> ## Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://urantia.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# List Bible Books

> Returns metadata for every book in the World English Bible (eng-web), including chapter and verse counts. Books are returned in canonical ecumenical order: 39 Old Testament, 15 deuterocanonical, 27 New Testament.



## OpenAPI

````yaml GET /bible/books
openapi: 3.1.0
info:
  title: Urantia Papers API
  version: 1.0.0
  description: >-
    A developer and AI-agent friendly API for the Urantia Papers. Provides
    full-text search, structured content access, and audio URLs for all 17,000+
    paragraphs across 197 papers.
servers:
  - url: https://api.urantia.dev
    description: Production
  - url: http://localhost:3000
    description: Local development
security: []
paths:
  /bible/books:
    get:
      tags:
        - Bible
      summary: List all 81 Bible books
      description: >-
        Returns metadata for every book in the World English Bible (eng-web),
        including chapter and verse counts. Books are returned in canonical
        ecumenical order: 39 Old Testament, 15 deuterocanonical, 27 New
        Testament.
      operationId: listBibleBooks
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of all Bible books
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  data:
                    type: array
                    items:
                      type: object
                      properties:
                        bookCode:
                          type: string
                        bookName:
                          type: string
                        fullName:
                          type: string
                        abbr:
                          type: string
                        bookOrder:
                          type: integer
                        canon:
                          type: string
                          enum:
                            - ot
                            - deuterocanon
                            - nt
                        chapterCount:
                          type: integer
                        verseCount:
                          type: integer
                      required:
                        - bookCode
                        - bookName
                        - fullName
                        - abbr
                        - bookOrder
                        - canon
                        - chapterCount
                        - verseCount
                required:
                  - data
        '500':
          description: Internal server error
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: object
                properties:
                  type:
                    type: string
                  title:
                    type: string
                  status:
                    type: integer
                  detail:
                    type: string
                required:
                  - type
                  - title
                  - status
                  - detail

````