Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'just' occurs 186 times in the standard works.

30 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'just' in the standard works and contain 16.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 19:36 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 45:10 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 25:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 26:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 41:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:72-73 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 129:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 59 61 120
NT 35 58 93
Matt. 5 3 8
Mark 1 0 1
Luke 6 11 17
John 1 0 1
Acts 5 5 10
Rom. 5 17 22
1 Cor. 0 3 3
Gal. 1 8 9
Philip. 1 0 1
Col. 1 1 2
1 Thes. 0 1 1
1 Tim. 0 1 1
Titus 1 1 2
Heb. 3 0 3
James 1 3 4
1 Pet. 1 1 2
2 Pet. 1 1 2
1 Jn. 1 0 1
Rev. 1 2 3
BM 57 85 142
DC 29 43 72
PGP 6 5 11
TOTAL 186 252 438

Matt. 5:45
That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

Matt. 11:19
The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

Matt. 12:37
For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

Luke 7:29
And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

Luke 7:35
But wisdom is justified of all her children.

Luke 10:29
But he, willing to justify himself, said unto Jesus, And who is my neighbour?

Luke 16:8
And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

Luke 16:10
He that is faithful in that which is least is faithful also in much: and he that is unjust in the least is unjust also in much.

Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Luke 18:6
And the Lord said, Hear what the unjust judge saith.

Luke 18:11
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

Luke 18:14
I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.

Luke 23:41
And we indeed justly; for we receive the due reward of our deeds: but this man hath done nothing amiss.

Acts 1:23
And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

Acts 13:39
And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

Acts 18:7
And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man's house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

Acts 24:15
And have hope toward God, which they themselves also allow, that there shall be a resurrection of the dead, both of the just and unjust.

Rom. 2:13
(For not the hearers of the law are just before God, but the doers of the law shall be justified.

Rom. 3:4
God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

Rom. 3:20
Therefore by the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified in his sight: for by the law is the knowledge of sin.

Rom. 3:24
Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

Rom. 3:26
To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

Rom. 3:28
Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

Rom. 3:30
Seeing it is one God, which shall justify the circumcision by faith, and uncircumcision through faith.

Rom. 4:2
For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.

Rom. 4:5
But to him that worketh not, but believeth on him that justifieth the ungodly, his faith is counted for righteousness.

Rom. 4:25
Who was delivered for our offences, and was raised again for our justification.

Rom. 5:1
Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ:

Rom. 5:9
Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we shall be saved from wrath through him.

Rom. 5:16
And not as it was by one that sinned, so is the gift: for the judgment was by one to condemnation, but the free gift is of many offences unto justification.

Rom. 5:18
Therefore as by the offence of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation; even so by the righteousness of one the free gift came upon all men unto justification of life.

Rom. 8:30
Moreover whom he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Rom. 8:33
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that justifieth.

1 Cor. 4:4
For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

1 Cor. 6:1
Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

1 Cor. 6:11
And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

Gal. 2:16
Knowing that a man is not justified by the works of the law, but by the faith of Jesus Christ, even we have believed in Jesus Christ, that we might be justified by the faith of Christ, and not by the works of the law: for by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified.

Gal. 2:17
But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

Gal. 3:8
And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

Gal. 3:11
But that no man is justified by the law in the sight of God, it is evident: for, The just shall live by faith.

Gal. 3:24
Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

Gal. 5:4
Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

Col. 4:11
And Jesus, which is called Justus, who are of the circumcision. These only are my fellowworkers unto the kingdom of God, which have been a comfort unto me.

1 Thes. 2:10
Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

1 Tim. 3:16
And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifest in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up into glory.

Titus 3:7
That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

James 2:21
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he had offered Isaac his son upon the altar?

James 2:24
Ye see then how that by works a man is justified, and not by faith only.

James 2:25
Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

1 Pet. 3:18
For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

2 Pet. 2:9
The Lord knoweth how to deliver the godly out of temptations, and to reserve the unjust unto the day of judgment to be punished:

Rev. 22:11
He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.