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

Gen. 18:11
Now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age; and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women.

Ex. 9:33
And Moses went out of the city from Pharaoh, and spread abroad his hands unto the Lord: and the thunders and hail ceased, and the rain was not poured upon the earth.

Ex. 9:34
And when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders were ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

Josh. 5:12
And the manna ceased on the morrow after they had eaten of the old corn of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

Judg. 2:19
And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

Judg. 5:7
The inhabitants of the villages ceased, they ceased in Israel, until that I Deborah arose, that I arose a mother in Israel.

1 Sam. 2:5
They that were full have hired out themselves for bread; and they that were hungry ceased: so that the barren hath born seven; and she that hath many children is waxed feeble.

1 Sam. 25:9
And when David's young men came, they spake to Nabal according to all those words in the name of David, and ceased.

Ezra 4:24
Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.

Job 32:1
So these three men ceased to answer Job, because he was righteous in his own eyes.

Ps. 12:1
Help, Lord; for the godly man ceaseth; for the faithful fail from among the children of men.

Ps. 35:15
But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: yea, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they did tear me, and ceased not:

Ps. 49:8
(For the redemption of their soul is precious, and it ceaseth for ever:)

Ps. 77:2
In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.

Prov. 26:20
Where no wood is, there the fire goeth out: so where there is no talebearer, the strife ceaseth.

Isa. 14:4
That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

Isa. 16:4
Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the spoiler: for the extortioner is at an end, the spoiler ceaseth, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

Isa. 24:8
The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

Isa. 26:14
They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all their memory to perish.

Isa. 33:8
The highways lie waste, the wayfaring man ceaseth: he hath broken the covenant, he hath despised the cities, he regardeth no man.

Lam. 3:49
Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

Lam. 5:14
The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

Lam. 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

Hosea 7:4
They are all adulterers, as an oven heated by the baker, who ceaseth from raising after he hath kneaded the dough, until it be leavened.

Jonah 1:15
So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.