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

Deutero-Pauline Epistles

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)