Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'lie' occurs 192 times in the standard works.

37 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'lie' in the standard works and contain 19.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 18 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 18:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 32:27-30 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 10:25 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 27:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 4:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 20:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 20:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 34:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 21:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 30:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 131 477 608
Gen. 8 17 25
Ex. 3 29 32
Lev. 15 15 30
Num. 5 91 96
Deut. 7 16 23
Josh. 3 51 54
Judg. 3 15 18
Ruth 3 1 4
1 Sam. 6 5 11
2 Sam. 4 2 6
1 Kgs. 1 4 5
2 Kgs. 1 1 2
1 Chr. 0 32 32
2 Chr. 0 13 13
Ezra 0 5 5
Neh. 0 8 8
Esth. 0 3 3
Job 8 16 24
Ps. 7 29 36
Prov. 3 16 19
Eccl. 1 5 6
Song. 1 6 7
Isa. 15 18 33
Jer. 9 21 30
Lam. 1 5 6
Ezek. 13 25 38
Dan. 0 4 4
Hosea 2 8 10
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 1 3 4
Jonah 0 1 1
Micah 3 2 5
Nahum 0 4 4
Hab. 1 2 3
Zeph. 4 1 5
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 1 3 4
NT 24 343 367
BM 25 437 462
DC 12 152 164
PGP 0 43 43
TOTAL 192 1452 1644

Jer. 1:15
For, lo, I will call all the families of the kingdoms of the north, saith the Lord; and they shall come, and they shall set every one his throne at the entering of the gates of Jerusalem, and against all the walls thereof round about, and against all the cities of Judah.

Jer. 2:4
Hear ye the word of the Lord, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Jer. 3:2
Lift up thine eyes unto the high places, and see where thou hast not been lien with. In the ways hast thou sat for them, as the Arabian in the wilderness; and thou hast polluted the land with thy whoredoms and with thy wickedness.

Jer. 3:16
And it shall come to pass, when ye be multiplied and increased in the land, in those days, saith the Lord, they shall say no more, The ark of the covenant of the Lord: neither shall it come to mind: neither shall they remember it; neither shall they visit it; neither shall that be done any more.

Jer. 3:25
We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

Jer. 5:12
They have belied the Lord, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:

Jer. 9:3
And they bend their tongues like their bow for lies: but they are not valiant for the truth upon the earth; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they know not me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 9:5
And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Jer. 10:25
Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.

Jer. 12:6
For even thy brethren, and the house of thy father, even they have dealt treacherously with thee; yea, they have called a multitude after thee: believe them not, though they speak fair words unto thee.

Jer. 14:14
Then the Lord said unto me, The prophets prophesy lies in my name: I sent them not, neither have I commanded them, neither spake unto them: they prophesy unto you a false vision and divination, and a thing of nought, and the deceit of their heart.

Jer. 16:19
O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

Jer. 20:6
And thou, Pashur, and all that dwell in thine house shall go into captivity: and thou shalt come to Babylon, and there thou shalt die, and shalt be buried there, thou, and all thy friends, to whom thou hast prophesied lies.

Jer. 23:14
I have seen also in the prophets of Jerusalem an horrible thing: they commit adultery, and walk in lies: they strengthen also the hands of evildoers, that none doth return from his wickedness: they are all of them unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrah.

Jer. 23:25
I have heard what the prophets said, that prophesy lies in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

Jer. 23:26
How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

Jer. 23:32
Behold, I am against them that prophesy false dreams, saith the Lord, and do tell them, and cause my people to err by their lies, and by their lightness; yet I sent them not, nor commanded them: therefore they shall not profit this people at all, saith the Lord.

Jer. 25:9
Behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about, and will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and an hissing, and perpetual desolations.

Jer. 27:10
For they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land; and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

Jer. 27:14
Therefore hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Jer. 27:15
For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might drive you out, and that ye might perish, ye, and the prophets that prophesy unto you.

Jer. 27:16
Also I spake to the priests and to all this people, saying, Thus saith the Lord; Hearken not to the words of your prophets that prophesy unto you, saying, Behold, the vessels of the Lord's house shall now shortly be brought again from Babylon: for they prophesy a lie unto you.

Jer. 28:15
Then said the prophet Jeremiah unto Hananiah the prophet, Hear now, Hananiah; The Lord hath not sent thee; but thou makest this people to trust in a lie.

Jer. 29:21
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, of Ahab the son of Kolaiah, and of Zedekiah the son of Maaseiah, which prophesy a lie unto you in my name; Behold, I will deliver them into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall slay them before your eyes;

Jer. 29:31
Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith the Lord concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite; Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he caused you to trust in a lie:

Jer. 31:1
At the same time, saith the Lord, will I be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be my people.

Jer. 33:12
Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Again in this place, which is desolate without man and without beast, and in all the cities thereof, shall be an habitation of shepherds causing their flocks to lie down.

Jer. 33:24
Considerest thou not what this people have spoken, saying, The two families which the Lord hath chosen, he hath even cast them off? thus they have despised my people, that they should be no more a nation before them.

Jer. 40:14
And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

Jer. 48:30
I know his wrath, saith the Lord; but it shall not be so; his lies shall not so effect it.