Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'obey' occurs 100 times in the standard works.

23 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'obey' in the standard works and contain 23% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 2:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 42:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 6:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 36:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 3:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 43 42 85
Gen. 3 3 6
Ex. 4 0 4
Deut. 10 0 10
Josh. 1 2 3
Judg. 0 3 3
1 Sam. 5 5 10
1 Kgs. 0 2 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 0 1 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 2 0 2
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 1 1 2
Isa. 1 1 2
Jer. 11 18 29
Dan. 2 2 4
Zeph. 0 1 1
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 1 0 1
NT 26 8 34
BM 15 3 18
DC 14 7 21
PGP 2 7 9
TOTAL 100 67 167

Zech. 6:15
And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.