Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'light' occurs 507 times in the standard works.

254 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'light' in the standard works and contain 50.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 88 minutes to read the entire list.

To learn more about emphasis scriptures click here.

Expand All

D&C 88:6-13 (10 in 8 verses)

Luke 11:33-36 (7 in 4 verses)

Moses 2:15-18 (7 in 4 verses)

Alma 19:6 (6 in 1 verse)

Moses 2:3-5 (6 in 3 verses)

Abr. 4:15-17 (6 in 3 verses)

John 1:4-9 (6 in 6 verses)

D&C 88:40-45 (6 in 6 verses)

John 12:35-36 (5 in 2 verses)

Gen. 1:3-5 (5 in 3 verses)

John 3:19-21 (5 in 3 verses)

Abr. 4:3-5 (5 in 3 verses)

Gen. 1:15-18 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 50:24-27 (5 in 4 verses)

Isa. 30:26 (4 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:4-5 (4 in 2 verses)


Isa. 60:19-20 (4 in 2 verses)

 60:19 The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

 60:20 Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.




Moro. 7:18-19 (4 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 8:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 12:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Morm. 8:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Abr. 3:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 2:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 32:35 (3 in 1 verse)

Matt. 6:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Eph. 5:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 13:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:61-62 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:45-46 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 4:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 1:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 2:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 37:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 45:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 25:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 35:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 36:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 13:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 49:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

John 5:35 (2 in 1 verse)

John 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Eph. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 21:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:20 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 19:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 23:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 16:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 14:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 34:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 39:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:67 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:121 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:9 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:43 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 18:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 24:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 139:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 50:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 21:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 7:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 6:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:49-50 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 177 167 344
Gen. 11 7 18
Ex. 13 4 17
Lev. 1 1 2
Num. 4 3 7
Deut. 1 5 6
Josh. 0 1 1
Judg. 2 2 4
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 6 10 16
2 Sam. 5 6 11
1 Kgs. 6 5 11
2 Kgs. 4 4 8
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 2 3
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 2 1 3
Esth. 1 7 8
Job 31 10 41
Ps. 25 37 62
Prov. 5 16 21
Eccl. 3 1 4
Song. 0 2 2
Isa. 31 17 48
Jer. 5 9 14
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 3 6 9
Dan. 3 1 4
Hosea 1 0 1
Amos 2 1 3
Jonah 0 1 1
Micah 3 1 4
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 2 0 2
Zeph. 2 0 2
Zech. 2 1 3
Mal. 0 3 3
NT 95 30 125
BM 99 72 171
DC 91 32 123
PGP 45 13 58
TOTAL 507 314 821

Isa. 1:11
To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

Isa. 2:5
O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of the Lord.

Isa. 5:20
Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light, and light for darkness; that put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

Isa. 5:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea: and if one look unto the land, behold darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

Isa. 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Isa. 9:1
Nevertheless the dimness shall not be such as was in her vexation, when at the first he lightly afflicted the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, and afterward did more grievously afflict her by the way of the sea, beyond Jordan, in Galilee of the nations.

Isa. 9:2
The people that walked in darkness have seen a great light: they that dwell in the land of the shadow of death, upon them hath the light shined.

Isa. 9:8
The Lord sent a word into Jacob, and it hath lighted upon Israel.

Isa. 10:17
And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;

Isa. 13:10
For the stars of heaven and the constellations thereof shall not give their light: the sun shall be darkened in his going forth, and the moon shall not cause her light to shine.

Isa. 13:17
Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, which shall not regard silver; and as for gold, they shall not delight in it.

Isa. 30:26
Moreover the light of the moon shall be as the light of the sun, and the light of the sun shall be sevenfold, as the light of seven days, in the day that the Lord bindeth up the breach of his people, and healeth the stroke of their wound.

Isa. 30:30
And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.

Isa. 42:1
Behold my servant, whom I uphold; mine elect, in whom my soul delighteth; I have put my spirit upon him: he shall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles.

Isa. 42:6
I the Lord have called thee in righteousness, and will hold thine hand, and will keep thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, for a light of the Gentiles;

Isa. 42:16
And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things will I do unto them, and not forsake them.

Isa. 45:7
I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the Lord do all these things.

Isa. 49:6
And he said, It is a light thing that thou shouldest be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel: I will also give thee for a light to the Gentiles, that thou mayest be my salvation unto the end of the earth.

Isa. 50:10
Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

Isa. 50:11
Behold, all ye that kindle a fire, that compass yourselves about with sparks: walk in the light of your fire, and in the sparks that ye have kindled. This shall ye have of mine hand; ye shall lie down in sorrow.

Isa. 51:4
Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.

Isa. 52:12
For ye shall not go out with haste, nor go by flight: for the Lord will go before you; and the God of Israel will be your rearward.

Isa. 55:2
Wherefore do ye spend money for that which is not bread? and your labour for that which satisfieth not? hearken diligently unto me, and eat ye that which is good, and let your soul delight itself in fatness.

Isa. 58:2
Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways, as a nation that did righteousness, and forsook not the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice; they take delight in approaching to God.

Isa. 58:8
Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rearward.

Isa. 58:10
And if thou draw out thy soul to the hungry, and satisfy the afflicted soul; then shall thy light rise in obscurity, and thy darkness be as the noonday:

Isa. 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Isa. 58:14
Then shalt thou delight thyself in the Lord; and I will cause thee to ride upon the high places of the earth, and feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it.

Isa. 59:9
Therefore is judgment far from us, neither doth justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

Isa. 60:1
Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Isa. 60:3
And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

Isa. 60:19
The sun shall be no more thy light by day; neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee: but the Lord shall be unto thee an everlasting light, and thy God thy glory.

Isa. 60:20
Thy sun shall no more go down; neither shall thy moon withdraw itself: for the Lord shall be thine everlasting light, and the days of thy mourning shall be ended.

Isa. 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Isa. 65:12
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Isa. 66:3
He that killeth an ox is as if he slew a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as if he cut off a dog's neck; he that offereth an oblation, as if he offered swine's blood; he that burneth incense, as if he blessed an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations.

Isa. 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.

Isa. 66:11
That ye may suck, and be satisfied with the breasts of her consolations; that ye may milk out, and be delighted with the abundance of her glory.