What are the differences in the catholic & protestant bible?

It was by the apostolic Tradition that the Church discerned which writings are to be included in the list of the sacred books. This complete list is called the canon of Scripture. It includes 46 books for the Old Testament (45 if we count Jeremiah and Lamentations as one) and 27 for the New.91

The Old Testament: Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy, Joshua, Judges, Ruth, 1 and 2 Samuel, 1 and 2 Kings, 1 and 2 Chronicles, Ezra and Nehemiah, Tobit, Judith, Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees, Job, Psalms, Proverbs, Ecclesiastes, the Song of Songs, the Wisdom of Solomon, Sirach (Ecclesiasticus), Isaiah, Jeremiah, Lamentations, Baruch, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah and Malachi.

The New Testament: the Gospels according to Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, the Acts of the Apostles, the Letters of St. Paul to the Romans, 1 and 2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1 and 2 Thessalonians, 1 and 2 Timothy, Titus, Philemon, the Letter to the Hebrews, the Letters of James, 1 and 2 Peter, 1, 2, and 3 John, and Jude, and Revelation (the Apocalypse).

For more information go to this link and look for section 120 and following.

http://www.usccb.org/catechism/text/pt1sect1chpt2....

OK, let's clear up some of the misinformation:

1) The scriptures of which you are speaking are known among Protestant circles as the "Apocrypha", but in Roman Catholic terminology the "deutero-canonicals" (which omits 2 of the books included in the Apocrypha, 1 & 2 Esdras)

2) As 1 answer correctly stated, the King James Version (KJV) contained the complete Apocrypha, and it was only removed from later editions. Here is the 1611 (original KJV) table of contents

http://dewey.library.upenn.edu/sceti/printedbooksN...

3) Martin Luther decided (unilaterally) that the scriptures contained within the Apocrypha were not inspired (but still useful for study), and so Luther was the first to separate these scriptures into a section entitled Apocrypha. Note, however, that Luther *never* omitted these scriptures from any bibles during his lifetime. According to the HarperCollins Bible Dictionary, this was *first* done by Puritans in England in the late 1590s with editions of the Geneva bible. The practice has spread to other countries and other languages since that time.

Here you can see how different sects consider different scriptures to be inspired

http://www.jimpettis.com/bibles/chart.htm#Footnote...

If you look at the link "Deutero-canonical collection", it discusses the reasons claimed for omitting these additional scriptures, and whether or not you should read a bible which includes them.

Jim, http://www.bible-reviews.com/selector.html

actual the unique King James version coated all seventy 3 stimulated books, only as they have been defined as quickly as and for all time by applying the bishops of the Catholic Church on the Council of Carthage in 397 advert. It became the call of Martin Luther to eliminate 10 of the stimulated books from the Holy Bible - 3 New testomony books and seven previous testomony books. luckily his followers does no longer pay attention of removing the writings of the Apostles themselves, and have been on the fringe of a insurrection over the priority. So Luther subsidized off and left the recent testomony intact, yet nonetheless bumped off the 7 previous testomony texts. it fairly is the reason the Protestant Bible is incomplete, having in basic terms sixty six books rather of the entire seventy 3. And if Luther had his way, Protestants could have in basic terms sixty 3 books. The Catholic Church nonetheless makes use of the entire and complete Holy Bible, because it became initially defined, and because it became utilized by applying each Christian in the international for one million,2 hundred years between the time it became compiled and the time Luther bumped off areas he did no longer like. different than those 7 lacking books, the only modifications between the unique version and the Protestant version are some words Luther inserted into the text textile right here and there, in an attempt to assist a number of his new doctrines. working example, in places the place the text textile states that faith is needed for salvation (a real assertion), Luther inserted the be conscious "on my own", in consequence rewriting the text textile to assert that "faith on my own" is needed for salvation (an untrue assertion that immediately contradicts different statements in the be conscious of God).

The protestant bible doesn't have different meanings added to passages. There are paraphrase versions like the NLT and the message that add an interpretation in places, but they are not translations.

Actually no books were discarded because they contained laws that were no longer practiced. All the laws are still there, even though we as Christians no longer practice the ceremonial laws such as the design and operation of the temple or the strict kosher diet. (I don't think those books were included in early church canon either, but that's another topic entirely).

I would also like add that most the books in both the Old and New Testaments that have been "left out" are still out there. It's no secret that these apocryphal books exist.

Actually all the books were included in the original King James. It was Martin Luther, a German priest, who removed the apocrypha. Other protestants eventually followed suit.

The "extra" books do NOT contain extra "laws and rituals". There are some historical books (Tobit, Judith, additions to Esther, 1 and 2 Maccabees), prophetic books (Baruch, additions to Daniel) and Wisdom books (Wisdom, Sirach). That's it.

Read the "The History of the Bible" a frank history of the evolution of the bible from a historical perspective. Seems that the K. James bible translation did not change much, maybe six words because they were too scared that they might leave out something sacred. The bible was reexamined because they felt that St. Jerome's translation might have not been acurate, but found that it was.

All Christians - Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant - agree that the Books in the Bible are the inspired, written Word of God but disagree on which Books belong in the Bible. Specifically we do not agree on the Old Testament (OT) canon - the list of Books inspired by God. The Catholic OT Canon includes - Tobit, Judith, Wisdom, Sirach, Baruch, I and II Maccabees - plus sections of Esther and Daniel which are absent from the Protestant OT. Protestant Christians do not accept these Writings as inspired by God and refer to them as the "Apocrypha".

the Catholic Bible contains that jewish didnt accept their canons and but still the same with the new testament still the same for both churches...in many verses the protestant version has been adulteted with adding new meaning to the original