Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'better' occurs 147 times in the standard works.

25 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'better' in the standard works and contain 17% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 12 minutes to read the entire list.

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Eccl. 6:11-7:3 (5 in 5 verses)

Eccl. 7:1-5 (5 in 5 verses)

Eccl. 7:8-10 (3 in 3 verses)

Heb. 8:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 1:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Ps. 118:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Prov. 15:16-17 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 18:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Mark 9:42-43 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 82 0 82
Gen. 1 0 1
Ex. 1 0 1
Num. 1 0 1
Judg. 4 0 4
Ruth 1 0 1
1 Sam. 4 0 4
2 Sam. 2 0 2
1 Kgs. 4 0 4
2 Kgs. 1 0 1
2 Chr. 1 0 1
Esth. 1 0 1
Ps. 7 0 7
Prov. 20 0 20
Eccl. 23 0 23
Song. 2 0 2
Isa. 1 0 1
Lam. 1 0 1
Ezek. 1 0 1
Dan. 1 0 1
Hosea 1 0 1
Amos 1 0 1
Jonah 2 0 2
Nahum 1 0 1
NT 35 1 36
BM 25 0 25
DC 5 0 5
PGP 0 0 0
TOTAL 147 1 148

2 Chr. 21:13
But hast walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and hast made Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem to go a whoring, like to the whoredoms of the house of Ahab, and also hast slain thy brethren of thy father's house, which were better than thyself: