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I'm wanting to do more topical study of the scriptures. I have yet to find a site where I can search for scriptures containing a specific word and then export all those scriptures, so that I can organize those scriptures. Elder Bednar gave a talk in 2007 called Reservoir of Living Water where he gave this study method:
"As I reviewed the scriptures about gathering, I marked verses with similar phrases or points of emphasis, using a colored pencil. By the time I had read all of the scriptures, some of the verses were marked in red, some were marked in green, and some were marked in other colors. Now, here comes the part that may make you laugh. I next used my scissors to cut out the scriptures I had copied and sorted them into piles by color. The process produced a large pile of scriptures marked with red, a large pile of scriptures marked with green, and so forth. I then sorted the scriptures within each large pile into smaller piles."
I'd like to do something similar, but all digitally. The BYU index website his a great search tool, but I can't find a way to export the entire list. I have an excel format of the scriptures, and have used a workaround to search verses for a specific word with a formula, but it's less than ideal. The LDS website I've found to be subpar for this activity as well. Any insights into this?
As an example, suppose I am studying faith. So I search and have a list of all verses with faith in it. Then I want to export the entire list with each verse as it's own paragraph that I can then organize in another program.
"As I reviewed the scriptures about gathering, I marked verses with similar phrases or points of emphasis, using a colored pencil. By the time I had read all of the scriptures, some of the verses were marked in red, some were marked in green, and some were marked in other colors. Now, here comes the part that may make you laugh. I next used my scissors to cut out the scriptures I had copied and sorted them into piles by color. The process produced a large pile of scriptures marked with red, a large pile of scriptures marked with green, and so forth. I then sorted the scriptures within each large pile into smaller piles."
I'd like to do something similar, but all digitally. The BYU index website his a great search tool, but I can't find a way to export the entire list. I have an excel format of the scriptures, and have used a workaround to search verses for a specific word with a formula, but it's less than ideal. The LDS website I've found to be subpar for this activity as well. Any insights into this?
As an example, suppose I am studying faith. So I search and have a list of all verses with faith in it. Then I want to export the entire list with each verse as it's own paragraph that I can then organize in another program.