Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'aged' occurs 16 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'aged' in the standard works and contain 25% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 2 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 5:49 (2 in 1 verse)

Titus 2:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 6 15 21
NT 3 3 6
BM 2 3 5
DC 5 2 7
PGP 0 1 1
TOTAL 16 24 40

2 Sam. 19:32
Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

Job 15:10
With us are both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

Job 29:8
The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

Job 32:9
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Jer. 6:11
Therefore I am full of the fury of the Lord; I am weary with holding in: I will pour it out upon the children abroad, and upon the assembly of young men together: for even the husband with the wife shall be taken, the aged with him that is full of days.

Titus 2:2
That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

Titus 2:3
The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

Philem. 1:9
Yet for love's sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

Alma 5:49
And now I say unto you that this is the order after which I am called, yea, to preach unto my beloved brethren, yea, and every one that dwelleth in the land; yea, to preach unto all, both old and young, both bond and free; yea, I say unto you the aged, and also the middle aged, and the rising generation; yea, to cry unto them that they must repent and be born again.

D&C 90:20
And let mine aged servant, Joseph Smith, Sen., continue with his family upon the place where he now lives; and let it not be sold until the mouth of the Lord shall name.

D&C 90:25
Let your families be small, especially mine aged servant Joseph Smith's, Sen., as pertaining to those who do not belong to your families;

D&C 103:22
Therefore let my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., say unto the strength of my house, my young men and the middle aged-- Gather yourselves together unto the land of Zion, upon the land which I have bought with money that has been consecrated unto me.

D&C 105:16
Behold, I have commanded my servant Joseph Smith, Jun., to say unto the strength of my house, even my warriors, my young men, and middle-aged, to gather together for the redemption of my people, and throw down the towers of mine enemies, and scatter their watchmen;

D&C 124:19
That when he shall finish his work I may receive him unto myself, even as I did my servant David Patten, who is with me at this time, and also my servant Edward Partridge, and also my aged servant Joseph Smith, Sen., who sitteth with Abraham at his right hand, and blessed and holy is he, for he is mine.