Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'dead' occurs 557 times in the standard works.

243 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'dead' in the standard works and contain 43.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 101 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 127:5-128:22 (30 in 30 verses)

2 Sam. 12:18-23 (7 in 6 verses)

1 Chr. 1:44-50 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Kgs. 3:20-23 (6 in 4 verses)

D&C 124:32-36 (6 in 5 verses)

Rom. 7:2-6 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Cor. 15:12-16 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 40:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

Rev. 20:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 21:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 53:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 23:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Cor. 15:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 19:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 26:19 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 135:1 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 1:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

John 8:52-53 (3 in 2 verses)


Rom. 8:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

 8:10 And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

 8:11 But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.




Rev. 11:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 44:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 21:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 19:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 11:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 9:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 12:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

John 11:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Rom. 6:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 18:42-19:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 4:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ruth 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 88:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 8:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 9:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 15:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 9:60 (2 in 1 verse)

John 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)

James 2:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 15:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 57:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:37 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:28 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 63:49 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 11:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 9:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 25:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 20:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 2:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 22:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 9:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 16:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 10:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 17:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 15:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Col. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 6:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Pet. 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 22:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:57-58 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 177 3 180
NT 187 5 192
Matt. 16 0 16
Mark 13 1 14
Luke 19 0 19
John 21 0 21
Acts 22 0 22
Rom. 25 1 26
1 Cor. 15 0 15
2 Cor. 2 0 2
Gal. 3 0 3
Eph. 4 0 4
Philip. 1 0 1
Col. 5 0 5
1 Thes. 2 0 2
1 Tim. 1 0 1
2 Tim. 3 0 3
Heb. 9 0 9
James 4 1 5
1 Pet. 5 0 5
Jude 1 0 1
Rev. 16 2 18
BM 114 3 117
DC 78 2 80
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 557 13 570

Rom. 1:4
And declared to be the Son of God with power, according to the spirit of holiness, by the resurrection from the dead:

Rom. 4:17
(As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

Rom. 4:19
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

Rom. 4:24
But for us also, to whom it shall be imputed, if we believe on him that raised up Jesus our Lord from the dead;

Rom. 5:15
But not as the offence, so also is the free gift. For if through the offence of one many be dead, much more the grace of God, and the gift by grace, which is by one man, Jesus Christ, hath abounded unto many.

Rom. 6:2
God forbid. How shall we, that are dead to sin, live any longer therein?

Rom. 6:4
Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Rom. 6:7
For he that is dead is freed from sin.

Rom. 6:8
Now if we be dead with Christ, we believe that we shall also live with him:

Rom. 6:9
Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

Rom. 6:11
Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Rom. 6:13
Neither yield ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Rom. 7:2
For the woman which hath an husband is bound by the law to her husband so long as he liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is loosed from the law of her husband.

Rom. 7:3
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Rom. 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

Rom. 7:6
But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

Rom. 7:8
But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

Rom. 8:10
And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

Rom. 8:11
But if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead dwell in you, he that raised up Christ from the dead shall also quicken your mortal bodies by his Spirit that dwelleth in you.

Rom. 10:7
Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Rom. 10:9
That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved.

Rom. 11:15
For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

Rom. 14:9
For to this end Christ both died, and rose, and revived, that he might be Lord both of the dead and living.