Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'escape' occurs 79 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'escape' in the standard works and contain 24.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 19:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 104:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Sam. 27:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 44:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 51 54 105
NT 8 10 18
Matt. 1 0 1
Luke 1 0 1
John 0 1 1
Acts 1 3 4
Rom. 1 0 1
1 Cor. 1 0 1
2 Cor. 0 1 1
1 Thes. 1 0 1
Heb. 2 2 4
2 Pet. 0 3 3
BM 6 5 11
DC 14 1 15
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 79 70 149

Matt. 23:33
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?

Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

John 10:39
Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

Acts 27:42
And the soldiers' counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

Acts 27:44
And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

Acts 28:1
And when they were escaped, then they knew that the island was called Melita.

Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffereth not to live.

Rom. 2:3
And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

1 Cor. 10:13
There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

2 Cor. 11:33
And through a window in a basket was I let down by the wall, and escaped his hands.

1 Thes. 5:3
For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

Heb. 2:3
How shall we escape, if we neglect so great salvation; which at the first began to be spoken by the Lord, and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him;

Heb. 11:34
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, out of weakness were made strong, waxed valiant in fight, turned to flight the armies of the aliens.

Heb. 12:25
See that ye refuse not him that speaketh. For if they escaped not who refused him that spake on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven:

2 Pet. 1:4
Whereby are given unto us exceeding great and precious promises: that by these ye might be partakers of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption that is in the world through lust.

2 Pet. 2:18
For when they speak great swelling words of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through much wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error.

2 Pet. 2:20
For if after they have escaped the pollutions of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, they are again entangled therein, and overcome, the latter end is worse with them than the beginning.