Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'bless' occurs 189 times in the standard works.

45 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'bless' in the standard works and contain 23.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 16 minutes to read the entire list.

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Abr. 2:9-11 (5 in 3 verses)

Ps. 103:20-104:1 (5 in 4 verses)

Ps. 115:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 135:19-20 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 12:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 103:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 134:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 17:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 7:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 12:14 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:35 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 6:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 67:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 145:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 117 293 410
Gen. 22 67 89
Ex. 3 4 7
Lev. 0 3 3
Num. 6 8 14
Deut. 21 31 52
Josh. 1 8 9
Judg. 1 5 6
Ruth 1 4 5
1 Sam. 1 9 10
2 Sam. 4 10 14
1 Kgs. 1 9 10
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 5 9 14
2 Chr. 0 8 8
Ezra 0 1 1
Neh. 1 5 6
Job 0 6 6
Ps. 44 58 102
Prov. 1 16 17
Eccl. 0 1 1
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 2 12 14
Jer. 2 2 4
Ezek. 0 4 4
Dan. 0 5 5
Joel 0 1 1
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 2 2
Mal. 0 3 3
NT 10 102 112
BM 32 173 205
DC 22 157 179
PGP 8 26 34
TOTAL 189 751 940

Deut. 1:11
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

Deut. 2:7
For the Lord thy God hath blessed thee in all the works of thy hand: he knoweth thy walking through this great wilderness: these forty years the Lord thy God hath been with thee; thou hast lacked nothing.

Deut. 7:13
And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.

Deut. 7:14
Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

Deut. 8:10
When thou hast eaten and art full, then thou shalt bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee.

Deut. 10:8
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

Deut. 11:26
Behold, I set before you this day a blessing and a curse;

Deut. 11:27
A blessing, if ye obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you this day:

Deut. 11:29
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord thy God hath brought thee in unto the land whither thou goest to possess it, that thou shalt put the blessing upon mount Gerizim, and the curse upon mount Ebal.

Deut. 12:7
And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

Deut. 12:15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

Deut. 14:24
And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it; or if the place be too far from thee, which the Lord thy God shall choose to set his name there, when the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

Deut. 14:29
And the Levite, (because he hath no part nor inheritance with thee,) and the stranger, and the fatherless, and the widow, which are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hand which thou doest.

Deut. 15:4
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the Lord shall greatly bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:

Deut. 15:6
For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Deut. 15:10
Thou shalt surely give him, and thine heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him: because that for this thing the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thy works, and in all that thou puttest thine hand unto.

Deut. 15:14
Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the Lord thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him.

Deut. 15:18
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Deut. 16:10
And thou shalt keep the feast of weeks unto the Lord thy God with a tribute of a freewill offering of thine hand, which thou shalt give unto the Lord thy God, according as the Lord thy God hath blessed thee:

Deut. 16:15
Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

Deut. 16:17
Every man shall give as he is able, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee.

Deut. 21:5
And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:

Deut. 23:5
Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

Deut. 23:20
Unto a stranger thou mayest lend upon usury; but unto thy brother thou shalt not lend upon usury: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all that thou settest thine hand to in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deut. 24:13
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

Deut. 24:19
When thou cuttest down thine harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow: that the Lord thy God may bless thee in all the work of thine hands.

Deut. 26:15
Look down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deut. 27:12
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

Deut. 28:2
And all these blessings shall come on thee, and overtake thee, if thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God.

Deut. 28:3
Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

Deut. 28:4
Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.

Deut. 28:5
Blessed shall be thy basket and thy store.

Deut. 28:6
Blessed shalt thou be when thou comest in, and blessed shalt thou be when thou goest out.

Deut. 28:8
The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Deut. 28:12
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Deut. 29:19
And it come to pass, when he heareth the words of this curse, that he bless himself in his heart, saying, I shall have peace, though I walk in the imagination of mine heart, to add drunkenness to thirst:

Deut. 30:1
And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

Deut. 30:16
In that I command thee this day to love the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to keep his commandments and his statutes and his judgments, that thou mayest live and multiply: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in the land whither thou goest to possess it.

Deut. 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deut. 33:1
And this is the blessing, wherewith Moses the man of God blessed the children of Israel before his death.

Deut. 33:7
And this is the blessing of Judah: and he said, Hear, Lord, the voice of Judah, and bring him unto his people: let his hands be sufficient for him; and be thou an help to him from his enemies.

Deut. 33:11
Bless, Lord, his substance, and accept the work of his hands: smite through the loins of them that rise against him, and of them that hate him, that they rise not again.

Deut. 33:13
And of Joseph he said, Blessed of the Lord be his land, for the precious things of heaven, for the dew, and for the deep that coucheth beneath,

Deut. 33:16
And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

Deut. 33:20
And of Gad he said, Blessed be he that enlargeth Gad: he dwelleth as a lion, and teareth the arm with the crown of the head.

Deut. 33:23
And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south.

Deut. 33:24
And of Asher he said, Let Asher be blessed with children; let him be acceptable to his brethren, and let him dip his foot in oil.