Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ears' occurs 185 times in the standard works.

49 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ears' in the standard works and contain 26.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 19 minutes to read the entire list.

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Gen. 41:22-27 (6 in 6 verses)

Gen. 41:5-7 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 36:13-15 (4 in 3 verses)

Jer. 36:20-21 (3 in 2 verses)

Matt. 13:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 128:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Lev. 2:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Sam. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 6:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 17:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 28:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 36:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 28:27 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 16:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 32:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 9:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 8:18-9:1 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Tim. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 43:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 119 531 650
NT 32 72 104
Matt. 8 2 10
Mark 7 3 10
Luke 6 16 22
John 0 3 3
Acts 6 20 26
Rom. 1 2 3
2 Cor. 0 3 3
Gal. 0 4 4
1 Tim. 0 1 1
2 Tim. 2 1 3
Heb. 0 6 6
James 1 1 2
1 Pet. 1 0 1
2 Pet. 0 2 2
Rev. 0 8 8
BM 10 159 169
DC 23 51 74
PGP 1 48 49
TOTAL 185 861 1046

Matt. 2:16
Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently inquired of the wise men.

Matt. 9:20
And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

Matt. 11:15
He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Matt. 12:1
At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.

Matt. 13:9
Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Matt. 13:15
For this people's heart is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes they have closed; lest at any time they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and should understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Matt. 13:16
But blessed are your eyes, for they see: and your ears, for they hear.

Matt. 13:43
Then shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father. Who hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Matt. 28:14
And if this come to the governor's ears, we will persuade him, and secure you.

Mark 2:23
And it came to pass, that he went through the corn fields on the sabbath day; and his disciples began, as they went, to pluck the ears of corn.

Mark 4:9
And he said unto them, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 4:23
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 5:25
And a certain woman, which had an issue of blood twelve years,

Mark 5:42
And straightway the damsel arose, and walked; for she was of the age of twelve years. And they were astonished with a great astonishment.

Mark 7:16
If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.

Mark 7:33
And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;

Mark 7:35
And straightway his ears were opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spake plain.

Mark 8:18
Having eyes, see ye not? and having ears, hear ye not? and do ye not remember?

Mark 9:24
And straightway the father of the child cried out, and said with tears, Lord, I believe; help thou mine unbelief.

Luke 1:7
And they had no child, because that Elisabeth was barren, and they both were now well stricken in years.

Luke 1:18
And Zacharias said unto the angel, Whereby shall I know this? for I am an old man, and my wife well stricken in years.

Luke 1:44
For, lo, as soon as the voice of thy salutation sounded in mine ears, the babe leaped in my womb for joy.

Luke 2:36
And there was one Anna, a prophetess, the daughter of Phanuel, of the tribe of Aser: she was of a great age, and had lived with an husband seven years from her virginity;

Luke 2:37
And she was a widow of about fourscore and four years, which departed not from the temple, but served God with fastings and prayers night and day.

Luke 2:42
And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

Luke 3:23
And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli,

Luke 4:21
And he began to say unto them, This day is this scripture fulfilled in your ears.

Luke 4:25
But I tell you of a truth, many widows were in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up three years and six months, when great famine was throughout all the land;

Luke 6:1
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

Luke 7:38
And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

Luke 7:44
And he turned to the woman, and said unto Simon, Seest thou this woman? I entered into thine house, thou gavest me no water for my feet: but she hath washed my feet with tears, and wiped them with the hairs of her head.

Luke 8:8
And other fell on good ground, and sprang up, and bare fruit an hundredfold. And when he had said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 8:42
For he had one only daughter, about twelve years of age, and she lay a dying. But as he went the people thronged him.

Luke 8:43
And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

Luke 9:44
Let these sayings sink down into your ears: for the Son of man shall be delivered into the hands of men.

Luke 12:19
And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.

Luke 13:7
Then said he unto the dresser of his vineyard, Behold, these three years I come seeking fruit on this fig tree, and find none: cut it down; why cumbereth it the ground?

