Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'stranger' occurs 134 times in the standard works.

33 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'stranger' in the standard works and contain 24.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 14 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 15:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Lev. 25:47 (3 in 1 verse)

Deut. 24:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 26:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 23:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 9:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 12:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 22:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 10:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 6:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 123 65 188
NT 8 15 23
BM 3 4 7
2 Ne. 0 3 3
Mosiah 2 0 2
Alma 0 1 1
3 Ne. 1 0 1
DC 0 3 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 134 87 221

2 Ne. 12:6
Therefore, O Lord, thou hast forsaken thy people, the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and hearken unto soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

2 Ne. 15:17
Then shall the lambs feed after their manner, and the waste places of the fat ones shall strangers eat.

2 Ne. 24:1
For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will yet choose Israel, and set them in their own land; and the strangers shall be joined with them, and they shall cleave to the house of Jacob.

Mosiah 5:13
For how knoweth a man the master whom he has not served, and who is a stranger unto him, and is far from the thoughts and intents of his heart?

Mosiah 13:18
But the seventh day, the sabbath of the Lord thy God, thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates;

Alma 26:9
For if we had not come up out of the land of Zarahemla, these our dearly beloved brethren, who have so dearly beloved us, would still have been racked with hatred against us, yea, and they would also have been strangers to God.

3 Ne. 24:5
And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger, and fear not me, saith the Lord of Hosts.