Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'spirit' occurs 988 times in the standard works.

419 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'spirit' in the standard works and contain 42.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 169 minutes to read the entire list.

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Rom. 8:1-16 (17 in 16 verses)

Alma 5:46-54 (10 in 9 verses)

1 Cor. 12:7-13 (8 in 7 verses)

1 Jn. 3:24-4:6 (8 in 7 verses)

1 Cor. 2:10-14 (7 in 5 verses)

D&C 84:45-47 (6 in 3 verses)

Alma 18:2-5 (6 in 4 verses)

D&C 50:27-32 (6 in 6 verses)

Alma 19:25-27 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 16:13-16 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 93:23-26 (5 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 18:10-14 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 34:34-38 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 46:28-32 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 50:17-21 (5 in 5 verses)

Isa. 11:2 (4 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 21:2 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:20-21 (4 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:23-24 (4 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:16-17 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

Gal. 5:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 22:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Chr. 18:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

John 3:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Moro. 10:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Hag. 1:14 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:21 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Num. 11:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 28:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 7:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Isa. 57:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Mal. 2:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Mark 9:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

John 4:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 8:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 3:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 32:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 3:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 11:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:64-65 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 93:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:59-60 (3 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:64-65 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 5:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Ps. 51:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 3:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 5:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Cor. 3:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Gal. 5:25-6:1 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 5:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 4:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 4:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 17:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 22:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 40:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 8:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 76:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 91:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 16:23 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 5:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 18:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 3:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 8:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 4:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 11:24 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:63 (2 in 1 verse)

Gal. 6:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 14:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 22:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:42 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 45:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 61:15 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 5:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 11:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 77:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:66 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:137 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 16:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 29:24-30:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 63:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 2:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

John 1:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 19:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 23:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Gal. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 6:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Tim. 3:16-4:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:30-15:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)


2 Ne. 27:35-28:1 (2 in 2 verses)

 27:35 They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

 28:1 And now, behold, my brethren, I have spoken unto you, according as the Spirit hath constrained me; wherefore, I know that they must surely come to pass.




Mosiah 2:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 5:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 7:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 19:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 10:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 7:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 46:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 61:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 70:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:115-116 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 138:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 1:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:73-74 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 244 15 259
NT 261 62 323
BM 276 45 321
1 Ne. 38 7 45
2 Ne. 33 10 43
Jacob 8 0 8
Enos 1 0 1
Jarom 1 0 1
W of M 1 0 1
Mosiah 26 5 31
Alma 113 15 128
Hel. 13 3 16
3 Ne. 14 1 15
Morm. 4 2 6
Ether 10 0 10
Moro. 14 2 16
DC 186 56 242
PGP 21 11 32
TOTAL 988 189 1177

2 Ne. 1:6
Wherefore, I, Lehi, prophesy according to the workings of the Spirit which is in me, that there shall none come into this land save they shall be brought by the hand of the Lord.

2 Ne. 1:27
And it must needs be that the power of God must be with him, even unto his commanding you that ye must obey. But behold, it was not he, but it was the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, which opened his mouth to utterance that he could not shut it.

2 Ne. 2:4
And thou hast beheld in thy youth his glory; wherefore, thou art blessed even as they unto whom he shall minister in the flesh; for the Spirit is the same, yesterday, today, and forever. And the way is prepared from the fall of man, and salvation is free.

2 Ne. 2:5
And men are instructed sufficiently that they know good from evil. And the law is given unto men. And by the law no flesh is justified; or, by the law men are cut off. Yea, by the temporal law they were cut off; and also, by the spiritual law they perish from that which is good, and become miserable forever.

2 Ne. 2:7
Behold, he offereth himself a sacrifice for sin, to answer the ends of the law, unto all those who have a broken heart and a contrite spirit; and unto none else can the ends of the law be answered.

2 Ne. 2:8
Wherefore, how great the importance to make these things known unto the inhabitants of the earth, that they may know that there is no flesh that can dwell in the presence of God, save it be through the merits, and mercy, and grace of the Holy Messiah, who layeth down his life according to the flesh, and taketh it again by the power of the Spirit, that he may bring to pass the resurrection of the dead, being the first that should rise.

2 Ne. 2:28
And now, my sons, I would that ye should look to the great Mediator, and hearken unto his great commandments; and be faithful unto his words, and choose eternal life, according to the will of his Holy Spirit;

2 Ne. 2:29
And not choose eternal death, according to the will of the flesh and the evil which is therein, which giveth the spirit of the devil power to captivate, to bring you down to hell, that he may reign over you in his own kingdom.

2 Ne. 3:5
Wherefore, Joseph truly saw our day. And he obtained a promise of the Lord, that out of the fruit of his loins the Lord God would raise up a righteous branch unto the house of Israel; not the Messiah, but a branch which was to be broken off, nevertheless, to be remembered in the covenants of the Lord that the Messiah should be made manifest unto them in the latter days, in the spirit of power, unto the bringing of them out of darkness unto light-- yea, out of hidden darkness and out of captivity unto freedom.

