Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'excess' occurs 7 times in the standard works.

2 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'excess' in the standard works and contain 28.6% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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1 Pet. 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

 4:3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

 4:4 Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:




Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 0 0 0
NT 4 0 4
BM 0 0 0
DC 3 0 3
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 7 0 7

Matt. 23:25
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Eph. 5:18
And be not drunk with wine, wherein is excess; but be filled with the Spirit;

1 Pet. 4:3
For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:

1 Pet. 4:4
Wherein they think it strange that ye run not with them to the same excess of riot, speaking evil of you:

D&C 59:20
And it pleaseth God that he hath given all these things unto man; for unto this end were they made to be used, with judgment, not to excess, neither by extortion.

D&C 88:69
Remember the great and last promise which I have made unto you; cast away your idle thoughts and your excess of laughter far from you.

D&C 89:15
And these hath God made for the use of man only in times of famine and excess of hunger.