Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ground' occurs 269 times in the standard works.

39 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ground' in the standard works and contain 14.5% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 17 minutes to read the entire list.

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Lam. 2:9-10 (3 in 2 verses)

Gen. 2:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

3 Ne. 17:12-14 (3 in 3 verses)

Moses 3:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Abr. 5:5-7 (3 in 3 verses)

Ex. 4:3 (2 in 1 verse)

Josh. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Isa. 29:4 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Ne. 26:16 (2 in 1 verse)

D&C 89:16 (2 in 1 verse)

Gen. 4:2-3 (2 in 2 verses)

Judg. 6:39-40 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Sam. 23:11-12 (2 in 2 verses)

Isa. 30:23-24 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 19:12-13 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:22-23 (2 in 2 verses)

Jacob 5:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 164 1 165
NT 28 3 31
BM 47 4 51
1 Ne. 3 0 3
2 Ne. 7 0 7
Jacob 8 0 8
Jarom 1 0 1
Mosiah 8 0 8
Alma 12 4 16
Hel. 1 0 1
3 Ne. 5 0 5
Morm. 1 0 1
Ether 1 0 1
DC 10 1 11
PGP 20 0 20
TOTAL 269 9 278

Alma 5:10
And now I ask of you on what conditions are they saved? Yea, what grounds had they to hope for salvation? What is the cause of their being loosed from the bands of death, yea, and also the chains of hell?

Alma 30:7
Now there was no law against a man's belief; for it was strictly contrary to the commands of God that there should be a law which should bring men on to unequal grounds.

Alma 30:11
For there was a law that men should be judged according to their crimes. Nevertheless, there was no law against a man's belief; therefore, a man was punished only for the crimes which he had done; therefore all men were on equal grounds.

Alma 52:21
And it came to pass that Moroni, having no hopes of meeting them upon fair grounds, therefore, he resolved upon a plan that he might decoy the Lamanites out of their strongholds.