Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'obey' occurs 100 times in the standard works.

23 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'obey' in the standard works and contain 23% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 2:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 42:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 6:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:21-22 (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.




1 Sam. 12:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 36:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 3:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 43 42 85
Gen. 3 3 6
Ex. 4 0 4
Deut. 10 0 10
Josh. 1 2 3
Judg. 0 3 3
1 Sam. 5 5 10
1 Kgs. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 0 1 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 1 1 2
Isa. 1 1 2
Jer. 11 18 29
Dan. 2 2 4
Zeph. 0 1 1
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 26 8 34
BM 15 3 18
DC 14 7 21
PGP 2 7 9
TOTAL 100 67 167

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. 21:18
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:

Deut. 21:20
And they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

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. 28:62
And ye shall be left few in number, whereas ye were as the stars of heaven for multitude; because thou wouldest not obey the voice of the Lord thy God.

Deut. 30:2
And shalt return unto the Lord thy God, and shalt obey his voice according to all that I command thee this day, thou and thy children, with all thine heart, and with all thy soul;

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. 30:20
That thou mayest love the Lord thy God, and that thou mayest obey his voice, and that thou mayest cleave unto him: for he is thy life, and the length of thy days: that thou mayest dwell in the land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob, to give them.