Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'transgression' occurs 105 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'transgression' in the standard works and contain 14.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 46:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Micah 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 121:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 45 46 91
Ex. 1 1 2
Lev. 0 2 2
Num. 1 0 1
Josh. 1 1 2
1 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 2 0 2
Job 6 3 9
Ps. 6 8 14
Prov. 9 0 9
Isa. 5 6 11
Jer. 0 1 1
Lam. 0 3 3
Ezek. 1 9 10
Dan. 3 0 3
Amos 1 10 11
Micah 5 1 6
NT 6 2 8
BM 30 14 44
DC 19 8 27
PGP 5 1 6
TOTAL 105 71 176

Isa. 24:20
The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

Isa. 53:8
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

Isa. 57:4
Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and draw out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

Isa. 58:1
Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

Isa. 59:20
And the Redeemer shall come to Zion, and unto them that turn from transgression in Jacob, saith the Lord.