Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'pay' occurs 73 times in the standard works.

21 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'pay' in the standard works and contain 28.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 8 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 72:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 5:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:80-82 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 11:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 56:12 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:72 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 18:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 29 9 38
Ex. 6 0 6
Num. 1 0 1
Deut. 1 2 3
2 Sam. 1 0 1
1 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 2 0 2
Ezra 1 0 1
Esth. 2 0 2
Job 1 2 3
Ps. 6 1 7
Prov. 2 2 4
Eccl. 3 0 3
Isa. 0 2 2
Jonah 1 0 1
NT 10 5 15
BM 9 3 12
DC 25 6 31
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 73 23 96

Eccl. 5:4
When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou hast vowed.

Eccl. 5:5
Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.