Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'may' occurs 2019 times in the standard works.

978 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'may' in the standard works and contain 48.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 367 minutes to read the entire list.

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D&C 109:50-79 (30 in 30 verses)

D&C 109:9-33 (25 in 25 verses)

Jacob 5:53-66 (19 in 14 verses)

D&C 20:77-84 (10 in 8 verses)

Alma 13:22-30 (9 in 9 verses)

Hel. 5:6-8 (8 in 3 verses)

John 17:21-26 (8 in 6 verses)

Mosiah 18:8-13 (8 in 6 verses)

3 Ne. 19:23-29 (8 in 7 verses)

Moro. 7:15-21 (8 in 7 verses)

D&C 88:120-126 (8 in 7 verses)

D&C 101:92-95 (7 in 4 verses)

Deut. 5:31-6:3 (7 in 6 verses)

Alma 20:22-27 (7 in 6 verses)

Alma 31:30-35 (7 in 6 verses)

D&C 57:5-10 (7 in 6 verses)

D&C 57:8-13 (7 in 6 verses)

3 Ne. 21:1-7 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 44:5-45:5 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 124:91-97 (7 in 7 verses)

D&C 127:1-7 (7 in 7 verses)

Alma 29:17 (6 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 7:32-35 (6 in 4 verses)

Alma 22:15-18 (6 in 4 verses)

Ether 8:23-26 (6 in 4 verses)

D&C 124:19-23 (6 in 5 verses)

D&C 20:64-69 (6 in 6 verses)

Lev. 25:48-49 (5 in 2 verses)

D&C 65:5-6 (5 in 2 verses)

Ps. 144:12-14 (5 in 3 verses)

Ezek. 6:6-8 (5 in 3 verses)

Alma 7:12-14 (5 in 3 verses)

Morm. 9:35-37 (5 in 3 verses)

Moro. 4:3-5:2 (5 in 3 verses)

Moro. 9:24-26 (5 in 3 verses)

D&C 121:12-14 (5 in 3 verses)

Num. 27:17-20 (5 in 4 verses)

D&C 136:29-32 (5 in 4 verses)

Isa. 41:22-26 (5 in 5 verses)

Ezek. 24:11 (4 in 1 verse)

W of M 1:2 (4 in 1 verse)

Moro. 7:48 (4 in 1 verse)

Rom. 15:31-32 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 4:31-32 (4 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:26-27 (4 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:38-39 (4 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 16:3-4 (4 in 2 verses)

D&C 109:38-39 (4 in 2 verses)

Deut. 31:12-14 (4 in 3 verses)

Eph. 6:19-21 (4 in 3 verses)

Alma 37:21-23 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 45:72-74 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 46:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 101:64-66 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 105:30-32 (4 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:7-9 (4 in 3 verses)

Ex. 28:1-4 (4 in 4 verses)

Lev. 25:29-32 (4 in 4 verses)

Judg. 16:25-28 (4 in 4 verses)

Jer. 42:3-6 (4 in 4 verses)

2 Cor. 8:11-14 (4 in 4 verses)

Alma 7:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

Morm. 5:12-15 (4 in 4 verses)

Moro. 7:31-34 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 10:22-25 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 72:19-22 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 96:8-97:2 (4 in 4 verses)

D&C 124:123-126 (4 in 4 verses)

Ps. 106:5 (3 in 1 verse)

Jer. 36:3 (3 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 14:11 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 14:31 (3 in 1 verse)

1 Ne. 16:38 (3 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 10:25 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:9 (3 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 5:15 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 14:11 (3 in 1 verse)

Alma 58:41 (3 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 11:14 (3 in 1 verse)

Ether 2:11 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:5 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 46:29 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 63:27 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 64:13 (3 in 1 verse)

D&C 133:9 (3 in 1 verse)

Ex. 8:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 23:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Ex. 28:37-38 (3 in 2 verses)

Josh. 22:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Jer. 9:17-18 (3 in 2 verses)

Amos 8:5-6 (3 in 2 verses)

Rom. 1:11-12 (3 in 2 verses)

Philip. 1:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 17:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 1:21-22 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 6:4-5 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 29:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

Jacob 3:10-11 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 3:14-15 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 27:23-24 (3 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:42-43 (3 in 2 verses)

Hel. 11:12-13 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 4:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:27-28 (3 in 2 verses)

Ether 5:1-2 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 42:91-92 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 82:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:74-75 (3 in 2 verses)

D&C 90:8-9 (3 in 2 verses)

Lev. 25:34-36 (3 in 3 verses)

Deut. 5:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

1 Kgs. 17:10-12 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Kgs. 4:41-43 (3 in 3 verses)

2 Chr. 6:31-33 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:7-9 (3 in 3 verses)

Jacob 5:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 2:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Mosiah 4:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 20:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 34:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Alma 61:14-16 (3 in 3 verses)

Hel. 14:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 29:9-30:2 (3 in 3 verses)

Ether 3:2-4 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 43:6-8 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 64:19-21 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 78:13-15 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 84:104-106 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 101:43-45 (3 in 3 verses)

D&C 124:135-137 (3 in 3 verses)

Abr. 3:15-17 (3 in 3 verses)

Gen. 16:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:4 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 27:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 7:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 10:21 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 32:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 33:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 11:34 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 11:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 17:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Lev. 22:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 22:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Num. 30:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 2:28 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 4:10 (2 in 1 verse)

