simplify: So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more within the border of Israel: and the hand of Jehovah was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.

So the Philistines were overcome, and did not come into the country of Israel again: and all the days of Samuel the hand of the Lord was against the Philistines.


rate difficulty: There is an old saying, From the evil-doer comes evil: but my hand will never be lifted up against you.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and has raised [us] up together, and has made [us] sit down together in the heavenlies in Christ Jesus,

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Take counsel together, and it shall come to nought; speak the word, and it shall not stand: for God is with us.

Let your designs be formed, and they will come to nothing; give your orders, and they will not be effected: for God is with us.


rate difficulty: And at the end of the offering, the king and all who were present with him gave worship with bent heads.

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simplify: for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.


rate difficulty: `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;


rate difficulty: David also arose afterward, and went out of the cave, and cried after Saul, saying, My lord the king. And when Saul looked behind him, David stooped with his face to the earth, and bowed himself.


simplify: And there is none that calleth upon thy name, that stirreth up himself to take hold of thee; for thou hast hid thy face from us, and hast consumed us by means of our iniquities.

And there is no one who makes prayer to your name, or who is moved to keep true to you: for your face is veiled from us, and you have given us into the power of our sins.


rate difficulty: And wherefore discourage ye the heart of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them?

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simplify: But unto the damsel thou shalt do nothing; there is in the damsel no sin worthy of death: for as when a man riseth against his neighbour, and slayeth him, even so is this matter:

Nothing is to be done to the virgin, because there is no cause of death in her: it is the same as if a man made an attack on his neighbour and put him to death:


simplify: and lo, the vail of the sanctuary was rent in two from top unto bottom, and the earth did quake, and the rocks were rent,

Suddenly the Temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were torn asunder,


rate difficulty: Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And I will pour my fury upon Sin, the strength of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.


rate difficulty: And strangers, the terrible of the nations, have cut him off, and have left him: upon the mountains and in all the valleys his branches are fallen, and his boughs are broken by all the watercourses of the land; and all the peoples of the earth are gone down from his shadow, and have left him.


simplify: a father shall be divided against a son, and a son against a father, a mother against a daughter, and a daughter against a mother, a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law, and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law.'

‘Father will be opposed to son and son to father, mother to daughter and daughter to mother, mother-in-law to her daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law to her mother-in-law.’”


rate difficulty: I call upon you, therefore, become ye followers of me;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: A merry heart doeth good like a medicine: but a broken spirit drieth the bones.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Furthermore then we beseech you, brethren, and exhort you by the Lord Jesus, that as ye have received of us how ye ought to walk and to please God, so ye would abound more and more.

And last of all, the prayer which we make to you from our heart and in the name of the Lord Jesus, is this: that as we made clear to you what sort of behaviour is pleasing to God, as in fact you are doing now, so you will go on in these ways, but more and more.


rate difficulty: And Joktan begat Almodad, and Sheleph, and Hazarmaveth, and Jerah,

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And a certain youth, by name Eutychus, sitting at the window-opening, overpowered by deep sleep, while Paul discoursed very much at length, having been overpowered by the sleep, fell from the third story down to the bottom, and was taken up dead.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Jeremiah went out of Jerusalem to go into the land of Benjamin, with the purpose of taking up his heritage there among the people.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: for let each one of us please the neighbour for good, unto edification,

Let each of us please our neighbor for our neighbor’s good, to help in the building up of their character.


simplify: And Moses gave the tribute, which was Jehovah’s heave-offering, unto Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And Moses gave the Lord's part, lifted up as an offering, to Eleazar the priest, as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: And because the haven was not commodious to winter in, the more part advised to depart thence also, if by any means they might attain to Phenice, and there to winter; which is an haven of Crete, and lieth toward the south west and north west.

And as the harbour was not a good one in which to be for the winter, the greater number of them were for going out to sea, in order, if possible, to put in for the winter at Phoenix, a harbour of Crete, looking to the north-east and south-east.


rate difficulty: And I saw, and behold a white horse: and he that sat on him had a bow; and a crown was given unto him: and he went forth conquering, and to conquer.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: and he shall send his messengers with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his chosen from the four winds, from the ends of the heavens unto the ends thereof.

and he will send his angels, with a great trumpet, and they will gather his people around him from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


simplify: Arise ye, and depart; for this is not your rest: because it is polluted, it shall destroy you, even with a sore destruction.

Up! and go; for this is not your rest: because it has been made unclean, the destruction ordered will come on you.


rate difficulty: `And the trees say to the vine, Come thou, reign over us.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Send to all them of the captivity, saying, Thus saith Jehovah concerning Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because that Shemaiah hath prophesied unto you, and I sent him not, and he hath caused you to trust in falsehood;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For this is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.


simplify: But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing; for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, You are not to do this: for what you say about Ishmael is false.


simplify: It came also in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the end of the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, unto the carrying away of Jerusalem captive in the fifth month.

