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The 100 chapters with the most verse-level uses (counting rule CR-BASE).

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A citation without a reference whose sentence also stands in another verse (an identical or nearly identical parallel; formulas do not count) could come from any of these verses. By default it is not counted. Ticked, it counts once for each of these verses. Citations whose sentence stands in one verse only always count. Computed on request.

Inclusion profile: Official official@2
The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. More on the methodology page
Verse sequence (canon and numbering): Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering) prot66.nrf
The default: the 66 books of the Protestant Bible in the order and verse numbering of the King James Version. About this sequence
Counting rule: Every covered verse (baseline) CR-BASE@1
The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. More on the methodology page

* marks the default. The default view is computed once per epoch; other choices are computed on request. Explanations of profiles and counting rules are on the methodology page.

Verse sequence: Protestant canon, 66 books (KJV numbering) (prot66.nrf). Counts and denominators depend on it.

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Top 100 chapters by verse-level uses
RankChapterHow often the verses of this row were cited. Every citation counts once for each verse it covers, so a citation of three verses adds 3. Repetitions and partial verses follow the counting rule shown under "How this was computed".
1Romans 8 981
2John 1 974
3Luke 1 796
41 Corinthians 15 701
5Luke 2 663
6Matthew 5 658
7John 8 647
8John 6 633
9Matthew 6 601
10Luke 12 557
11John 14 552
12Philippians 2 550
13Psalms 119 543
14John 3 531
15Ephesians 4 518
16John 5 515
171 John 4 500
18Matthew 24 492
19John 10 487
20Matthew 7 485
21John 4 478
22Luke 6 453
22Luke 22 453
24Luke 11 446
25Colossians 1 445
26Matthew 26 442
27Romans 12 440
28John 12 425
29Philippians 4 413
30Matthew 25 408
31John 17 406
32John 7 405
33John 15 401
331 Thessalonians 5 401
35John 11 398
36John 16 396
37Ephesians 5 395
38John 13 393
38Romans 5 393
40Luke 9 392
41Ephesians 2 384
42Galatians 5 383
43Matthew 27 380
44Luke 19 363
45Ephesians 3 359
46Matthew 12 355
47Matthew 10 350
48Luke 10 348
48Ephesians 1 348
50Luke 24 346
511 John 2 342
52Luke 18 340
53Acts 2 338
53Hebrews 10 338
55Matthew 22 336
55Hebrews 11 336
57Hebrews 12 335
581 Corinthians 1 332
58James 1 332
60Psalms 34 331
61Matthew 13 321
622 Corinthians 5 319
63John 20 318
64Matthew 11 316
65Ephesians 6 314
66Luke 23 313
67John 19 312
68Luke 7 311
69Romans 6 310
70Matthew 18 307
71Colossians 3 303
72Romans 11 302
73Proverbs 3 300
73Romans 3 300
75Genesis 1 298
761 Peter 1 295
77Romans 15 293
78Matthew 9 292
79Galatians 3 291
79Hebrews 13 291
81Psalms 37 288
82Galatians 6 286
83Mark 14 285
84Luke 15 284
85Luke 8 283
85Galatians 4 283
87Philippians 1 281
88Psalms 103 275
88Luke 20 275
90Mark 10 271
901 John 3 271
921 Peter 2 270
93Luke 21 269
94Romans 1 268
95Matthew 8 267
96Luke 3 265
97John 9 264
98Colossians 2 261
99Luke 16 257
99Luke 17 257

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How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1, profile official@2, epoch 95
Metric
Verse-level uses: every citation adds one for each verse it covers, under the counting rule. A citation of three verses adds 3. (definition)
Counting rule
The baseline rule: every mention of every verse counts; a chapter or a range counts once for each verse it covers, and an unknown repetition counts as one. (definition)
Profile
The official profile of every public number: only reviewed and approved entries whose evidence quality is high enough. (definition) – reviewed and approved data only
One computation of all public numbers. A new epoch is computed every 15 minutes; its numbers are provisional until a data release is frozen. (definition)
95, published Nov 4, 2026, 1:15 AM UTC (provisional)
The order of books, chapters and verses the chart follows: a canon with its verse numbering (versification). (definition)
prot66.nrf, The state of the verse mappings between the numbering systems that was used. Verses of different Bibles are counted together through these mappings. (definition)
How many approved entries match this chart, and from how many sources they come. (definition)
69,234, from 6 sources
Which part of the total rests on less certain ground: uncertain verse mappings, lower bounds (e.g. a repetition count that is not known) and references to whole chapters. (definition)
uncertain mappings 0%, lower bounds 100%, chapter references 0%
Passages whose reference could not be turned into verses (e.g. an unknown book or a verse that does not exist). They are not counted. (definition)
60
Verse-level uses that fall on verses outside the canon of this chart (e.g. deuterocanonical books in a Protestant canon). They are not part of the chart. (definition)
789
Citations that could come from several verses
0 citations without a reference could come from several verses (the same sentence stands in another verse); they are not counted. With the chart option “Count ambiguous references” they count for every possible verse.
The status of each verse position in this chart. A verse without uses is never just zero: the status says why. (definition)
At least one use was recorded. (definition) 19,199,A verse label of this numbering that is not yet linked to a neutral verse unit. Its citations cannot be counted until it is mapped. (definition) 1,The second place of a verse that an edition prints twice. It gets no counts, so nothing is counted twice. (definition) 56,No recorded use, but the sources do not say whether they cover this verse completely. Most sources do not declare their coverage, so this is the usual state of a verse without uses. (definition) 11,972

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