Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'way' occurs 882 times in the standard works.

256 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'way' in the standard works and contain 29% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 98 minutes to read the entire list.

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Ezek. 46:2-9 (8 in 8 verses)

Prov. 30:19-20 (5 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:9-12 (5 in 4 verses)

Num. 22:22-26 (5 in 5 verses)

1 Kgs. 13:24-28 (5 in 5 verses)

2 Ne. 4:33 (4 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 33:8-11 (4 in 4 verses)

Ezek. 44:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 50:17-20 (4 in 4 verses)

Gen. 48:7 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 22:52 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 47:2 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 13:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Kgs. 18:6-7 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 2:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 42:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:28-29 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 31:21-32:1 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 61:24-25 (3 in 2 verses)

Abr. 2:15-16 (3 in 2 verses)

Deut. 1:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 21:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 36:17-19 (3 in 3 verses)

Mark 10:52-11:2 (3 in 3 verses)

John 14:4-6 (3 in 3 verses)

Acts 9:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 9:32-34 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 52:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 52:25-27 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 3:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 2:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 21:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 3:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 6:12 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 3:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Kgs. 25:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Neh. 9:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 1:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 139:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 15:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 28:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 35:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 57:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 21:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 39:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 52:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 8:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 18:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 33:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Matt. 21:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 11:8 (2 in 1 verse)

John 4:50 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 21:5 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Pet. 2:15 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 17:41 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:41 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 10:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 7:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 5:62 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 8:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 37:46 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 52:34 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 4:24 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 27:33 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Moses 4:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 24:61-62 (2 in 2 verses)

Gen. 45:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 13:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 22:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 25:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 5:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 18:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 21:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezra 8:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 23:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)


Job 38:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

 38:24 By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

 38:25 Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;




Ps. 25:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 15:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 22:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 26:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Jer. 5:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 3:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 5:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 7:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 1:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 9:33-34 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 18:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 8:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 10:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 9:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 23:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 49:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 12:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 14:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 7:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 28:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 52:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 84:107-108 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 527 960 1487
Gen. 36 41 77
Ex. 14 20 34
Lev. 0 22 22
Num. 18 14 32
Deut. 35 48 83
Josh. 16 13 29
Judg. 15 25 40
Ruth 2 0 2
1 Sam. 21 35 56
2 Sam. 10 28 38
1 Kgs. 33 37 70
2 Kgs. 22 38 60
1 Chr. 0 17 17
2 Chr. 9 55 64
Ezra 3 9 12
Neh. 5 2 7
Esth. 1 5 6
Job 25 65 90
Ps. 53 71 124
Prov. 57 58 115
Eccl. 4 7 11
Song. 1 7 8
Isa. 35 93 128
Jer. 40 93 133
Lam. 0 9 9
Ezek. 58 57 115
Dan. 2 15 17
Hosea 4 19 23
Joel 0 3 3
Amos 1 18 19
Obad. 0 2 2
Jonah 2 1 3
Micah 0 5 5
Nahum 2 7 9
Hab. 0 1 1
Zeph. 0 3 3
Hag. 0 2 2
Zech. 1 10 11
Mal. 2 5 7
NT 137 328 465
BM 145 485 630
DC 65 106 171
PGP 8 27 35
TOTAL 882 1906 2788

Job 1:15
And the Sabeans fell upon them, and took them away; yea, they have slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Job 1:17
While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The Chaldeans made out three bands, and fell upon the camels, and have carried them away, yea, and slain the servants with the edge of the sword; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

Job 1:21
And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken away; blessed be the name of the Lord.

Job 3:23
Why is light given to a man whose way is hid, and whom God hath hedged in?

Job 4:6
Is not this thy fear, thy confidence, thy hope, and the uprightness of thy ways?

Job 4:21
Doth not their excellency which is in them go away? they die, even without wisdom.

Job 6:15
My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the stream of brooks they pass away;

Job 6:18
The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

Job 7:9
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

Job 7:16
I loathe it; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days are vanity.

Job 7:21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

Job 8:4
If thy children have sinned against him, and he have cast them away for their transgression;

Job 8:19
Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the earth shall others grow.

Job 8:20
Behold, God will not cast away a perfect man, neither will he help the evil doers:

Job 9:12
Behold, he taketh away, who can hinder him? who will say unto him, What doest thou?

Job 9:25
Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

Job 9:26
They are passed away as the swift ships: as the eagle that hasteth to the prey.

