Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'right' occurs 482 times in the standard works.

132 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'right' in the standard works and contain 27.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 50 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 8:23-26 (8 in 4 verses)

Lev. 14:14-17 (7 in 4 verses)

Lev. 14:25-28 (7 in 4 verses)

D&C 134:7-12 (6 in 6 verses)

Ex. 29:20-22 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 107:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 9:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 144:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 48:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 118:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 1:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 4:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 68:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 13:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 7:39 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 22:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 34:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 11:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 7:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 56:40 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 24:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 48:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 42:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 16:11-17:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 109:31-110:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 2:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)


Ezek. 47:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

 47:1 Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

 47:2 Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.




Matt. 5:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 25:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 2:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 7:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 1:20-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 26:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 134:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:56-57 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 293 583 876
Gen. 10 20 30
Ex. 11 5 16
Lev. 25 16 41
Num. 4 1 5
Deut. 14 13 27
Josh. 5 0 5
Judg. 8 2 10
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 3 4 7
2 Sam. 9 7 16
1 Kgs. 13 7 20
2 Kgs. 14 1 15
1 Chr. 3 5 8
2 Chr. 19 6 25
Ezra 1 1 2
Neh. 5 1 6
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 12 36 48
Ps. 55 173 228
Prov. 19 101 120
Eccl. 2 9 11
Song. 2 2 4
Isa. 14 76 90
Jer. 10 17 27
Lam. 3 1 4
Ezek. 17 41 58
Dan. 1 13 14
Hosea 1 3 4
Amos 2 6 8
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 0 5 5
Nahum 0 1 1
Hab. 1 4 5
Zeph. 0 1 1
Zech. 6 2 8
Mal. 1 3 4
NT 66 182 248
BM 52 281 333
DC 55 100 155
PGP 16 24 40
TOTAL 482 1170 1652

Ezek. 1:4
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.

Ezek. 1:10
As for the likeness of their faces, they four had the face of a man, and the face of a lion, on the right side: and they four had the face of an ox on the left side; they four also had the face of an eagle.

Ezek. 1:13
As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.

Ezek. 1:27
And I saw as the colour of amber, as the appearance of fire round about within it, from the appearance of his loins even upward, and from the appearance of his loins even downward, I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and it had brightness round about.

Ezek. 1:28
As the appearance of the bow that is in the cloud in the day of rain, so was the appearance of the brightness round about. This was the appearance of the likeness of the glory of the Lord. And when I saw it, I fell upon my face, and I heard a voice of one that spake.

Ezek. 3:20
Again, When a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

Ezek. 3:21
Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

Ezek. 4:6
And when thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.

Ezek. 8:2
Then I beheld, and lo a likeness as the appearance of fire: from the appearance of his loins even downward, fire; and from his loins even upward, as the appearance of brightness, as the colour of amber.

Ezek. 10:3
Now the cherubims stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Ezek. 10:4
Then the glory of the Lord went up from the cherub, and stood over the threshold of the house; and the house was filled with the cloud, and the court was full of the brightness of the Lord's glory.

Ezek. 13:22
Because with lies ye have made the heart of the righteous sad, whom I have not made sad; and strengthened the hands of the wicked, that he should not return from his wicked way, by promising him life:

Ezek. 14:14
Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 14:20
Though Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, as I live, saith the Lord God, they shall deliver neither son nor daughter; they shall but deliver their own souls by their righteousness.

Ezek. 16:46
And thine elder sister is Samaria, she and her daughters that dwell at thy left hand: and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

Ezek. 16:52
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Ezek. 18:5
But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

Ezek. 18:19
Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

Ezek. 18:20
The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

Ezek. 18:21
But if the wicked will turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

Ezek. 18:22
All his transgressions that he hath committed, they shall not be mentioned unto him: in his righteousness that he hath done he shall live.

Ezek. 18:24
But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? All his righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

Ezek. 18:26
When a righteous man turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and dieth in them; for his iniquity that he hath done shall he die.

Ezek. 18:27
Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Ezek. 21:3
And say to the land of Israel, Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I am against thee, and will draw forth my sword out of his sheath, and will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked.

Ezek. 21:4
Seeing then that I will cut off from thee the righteous and the wicked, therefore shall my sword go forth out of his sheath against all flesh from the south to the north:

Ezek. 21:15
I have set the point of the sword against all their gates, that their heart may faint, and their ruins be multiplied: ah! it is made bright, it is wrapped up for the slaughter.

Ezek. 21:16
Go thee one way or other, either on the right hand, or on the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

Ezek. 21:21
For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

Ezek. 21:22
At his right hand was the divination for Jerusalem, to appoint captains, to open the mouth in the slaughter, to lift up the voice with shouting, to appoint battering rams against the gates, to cast a mount, and to build a fort.

Ezek. 21:27
I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

Ezek. 23:45
And the righteous men, they shall judge them after the manner of adulteresses, and after the manner of women that shed blood; because they are adulteresses, and blood is in their hands.

Ezek. 27:19
Dan also and Javan going to and fro occupied in thy fairs: bright iron, cassia, and calamus, were in thy market.

Ezek. 28:7
Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

Ezek. 28:17
Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.

Ezek. 32:8
All the bright lights of heaven will I make dark over thee, and set darkness upon thy land, saith the Lord God.

Ezek. 33:12
Therefore, thou son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression: as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live for his righteousness in the day that he sinneth.

Ezek. 33:13
When I shall say to the righteous, that he shall surely live; if he trust to his own righteousness, and commit iniquity, all his righteousnesses shall not be remembered; but for his iniquity that he hath committed, he shall die for it.

Ezek. 33:14
Again, when I say unto the wicked, Thou shalt surely die; if he turn from his sin, and do that which is lawful and right;

Ezek. 33:16
None of his sins that he hath committed shall be mentioned unto him: he hath done that which is lawful and right; he shall surely live.

Ezek. 33:18
When the righteous turneth from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, he shall even die thereby.

Ezek. 33:19
But if the wicked turn from his wickedness, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall live thereby.

Ezek. 39:3
And I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand, and will cause thine arrows to fall out of thy right hand.

Ezek. 47:1
Afterward he brought me again unto the door of the house; and, behold, waters issued out from under the threshold of the house eastward: for the forefront of the house stood toward the east, and the waters came down from under from the right side of the house, at the south side of the altar.

Ezek. 47:2
Then brought he me out of the way of the gate northward, and led me about the way without unto the utter gate by the way that looketh eastward; and, behold, there ran out waters on the right side.