Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'loveth' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

27 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'loveth' in the standard works and contain 36.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Jn. 4:20-5:1 (4 in 3 verses)

Song. 3:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Prov. 17:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 21:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 5:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:37 (2 in 1 verse)

John 14:21 (2 in 1 verse)


Eph. 5:28 (2 in 1 verse)

 5:28 So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.




Alma 24:14 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 4:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 38 0 38
NT 27 0 27
BM 6 0 6
DC 3 0 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 74 0 74

Gen. 27:9
Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savoury meat for thy father, such as he loveth:

Gen. 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

Deut. 10:18
He doth execute the judgment of the fatherless and widow, and loveth the stranger, in giving him food and raiment.

Deut. 15:16
And it shall be, if he say unto thee, I will not go away from thee; because he loveth thee and thine house, because he is well with thee;

Ruth 4:15
And he shall be unto thee a restorer of thy life, and a nourisher of thine old age: for thy daughter in law, which loveth thee, which is better to thee than seven sons, hath born him.

Ps. 11:5
The Lord trieth the righteous: but the wicked and him that loveth violence his soul hateth.

Ps. 11:7
For the righteous Lord loveth righteousness; his countenance doth behold the upright.

Ps. 33:5
He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the Lord.

Ps. 34:12
What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good?

Ps. 37:28
For the Lord loveth judgment, and forsaketh not his saints; they are preserved for ever: but the seed of the wicked shall be cut off.

Ps. 87:2
The Lord loveth the gates of Zion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

Ps. 99:4
The king's strength also loveth judgment; thou dost establish equity, thou executest judgment and righteousness in Jacob.

Ps. 119:140
Thy word is very pure: therefore thy servant loveth it.

Ps. 146:8
The Lord openeth the eyes of the blind: the Lord raiseth them that are bowed down: the Lord loveth the righteous:

Prov. 3:12
For whom the Lord loveth he correcteth; even as a father the son in whom he delighteth.

Prov. 12:1
Whoso loveth instruction loveth knowledge: but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

Prov. 13:24
He that spareth his rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him chasteneth him betimes.

Prov. 15:9
The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

Prov. 15:12
A scorner loveth not one that reproveth him: neither will he go unto the wise.

Prov. 17:17
A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

Prov. 17:19
He loveth transgression that loveth strife: and he that exalteth his gate seeketh destruction.

Prov. 19:8
He that getteth wisdom loveth his own soul: he that keepeth understanding shall find good.

Prov. 21:17
He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: he that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

Prov. 22:11
He that loveth pureness of heart, for the grace of his lips the king shall be his friend.

Prov. 29:3
Whoso loveth wisdom rejoiceth his father: but he that keepeth company with harlots spendeth his substance.

Eccl. 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.

Song. 1:7
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Song. 3:1
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song. 3:2
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song. 3:3
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

Song. 3:4
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Isa. 1:23
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.

Hosea 10:11
And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

Hosea 12:7
He is a merchant, the balances of deceit are in his hand: he loveth to oppress.

Matt. 10:37
He that loveth father or mother more than me is not worthy of me: and he that loveth son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.

Luke 7:5
For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

Luke 7:47
Wherefore I say unto thee, Her sins, which are many, are forgiven; for she loved much: but to whom little is forgiven, the same loveth little.

John 3:35
The Father loveth the Son, and hath given all things into his hand.

John 5:20
For the Father loveth the Son, and sheweth him all things that himself doeth: and he will shew him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.

John 12:25
He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.

John 14:21
He that hath my commandments, and keepeth them, he it is that loveth me: and he that loveth me shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him.

John 14:24
He that loveth me not keepeth not my sayings: and the word which ye hear is not mine, but the Father's which sent me.

John 16:27
For the Father himself loveth you, because ye have loved me, and have believed that I came out from God.

Rom. 13:8
Owe no man any thing, but to love one another: for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law.

2 Cor. 9:7
Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Eph. 5:28
So ought men to love their wives as their own bodies. He that loveth his wife loveth himself.

Heb. 12:6
For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth.

1 Jn. 2:10
He that loveth his brother abideth in the light, and there is none occasion of stumbling in him.

1 Jn. 3:10
In this the children of God are manifest, and the children of the devil: whosoever doeth not righteousness is not of God, neither he that loveth not his brother.

1 Jn. 3:14
We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

1 Jn. 4:7
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.

1 Jn. 4:8
He that loveth not knoweth not God; for God is love.

1 Jn. 4:20
If a man say, I love God, and hateth his brother, he is a liar: for he that loveth not his brother whom he hath seen, how can he love God whom he hath not seen?

1 Jn. 4:21
And this commandment have we from him, That he who loveth God love his brother also.

1 Jn. 5:1
Whosoever believeth that Jesus is the Christ is born of God: and every one that loveth him that begat loveth him also that is begotten of him.

3 Jn. 1:9
I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

Rev. 22:15
For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.

1 Ne. 11:17
And I said unto him: I know that he loveth his children; nevertheless, I do not know the meaning of all things.

1 Ne. 17:40
And he loveth those who will have him to be their God. Behold, he loved our fathers, and he covenanted with them, yea, even Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; and he remembered the covenants which he had made; wherefore, he did bring them out of the land of Egypt.

2 Ne. 26:24
He doeth not anything save it be for the benefit of the world; for he loveth the world, even that he layeth down his own life that he may draw all men unto him. Wherefore, he commandeth none that they shall not partake of his salvation.

Alma 24:14
And the great God has had mercy on us, and made these things known unto us that we might not perish; yea, and he has made these things known unto us beforehand, because he loveth our souls as well as he loveth our children; therefore, in his mercy he doth visit us by his angels, that the plan of salvation might be made known unto us as well as unto future generations.

Hel. 15:3
Yea, wo unto this people who are called the people of Nephi except they shall repent, when they shall see all these signs and wonders which shall be showed unto them; for behold, they have been a chosen people of the Lord; yea, the people of Nephi hath he loved, and also hath he chastened them; yea, in the days of their iniquities hath he chastened them because he loveth them.

D&C 63:17
Wherefore, I, the Lord, have said that the fearful, and the unbelieving, and all liars, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie, and the whoremonger, and the sorcerer, shall have their part in that lake which burneth with fire and brimstone, which is the second death.

D&C 88:40
For intelligence cleaveth unto intelligence; wisdom receiveth wisdom; truth embraceth truth; virtue loveth virtue; light cleaveth unto light; mercy hath compassion on mercy and claimeth her own; justice continueth its course and claimeth its own; judgment goeth before the face of him who sitteth upon the throne and governeth and executeth all things.

D&C 124:15
And again, verily I say unto you, blessed is my servant Hyrum Smith; for I, the Lord, love him because of the integrity of his heart, and because he loveth that which is right before me, saith the Lord.