Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wages' occurs 31 times in the standard works.

11 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wages' in the standard works and contain 35.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 124:121-122 (3 in 2 verses)

Hag. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 31:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 29:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 13 0 13
NT 5 0 5
BM 9 0 9
DC 4 0 4
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 31 0 31

D&C 29:45
For they love darkness rather than light, and their deeds are evil, and they receive their wages of whom they list to obey.

D&C 124:121
And again, verily I say unto you, let the quorum of the Nauvoo House have a just recompense of wages for all their labors which they do in building the Nauvoo House; and let their wages be as shall be agreed among themselves, as pertaining to the price thereof.

D&C 124:122
And let every man who pays stock bear his proportion of their wages, if it must needs be, for their support, saith the Lord; otherwise, their labors shall be accounted unto them for stock in that house. Even so. Amen.