Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'able' occurs 198 times in the standard works.

29 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'able' in the standard works and contain 14.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

To learn more about emphasis scriptures click here.

Expand All

2 Chr. 32:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 14:29-31 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 27:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Dan. 4:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 20:22 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 3:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 10:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:9 (2 in 1 verse)


Lev. 14:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

 14:31 Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.

 14:32 This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.




Num. 13:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 47:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 27:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 99 243 342
Gen. 3 3 6
Ex. 6 35 41
Lev. 9 7 16
Num. 21 11 32
Deut. 6 18 24
Josh. 3 0 3
Judg. 1 2 3
1 Sam. 3 4 7
2 Sam. 0 10 10
1 Kgs. 2 7 9
2 Kgs. 3 2 5
1 Chr. 4 9 13
2 Chr. 9 8 17
Ezra 1 0 1
Neh. 1 2 3
Job 1 13 14
Ps. 4 18 22
Prov. 1 11 12
Eccl. 1 2 3
Song. 0 1 1
Isa. 4 24 28
Jer. 3 11 14
Lam. 1 1 2
Ezek. 4 29 33
Dan. 6 5 11
Amos 1 0 1
Micah 0 3 3
Nahum 0 2 2
Hab. 0 2 2
Zeph. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 1 1
Mal. 0 2 2
NT 61 156 217
BM 17 97 114
DC 19 83 102
PGP 2 14 16
TOTAL 198 593 791

Lev. 5:7
And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

Lev. 5:11
But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

Lev. 7:21
Moreover the soul that shall touch any unclean thing, as the uncleanness of man, or any unclean beast, or any abominable unclean thing, and eat of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, which pertain unto the Lord, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Lev. 11:43
Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

Lev. 12:8
And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

Lev. 14:22
And two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, such as he is able to get; and the one shall be a sin offering, and the other a burnt offering.

Lev. 14:31
Even such as he is able to get, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, with the meat offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for him that is to be cleansed before the Lord.

Lev. 14:32
This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose hand is not able to get that which pertaineth to his cleansing.

Lev. 18:30
Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Lev. 19:7
And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

Lev. 20:25
Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

Lev. 22:20
But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Lev. 24:6
And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.

Lev. 25:26
And if the man have none to redeem it, and himself be able to redeem it;

Lev. 25:28
But if he be not able to restore it to him, then that which is sold shall remain in the hand of him that hath bought it until the year of jubilee: and in the jubilee it shall go out, and he shall return unto his possession.

Lev. 25:49
Either his uncle, or his uncle's son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.