Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'worthy' occurs 98 times in the standard works.

17 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'worthy' in the standard works and contain 17.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Matt. 10:10-13 (4 in 4 verses)

Matt. 10:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:100 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 5:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 51:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 98:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 14 0 14
NT 54 3 57
BM 4 5 9
DC 26 1 27
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 98 10 108

Acts 13:46
Then Paul and Barnabas waxed bold, and said, It was necessary that the word of God should first have been spoken to you: but seeing ye put it from you, and judge yourselves unworthy of everlasting life, lo, we turn to the Gentiles.

1 Cor. 6:2
Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

1 Pet. 2:19
For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.

Mosiah 4:11
And again I say unto you as I have said before, that as ye have come to the knowledge of the glory of God, or if ye have known of his goodness and have tasted of his love, and have received a remission of your sins, which causeth such exceedingly great joy in your souls, even so I would that ye should remember, and always retain in remembrance, the greatness of God, and your own nothingness, and his goodness and long-suffering towards you, unworthy creatures, and humble yourselves even in the depths of humility, calling on the name of the Lord daily, and standing steadfastly in the faith of that which is to come, which was spoken by the mouth of the angel.

Mosiah 21:33
And it came to pass that king Limhi and many of his people were desirous to be baptized; but there was none in the land that had authority from God. And Ammon declined doing this thing, considering himself an unworthy servant.

Mosiah 23:11
Nevertheless, in this I do not glory, for I am unworthy to glory of myself.

3 Ne. 18:29
For whoso eateth and drinketh my flesh and blood unworthily eateth and drinketh damnation to his soul; therefore if ye know that a man is unworthy to eat and drink of my flesh and blood ye shall forbid him.

Ether 3:2
O Lord, thou hast said that we must be encompassed about by the floods. Now behold, O Lord, and do not be angry with thy servant because of his weakness before thee; for we know that thou art holy and dwellest in the heavens, and that we are unworthy before thee; because of the fall our natures have become evil continually; nevertheless, O Lord, thou hast given us a commandment that we must call upon thee, that from thee we may receive according to our desires.

D&C 88:134
And he that is found unworthy of this salutation shall not have place among you; for ye shall not suffer that mine house shall be polluted by him.

A of F 1:13
We believe in being honest, true, chaste, benevolent, virtuous, and in doing good to all men; indeed, we may say that we follow the admonition of Paul-- We believe all things, we hope all things, we have endured many things, and hope to be able to endure all things. If there is anything virtuous, lovely, or of good report or praiseworthy, we seek after these things.