Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'esteem' occurs 19 times in the standard works.

6 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'esteem' in the standard works and contain 31.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Mosiah 29:40 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 33:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 38:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 3 10 13
Deut. 0 1 1
1 Sam. 0 2 2
Job 1 2 3
Ps. 1 0 1
Prov. 0 1 1
Isa. 1 3 4
Lam. 0 1 1
NT 2 6 8
BM 10 10 20
DC 3 1 4
PGP 1 0 1
TOTAL 19 27 46

Deut. 32:15
But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: thou art waxen fat, thou art grown thick, thou art covered with fatness; then he forsook God which made him, and lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

1 Sam. 2:30
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Sam. 18:23
And Saul's servants spake those words in the ears of David. And David said, Seemeth it to you a light thing to be a king's son in law, seeing that I am a poor man, and lightly esteemed?

Job 23:12
Neither have I gone back from the commandment of his lips; I have esteemed the words of his mouth more than my necessary food.

Job 41:27
He esteemeth iron as straw, and brass as rotten wood.

Prov. 17:28
Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

Isa. 29:16
Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter's clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

Isa. 29:17
Is it not yet a very little while, and Lebanon shall be turned into a fruitful field, and the fruitful field shall be esteemed as a forest?

Isa. 53:3
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.

Lam. 4:2
The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!