Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'though' occurs 267 times in the standard works.

68 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'though' in the standard works and contain 25.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 23 minutes to read the entire list.

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Amos 9:2-4 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 13:1-3 (5 in 3 verses)

Ps. 46:2-3 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:29-30 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 4:30-5:2 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Cor. 7:8 (3 in 1 verse)

Job 20:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 32:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Pet. 1:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Josh. 17:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 16:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 27:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 8:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 5:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:53 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 2:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Obad. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 19:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 138:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 45:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 16:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 149 107 256
Gen. 3 5 8
Ex. 0 2 2
Lev. 3 0 3
Num. 1 2 3
Deut. 1 2 3
Josh. 2 1 3
Judg. 3 3 6
Ruth 1 1 2
1 Sam. 3 4 7
2 Sam. 4 7 11
1 Kgs. 1 1 2
2 Kgs. 0 1 1
1 Chr. 1 2 3
2 Chr. 1 2 3
Neh. 2 1 3
Esth. 1 3 4
Job 21 9 30
Ps. 16 18 34
Prov. 6 6 12
Eccl. 4 1 5
Isa. 10 10 20
Jer. 21 7 28
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 15 4 19
Dan. 2 8 10
Hosea 9 0 9
Amos 6 1 7
Obad. 3 0 3
Micah 1 1 2
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 2 1 3
Zech. 3 3 6
Mal. 0 1 1
NT 84 48 132
BM 21 64 85
DC 6 22 28
PGP 7 5 12
TOTAL 267 246 513

Gen. 6:5
And God saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

Gen. 20:11
And Abraham said, Because I thought, Surely the fear of God is not in this place; and they will slay me for my wife's sake.

Gen. 38:15
When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

Gen. 48:11
And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.

Gen. 50:20
But as for you, ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good, to bring to pass, as it is this day, to save much people alive.

Ex. 13:17
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God led them not through the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:

Ex. 32:14
And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.

Num. 24:11
Therefore now flee thou to thy place: I thought to promote thee unto great honour; but, lo, the Lord hath kept thee back from honour.

Num. 33:56
Moreover it shall come to pass, that I shall do unto you, as I thought to do unto them.

Deut. 15:9
Beware that there be not a thought in thy wicked heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou givest him nought; and he cry unto the Lord against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

Deut. 19:19
Then shall ye do unto him, as he had thought to have done unto his brother: so shalt thou put the evil away from among you.

Josh. 22:17
Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we are not cleansed until this day, although there was a plague in the congregation of the Lord,

Judg. 5:15
And the princes of Issachar were with Deborah; even Issachar, and also Barak: he was sent on foot into the valley. For the divisions of Reuben there were great thoughts of heart.

Judg. 15:2
And her father said, I verily thought that thou hadst utterly hated her; therefore I gave her to thy companion: is not her younger sister fairer than she? take her, I pray thee, instead of her.

Judg. 20:5
And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about upon me by night, and thought to have slain me: and my concubine have they forced, that she is dead.

Ruth 4:4
And I thought to advertise thee, saying, Buy it before the inhabitants, and before the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem it, redeem it: but if thou wilt not redeem it, then tell me, that I may know: for there is none to redeem it beside thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem it.

1 Sam. 1:13
Now Hannah, she spake in her heart; only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought she had been drunken.

1 Sam. 9:5
And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

1 Sam. 18:25
And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David, The king desireth not any dowry, but an hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

1 Sam. 20:26
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

2 Sam. 4:10
When one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, who thought that I would have given him a reward for his tidings:

2 Sam. 13:2
And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

2 Sam. 14:13
And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou thought such a thing against the people of God? for the king doth speak this thing as one which is faulty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished.

2 Sam. 19:18
And there went over a ferry boat to carry over the king's household, and to do what he thought good. And Shimei the son of Gera fell down before the king, as he was come over Jordan;

2 Sam. 21:16
And Ishbi-benob, which was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear weighed three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

2 Sam. 23:5
Although my house be not so with God; yet he hath made with me an everlasting covenant, ordered in all things, and sure: for this is all my salvation, and all my desire, although he make it not to grow.

1 Kgs. 20:5
And the messengers came again, and said, Thus speaketh Ben-hadad, saying, Although I have sent unto thee, saying, Thou shalt deliver me thy silver, and thy gold, and thy wives, and thy children;

2 Kgs. 5:11
But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

1 Chr. 28:9
And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

1 Chr. 29:18
O Lord God of Abraham, Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and prepare their heart unto thee:

2 Chr. 11:22
And Rehoboam made Abijah the son of Maachah the chief, to be ruler among his brethren: for he thought to make him king.

2 Chr. 32:1
After these things, and the establishment thereof, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fenced cities, and thought to win them for himself.

Neh. 6:2
That Sanballat and Geshem sent unto me, saying, Come, let us meet together in some one of the villages in the plain of Ono. But they thought to do me mischief.

Esth. 3:6
And he thought scorn to lay hands on Mordecai alone; for they had shewed him the people of Mordecai: wherefore Haman sought to destroy all the Jews that were throughout the whole kingdom of Ahasuerus, even the people of Mordecai.

Esth. 6:6
So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?

Esth. 7:4
For we are sold, I and my people, to be destroyed, to be slain, and to perish. But if we had been sold for bondmen and bondwomen, I had held my tongue, although the enemy could not countervail the king's damage.

