Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ways' occurs 270 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ways' in the standard works and contain 13% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 55:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 21:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 32:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 6:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 27:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:60-31:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 185 30 215
NT 20 45 65
Matt. 2 5 7
Mark 1 3 4
Luke 4 3 7
John 1 5 6
Acts 3 4 7
Rom. 2 1 3
1 Cor. 1 2 3
2 Cor. 0 4 4
Gal. 0 1 1
Eph. 0 2 2
Philip. 0 3 3
Col. 0 2 2
1 Thes. 0 2 2
2 Thes. 0 3 3
Philem. 0 1 1
Heb. 1 1 2
James 2 0 2
1 Pet. 0 1 1
2 Pet. 1 2 3
Rev. 2 0 2
BM 53 45 98
DC 9 34 43
PGP 3 3 6
TOTAL 270 157 427

Matt. 8:33
And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

Matt. 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Mark 11:4
And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.

Luke 1:76
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

Luke 3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

Luke 10:3
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Luke 10:10
But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

John 11:46
But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Acts 13:10
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Acts 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Rom. 3:16
Destruction and misery are in their ways:

Rom. 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

1 Cor. 4:17
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

Heb. 3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

James 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

2 Pet. 2:2
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Rev. 15:3
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Rev. 16:1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.