Emphasis Scriptures

The word 'ways' occurs 270 times in the standard works.

35 of those occurances are found in the list of scriptures highlighted below. These verses have the highest concentration of the word 'ways' in the standard works and contain 13% of all occurances. Assuming 30 seconds per verse, it would take about 13 minutes to read the entire list.

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Isa. 55:8-9 (4 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 18:29-30 (3 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 21:12 (2 in 1 verse)

Prov. 3:17 (2 in 1 verse)

Jer. 32:19 (2 in 1 verse)

Ezek. 16:47 (2 in 1 verse)

Jacob 4:8 (2 in 1 verse)

Mosiah 12:26 (2 in 1 verse)

Alma 26:24 (2 in 1 verse)

2 Chr. 6:30-31 (2 in 2 verses)

2 Chr. 27:6-7 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:3-4 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 7:8-9 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 20:43-44 (2 in 2 verses)

Ezek. 36:31-32 (2 in 2 verses)

Alma 30:60-31:1 (2 in 2 verses)

Exact Word Count

  FULL PART ALL
OT 185 30 215
NT 20 45 65
Matt. 2 5 7
Mark 1 3 4
Luke 4 3 7
John 1 5 6
Acts 3 4 7
Rom. 2 1 3
1 Cor. 1 2 3
2 Cor. 0 4 4
Gal. 0 1 1
Eph. 0 2 2
Philip. 0 3 3
Col. 0 2 2
1 Thes. 0 2 2
2 Thes. 0 3 3
Philem. 0 1 1
Heb. 1 1 2
James 2 0 2
1 Pet. 0 1 1
2 Pet. 1 2 3
Rev. 2 0 2
BM 53 45 98
DC 9 34 43
PGP 3 3 6
TOTAL 270 157 427

Matt. 8:33
And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

Matt. 18:10
Take heed that ye despise not one of these little ones; for I say unto you, That in heaven their angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in heaven.

Matt. 22:5
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his farm, another to his merchandise:

Matt. 22:9
Go ye therefore into the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage.

Matt. 22:10
So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

Matt. 26:11
For ye have the poor always with you; but me ye have not always.

Mark 5:5
And always, night and day, he was in the mountains, and in the tombs, crying, and cutting himself with stones.

Mark 11:4
And they went their way, and found the colt tied by the door without in a place where two ways met; and they loose him.

Mark 14:7
For ye have the poor with you always, and whensoever ye will ye may do them good: but me ye have not always.

Luke 1:76
And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways;

Luke 3:5
Every valley shall be filled, and every mountain and hill shall be brought low; and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough ways shall be made smooth;

Luke 10:3
Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.

Luke 10:10
But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

Luke 14:23
And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.

Luke 18:1
And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint;

Luke 21:36
Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

John 8:29
And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; for I do always those things that please him.

John 11:42
And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

John 11:46
But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

John 12:8
For the poor always ye have with you; but me ye have not always.

John 18:20
Jesus answered him, I spake openly to the world; I ever taught in the synagogue, and in the temple, whither the Jews always resort; and in secret have I said nothing.

Acts 2:25
For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

Acts 2:28
Thou hast made known to me the ways of life; thou shalt make me full of joy with thy countenance.

Acts 7:51
Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Acts 13:10
And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

Acts 14:16
Who in times past suffered all nations to walk in their own ways.

Acts 24:3
We accept it always, and in all places, most noble Felix, with all thankfulness.

Acts 24:16
And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

Rom. 1:9
For God is my witness, whom I serve with my spirit in the gospel of his Son, that without ceasing I make mention of you always in my prayers;

Rom. 3:16
Destruction and misery are in their ways:

Rom. 11:33
O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

1 Cor. 1:4
I thank my God always on your behalf, for the grace of God which is given you by Jesus Christ;

1 Cor. 4:17
For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

1 Cor. 15:58
Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye steadfast, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

2 Cor. 2:14
Now thanks be unto God, which always causeth us to triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest the savour of his knowledge by us in every place.

2 Cor. 4:10
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

2 Cor. 5:6
Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, whilst we are at home in the body, we are absent from the Lord:

2 Cor. 9:8
And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

Gal. 4:18
But it is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing, and not only when I am present with you.

Eph. 5:20
Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Eph. 6:18
Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

Philip. 1:4
Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

Philip. 1:20
According to my earnest expectation and my hope, that in nothing I shall be ashamed, but that with all boldness, as always, so now also Christ shall be magnified in my body, whether it be by life, or by death.

Philip. 2:12
Wherefore, my beloved, as ye have always obeyed, not as in my presence only, but now much more in my absence, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling.

Col. 1:3
We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you,

Col. 4:12
Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ, saluteth you, always labouring fervently for you in prayers, that ye may stand perfect and complete in all the will of God.

1 Thes. 1:2
We give thanks to God always for you all, making mention of you in our prayers;

1 Thes. 3:6
But now when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, as we also to see you:

2 Thes. 1:3
We are bound to thank God always for you, brethren, as it is meet, because that your faith groweth exceedingly, and the charity of every one of you all toward each other aboundeth;

2 Thes. 1:11
Wherefore also we pray always for you, that our God would count you worthy of this calling, and fulfil all the good pleasure of his goodness, and the work of faith with power:

2 Thes. 3:16
Now the Lord of peace himself give you peace always by all means. The Lord be with you all.

Philem. 1:4
I thank my God, making mention of thee always in my prayers,

Heb. 3:10
Wherefore I was grieved with that generation, and said, They do alway err in their heart; and they have not known my ways.

Heb. 9:6
Now when these things were thus ordained, the priests went always into the first tabernacle, accomplishing the service of God.

James 1:8
A double minded man is unstable in all his ways.

James 1:11
For the sun is no sooner risen with a burning heat, but it withereth the grass, and the flower thereof falleth, and the grace of the fashion of it perisheth: so also shall the rich man fade away in his ways.

1 Pet. 3:15
But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

2 Pet. 1:12
Wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things, though ye know them, and be established in the present truth.

2 Pet. 1:15
Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

2 Pet. 2:2
And many shall follow their pernicious ways; by reason of whom the way of truth shall be evil spoken of.

Rev. 15:3
And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty; just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints.

Rev. 16:1
And I heard a great voice out of the temple saying to the seven angels, Go your ways, and pour out the vials of the wrath of God upon the earth.