Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'not' occurs 9863 times in the standard works.

6753 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'not' in the standard works and contain 68.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3013 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 18:3-30 (28 in 28 verses)

Alma 5:52-7:8 (27 in 27 verses)

Rom. 12:19-14:6 (24 in 23 verses)

Lev. 19:7-29 (23 in 23 verses)

Lev. 19:9-31 (23 in 23 verses)


1 Cor. 5:6-6:13 (21 in 21 verses)

 5:6 Your glorying is not good. Know ye not that a little leaven leaveneth the whole lump?

 5:7 Purge out therefore the old leaven, that ye may be a new lump, as ye are unleavened. For even Christ our passover is sacrificed for us:

 5:8 Therefore let us keep the feast, not with old leaven, neither with the leaven of malice and wickedness; but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

 5:9 I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

 5:10 Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

 5:11 But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

 5:12 For what have I to do to judge them also that are without? do not ye judge them that are within?

 5:13 But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

 6:1 Dare any of you, having a matter against another, go to law before the unjust, and not before the saints?

 6:2 Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

 6:3 Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more things that pertain to this life?

 6:4 If then ye have judgments of things pertaining to this life, set them to judge who are least esteemed in the church.

 6:5 I speak to your shame. Is it so, that there is not a wise man among you? no, not one that shall be able to judge between his brethren?

 6:6 But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

 6:7 Now therefore there is utterly a fault among you, because ye go to law one with another. Why do ye not rather take wrong? why do ye not rather suffer yourselves to be defrauded?

 6:8 Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

 6:9 Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind,

 6:10 Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God.

 6:11 And such were some of you: but ye are washed, but ye are sanctified, but ye are justified in the name of the Lord Jesus, and by the Spirit of our God.

 6:12 All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

 6:13 Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall destroy both it and them. Now the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body.




Alma 38:6-39:11 (21 in 21 verses)

D&C 132:7-27 (21 in 21 verses)

Lev. 18:3-22 (20 in 20 verses)

Lev. 18:7-26 (20 in 20 verses)

Alma 32:21-40 (20 in 20 verses)

D&C 64:12-28 (18 in 17 verses)

2 Ne. 26:15-32 (18 in 18 verses)

Mosiah 4:13-30 (18 in 18 verses)

Mosiah 13:21-14:3 (18 in 18 verses)

Alma 56:33-50 (18 in 18 verses)

Jer. 14:9-15:1 (17 in 15 verses)

3 Ne. 28:34-29:9 (17 in 16 verses)

1 Cor. 6:19-7:15 (17 in 17 verses)

Alma 9:3-19 (17 in 17 verses)

Isa. 40:20-41:3 (16 in 15 verses)

3 Ne. 15:14-16:4 (16 in 15 verses)

D&C 42:14-28 (16 in 15 verses)

Isa. 47:11-48:11 (16 in 16 verses)

Matt. 10:23-38 (16 in 16 verses)

1 Cor. 8:7-9:9 (16 in 16 verses)

1 Cor. 9:1-16 (16 in 16 verses)

Alma 5:28-39 (15 in 12 verses)

Deut. 22:28-23:10 (15 in 13 verses)

Jer. 5:9-22 (15 in 14 verses)

Alma 34:26-40 (15 in 15 verses)

Morm. 9:15-29 (15 in 15 verses)

D&C 84:71-82 (14 in 12 verses)

JS-H 1:20-32 (14 in 13 verses)

Alma 30:21-34 (14 in 14 verses)

2 Ne. 1:19-29 (13 in 11 verses)

Deut. 21:23-22:11 (13 in 12 verses)

3 Ne. 10:12-11:4 (13 in 12 verses)

Jer. 38:15-27 (13 in 13 verses)

Luke 6:37-49 (13 in 13 verses)

2 Cor. 10:12-11:6 (13 in 13 verses)

Alma 60:35-61:11 (13 in 13 verses)

1 Ne. 20:1-11 (12 in 11 verses)

Alma 44:1-11 (12 in 11 verses)

Prov. 24:12-23 (12 in 12 verses)

Eccl. 10:15-11:6 (12 in 12 verses)

Isa. 42:16-43:2 (12 in 12 verses)

Mark 9:37-48 (12 in 12 verses)

2 Cor. 12:13-13:3 (12 in 12 verses)

2 Ne. 29:5-30:2 (12 in 12 verses)

3 Ne. 21:29-22:11 (12 in 12 verses)

D&C 10:52-63 (12 in 12 verses)

D&C 56:11-17 (11 in 7 verses)

Alma 33:15-22 (11 in 8 verses)

D&C 10:28-36 (11 in 9 verses)

1 Ne. 15:9-18 (11 in 10 verses)

Hel. 13:19-28 (11 in 10 verses)

Jer. 27:8-18 (11 in 11 verses)

John 8:40-50 (11 in 11 verses)

Mosiah 20:11-21 (11 in 11 verses)

Alma 17:33-18:4 (11 in 11 verses)

3 Ne. 18:28-38 (11 in 11 verses)

D&C 98:18-28 (11 in 11 verses)