And it came again in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, up to the eleventh year of Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; till Jerusalem was taken away in the fifth month.


simplify: Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying,

And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,


rate difficulty: And Zimri went in and made an attack on him and put him to death, in the twenty-seventh year that Asa was king of Judah, and made himself king in his place.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And they said one to another, Come on, let us make bricks, and burn [them] thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and they had asphalt for mortar.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: The way in which his hand came to be lifted up against the king was this: Solomon was building the Millo and making good the damaged parts of the town of his father David;


simplify: Wives, submit yourselves unto your own husbands, as it is fit in the Lord.

Wives, be under the authority of your husbands, as is right in the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: What is my reward then? Verily that, when I preach the gospel, I may make the gospel of Christ without charge, that I abuse not my power in the gospel.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he saw the ring, and the bracelets upon his sister’s hands, and when he heard the words of Rebekah his sister, saying, Thus spake the man unto me; that he came unto the man; and, behold, he was standing by the camels at the fountain.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.


rate difficulty: where their worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched.


rate difficulty: But the ark of God had David brought up from Kirjath–jearim to the place which David had prepared for it: for he had pitched a tent for it at Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: but see, lest this privilege of yours may become a stumbling-block to the infirm,

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he said, So is the kingdom of God, as if a man should cast seed into the ground;

And he said, Such is the kingdom of God, as if a man put seed in the earth,


rate difficulty: Moreover ye shall take no ransom for the life of a murderer, that is guilty of death; but he shall surely be put to death.


rate difficulty: After them hath Zadok son of Immer strengthened, over against his house; and after him hath Shemaiah son of Shechaniah, keeper of the east gate, strengthened.


simplify: and the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a solitary land: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land.


rate difficulty: And the king of Aram saith, `Go thou, enter, and I send a letter unto the king of Israel;' and he goeth and taketh in his hand ten talents of silver, and six thousand <FI>pieces<Fi> of gold, and ten changes of garments.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room.

And the servant said, Lord, your orders have been done, and still there is room.


rate difficulty: And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles and cities of store.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And he arose, and departed to his house.


rate difficulty: `On a high mountain lift ye up an ensign, Raise the voice to them, wave the hand, And they go in to the openings of nobles.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And it shall be, if the wicked man be worthy to be beaten, that the judge shall cause him to lie down, and to be beaten before his face, according to his wickedness, by number.

And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.


rate difficulty: but, after my having risen, I will go before you to Galilee.'

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: rejoiceth not over the unrighteousness, and rejoiceth with the truth;

love never rejoices at evil, but rejoices in the triumph of truth;


rate difficulty: And, behold, the acts of Asa, first and last, lo, they are written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.


simplify: And they removed the burnt offerings, that they might give according to the divisions of the families of the people, to offer unto the Lord, as it is written in the book of Moses. And so did they with the oxen.

And they took away the burned offerings, so that they might give them to be offered to the Lord for the divisions of the families of the people, as it is recorded in the book of Moses. And they did the same with the oxen.


simplify: There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.

There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Jehovah thy God, that I am come unto the land which Jehovah sware unto our fathers to give us.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord, If thou return, then will I bring thee again, and thou shalt stand before me: and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth: let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

For this cause the Lord has said, If you will come back, then I will again let you take your place before me; and if you give out what is of value and not that which has no value, you will be as my mouth: let them come back to you, but do not go back to them.


simplify: And the barbarous people shewed us no little kindness: for they kindled a fire, and received us every one, because of the present rain, and because of the cold.

And the simple people living there were uncommonly kind to us, for they made a fire for us, and took us in, because it was raining and cold.


rate difficulty: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: The seventh, for the seventh month, <FI>is<Fi> Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim, and on his course <FI>are<Fi> twenty and four thousand.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And he saith unto him, `Come with me to the house, and eat bread.'

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And they said unto Joshua, Truly Jehovah hath delivered into our hands all the land; and moreover all the inhabitants of the land do melt away before us.

And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.


rate difficulty: and saith to him, `If Son thou art of God--cast thyself down, for it hath been written, that, His messengers He shall charge concerning thee, and on hands they shall bear thee up, that thou mayest not dash on a stone thy foot.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Therefore shall her young men fall in her streets, and all her men of war shall be brought to silence in that day, saith Jehovah.

For this cause her young men will be falling in her streets, and all her men of war will be cut off in that day, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And I looked, and rose up, and said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, Be not ye afraid of them: remember the Lord, which is great and terrible, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And we came to Jerusalem, and abode there three days.

And we came to Jerusalem and were there for three days.


rate difficulty: But Jacob, having heard of there being corn in Egypt, sent out our fathers first;


rate difficulty: And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third [generation]; the sons also of Machir the son of Manasseh were born on Joseph's knees.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto him, If thou canst! All things are possible to him that believeth.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The Lord thy God will raise up unto thee a Prophet from the midst of thee, of thy brethren, like unto me; unto him ye shall hearken;

The Lord your God will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to him;


simplify: Wherefore I beseech you to take some food: for this is for your safety: for there shall not a hair perish from the head of any of you.

