Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ever' occurs 563 times in the standard works.

193 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ever' in the standard works and contain 34.3% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 67 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ps. 136:1-26 (26 in 26 verses)

Ps. 117:2-118:4 (5 in 5 verses)

Ps. 145:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

Rev. 4:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

Rev. 5:13-14 (4 in 2 verses)

Ps. 111:8-10 (4 in 3 verses)

Isa. 34:10 (3 in 1 verse)

Dan. 7:18 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 52:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 7:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 16:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 17:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 28:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 9:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 21:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Micah 4:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 15:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 18:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 22:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 11:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:29 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 2:33 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 17:27 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 23:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 29:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 9:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 10:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 45:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 45:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 48:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 119:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 145:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 148:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 25:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 37:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 2:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 12:3 (2 in 1 verse)

John 8:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Gal. 1:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 4:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 1:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Tim. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 13:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 5:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 7:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 10:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 11:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 15:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 19:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 20:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 8:11 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 27:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:26 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 3:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 37:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 49:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 61:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 77:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 89:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 89:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 125:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 5:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 7:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 76:92-93 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 388 1398 1786
Gen. 4 110 114
Ex. 15 90 105
Lev. 18 93 111
Num. 12 112 124
Deut. 13 49 62
Josh. 4 20 24
Judg. 2 39 41
1 Sam. 12 39 51
2 Sam. 10 40 50
1 Kgs. 11 41 52
2 Kgs. 2 39 41
1 Chr. 23 31 54
2 Chr. 15 59 74
Ezra 3 15 18
Neh. 4 24 28
Esth. 0 36 36
Job 8 27 35
Ps. 146 91 237
Prov. 4 33 37
Eccl. 5 19 24
Song. 1 4 5
Isa. 21 85 106
Jer. 18 110 128
Lam. 3 3 6
Ezek. 4 107 111
Dan. 17 23 40
Hosea 1 2 3
Joel 2 5 7
Amos 1 8 9
Obad. 1 1 2
Jonah 1 4 5
Micah 5 4 9
Hab. 0 5 5
Zeph. 0 5 5
Hag. 0 3 3
Zech. 1 19 20
Mal. 1 3 4
NT 88 622 710
BM 36 846 882
DC 43 500 543
PGP 8 103 111
TOTAL 563 3469 4032

1 Sam. 1:22
But Hannah went not up; for she said unto her husband, I will not go up until the child be weaned, and then I will bring him, that he may appear before the Lord, and there abide for ever.

1 Sam. 2:30
Wherefore the Lord God of Israel saith, I said indeed that thy house, and the house of thy father, should walk before me for ever: but now the Lord saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Sam. 2:32
And thou shalt see an enemy in my habitation, in all the wealth which God shall give Israel: and there shall not be an old man in thine house for ever.

1 Sam. 2:35
And I will raise me up a faithful priest, that shall do according to that which is in mine heart and in my mind: and I will build him a sure house; and he shall walk before mine anointed for ever.

1 Sam. 2:36
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.

1 Sam. 3:11
And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

1 Sam. 3:13
For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

1 Sam. 3:14
And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

1 Sam. 3:18
And Samuel told him every whit, and hid nothing from him. And he said, It is the Lord: let him do what seemeth him good.

1 Sam. 4:10
And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

1 Sam. 8:19
Nevertheless the people refused to obey the voice of Samuel; and they said, Nay; but we will have a king over us;

1 Sam. 8:22
And the Lord said to Samuel, Hearken unto their voice, and make them a king. And Samuel said unto the men of Israel, Go ye every man unto his city.

1 Sam. 10:25
Then Samuel told the people the manner of the kingdom, and wrote it in a book, and laid it up before the Lord. And Samuel sent all the people away, every man to his house.

1 Sam. 11:7
And he took a yoke of oxen, and hewed them in pieces, and sent them throughout all the coasts of Israel by the hands of messengers, saying, Whosoever cometh not forth after Saul and after Samuel, so shall it be done unto his oxen. And the fear of the Lord fell on the people, and they came out with one consent.

