Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'neighbour' occurs 135 times in the standard works.

51 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'neighbour' in the standard works and contain 37.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 19 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 22:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 20:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Deut. 5:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 25:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 23:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 9:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 11:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 6:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 15:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 14:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Zech. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 13:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 119 17 136
Ex. 17 0 17
Lev. 13 0 13
Deut. 19 0 19
Josh. 1 1 2
Ruth 1 1 2
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 3 0 3
Ps. 4 7 11
Prov. 20 0 20
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 3 0 3
Jer. 18 3 21
Ezek. 5 4 9
Hab. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 0 7
NT 16 5 21
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 135 22 157

Deut. 4:42
That the slayer might flee thither, which should kill his neighbour unawares, and hated him not in times past; and that fleeing unto one of these cities he might live:

Deut. 5:20
Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Deut. 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Deut. 15:2
And this is the manner of the release: Every creditor that lendeth ought unto his neighbour shall release it; he shall not exact it of his neighbour, or of his brother; because it is called the Lord's release.

Deut. 19:4
And this is the case of the slayer, which shall flee thither, that he may live: Whoso killeth his neighbour ignorantly, whom he hated not in time past;

Deut. 19:5
As when a man goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the head slippeth from the helve, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; he shall flee unto one of those cities, and live:

Deut. 19:11
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

Deut. 19:14
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the Lord thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Deut. 22:24
Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of that city, and ye shall stone them with stones that they die; the damsel, because she cried not, being in the city; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbour's wife: so thou shalt put away evil from among you.

Deut. 22:26
But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

Deut. 23:24
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

Deut. 23:25
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

Deut. 27:17
Cursed be he that removeth his neighbour's landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deut. 27:24
Cursed be he that smiteth his neighbour secretly. And all the people shall say, Amen.