Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'weight' occurs 61 times in the standard works.

15 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'weight' in the standard works and contain 24.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 4 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Chr. 28:14-18 (9 in 5 verses)

Gen. 24:22 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 21:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezra 8:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 54 7 61
NT 4 2 6
BM 0 0 0
DC 3 1 4
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 61 10 71

Lev. 19:36
Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am the Lord your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Deut. 25:13
Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

Prov. 16:11
A just weight and balance are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.

Prov. 20:10
Divers weights, and divers measures, both of them are alike abomination to the Lord.

Prov. 20:23
Divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord; and a false balance is not good.

Prov. 27:3
A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; but a fool's wrath is heavier than them both.

Micah 6:11
Shall I count them pure with the wicked balances, and with the bag of deceitful weights?

Matt. 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

2 Cor. 10:10
For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

D&C 117:8
Is there not room enough on the mountains of Adam-ondi-Ahman, and on the plains of Olaha Shinehah, or the land where Adam dwelt, that you should covet that which is but the drop, and neglect the more weighty matters?