Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'holy' occurs 1093 times in the standard works.

449 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'holy' in the standard works and contain 41.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 184 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 13:1-12 (13 in 12 verses)

Ezek. 45:1-7 (8 in 7 verses)

2 Ne. 31:7-14 (8 in 8 verses)

Lev. 6:25-7:1 (7 in 7 verses)

Lev. 22:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

2 Ne. 9:46-52 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 31:15-21 (7 in 7 verses)

Ezek. 42:13-14 (6 in 2 verses)

Lev. 22:2-7 (6 in 6 verses)

Lev. 21:6-8 (5 in 3 verses)

Ex. 30:29-32 (5 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 48:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 20:25-28 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Pet. 1:12-16 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 9:15-19 (5 in 5 verses)

Lev. 10:17-18 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:44-45 (4 in 2 verses)

Num. 18:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)


Lev. 16:2-4 (4 in 3 verses)

 16:2 And the Lord said unto Moses, Speak unto Aaron thy brother, that he come not at all times into the holy place within the veil before the mercy seat, which is upon the ark; that he die not: for I will appear in the cloud upon the mercy seat.

 16:3 Thus shall Aaron come into the holy place: with a young bullock for a sin offering, and a ram for a burnt offering.

 16:4 He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.




2 Ne. 9:39-41 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 5:52-54 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:44-46 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 9:23-26 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 31:21-32:3 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 32:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 104:65-68 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 109:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 6:3 (3 in 1 verse)

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