor. 15:43
It is sown in dishonour; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

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.

1 Cor. 16:21
The salutation of me Paul with mine own hand.