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Catholic Bible Verses by Topic

33 topics covering Scripture's most-searched themes, from the Douay-Rheims Bible (1899 Challoner revision) — the traditional Catholic English Bible. Includes the deuterocanonical books (Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, 1–2 Maccabees) absent from Protestant translations.

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What makes a Catholic Bible different?

The Catholic Bible contains 73 books — seven more than the Protestant canon. These additional books (called deuterocanonical by Catholics, or Apocrypha by Protestants) were in the Greek Septuagint used by the early Church and are quoted in the New Testament. They include the Book of Wisdom, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Tobit, Judith, Baruch, and 1–2 Maccabees. Many Catholic teachings — including prayers for the dead, the resurrection of the body, and the authority of oral tradition — find explicit scriptural support only in these books.

The Douay-Rheims Bible was translated from the Latin Vulgate and is the traditional English Catholic Bible. It is entirely in the public domain in the United States.

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