Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'cause' occurs 608 times in the standard works.

128 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'cause' in the standard works and contain 21.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 52 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ether 10:6-7 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 17:45-46 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 16:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 32:35-37 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 29:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 29:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 21:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 16:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 8:59 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 35:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 143:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 5:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 16:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 36:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 11:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 7:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:77 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 61:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 62:35 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 11:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 4:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 23:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 27:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 38:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 31:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 34:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jonah 1:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 5:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 23:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 10:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 20:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 29:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 22:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 46:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 51:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 53:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 12:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 19:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 5:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 9:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 127:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 278 1038 1316
Gen. 2 69 71
Ex. 11 24 35
Lev. 6 22 28
Num. 10 44 54
Deut. 10 57 67
Josh. 3 28 31
Judg. 0 28 28
1 Sam. 5 48 53
2 Sam. 4 30 34
1 Kgs. 9 39 48
2 Kgs. 1 23 24
1 Chr. 1 30 31
2 Chr. 5 51 56
Ezra 3 10 13
Neh. 3 13 16
Esth. 3 5 8
Job 15 37 52
Ps. 28 82 110
Prov. 13 15 28
Eccl. 4 13 17
Song. 2 4 6
Isa. 21 52 73
Jer. 51 122 173
Lam. 4 18 22
Ezek. 44 90 134
Dan. 7 13 20
Hosea 2 20 22
Joel 2 7 9
Amos 3 12 15
Jonah 2 2 4
Micah 1 7 8
Nahum 0 2 2
Hab. 1 6 7
Zeph. 0 3 3
Hag. 0 1 1
Zech. 2 8 10
Mal. 0 3 3
NT 50 310 360
BM 214 958 1172
DC 56 123 179
PGP 10 45 55
TOTAL 608 2474 3082

Num. 3:13
Because all the firstborn are mine; for on the day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast: mine shall they be: I am the Lord.

Num. 5:18
And the priest shall set the woman before the Lord, and uncover the woman's head, and put the offering of memorial in her hands, which is the jealousy offering: and the priest shall have in his hand the bitter water that causeth the curse:

Num. 5:19
And the priest shall charge her by an oath, and say unto the woman, If no man have lain with thee, and if thou hast not gone aside to uncleanness with another instead of thy husband, be thou free from this bitter water that causeth the curse:

Num. 5:22
And this water that causeth the curse shall go into thy bowels, to make thy belly to swell, and thy thigh to rot: And the woman shall say, Amen, amen.

Num. 5:24
And he shall cause the woman to drink the bitter water that causeth the curse: and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter.

Num. 5:26
And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

Num. 5:27
And when he hath made her to drink the water, then it shall come to pass, that, if she be defiled, and have done trespass against her husband, that the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her, and become bitter, and her belly shall swell, and her thigh shall rot: and the woman shall be a curse among her people.

Num. 6:7
He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

Num. 6:12
And he shall consecrate unto the Lord the days of his separation, and shall bring a lamb of the first year for a trespass offering: but the days that were before shall be lost, because his separation was defiled.

Num. 7:9
But unto the sons of Kohath he gave none: because the service of the sanctuary belonging unto them was that they should bear upon their shoulders.

Num. 9:13
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the Lord in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.

Num. 11:3
And he called the name of the place Taberah: because the fire of the Lord burnt among them.

Num. 11:14
I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

Num. 11:20
But even a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you: because that ye have despised the Lord which is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

Num. 11:34
And he called the name of that place Kibroth-hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

Num. 12:1
And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

Num. 13:24
The place was called the brook Eshcol, because of the cluster of grapes which the children of Israel cut down from thence.

Num. 14:16
Because the Lord was not able to bring this people into the land which he sware unto them, therefore he hath slain them in the wilderness.

Num. 14:22
Because all those men which have seen my glory, and my miracles, which I did in Egypt and in the wilderness, and have tempted me now these ten times, and have not hearkened to my voice;

Num. 14:24
But my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

Num. 14:43
For the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword: because ye are turned away from the Lord, therefore the Lord will not be with you.

Num. 15:31
Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Num. 15:34
And they put him in ward, because it was not declared what should be done to him.

Num. 16:5
And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

Num. 16:11
For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

Num. 19:13
Whosoever toucheth the dead body of any man that is dead, and purifieth not himself, defileth the tabernacle of the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from Israel: because the water of separation was not sprinkled upon him, he shall be unclean; his uncleanness is yet upon him.

Num. 19:20
But the man that shall be unclean, and shall not purify himself, that soul shall be cut off from among the congregation, because he hath defiled the sanctuary of the Lord: the water of separation hath not been sprinkled upon him; he is unclean.

Num. 20:12
And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed me not, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this congregation into the land which I have given them.

Num. 20:13
This is the water of Meribah; because the children of Israel strove with the Lord, and he was sanctified in them.

Num. 20:24
Aaron shall be gathered unto his people: for he shall not enter into the land which I have given unto the children of Israel, because ye rebelled against my word at the water of Meribah.

Num. 21:4
And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Num. 22:3
And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

Num. 22:22
And God's anger was kindled because he went: and the angel of the Lord stood in the way for an adversary against him. Now he was riding upon his ass, and his two servants were with him.

Num. 22:29
And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.

Num. 22:32
And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Wherefore hast thou smitten thine ass these three times? behold, I went out to withstand thee, because thy way is perverse before me:

Num. 25:13
And he shall have it, and his seed after him, even the covenant of an everlasting priesthood; because he was zealous for his God, and made an atonement for the children of Israel.

Num. 26:62
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.

Num. 27:4
Why should the name of our father be done away from among his family, because he hath no son? Give unto us therefore a possession among the brethren of our father.

Num. 27:5
And Moses brought their cause before the Lord.

Num. 27:7
The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father's brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

Num. 27:8
And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a man die, and have no son, then ye shall cause his inheritance to pass unto his daughter.

Num. 28:7
And the drink offering thereof shall be the fourth part of an hin for the one lamb: in the holy place shalt thou cause the strong wine to be poured unto the Lord for a drink offering.

Num. 30:5
But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

Num. 30:14
But if her husband altogether hold his peace at her from day to day; then he establisheth all her vows, or all her bonds, which are upon her: he confirmeth them, because he held his peace at her in the day that he heard them.

Num. 31:16
Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the Lord in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the Lord.

Num. 32:11
Surely none of the men that came up out of Egypt, from twenty years old and upward, shall see the land which I sware unto Abraham, unto Isaac, and unto Jacob; because they have not wholly followed me:

Num. 32:17
But we ourselves will go ready armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fenced cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

Num. 32:19
For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

Num. 35:28
Because he should have remained in the city of his refuge until the death of the high priest: but after the death of the high priest the slayer shall return into the land of his possession.

Num. 35:30
Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.