Job 2:3
And the Lord said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil? and still he holdeth fast his integrity, although thou movedst me against him, to destroy him without cause.

Job 4:13
In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

Job 5:6
Although affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground;

Job 12:5
He that is ready to slip with his feet is as a lamp despised in the thought of him that is at ease.

Job 17:11
My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the thoughts of my heart.

Job 20:2
Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

Job 21:27
Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Job 35:14
Although thou sayest thou shalt not see him, yet judgment is before him; therefore trust thou in him.

Job 42:2
I know that thou canst do every thing, and that no thought can be withholden from thee.

Ps. 10:4
The wicked, through the pride of his countenance, will not seek after God: God is not in all his thoughts.

Ps. 33:11
The counsel of the Lord standeth for ever, the thoughts of his heart to all generations.

Ps. 40:5
Many, O Lord my God, are thy wonderful works which thou hast done, and thy thoughts which are to us-ward: they cannot be reckoned up in order unto thee: if I would declare and speak of them, they are more than can be numbered.

Ps. 48:9
We have thought of thy lovingkindness, O God, in the midst of thy temple.

Ps. 49:11
Their inward thought is, that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations; they call their lands after their own names.

Ps. 50:21
These things hast thou done, and I kept silence; thou thoughtest that I was altogether such an one as thyself: but I will reprove thee, and set them in order before thine eyes.

Ps. 56:5
Every day they wrest my words: all their thoughts are against me for evil.

Ps. 64:6
They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search: both the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

Ps. 73:16
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me;

Ps. 92:5
O Lord, how great are thy works! and thy thoughts are very deep.

Ps. 94:11
The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man, that they are vanity.

Ps. 94:19
In the multitude of my thoughts within me thy comforts delight my soul.

Ps. 119:59
I thought on my ways, and turned my feet unto thy testimonies.

Ps. 119:113
I hate vain thoughts: but thy law do I love.

Ps. 139:2
Thou knowest my downsitting and mine uprising, thou understandest my thought afar off.

Ps. 139:17
How precious also are thy thoughts unto me, O God! how great is the sum of them!

Ps. 139:23
Search me, O God, and know my heart: try me, and know my thoughts:

Ps. 146:4
His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perish.

Prov. 12:5
The thoughts of the righteous are right: but the counsels of the wicked are deceit.

Prov. 15:26
The thoughts of the wicked are an abomination to the Lord: but the words of the pure are pleasant words.

Prov. 16:3
Commit thy works unto the Lord, and thy thoughts shall be established.

Prov. 21:5
The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

Prov. 24:9
The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

Prov. 30:32
If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

Eccl. 10:20
Curse not the king, no not in thy thought; and curse not the rich in thy bedchamber: for a bird of the air shall carry the voice, and that which hath wings shall tell the matter.

Isa. 14:24
The Lord of hosts hath sworn, saying, Surely as I have thought, so shall it come to pass; and as I have purposed, so shall it stand:

Isa. 55:7
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the Lord, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.

Isa. 55:8
For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith the Lord.

Isa. 55:9
For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways, and my thoughts than your thoughts.

Isa. 59:7
Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

Isa. 65:2
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;

Isa. 66:18
For I know their works and their thoughts: it shall come, that I will gather all nations and tongues; and they shall come, and see my glory.

Jer. 4:14
O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?

Jer. 6:19
Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

Jer. 18:8
If that nation, against whom I have pronounced, turn from their evil, I will repent of the evil that I thought to do unto them.

Jer. 23:20
The anger of the Lord shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the thoughts of his heart: in the latter days ye shall consider it perfectly.

Jer. 29:11
For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the Lord, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Jer. 31:32
Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:

Ezek. 7:13
For the seller shall not return to that which is sold, although they were yet alive: for the vision is touching the whole multitude thereof, which shall not return; neither shall any strengthen himself in the iniquity of his life.

Ezek. 11:16
Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; Although I have cast them far off among the heathen, and although I have scattered them among the countries, yet will I be to them as a little sanctuary in the countries where they shall come.

Ezek. 38:10
Thus saith the Lord God; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:

Dan. 2:29
As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and he that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass.

Dan. 2:30
But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

Dan. 4:2
I thought it good to shew the signs and wonders that the high God hath wrought toward me.

Dan. 4:5
I saw a dream which made me afraid, and the thoughts upon my bed and the visions of my head troubled me.

Dan. 4:19
Then Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, was astonied for one hour, and his thoughts troubled him. The king spake, and said, Belteshazzar, let not the dream, or the interpretation thereof, trouble thee. Belteshazzar answered and said, My lord, the dream be to them that hate thee, and the interpretation thereof to thine enemies.

Dan. 5:6
Then the king's countenance was changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his loins were loosed, and his knees smote one against another.

Dan. 5:10
Now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house: and the queen spake and said, O king, live for ever: let not thy thoughts trouble thee, nor let thy countenance be changed:

Dan. 6:3
Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Amos 4:13
For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The Lord, The God of hosts, is his name.

Micah 4:12
But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

Hab. 3:17
Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:

Zech. 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers? and they returned and said, Like as the Lord of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.

Zech. 8:14
For thus saith the Lord of hosts; As I thought to punish you, when your fathers provoked me to wrath, saith the Lord of hosts, and I repented not:

Zech. 8:15
So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

Mal. 3:16
Then they that feared the Lord spake often one to another: and the Lord hearkened, and heard it, and a book of remembrance was written before him for them that feared the Lord, and that thought upon his name.