Bible365
All 66 books, and what each one costs you
1189 chapters across 66 books. Every book below shows what it is, how long it runs, and which days of a one-year plan it lands on — so you can see the shape of the year before you start it.
The shape of a year
A one-year plan is three to four chapters a day. That number is stable, but the difficulty is not: Genesis and Exodus move, Leviticus does not, Psalms runs for roughly forty days, and the whole Old Testament takes until day 278 before the gospels begin. Most people who abandon a plan do it in the same two or three places, and knowing where those are in advance is most of the fix.
The day ranges below come from the same distribution the app uses — 1,189 chapters spread evenly across 365 days, with the remainder on the earliest days — so what you see here is the plan, not an approximation of it. The full 365-day plan is here.
Old Testament
- Genesis Genesis covers origins — of the world, of humanity, and of the family that becomes Israel.
- Exodus Israel leaves Egypt, receives the law at Sinai, and builds the tabernacle.
- Leviticus A manual of sacrifice, purity and holiness for a priestly nation.
- Numbers Israel in the wilderness: two censuses, a generation that refuses to enter the land, and forty years of consequence.
- Deuteronomy Moses' final addresses, restating the law for the generation about to enter the land.
- Joshua The conquest and division of the land.
- Judges A cycle that repeats: Israel drifts, is oppressed, cries out, is rescued by a judge, and drifts again.
- Ruth A short, self-contained story of loyalty and provision set during the period of the judges, ending in the ancestry of David.
- 1 Samuel Israel moves from judges to monarchy: Samuel, Saul's rise and unravelling, and David's emergence.
- 2 Samuel David's reign — its consolidation, its central moral failure, and the family collapse that follows.
- 1 Kings Solomon's reign and the temple, then the kingdom's split into north and south, and the beginning of the prophetic confrontations with kings.
- 2 Kings The decline of both kingdoms through to exile, told through a long sequence of kings measured against one standard.
- 1 Chronicles A retelling of the same history from a priestly and temple-centred angle, opening with nine chapters of genealogy.
- 2 Chronicles The kings of Judah, with the temple at the centre, ending on the edict permitting return from exile.
- Ezra Return from exile and the rebuilding of the temple, against opposition.
- Nehemiah The rebuilding of Jerusalem's wall and the reforms that follow, told largely in the first person.
- Esther A Jewish woman becomes queen of Persia and averts the destruction of her people.
- Job A righteous man loses everything and argues with his friends — and eventually with God — about why.
- Psalms One hundred and fifty poems of praise, lament, protest, thanksgiving and instruction — the widest emotional range in the Bible.
- Proverbs Collected sayings on wisdom, speech, work, money, friendship and self-government.
- Ecclesiastes A sustained examination of whether anything under the sun finally amounts to much.
- Song of Solomon A cycle of love poetry between two lovers, read across the centuries as both literal and allegorical.
- Isaiah Judgement and consolation across sixty-six chapters — the prophet of exile and return, and of the servant passages.
- Jeremiah Decades of warning before Jerusalem's fall, delivered by a prophet who did not want the job and said so.
- Lamentations Five poems of grief over the destruction of Jerusalem, tightly structured as acrostics.
- Ezekiel Visions, sign-acts and oracles from exile in Babylon, ending with an extended vision of a restored temple.
- Daniel Court narratives in exile followed by apocalyptic visions of successive empires.
- Hosea A prophet's marriage becomes an image of covenant betrayal and persistent love.
- Joel A locust plague read as a day of the Lord, followed by promise of restoration and outpoured spirit.
- Amos A shepherd from Judah confronts northern Israel over the treatment of the poor and the emptiness of its worship.
- Obadiah A single-chapter oracle against Edom for standing by during Jerusalem's fall.
- Jonah A prophet flees a commission to a hostile city, is returned to it, succeeds, and resents the result.
- Micah Judgement on both kingdoms and one of the most-quoted summaries of what is required of a person.
- Nahum An oracle on the fall of Nineveh, the city Jonah was sent to.
- Habakkuk A prophet questions God about injustice and receives an answer he did not ask for.
- Zephaniah A day of judgement announced against Judah and the nations, closing in restoration.
- Haggai Two chapters urging returned exiles to finish rebuilding the temple.
- Zechariah Night visions and later oracles concerning restoration, the temple and a coming king.
- Malachi A closing argument with a people going through the motions, structured as a series of disputes.
New Testament
- Matthew The gospel most concerned with Jesus as the fulfilment of Israel's scriptures, organised around five blocks of teaching including the Sermon on the Mount.
- Mark The shortest and fastest gospel, driving toward the cross with minimal commentary.
- Luke The most carefully ordered gospel, with sustained attention to the poor, to women, and to outsiders.
- John A gospel built on seven signs and long discourses, with a different structure and register from the other three.
- Romans Paul's most systematic letter, arguing his gospel at length to a church he had not yet visited.
- 1 Corinthians Practical and contested questions in a divided church: factions, sex, lawsuits, worship, and resurrection.
- 2 Corinthians Paul's most personal letter, defending his ministry against rival teachers.
- Galatians A sharp, urgent argument that gentile believers are not obliged to become Jewish.
- Ephesians A broad account of the church as one body, followed by instruction on how that shapes ordinary life.
- Philippians A letter of thanks and encouragement written from imprisonment, containing an early hymn about Christ.
- Colossians An argument for the sufficiency of Christ against additional teachings being pressed on the church.
- 1 Thessalonians Encouragement to a young church, including instruction about those who have died.
- 2 Thessalonians A follow-up correcting confusion about the day of the Lord and about idleness.
- 1 Timothy Instruction to a younger colleague on order, leadership and false teaching in the church.
- 2 Timothy A final letter, written near the end, urging endurance.
- Titus Short instruction on appointing leaders and on conduct that matches the message.
- Philemon A single-chapter personal appeal on behalf of a runaway slave.
- Hebrews An extended argument that what came before was preparatory, built on a sustained comparison with priesthood and sacrifice.
- James Practical wisdom on speech, wealth, partiality and endurance, closer in feel to Proverbs than to Paul.
- 1 Peter Encouragement to scattered believers under social pressure.
- 2 Peter A warning against false teachers and against giving up on a delayed promise.
- 1 John A letter on love, truth and assurance, circling its themes rather than arguing linearly.
- 2 John A one-chapter note on truth and hospitality toward teachers.
- 3 John A one-chapter note about welcoming travelling workers, and one man who would not.
- Jude A single chapter urging contention for the faith against those distorting it.