Job 9:34
Let him take his rod away from me, and let not his fear terrify me:

Job 11:14
If iniquity be in thine hand, put it far away, and let not wickedness dwell in thy tabernacles.

Job 11:16
Because thou shalt forget thy misery, and remember it as waters that pass away:

Job 12:17
He leadeth counsellors away spoiled, and maketh the judges fools.

Job 12:19
He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

Job 12:20
He removeth away the speech of the trusty, and taketh away the understanding of the aged.

Job 12:24
He taketh away the heart of the chief of the people of the earth, and causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

Job 13:15
Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.

Job 14:10
But man dieth, and wasteth away: yea, man giveth up the ghost, and where is he?

Job 14:19
The waters wear the stones: thou washest away the things which grow out of the dust of the earth; and thou destroyest the hope of man.

Job 14:20
Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.

Job 15:12
Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

Job 15:30
He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

Job 16:22
When a few years are come, then I shall go the way whence I shall not return.

Job 17:9
The righteous also shall hold on his way, and he that hath clean hands shall be stronger and stronger.

Job 18:10
The snare is laid for him in the ground, and a trap for him in the way.

Job 19:8
He hath fenced up my way that I cannot pass, and he hath set darkness in my paths.

Job 19:12
His troops come together, and raise up their way against me, and encamp round about my tabernacle.

Job 20:8
He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

Job 20:19
Because he hath oppressed and hath forsaken the poor; because he hath violently taken away an house which he builded not;

Job 20:28
The increase of his house shall depart, and his goods shall flow away in the day of his wrath.

Job 21:14
Therefore they say unto God, Depart from us; for we desire not the knowledge of thy ways.

Job 21:18
They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

Job 21:29
Have ye not asked them that go by the way? and do ye not know their tokens,

Job 21:31
Who shall declare his way to his face? and who shall repay him what he hath done?

Job 22:3
Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? or is it gain to him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

Job 22:9
Thou hast sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.

Job 22:15
Hast thou marked the old way which wicked men have trodden?

Job 22:23
If thou return to the Almighty, thou shalt be built up, thou shalt put away iniquity far from thy tabernacles.

Job 22:28
Thou shalt also decree a thing, and it shall be established unto thee: and the light shall shine upon thy ways.

Job 23:10
But he knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

Job 23:11
My foot hath held his steps, his way have I kept, and not declined.

Job 24:2
Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

Job 24:3
They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge.

Job 24:4
They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

Job 24:10
They cause him to go naked without clothing, and they take away the sheaf from the hungry;

Job 24:13
They are of those that rebel against the light; they know not the ways thereof, nor abide in the paths thereof.

Job 24:18
He is swift as the waters; their portion is cursed in the earth: he beholdeth not the way of the vineyards.

Job 24:23
Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

Job 24:24
They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

Job 26:14
Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?

Job 27:2
As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Job 27:10
Will he delight himself in the Almighty? will he always call upon God?

Job 27:20
Terrors take hold on him as waters, a tempest stealeth him away in the night.

Job 27:21
The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth: and as a storm hurleth him out of his place.

Job 28:4
The flood breaketh out from the inhabitant; even the waters forgotten of the foot: they are dried up, they are gone away from men.

Job 28:23
God understandeth the way thereof, and he knoweth the place thereof.

Job 28:26
When he made a decree for the rain, and a way for the lightning of the thunder:

Job 29:25
I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Job 31:4
Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?

Job 31:7
If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;

Job 32:9
Great men are not always wise: neither do the aged understand judgment.

Job 32:22
For I know not to give flattering titles; in so doing my maker would soon take me away.

Job 33:21
His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.

Job 34:5
For Job hath said, I am righteous: and God hath taken away my judgment.

Job 34:11
For the work of a man shall he render unto him, and cause every man to find according to his ways.

Job 34:20
In a moment shall they die, and the people shall be troubled at midnight, and pass away: and the mighty shall be taken away without hand.

Job 34:21
For his eyes are upon the ways of man, and he seeth all his goings.

Job 34:27
Because they turned back from him, and would not consider any of his ways:

Job 36:18
Because there is wrath, beware lest he take thee away with his stroke: then a great ransom cannot deliver thee.

Job 36:23
Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Job 38:19
Where is the way where light dwelleth? and as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Job 38:24
By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

Job 38:25
Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

Job 40:19
He is the chief of the ways of God: he that made him can make his sword to approach unto him.