Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'any' occurs 1220 times in the standard works.

410 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'any' in the standard works and contain 33.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 157 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 124:64-72 (12 in 9 verses)

Lev. 11:32-39 (10 in 8 verses)

Lev. 18:23-30 (8 in 8 verses)


Deut. 16:21-17:3 (6 in 5 verses)

 16:21 Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

 16:22 Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.

 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

 17:2 If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

 17:3 And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;




Deut. 4:16-18 (5 in 3 verses)

Lev. 7:18-21 (5 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 15:2-5 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 46:3-6 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 104:69-72 (5 in 4 verses)

JS-H 1:8-12 (5 in 5 verses)

Philip. 2:1 (4 in 1 verse)

Deut. 19:15-16 (4 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 9:5-6 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:14-15 (4 in 2 verses)

James 5:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 17:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

JS-H 1:26-28 (4 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 26:25-28 (4 in 4 verses)

Ex. 20:4 (3 in 1 verse)

Deut. 5:8 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 14:26 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:36 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 30:32-33 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 37:22-23 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 8:2-3 (3 in 2 verses)

Gal. 1:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Heb. 12:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:105-106 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:51-53 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 15:22-24 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 19:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 22:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 22:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 22:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Thes. 3:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Heb. 4:11-13 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Ne. 25:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 9:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 8:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 9:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 24:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 4:27 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 15:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 22:38 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 31:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 35:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 5:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 15:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 2:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 4:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 13:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 18:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 20:8 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 14:24 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 14:52 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 27:1 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 18:29 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 4:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 2:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 31:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 74:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 2:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Dan. 2:30 (2 in 1 verse)

Zech. 8:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 22:46 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 11:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 16:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 19:8 (2 in 1 verse)

John 12:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 28:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 7:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 10:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 2:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Col. 3:13 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Pet. 4:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 7:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 9:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 11:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 12:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 27:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 28:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 23:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 30:47 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 29:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 12:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:34 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 88:47 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 102:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:3 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 134:10 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 135:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 11:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 22:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 22:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 31:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 7:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:48-49 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 17:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 19:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 21:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 27:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 35:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 16:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 21:23-22:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 23:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 23:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 12:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 7:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 14:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 15:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 19:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 21:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 3:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 12:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 9:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 3:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 51:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 39:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 3:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Dan. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Hag. 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 4:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

John 9:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 19:38-39 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 25:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 13:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Rom. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 1:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 3:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 3:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 8:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 10:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 3:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Rev. 22:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 2:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 49:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 15:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 16:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

4 Ne. 1:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 20:83-84 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:79-80 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:91-92 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 67:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 68:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 94:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 98:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 101:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 102:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 633 335 968
Gen. 24 13 37
Ex. 37 4 41
Lev. 101 2 103
Num. 36 20 56
Deut. 70 14 84
Josh. 20 2 22
Judg. 19 9 28
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 30 13 43
2 Sam. 25 7 32
1 Kgs. 20 8 28
2 Kgs. 19 4 23
1 Chr. 10 10 20
2 Chr. 13 12 25
Ezra 2 5 7
Neh. 4 8 12
Esth. 0 4 4
Job 27 8 35
Ps. 22 31 53
Prov. 7 14 21
Eccl. 10 10 20
Song. 0 3 3
Isa. 19 23 42
Jer. 28 24 52
Lam. 2 1 3
Ezek. 53 43 96
Dan. 12 20 32
Hosea 3 4 7
Joel 2 1 3
Amos 5 1 6
Obad. 1 0 1
Jonah 1 0 1
Micah 1 6 7
Nahum 0 3 3
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 1 0 1
Hag. 2 0 2
Zech. 4 4 8
Mal. 1 2 3
NT 284 322 606
BM 149 764 913
DC 130 149 279
PGP 24 59 83
TOTAL 1220 1629 2849

Deut. 1:11
(The Lord God of your fathers make you a thousand times so many more as ye are, and bless you, as he hath promised you!)

