Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'how' occurs 740 times in the standard works.

227 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'how' in the standard works and contain 30.7% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 77 minutes to read the entire list.

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Hel. 12:1-7 (12 in 7 verses)

Job 25:4-26:3 (7 in 6 verses)

Rom. 10:14-15 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 7:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

Hosea 11:8 (4 in 1 verse)

Ps. 13:1-2 (4 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 10:4-6 (4 in 3 verses)

Matt. 16:9-12 (4 in 4 verses)

Mosiah 15:15-18 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Sam. 11:7 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 51:41 (3 in 1 verse)

Lam. 1:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 8:20 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 21:6 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:17 (3 in 1 verse)

Hel. 13:29 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 19:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Ps. 94:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 12:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

Lam. 4:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Obad. 1:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 6:3-4 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Jer. 47:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 8:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 9:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Cor. 7:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 9:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Morm. 6:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 30:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 23:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 29:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 10:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 14:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Esth. 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 8:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 21:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 44:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 133:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 139:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 5:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 7:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 14:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 48:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 50:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 9:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 7:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 17:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 8:39 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 11:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 9:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 20:35 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Tim. 3:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:53 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 18:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 46:8 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 14:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:30 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 43:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 14:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 16:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 1:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 22:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 74:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 89:46-47 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 5:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 10:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

John 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Thes. 2:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 4:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 7:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 9:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 3:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 18:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 121:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Moses 7:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 316 93 409
NT 227 25 252
BM 147 175 322
DC 41 65 106
PGP 9 25 34
Moses 3 9 12
Abr. 0 5 5
JS-M 0 4 4
JS-H 5 7 12
A of F 1 0 1
TOTAL 740 383 1123

Moses 7:28
And it came to pass that the God of heaven looked upon the residue of the people, and he wept; and Enoch bore record of it, saying: How is it that the heavens weep, and shed forth their tears as the rain upon the mountains?

Moses 7:29
And Enoch said unto the Lord: How is it that thou canst weep, seeing thou art holy, and from all eternity to all eternity?

Moses 7:31
And thou hast taken Zion to thine own bosom, from all thy creations, from all eternity to all eternity; and naught but peace, justice, and truth is the habitation of thy throne; and mercy shall go before thy face and have no end; how is it thou canst weep?

JS-H 1:10
In the midst of this war of words and tumult of opinions, I often said to myself: What is to be done? Who of all these parties are right; or, are they all wrong together? If any one of them be right, which is it, and how shall I know it?

JS-H 1:12
Never did any passage of scripture come with more power to the heart of man than this did at this time to mine. It seemed to enter with great force into every feeling of my heart. I reflected on it again and again, knowing that if any person needed wisdom from God, I did; for how to act I did not know, and unless I could get more wisdom than I then had, I would never know; for the teachers of religion of the different sects understood the same passages of scripture so differently as to destroy all confidence in settling the question by an appeal to the Bible.

JS-H 1:23
It caused me serious reflection then, and often has since, how very strange it was that an obscure boy, of a little over fourteen years of age, and one, too, who was doomed to the necessity of obtaining a scanty maintenance by his daily labor, should be thought a character of sufficient importance to attract the attention of the great ones of the most popular sects of the day, and in a manner to create in them a spirit of the most bitter persecution and reviling. But strange or not, so it was, and it was often the cause of great sorrow to myself.

JS-H 1:54
Accordingly, as I had been commanded, I went at the end of each year, and at each time I found the same messenger there, and received instruction and intelligence from him at each of our interviews, respecting what the Lord was going to do, and how and in what manner his kingdom was to be conducted in the last days.

JS-H 1:64
"I went to the city of New York, and presented the characters which had been translated, with the translation thereof, to Professor Charles Anthon, a gentleman celebrated for his literary attainments. Professor Anthon stated that the translation was correct, more so than any he had before seen translated from the Egyptian. I then showed him those which were not yet translated, and he said that they were Egyptian, Chaldaic, Assyriac, and Arabic; and he said they were true characters. He gave me a certificate, certifying to the people of Palmyra that they were true characters, and that the translation of such of them as had been translated was also correct. I took the certificate and put it into my pocket, and was just leaving the house, when Mr. Anthon called me back, and asked me how the young man found out that there were gold plates in the place where he found them. I answered that an angel of God had revealed it unto him.

A of F 1:11
We claim the privilege of worshiping Almighty God according to the dictates of our own conscience, and allow all men the same privilege, let them worship how, where, or what they may.