Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'live' occurs 311 times in the standard works.

82 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'live' in the standard works and contain 26.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 33:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

Gal. 2:19-20 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Rom. 14:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

John 6:57-58 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 8:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:46-47 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:44-45 (3 in 2 verses)


Deut. 8:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

 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.

 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.

 8:3 And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.




Isa. 38:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 38:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 38:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 18:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 47:9 (2 in 1 verse)

John 14:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 5:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 33:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 8:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:86 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 16:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 9:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 37:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 9:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Gal. 3:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Philip. 1:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 41:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 179 799 978
Gen. 12 66 78
Ex. 5 28 33
Lev. 5 18 23
Num. 5 12 17
Deut. 18 35 53
Josh. 4 25 29
Judg. 0 58 58
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 1 57 58
2 Sam. 3 42 45
1 Kgs. 3 33 36
2 Kgs. 5 48 53
1 Chr. 0 11 11
2 Chr. 1 31 32
Ezra 0 6 6
Neh. 3 5 8
Esth. 1 3 4
Job 4 17 21
Ps. 15 101 116
Prov. 4 21 25
Eccl. 5 3 8
Isa. 8 35 43
Jer. 11 46 57
Lam. 1 4 5
Ezek. 49 37 86
Dan. 5 18 23
Hosea 1 4 5
Joel 0 2 2
Amos 3 10 13
Obad. 0 2 2
Jonah 2 1 3
Micah 0 6 6
Hab. 1 2 3
Zeph. 1 1 2
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 3 8 11
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 68 192 260
BM 33 335 368
DC 26 126 152
PGP 5 41 46
TOTAL 311 1493 1804

Deut. 1:27
And ye murmured in your tents, and said, Because the Lord hated us, he hath brought us forth out of the land of Egypt, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us.

Deut. 2:30
But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

Deut. 2:33
And the Lord our God delivered him before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and all his people.

Deut. 2:36
From Aroer, which is by the brink of the river of Arnon, and from the city that is by the river, even unto Gilead, there was not one city too strong for us: the Lord our God delivered all unto us:

Deut. 3:2
And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

Deut. 3:3
So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.

Deut. 4:1
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the Lord God of your fathers giveth you.

Deut. 4:4
But ye that did cleave unto the Lord your God are alive every one of you this day.

Deut. 4:10
Specially the day that thou stoodest before the Lord thy God in Horeb, when the Lord said unto me, Gather me the people together, and I will make them hear my words, that they may learn to fear me all the days that they shall live upon the earth, and that they may teach their children.

Deut. 4:33
Did ever people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Deut. 4:42
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Deut. 5:3
The Lord made not this covenant with our fathers, but with us, even us, who are all of us here alive this day.

Deut. 5:22
These words the Lord spake unto all your assembly in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness, with a great voice: and he added no more. And he wrote them in two tables of stone, and delivered them unto me.

Deut. 5:24
And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.

Deut. 5:26
For who is there of all flesh, that hath heard the voice of the living God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as we have, and lived?

Deut. 5:33
Ye shall walk in all the ways which the Lord your God hath commanded you, that ye may live, and that it may be well with you, and that ye may prolong your days in the land which ye shall possess.

Deut. 6:11
And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

Deut. 6:24
And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

Deut. 7:2
And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

Deut. 7:16
And thou shalt consume all the people which the Lord thy God shall deliver thee; thine eye shall have no pity upon them: neither shalt thou serve their gods; for that will be a snare unto thee.

Deut. 7:23
But the Lord thy God shall deliver them unto thee, and shall destroy them with a mighty destruction, until they be destroyed.

Deut. 7:24
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed 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. 8:3
And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna, which thou knewest not, neither did thy fathers know; that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread only, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord doth man live.

Deut. 8:8
A land of wheat, and barley, and vines, and fig trees, and pomegranates; a land of oil olive, and honey;

Deut. 9:10
And the Lord delivered unto me two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which the Lord spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

Deut. 12:1
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the Lord God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

Deut. 12:19
Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest upon the earth.

Deut. 16:20
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deut. 19:4
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

Deut. 19:5
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Deut. 19:12
Then the elders of his city shall send and fetch him thence, and deliver him into the hand of the avenger of blood, that he may die.

Deut. 20:13
And when the Lord thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:

Deut. 20:16
But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

Deut. 21:10
When thou goest forth to war against thine enemies, and the Lord thy God hath delivered them into thine hands, and thou hast taken them captive,

Deut. 23:14
For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Deut. 23:15
Thou shalt not deliver unto his master the servant which is escaped from his master unto thee:

Deut. 24:13
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

Deut. 24:20
When thou beatest thine olive tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Deut. 25:11
When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

Deut. 28:40
Thou shalt have olive trees throughout all thy coasts, but thou shalt not anoint thyself with the oil; for thine olive shall cast his fruit.

Deut. 30:6
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

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. 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deut. 31:9
And Moses wrote this law, and delivered it unto the priests the sons of Levi, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and unto all the elders of Israel.

Deut. 31:13
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

Deut. 31:27
For I know thy rebellion, and thy stiff neck: behold, while I am yet alive with you this day, ye have been rebellious against the Lord; and how much more after my death?

Deut. 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Deut. 32:40
For I lift up my hand to heaven, and say, I live for ever.

Deut. 33:6
Let Reuben live, and not die; and let not his men be few.