Bible Books
The Bible is a library of many books written over many centuries.
Not all books made it into the modern Bible canon as we know it today.
Books included in the majority of bible translations
Old Testament
Pentateuch (Law)
- Genesis
- Exodus
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
Historical Books
- Joshua
- Judges
- Ruth
- 1 Samuel
- 2 Samuel
- 1 Kings
- 2 Kings
- 1 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles
- Ezra
- Nehemiah
- Esther
Wisdom and Poetry
Major Prophets
Minor Prophets
New Testament
Gospels
Undisputed Letters of Paul
- Romans
- 1 & 2 Corinthians
- Galatians
- Philippians
- 1 Thessalonians
- Philemon
Deutero-Pauline Epistles
- Ephesians
- Colossians
- 2 Thessalonians
Pastoral Epistles
- 1 Timothy
- 2 Timothy
- Titus
General Epistles
Revelation
Books excluded from many bible translations
- Barnabas
- Baruch
- Ecclesiasticus
- 1 Enoch
- 2 Enoch
- 3 Enoch
- 1 Esdras
- 2 Esdras
- Judith
- Letter to Jeremiah
- 1 Maccabees
- 2 Maccabees
- 3 Maccabees
- 4 Maccabees
- Prayer of Manasseh
- Psalms of Solomon
- Tobit
- Wisdom
Books excluded from all bible translations
- Infancy Gospel of Thomas
- Gospel of Judas
- Gospel of Peter
- Gospel of Thomas
Missing books or scriptures
The following passages quote sources that do not exist in our modern bibles:
- Matthew 26:24 / Mark 14:21
- Matthew 27:3-10 (A copy of the prophecy in Zechariah 11:4-17 survived, but the original prophecy from Jeremiah is lost)
- Luke 18:31-33
- Luke 24:46-49
- John 5:38
- Ephesians 5:14
- 2 Corinthians 6:16-18 (Might potentially paraphrase Leviticus 26:12 and Isaiah 52:11, but it is not an exact quote)