Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'weight' occurs 61 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'weight' in the standard works and contain 24.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 28:14-18 (9 in 5 verses)

Gen. 24:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 21:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 8:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 7 61
NT 4 2 6
BM 0 0 0
DC 3 1 4
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 61 10 71

D&C 63:66
These things remain to overcome through patience, that such may receive a more exceeding and eternal weight of glory, otherwise, a greater condemnation. Amen.

D&C 123:7
It is an imperative duty that we owe to God, to angels, with whom we shall be brought to stand, and also to ourselves, to our wives and children, who have been made to bow down with grief, sorrow, and care, under the most damning hand of murder, tyranny, and oppression, supported and urged on and upheld by the influence of that spirit which hath so strongly riveted the creeds of the fathers, who have inherited lies, upon the hearts of the children, and filled the world with confusion, and has been growing stronger and stronger, and is now the very mainspring of all corruption, and the whole earth groans under the weight of its iniquity.

D&C 132:16
Therefore, when they are out of the world they neither marry nor are given in marriage; but are appointed angels in heaven, which angels are ministering servants, to minister for those who are worthy of a far more, and an exceeding, and an eternal weight of glory.