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Jonathan Petersen
April 21, 2014

The 10 Most Popular Books of the Bible

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What are the most popular Bible books? We took a look at Bible Gateway’s usage data to find out which books are most popular with our website visitors. Here’s what we found.

The 10 Most Popular Bible Books

  1. Psalms
  2. Matthew
  3. John
  4. Romans
  5. Proverbs
  6. Genesis
  7. Luke
  8. 1 Corinthians
  9. Isaiah
  10. Acts

Jeffrey Kranz (@Jeffrey_the_Red) of The Overview Bible Project created the following infographic from Bible Gateway’s online usage data (click the image to enlarge):

Infographic: the most popular Bible books

Are you surprised by these results? What books might you have expect to see that aren’t in the list, and vice versa? If you were to look at a record of your own Bible reading over the last few years, what books have you spent the most time reading and studying?

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