Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'neck' occurs 74 times in the standard works.

9 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'neck' in the standard works and contain 12.2% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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Jer. 28:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 45:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 46:29 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 113:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 56 25 81
NT 6 2 8
Matt. 1 0 1
Mark 1 0 1
Luke 2 0 2
Acts 2 1 3
Rom. 0 1 1
BM 9 31 40
DC 2 5 7
PGP 1 2 3
TOTAL 74 65 139

Matt. 18:6
But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Mark 9:42
And whosoever shall offend one of these little ones that believe in me, it is better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

Luke 15:20
And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.

Luke 17:2
It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.

Acts 15:10
Now therefore why tempt ye God, to put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

Acts 20:37
And they all wept sore, and fell on Paul's neck, and kissed him,