Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'upward' occurs 62 times in the standard works.

7 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'upward' in the standard works and contain 11.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 3 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 41:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Num. 3:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 31:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 61 0 61
NT 0 0 0
BM 1 1 2
2 Ne. 1 0 1
Alma 0 1 1
DC 0 0 0
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 62 1 63

2 Ne. 18:21
And they shall pass through it hardly bestead and hungry; and it shall come to pass that when they shall be hungry, they shall fret themselves, and curse their king and their God, and look upward.

Alma 57:14
For behold, they would break out in great numbers, and would fight with stones, and with clubs, or whatsoever thing they could get into their hands, insomuch that we did slay upwards of two thousand of them after they had surrendered themselves prisoners of war.