Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'surely' occurs 352 times in the standard works.

55 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'surely' in the standard works and contain 15.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 20:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 33:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 44:25 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 21:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 35:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 31:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 39:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 49:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Micah 2:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 97:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 50:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 19:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 23:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 31:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 20:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 24:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 22:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 19:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 5:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 277 0 277
Gen. 20 0 20
Ex. 28 0 28
Lev. 12 0 12
Num. 15 0 15
Deut. 12 0 12
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 8 0 8
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 16 0 16
2 Sam. 9 0 9
1 Kgs. 10 0 10
2 Kgs. 12 0 12
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 14 0 14
Ps. 17 0 17
Prov. 7 0 7
Eccl. 4 0 4
Isa. 19 0 19
Jer. 34 0 34
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 24 0 24
Hosea 2 0 2
Amos 5 0 5
Micah 2 0 2
Hab. 1 0 1
Zeph. 2 0 2
NT 7 0 7
BM 50 0 50
DC 8 0 8
PGP 10 0 10
TOTAL 352 0 352

1 Sam. 9:6
And he said unto him, Behold now, there is in this city a man of God, and he is an honourable man; all that he saith cometh surely to pass: now let us go thither; peradventure he can shew us our way that we should go.

1 Sam. 14:39
For, as the Lord liveth, which saveth Israel, though it be in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die. But there was not a man among all the people that answered him.

1 Sam. 14:44
And Saul answered, God do so and more also: for thou shalt surely die, Jonathan.

1 Sam. 15:32
Then said Samuel, Bring ye hither to me Agag the king of the Amalekites. And Agag came unto him delicately. And Agag said, Surely the bitterness of death is past.

1 Sam. 16:6
And it came to pass, when they were come, that he looked on Eliab, and said, Surely the Lord's anointed is before him.

1 Sam. 17:25
And the men of Israel said, Have ye seen this man that is come up? surely to defy Israel is he come up: and it shall be, that the man who killeth him, the king will enrich him with great riches, and will give him his daughter, and make his father's house free in Israel.

1 Sam. 20:26
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

1 Sam. 20:31
For as long as the son of Jesse liveth upon the ground, thou shalt not be established, nor thy kingdom. Wherefore now send and fetch him unto me, for he shall surely die.

1 Sam. 22:16
And the king said, Thou shalt surely die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

1 Sam. 22:22
And David said unto Abiathar, I knew it that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father's house.

1 Sam. 24:20
And now, behold, I know well that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thine hand.

1 Sam. 25:21
Now David had said, Surely in vain have I kept all that this fellow hath in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him: and he hath requited me evil for good.

1 Sam. 25:34
For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

1 Sam. 28:2
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.

1 Sam. 29:6
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the Lord liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

1 Sam. 30:8
And David inquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.