Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'iniquities' occurs 153 times in the standard works.

33 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'iniquities' in the standard works and contain 21.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 14 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 29:30-31 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 65:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 26:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 16:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 9:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 64:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 14:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 36:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 51 0 51
NT 5 0 5
BM 91 0 91
1 Ne. 2 0 2
2 Ne. 12 0 12
Jacob 1 0 1
Mosiah 32 0 32
Alma 16 0 16
Hel. 16 0 16
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Morm. 3 0 3
Ether 4 0 4
DC 5 0 5
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 153 0 153

2 Ne. 1:26
And ye have murmured because he hath been plain unto you. Ye say that he hath used sharpness; ye say that he hath been angry with you; but behold, his sharpness was the sharpness of the power of the word of God, which was in him; and that which ye call anger was the truth, according to that which is in God, which he could not restrain, manifesting boldly concerning your iniquities.

2 Ne. 4:17
Nevertheless, notwithstanding the great goodness of the Lord, in showing me his great and marvelous works, my heart exclaimeth: O wretched man that I am! Yea, my heart sorroweth because of my flesh; my soul grieveth because of mine iniquities.

2 Ne. 5:22
And thus saith the Lord God: I will cause that they shall be loathsome unto thy people, save they shall repent of their iniquities.

2 Ne. 7:1
Yea, for thus saith the Lord: Have I put thee away, or have I cast thee off forever? For thus saith the Lord: Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement? To whom have I put thee away, or to which of my creditors have I sold you? Yea, to whom have I sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

2 Ne. 9:33
Wo unto the uncircumcised of heart, for a knowledge of their iniquities shall smite them at the last day.

2 Ne. 9:44
O, my beloved brethren, remember my words. Behold, I take off my garments, and I shake them before you; I pray the God of my salvation that he view me with his all-searching eye; wherefore, ye shall know at the last day, when all men shall be judged of their works, that the God of Israel did witness that I shook your iniquities from my soul, and that I stand with brightness before him, and am rid of your blood.

2 Ne. 10:5
But because of priestcrafts and iniquities, they at Jerusalem will stiffen their necks against him, that he be crucified.

2 Ne. 10:6
Wherefore, because of their iniquities, destructions, famines, pestilences, and bloodshed shall come upon them; and they who shall not be destroyed shall be scattered among all nations.

2 Ne. 24:21
Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquities of their fathers, that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

2 Ne. 25:9
And as one generation hath been destroyed among the Jews because of iniquity, even so have they been destroyed from generation to generation according to their iniquities; and never hath any of them been destroyed save it were foretold them by the prophets of the Lord.

2 Ne. 25:12
But, behold, they shall have wars, and rumors of wars; and when the day cometh that the Only Begotten of the Father, yea, even the Father of heaven and of earth, shall manifest himself unto them in the flesh, behold, they will reject him, because of their iniquities, and the hardness of their hearts, and the stiffness of their necks.

2 Ne. 26:33
For none of these iniquities come of the Lord; for he doeth that which is good among the children of men; and he doeth nothing save it be plain unto the children of men; and he inviteth them all to come unto him and partake of his goodness; and he denieth none that come unto him, black and white, bond and free, male and female; and he remembereth the heathen; and all are alike unto God, both Jew and Gentile.