Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'state' occurs 107 times in the standard works.

55 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'state' in the standard works and contain 51.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 20 minutes to read the entire list.

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Alma 40:11-15 (9 in 5 verses)

Alma 41:11-42:1 (7 in 6 verses)

Alma 42:10-13 (6 in 4 verses)

2 Ne. 2:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 12:24-26 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 2:41 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 12:31 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 135:7 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:56 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:61 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 2:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 28:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 60:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 8 14 22
Gen. 1 0 1
1 Chr. 0 1 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Esth. 2 1 3
Ps. 1 1 2
Prov. 2 0 2
Eccl. 0 2 2
Isa. 1 0 1
Ezek. 0 5 5
Dan. 0 4 4
NT 6 6 12
BM 77 1 78
DC 8 14 22
PGP 8 9 17
TOTAL 107 44 151

Gen. 43:7
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?

1 Chr. 17:17
And yet this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; for thou hast also spoken of thy servant's house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Lord God.

2 Chr. 24:13
So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house of God in his state, and strengthened it.

Esth. 1:7
And they gave them drink in vessels of gold, (the vessels being diverse one from another,) and royal wine in abundance, according to the state of the king.

Esth. 1:19
If it please the king, let there go a royal commandment from him, and let it be written among the laws of the Persians and the Medes, that it be not altered, That Vashti come no more before king Ahasuerus; and let the king give her royal estate unto another that is better than she.

Esth. 2:18
Then the king made a great feast unto all his princes and his servants, even Esther's feast; and he made a release to the provinces, and gave gifts, according to the state of the king.

Ps. 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

Ps. 136:23
Who remembered us in our low estate: for his mercy endureth for ever:

Prov. 27:23
Be thou diligent to know the state of thy flocks, and look well to thy herds.

Prov. 28:2
For the transgression of a land many are the princes thereof: but by a man of understanding and knowledge the state thereof shall be prolonged.

Eccl. 1:16
I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yea, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

Eccl. 3:18
I said in mine heart concerning the estate of the sons of men, that God might manifest them, and that they might see that they themselves are beasts.

Isa. 22:19
And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down.

Ezek. 16:55
When thy sisters, Sodom and her daughters, shall return to their former estate, and Samaria and her daughters shall return to their former estate, then thou and thy daughters shall return to your former estate.

Ezek. 23:41
And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

Ezek. 36:11
And I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and bring fruit: and I will settle you after your old estates, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

Dan. 11:7
But out of a branch of her roots shall one stand up in his estate, which shall come with an army, and shall enter into the fortress of the king of the north, and shall deal against them, and shall prevail:

Dan. 11:20
Then shall stand up in his estate a raiser of taxes in the glory of the kingdom: but within few days he shall be destroyed, neither in anger, nor in battle.

Dan. 11:21
And in his estate shall stand up a vile person, to whom they shall not give the honour of the kingdom: but he shall come in peaceably, and obtain the kingdom by flatteries.

Dan. 11:38
But in his estate shall he honour the God of forces: and a god whom his fathers knew not shall he honour with gold, and silver, and with precious stones, and pleasant things.