1 Cor. 13:1-6 (10 in 6 verses)

D&C 46:4-11 (10 in 8 verses)

D&C 58:26-33 (10 in 8 verses)

D&C 66:3-10 (10 in 8 verses)

1 Cor. 14:16-24 (10 in 9 verses)

1 Cor. 15:9-17 (10 in 9 verses)

1 Tim. 3:3-11 (10 in 9 verses)

1 Jn. 5:10-18 (10 in 9 verses)

D&C 132:36-44 (10 in 9 verses)

Lev. 11:4-13 (10 in 10 verses)

John 15:15-24 (10 in 10 verses)

1 Cor. 7:27-36 (10 in 10 verses)

2 Thes. 3:6-15 (10 in 10 verses)

Alma 58:34-39 (9 in 6 verses)

1 Sam. 29:3-9 (9 in 7 verses)

Jer. 35:13-19 (9 in 7 verses)

Ether 12:2-8 (9 in 7 verses)

Gen. 31:32-39 (9 in 8 verses)

Ex. 20:13-20 (9 in 8 verses)

3 Ne. 7:11-18 (9 in 8 verses)

Moro. 7:39-46 (9 in 8 verses)

Gen. 18:24-32 (9 in 9 verses)

Deut. 18:14-22 (9 in 9 verses)

Judg. 14:14-15:2 (9 in 9 verses)

Eccl. 4:16-5:8 (9 in 9 verses)

Jer. 10:20-11:3 (9 in 9 verses)

Matt. 13:11-19 (9 in 9 verses)

John 3:10-18 (9 in 9 verses)

2 Cor. 4:1-9 (9 in 9 verses)

James 3:14-4:4 (9 in 9 verses)

1 Jn. 3:6-14 (9 in 9 verses)

2 Ne. 27:15-23 (9 in 9 verses)

Alma 54:19-55:3 (9 in 9 verses)

Alma 60:13-21 (9 in 9 verses)

Hel. 5:23-31 (9 in 9 verses)

Ether 4:6-14 (9 in 9 verses)

Ether 4:10-18 (9 in 9 verses)

D&C 42:40-48 (9 in 9 verses)

D&C 104:86-105:8 (9 in 9 verses)

Amos 4:6-11 (8 in 6 verses)

Zeph. 3:2-7 (8 in 6 verses)

Mark 10:14-19 (8 in 6 verses)

Alma 12:32-37 (8 in 6 verses)

Moses 5:11-16 (8 in 6 verses)

Deut. 25:3-9 (8 in 7 verses)

2 Kgs. 18:26-32 (8 in 7 verses)

Ps. 115:1-7 (8 in 7 verses)

Heb. 3:15-4:2 (8 in 7 verses)

1 Ne. 6:1-7:1 (8 in 7 verses)

Jacob 4:8-14 (8 in 7 verses)

Alma 21:5-11 (8 in 7 verses)

D&C 24:9-15 (8 in 7 verses)

Gen. 42:36-43:5 (8 in 8 verses)

Deut. 19:21-20:7 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Kgs. 4:24-31 (8 in 8 verses)

Prov. 4:12-19 (8 in 8 verses)

Prov. 23:3-10 (8 in 8 verses)

Isa. 10:4-11 (8 in 8 verses)

Isa. 65:1-8 (8 in 8 verses)

Dan. 3:11-18 (8 in 8 verses)

Luke 12:26-33 (8 in 8 verses)

John 5:38-45 (8 in 8 verses)

John 12:42-49 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Jn. 1:5-12 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Ne. 4:32-5:4 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Ne. 20:4-11 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Ne. 32:2-9 (8 in 8 verses)

Mosiah 5:10-6:2 (8 in 8 verses)

Alma 1:26-33 (8 in 8 verses)

Alma 36:4-11 (8 in 8 verses)

Hel. 15:16-16:6 (8 in 8 verses)

Morm. 5:2-9 (8 in 8 verses)

D&C 19:15-22 (8 in 8 verses)

D&C 60:8-15 (8 in 8 verses)

D&C 124:45-52 (8 in 8 verses)

D&C 124:64-71 (8 in 8 verses)

Moses 8:17-24 (8 in 8 verses)

JS-H 1:39-46 (8 in 8 verses)

1 Cor. 12:14-16 (7 in 3 verses)

Isa. 54:1-4 (7 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 26:1-5 (7 in 5 verses)

D&C 50:31-35 (7 in 5 verses)

Deut. 14:7-12 (7 in 6 verses)

Deut. 20:18-21:3 (7 in 6 verses)

1 Sam. 20:26-31 (7 in 6 verses)

Neh. 9:16-21 (7 in 6 verses)

Isa. 33:19-24 (7 in 6 verses)

John 14:22-27 (7 in 6 verses)

Rom. 7:15-20 (7 in 6 verses)

1 Ne. 17:52-18:2 (7 in 6 verses)

Omni 1:2-7 (7 in 6 verses)

Mosiah 1:3-8 (7 in 6 verses)

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