Books of the Bible

A few days ago, I decided it was about time that I committed the Books of the Bible to memory. To aid in that memory exercise, I also broke down the books into traditional groups. There are 66 books in the Holy Bible:  39 are in the Old Testament and 27 are in the New Testament.  Here they are:

Old Testament
The Books of Moses (Pentateuch) 
Genesis
Exodus
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy

History
Joshua
Judges
Ruth
1 Samuel
2 Samuel
1 Kings
2 Kings
1 Chronicles
2 Chronicles
Ezra
Nehemiah
Esther

Wisdom Literature
Job
Psalms (longest book OT)
Proverbs
Ecclesiastes
Song of Songs

Major Prophets
Isaiah
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel

Minor Prophets
Hosea
Joel
Amos
Obadiah (shortest book OT)
Jonah
Micah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Haggai
Zechariah
Malachi

New Testament

Gospels
Matthew
Mark
Luke
John

History
Acts (longest book NT)

Pauline Epistles
Romans
1 Corinthians
2 Corinthians
Galatians
Ephesians
Philippians
Colossians
1 Thessalonians
2 Thessalonians
1 Timothy
2 Timothy
Titus
Philemon

General Epistles
Hebrews
James
1 Peter
2 Peter
1 John
2 John
3 John (shortest book NT)
Jude

Apocalyptic Epistle by John
Revelation


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