Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'discern' occurs 23 times in the standard works.

4 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'discern' in the standard works and contain 17.4% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 1 minutes to read the entire list.

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Matt. 16:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Luke 12:56 (2 in 1 verse)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 12 4 16
NT 5 4 9
BM 3 1 4
Alma 2 1 3
3 Ne. 1 0 1
DC 3 3 6
PGP 0 2 2
TOTAL 23 14 37

Alma 18:18
Now when the king had heard these words, he marveled again, for he beheld that Ammon could discern his thoughts; but notwithstanding this, king Lamoni did open his mouth, and said unto him: Who art thou? Art thou that Great Spirit, who knows all things?

Alma 24:30
And thus we can plainly discern, that after a people have been once enlightened by the Spirit of God, and have had great knowledge of things pertaining to righteousness, and then have fallen away into sin and transgression, they become more hardened, and thus their state becomes worse than though they had never known these things.

Alma 32:35
O then, is not this real? I say unto you, Yea, because it is light; and whatsoever is light, is good, because it is discernible, therefore ye must know that it is good; and now behold, after ye have tasted this light is your knowledge perfect?

3 Ne. 24:18
Then shall ye return and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.