Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'loved' occurs 115 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 'loved' in the standard works and contain 20% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 7 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Sam. 20:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Mal. 1:2 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 4:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 25:28 (2 in 1 verse)

John 13:1 (2 in 1 verse)

John 15:9 (2 in 1 verse)

John 17:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 47:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 56 54 110
Gen. 9 0 9
Deut. 4 4 8
Judg. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 10 0 10
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 4 0 4
Neh. 0 1 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Job 1 0 1
Ps. 6 3 9
Prov. 0 1 1
Song. 0 34 34
Isa. 2 4 6
Jer. 4 2 6
Ezek. 1 0 1
Dan. 0 3 3
Hosea 3 2 5
Mal. 4 0 4
NT 42 67 109
BM 10 101 111
DC 4 6 10
PGP 3 3 6
TOTAL 115 231 346

Gen. 24:67
And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah's tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her: and Isaac was comforted after his mother's death.

Gen. 25:28
And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Gen. 27:14
And he went, and fetched, and brought them to his mother: and his mother made savoury meat, such as his father loved.

Gen. 29:18
And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

Gen. 29:30
And he went in also unto Rachel, and he loved also Rachel more than Leah, and served with him yet seven other years.

Gen. 34:3
And his soul clave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spake kindly unto the damsel.

Gen. 37:3
Now Israel loved Joseph more than all his children, because he was the son of his old age: and he made him a coat of many colours.

Gen. 37:4
And when his brethren saw that their father loved him more than all his brethren, they hated him, and could not speak peaceably unto him.

Deut. 4:37
And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

Deut. 7:8
But because the Lord loved you, and because he would keep the oath which he had sworn unto your fathers, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand, and redeemed you out of the house of bondmen, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.

Deut. 21:15
If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:

Deut. 21:16
Then it shall be, when he maketh his sons to inherit that which he hath, that he may not make the son of the beloved firstborn before the son of the hated, which is indeed the firstborn:

Deut. 23:5
Nevertheless the Lord thy God would not hearken unto Balaam; but the Lord thy God turned the curse into a blessing unto thee, because the Lord thy God loved thee.

Deut. 33:3
Yea, he loved the people; all his saints are in thy hand: and they sat down at thy feet; every one shall receive of thy words.

Deut. 33:12
And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the Lord shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.

Judg. 16:4
And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

1 Sam. 1:5
But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

1 Sam. 16:21
And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armourbearer.

1 Sam. 18:1
And it came to pass, when he had made an end of speaking unto Saul, that the soul of Jonathan was knit with the soul of David, and Jonathan loved him as his own soul.

1 Sam. 18:3
Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

1 Sam. 18:16
But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

1 Sam. 18:20
And Michal Saul's daughter loved David: and they told Saul, and the thing pleased him.

1 Sam. 18:28
And Saul saw and knew that the Lord was with David, and that Michal Saul's daughter loved him.

1 Sam. 20:17
And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.

2 Sam. 12:24
And David comforted Bath-sheba his wife, and went in unto her, and lay with her: and she bare a son, and he called his name Solomon: and the Lord loved him.

2 Sam. 13:1
And it came to pass after this, that Absalom the son of David had a fair sister, whose name was Tamar; and Amnon the son of David loved her.

2 Sam. 13:15
Then Amnon hated her exceedingly; so that the hatred wherewith he hated her was greater than the love wherewith he had loved her. And Amnon said unto her, Arise, be gone.

1 Kgs. 3:3
And Solomon loved the Lord, walking in the statutes of David his father: only he sacrificed and burnt incense in high places.

1 Kgs. 10:9
Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee, to set thee on the throne of Israel: because the Lord loved Israel for ever, therefore made he thee king, to do judgment and justice.

1 Kgs. 11:1
But king Solomon loved many strange women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites;

2 Chr. 2:11
Then Huram the king of Tyre answered in writing, which he sent to Solomon, Because the Lord hath loved his people, he hath made thee king over them.

2 Chr. 9:8
Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighted in thee to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do judgment and justice.

2 Chr. 11:21
And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

2 Chr. 26:10
Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.

Neh. 13:26
Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

Esth. 2:17
And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

Job 19:19
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

Ps. 26:8
Lord, I have loved the habitation of thy house, and the place where thine honour dwelleth.

Ps. 47:4
He shall choose our inheritance for us, the excellency of Jacob whom he loved. Selah.

Ps. 60:5
That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.

Ps. 78:68
But chose the tribe of Judah, the mount Zion which he loved.

Ps. 108:6
That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.

Ps. 109:17
As he loved cursing, so let it come unto him: as he delighted not in blessing, so let it be far from him.

Ps. 119:47
And I will delight myself in thy commandments, which I have loved.

Ps. 119:48
My hands also will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved; and I will meditate in thy statutes.

Ps. 127:2
It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.

Prov. 4:3
For I was my father's son, tender and only beloved in the sight of my mother.

Song. 1:13
A bundle of myrrh is my wellbeloved unto me; he shall lie all night betwixt my breasts.

