The Bible is supposed to contain only the truth.

It is a library of many books written over many centuries in many different languages and cultures which had been translated numerous times before it eventually made it into English. The purpose of this study is to understand:

• Why the church included or excluded certain books from the Bible
• Why some books may be disputed or whether the disputes itself are valid
• Which books complement or contradict each other
• Which books quote or misquote scriptures out of context

Books included in many bible translations

• Job
• Psalms
• Song of Songs
• Esther
• Ecclesiastes
• Isaiah
• Jeremiah
• Ezekiel
• Hosea
• Jonah
• Micah
• Zechariah
• Malachi
• Gospels
  • Matthew
  • Mark
  • Luke
  • John
• Undisputed Letters of Paul
  • Romans
  • 1 Corinthians
  • 2 Corinthians
  • Galatians
  • Philippians
  • 1 Thessalonians
  • Philemon
• Deutero-Pauline Epistle
  • Ephesians
  • Colossians
  • 2 Thessalonians
• Pastoral epistles
  • 1 Timothy
  • 2 Timothy
  • Titus
• Hebrews
• Jude
• Revelation

Books excluded from many bible translations

• Apocrypha
  • 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

• Extracanonical Gospels
  • Infancy Gospel of Thomas
  • Gospel of Judas
  • Gospel of Peter
  • Gospel of Thomas

Missing books or scriptures

The following passages quotes scriptures that does 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 not it is not an exact quote)