Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'above' occurs 347 times in the standard works.

85 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'above' in the standard works and contain 24.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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Abr. 3:16-21 (6 in 6 verses)

 3:16 If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them; therefore Kolob is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam that thou hast seen, because it is nearest unto me.

 3:17 Now, if there be two things, one above the other, and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or a star may exist above it; and there is nothing that the Lord thy God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it.

 3:18 Howbeit that he made the greater star; as, also, if there be two spirits, and one shall be more intelligent than the other, yet these two spirits, notwithstanding one is more intelligent than the other, have no beginning; they existed before, they shall have no end, they shall exist after, for they are gnolaum, or eternal.

 3:19 And the Lord said unto me: These two facts do exist, that there are two spirits, one being more intelligent than the other; there shall be another more intelligent than they; I am the Lord thy God, I am more intelligent than they all.

 3:20 The Lord thy God sent his angel to deliver thee from the hands of the priest of Elkenah.

 3:21 I dwell in the midst of them all; I now, therefore, have come down unto thee to declare unto thee the works which my hands have made, wherein my wisdom excelleth them all, for I rule in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, in all wisdom and prudence, over all the intelligences thine eyes have seen from the beginning; I came down in the beginning in the midst of all the intelligences thou hast seen.




Neh. 12:37-39 (4 in 3 verses)

John 3:31 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:42 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 108:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 12:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 3:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 5:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 57:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 57:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 97:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 113:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 119:127 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 13:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 23:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 16:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:63 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 49:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 25:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 39:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 40:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Col. 3:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 24:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 176 0 176
NT 47 0 47
BM 66 0 66
DC 32 0 32
PGP 26 0 26
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 13 0 13
JS-H 7 0 7
TOTAL 347 0 347

Abr. 2:9
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood unto all nations;

Abr. 3:5
And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the night, is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years.

Abr. 3:8
And where these two facts exist, there shall be another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet whose reckoning of time shall be longer still;

Abr. 3:9
And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord's time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

Abr. 3:16
If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them; therefore Kolob is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam that thou hast seen, because it is nearest unto me.

Abr. 3:17
Now, if there be two things, one above the other, and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or a star may exist above it; and there is nothing that the Lord thy God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it.

Abr. 3:21
I dwell in the midst of them all; I now, therefore, have come down unto thee to declare unto thee the works which my hands have made, wherein my wisdom excelleth them all, for I rule in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, in all wisdom and prudence, over all the intelligences thine eyes have seen from the beginning; I came down in the beginning in the midst of all the intelligences thou hast seen.

Abr. 4:7
And the Gods ordered the expanse, so that it divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so, even as they ordered.

Abr. 4:20
And the Gods said: Let us prepare the waters to bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life; and the fowl, that they may fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven.