Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'according' occurs 1523 times in the standard works.

578 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'according' in the standard works and contain 38% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 224 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 10:32-11:4 (7 in 5 verses)

 10:32 Now the object of these lawyers was to get gain; and they got gain according to their employ.

 11:1 Now it was in the law of Mosiah that every man who was a judge of the law, or those who were appointed to be judges, should receive wages according to the time which they labored to judge those who were brought before them to be judged.

 11:2 Now if a man owed another, and he would not pay that which he did owe, he was complained of to the judge; and the judge executed authority, and sent forth officers that the man should be brought before him; and he judged the man according to the law and the evidences which were brought against him, and thus the man was compelled to pay that which he owed, or be stripped, or be cast out from among the people as a thief and a robber.

 11:3 And the judge received for his wages according to his time-- a senine of gold for a day, or a senum of silver, which is equal to a senine of gold; and this is according to the law which was given.

 11:4 Now these are the names of the different pieces of their gold, and of their silver, according to their value. And the names are given by the Nephites, for they did not reckon after the manner of the Jews who were at Jerusalem; neither did they measure after the manner of the Jews; but they altered their reckoning and their measure, according to the minds and the circumstances of the people, in every generation, until the reign of the judges, they having been established by king Mosiah.




1 Ne. 19:5-10 (7 in 6 verses)

D&C 128:6-9 (6 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 2:26-30 (6 in 5 verses)

Alma 7:12-16 (6 in 5 verses)

Lev. 25:15-16 (5 in 2 verses)

Alma 4:13-16 (5 in 4 verses)

Alma 12:6-9 (5 in 4 verses)

Alma 41:2-5 (5 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 25:3-7 (5 in 5 verses)

Mosiah 29:11-15 (5 in 5 verses)

Alma 12:36-13:3 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 48:6-49:4 (5 in 5 verses)

D&C 51:2-6 (5 in 5 verses)

Esth. 8:9 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 45:25 (4 in 1 verse)

Deut. 17:10-11 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 3:26-27 (4 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:50-52 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 35:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 17:29-31 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 10:11-13 (4 in 3 verses)

Num. 26:53-56 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 25:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

Jacob 5:73-76 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 18:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 39:14 (3 in 1 verse)

Num. 4:49 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 63:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 6:8 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:28 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:37 (3 in 1 verse)

Abr. 3:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 12:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezra 6:13-14 (3 in 2 verses)

Esth. 1:7-8 (3 in 2 verses)

Esth. 1:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 42:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 16:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 1:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 22:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 12:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 29:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 62:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 94:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:77-78 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 16:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 27:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 27:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 9:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

Num. 9:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 23:35-37 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Chr. 17:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezra 10:3-5 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 16:28-30 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Ne. 18:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 29:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 2:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Enos 1:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

W of M 1:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 4:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 7:26-8:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 11:18-20 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 11:20-22 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 12:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 1:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 6:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 42:79-81 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 115:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 132:63-65 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 134:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 43:33 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 28:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 29:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 2:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 9:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 15:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 17:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 33:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 34:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 3:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 11:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 7:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 22:21 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 22:25 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 21:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 3:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 9:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 7:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 18:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 18:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 28:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 51:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 119:149 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 8:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 11:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 17:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 25:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 32:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 20:44 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 24:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 25:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 35:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 36:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 39:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 43:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 10:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Hosea 12:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 12:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 8:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Eph. 2:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 4:6 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 14:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:17 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 13:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 20:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 6:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 7:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Hel. 9:15 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:2 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 7:14 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 27:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 2:17 (2 in 1 verse)

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