Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'therefore' occurs 2146 times in the standard works.

502 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'therefore' in the standard works and contain 23.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 226 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 132:15-20 (6 in 6 verses)

Ezek. 36:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

Acts 10:29-33 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 2:35-39 (5 in 5 verses)

Isa. 30:16-18 (4 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 9:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)


Mosiah 20:14-16 (4 in 3 verses)

 20:14 But Limhi said unto them: Ye shall not slay him, but bring him hither that I may see him. And they brought him. And Limhi said unto him: What cause have ye to come up to war against my people? Behold, my people have not broken the oath that I made unto you; therefore, why should ye break the oath which ye made unto my people?

 20:15 And now the king said: I have broken the oath because thy people did carry away the daughters of my people; therefore, in my anger I did cause my people to come up to war against thy people.

 20:16 And now Limhi had heard nothing concerning this matter; therefore he said: I will search among my people and whosoever has done this thing shall perish. Therefore he caused a search to be made among his people.




Alma 17:34-36 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 47:3-5 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 27:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

Morm. 2:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Gen. 29:32-35 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 19:5-8 (4 in 4 verses)

Hel. 2:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 32:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 52:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 3:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 12:26-27 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 11:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 43:30-31 (3 in 2 verses)

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