Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'kill' occurs 147 times in the standard works.

26 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'kill' in the standard works and contain 17.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 9 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lev. 4:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 31:17 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 17:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 5:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

James 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 12:21 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:31 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 19:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

John 7:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 9:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 78 66 144
NT 47 40 87
Matt. 9 5 14
Mark 5 7 12
Luke 6 8 14
John 9 1 10
Acts 9 6 15
Rom. 1 2 3
2 Cor. 0 2 2
1 Thes. 0 1 1
James 3 1 4
Rev. 5 7 12
BM 13 12 25
DC 6 4 10
PGP 3 1 4
TOTAL 147 123 270

Mark 3:4
And he saith unto them, Is it lawful to do good on the sabbath days, or to do evil? to save life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

Mark 6:19
Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

Mark 8:31
And he began to teach them, that the Son of man must suffer many things, and be rejected of the elders, and of the chief priests, and scribes, and be killed, and after three days rise again.

Mark 9:31
For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

Mark 10:19
Thou knowest the commandments, Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Defraud not, Honour thy father and mother.

Mark 10:34
And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

Mark 12:5
And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.

Mark 12:7
But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

Mark 12:8
And they took him, and killed him, and cast him out of the vineyard.

Mark 14:12
And the first day of unleavened bread, when they killed the passover, his disciples said unto him, Where wilt thou that we go and prepare that thou mayest eat the passover?