Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'duty' occurs 47 times in the standard works.

9 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'duty' in the standard works and contain 19.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 5 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 107:85-89 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 107:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:99-100 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 0 6
Ex. 1 0 1
Deut. 2 0 2
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 1 0 1
Eccl. 1 0 1
NT 2 0 2
BM 7 0 7
DC 31 0 31
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 47 0 47

Ex. 21:10
If he take him another wife; her food, her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.

Deut. 25:5
If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no child, the wife of the dead shall not marry without unto a stranger: her husband's brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of an husband's brother unto her.

Deut. 25:7
And if the man like not to take his brother's wife, then let his brother's wife go up to the gate unto the elders, and say, My husband's brother refuseth to raise up unto his brother a name in Israel, he will not perform the duty of my husband's brother.

2 Chr. 8:14
And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

Ezra 3:4
They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

Eccl. 12:13
Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.