Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'can' occurs 519 times in the standard works.

173 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'can' in the standard works and contain 33.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 61 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 8:12-17 (8 in 6 verses)

Alma 5:16-21 (7 in 6 verses)

3 Ne. 17:17 (4 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 5:51-53 (4 in 3 verses)

Moro. 10:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)


Job 41:13-16 (4 in 4 verses)

 41:13 Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

 41:14 Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

 41:15 His scales are his pride, shut up together as with a close seal.

 41:16 One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.




D&C 123:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 19:35 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:46 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 78:19-20 (3 in 2 verses)

Dan. 2:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

John 3:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 5:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Esth. 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 8:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 25:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 34:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 38:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 89:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 106:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 2:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 28:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 5:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 9:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 14:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 22:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Nahum 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 16:3 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 6:16 (2 in 1 verse)

James 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 3:31 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 16:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 11:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 12:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 14:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:26 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 48:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:57 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 7:36 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 6:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

John 15:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 61:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 11:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 27:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 30:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:70-71 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 159 381 540
Gen. 8 69 77
Ex. 2 35 37
Lev. 1 6 7
Num. 1 29 30
Deut. 6 8 14
Josh. 0 25 25
Judg. 1 26 27
Ruth 0 2 2
1 Sam. 6 5 11
2 Sam. 8 4 12
1 Kgs. 1 5 6
2 Kgs. 0 2 2
1 Chr. 1 10 11
2 Chr. 3 7 10
Ezra 0 3 3
Neh. 0 3 3
Esth. 2 3 5
Job 33 47 80
Ps. 17 11 28
Prov. 8 7 15
Eccl. 11 5 16
Song. 1 1 2
Isa. 8 19 27
Jer. 20 22 42
Lam. 1 2 3
Ezek. 5 4 9
Dan. 6 4 10
Hosea 0 1 1
Joel 1 3 4
Amos 3 0 3
Obad. 0 1 1
Jonah 1 1 2
Micah 2 1 3
Nahum 2 3 5
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 0 2 2
Zech. 0 3 3
NT 76 136 212
BM 193 147 340
DC 79 103 182
PGP 12 25 37
TOTAL 519 792 1311

Job 3:22
Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Job 4:2
If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

Job 5:12
He disappointeth the devices of the crafty, so that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Job 6:6
Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Job 6:30
Is there iniquity in my tongue? cannot my taste discern perverse things?

Job 8:11
Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

Job 9:3
If he will contend with him, he cannot answer him one of a thousand.

Job 9:12
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Job 10:7
Thou knowest that I am not wicked; and there is none that can deliver out of thine hand.

Job 11:7
Canst thou by searching find out God? canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

Job 11:8
It is as high as heaven; what canst thou do? deeper than hell; what canst thou know?

Job 11:10
If he cut off, and shut up, or gather together, then who can hinder him?

Job 12:14
Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Job 14:4
Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;

Job 15:3
Should he reason with unprofitable talk? or with speeches wherewith he can do no good?

Job 17:10
But as for you all, do ye return, and come now: for I cannot find one wise man among you.

Job 18:6
The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 21:17
How oft is the candle of the wicked put out! and how oft cometh their destruction upon them! God distributeth sorrows in his anger.

Job 22:2
Can a man be profitable unto God, as he that is wise may be profitable unto himself?

Job 22:11
Or darkness, that thou canst not see; and abundance of waters cover thee.

Job 22:13
And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

Job 22:17
Which said unto God, Depart from us: and what can the Almighty do for them?

Job 23:8
Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

Job 23:9
On the left hand, where he doth work, but I cannot behold him: he hideth himself on the right hand, that I cannot see him:

Job 23:13
But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his soul desireth, even that he doeth.

Job 25:4
How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 28:15
It cannot be gotten for gold, neither shall silver be weighed for the price thereof.

Job 28:16
It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

Job 28:17
The gold and the crystal cannot equal it: and the exchange of it shall not be for jewels of fine gold.

Job 29:3
When his candle shined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darkness;

Job 31:31
If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

Job 33:5
If thou canst answer me, set thy words in order before me, stand up.

Job 33:21
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Job 34:29
When he giveth quietness, who then can make trouble? and when he hideth his face, who then can behold him? whether it be done against a nation, or against a man only:

Job 36:18
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Job 36:23
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Job 36:26
Behold, God is great, and we know him not, neither can the number of his years be searched out.

Job 36:29
Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

Job 37:5
God thundereth marvellously with his voice; great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

Job 37:19
Teach us what we shall say unto him; for we cannot order our speech by reason of darkness.

Job 37:23
Touching the Almighty, we cannot find him out: he is excellent in power, and in judgment, and in plenty of justice: he will not afflict.

Job 38:31
Canst thou bind the sweet influences of Pleiades, or loose the bands of Orion?

Job 38:32
Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth in his season? or canst thou guide Arcturus with his sons?

Job 38:33
Knowest thou the ordinances of heaven? canst thou set the dominion thereof in the earth?

Job 38:34
Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Job 38:35
Canst thou send lightnings, that they may go, and say unto thee, Here we are?

Job 38:37
Who can number the clouds in wisdom? or who can stay the bottles of heaven,

Job 39:1
Knowest thou the time when the wild goats of the rock bring forth? or canst thou mark when the hinds do calve?

Job 39:2
Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Job 39:10
Canst thou bind the unicorn with his band in the furrow? or will he harrow the valleys after thee?

Job 39:20
Canst thou make him afraid as a grasshopper? the glory of his nostrils is terrible.

Job 40:9
Hast thou an arm like God? or canst thou thunder with a voice like him?

Job 40:14
Then will I also confess unto thee that thine own right hand can save thee.

Job 40:19
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.

Job 40:23
Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

Job 41:1
Canst thou draw out leviathan with an hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down?

Job 41:2
Canst thou put an hook into his nose? or bore his jaw through with a thorn?

Job 41:7
Canst thou fill his skin with barbed irons? or his head with fish spears?

Job 41:13
Who can discover the face of his garment? or who can come to him with his double bridle?

Job 41:14
Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

Job 41:16
One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

Job 41:17
They are joined one to another, they stick together, that they cannot be sundered.

Job 41:23
The flakes of his flesh are joined together: they are firm in themselves; they cannot be moved.

Job 41:26
The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold: the spear, the dart, nor the habergeon.

Job 41:28
The arrow cannot make him flee: slingstones are turned with him into stubble.

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