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There are twenty-one epistles in The Bible, all in the New Testament. Thirteen have been attributed to Paul, although some are clearly not genuine, having been written by other Christians after his death. Of the thirteen Pauline epistles, five, and possibly seven are regarded as having been written by the Apostle Paul. These are Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2 Corinthians, Philemon, Galatians, Philippians and 1 Thessalonians. Based on a computer analysis of the epistles attributed to Paul, A.Q. Morton believes that Philippians and 1 Thessalonians are not genuine.

Whether we accept all thirteen epistles as having been written by Paul, just the seven that most scholars attribute to him, or even the five that scholars such as Morton attribute to him, Paul clearly wrote more epistles than any other author.

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Paul is clearly the author of thirteen of the Epistles: Romans, 1&2 Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, 1&2 Thessalonians, 1 &2 Timothy, Titus, and Philemon. Some also attribute Hebrews to Paul.

Paul identifies himself in each of the thirteen letters as is usual when writing to someone. They are simply teaching and encouragement letters to churches he had established or was assisting, all bear his name in the greeting, all are cohesive in style, theme, content and there is no good reason to reject the authorship of Paul.

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