Welcome and thank you for taking a bible break to test your knowledge of God's word.
This week's question:

 The Bible, the inspired word of God (2 Timothy 3:16-17), meaning the "book of books", written by forty inspired men over about 1,546 years, beginning with Moses in about 1,450 B.C. (that's over 3,450 years ago) and ending with John writing Revelation while in exile on the island of Patmos in about 96 A.D. When we sit down to open our Bible today, it may not occur to us that, according to history, the first printed Bible made with movable print took place in 1456 A.D. , called the Guttenberg Bible, which was 36 years before Columbus "discovered" America. About 38% of the New Testament are letters, or epistles, written to churches, men or a general area fourteen of which are authored by a man who describes himself, "So then, I thought to myself that I had to do many things hostile to the name of Jesus of Nazareth. And this is just what I did in Jerusalem; not only did I lock up many of the saints in prisons, having received authority from the chief priests, but also when they were being put to death I cast my vote against them." (Acts 26:9-10), and then Paul calls himself the foremost or chief of sinners (1 Timothy 1:15). The next is John, described as "the disciple whom Jesus loved" (John 21:20). With three epistles along with one of the first four books, along with Matthew Mark and Luke, who also penned the book of Acts, and Peter with two, and James and Jude, the Lord's brothers, with one each.

 That brings us to our question, "Which book has only thirteen verses?". While many of the books of the New Testament have more than twenty chapters, length alone does not limit the inclusion of it within the Bible. Interestingly enough, early on, the brothers of the Lord did not believe in Jesus (John 7:1-9), yet, not only were some converted to Christ, but we have a short book written by Jude with only 25 verses , who is the brother of James (Jude 1). James is the brother of the Lord (Galatians 1:19) and he also writes the book by his own name, James (James 1:1)! John, who was rumored to live forever because of what Jesus said to Peter about John after Peter was told by the Lord that he would be martyred some day, Peter said, "'Lord, and what about this man?' Jesus said to him, 'If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you? You follow Me!' This saying therefore went out among the brethren that that disciple would not die; yet Jesus did not say to him that he would not die, but only, 'If I want him to remain until I come, what is that to you?'" (John 21:21-23), and this apostle was said to die of natural causes as the others were martyred. John wrote the book III John, with only fourteen verses, which one might wrongly conclude was the shortest book.

 But to answer our question, we need not look too far from the book of 1 John or 3 John, as "2 John" has only thirteen verses and is the answer to our question! Although this book is also very short in comparison to most of the books of the New Testament, it is not short on information, as John writes again by inspiration, "And this is love , that we walk according to His commandments. This is the commandment, just as you have heard from the beginning, that you should walk in it. For many deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist. Watch yourselves, that you might lose what we have accomplished, but that you may receive a full reward. Anyone who goes too far and does not abide in the teaching of Christ, does not have God; the one who abides in the teaching, he has both the Father and the Son." (2 John 6-9). This short book summarizes things written before by him, the commandments we are to keep and walk in are His word,
(1 John 2:3-6). If we abide in Jesus, then He will abide in us (John 15:4-10), the antichrist is already working at that time
(1 John 2:18). We can fall away from Him and not receive the reward (Revelation 2:3, 3:3, 3:5, 3:11, 3:16), and we are not to add to His word, not take anything from it (Revelation 22:18-19).

 Let us not be as those who think because of the length of their prayers they will be heard. Nor by the number of words it is more important, as Jesus says, "For truly I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or stroke shall pass away from the Law until all is accomplished." (Matthew 5:18) . So, let us be diligent until the end so that our names are not blotted out of the book of life, but be steadfast so that we may receive the crown of life (Revelation 3:5; 2 Timothy 4:7-8)!