Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'above' occurs 347 times in the standard works.

85 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'above' in the standard works and contain 24.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 32 minutes to read the entire list.

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Abr. 3:16-21 (6 in 6 verses)

Neh. 12:37-39 (4 in 3 verses)

John 3:31 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:42 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 108:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 12:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 3:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 5:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 57:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 57:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 97:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 113:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 119:127 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 1:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 13:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 23:7 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 16:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 6:63 (2 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 49:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 25:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 39:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 40:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 11:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Col. 3:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 24:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Hel. 14:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Abr. 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 176 0 176
NT 47 0 47
BM 66 0 66
DC 32 0 32
PGP 26 0 26
Moses 6 0 6
Abr. 13 0 13
JS-H 7 0 7
TOTAL 347 0 347

Moses 2:7
And I, God, made the firmament and divided the waters, yea, the great waters under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament, and it was so even as I spake.

Moses 2:20
And I, God, said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl which may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.

Moses 4:20
And I, the Lord God, said unto the serpent: Because thou hast done this thou shalt be cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life;

Moses 6:63
And behold, all things have their likeness, and all things are created and made to bear record of me, both things which are temporal, and things which are spiritual; things which are in the heavens above, and things which are on the earth, and things which are in the earth, and things which are under the earth, both above and beneath: all things bear record of me.

Abr. 2:9
And I will make of thee a great nation, and I will bless thee above measure, and make thy name great among all nations, and thou shalt be a blessing unto thy seed after thee, that in their hands they shall bear this ministry and Priesthood unto all nations;

Abr. 3:5
And the Lord said unto me: The planet which is the lesser light, lesser than that which is to rule the day, even the night, is above or greater than that upon which thou standest in point of reckoning, for it moveth in order more slow; this is in order because it standeth above the earth upon which thou standest, therefore the reckoning of its time is not so many as to its number of days, and of months, and of years.

Abr. 3:8
And where these two facts exist, there shall be another fact above them, that is, there shall be another planet whose reckoning of time shall be longer still;

Abr. 3:9
And thus there shall be the reckoning of the time of one planet above another, until thou come nigh unto Kolob, which Kolob is after the reckoning of the Lord's time; which Kolob is set nigh unto the throne of God, to govern all those planets which belong to the same order as that upon which thou standest.

Abr. 3:16
If two things exist, and there be one above the other, there shall be greater things above them; therefore Kolob is the greatest of all the Kokaubeam that thou hast seen, because it is nearest unto me.

Abr. 3:17
Now, if there be two things, one above the other, and the moon be above the earth, then it may be that a planet or a star may exist above it; and there is nothing that the Lord thy God shall take in his heart to do but what he will do it.

Abr. 3:21
I dwell in the midst of them all; I now, therefore, have come down unto thee to declare unto thee the works which my hands have made, wherein my wisdom excelleth them all, for I rule in the heavens above, and in the earth beneath, in all wisdom and prudence, over all the intelligences thine eyes have seen from the beginning; I came down in the beginning in the midst of all the intelligences thou hast seen.

Abr. 4:7
And the Gods ordered the expanse, so that it divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse; and it was so, even as they ordered.

Abr. 4:20
And the Gods said: Let us prepare the waters to bring forth abundantly the moving creatures that have life; and the fowl, that they may fly above the earth in the open expanse of heaven.

JS-H 1:16
But, exerting all my powers to call upon God to deliver me out of the power of this enemy which had seized upon me, and at the very moment when I was ready to sink into despair and abandon myself to destruction-- not to an imaginary ruin, but to the power of some actual being from the unseen world, who had such marvelous power as I had never before felt in any being-- just at this moment of great alarm, I saw a pillar of light exactly over my head, above the brightness of the sun, which descended gradually until it fell upon me.

JS-H 1:17
It no sooner appeared than I found myself delivered from the enemy which held me bound. When the light rested upon me I saw two Personages, whose brightness and glory defy all description, standing above me in the air. One of them spake unto me, calling me by name and said, pointing to the other-- This is My Beloved Son. Hear Him!

JS-H 1:18
My object in going to inquire of the Lord was to know which of all the sects was right, that I might know which to join. No sooner, therefore, did I get possession of myself, so as to be able to speak, than I asked the Personages who stood above me in the light, which of all the sects was right (for at this time it had never entered into my heart that all were wrong)-- and which I should join.

JS-H 1:29
In consequence of these things, I often felt condemned for my weakness and imperfections; when, on the evening of the above-mentioned twenty-first of September, after I had retired to my bed for the night, I betook myself to prayer and supplication to Almighty God for forgiveness of all my sins and follies, and also for a manifestation to me, that I might know of my state and standing before him; for I had full confidence in obtaining a divine manifestation, as I previously had one.

JS-H 1:31
He had on a loose robe of most exquisite whiteness. It was a whiteness beyond anything earthly I had ever seen; nor do I believe that any earthly thing could be made to appear so exceedingly white and brilliant. His hands were naked, and his arms also, a little above the wrist; so, also, were his feet naked, as were his legs, a little above the ankles. His head and neck were also bare. I could discover that he had no other clothing on but this robe, as it was open, so that I could see into his bosom.

JS-H 1:51
Convenient to the village of Manchester, Ontario county, New York, stands a hill of considerable size, and the most elevated of any in the neighborhood. On the west side of this hill, not far from the top, under a stone of considerable size, lay the plates, deposited in a stone box. This stone was thick and rounding in the middle on the upper side, and thinner towards the edges, so that the middle part of it was visible above the ground, but the edge all around was covered with earth.