Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'because' occurs 2151 times in the standard works.

785 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'because' in the standard works and contain 36.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 320 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 13:12-26 (15 in 15 verses)

Hel. 13:14-28 (15 in 15 verses)

Hel. 13:16-30 (15 in 15 verses)

2 Ne. 28:8-14 (9 in 7 verses)

Jacob 3:5-10 (8 in 6 verses)

1 Jn. 2:8-14 (8 in 7 verses)

Alma 32:33-39 (8 in 7 verses)

D&C 132:18-25 (8 in 8 verses)

Alma 60:9-14 (7 in 6 verses)

Alma 33:11-17 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 32:12-15 (6 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 10:12-16 (6 in 5 verses)

Hel. 7:14-18 (6 in 5 verses)

Hel. 7:25-29 (6 in 5 verses)

3 Ne. 9:9-13 (6 in 5 verses)

1 Ne. 19:9-14 (6 in 6 verses)

Morm. 1:13-18 (6 in 6 verses)

Ether 12:20-25 (6 in 6 verses)

1 Ne. 15:4-5 (5 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:12-14 (5 in 3 verses)

4 Ne. 1:27-29 (5 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 4:26-29 (5 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 16:18-22 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 29:16-20 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 62:40-44 (5 in 5 verses)

Jer. 23:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

Jer. 44:22-23 (4 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:11-12 (4 in 2 verses)

Morm. 9:12-13 (4 in 2 verses)

Gen. 21:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Judg. 6:30-32 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 4:17-19 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 50:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 1:19-2:1 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 4:17-19 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 30:23-25 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 59:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Hel. 9:22-24 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 4:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 4:33-5:2 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 15:18-20 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 19:20-22 (4 in 3 verses)

Ether 3:1-3 (4 in 3 verses)

Deut. 23:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

Job 32:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

1 Ne. 18:16-19 (4 in 4 verses)

Jacob 2:20-23 (4 in 4 verses)

Jacob 5:34-37 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 14:12-15:3 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 28:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 32:2-5 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 49:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 16:4-7 (4 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 16:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 26:43 (3 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:8 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 16:35 (3 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:13 (3 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:14 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Deut. 7:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 25:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

Lam. 1:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:59-60 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 56:50-51 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 15:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 15:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 38:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 14:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 35:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 13:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Hosea 10:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

John 8:43-45 (3 in 3 verses)

John 16:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Jn. 4:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 1:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 5:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 29:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 2:33-35 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 26:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 19:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 38:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 45:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 49:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 53:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 6:1-3 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 6:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 27:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 2:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 18:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 33:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 43:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 17:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 16:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 22:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 9:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 15:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 22:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 32:51 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 9:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 10:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 4:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 6:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 19:4 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 22:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 12:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 2:26 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 22:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 3:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 20:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 31:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 38:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 6:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 37:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 55:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 91:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 107:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 15:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 31:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 65:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 2:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 9:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 41:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Lam. 1:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 21:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 34:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 11:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 19:11 (2 in 1 verse)

John 6:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 28:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 6:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 2:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 13:29 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 14:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:41 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 19:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 7:2 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 25:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 5:75 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 4:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 11:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 13:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 4:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 18:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 22:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 33:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 5:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 2:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 2:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 9:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 8:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Moro. 8:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 3:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 45:53 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 64:43 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:54 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:66 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 29:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 31:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 29:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 20:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 5:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 15:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 20:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 1:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 11:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 14:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 13:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Chr. 27:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 14:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 16:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 9:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 28:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 116:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 2:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 17:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 19:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 29:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 30:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:55-56 (2 in 2 verses)

Lam. 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 28:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 9:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 4:19-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Hosea 11:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Joel 1:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Micah 7:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 16:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 4:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 8:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

John 3:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

John 4:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

John 7:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

John 16:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

John 16:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 18:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 22:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 26:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 12:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 2:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

James 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 1:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 2:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 12:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 16:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 10:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 17:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 24:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 9:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 14:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 17:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 18:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 20:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 26:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 31:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 44:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 57:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 3:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 4:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 5:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 6:35-36 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 8:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 12:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 1:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 2:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 3:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 7:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 18:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 19:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 27:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 3:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 3:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 4:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Ether 12:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 6:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 29:40-41 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 31:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 34:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 107:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 5:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 908 0 908
Gen. 65 0 65
Ex. 20 0 20
Lev. 21 0 21
Num. 37 0 37
Deut. 55 0 55
Josh. 28 0 28
Judg. 27 0 27
1 Sam. 44 0 44
2 Sam. 29 0 29
1 Kgs. 35 0 35
2 Kgs. 22 0 22
1 Chr. 28 0 28
2 Chr. 46 0 46
Ezra 9 0 9
Neh. 11 0 11
Esth. 4 0 4
Job 28 0 28
Ps. 72 0 72
Prov. 5 0 5
Eccl. 13 0 13
Song. 4 0 4
Isa. 46 0 46
Jer. 102 0 102
Lam. 13 0 13
Ezek. 68 0 68
Dan. 12 0 12
Hosea 19 0 19
Joel 7 0 7
Amos 9 0 9
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 7 0 7
Nahum 2 0 2
Hab. 6 0 6
Zeph. 3 0 3
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 7 0 7
Mal. 2 0 2
NT 301 0 301
BM 799 0 799
DC 110 0 110
PGP 33 0 33
TOTAL 2151 0 2151

Isa. 2:6
Therefore thou hast forsaken thy people the house of Jacob, because they be replenished from the east, and are soothsayers like the Philistines, and they please themselves in the children of strangers.

