Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'laws' occurs 107 times in the standard works.

49 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'laws' in the standard works and contain 45.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 134:1-11 (14 in 11 verses)

D&C 58:18-23 (6 in 6 verses)

Mosiah 29:22-25 (5 in 4 verses)

Hel. 6:23-24 (4 in 2 verses)

Esth. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 4:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:2 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 38:22 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:79 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 9:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 44:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 18 3 21
Gen. 1 0 1
Ex. 3 0 3
Lev. 1 0 1
Deut. 0 1 1
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 3 0 3
Ps. 1 0 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Ezek. 3 0 3
Dan. 2 1 3
Zech. 0 1 1
NT 2 0 2
BM 28 0 28
DC 58 0 58
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 107 3 110

Gen. 26:5
Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Ex. 16:28
And the Lord said unto Moses, How long refuse ye to keep my commandments and my laws?

Ex. 18:16
When they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between one and another, and I do make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

Ex. 18:20
And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

Lev. 26:46
These are the statutes and judgments and laws, which the Lord made between him and the children of Israel in mount Sinai by the hand of Moses.

Ezra 7:25
And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

Neh. 9:13
Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

Neh. 9:14
And madest known unto them thy holy sabbath, and commandedst them precepts, statutes, and laws, by the hand of Moses thy servant:

Esth. 1:19
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Esth. 3:8
And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king's laws: therefore it is not for the king's profit to suffer them.

Ps. 105:45
That they might observe his statutes, and keep his laws. Praise ye the Lord.

Isa. 24:5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Ezek. 43:11
And if they be ashamed of all that they have done, shew them the form of the house, and the fashion thereof, and the goings out thereof, and the comings in thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and all the forms thereof, and all the laws thereof: and write it in their sight, that they may keep the whole form thereof, and all the ordinances thereof, and do them.

Ezek. 44:5
And the Lord said unto me, Son of man, mark well, and behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears all that I say unto thee concerning all the ordinances of the house of the Lord, and all the laws thereof; and mark well the entering in of the house, with every going forth of the sanctuary.

Ezek. 44:24
And in controversy they shall stand in judgment; and they shall judge it according to my judgments: and they shall keep my laws and my statutes in all mine assemblies; and they shall hallow my sabbaths.

Dan. 7:25
And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time.

Dan. 9:10
Neither have we obeyed the voice of the Lord our God, to walk in his laws, which he set before us by his servants the prophets.