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Religious texts, also known as scripture, are the texts which various religious traditions consider to be sacred, or of central importance to their religious tradition. Many religions and spiritual movements believe that their sacred texts are divinely or supernaturally inspired.

Other terms are often by adherents to describe the canonical works of their religion. In the United States, terms like 'Holy Writ' and others are used by some Christian groups (including the King-James-Only Movement) to describe the Christian Bible or, less often, by Muslim groups to describe the Qur'an.

Another term is 'Holy Scripture' or 'Sacred Scripture', used to denote the text's importance, its status as divine revelation, or, as in the case of many Christian groups, its complete inerrancy. Christianity is not alone in using this terminology to revere its sacred book; Islam holds the Qur'an in similar esteem, as does Hinduism the Vedas and Bhagavad Gita, and Buddhism the sutras.

Here are some sacred texts of several major religions:

Christianity

• Anglicanism:
  • The Bible in local translations
• Catholicism and Roman Catholicism:
  • The Bible in Latin translation including the Deuterocanonical books
• Cerdonianism and Marcionism:
  • Gospel of Marcion (not from the Bible)
  • Pauline epistles
• Gnosticism:
  • Nag Hammadi library and other Gnostic texts (not from the Bible)
  • Some books of the Bible and other New Testament apocrypha
• Latter Day Saint denominations:
  • The Bible in King James' version
  • The Book of Mormon (not from the Bible)
  • The Pearl of Great Price (not from the Bible)
  • The Doctrine and Covenants (not from the Bible)
• Lutheranism (mainstream):
  • The Bible in local translations
  • The Book of Concord
• Orthodox:
  • The Bible in Greek including Deuterocanonical books
• Protestantism
  • The 66 Book Bible excluding the Deuterocanonical books
• Seventh-day Adventist:
  • The Bible in local translations
• Some forms of Christianity:
  • The Apocrypha (in some Bibles)
  • The Book of Enoch (in Ethiopian Orthodox Church Bible)

Islam

• Qur'an
• Hadith

Judaism

• Rabbinical Judaism
  • The Tanakh (Hebrew Bible)
    • Torah
    • Nevi'im
    • Ketuvim
• The Talmud
  • Mishnah
  • Gemara
• Karaite Judaism
  • The Tanakh

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