Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'cease' occurs 128 times in the standard works.

19 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'cease' in the standard works and contain 14.8% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 6 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 88:121-124 (6 in 4 verses)

3 Ne. 10:9-10 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 136:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 18:21 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 20:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 65 29 94
Gen. 1 1 2
Ex. 1 2 3
Num. 3 0 3
Deut. 2 0 2
Josh. 1 1 2
Judg. 2 3 5
1 Sam. 1 2 3
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Ezra 3 2 5
Neh. 2 0 2
Job 3 1 4
Ps. 4 4 8
Prov. 5 1 6
Eccl. 1 0 1
Isa. 9 7 16
Jer. 7 0 7
Lam. 1 3 4
Ezek. 13 0 13
Dan. 2 0 2
Hosea 2 1 3
Amos 1 0 1
Jonah 0 1 1
NT 5 18 23
BM 35 24 59
DC 20 0 20
PGP 3 2 5
TOTAL 128 73 201

1 Sam. 7:8
And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto the Lord our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.