Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'love' occurs 410 times in the standard works.

141 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'love' in the standard works and contain 34.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 55 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Jn. 4:7-5:3 (22 in 18 verses)

Luke 6:32-35 (5 in 4 verses)

John 15:9-13 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 112:11 (4 in 1 verse)

Moro. 8:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Song. 1:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

Rom. 13:8-10 (4 in 3 verses)

Song. 8:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 5:43-46 (4 in 4 verses)

Mark 12:30-33 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 26:31-34 (4 in 4 verses)

Hosea 3:1 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Jacob 3:7 (3 in 1 verse)

John 13:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

John 14:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

John 21:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 3:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 1:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 8:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 12:38 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Titus 2:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 8:26 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 95:1 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 109:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Song. 2:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 12:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 8:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Gal. 5:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 6:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Philip. 2:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 6:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Jn. 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 13:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 59:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 131 186 317
Gen. 3 12 15
Ex. 2 0 2
Lev. 2 3 5
Deut. 16 11 27
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 2 2 4
Ruth 0 1 1
1 Sam. 1 10 11
2 Sam. 4 5 9
1 Kgs. 1 4 5
2 Chr. 1 4 5
Neh. 1 1 2
Esth. 0 1 1
Job 0 1 1
Ps. 23 23 46
Prov. 16 16 32
Eccl. 3 3 6
Song. 26 41 67
Isa. 5 7 12
Jer. 4 11 15
Lam. 0 2 2
Ezek. 4 8 12
Dan. 2 3 5
Hosea 7 13 20
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 2 0 2
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 2 0 2
Mal. 0 4 4
NT 180 148 328
BM 57 118 175
DC 38 16 54
PGP 4 7 11
TOTAL 410 475 885

Song. 1:2
Let him kiss me with the kisses of his mouth: for thy love is better than wine.

Song. 1:3
Because of the savour of thy good ointments thy name is as ointment poured forth, therefore do the virgins love thee.

Song. 1:4
Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Song. 1:7
Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Song. 1:9
I have compared thee, O my love, to a company of horses in Pharaoh's chariots.

Song. 1:13
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

Song. 1:14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song. 1:15
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes.

Song. 1:16
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

Song. 2:2
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.

Song. 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Song. 2:4
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.

Song. 2:5
Stay me with flagons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Song. 2:7
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song. 2:8
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Song. 2:9
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

Song. 2:10
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song. 2:13
The fig tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good smell. Arise, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song. 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song. 2:17
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song. 3:1
By night on my bed I sought him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song. 3:2
I will rise now, and go about the city in the streets, and in the broad ways I will seek him whom my soul loveth: I sought him, but I found him not.

Song. 3:3
The watchmen that go about the city found me: to whom I said, Saw ye him whom my soul loveth?

Song. 3:4
It was but a little that I passed from them, but I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's house, and into the chamber of her that conceived me.

Song. 3:5
I charge you, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes, and by the hinds of the field, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, till he please.

Song. 3:10
He made the pillars thereof of silver, the bottom thereof of gold, the covering of it of purple, the midst thereof being paved with love, for the daughters of Jerusalem.

Song. 4:1
Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount Gilead.

Song. 4:7
Thou art all fair, my love; there is no spot in thee.

Song. 4:10
How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

Song. 4:16
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Song. 5:1
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Song. 5:2
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Song. 5:4
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

Song. 5:5
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

Song. 5:6
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Song. 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

Song. 5:9
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

Song. 5:10
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

Song. 5:16
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song. 6:1
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

Song. 6:2
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song. 6:3
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song. 6:4
Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

Song. 7:6
How fair and how pleasant art thou, O love, for delights!

Song. 7:9
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Song. 7:10
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

Song. 7:11
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

Song. 7:12
Let us get up early to the vineyards; let us see if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: there will I give thee my loves.

Song. 7:13
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Song. 8:4
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

Song. 8:5
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

Song. 8:6
Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.

Song. 8:7
Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it: if a man would give all the substance of his house for love, it would utterly be contemned.

Song. 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.