# What is the most frequently read book in the Bible?

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**Created:** [March 28, 2008, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-frequently-read-book-in-the-bible/443067 "2008-03-28T17:09:01Z")\
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In my Bible, and probably most Bibles, it is Revelation, not Revelations.

I vote for Psalms. Lots of comforting stuff in there.

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> [@Antinor01](#):
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> Romans, or at least parts of it have to be up there. It’s widely used as a witnessing tool. The “Romans road” being romans 3:23 and other verses.

I would have guessed the Gospel of John as the most popular evangelizing BotB (John 3:16) and have even seen it printed separately for handing out to new and/or potential converts.

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-frequently-read-book-in-the-bible/443067/24 "2011-06-15T03:54:51Z")

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I vote Genesis as well plus the Gospels and Psalm in some order. I wonder what the least read is? I once knew the names of all the books of the Bible and presumably something about all of them but I couldn’t tell you anything about Haggai, Nehemiah, or Philemon to save my life these days,

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-frequently-read-book-in-the-bible/443067/25 "2011-06-15T19:38:22Z")

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> [@Shagnasty](#):
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> I vote Genesis as well plus the Gospels and Psalm in some order. I wonder what the least read is? I once knew the names of all the books of the Bible and presumably something about all of them but I couldn’t tell you anything about Haggai, Nehemiah, or Philemon to save my life these days,

If you include books of the apocrypha, I’d nominate Tobit.

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**Post date:** [June 15, 2011, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-most-frequently-read-book-in-the-bible/443067/26 "2011-06-15T19:47:13Z")

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I vote for the Scroll of Esther. Read and listened to by the congregation every Purim.

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