Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'good' occurs 1070 times in the standard works.

405 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'good' in the standard works and contain 37.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 153 minutes to read the entire list.

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Moro. 7:5-28 (26 in 24 verses)

Alma 32:28-39 (13 in 12 verses)

Alma 5:36-42 (9 in 7 verses)

Jacob 5:40-46 (7 in 7 verses)

Jacob 5:42-48 (7 in 7 verses)

Matt. 12:33-35 (6 in 3 verses)

Jer. 24:2-6 (6 in 5 verses)

Alma 41:3-7 (6 in 5 verses)

Josh. 23:11-16 (6 in 6 verses)

Matt. 7:17-19 (5 in 3 verses)

Luke 6:43-45 (5 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 14:17-19 (5 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:32-36 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 29:5 (4 in 1 verse)

Hel. 14:31 (4 in 1 verse)

Matt. 19:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 41:13-14 (4 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:33-34 (4 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:75-77 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 32:39-42 (4 in 4 verses)

Rom. 7:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Rom. 7:18-21 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 52:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:21 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 13:3 (3 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:40 (3 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 3:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 18:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 7:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 13:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 6:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 6:18-19 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Jn. 1:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:65-66 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 41:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 22:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 27:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 119:66-68 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 2:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Lam. 3:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 6:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Tim. 4:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:59-61 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 10:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 6:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 30:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 19:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 10:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 18:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 22:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 20:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 19:13 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 18:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 2:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 38:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 51:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 125:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 5:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 40:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 18:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 40:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 34:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 7:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 8:15 (2 in 1 verse)

John 2:10 (2 in 1 verse)

John 10:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 7:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Gal. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 3:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 5:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Titus 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 3:16 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Omni 1:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 15:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 3:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:31 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 10:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 10:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 127:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 3:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:33 (2 in 1 verse)

A of F 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 13:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 31:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 1:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 19:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 36:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 52:9-53:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 13:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 6:12-7:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 13:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 13:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

John 10:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 16:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 4:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 6:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Thes. 2:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 3:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Pet. 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 17:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 6:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 16:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 26:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 21:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 61:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 98:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:80-81 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 3:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 4:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 5:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 472 103 575
Gen. 45 11 56
Ex. 7 7 14
Lev. 7 1 8
Num. 7 6 13
Deut. 31 4 35
Josh. 14 1 15
Judg. 7 1 8
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 22 4 26
2 Sam. 22 2 24
1 Kgs. 14 3 17
2 Kgs. 10 0 10
1 Chr. 12 1 13
2 Chr. 15 7 22
Ezra 8 4 12
Neh. 11 3 14
Esth. 6 0 6
Job 14 4 18
Ps. 63 20 83
Prov. 43 2 45
Eccl. 25 1 26
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 18 2 20
Jer. 37 6 43
Lam. 4 0 4
Ezek. 9 4 13
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 2 4 6
Joel 0 1 1
Amos 3 0 3
Micah 5 0 5
Nahum 2 0 2
Zeph. 1 1 2
Zech. 2 3 5
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 248 33 281
BM 229 35 264
DC 87 10 97
PGP 34 1 35
TOTAL 1070 182 1252

1 Sam. 1:23
And Elkanah her husband said unto her, Do what seemeth thee good; tarry until thou have weaned him; only the Lord establish his word. So the woman abode, and gave her son suck until she weaned him.

1 Sam. 2:24
Nay, my sons; for it is no good report that I hear: ye make the Lord's people to transgress.

1 Sam. 3:18
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.

1 Sam. 11:10
Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

1 Sam. 12:23
Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

1 Sam. 14:36
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

1 Sam. 14:40
Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

1 Sam. 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Sam. 19:4
And Jonathan spake good of David unto Saul his father, and said unto him, Let not the king sin against his servant, against David; because he hath not sinned against thee, and because his works have been to thee-ward very good:

1 Sam. 20:12
And Jonathan said unto David, O Lord God of Israel, when I have sounded my father about to morrow any time, or the third day, and, behold, if there be good toward David, and I then send not unto thee, and shew it thee;

1 Sam. 24:4
And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul's robe privily.

1 Sam. 24:17
And he said to David, Thou art more righteous than I: for thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

1 Sam. 24:19
For if a man find his enemy, will he let him go well away? wherefore the Lord reward thee good for that thou hast done unto me this day.

1 Sam. 25:3
Now the name of the man was Nabal; and the name of his wife Abigail: and she was a woman of good understanding, and of a beautiful countenance: but the man was churlish and evil in his doings; and he was of the house of Caleb.

1 Sam. 25:8
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

1 Sam. 25:15
But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we any thing, as long as we were conversant with them, when we were in the fields:

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. 25:30
And it shall come to pass, when the Lord shall have done to my lord according to all the good that he hath spoken concerning thee, and shall have appointed thee ruler over Israel;

1 Sam. 26:16
This thing is not good that thou hast done. As the Lord liveth, ye are worthy to die, because ye have not kept your master, the Lord's anointed. And now see where the king's spear is, and the cruse of water that was at his bolster.

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. 29:9
And Achish answered and said to David, I know that thou art good in my sight, as an angel of God: notwithstanding the princes of the Philistines have said, He shall not go up with us to the battle.