Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'look' occurs 264 times in the standard works.

65 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'look' in the standard works and contain 24.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 26 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 8:13 (4 in 1 verse)

Alma 33:19-20 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 37:46-38:2 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 13:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 11:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 4:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 13:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 27:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 8:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 1:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 13:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 17:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 51:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 7:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Pet. 3:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 8:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 18:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 128 159 287
NT 27 55 82
BM 88 41 129
1 Ne. 18 18 36
2 Ne. 17 5 22
Jacob 6 2 8
Jarom 1 0 1
Mosiah 8 2 10
Alma 27 7 34
Hel. 5 1 6
3 Ne. 4 4 8
Morm. 1 1 2
Ether 1 1 2
DC 12 16 28
PGP 9 20 29
TOTAL 264 291 555

2 Ne. 2:28
And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments; and be faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life, according to the will of his Holy Spirit;

2 Ne. 6:2
Behold, my beloved brethren, I, Jacob, having been called of God, and ordained after the manner of his holy order, and having been consecrated by my brother Nephi, unto whom ye look as a king or a protector, and on whom ye depend for safety, behold ye know that I have spoken unto you exceedingly many things.

2 Ne. 8:1
Hearken unto me, ye that follow after righteousness. Look unto the rock from whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit from whence ye are digged.

2 Ne. 8:2
Look unto Abraham, your father, and unto Sarah, she that bare you; for I called him alone, and blessed him.

2 Ne. 8:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath; for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment; and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner. But my salvation shall be forever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

2 Ne. 9:48
Behold, if ye were holy I would speak unto you of holiness; but as ye are not holy, and ye look upon me as a teacher, it must needs be expedient that I teach you the consequences of sin.

2 Ne. 12:11
And it shall come to pass that the lofty looks of man shall be humbled, and the haughtiness of men shall be bowed down, and the Lord alone shall be exalted in that day.

2 Ne. 15:2
And he fenced it, and gathered out the stones thereof, and planted it with the choicest vine, and built a tower in the midst of it, and also made a wine-press therein; and he looked that it should bring forth grapes, and it brought forth wild grapes.

2 Ne. 15:4
What could have been done more to my vineyard that I have not done in it? Wherefore, when I looked that it should bring forth grapes it brought forth wild grapes.

2 Ne. 15:7
For the vineyard of the Lord of Hosts is the house of Israel, and the men of Judah his pleasant plant; and he looked for judgment, and behold, oppression; for righteousness, but behold, a cry.

2 Ne. 15:30
And in that day they shall roar against them like the roaring of the sea; and if they look unto the land, behold, darkness and sorrow, and the light is darkened in the heavens thereof.

2 Ne. 18:17
And I will wait upon the Lord, that hideth his face from the house of Jacob, and I will look for him.

2 Ne. 18:21
And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

2 Ne. 18:22
And they shall look unto the earth and behold trouble, and darkness, dimness of anguish, and shall be driven to darkness.

2 Ne. 20:12
Wherefore it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and upon Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

2 Ne. 24:16
They that see thee shall narrowly look upon thee, and shall consider thee, and shall say: Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms?

2 Ne. 25:16
And after they have been scattered, and the Lord God hath scourged them by other nations for the space of many generations, yea, even down from generation to generation until they shall be persuaded to believe in Christ, the Son of God, and the atonement, which is infinite for all mankind-- and when that day shall come that they shall believe in Christ, and worship the Father in his name, with pure hearts and clean hands, and look not forward any more for another Messiah, then, at that time, the day will come that it must needs be expedient that they should believe these things.

2 Ne. 25:18
Wherefore, he shall bring forth his words unto them, which words shall judge them at the last day, for they shall be given them for the purpose of convincing them of the true Messiah, who was rejected by them; and unto the convincing of them that they need not look forward any more for a Messiah to come, for there should not any come, save it should be a false Messiah which should deceive the people; for there is save one Messiah spoken of by the prophets, and that Messiah is he who should be rejected of the Jews.

2 Ne. 25:24
And, notwithstanding we believe in Christ, we keep the law of Moses, and look forward with steadfastness unto Christ, until the law shall be fulfilled.

2 Ne. 25:26
And we talk of Christ, we rejoice in Christ, we preach of Christ, we prophesy of Christ, and we write according to our prophecies, that our children may know to what source they may look for a remission of their sins.

2 Ne. 25:27
Wherefore, we speak concerning the law that our children may know the deadness of the law; and they, by knowing the deadness of the law, may look forward unto that life which is in Christ, and know for what end the law was given. And after the law is fulfilled in Christ, that they need not harden their hearts against him when the law ought to be done away.

2 Ne. 26:8
But behold, the righteous that hearken unto the words of the prophets, and destroy them not, but look forward unto Christ with steadfastness for the signs which are given, notwithstanding all persecution-- behold, they are they which shall not perish.