Isa. 3:8
For Jerusalem is ruined, and Judah is fallen: because their tongue and their doings are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his glory.

Isa. 3:16
Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

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. 5:24
Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust: because they have cast away the law of the Lord of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

Isa. 6:5
Then said I, Woe is me! for I am undone; because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell in the midst of a people of unclean lips: for mine eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.

Isa. 7:5
Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

Isa. 7:24
With arrows and with bows shall men come thither; because all the land shall become briers and thorns.

Isa. 8:20
To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, it is because there is no light in them.

Isa. 10:27
And it shall come to pass in that day, that his burden shall be taken away from off thy shoulder, and his yoke from off thy neck, and the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing.

Isa. 14:20
Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, and slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.

Isa. 14:29
Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Isa. 15:1
The burden of Moab. Because in the night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence; because in the night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to silence;

Isa. 17:9
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.

Isa. 17:10
Because thou hast forgotten the God of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength, therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plants, and shalt set it with strange slips:

Isa. 19:16
In that day shall Egypt be like unto women: and it shall be afraid and fear because of the shaking of the hand of the Lord of hosts, which he shaketh over it.

Isa. 19:17
And the land of Judah shall be a terror unto Egypt, every one that maketh mention thereof shall be afraid in himself, because of the counsel of the Lord of hosts, which he hath determined against it.

Isa. 19:20
And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

Isa. 22:4
Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Isa. 24:5
The earth also is defiled under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isa. 26:3
Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace, whose mind is stayed on thee: because he trusteth in thee.

Isa. 28:15
Because ye have said, We have made a covenant with death, and with hell are we at agreement; when the overflowing scourge shall pass through, it shall not come unto us: for we have made lies our refuge, and under falsehood have we hid ourselves:

Isa. 28:28
Bread corn is bruised; because he will not ever be threshing it, nor break it with the wheel of his cart, nor bruise it with his horsemen.

Isa. 30:12
Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

Isa. 31:1
Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!

Isa. 32:14
Because the palaces shall be forsaken; the multitude of the city shall be left; the forts and towers shall be for dens for ever, a joy of wild asses, a pasture of flocks;

Isa. 37:29
Because thy rage against me, and thy tumult, is come up into mine ears, therefore will I put my hook in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

Isa. 40:7
The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

Isa. 43:20
The beast of the field shall honour me, the dragons and the owls: because I give waters in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert, to give drink to my people, my chosen.

Isa. 48:4
Because I knew that thou art obstinate, and thy neck is an iron sinew, and thy brow brass;

Isa. 49:7
Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

Isa. 50:2
Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stinketh, because there is no water, and dieth for thirst.

Isa. 51:13
And forgettest the Lord thy maker, that hath stretched forth the heavens, and laid the foundations of the earth; and hast feared continually every day because of the fury of the oppressor, as if he were ready to destroy? and where is the fury of the oppressor?

Isa. 53:9
And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth.

Isa. 53:12
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

Isa. 55:5
Behold, thou shalt call a nation that thou knowest not, and nations that knew not thee shall run unto thee because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he hath glorified thee.

Isa. 60:5
Then thou shalt see, and flow together, and thine heart shall fear, and be enlarged; because the abundance of the sea shall be converted unto thee, the forces of the Gentiles shall come unto thee.

Isa. 60:9
Surely the isles shall wait for me, and the ships of Tarshish first, to bring thy sons from far, their silver and their gold with them, unto the name of the Lord thy God, and to the Holy One of Israel, because he hath glorified thee.

Isa. 61:1
The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

Isa. 64:7
And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee: for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us, because of our iniquities.

Isa. 65:12
Therefore will I number you to the sword, and ye shall all bow down to the slaughter: because when I called, ye did not answer; when I spake, ye did not hear; but did evil before mine eyes, and did choose that wherein I delighted not.

Isa. 65:16
That he who blesseth himself in the earth shall bless himself in the God of truth; and he that sweareth in the earth shall swear by the God of truth; because the former troubles are forgotten, and because they are hid from mine eyes.

Isa. 66:4
I also will choose their delusions, and will bring their fears upon them; because when I called, none did answer; when I spake, they did not hear: but they did evil before mine eyes, and chose that in which I delighted not.