Deut. 1:46
So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

Deut. 2:1
Then we turned, and took our journey into the wilderness by the way of the Red sea, as the Lord spake unto me: and we compassed mount Seir many days.

Deut. 2:10
The Emims dwelt therein in times past, a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims;

Deut. 2:19
And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

Deut. 2:21
A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

Deut. 2:37
Only unto the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not, nor unto any place of the river Jabbok, nor unto the cities in the mountains, nor unto whatsoever the Lord our God forbad us.

Deut. 3:5
All these cities were fenced with high walls, gates, and bars; beside unwalled towns a great many.

Deut. 4:16
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,

Deut. 4:17
The likeness of any beast that is on the earth, the likeness of any winged fowl that flieth in the air,

Deut. 4:18
The likeness of any thing that creepeth on the ground, the likeness of any fish that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Deut. 4:23
Take heed unto yourselves, lest ye forget the covenant of the Lord your God, which he made with you, and make you a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, which the Lord thy God hath forbidden thee.

Deut. 4:25
When thou shalt beget children, and children's children, and ye shall have remained long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image, or the likeness of any thing, and shall do evil in the sight of the Lord thy God, to provoke him to anger:

Deut. 4:32
For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

Deut. 5:8
Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

Deut. 5:14
But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

Deut. 5:21
Neither shalt thou desire thy neighbour's wife, neither shalt thou covet thy neighbour's house, his field, or his manservant, or his maidservant, his ox, or his ass, or any thing that is thy neighbour's.

Deut. 5:25
Now therefore why should we die? for this great fire will consume us: if we hear the voice of the Lord our God any more, then we shall die.

Deut. 7:1
When the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and hath cast out many nations before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou;

Deut. 7:7
The Lord did not set his love upon you, nor choose you, because ye were more in number than any people; for ye were the fewest of all people:

Deut. 8:9
A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Deut. 12:17
Thou mayest not eat within thy gates the tithe of thy corn, or of thy wine, or of thy oil, or the firstlings of thy herds or of thy flock, nor any of thy vows which thou vowest, nor thy freewill offerings, or heave offering of thine hand:

Deut. 13:11
And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you.

Deut. 14:1
Ye are the children of the Lord your God: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for the dead.

Deut. 14:3
Thou shalt not eat any abominable thing.

Deut. 14:21
Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother's milk.

Deut. 15:6
For the Lord thy God blesseth thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt reign over many nations, but they shall not reign over thee.

Deut. 15:7
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:

Deut. 15:21
And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.

Deut. 16:4
And there shall be no leavened bread seen with thee in all thy coast seven days; neither shall there any thing of the flesh, which thou sacrificedst the first day at even, remain all night until the morning.

Deut. 16:5
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the Lord thy God giveth thee:

Deut. 16:21
Thou shalt not plant thee a grove of any trees near unto the altar of the Lord thy God, which thou shalt make thee.

Deut. 16:22
Neither shalt thou set thee up any image; which the Lord thy God hateth.

Deut. 17:1
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Deut. 17:2
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

Deut. 17:3
And hath gone and served other gods, and worshipped them, either the sun, or moon, or any of the host of heaven, which I have not commanded;

Deut. 17:15
Thou shalt in any wise set him king over thee, whom the Lord thy God shall choose: one from among thy brethren shalt thou set king over thee: thou mayest not set a stranger over thee, which is not thy brother.

Deut. 18:6
And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;

Deut. 18:10
There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch,

Deut. 18:16
According to all that thou desiredst of the Lord thy God in Horeb in the day of the assembly, saying, Let me not hear again the voice of the Lord my God, neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not.

Deut. 19:11
But if any man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and fleeth into one of these cities:

Deut. 19:15
One witness shall not rise up against a man for any iniquity, or for any sin, in any sin that he sinneth: at the mouth of two witnesses, or at the mouth of three witnesses, shall the matter be established.

Deut. 19:16
If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

Deut. 19:20
And those which remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil among you.