Deut. 29:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Judg. 16:5 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 8:20 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Sam. 18:21 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Kgs. 8:43 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Chr. 21:22 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 35:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 36:25 (2 in 1 verse)

Job 39:15 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 5:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 10:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 30:18 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 60:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 66:11 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 9:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 29:6 (2 in 1 verse)

Hab. 2:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Mark 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Acts 21:24 (2 in 1 verse)

Rom. 3:19 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Cor. 16:6 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Cor. 11:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Philip. 2:28 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Thes. 4:12 (2 in 1 verse)

1 Jn. 5:13 (2 in 1 verse)

Rev. 22:14 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 2:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 9:46 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 11:8 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 15:19 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 20:2 (2 in 1 verse)

W of M 1:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 1:7 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 2:36 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 5:5 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 20:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 24:14 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 29:32 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 17:29 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 32:37 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 33:23 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 38:9 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 42:31 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 60:24 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 27:20 (2 in 1 verse)

3 Ne. 28:2 (2 in 1 verse)

Morm. 7:1 (2 in 1 verse)

Ether 6:19 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 8:11 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:19 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 10:63 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 14:8 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 15:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 16:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 17:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 18:44 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 19:27 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 27:15 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 29:33 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 35:2 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 42:9 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 45:61 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 50:25 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 59:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 82:18 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 84:110 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 90:23 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 93:19 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 95:4 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:74 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 101:78 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 104:7 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 105:10 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 119:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 123:6 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 124:55 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 128:13 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 130:23 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 132:63 (2 in 1 verse)

Ex. 8:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 9:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 10:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Ex. 30:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 10:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Lev. 11:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 15:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

Num. 35:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 4:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 11:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 14:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 17:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 19:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Deut. 30:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Josh. 20:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 9:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Sam. 11:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 13:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 16:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Kgs. 6:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Neh. 2:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Job 38:34-35 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 60:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 61:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 107:36-37 (2 in 2 verses)

Ps. 119:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 43:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 21:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 43:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Amos 5:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Zeph. 3:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Mal. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Matt. 6:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 20:13-14 (2 in 2 verses)

Luke 22:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

John 11:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

John 13:18-19 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 4:29-30 (2 in 2 verses)

Acts 8:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 14:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Cor. 16:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Cor. 5:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 1:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 3:17-18 (2 in 2 verses)

Eph. 4:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

Philip. 1:26-27 (2 in 2 verses)

Philip. 2:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Thes. 3:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 4:16-5:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Heb. 12:27-28 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Jn. 1:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 3:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

1 Ne. 6:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 3:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Ne. 25:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 4:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:19-20 (2 in 2 verses)

Mosiah 1:10-11 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 20:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 24:15-16 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 34:24-25 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 37:14-15 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 44:7-8 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 13:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 18:21-22 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 21:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 24:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

3 Ne. 29:1-2 (2 in 2 verses)

Morm. 3:20-21 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:9-10 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Moro. 10:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 10:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 55:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 85:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:84-85 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 88:129-130 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 103:32-33 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 105:25-26 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 115:5-6 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:28-29 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 124:60-61 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 129:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

D&C 131:4-5 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 743 133 876
NT 284 13 297
Matt. 17 0 17
Mark 16 1 17
Luke 22 2 24
John 37 0 37
Acts 16 3 19
Rom. 22 0 22
1 Cor. 31 1 32
2 Cor. 20 0 20
Gal. 1 0 1
Eph. 15 1 16
Philip. 15 0 15
Col. 4 0 4
1 Thes. 3 0 3
2 Thes. 5 0 5
1 Tim. 7 1 8
2 Tim. 7 0 7
Titus 5 0 5
Philem. 1 0 1
Heb. 9 0 9
James 5 0 5
1 Pet. 10 0 10
2 Pet. 3 0 3
1 Jn. 7 0 7
2 Jn. 1 0 1
3 Jn. 0 1 1
Rev. 5 3 8
BM 513 9 522
DC 454 15 469
PGP 25 4 29
TOTAL 2019 174 2193

Philip. 1:9
And this I pray, that your love may abound yet more and more in knowledge and in all judgment;

Philip. 1:10
That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

Philip. 1:26
That your rejoicing may be more abundant in Jesus Christ for me by my coming to you again.

Philip. 1:27
Only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of Christ: that whether I come and see you, or else be absent, I may hear of your affairs, that ye stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel;

Philip. 2:15
That ye may be blameless and harmless, the sons of God, without rebuke, in the midst of a crooked and perverse nation, among whom ye shine as lights in the world;

Philip. 2:16
Holding forth the word of life; that I may rejoice in the day of Christ, that I have not run in vain, neither laboured in vain.

Philip. 2:19
But I trust in the Lord Jesus to send Timotheus shortly unto you, that I also may be of good comfort, when I know your state.

Philip. 2:28
I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

Philip. 3:8
Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

Philip. 3:10
That I may know him, and the power of his resurrection, and the fellowship of his sufferings, being made conformable unto his death;

Philip. 3:12
Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Christ Jesus.

Philip. 3:21
Who shall change our vile body, that it may be fashioned like unto his glorious body, according to the working whereby he is able even to subdue all things unto himself.

Philip. 4:17
Not because I desire a gift: but I desire fruit that may abound to your account.