Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'priesthood' occurs 165 times in the standard works.

106 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'priesthood' in the standard works and contain 64.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 50 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 107:1-22 (23 in 22 verses)

JS-H 1:69-74 (8 in 6 verses)

D&C 84:14-21 (8 in 8 verses)

D&C 68:15-21 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 107:64-70 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 107:76-82 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 84:25-30 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 13:6-10 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 113:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:130-132 (3 in 3 verses)

Abr. 2:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Neh. 13:29 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 85:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:95 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:123 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 86:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:87-88 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 121:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 1:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 9 0 9
NT 7 0 7
BM 8 0 8
DC 123 3 126
PGP 18 0 18
Moses 1 0 1
Abr. 8 0 8
JS-H 9 0 9
TOTAL 165 3 168

Moses 6:7
Now this same Priesthood, which was in the beginning, shall be in the end of the world also.

Abr. 1:4
I sought for mine appointment unto the Priesthood according to the appointment of God unto the fathers concerning the seed.

Abr. 1:18
Behold, I will lead thee by my hand, and I will take thee, to put upon thee my name, even the Priesthood of thy father, and my power shall be over thee.

Abr. 1:26
Pharaoh, being a righteous man, established his kingdom and judged his people wisely and justly all his days, seeking earnestly to imitate that order established by the fathers in the first generations, in the days of the first patriarchal reign, even in the reign of Adam, and also of Noah, his father, who blessed him with the blessings of the earth, and with the blessings of wisdom, but cursed him as pertaining to the Priesthood.

Abr. 1:27
Now, Pharaoh being of that lineage by which he could not have the right of Priesthood, notwithstanding the Pharaohs would fain claim it from Noah, through Ham, therefore my father was led away by their idolatry;

Abr. 1:31
But the records of the fathers, even the patriarchs, concerning the right of Priesthood, the Lord my God preserved in mine own hands; therefore a knowledge of the beginning of the creation, and also of the planets, and of the stars, as they were made known unto the fathers, have I kept even unto this day, and I shall endeavor to write some of these things upon this record, for the benefit of my posterity that shall come after me.

Abr. 2:9
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood unto all nations;

Abr. 2:11
And I will bless them that bless thee, and curse them that curse thee; and in thee (that is, in thy Priesthood) and in thy seed (that is, thy Priesthood), for I give unto thee a promise that this right shall continue in thee, and in thy seed after thee (that is to say, the literal seed, or the seed of the body) shall all the families of the earth be blessed, even with the blessings of the Gospel, which are the blessings of salvation, even of life eternal.

JS-H 1:38
And again, he quoted the fifth verse thus: Behold, I will reveal unto you the Priesthood, by the hand of Elijah the prophet, before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord.

JS-H 1:69
Upon you my fellow servants, in the name of Messiah, I confer the Priesthood of Aaron, which holds the keys of the ministering of angels, and of the gospel of repentance, and of baptism by immersion for the remission of sins; and this shall never be taken again from the earth until the sons of Levi do offer again an offering unto the Lord in righteousness.

JS-H 1:70
He said this Aaronic Priesthood had not the power of laying on hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost, but that this should be conferred on us hereafter; and he commanded us to go and be baptized, and gave us directions that I should baptize Oliver Cowdery, and that afterwards he should baptize me.

JS-H 1:71
Accordingly we went and were baptized. I baptized him first, and afterwards he baptized me-- after which I laid my hands upon his head and ordained him to the Aaronic Priesthood, and afterwards he laid his hands on me and ordained me to the same Priesthood-- for so we were commanded.

JS-H 1:72
The messenger who visited us on this occasion and conferred this Priesthood upon us, said that his name was John, the same that is called John the Baptist in the New Testament, and that he acted under the direction of Peter, James and John, who held the keys of the Priesthood of Melchizedek, which Priesthood, he said, would in due time be conferred on us, and that I should be called the first Elder of the Church, and he (Oliver Cowdery) the second. It was on the fifteenth day of May, 1829, that we were ordained under the hand of this messenger, and baptized.

JS-H 1:74
Our minds being now enlightened, we began to have the scriptures laid open to our understandings, and the true meaning and intention of their more mysterious passages revealed unto us in a manner which we never could attain to previously, nor ever before had thought of. In the meantime we were forced to keep secret the circumstances of having received the Priesthood and our having been baptized, owing to a spirit of persecution which had already manifested itself in the neighborhood.