Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'than' occurs 687 times in the standard works.

232 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'than' in the standard works and contain 33.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 82 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lam. 4:6-9 (6 in 4 verses)

Abr. 3:18-19 (5 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 7:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 42:5-6 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:18-19 (4 in 2 verses)

Job 11:6-9 (4 in 4 verses)

Ps. 19:10 (3 in 1 verse)

Prov. 8:19 (3 in 1 verse)

Isa. 55:9 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 4:1 (3 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 5:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 16:51-52 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 6:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Luke 12:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 7:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 13:25-26 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:30-32 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Sam. 13:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 20:23-25 (3 in 3 verses)

Ps. 119:98-100 (3 in 3 verses)

Prov. 16:32-17:1 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 6:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 7:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Eccl. 9:16-18 (3 in 3 verses)

Matt. 11:9-11 (3 in 3 verses)

Luke 7:26-28 (3 in 3 verses)

Abr. 3:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Judg. 14:18 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 9:2 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 15:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 1:23 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 19:43 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 1:47 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 4:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 35:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 52:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 55:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 84:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 93:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 130:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 16:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 22:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Eccl. 5:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Song. 5:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 13:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 28:20 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 52:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 15:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 23:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Amos 6:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 1:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 10:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 12:45 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 11:26 (2 in 1 verse)

John 13:16 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 1:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 1:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Heb. 3:3 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 23:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 2:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 9:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 52:40 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:44 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:20 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:37 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:12 (2 in 1 verse)

JS-H 1:60 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 37:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 13:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 15:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 20:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 118:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 8:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 15:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 18:24-19:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 2:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Eccl. 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 12:41-42 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 4:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 11:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Gal. 1:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 11:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Pet. 2:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 3:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 32:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 8:37-38 (2 in 2 verses)

JS-H 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 344 308 652
Gen. 15 2 17
Ex. 5 0 5
Lev. 12 5 17
Num. 5 13 18
Deut. 9 1 10
Josh. 2 0 2
Judg. 8 3 11
Ruth 3 0 3
1 Sam. 10 73 83
2 Sam. 14 40 54
1 Kgs. 14 18 32
2 Kgs. 4 5 9
1 Chr. 3 44 47
2 Chr. 8 11 19
Ezra 1 9 10
Neh. 0 15 15
Esth. 4 2 6
Job 29 1 30
Ps. 39 35 74
Prov. 43 0 43
Eccl. 35 0 35
Song. 6 0 6
Isa. 15 3 18
Jer. 9 23 32
Lam. 7 0 7
Ezek. 20 0 20
Dan. 10 2 12
Hosea 2 0 2
Amos 2 1 3
Jonah 3 1 4
Micah 1 0 1
Nahum 1 0 1
Hab. 4 0 4
Hag. 1 0 1
Zech. 0 1 1
NT 139 95 234
BM 131 49 180
DC 48 16 64
PGP 25 1 26
TOTAL 687 469 1156

Ezek. 3:9
As an adamant harder than flint have I made thy forehead: fear them not, neither be dismayed at their looks, though they be a rebellious house.

Ezek. 5:6
And she hath changed my judgments into wickedness more than the nations, and my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for they have refused my judgments and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

Ezek. 5:7
Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because ye multiplied more than the nations that are round about you, and have not walked in my statutes, neither have kept my judgments, neither have done according to the judgments of the nations that are round about you;

Ezek. 6:14
So will I stretch out my hand upon them, and make the land desolate, yea, more desolate than the wilderness toward Diblath, in all their habitations: and they shall know that I am the Lord.

Ezek. 8:15
Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

Ezek. 15:2
Son of man, What is the vine tree more than any tree, or than a branch which is among the trees of the forest?

Ezek. 16:47
Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

Ezek. 16:51
Neither hath Samaria committed half of thy sins; but thou hast multiplied thine abominations more than they, and hast justified thy sisters in all thine abominations which thou hast done.

Ezek. 16:52
Thou also, which hast judged thy sisters, bear thine own shame for thy sins that thou hast committed more abominable than they: they are more righteous than thou: yea, be thou confounded also, and bear thy shame, in that thou hast justified thy sisters.

Ezek. 23:11
And when her sister Aholibah saw this, she was more corrupt in her inordinate love than she, and in her whoredoms more than her sister in her whoredoms.

Ezek. 28:3
Behold, thou art wiser than Daniel; there is no secret that they can hide from thee:

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.

Ezek. 42:5
Now the upper chambers were shorter: for the galleries were higher than these, than the lower, and than the middlemost of the building.

Ezek. 42:6
For they were in three stories, but had not pillars as the pillars of the courts: therefore the building was straitened more than the lowest and the middlemost from the ground.