Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'able' occurs 198 times in the standard works.

29 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'able' in the standard works and contain 14.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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2 Chr. 32:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 14:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 27:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Dan. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 20:22 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 10:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 14:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 13:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 47:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 99 243 342
Gen. 3 3 6
Ex. 6 35 41
Lev. 9 7 16
Num. 21 11 32
Deut. 6 18 24
Josh. 3 0 3
Judg. 1 2 3
1 Sam. 3 4 7
2 Sam. 0 10 10
1 Kgs. 2 7 9
2 Kgs. 3 2 5
1 Chr. 4 9 13
2 Chr. 9 8 17
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 1 2 3
Job 1 13 14
Ps. 4 18 22
Prov. 1 11 12
Eccl. 1 2 3
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 4 24 28
Jer. 3 11 14
Lam. 1 1 2
Ezek. 4 29 33
Dan. 6 5 11
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 0 3 3
Nahum 0 2 2
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 1 1
Mal. 0 2 2
NT 61 156 217
BM 17 97 114
DC 19 83 102
PGP 2 14 16
TOTAL 198 593 791

Isa. 3:3
The captain of fifty, and the honourable man, and the counsellor, and the cunning artificer, and the eloquent orator.

Isa. 3:5
And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

Isa. 3:20
The bonnets, and the ornaments of the legs, and the headbands, and the tablets, and the earrings,

Isa. 3:22
The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

Isa. 5:13
Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst.

Isa. 9:15
The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

Isa. 14:19
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Isa. 21:5
Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

Isa. 23:8
Who hath taken this counsel against Tyre, the crowning city, whose merchants are princes, whose traffickers are the honourable of the earth?

Isa. 23:9
The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.

Isa. 23:18
And her merchandise and her hire shall be holiness to the Lord: it shall not be treasured nor laid up; for her merchandise shall be for them that dwell before the Lord, to eat sufficiently, and for durable clothing.

Isa. 28:8
For all tables are full of vomit and filthiness, so that there is no place clean.

Isa. 30:8
Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

Isa. 32:18
And my people shall dwell in a peaceable habitation, and in sure dwellings, and in quiet resting places;

Isa. 36:8
Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

Isa. 36:14
Thus saith the king, Let not Hezekiah deceive you: for he shall not be able to deliver you.

Isa. 42:21
The Lord is well pleased for his righteousness' sake; he will magnify the law, and make it honourable.

Isa. 43:4
Since thou wast precious in my sight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

Isa. 44:9
They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed.

Isa. 44:10
Who hath formed a god, or molten a graven image that is profitable for nothing?

Isa. 47:11
Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

Isa. 47:12
Stand now with thine enchantments, and with the multitude of thy sorceries, wherein thou hast laboured from thy youth; if so be thou shalt be able to profit, if so be thou mayest prevail.

Isa. 49:8
Thus saith the Lord, In an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee: and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to establish the earth, to cause to inherit the desolate heritages;

Isa. 58:5
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

Isa. 58:13
If thou turn away thy foot from the sabbath, from doing thy pleasure on my holy day; and call the sabbath a delight, the holy of the Lord, honourable; and shalt honour him, not doing thine own ways, nor finding thine own pleasure, nor speaking thine own words:

Isa. 61:2
To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

Isa. 65:4
Which remain among the graves, and lodge in the monuments, which eat swine's flesh, and broth of abominable things is in their vessels;

Isa. 65:11
But ye are they that forsake the Lord, that forget my holy mountain, that prepare a table for that troop, and that furnish the drink offering unto that number.