Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'away' occurs 1369 times in the standard works.

430 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'away' in the standard works and contain 31.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 178 minutes to read the entire list.

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3 Ne. 1:29-2:10 (12 in 12 verses)

Alma 24:10-16 (7 in 7 verses)

4 Ne. 1:14-18 (6 in 5 verses)

Gen. 31:26-27 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 13:26-29 (5 in 4 verses)

Jacob 5:65-69 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 39:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

Matt. 19:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 6:17-7:1 (4 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Abr. 1:15-17 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 3:21-24 (4 in 4 verses)

Job 12:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 29:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 52:27-30 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 17:43-46 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Esth. 2:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 14:12 (3 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:35-36 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 21:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

John 19:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:38-39 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 26:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 28:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

JS-M 1:34-35 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 58:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 5:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 49:25-50:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 13:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 18:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 1:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 26:42-44 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Cor. 3:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 15:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 19:21-20:2 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 20:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:73-75 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 7:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Omni 1:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 11:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 1:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 45:21-23 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 26:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 13:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 30:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 20:34 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 12:9 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 20:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 28:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 30:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 2:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 20:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 34:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 68:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 1:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 24:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 25:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 57:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 29:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 39:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 40:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 41:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 38:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 44:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 24:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 13:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 16:18 (2 in 1 verse)

John 16:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 21:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 19:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 31:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 61:4 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 8:16 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 10:9 (2 in 1 verse)

4 Ne. 1:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 9:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 1:38 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 56:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:44-45 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 28:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 22:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 26:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 24:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 25:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 30:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 9:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 14:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 27:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 39:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 78:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 90:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 4:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 25:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 15:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 19:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)


Isa. 59:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

 59:13 In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.




Jer. 37:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 46:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 52:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 23:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Nahum 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 14:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 6:45-46 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 6:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 8:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

John 20:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 11:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 7:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

James 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:20-2:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 14:30-15:1 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 16:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:47-48 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 10:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 63:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 74:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 109:52-53 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 704 0 704
Gen. 39 0 39
Ex. 17 0 17
Lev. 20 0 20
Num. 12 0 12
Deut. 30 0 30
Josh. 12 0 12
Judg. 18 0 18
1 Sam. 28 0 28
2 Sam. 22 0 22
1 Kgs. 29 0 29
2 Kgs. 35 0 35
1 Chr. 14 0 14
2 Chr. 39 0 39
Ezra 9 0 9
Neh. 2 0 2
Esth. 5 0 5
Job 48 0 48
Ps. 44 0 44
Prov. 23 0 23
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 6 0 6
Isa. 67 0 67
Jer. 70 0 70
Lam. 5 0 5
Ezek. 33 0 33
Dan. 12 0 12
Hosea 15 0 15
Joel 2 0 2
Amos 17 0 17
Obad. 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 4 0 4
Nahum 6 0 6
Zeph. 3 0 3
Zech. 7 0 7
Mal. 4 0 4
NT 211 1 212
BM 380 0 380
DC 55 0 55
PGP 19 0 19
TOTAL 1369 1 1370

Isa. 1:4
Ah sinful nation, a people laden with iniquity, a seed of evildoers, children that are corrupters: they have forsaken the Lord, they have provoked the Holy One of Israel unto anger, they are gone away backward.

Isa. 1:13
Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

Isa. 1:16
Wash you, make you clean; put away the evil of your doings from before mine eyes; cease to do evil;

Isa. 1:25
And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin:

Isa. 3:1
For, behold, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, doth take away from Jerusalem and from Judah the stay and the staff, the whole stay of bread, and the whole stay of water,

Isa. 3:18
In that day the Lord will take away the bravery of their tinkling ornaments about their feet, and their cauls, and their round tires like the moon,

Isa. 4:1
And in that day seven women shall take hold of one man, saying, We will eat our own bread, and wear our own apparel: only let us be called by thy name, to take away our reproach.

Isa. 4:4
When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

Isa. 5:5
And now go to; I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard: I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be eaten up; and break down the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down:

Isa. 5:23
Which justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Isa. 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. 5:25
Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isa. 5:29
Their roaring shall be like a lion, they shall roar like young lions: yea, they shall roar, and lay hold of the prey, and shall carry it away safe, and none shall deliver it.

Isa. 6:7
And he laid it upon my mouth, and said, Lo, this hath touched thy lips; and thine iniquity is taken away, and thy sin purged.

Isa. 6:12
And the Lord have removed men far away, and there be a great forsaking in the midst of the land.

