Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'neighbour' occurs 135 times in the standard works.

51 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'neighbour' in the standard works and contain 37.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 19 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ex. 22:7-11 (5 in 5 verses)

Ex. 20:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

Deut. 5:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 25:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 23:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 9:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 11:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 6:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 15:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 14:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)


Zech. 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

 8:16 These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

 8:17 And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.




Rom. 13:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 119 17 136
Ex. 17 0 17
Lev. 13 0 13
Deut. 19 0 19
Josh. 1 1 2
Ruth 1 1 2
1 Sam. 2 0 2
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 2 0 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Job 3 0 3
Ps. 4 7 11
Prov. 20 0 20
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 3 0 3
Jer. 18 3 21
Ezek. 5 4 9
Hab. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 0 7
NT 16 5 21
BM 0 0 0
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 135 22 157

Zech. 3:10
In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

Zech. 8:10
For before these days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in because of the affliction: for I set all men every one against his neighbour.

Zech. 8:16
These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

Zech. 8:17
And let none of you imagine evil in your hearts against his neighbour; and love no false oath: for all these are things that I hate, saith the Lord.

Zech. 11:6
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land, saith the Lord: but, lo, I will deliver the men every one into his neighbour's hand, and into the hand of his king: and they shall smite the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.

Zech. 14:13
And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from the Lord shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbour, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbour.