Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'see' occurs 839 times in the standard works.

213 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'see' in the standard works and contain 25.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 84 minutes to read the entire list.

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John 16:16-22 (7 in 7 verses)

Matt. 13:13-17 (6 in 5 verses)

Alma 44:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

Luke 10:23-24 (4 in 2 verses)

Luke 17:22-23 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 38:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

John 9:39-41 (4 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 15:29-16:1 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 12:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 23:13 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 24:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:29 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 13:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 28:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 18:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:54-55 (3 in 2 verses)

Song. 6:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 11:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 7:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Rev. 6:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 46:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 3:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 6:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 12:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 33:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 20:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 14:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 26:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 2:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 30:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 24:39 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 3:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 24:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:60 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 37:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 17:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 9:24 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:49 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:119 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 129:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 130:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 131:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 48:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 3:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 10:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)


Deut. 1:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

 1:35 Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

 1:36 Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.




Deut. 28:67-68 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 23:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 7:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 9:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 19:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 128:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 6:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 33:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 53:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 60:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 1:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 12:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 14:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 28:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:54-55 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 19:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:50-51 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 16:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 14:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 42:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 47:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 38:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 130:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 389 902 1291
Gen. 30 91 121
Ex. 27 32 59
Lev. 9 30 39
Num. 15 23 38
Deut. 20 44 64
Josh. 5 7 12
Judg. 4 17 21
Ruth 0 4 4
1 Sam. 25 51 76
2 Sam. 13 27 40
1 Kgs. 7 23 30
2 Kgs. 20 18 38
1 Chr. 0 21 21
2 Chr. 10 38 48
Ezra 1 12 13
Neh. 3 13 16
Esth. 4 10 14
Job 27 41 68
Ps. 45 82 127
Prov. 2 36 38
Eccl. 6 24 30
Song. 5 2 7
Isa. 38 73 111
Jer. 30 73 103
Lam. 2 10 12
Ezek. 19 36 55
Dan. 4 14 18
Hosea 0 9 9
Joel 1 1 2
Amos 1 12 13
Jonah 1 3 4
Micah 3 1 4
Nahum 0 3 3
Hab. 2 0 2
Zeph. 1 3 4
Hag. 1 1 2
Zech. 7 11 18
Mal. 1 6 7
NT 208 475 683
BM 155 457 612
DC 66 156 222
PGP 21 69 90
TOTAL 839 2059 2898

Deut. 1:8
Behold, I have set the land before you: go in and possess the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, to give unto them and to their seed after them.

Deut. 1:28
Whither shall we go up? our brethren have discouraged our heart, saying, The people is greater and taller than we; the cities are great and walled up to heaven; and moreover we have seen the sons of the Anakims there.

Deut. 1:31
And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

Deut. 1:35
Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

Deut. 1:36
Save Caleb the son of Jephunneh; he shall see it, and to him will I give the land that he hath trodden upon, and to his children, because he hath wholly followed the Lord.

Deut. 3:21
And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that the Lord your God hath done unto these two kings: so shall the Lord do unto all the kingdoms whither thou passest.

Deut. 3:25
I pray thee, let me go over, and see the good land that is beyond Jordan, that goodly mountain, and Lebanon.

Deut. 3:28
But charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.

Deut. 4:3
Your eyes have seen what the Lord did because of Baal-peor: for all the men that followed Baal-peor, the Lord thy God hath destroyed them from among you.

Deut. 4:9
Only take heed to thyself, and keep thy soul diligently, lest thou forget the things which thine eyes have seen, and lest they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life: but teach them thy sons, and thy sons' sons;

Deut. 4:19
And lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun, and the moon, and the stars, even all the host of heaven, shouldest be driven to worship them, and serve them, which the Lord thy God hath divided unto all nations under the whole heaven.

Deut. 4:28
And there ye shall serve gods, the work of men's hands, wood and stone, which neither see, nor hear, nor eat, nor smell.

Deut. 4:29
But if from thence thou shalt seek the Lord thy God, thou shalt find him, if thou seek him with all thy heart and with all thy soul.

Deut. 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Deut. 5:24
And ye said, Behold, the Lord our God hath shewed us his glory and his greatness, and we have heard his voice out of the midst of the fire: we have seen this day that God doth talk with man, and he liveth.