Isa. 8:4
For before the child shall have knowledge to cry, My father, and my mother, the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

Isa. 9:12
The Syrians before, and the Philistines behind; and they shall devour Israel with open mouth. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isa. 9:17
Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isa. 9:21
Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh: and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isa. 10:2
To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Isa. 10:4
Without me they shall bow down under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Isa. 10:27
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Isa. 12:1
And in that day thou shalt say, O Lord, I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is turned away, and thou comfortedst me.

Isa. 15:6
For the waters of Nimrim shall be desolate: for the hay is withered away, the grass faileth, there is no green thing.

Isa. 15:7
Therefore the abundance they have gotten, and that which they have laid up, shall they carry away to the brook of the willows.

Isa. 16:10
And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

Isa. 17:1
The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

Isa. 18:5
For afore the harvest, when the bud is perfect, and the sour grape is ripening in the flower, he shall both cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and take away and cut down the branches.

Isa. 19:6
And they shall turn the rivers far away; and the brooks of defence shall be emptied and dried up: the reeds and flags shall wither.

Isa. 19:7
The paper reeds by the brooks, by the mouth of the brooks, and every thing sown by the brooks, shall wither, be driven away, and be no more.

Isa. 20:4
So shall the king of Assyria lead away the Egyptians prisoners, and the Ethiopians captives, young and old, naked and barefoot, even with their buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.

Isa. 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Isa. 22:17
Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee.

Isa. 24:4
The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the haughty people of the earth do languish.

Isa. 25:8
He will swallow up death in victory; and the Lord God will wipe away tears from off all faces; and the rebuke of his people shall he take away from off all the earth: for the Lord hath spoken it.

Isa. 27:9
By this therefore shall the iniquity of Jacob be purged; and this is all the fruit to take away his sin; when he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, the groves and images shall not stand up.

Isa. 28:17
Judgment also will I lay to the line, and righteousness to the plummet: and the hail shall sweep away the refuge of lies, and the waters shall overflow the hiding place.

Isa. 29:5
Moreover the multitude of thy strangers shall be like small dust, and the multitude of the terrible ones shall be as chaff that passeth away: yea, it shall be at an instant suddenly.

Isa. 30:22
Ye shall defile also the covering of thy graven images of silver, and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as a menstruous cloth; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.

Isa. 31:7
For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

Isa. 35:10
And the ransomed of the Lord shall return, and come to Zion with songs and everlasting joy upon their heads: they shall obtain joy and gladness, and sorrow and sighing shall flee away.

Isa. 36:7
But if thou say to me, We trust in the Lord our God: is it not he, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath taken away, and said to Judah and to Jerusalem, Ye shall worship before this altar?

Isa. 36:9
How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master's servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

Isa. 36:17
Until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

Isa. 39:7
And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.

Isa. 40:24
Yea, they shall not be planted; yea, they shall not be sown: yea, their stock shall not take root in the earth: and he shall also blow upon them, and they shall wither, and the whirlwind shall take them away as stubble.

Isa. 41:9
Thou whom I have taken from the ends of the earth, and called thee from the chief men thereof, and said unto thee, Thou art my servant; I have chosen thee, and not cast thee away.

Isa. 41:16
Thou shalt fan them, and the wind shall carry them away, and the whirlwind shall scatter them: and thou shalt rejoice in the Lord, and shalt glory in the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. 49:19
For thy waste and thy desolate places, and the land of thy destruction, shall even now be too narrow by reason of the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

Isa. 49:25
But thus saith the Lord, Even the captives of the mighty shall be taken away, and the prey of the terrible shall be delivered: for I will contend with him that contendeth with thee, and I will save thy children.

Isa. 50:1
Thus saith the Lord, Where is the bill of your mother's divorcement, whom I have put away? or which of my creditors is it to whom I have sold you? Behold, for your iniquities have ye sold yourselves, and for your transgressions is your mother put away.

Isa. 50:5
The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

Isa. 51:6
Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Isa. 51:11
Therefore the redeemed of the Lord shall return, and come with singing unto Zion; and everlasting joy shall be upon their head: they shall obtain gladness and joy; and sorrow and mourning shall flee away.

Isa. 52:5
Now therefore, what have I here, saith the Lord, that my people is taken away for nought? they that rule over them make them to howl, saith the Lord; and my name continually every day is blasphemed.

Isa. 57:1
The righteous perisheth, and no man layeth it to heart: and merciful men are taken away, none considering that the righteous is taken away from the evil to come.

Isa. 57:13
When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

Isa. 58:9
Then shalt thou call, and the Lord shall answer; thou shalt cry, and he shall say, Here I am. If thou take away from the midst of thee the yoke, the putting forth of the finger, and speaking vanity;

Isa. 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Isa. 59:13
In transgressing and lying against the Lord, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

Isa. 59:14
And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.

Isa. 64:6
But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags; and we all do fade as a leaf; and our iniquities, like the wind, have taken us away.