Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'bondage' occurs 126 times in the standard works.

49 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'bondage' in the standard works and contain 38.9% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 21 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 21:36-22:4 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 17:24-25 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 29:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 9:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 29:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)


D&C 84:49-51 (3 in 3 verses)

 84:49 And the whole world lieth in sin, and groaneth under darkness and under the bondage of sin.

 84:50 And by this you may know they are under the bondage of sin, because they come not unto me.

 84:51 For whoso cometh not unto me is under the bondage of sin.




Ex. 2:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 5:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 24:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 6:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 9:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Gal. 4:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 36:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 43:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:83-84 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 24 0 24
NT 15 0 15
BM 73 0 73
DC 13 0 13
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 126 0 126

D&C 19:35
Pay the debt thou hast contracted with the printer. Release thyself from bondage.

D&C 45:17
For as ye have looked upon the long absence of your spirits from your bodies to be a bondage, I will show unto you how the day of redemption shall come, and also the restoration of the scattered Israel.

D&C 84:49
And the whole world lieth in sin, and groaneth under darkness and under the bondage of sin.

D&C 84:50
And by this you may know they are under the bondage of sin, because they come not unto me.

D&C 84:51
For whoso cometh not unto me is under the bondage of sin.

D&C 101:79
Therefore, it is not right that any man should be in bondage one to another.

D&C 103:17
For ye are the children of Israel, and of the seed of Abraham, and ye must needs be led out of bondage by power, and with a stretched-out arm.

D&C 104:83
I give unto you a promise, that you shall be delivered this once out of your bondage.

D&C 104:84
Inasmuch as you obtain a chance to loan money by hundreds, or thousands, even until you shall loan enough to deliver yourself from bondage, it is your privilege.

D&C 109:63
And the yoke of bondage may begin to be broken off from the house of David;

D&C 121:18
And those who swear falsely against my servants, that they might bring them into bondage and death--

D&C 138:50
For the dead had looked upon the long absence of their spirits from their bodies as a bondage.

D&C 138:57
I beheld that the faithful elders of this dispensation, when they depart from mortal life, continue their labors in the preaching of the gospel of repentance and redemption, through the sacrifice of the Only Begotten Son of God, among those who are in darkness and under the bondage of sin in the great world of the spirits of the dead.