Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ways' occurs 270 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ways' in the standard works and contain 13% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 55:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 21:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 32:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 6:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 27:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:60-31:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 185 30 215
Gen. 1 1 2
Ex. 0 2 2
Lev. 2 0 2
Num. 1 0 1
Deut. 12 4 16
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 0 5 5
1 Sam. 3 1 4
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 7 0 7
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 15 1 16
Job 14 2 16
Ps. 21 4 25
Prov. 29 2 31
Eccl. 1 1 2
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 14 3 17
Jer. 18 1 19
Lam. 4 0 4
Ezek. 23 1 24
Dan. 2 0 2
Hosea 4 0 4
Joel 1 0 1
Amos 0 1 1
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 3 0 3
Mal. 1 0 1
NT 20 45 65
BM 53 45 98
DC 9 34 43
PGP 3 3 6
TOTAL 270 157 427

2 Chr. 6:30
Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

2 Chr. 6:31
That they may fear thee, to walk in thy ways, so long as they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

2 Chr. 7:14
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.

2 Chr. 13:22
And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

2 Chr. 17:3
And the Lord was with Jehoshaphat, because he walked in the first ways of his father David, and sought not unto Baalim;

2 Chr. 17:6
And his heart was lifted up in the ways of the Lord: moreover he took away the high places and groves out of Judah.

2 Chr. 18:7
And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may inquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

2 Chr. 21:12
And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith the Lord God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

2 Chr. 22:3
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.

2 Chr. 27:6
So Jotham became mighty, because he prepared his ways before the Lord his God.

2 Chr. 27:7
Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all his wars, and his ways, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel and Judah.

2 Chr. 28:2
For he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for Baalim.

2 Chr. 28:26
Now the rest of his acts and of all his ways, first and last, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

2 Chr. 32:13
Know ye not what I and my fathers have done unto all the people of other lands? were the gods of the nations of those lands any ways able to deliver their lands out of mine hand?

2 Chr. 34:2
And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.