Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'cannot' occurs 412 times in the standard works.

99 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'cannot' in the standard works and contain 24% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 36 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 88:22-24 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:17-21 (5 in 5 verses)

Moro. 7:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:37 (3 in 1 verse)

Job 23:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 12:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:61-62 (3 in 2 verses)

Job 28:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Isa. 44:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 3:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Ruth 4:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 1:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 38:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 59:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 10:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 10:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 15:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 18:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 34:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:31 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:37 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:5 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 135:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 56:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 14:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

John 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 12:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 15:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 16:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 104:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:71-72 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 131:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 113 0 113
Gen. 11 0 11
Ex. 2 0 2
Lev. 1 0 1
Num. 4 0 4
Deut. 1 0 1
Josh. 1 0 1
Judg. 2 0 2
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 3 0 3
1 Kgs. 3 0 3
2 Chr. 3 0 3
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 1 0 1
Job 23 0 23
Ps. 6 0 6
Prov. 1 0 1
Eccl. 5 0 5
Song. 1 0 1
Isa. 15 0 15
Jer. 17 0 17
Lam. 2 0 2
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Hab. 1 0 1
NT 71 0 71
BM 131 0 131
DC 89 0 89
PGP 8 0 8
TOTAL 412 0 412

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.