Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wherefore' occurs 975 times in the standard works.

298 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wherefore' in the standard works and contain 30.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 141 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Ne. 1:31-2:18 (21 in 20 verses)

Moro. 7:8-16 (9 in 9 verses)

2 Ne. 10:15-22 (8 in 8 verses)

2 Ne. 10:18-25 (8 in 8 verses)

Jacob 4:8-14 (7 in 7 verses)

1 Ne. 15:33-16:2 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Ne. 25:3-8 (6 in 6 verses)

2 Ne. 31:20-32:4 (6 in 6 verses)

Jacob 1:6-11 (6 in 6 verses)

Jacob 7:25-27 (5 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 9:4-10:1 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 19:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 1:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 4:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 25:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 17:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:44-45 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:30-31 (3 in 2 verses)

Moro. 8:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 3:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 10:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 18:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 5:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 5:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 25:27-29 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 29:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 30:18-31:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 31:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 2:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Enos 1:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 7:44-46 (3 in 3 verses)

Moro. 8:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 27:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 7:39-41 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 11:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 58:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 22:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:7 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 11:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:30 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 27:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Omni 1:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 4:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 2:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 6:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 2:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)


Jer. 44:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

 44:6 Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

 44:7 Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;




Mal. 2:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 5:22-6:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 6:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 26:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 3:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 3:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:61-62 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 7:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 8:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 8:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 8:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 19:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 45:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 49:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 56:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 58:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:51-52 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:63-64 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 70:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 71:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:58-59 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:78-79 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 6:56-57 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 244 0 244
Gen. 19 0 19
Ex. 14 0 14
Lev. 3 0 3
Num. 17 0 17
Deut. 4 0 4
Josh. 8 0 8
Judg. 7 0 7
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 33 0 33
2 Sam. 22 0 22
1 Kgs. 8 0 8
2 Kgs. 9 0 9
1 Chr. 4 0 4
2 Chr. 9 0 9
Neh. 1 0 1
Esth. 2 0 2
Job 10 0 10
Ps. 6 0 6
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 13 0 13
Jer. 24 0 24
Lam. 2 0 2
Ezek. 14 0 14
Dan. 5 0 5
Joel 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 104 0 104
BM 415 0 415
DC 182 0 182
PGP 30 0 30
TOTAL 975 0 975

Jer. 2:9
Wherefore I will yet plead with you, saith the Lord, and with your children's children will I plead.

Jer. 2:29
Wherefore will ye plead with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith the Lord.

Jer. 2:31
O generation, see ye the word of the Lord. Have I been a wilderness unto Israel? a land of darkness? wherefore say my people, We are lords; we will come no more unto thee?

Jer. 5:6
Wherefore a lion out of the forest shall slay them, and a wolf of the evenings shall spoil them, a leopard shall watch over their cities: every one that goeth out thence shall be torn in pieces: because their transgressions are many, and their backslidings are increased.

Jer. 5:14
Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

Jer. 5:19
And it shall come to pass, when ye shall say, Wherefore doeth the Lord our God all these things unto us? then shalt thou answer them, Like as ye have forsaken me, and served strange gods in your land, so shall ye serve strangers in a land that is not yours.

Jer. 12:1
Righteous art thou, O Lord, when I plead with thee: yet let me talk with thee of thy judgments: Wherefore doth the way of the wicked prosper? wherefore are all they happy that deal very treacherously?

Jer. 13:22
And if thou say in thine heart, Wherefore come these things upon me? For the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts discovered, and thy heels made bare.

Jer. 16:10
And it shall come to pass, when thou shalt shew this people all these words, and they shall say unto thee, Wherefore hath the Lord pronounced all this great evil against us? or what is our iniquity? or what is our sin that we have committed against the Lord our God?

Jer. 20:18
Wherefore came I forth out of the womb to see labour and sorrow, that my days should be consumed with shame?

Jer. 22:8
And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath the Lord done thus unto this great city?

Jer. 22:28
Is this man Coniah a despised broken idol? is he a vessel wherein is no pleasure? wherefore are they cast out, he and his seed, and are cast into a land which they know not?

Jer. 23:12
Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery ways in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein: for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith the Lord.

Jer. 27:17
Hearken not unto them; serve the king of Babylon, and live: wherefore should this city be laid waste?

Jer. 30:6
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?

Jer. 32:3
For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

Jer. 37:15
Wherefore the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe: for they had made that the prison.

Jer. 40:15
Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Jer. 44:6
Wherefore my fury and mine anger was poured forth, and was kindled in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; and they are wasted and desolate, as at this day.

Jer. 44:7
Therefore now thus saith the Lord, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;

Jer. 46:5
Wherefore have I seen them dismayed and turned away back? and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: for fear was round about, saith the Lord.

Jer. 49:4
Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

Jer. 51:52
Wherefore, behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will do judgment upon her graven images: and through all her land the wounded shall groan.