Luke 13:11
And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

Luke 13:16
And ought not this woman, being a daughter of Abraham, whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years, be loosed from this bond on the sabbath day?

Luke 14:35
It is neither fit for the land, nor yet for the dunghill; but men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

Luke 15:29
And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:

John 2:20
Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?

John 5:5
And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.

John 8:57
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

Acts 4:22
For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

Acts 7:6
And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.

Acts 7:23
And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

Acts 7:30
And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

Acts 7:36
He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

Acts 7:42
Then God turned, and gave them up to worship the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets, O ye house of Israel, have ye offered to me slain beasts and sacrifices by the space of forty years in the wilderness?

Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Acts 7:57
Then they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and ran upon him with one accord,

Acts 9:33
And there he found a certain man named Aeneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

Acts 11:4
But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

Acts 11:22
Then tidings of these things came unto the ears of the church which was in Jerusalem: and they sent forth Barnabas, that he should go as far as Antioch.

Acts 13:18
And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

Acts 13:20
And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years, until Samuel the prophet.

Acts 13:21
And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

Acts 14:27
And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

Acts 17:20
For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

Acts 19:10
And this continued by the space of two years; so that all they which dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.

Acts 20:19
Serving the Lord with all humility of mind, and with many tears, and temptations, which befell me by the lying in wait of the Jews:

Acts 20:31
Therefore watch, and remember, that by the space of three years I ceased not to warn every one night and day with tears.

Acts 24:10
Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

Acts 24:17
Now after many years I came to bring alms to my nation, and offerings.

Acts 24:27
But after two years Porcius Festus came into Felix' room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.

Acts 28:27
For the heart of this people is waxed gross, and their ears are dull of hearing, and their eyes have they closed; lest they should see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and should be converted, and I should heal them.

Acts 28:30
And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,

Rom. 4:19
And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb:

Rom. 11:8
(According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

Rom. 15:23
But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

2 Cor. 2:4
For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

2 Cor. 7:5
For, when we were come into Macedonia, our flesh had no rest, but we were troubled on every side; without were fightings, within were fears.

2 Cor. 12:2
I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.

Gal. 1:18
Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Gal. 2:1
Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

Gal. 3:17
And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.

Gal. 4:10
Ye observe days, and months, and times, and years.

1 Tim. 5:9
Let not a widow be taken into the number under threescore years old, having been the wife of one man,

2 Tim. 1:4
Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

2 Tim. 4:3
For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

2 Tim. 4:4
And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

Heb. 1:12
And as a vesture shalt thou fold them up, and they shall be changed: but thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail.

Heb. 3:9
When your fathers tempted me, proved me, and saw my works forty years.

Heb. 3:17
But with whom was he grieved forty years? was it not with them that had sinned, whose carcases fell in the wilderness?

Heb. 5:7
Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared;

Heb. 11:24
By faith Moses, when he was come to years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh's daughter;

Heb. 12:17
For ye know how that afterward, when he would have inherited the blessing, he was rejected: for he found no place of repentance, though he sought it carefully with tears.

James 5:4
Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

James 5:17
Elias was a man subject to like passions as we are, and he prayed earnestly that it might not rain: and it rained not on the earth by the space of three years and six months.

1 Pet. 3:12
For the eyes of the Lord are over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers: but the face of the Lord is against them that do evil.

2 Pet. 3:8
But, beloved, be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day.

Rev. 7:17
For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

Rev. 20:2
And he laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, which is the Devil, and Satan, and bound him a thousand years,

Rev. 20:3
And cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled: and after that he must be loosed a little season.

Rev. 20:4
And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

Rev. 20:5
But the rest of the dead lived not again until the thousand years were finished. This is the first resurrection.

Rev. 20:6
Blessed and holy is he that hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second death hath no power, but they shall be priests of God and of Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

Rev. 20:7
And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison,

Rev. 21:4
And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.