Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'commandments' occurs 520 times in the standard works.

141 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'commandments' in the standard works and contain 27.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 58 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 37:13-16 (5 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 2:31 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:7-10 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 2:22 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 5:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:31-32 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 38:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 50:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 28:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 26:13 (2 in 1 verse)

John 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 1:20 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 4:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 36:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 48:25 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 8:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 6:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 11:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 63:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 5:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 8:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 11:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

 11:27 A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

 11:28 And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.




Deut. 26:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 28:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 111:10-112:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 7:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 2:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 4:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:74-75 (2 in 2 verses)

Jarom 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Omni 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 21:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:37-13:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 35:16-36:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 45:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 48:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 92:2-93:1 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 95:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 139 0 139
Gen. 1 0 1
Ex. 5 0 5
Lev. 10 0 10
Num. 4 0 4
Deut. 43 0 43
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
1 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 10 0 10
2 Kgs. 5 0 5
1 Chr. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 5 0 5
Ezra 3 0 3
Neh. 8 0 8
Ps. 28 0 28
Prov. 6 0 6
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Dan. 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
NT 32 0 32
BM 208 0 208
DC 131 0 131
PGP 10 0 10
TOTAL 520 0 520

Deut. 4:2
Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

Deut. 4:13
And he declared unto you his covenant, which he commanded you to perform, even ten commandments; and he wrote them upon two tables of stone.

Deut. 4:40
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the Lord thy God giveth thee, for ever.

Deut. 5:10
And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

Deut. 5:29
O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

Deut. 5:31
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

Deut. 6:1
Now these are the commandments, the statutes, and the judgments, which the Lord your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go to possess it:

Deut. 6:2
That thou mightest fear the Lord thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

Deut. 6:17
Ye shall diligently keep the commandments of the Lord your God, and his testimonies, and his statutes, which he hath commanded thee.

Deut. 6:25
And it shall be our righteousness, if we observe to do all these commandments before the Lord our God, as he hath commanded us.

Deut. 7:9
Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

Deut. 7:11
Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

Deut. 8:1
All the commandments which I command thee this day shall ye observe to do, that ye may live, and multiply, and go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers.

Deut. 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.

Deut. 8:6
Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Deut. 8:11
Beware that thou forget not the Lord thy God, in not keeping his commandments, and his judgments, and his statutes, which I command thee this day:

Deut. 10:4
And he wrote on the tables, according to the first writing, the ten commandments, which the Lord spake unto you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly: and the Lord gave them unto me.

Deut. 10:13
To keep the commandments of the Lord, and his statutes, which I command thee this day for thy good?

Deut. 11:1
Therefore thou shalt love the Lord thy God, and keep his charge, and his statutes, and his judgments, and his commandments, alway.

Deut. 11:8
Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

Deut. 11:13
And it shall come to pass, if ye shall hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love the Lord your God, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

Deut. 11:22
For if ye shall diligently keep all these commandments which I command you, to do them, to love the Lord your God, to walk in all his ways, and to cleave unto him;

Deut. 11:27
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

Deut. 11:28
And a curse, if ye will not obey the commandments of the Lord your God, but turn aside out of the way which I command you this day, to go after other gods, which ye have not known.

Deut. 13:4
Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

Deut. 13:18
When thou shalt hearken to the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of the Lord thy God.

Deut. 15:5
Only if thou carefully hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all these commandments which I command thee this day.

Deut. 19:9
If thou shalt keep all these commandments to do them, which I command thee this day, to love the Lord thy God, and to walk ever in his ways; then shalt thou add three cities more for thee, beside these three:

Deut. 26:13
Then thou shalt say before the Lord thy God, I have brought away the hallowed things out of mine house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

Deut. 26:17
Thou hast avouched the Lord this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:

Deut. 26:18
And the Lord hath avouched thee this day to be his peculiar people, as he hath promised thee, and that thou shouldest keep all his commandments;

Deut. 27:1
And Moses with the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandments which I command you this day.

Deut. 27:10
Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

Deut. 28:1
And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe and to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that the Lord thy God will set thee on high above all nations of the earth:

Deut. 28:9
The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

Deut. 28:13
And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

Deut. 28:15
But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

Deut. 28:45
Moreover all these curses shall come upon thee, and shall pursue thee, and overtake thee, till thou be destroyed; because thou hearkenedst not unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which he commanded thee:

Deut. 30:8
And thou shalt return and obey the voice of the Lord, and do all his commandments which I command thee this day.

Deut. 30:10
If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

Deut. 30:16
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deut. 31:5
And the Lord shall give them up before your face, that ye may do unto them according unto all the commandments which I have commanded you.