1 Sam. 12:11
And the Lord sent Jerubbaal, and Bedan, and Jephthah, and Samuel, and delivered you out of the hand of your enemies on every side, and ye dwelled safe.

1 Sam. 13:2
Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel; whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in mount Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

1 Sam. 13:13
And Samuel said to Saul, Thou hast done foolishly: thou hast not kept the commandment of the Lord thy God, which he commanded thee: for now would the Lord have established thy kingdom upon Israel for ever.

1 Sam. 13:20
But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

1 Sam. 14:20
And Saul and all the people that were with him assembled themselves, and they came to the battle: and, behold, every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture.

1 Sam. 14:34
And Saul said, Disperse yourselves among the people, and say unto them, Bring me hither every man his ox, and every man his sheep, and slay them here, and eat; and sin not against the Lord in eating with the blood. And all the people brought every man his ox with him that night, and slew them there.

1 Sam. 14:36
And Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and spoil them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. And they said, Do whatsoever seemeth good unto thee. Then said the priest, Let us draw near hither unto God.

1 Sam. 14:47
So Saul took the kingdom over Israel, and fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he vexed them.

1 Sam. 15:9
But Saul and the people spared Agag, and the best of the sheep, and of the oxen, and of the fatlings, and the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile and refuse, that they destroyed utterly.

1 Sam. 15:35
And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death: nevertheless Samuel mourned for Saul: and the Lord repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

1 Sam. 18:5
And David went out whithersoever Saul sent him, and behaved himself wisely: and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

1 Sam. 20:4
Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.

1 Sam. 20:15
But also thou shalt not cut off thy kindness from my house for ever: no, not when the Lord hath cut off the enemies of David every one from the face of the earth.

1 Sam. 20:23
And as touching the matter which thou and I have spoken of, behold, the Lord be between thee and me for ever.

1 Sam. 20:26
Nevertheless Saul spake not any thing that day: for he thought, Something hath befallen him, he is not clean; surely he is not clean.

1 Sam. 20:42
And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

1 Sam. 22:2
And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented, gathered themselves unto him; and he became a captain over them: and there were with him about four hundred men.

1 Sam. 22:7
Then Saul said unto his servants that stood about him, Hear now, ye Benjamites; will the son of Jesse give every one of you fields and vineyards, and make you all captains of thousands, and captains of hundreds;

1 Sam. 23:13
Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.

1 Sam. 23:14
And David abode in the wilderness in strong holds, and remained in a mountain in the wilderness of Ziph. And Saul sought him every day, but God delivered him not into his hand.

1 Sam. 25:8
Ask thy young men, and they will shew thee. Wherefore let the young men find favour in thine eyes: for we come in a good day: give, I pray thee, whatsoever cometh to thine hand unto thy servants, and to thy son David.

1 Sam. 25:10
And Nabal answered David's servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there be many servants now a days that break away every man from his master.

1 Sam. 25:13
And David said unto his men, Gird ye on every man his sword. And they girded on every man his sword; and David also girded on his sword: and there went up after David about four hundred men; and two hundred abode by the stuff.

1 Sam. 26:23
The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord's anointed.

1 Sam. 27:3
And David dwelt with Achish at Gath, he and his men, every man with his household, even David with his two wives, Ahinoam the Jezreelitess, and Abigail the Carmelitess, Nabal's wife.

1 Sam. 27:12
And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

1 Sam. 28:2
And David said to Achish, Surely thou shalt know what thy servant can do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of mine head for ever.

1 Sam. 29:6
Then Achish called David, and said unto him, Surely, as the Lord liveth, thou hast been upright, and thy going out and thy coming in with me in the host is good in my sight: for I have not found evil in thee since the day of thy coming unto me unto this day: nevertheless the lords favour thee not.

1 Sam. 30:6
And David was greatly distressed; for the people spake of stoning him, because the soul of all the people was grieved, every man for his sons and for his daughters: but David encouraged himself in the Lord his God.

1 Sam. 30:22
Then answered all the wicked men and men of Belial, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them ought of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that they may lead them away, and depart.