Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'obey' occurs 100 times in the standard works.

23 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'obey' in the standard works and contain 23% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 2:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 42:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 6:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 36:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 3:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 43 42 85
Gen. 3 3 6
Ex. 4 0 4
Deut. 10 0 10
Josh. 1 2 3
Judg. 0 3 3
1 Sam. 5 5 10
1 Kgs. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 0 1 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 1 1 2
Isa. 1 1 2
Jer. 11 18 29
Dan. 2 2 4
Zeph. 0 1 1
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 26 8 34
BM 15 3 18
DC 14 7 21
PGP 2 7 9
TOTAL 100 67 167

Dan. 9:10
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.

Dan. 9:14
Therefore hath the Lord watched upon the evil, and brought it upon us: for the Lord our God is righteous in all his works which he doeth: for we obeyed not his voice.