Deut. 21:23
His body shall not remain all night upon the tree, but thou shalt in any wise bury him that day; (for he that is hanged is accursed of God;) that thy land be not defiled, which the Lord thy God giveth thee for an inheritance.

Deut. 22:1
Thou shalt not see thy brother's ox or his sheep go astray, and hide thyself from them: thou shalt in any case bring them again unto thy brother.

Deut. 22:6
If a bird's nest chance to be before thee in the way in any tree, or on the ground, whether they be young ones, or eggs, and the dam sitting upon the young, or upon the eggs, thou shalt not take the dam with the young:

Deut. 22:7
But thou shalt in any wise let the dam go, and take the young to thee; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

Deut. 22:8
When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thine house, if any man fall from thence.

Deut. 22:13
If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

Deut. 23:10
If there be among you any man, that is not clean by reason of uncleanness that chanceth him by night, then shall he go abroad out of the camp, he shall not come within the camp:

Deut. 23:18
Thou shalt not bring the hire of a whore, or the price of a dog, into the house of the Lord thy God for any vow: for even both these are abomination unto the Lord thy God.

Deut. 23:19
Thou shalt not lend upon usury to thy brother; usury of money, usury of victuals, usury of any thing that is lent upon usury:

Deut. 23:24
When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

Deut. 24:5
When a man hath taken a new wife, he shall not go out to war, neither shall he be charged with any business: but he shall be free at home one year, and shall cheer up his wife which he hath taken.

Deut. 24:7
If a man be found stealing any of his brethren of the children of Israel, and maketh merchandise of him, or selleth him; then that thief shall die; and thou shalt put evil away from among you.

Deut. 24:10
When thou dost lend thy brother any thing, thou shalt not go into his house to fetch his pledge.

Deut. 24:13
In any case thou shalt deliver him the pledge again when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his own raiment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before the Lord thy God.

Deut. 25:3
Forty stripes he may give him, and not exceed: lest, if he should exceed, and beat him above these with many stripes, then thy brother should seem vile unto thee.

Deut. 26:14
I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away ought thereof for any unclean use, nor given ought thereof for the dead: but I have hearkened to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

Deut. 27:5
And there shalt thou build an altar unto the Lord thy God, an altar of stones: thou shalt not lift up any iron tool upon them.

Deut. 27:15
Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

Deut. 27:21
Cursed be he that lieth with any manner of beast. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Deut. 28:12
The Lord shall open unto thee his good treasure, the heaven to give the rain unto thy land in his season, and to bless all the work of thine hand: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, and thou shalt not borrow.

Deut. 28:14
And thou shalt not go aside from any of the words which I command thee this day, to the right hand, or to the left, to go after other gods to serve them.

Deut. 28:55
So that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat: because he hath nothing left him in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith thine enemies shall distress thee in all thy gates.

Deut. 29:23
And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

Deut. 30:4
If any of thine be driven out unto the outmost parts of heaven, from thence will the Lord thy God gather thee, and from thence will he fetch thee:

Deut. 31:13
And that their children, which have not known any thing, may hear, and learn to fear the Lord your God, as long as ye live in the land whither ye go over Jordan to possess it.

Deut. 31:17
Then my anger shall be kindled against them in that day, and I will forsake them, and I will hide my face from them, and they shall be devoured, and many evils and troubles shall befall them; so that they will say in that day, Are not these evils come upon us, because our God is not among us?

Deut. 31:21
And it shall come to pass, when many evils and troubles are befallen them, that this song shall testify against them as a witness; for it shall not be forgotten out of the mouths of their seed: for I know their imagination which they go about, even now, before I have brought them into the land which I sware.

Deut. 32:7
Remember the days of old, consider the years of many generations: ask thy father, and he will shew thee; thy elders, and they will tell thee.

Deut. 32:28
For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

Deut. 32:39
See now that I, even I, am he, and there is no god with me: I kill, and I make alive; I wound, and I heal: neither is there any that can deliver out of my hand.