Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'sin' occurs 559 times in the standard works.

243 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'sin' in the standard works and contain 43.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 99 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 4:20-5:13 (29 in 29 verses)

Rom. 7:7-17 (11 in 11 verses)

Rom. 6:10-18 (9 in 9 verses)

1 Jn. 5:16-17 (6 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 3:4-9 (6 in 6 verses)

Lev. 4:2-3 (5 in 2 verses)

Ex. 32:30-34 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 84:49-53 (5 in 5 verses)

Rom. 5:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Num. 15:24-27 (4 in 4 verses)

Rom. 5:20-6:2 (4 in 4 verses)

Rom. 7:25-8:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 42:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 4:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 6:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 21:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 6:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 16:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 8:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 15:34-16:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 6:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

John 15:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 9:47-49 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 8:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 9:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 19:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 29:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 19:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 2:25 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 14:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 15:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 16:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 16:26 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 17:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 13:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 32:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 8:11 (2 in 1 verse)

John 8:34 (2 in 1 verse)

John 9:41 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 15:56 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 5:21 (2 in 1 verse)

James 1:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 15:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 82:7 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:55 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 9:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 16:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 5:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 33:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 23:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 24:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 19:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 29:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 51:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 30:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 43:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 45:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 16:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 6:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 1:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 41:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 50:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 336 764 1100
NT 112 293 405
BM 65 387 452
1 Ne. 0 24 24
2 Ne. 15 44 59
Jacob 4 13 17
Enos 0 2 2
Omni 0 1 1
W of M 0 1 1
Mosiah 12 70 82
Alma 21 132 153
Hel. 4 24 28
3 Ne. 3 44 47
4 Ne. 0 2 2
Morm. 1 10 11
Ether 2 7 9
Moro. 3 13 16
DC 42 275 317
PGP 4 31 35
TOTAL 559 1750 2309

Alma 7:15
Yea, I say unto you come and fear not, and lay aside every sin, which easily doth beset you, which doth bind you down to destruction, yea, come and go forth, and show unto your God that ye are willing to repent of your sins and enter into a covenant with him to keep his commandments, and witness it unto him this day by going into the waters of baptism.

Alma 13:12
Now they, after being sanctified by the Holy Ghost, having their garments made white, being pure and spotless before God, could not look upon sin save it were with abhorrence; and there were many, exceedingly great many, who were made pure and entered into the rest of the Lord their God.

Alma 15:3
And also Zeezrom lay sick at Sidom, with a burning fever, which was caused by the great tribulations of his mind on account of his wickedness, for he supposed that Alma and Amulek were no more; and he supposed that they had been slain because of his iniquity. And this great sin, and his many other sins, did harrow up his mind until it did become exceedingly sore, having no deliverance; therefore he began to be scorched with a burning heat.

Alma 24:19
And thus we see that, when these Lamanites were brought to believe and to know the truth, they were firm, and would suffer even unto death rather than commit sin; and thus we see that they buried their weapons of peace, or they buried the weapons of war, for peace.

Alma 24:30
And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have fallen away into sin and transgression, they become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse than though they had never known these things.

Alma 26:34
For behold, they would take up arms against their brethren; they would not suffer themselves to be slain. But behold how many of these have laid down their lives; and we know that they have gone to their God, because of their love and of their hatred to sin.

Alma 27:23
And behold, we will set our armies between the land Jershon and the land Nephi, that we may protect our brethren in the land Jershon; and this we do for our brethren, on account of their fear to take up arms against their brethren lest they should commit sin; and this their great fear came because of their sore repentance which they had, on account of their many murders and their awful wickedness.

Alma 28:13
And thus we see how great the inequality of man is because of sin and transgression, and the power of the devil, which comes by the cunning plans which he hath devised to ensnare the hearts of men.

Alma 29:3
But behold, I am a man, and do sin in my wish; for I ought to be content with the things which the Lord hath allotted unto me.

Alma 37:10
And who knoweth but what they will be the means of bringing many thousands of them, yea, and also many thousands of our stiffnecked brethren, the Nephites, who are now hardening their hearts in sin and iniquities, to the knowledge of their Redeemer?

Alma 37:32
And now, my son, remember the words which I have spoken unto you; trust not those secret plans unto this people, but teach them an everlasting hatred against sin and iniquity.

Alma 39:6
For behold, if ye deny the Holy Ghost when it once has had place in you, and ye know that ye deny it, behold, this is a sin which is unpardonable; yea, and whosoever murdereth against the light and knowledge of God, it is not easy for him to obtain forgiveness; yea, I say unto you, my son, that it is not easy for him to obtain a forgiveness.

Alma 41:9
And now behold, my son, do not risk one more offense against your God upon those points of doctrine, which ye have hitherto risked to commit sin.

Alma 41:10
Do not suppose, because it has been spoken concerning restoration, that ye shall be restored from sin to happiness. Behold, I say unto you, wickedness never was happiness.

Alma 42:17
Now, how could a man repent except he should sin? How could he sin if there was no law? How could there be a law save there was a punishment?

Alma 42:20
And also, if there was no law given against sin men would not be afraid to sin.

Alma 43:30
And he also knowing that it was the only desire of the Nephites to preserve their lands, and their liberty, and their church, therefore he thought it no sin that he should defend them by stratagem; therefore, he found by his spies which course the Lamanites were to take.

Alma 45:12
Yea, and this because they shall dwindle in unbelief and fall into the works of darkness, and lasciviousness, and all manner of iniquities; yea, I say unto you, that because they shall sin against so great light and knowledge, yea, I say unto you, that from that day, even the fourth generation shall not all pass away before this great iniquity shall come.

Alma 45:16
And he said: Thus saith the Lord God-- Cursed shall be the land, yea, this land, unto every nation, kindred, tongue, and people, unto destruction, which do wickedly, when they are fully ripe; and as I have said so shall it be; for this is the cursing and the blessing of God upon the land, for the Lord cannot look upon sin with the least degree of allowance.