Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'more' occurs 1174 times in the standard works.

362 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'more' in the standard works and contain 30.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 138 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 16:6-12 (7 in 7 verses)

Rev. 18:21-23 (6 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 36:12-15 (6 in 4 verses)

Abr. 3:18-19 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 12:22-24 (5 in 3 verses)

Job 7:7-10 (5 in 4 verses)

Rom. 11:6 (4 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:7-8 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 36:9-11 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 5:29-31 (4 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 5:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 19:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Moro. 1:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Isa. 1:5 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 11:23 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 3:16-17 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 16:51-52 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 29:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 34:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 37:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 3:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:30-25:1 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 43:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 37:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 10:28-11:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 60:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 22:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 12:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Heb. 12:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 11:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 29:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:47-49 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 34:36-38 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 52:40-53:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 58:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 8:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 9:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 38:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 22:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 33:54 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 2:28 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 14:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 17:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 33:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 4:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 20:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 71:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 115:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 130:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 52:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 62:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 31:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 13:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 7:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 6:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 1:9 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 4:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 3:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 14:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:75 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 20:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 36:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 43:51 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 47:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 6:18 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:44 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:40 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 5:21 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:80 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 98:48 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 102:14 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:10 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 9:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 36:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 22:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 18:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 19:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 12:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 21:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 32:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 34:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:99-100 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)


Eccl. 9:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

 9:5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

 9:6 Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.




Isa. 30:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 65:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 16:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 26:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 2:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 5:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 23:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 27:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 10:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 32:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 21:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 23:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 41:15-42:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 42:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 55:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 63:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 15:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 7:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 37:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 108:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 111:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 460 197 657
Gen. 21 6 27
Ex. 18 7 25
Lev. 9 5 14
Num. 10 4 14
Deut. 17 9 26
Josh. 6 0 6
Judg. 7 2 9
Ruth 3 1 4
1 Sam. 22 8 30
2 Sam. 24 7 31
1 Kgs. 7 8 15
2 Kgs. 12 5 17
1 Chr. 11 15 26
2 Chr. 13 26 39
Ezra 1 2 3
Neh. 3 10 13
Esth. 5 1 6
Job 24 5 29
Ps. 28 19 47
Prov. 17 0 17
Eccl. 16 4 20
Song. 3 0 3
Isa. 36 8 44
Jer. 35 12 47
Lam. 5 0 5
Ezek. 68 29 97
Dan. 4 0 4
Hosea 9 0 9
Joel 3 0 3
Amos 5 1 6
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 3 1 4
Nahum 4 0 4
Hab. 2 0 2
Zeph. 2 0 2
Zech. 5 2 7
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 226 26 252
BM 374 19 393
DC 95 2 97
PGP 19 3 22
TOTAL 1174 247 1421

Eccl. 1:16
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Eccl. 2:9
So I was great, and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem: also my wisdom remained with me.

Eccl. 2:15
Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Eccl. 2:16
For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

Eccl. 2:25
For who can eat, or who else can hasten hereunto, more than I?

Eccl. 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

Eccl. 4:2
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Eccl. 4:13
Better is a poor and a wise child than an old and foolish king, who will no more be admonished.

Eccl. 5:1
Keep thy foot when thou goest to the house of God, and be more ready to hear, than to give the sacrifice of fools: for they consider not that they do evil.

Eccl. 5:9
Moreover the profit of the earth is for all: the king himself is served by the field.

Eccl. 6:5
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Eccl. 6:8
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

Eccl. 7:19
Wisdom strengtheneth the wise more than ten mighty men which are in the city.

Eccl. 7:26
And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

Eccl. 9:5
For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

Eccl. 9:6
Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

Eccl. 9:17
The words of wise men are heard in quiet more than the cry of him that ruleth among fools.

Eccl. 10:10
If the iron be blunt, and he do not whet the edge, then must he put to more strength: but wisdom is profitable to direct.

Eccl. 12:9
And moreover, because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he gave good heed, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.