Deut. 9:13
Furthermore the Lord spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

Deut. 10:15
Only the Lord had a delight in thy fathers to love them, and he chose their seed after them, even you above all people, as it is this day.

Deut. 10:21
He is thy praise, and he is thy God, that hath done for thee these great and terrible things, which thine eyes have seen.

Deut. 11:2
And know ye this day: for I speak not with your children which have not known, and which have not seen the chastisement of the Lord your God, his greatness, his mighty hand, and his stretched out arm,

Deut. 11:7
But your eyes have seen all the great acts of the Lord which he did.

Deut. 11:9
And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

Deut. 11:10
For the land, whither thou goest in to possess it, is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out, where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot, as a garden of herbs:

Deut. 12:5
But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

Deut. 12:13
Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

Deut. 14:21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deut. 14:22
Thou shalt truly tithe all the increase of thy seed, that the field bringeth forth year by year.

Deut. 15:18
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Deut. 16:4
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

Deut. 18:16
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Deut. 20:1
When thou goest out to battle against thine enemies, and seest horses, and chariots, and a people more than thou, be not afraid of them: for the Lord thy God is with thee, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Deut. 21:7
And they shall answer and say, Our hands have not shed this blood, neither have our eyes seen it.

Deut. 21:11
And seest among the captives a beautiful woman, and hast a desire unto her, that thou wouldest have her to thy wife;

Deut. 22:1
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

Deut. 22:2
And if thy brother be not nigh unto thee, or if thou know him not, then thou shalt bring it unto thine own house, and it shall be with thee until thy brother seek after it, and thou shalt restore it to him again.

Deut. 22:4
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ass or his ox fall down by the way, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt surely help him to lift them up again.

Deut. 22:9
Thou shalt not sow thy vineyard with divers seeds: lest the fruit of thy seed which thou hast sown, and the fruit of thy vineyard, be defiled.

Deut. 23:6
Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Deut. 23:14
For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

Deut. 25:3
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Deut. 28:10
And all people of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of the Lord; and they shall be afraid of thee.

Deut. 28:34
So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Deut. 28:38
Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in; for the locust shall consume it.

Deut. 28:46
And they shall be upon thee for a sign and for a wonder, and upon thy seed for ever.

Deut. 28:59
Then the Lord will make thy plagues wonderful, and the plagues of thy seed, even great plagues, and of long continuance, and sore sicknesses, and of long continuance.

Deut. 28:67
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

Deut. 28:68
And the Lord shall bring thee into Egypt again with ships, by the way whereof I spake unto thee, Thou shalt see it no more again: and there ye shall be sold unto your enemies for bondmen and bondwomen, and no man shall buy you.

Deut. 29:2
And Moses called unto all Israel, and said unto them, Ye have seen all that the Lord did before your eyes in the land of Egypt unto Pharaoh, and unto all his servants, and unto all his land;

Deut. 29:3
The great temptations which thine eyes have seen, the signs, and those great miracles:

Deut. 29:4
Yet the Lord hath not given you an heart to perceive, and eyes to see, and ears to hear, unto this day.

Deut. 29:17
And ye have seen their abominations, and their idols, wood and stone, silver and gold, which were among them:)

Deut. 29:22
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall come from a far land, shall say, when they see the plagues of that land, and the sicknesses which the Lord hath laid upon it;

Deut. 30:6
And the Lord thy God will circumcise thine heart, and the heart of thy seed, to love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, that thou mayest live.

Deut. 30:15
See, I have set before thee this day life and good, and death and evil;

Deut. 30:19
I call heaven and earth to record this day against you, that I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing: therefore choose life, that both thou and thy seed may live:

Deut. 31:21
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

Deut. 32:20
And he said, I will hide my face from them, I will see what their end shall be: for they are a very froward generation, children in whom is no faith.

Deut. 32:36
For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

Deut. 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.

Deut. 32:52
Yet thou shalt see the land before thee; but thou shalt not go thither unto the land which I give the children of Israel.

Deut. 33:9
Who said unto his father and to his mother, I have not seen him; neither did he acknowledge his brethren, nor knew his own children: for they have observed thy word, and kept thy covenant.

Deut. 34:4
And the Lord said unto him, This is the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob, saying, I will give it unto thy seed: I have caused thee to see it with thine eyes, but thou shalt not go over thither.