Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'married' occurs 37 times in the standard works.

14 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'married' in the standard works and contain 37.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rom. 7:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:57-58 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)


Num. 36:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

 36:11 For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

 36:12 And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.




1 Cor. 7:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:76-77 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 18 0 18
NT 12 4 16
BM 2 0 2
DC 2 0 2
PGP 3 0 3
TOTAL 37 4 41

Gen. 19:14
And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the Lord will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law.

Ex. 21:3
If he came in by himself, he shall go out by himself: if he were married, then his wife shall go out with him.

Lev. 22:12
If the priest's daughter also be married unto a stranger, she may not eat of an offering of the holy things.

Num. 12:1
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

Num. 36:3
And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.

Num. 36:11
For Mahlah, Tirzah, and Hoglah, and Milcah, and Noah, the daughters of Zelophehad, were married unto their father's brothers' sons:

Num. 36:12
And they were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph, and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

Deut. 22:22
If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

Deut. 24:1
When a man hath taken a wife, and married her, and it come to pass that she find no favour in his eyes, because he hath found some uncleanness in her: then let him write her a bill of divorcement, and give it in her hand, and send her out of his house.

1 Chr. 2:21
And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

2 Chr. 13:21
But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

Neh. 13:23
In those days also saw I Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, and of Moab:

Prov. 30:23
For an odious woman when she is married; and an handmaid that is heir to her mistress.

Isa. 54:1
Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

Isa. 62:4
Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi-bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

Jer. 3:14
Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you: and I will take you one of a city, and two of a family, and I will bring you to Zion:

Mal. 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

Matt. 22:25
Now there were with us seven brethren: and the first, when he had married a wife, deceased, and, having no issue, left his wife unto his brother:

Mark 6:17
For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias' sake, his brother Philip's wife: for he had married her.

Mark 10:12
And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

Luke 14:20
And another said, I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.

Luke 17:27
They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

Rom. 7:3
So then if, while her husband liveth, she be married to another man, she shall be called an adulteress: but if her husband be dead, she is free from that law; so that she is no adulteress, though she be married to another man.

Rom. 7:4
Wherefore, my brethren, ye also are become dead to the law by the body of Christ; that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead, that we should bring forth fruit unto God.

1 Cor. 7:8
I say therefore to the unmarried and widows, It is good for them if they abide even as I.

1 Cor. 7:10
And unto the married I command, yet not I, but the Lord, Let not the wife depart from her husband:

1 Cor. 7:11
But and if she depart, let her remain unmarried, or be reconciled to her husband: and let not the husband put away his wife.

1 Cor. 7:32
But I would have you without carefulness. He that is unmarried careth for the things that belong to the Lord, how he may please the Lord:

1 Cor. 7:33
But he that is married careth for the things that are of the world, how he may please his wife.

1 Cor. 7:34
There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

1 Cor. 7:39
The wife is bound by the law as long as her husband liveth; but if her husband be dead, she is at liberty to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

3 Ne. 22:1
And then shall that which is written come to pass: Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child; for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the Lord.

4 Ne. 1:11
And they were married, and given in marriage, and were blessed according to the multitude of the promises which the Lord had made unto them.

D&C 42:76
And again, I say unto you, that ye shall be watchful and careful, with all inquiry, that ye receive none such among you if they are married;

D&C 42:77
And if they are not married, they shall repent of all their sins or ye shall not receive them.

JS-H 1:57
During the time that I was thus employed, I was put to board with a Mr. Isaac Hale, of that place; it was there I first saw my wife (his daughter), Emma Hale. On the 18th of January, 1827, we were married, while I was yet employed in the service of Mr. Stoal.

JS-H 1:58
Owing to my continuing to assert that I had seen a vision, persecution still followed me, and my wife's father's family were very much opposed to our being married. I was, therefore, under the necessity of taking her elsewhere; so we went and were married at the house of Squire Tarbill, in South Bainbridge, Chenango county, New York. Immediately after my marriage, I left Mr. Stoal's, and went to my father's, and farmed with him that season.