Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wait' occurs 131 times in the standard works.

22 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wait' in the standard works and contain 16.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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Judg. 20:36-38 (4 in 3 verses)

Ps. 10:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 27:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 130:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:18 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 6:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 9:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 3:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 58:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 5:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 90 39 129
NT 16 16 32
Mark 1 1 2
Luke 2 4 6
John 0 1 1
Acts 7 4 11
Rom. 2 2 4
1 Cor. 1 1 2
Gal. 1 0 1
Eph. 1 0 1
1 Thes. 1 0 1
2 Thes. 0 1 1
James 0 1 1
1 Pet. 0 1 1
BM 16 10 26
DC 9 15 24
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 131 80 211

Mark 15:43
Joseph of Arimathaea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

Luke 1:21
And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.

Luke 2:25
And, behold, there was a man in Jerusalem, whose name was Simeon; and the same man was just and devout, waiting for the consolation of Israel: and the Holy Ghost was upon him.

Luke 8:40
And it came to pass, that, when Jesus was returned, the people gladly received him: for they were all waiting for him.

Luke 23:51
(The same had not consented to the counsel and deed of them;) he was of Arimathaea, a city of the Jews: who also himself waited for the kingdom of God.

John 5:3
In these lay a great multitude of impotent folk, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

Acts 9:24
But their laying await was known of Saul. And they watched the gates day and night to kill him.

Acts 10:7
And when the angel which spake unto Cornelius was departed, he called two of his household servants, and a devout soldier of them that waited on him continually;

Acts 10:24
And the morrow after they entered into Caesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.

Acts 17:16
Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred in him, when he saw the city wholly given to idolatry.

Rom. 8:19
For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

Rom. 8:23
And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

1 Cor. 1:7
So that ye come behind in no gift; waiting for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ:

2 Thes. 3:5
And the Lord direct your hearts into the love of God, and into the patient waiting for Christ.

James 5:7
Be patient therefore, brethren, unto the coming of the Lord. Behold, the husbandman waiteth for the precious fruit of the earth, and hath long patience for it, until he receive the early and latter rain.

1 Pet. 3:20
Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.