Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'wherein' occurs 199 times in the standard works.

24 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'wherein' in the standard works and contain 12.1% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 10 minutes to read the entire list.

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Num. 12:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 90:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 20:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 35:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 16:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mal. 1:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Mal. 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Pet. 3:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 24:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 132:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 130 2 132
NT 37 2 39
BM 10 0 10
2 Ne. 3 0 3
Alma 1 0 1
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Morm. 1 0 1
DC 18 0 18
PGP 4 0 4
TOTAL 199 4 203

3 Ne. 12:30
For it is better that ye should deny yourselves of these things, wherein ye will take up your cross, than that ye should be cast into hell.

3 Ne. 24:7
Even from the days of your fathers ye are gone away from mine ordinances, and have not kept them. Return unto me and I will return unto you, saith the Lord of Hosts. But ye say: Wherein shall we return?

3 Ne. 24:8
Will a man rob God? Yet ye have robbed me. But ye say: Wherein have we robbed thee? In tithes and offerings.

3 Ne. 27:33
And it came to pass that when Jesus had ended these sayings he said unto his disciples: Enter ye in at the strait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.

3 Ne. 28:2
And they all spake, save it were three, saying: We desire that after we have lived unto the age of man, that our ministry, wherein thou hast called us, may have an end, that we may speedily come unto thee in thy kingdom.