Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'except' occurs 250 times in the standard works.

55 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'except' in the standard works and contain 22% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 24 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 42:13-17 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 11:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 24:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 7:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 15:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 127:1 (2 in 1 verse)

John 15:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 23:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 48:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 12:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 43:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

John 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 3:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 39:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 54:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 54:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 35:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 27 0 27
Gen. 9 0 9
Num. 1 0 1
Deut. 1 0 1
Josh. 1 0 1
1 Sam. 1 0 1
2 Sam. 3 0 3
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
Esth. 2 0 2
Ps. 2 0 2
Prov. 1 0 1
Isa. 1 0 1
Dan. 3 0 3
Amos 1 0 1
NT 47 1 48
BM 125 0 125
DC 43 3 46
PGP 8 0 8
TOTAL 250 4 254

Gen. 31:42
Except the God of my father, the God of Abraham, and the fear of Isaac, had been with me, surely thou hadst sent me away now empty. God hath seen mine affliction and the labour of my hands, and rebuked thee yesternight.

Gen. 32:26
And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.

Gen. 42:15
Hereby ye shall be proved: By the life of Pharaoh ye shall not go forth hence, except your youngest brother come hither.

Gen. 43:3
And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Gen. 43:5
But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

Gen. 43:10
For except we had lingered, surely now we had returned this second time.

Gen. 44:23
And thou saidst unto thy servants, Except your youngest brother come down with you, ye shall see my face no more.

Gen. 44:26
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, except our youngest brother be with us.

Gen. 47:26
And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.

Num. 16:13
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?

Deut. 32:30
How should one chase a thousand, and two put ten thousand to flight, except their Rock had sold them, and the Lord had shut them up?

Josh. 7:12
Therefore the children of Israel could not stand before their enemies, but turned their backs before their enemies, because they were accursed: neither will I be with you any more, except ye destroy the accursed from among you.

1 Sam. 25:34
For in very deed, as the Lord God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

2 Sam. 3:9
So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the Lord hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;

2 Sam. 3:13
And he said, Well; I will make a league with thee: but one thing I require of thee, that is, Thou shalt not see my face, except thou first bring Michal Saul's daughter, when thou comest to see my face.

2 Sam. 5:6
And the king and his men went to Jerusalem unto the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land: which spake unto David, saying, Except thou take away the blind and the lame, thou shalt not come in hither: thinking, David cannot come in hither.

2 Kgs. 4:24
Then she saddled an ass, and said to her servant, Drive, and go forward; slack not thy riding for me, except I bid thee.

Esth. 2:14
In the evening she went, and on the morrow she returned into the second house of the women, to the custody of Shaashgaz, the king's chamberlain, which kept the concubines: she came in unto the king no more, except the king delighted in her, and that she were called by name.

Esth. 4:11
All the king's servants, and the people of the king's provinces, do know, that whosoever, whether man or woman, shall come unto the king into the inner court, who is not called, there is one law of his to put him to death, except such to whom the king shall hold out the golden sceptre, that he may live: but I have not been called to come in unto the king these thirty days.

Ps. 127:1
Except the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.

Prov. 4:16
For they sleep not, except they have done mischief; and their sleep is taken away, unless they cause some to fall.

Isa. 1:9
Except the Lord of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.

Dan. 2:11
And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.

Dan. 3:28
Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

Dan. 6:5
Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

Amos 3:3
Can two walk together, except they be agreed?