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The 100 chapters with the most verse-level uses per mapped verse.

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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.

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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.

Relative means: verse-level uses divided by the mapped verses of the chapter, with its own ranking. Short chapters can therefore rank high; the column “Mapped verses” shows the denominator.

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Top 100 chapters by uses per mapped verse
RankChapterVerse-level uses divided by the mapped verses of this row. This makes long and short chapters or books comparable: 2.5 means each mapped verse was cited 2.5 times on average.How 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".Verses of this row that are linked to a neutral verse unit, uncertain links included. This is the divisor of "Uses per mapped verse". A verse placed twice in the sequence counts once. Verse labels of this row without a neutral verse unit yet. They are left out of the divisor, and citations of them cannot be counted until they are mapped. Verses whose link to a neutral verse unit is uncertain. They are included in "Mapped verses"; the share of uses that depends on them is given under "How this was computed".
1Psalms 23 29.51776 0 0
2Romans 8 25.15498139 0 0
31 John 4 23.8150021 0 0
4Romans 12 20.95244021 0 0
5Psalms 100 19.2965 0 0
6John 1 19.09897451 0 0
7Romans 5 18.71439321 0 0
8Philippians 2 18.33355030 0 0
9Philippians 4 17.95741323 0 0
10John 14 17.80655231 0 0
11Matthew 6 17.67660134 0 0
12Psalms 121 17.6251418 0 0
131 Corinthians 13 17.61522913 0 0
14Psalms 1 17.51056 0 0
15Ephesians 2 17.45538422 0 0
16Ephesians 3 17.09535921 0 0
17Matthew 7 16.72448529 0 0
181 John 1 16.416410 0 0
19Ephesians 4 16.18851832 0 0
20Galatians 6 15.88928618 0 0
211 Peter 5 15.64321914 0 0
22John 17 15.61540626 0 0
23Colossians 1 15.34544529 0 0
242 Corinthians 5 15.1931921 0 0
25Ephesians 1 15.1334823 0 0
26John 15 14.85240127 0 0
27John 3 14.7553136 0 0
28Galatians 5 14.73138326 0 0
29Titus 2 14.621915 0 0
30Psalms 34 14.39133123 0 0
311 Thessalonians 5 14.32140128 0 0
322 Corinthians 4 13.88925018 0 0
33Matthew 5 13.70865848 0 0
34Romans 6 13.47831023 0 0
35Ephesians 6 13.08331424 0 0
36Isaiah 53 12.83315412 0 0
37Luke 2 12.7566352 0 0
38Hebrews 1 12.71417814 0 0
39Romans 13 12.57117614 0 0
401 Timothy 2 12.53318815 0 0
41Psalms 103 12.527522 0 0
42James 1 12.29633227 0 0
43Colossians 3 12.1230325 0 0
441 Corinthians 15 12.08670158 0 0
45Isaiah 55 1215613 0 0
45John 16 1239633 0 0
47Ephesians 5 11.9739533 0 0
481 Peter 1 11.829525 0 0
491 John 2 11.79334229 0 0
50Hebrews 13 11.6429125 0 0
51John 10 11.59548742 0 0
52Hebrews 4 11.56318516 0 0
532 Timothy 1 11.55620818 0 0
54Hebrews 12 11.55233529 0 0
55Colossians 2 11.34826123 0 0
561 John 3 11.29227124 0 0
571 Timothy 6 11.09523321 0 0
58John 8 10.96664759 0 0
59John 5 10.95751547 0 0
60Matthew 28 10.921820 0 0
611 Timothy 4 10.81317316 0 0
621 Peter 2 10.827025 0 0
631 Corinthians 1 10.7133231 0 0
64Isaiah 6 10.69213913 0 0
651 Thessalonians 4 10.66719218 0 0
66Matthew 11 10.53331630 0 0
671 Corinthians 2 10.37516616 0 0
68John 13 10.34239338 0 0
69Romans 10 10.33321721 0 0
70John 20 10.25831831 0 0
711 John 5 10.14321321 0 0
72Galatians 3 10.03429129 0 0
73Luke 1 9.9579680 0 0
74Romans 14 9.78322523 0 0
75Psalms 91 9.7515616 0 0
76Romans 3 9.67730031 0 0
77Psalms 133 9.667293 0 0
78Matthew 24 9.64749251 0 0
79Genesis 1 9.61329831 0 0
802 Corinthians 1 9.45822724 0 0
81Luke 12 9.44155759 0 0
82Psalms 46 9.41711312 0 0
831 Corinthians 3 9.39121623 0 0
84Philippians 1 9.36728130 0 0
85Matthew 1 9.3623425 0 0
86Psalms 139 9.33322424 0 0
871 Corinthians 6 9.318620 0 0
88Isaiah 61 9.27310211 0 0
89Luke 6 9.24545349 0 0
90James 4 9.23515717 0 0
912 Corinthians 9 9.213815 0 0
92Galatians 4 9.12928331 0 0
93Matthew 3 9.05915417 0 0
94Psalms 146 99010 0 0
95Hebrews 2 8.94416118 0 0
96John 6 8.91563371 0 0
97Romans 15 8.87929333 0 0
98Luke 15 8.87528432 0 0
99Matthew 25 8.8740846 0 0
100John 4 8.85247854 0 0

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How this was computed: rule CR-BASE@1, profile official@2, epoch 103
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)
103, published Nov 5, 2026, 1:15 PM 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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