2 Ne. 4:12
And it came to pass after my father, Lehi, had spoken unto all his household, according to the feelings of his heart and the Spirit of the Lord which was in him, he waxed old. And it came to pass that he died, and was buried.

2 Ne. 4:25
And upon the wings of his Spirit hath my body been carried away upon exceedingly high mountains. And mine eyes have beheld great things, yea, even too great for man; therefore I was bidden that I should not write them.

2 Ne. 4:32
May the gates of hell be shut continually before me, because that my heart is broken and my spirit is contrite! O Lord, wilt thou not shut the gates of thy righteousness before me, that I may walk in the path of the low valley, that I may be strict in the plain road!

2 Ne. 9:8
O the wisdom of God, his mercy and grace! For behold, if the flesh should rise no more our spirits must become subject to that angel who fell from before the presence of the Eternal God, and became the devil, to rise no more.

2 Ne. 9:9
And our spirits must have become like unto him, and we become devils, angels to a devil, to be shut out from the presence of our God, and to remain with the father of lies, in misery, like unto himself; yea, to that being who beguiled our first parents, who transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of light, and stirreth up the children of men unto secret combinations of murder and all manner of secret works of darkness.

2 Ne. 9:10
O how great the goodness of our God, who prepareth a way for our escape from the grasp of this awful monster; yea, that monster, death and hell, which I call the death of the body, and also the death of the spirit.

2 Ne. 9:12
And this death of which I have spoken, which is the spiritual death, shall deliver up its dead; which spiritual death is hell; wherefore, death and hell must deliver up their dead, and hell must deliver up its captive spirits, and the grave must deliver up its captive bodies, and the bodies and the spirits of men will be restored one to the other; and it is by the power of the resurrection of the Holy One of Israel.

2 Ne. 9:13
O how great the plan of our God! For on the other hand, the paradise of God must deliver up the spirits of the righteous, and the grave deliver up the body of the righteous; and the spirit and the body is restored to itself again, and all men become incorruptible, and immortal, and they are living souls, having a perfect knowledge like unto us in the flesh, save it be that our knowledge shall be perfect.

2 Ne. 9:39
O, my beloved brethren, remember the awfulness in transgressing against that Holy God, and also the awfulness of yielding to the enticings of that cunning one. Remember, to be carnally-minded is death, and to be spiritually-minded is life eternal.

2 Ne. 14:4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment and by the spirit of burning.

2 Ne. 18:19
And when they shall say unto you: Seek unto them that have familiar spirits, and unto wizards that peep and mutter-- should not a people seek unto their God for the living to hear from the dead?

2 Ne. 21:2
And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord;

2 Ne. 25:4
Wherefore, hearken, O my people, which are of the house of Israel, and give ear unto my words; for because the words of Isaiah are not plain unto you, nevertheless they are plain unto all those that are filled with the spirit of prophecy. But I give unto you a prophecy, according to the spirit which is in me; wherefore I shall prophesy according to the plainness which hath been with me from the time that I came out from Jerusalem with my father; for behold, my soul delighteth in plainness unto my people, that they may learn.

2 Ne. 25:11
And now this I speak because of the spirit which is in me. And notwithstanding they have been carried away they shall return again, and possess the land of Jerusalem; wherefore, they shall be restored again to the land of their inheritance.

2 Ne. 26:11
For the Spirit of the Lord will not always strive with man. And when the Spirit ceaseth to strive with man then cometh speedy destruction, and this grieveth my soul.

2 Ne. 26:16
For those who shall be destroyed shall speak unto them out of the ground, and their speech shall be low out of the dust, and their voice shall be as one that hath a familiar spirit; for the Lord God will give unto him power, that he may whisper concerning them, even as it were out of the ground; and their speech shall whisper out of the dust.

2 Ne. 27:5
For behold, the Lord hath poured out upon you the spirit of deep sleep. For behold, ye have closed your eyes, and ye have rejected the prophets; and your rulers, and the seers hath he covered because of your iniquity.

2 Ne. 27:35
They also that erred in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmured shall learn doctrine.

2 Ne. 28:1
And now, behold, my brethren, I have spoken unto you, according as the Spirit hath constrained me; wherefore, I know that they must surely come to pass.

2 Ne. 32:7
And now I, Nephi, cannot say more; the Spirit stoppeth mine utterance, and I am left to mourn because of the unbelief, and the wickedness, and the ignorance, and the stiffneckedness of men; for they will not search knowledge, nor understand great knowledge, when it is given unto them in plainness, even as plain as word can be.

2 Ne. 32:8
And now, my beloved brethren, I perceive that ye ponder still in your hearts; and it grieveth me that I must speak concerning this thing. For if ye would hearken unto the Spirit which teacheth a man to pray, ye would know that ye must pray; for the evil spirit teacheth not a man to pray, but teacheth him that he must not pray.

2 Ne. 33:2
But behold, there are many that harden their hearts against the Holy Spirit, that it hath no place in them; wherefore, they cast many things away which are written and esteem them as things of naught.

2 Ne. 33:5
And it speaketh harshly against sin, according to the plainness of the truth; wherefore, no man will be angry at the words which I have written save he shall be of the spirit of the devil.