Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'stand' occurs 448 times in the standard works.

81 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'stand' in the standard works and contain 18.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 36 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 30:4-12 (9 in 9 verses)

Dan. 11:14-17 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 3:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 3:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 31:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 2:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 3:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 38:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 22:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 17:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:109 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 107:100 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 133:56 (2 in 1 verse)


Deut. 27:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

 27:12 These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

 27:13 And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.




Josh. 7:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 10:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 47:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 44:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 27:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 57:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 220 313 533
Gen. 3 3 6
Ex. 10 9 19
Lev. 5 3 8
Num. 17 20 37
Deut. 13 14 27
Josh. 10 2 12
Judg. 2 5 7
1 Sam. 7 6 13
2 Sam. 2 1 3
1 Kgs. 6 9 15
2 Kgs. 5 3 8
1 Chr. 2 4 6
2 Chr. 7 10 17
Ezra 3 2 5
Neh. 2 6 8
Esth. 2 4 6
Job 7 24 31
Ps. 25 33 58
Prov. 6 67 73
Eccl. 2 2 4
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 18 28 46
Jer. 17 13 30
Ezek. 13 3 16
Dan. 25 27 52
Hosea 0 3 3
Amos 1 1 2
Obad. 0 2 2
Micah 1 4 5
Nahum 3 0 3
Hab. 1 0 1
Zech. 4 4 8
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 54 112 166
BM 109 168 277
DC 60 100 160
PGP 5 26 31
TOTAL 448 719 1167

Deut. 1:13
Take you wise men, and understanding, and known among your tribes, and I will make them rulers over you.

Deut. 1:26
Notwithstanding ye would not go up, but rebelled against the commandment of the Lord your God:

Deut. 1:38
But Joshua the son of Nun, which standeth before thee, he shall go in thither: encourage him: for he shall cause Israel to inherit it.

Deut. 4:6
Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the nations, which shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

Deut. 5:31
But as for thee, stand thou here by me, and I will speak unto thee all the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which thou shalt teach them, that they may do them in the land which I give them to possess it.

Deut. 7:24
And he shall deliver their kings into thine hand, and thou shalt destroy their name from under heaven: there shall no man be able to stand before thee, until thou have destroyed them.

Deut. 9:2
A people great and tall, the children of the Anakims, whom thou knowest, and of whom thou hast heard say, Who can stand before the children of Anak!

Deut. 9:3
Understand therefore this day, that the Lord thy God is he which goeth over before thee; as a consuming fire he shall destroy them, and he shall bring them down before thy face: so shalt thou drive them out, and destroy them quickly, as the Lord hath said unto thee.

Deut. 9:6
Understand therefore, that the Lord thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.

Deut. 10:8
At that time the Lord separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the Lord, to stand before the Lord to minister unto him, and to bless in his name, unto this day.

Deut. 11:25
There shall no man be able to stand before you: for the Lord your God shall lay the fear of you and the dread of you upon all the land that ye shall tread upon, as he hath said unto you.

Deut. 12:15
Notwithstanding thou mayest kill and eat flesh in all thy gates, whatsoever thy soul lusteth after, according to the blessing of the Lord thy God which he hath given thee: the unclean and the clean may eat thereof, as of the roebuck, and as of the hart.

Deut. 17:12
And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the Lord thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.

Deut. 18:5
For the Lord thy God hath chosen him out of all thy tribes, to stand to minister in the name of the Lord, him and his sons for ever.

Deut. 18:7
Then he shall minister in the name of the Lord his God, as all his brethren the Levites do, which stand there before the Lord.

Deut. 19:17
Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Deut. 23:25
When thou comest into the standing corn of thy neighbour, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thine hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbour's standing corn.

Deut. 24:11
Thou shalt stand abroad, and the man to whom thou dost lend shall bring out the pledge abroad unto thee.

Deut. 25:8
Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

Deut. 27:12
These shall stand upon mount Gerizim to bless the people, when ye are come over Jordan; Simeon, and Levi, and Judah, and Issachar, and Joseph, and Benjamin:

Deut. 27:13
And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

Deut. 28:49
The Lord shall bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as swift as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

Deut. 29:10
Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel,

Deut. 29:15
But with him that standeth here with us this day before the Lord our God, and also with him that is not here with us this day:

Deut. 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.