Song. 1:14
My beloved is unto me as a cluster of camphire in the vineyards of En-gedi.

Song. 1:16
Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

Song. 2:3
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

Song. 2:8
The voice of my beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills.

Song. 2:9
My beloved is like a roe or a young hart: behold, he standeth behind our wall, he looketh forth at the windows, shewing himself through the lattice.

Song. 2:10
My beloved spake, and said unto me, Rise up, my love, my fair one, and come away.

Song. 2:16
My beloved is mine, and I am his: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song. 2:17
Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.

Song. 4:16
Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden, that the spices thereof may flow out. Let my beloved come into his garden, and eat his pleasant fruits.

Song. 5:1
I am come into my garden, my sister, my spouse: I have gathered my myrrh with my spice; I have eaten my honeycomb with my honey; I have drunk my wine with my milk: eat, O friends; drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved.

Song. 5:2
I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

Song. 5:4
My beloved put in his hand by the hole of the door, and my bowels were moved for him.

Song. 5:5
I rose up to open to my beloved; and my hands dropped with myrrh, and my fingers with sweet smelling myrrh, upon the handles of the lock.

Song. 5:6
I opened to my beloved; but my beloved had withdrawn himself, and was gone: my soul failed when he spake: I sought him, but I could not find him; I called him, but he gave me no answer.

Song. 5:8
I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

Song. 5:9
What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

Song. 5:10
My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand.

Song. 5:16
His mouth is most sweet: yea, he is altogether lovely. This is my beloved, and this is my friend, O daughters of Jerusalem.

Song. 6:1
Whither is thy beloved gone, O thou fairest among women? whither is thy beloved turned aside? that we may seek him with thee.

Song. 6:2
My beloved is gone down into his garden, to the beds of spices, to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies.

Song. 6:3
I am my beloved's, and my beloved is mine: he feedeth among the lilies.

Song. 7:9
And the roof of thy mouth like the best wine for my beloved, that goeth down sweetly, causing the lips of those that are asleep to speak.

Song. 7:10
I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me.

Song. 7:11
Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.

Song. 7:13
The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

Song. 8:5
Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness, leaning upon her beloved? I raised thee up under the apple tree: there thy mother brought thee forth: there she brought thee forth that bare thee.

Song. 8:14
Make haste, my beloved, and be thou like to a roe or to a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

Isa. 5:1
Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:

Isa. 43:4
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

Isa. 48:14
All ye, assemble yourselves, and hear; which among them hath declared these things? The Lord hath loved him: he will do his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm shall be on the Chaldeans.

Isa. 57:8
Behind the doors also and the posts hast thou set up thy remembrance: for thou hast discovered thyself to another than me, and art gone up; thou hast enlarged thy bed, and made thee a covenant with them; thou lovedst their bed where thou sawest it.

Jer. 2:25
Withhold thy foot from being unshod, and thy throat from thirst: but thou saidst, There is no hope: no; for I have loved strangers, and after them will I go.

Jer. 8:2
And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Jer. 11:15
What hath my beloved to do in mine house, seeing she hath wrought lewdness with many, and the holy flesh is passed from thee? when thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.

Jer. 12:7
I have forsaken mine house, I have left mine heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jer. 14:10
Thus saith the Lord unto this people, Thus have they loved to wander, they have not refrained their feet, therefore the Lord doth not accept them; he will now remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

Jer. 31:3
The Lord hath appeared of old unto me, saying, Yea, I have loved thee with an everlasting love: therefore with lovingkindness have I drawn thee.

Ezek. 16:37
Behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness.

Dan. 9:23
At the beginning of thy supplications the commandment came forth, and I am come to shew thee; for thou art greatly beloved: therefore understand the matter, and consider the vision.

Dan. 10:11
And he said unto me, O Daniel, a man greatly beloved, understand the words that I speak unto thee, and stand upright: for unto thee am I now sent. And when he had spoken this word unto me, I stood trembling.

Dan. 10:19
And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not: peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be strong. And when he had spoken unto me, I was strengthened, and said, Let my lord speak; for thou hast strengthened me.

Hosea 3:1
Then said the Lord unto me, Go yet, love a woman beloved of her friend, yet an adulteress, according to the love of the Lord toward the children of Israel, who look to other gods, and love flagons of wine.

Hosea 9:1
Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

Hosea 9:10
I found Israel like grapes in the wilderness; I saw your fathers as the firstripe in the fig tree at her first time: but they went to Baal-peor, and separated themselves unto that shame; and their abominations were according as they loved.

Hosea 9:16
Ephraim is smitten, their root is dried up, they shall bear no fruit: yea, though they bring forth, yet will I slay even the beloved fruit of their womb.

Hosea 11:1
When Israel was a child, then I loved him, and called my son out of Egypt.

Mal. 1:2
I have loved you, saith the Lord. Yet ye say, Wherein hast thou loved us? Was not Esau Jacob's brother? saith the Lord: yet I loved Jacob,

Mal. 2:11
Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.