Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'right' occurs 482 times in the standard works.

132 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'right' in the standard works and contain 27.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 50 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 8:23-26 (8 in 4 verses)

Lev. 14:14-17 (7 in 4 verses)

Lev. 14:25-28 (7 in 4 verses)

D&C 134:7-12 (6 in 6 verses)

Ex. 29:20-22 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 9:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 144:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 48:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 118:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 1:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 4:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 68:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 13:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:39 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 22:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 34:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 11:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 7:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 56:40 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:18 (2 in 1 verse)


Gen. 24:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

 24:48 And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

 24:49 And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.




Gen. 48:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 42:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 16:11-17:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 109:31-110:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 47:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 2:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 7:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:20-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 134:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:56-57 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 293 583 876
Gen. 10 20 30
Ex. 11 5 16
Lev. 25 16 41
Num. 4 1 5
Deut. 14 13 27
Josh. 5 0 5
Judg. 8 2 10
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 3 4 7
2 Sam. 9 7 16
1 Kgs. 13 7 20
2 Kgs. 14 1 15
1 Chr. 3 5 8
2 Chr. 19 6 25
Ezra 1 1 2
Neh. 5 1 6
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 12 36 48
Ps. 55 173 228
Prov. 19 101 120
Eccl. 2 9 11
Song. 2 2 4
Isa. 14 76 90
Jer. 10 17 27
Lam. 3 1 4
Ezek. 17 41 58
Dan. 1 13 14
Hosea 1 3 4
Amos 2 6 8
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 0 5 5
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 1 4 5
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 6 2 8
Mal. 1 3 4
NT 66 182 248
BM 52 281 333
DC 55 100 155
PGP 16 24 40
TOTAL 482 1170 1652

Gen. 7:1
And the Lord said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.

Gen. 13:9
Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Gen. 15:6
And he believed in the Lord; and he counted it to him for righteousness.

Gen. 18:23
And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

Gen. 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?

Gen. 18:25
That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right?

Gen. 18:26
And the Lord said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes.

Gen. 18:28
Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it.

Gen. 20:4
But Abimelech had not come near her: and he said, Lord, wilt thou slay also a righteous nation?

Gen. 24:48
And I bowed down my head, and worshipped the Lord, and blessed the Lord God of my master Abraham, which had led me in the right way to take my master's brother's daughter unto his son.

Gen. 24:49
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

Gen. 25:31
And Jacob said, Sell me this day thy birthright.

Gen. 25:32
And Esau said, Behold, I am at the point to die: and what profit shall this birthright do to me?

Gen. 25:33
And Jacob said, Swear to me this day; and he sware unto him: and he sold his birthright unto Jacob.

Gen. 25:34
Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Gen. 27:36
And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

Gen. 30:33
So shall my righteousness answer for me in time to come, when it shall come for my hire before thy face: every one that is not speckled and spotted among the goats, and brown among the sheep, that shall be counted stolen with me.

Gen. 37:7
For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf.

Gen. 38:26
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.

Gen. 43:33
And they sat before him, the firstborn according to his birthright, and the youngest according to his youth: and the men marvelled one at another.

Gen. 48:13
And Joseph took them both, Ephraim in his right hand toward Israel's left hand, and Manasseh in his left hand toward Israel's right hand, and brought them near unto him.

Gen. 48:14
And Israel stretched out his right hand, and laid it upon Ephraim's head, who was the younger, and his left hand upon Manasseh's head, guiding his hands wittingly; for Manasseh was the firstborn.

Gen. 48:17
And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father's hand, to remove it from Ephraim's head unto Manasseh's head.

Gen. 48:18
And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father: for this is the firstborn; put thy right hand upon his head.