Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ordinance' occurs 50 times in the standard works.

16 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ordinance' in the standard works and contain 32% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 128:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 88:139-140 (3 in 2 verses)

Num. 9:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 13:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 28 20 48
NT 2 7 9
BM 3 8 11
DC 16 18 34
PGP 1 3 4
TOTAL 50 56 106

D&C 1:15
For they have strayed from mine ordinances, and have broken mine everlasting covenant;

D&C 52:15
Wherefore he that prayeth, whose spirit is contrite, the same is accepted of me if he obey mine ordinances.

D&C 52:16
He that speaketh, whose spirit is contrite, whose language is meek and edifieth, the same is of God if he obey mine ordinances.

D&C 53:6
Behold, these are the first ordinances which you shall receive; and the residue shall be made known in a time to come, according to your labor in my vineyard.

D&C 64:5
And the keys of the mysteries of the kingdom shall not be taken from my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., through the means I have appointed, while he liveth, inasmuch as he obeyeth mine ordinances.

D&C 84:20
Therefore, in the ordinances thereof, the power of godliness is manifest.

D&C 84:21
And without the ordinances thereof, and the authority of the priesthood, the power of godliness is not manifest unto men in the flesh;

D&C 107:14
Why it is called the lesser priesthood is because it is an appendage to the greater, or the Melchizedek Priesthood, and has power in administering outward ordinances.

D&C 107:20
The power and authority of the lesser, or Aaronic Priesthood, is to hold the keys of the ministering of angels, and to administer in outward ordinances, the letter of the gospel, the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins, agreeable to the covenants and commandments.

D&C 107:67
From the same comes the administering of ordinances and blessings upon the church, by the laying on of the hands.

D&C 121:19
Wo unto them; because they have offended my little ones they shall be severed from the ordinances of mine house.

D&C 124:38
For, for this cause I commanded Moses that he should build a tabernacle, that they should bear it with them in the wilderness, and to build a house in the land of promise, that those ordinances might be revealed which had been hid from before the world was.

D&C 124:40
And verily I say unto you, let this house be built unto my name, that I may reveal mine ordinances therein unto my people;

D&C 124:46
But if they will not hearken to my voice, nor unto the voice of these men whom I have appointed, they shall not be blest, because they pollute mine holy grounds, and mine holy ordinances, and charters, and my holy words which I give unto them.

D&C 128:8
Now, the nature of this ordinance consists in the power of the priesthood, by the revelation of Jesus Christ, wherein it is granted that whatsoever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. Or, in other words, taking a different view of the translation, whatsoever you record on earth shall be recorded in heaven, and whatsoever you do not record on earth shall not be recorded in heaven; for out of the books shall your dead be judged, according to their own works, whether they themselves have attended to the ordinances in their own propria persona, or by the means of their own agents, according to the ordinance which God has prepared for their salvation from before the foundation of the world, according to the records which they have kept concerning their dead.

D&C 136:4
And this shall be our covenant-- that we will walk in all the ordinances of the Lord.

D&C 138:54
Including the building of the temples and the performance of ordinances therein for the redemption of the dead, were also in the spirit world.

D&C 138:58
The dead who repent will be redeemed, through obedience to the ordinances of the house of God,