Which Books Belong in the Bible?
1) Direct Answer
The Bible is the complete, inspired Word of God in 66 books—no more, no less. From Genesis to Revelation, that is the Book.
Old Testament (39)
- Genesis
- Exodus
- Leviticus
- Numbers
- Deuteronomy
- Joshua
- Judges
- Ruth
- 1 Samuel
- 2 Samuel
- 1 Kings
- 2 Kings
- 1 Chronicles
- 2 Chronicles
- Ezra
- Nehemiah
- Esther
- Job
- Psalms
- Proverbs
- Ecclesiastes
- Song of Solomon
- Isaiah
- Jeremiah
- Lamentations
- Ezekiel
- Daniel
- Hosea
- Joel
- Amos
- Obadiah
- Jonah
- Micah
- Nahum
- Habakkuk
- Zephaniah
- Haggai
- Zechariah
- Malachi
New Testament (27)
- Matthew
- Mark
- Luke
- John
- Acts
- Romans
- 1 Corinthians
- 2 Corinthians
- Galatians
- Ephesians
- Philippians
- Colossians
- 1 Thessalonians
- 2 Thessalonians
- 1 Timothy
- 2 Timothy
- Titus
- Philemon
- Hebrews
- James
- 1 Peter
- 2 Peter
- 1 John
- 2 John
- 3 John
- Jude
- Revelation
2) Scriptural Explanation
- “All scripture is given by inspiration of God” (2 Timothy 3:16). That’s the nature of these writings.
- Jesus recognized the threefold Old Testament—“the law of Moses, the prophets, and the psalms” (Luke 24:44).
- God entrusted the Old Testament to Israel—“unto them were committed the oracles of God” (Romans 3:2).
- The New Testament stands on the foundation of “the apostles and prophets” with Jesus Christ the chief cornerstone (Ephesians 2:20). Even Peter calls Paul’s writings “Scripture” (2 Peter 3:16).
- The warning is clear: do not add and do not take away (Revelation 22:18–19).
3) Simple Clarifying Logic
You see, God vindicated His Word through His prophets in the Old Testament, then came Himself in flesh as the Son, and by the Holy Spirit spoke through the apostles. That finished the foundation. The faith was “once for all delivered to the saints” (Jude 3). If you add books, you contradict the Lord’s own warning; if you take away, you cut from what God has sealed. So the 66 books stand as the full counsel of God.
4) Reinforcing Statement
From Genesis to Revelation—nothing to add, nothing to remove. That’s God’s complete written Word.
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What did the Laodicean Church Age (our age) Angel (- messenger) Say about this?
Ranked passages from the local William Branham sermon and Church Age Book database. Relevance is relative, not a statement of doctrinal certainty.
We would see Jesus
62-0627 §27
...sire to see Him, why cannot we have the same privilege that they had? Now, you see the Scriptures cannot lie. They have to be truth, see; they have to be truth. Now, if the Bible said He's the same, then He's got to be the same. Now, I don't believe the Bible is any private interpretation. I believe it's just the way it's written. I believe that God will have to have some standard that He'll judge the world by. Now, you all know, being an Irishman I came from a Catholic family background. And now, when I was a youn...
What shall I do with Jesus called Christ?
63-1124M §69
Uniting denominational--Protestantism fulfills exactly what the Scripture said of Revelation 17. "All whose names were not written in the Lamb's book of life was ... belong to her." One or the other. Either the beast or the image of the beast. The Bible said so. And Jesus spoke of this, not as Communism. But in Matthew the 24th chapter, beginning with the 21st to the 26th verse. He predicted that the spirit in this system would be so much like the real thing till it would deceive the very elected, if it was possibl...
Presuming
62-0408 §35
Preachers today preach their doctrine, their differences, and everything, presuming that's all right. The headquarters said so. That's what they was taught in the seminary. They think that's all right. Just presuming it's all right. Israel presumed too. Didn't get anywhere, see. Don't presume. Be sure you're right, see. Right. They say, "Well, it's okay. Go ahead. That's ... well, I belong to this certain thing, and we believe that. Our district presbyters teaches this. Our (what is it you call them little books, t...
Why?
63-0626 §40
Now, it wasn't exactly they didn't have a physician. They did. God was the physician. And it wasn't because there wasn't a God in Israel. There was a God. And they had a prophet to consult, to find out what these things are. But it was the king's own stubborn will. That's exactly! And that's what's the matter in the nation today. It's the people's own stubborn will. Not because we don't have the same God that crossed the Red Sea with his people, that fed them forty years in the wilderness. It's not because we don't...
Jehovah-Jireh
57-0612 §25
If I fell heir to a house, I sure wouldn't want to move into it till I got and looked everything over. I want to see what's mine. I want to see what I own. And when I fell heir to the kingdom of God, through the righteousness of Jesus Christ, baptized into this great arcade of God's eternal blessings, I like to walk around and see what's mine (Amen.), look on the shelves, see what this is. Here it is: Every promise in the Book belongs to every believer. Don't you stand still for somebody to push you off in a corner...