So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.


rate difficulty: So they made an agreement at Beer-sheba, and Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, went back to the land of the Philistines.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Every chasm will be filled, Every mountain and hill will be leveled, The winding ways will be straightened, The rough roads made smooth,


simplify: To them that are without law, as without law, (being not without law to God, but under the law to Christ,) that I might gain them that are without law.

To those without the law I was as one without the law, not as being without law to God, but as under law to Christ, so that I might give the good news to those without the law.


rate difficulty: And he led them out untilthey were over against Bethany: and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.


rate difficulty: Or have found that which was lost, and lieth concerning it, and sweareth falsely; in any of all these that a man doeth, sinning therein:

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Woe unto him that saith to the wood, Awake; to the dumb stone, Arise, it shall teach! Behold, it is laid over with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all in the midst of it.

A curse on him who says to the wood, Awake! to the unbreathing stone, Up! let it be a teacher! See, it is plated with gold and silver, and there is no breath at all inside it.


rate difficulty: And Abimelech rose up, and all the people that were with him, by night, and they lay in ambush against Shechem in four companies.


simplify: the law, then, <FI>is<Fi> against the promises of God? --let it not be! for if a law was given that was able to make alive, truly by law there would have been the righteousness,

Does that set the law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a law had been given capable of bestowing life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to law.


rate difficulty: or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree, and laid him in a sepulchre.

and, after carrying out everything written about him, they took Jesus down from the cross, and laid him in a tomb.


rate difficulty: “What do you want me to do for you?”said Jesus, addressing him. “Rabboni,” the blind man answered, “I want to recover my sight.”


simplify: and the book is delivered to him that is not learned, saying, Read this, I pray thee; and he saith, I am not learned.

And they give it to one without learning, saying, Make clear to us what is in the book: and he says, I have no knowledge of writing.


simplify: But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom, which God ordained before the world unto our glory:

But we give the news of the secret wisdom of God, which he had kept in store before the world came into existence, for our glory;


rate difficulty: And if you go against my rules and if you have hate in your souls for my decisions and you do not do all my orders, but go against my agreement;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the Lord gave her conception, and she bare a son.

So Boaz took Ruth and she became his wife; and he went in to her, and the Lord made her with child and she gave birth to a son.


simplify: For whosoever would save his life shall lose it: and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake shall find it.

Because whoever has a desire to keep his life safe will have it taken from him; but whoever gives up his life because of me, will have it given back to him.


simplify: As the cattle that go down into the valley, the Spirit of Jehovah caused them to rest: so didst thou lead thy people, to make thyself a glorious name.

Like the cattle which go down into the valley, they went without falling, the spirit of the Lord guiding them: so you went before your people, to make yourself a great name.


rate difficulty: And the remnant were slain with the sword of him that sat upon the horse, which sword proceeded out of his mouth: and all the fowls were filled with their flesh.


rate difficulty: Then said he, What have they seen in thine house? And Hezekiah answered, All that is in mine house have they seen: there is nothing among my treasures that I have not shewed them.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, When thou goest to return to Egypt, see that thou do all the wonders before Pharaoh that I have put in thy hand. And I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But they went forth, and spread abroad his fame in all that land.

But they went out and gave news of him in all that land.


rate difficulty: Heshbon with its suburbs, Jazer with its suburbs; four cities in all.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Samuel took Saul and his servant, and brought them into the guest-chamber, and made them sit in the chiefest place among them that were bidden, who were about thirty persons.

Then Samuel took Saul and his servant into the guest room, and made them take the chief place among all the guests who were there, about thirty persons.


simplify: Or did I commit a sin in abasing myself that ye might be exalted, because I preached to you the gospel of God for nought?

Or did I do wrong in making myself low so that you might be lifted up, because I gave you the good news of God without reward?


simplify: Now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, Why are you crying out to me? give the children of Israel the order to go forward.


simplify: Nevertheless mine eye spared them, and I destroyed them not, neither did I make a full end of them in the wilderness.

But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.


simplify: that they may walk in my statutes, and keep mine ordinances, and do them: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God.

So that they may be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them: and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.


rate difficulty: And they have possessed the south with the mount of Esau, And the low country with the Philistines, And they have possessed the field of Ephraim, And the field of Samaria, And Benjamin with Gilead.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And they came with haste, and found both Mary and Joseph, and the babe lying in the manger.

And they came quickly, and saw Mary and Joseph, and the child in the place where the cattle had their food.


rate difficulty: and Moses seeth all the work, and lo, they have done it as Jehovah hath commanded; so they have done. And Moses doth bless them.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Three hours after midnight, however, Jesus came towards the disciples, walking on the water.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: and the elders of the Jews are building and prospering through the prophecy of Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah son of Iddo, and they have built and finished by the decree of the God of Israel, and by the decree of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Peter said, `Ananias, wherefore did the Adversary fill thy heart, for thee to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back of the price of the place?

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The children of Bezai, three hundred twenty and four.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: they shall take up serpents; and if they should drink any deadly thing it shall not injure them; they shall lay hands upon the infirm, and they shall be well.


simplify: And the king of Ai they took alive, and brought him to Joshua.

But the king of Ai they made prisoner, and took him to Joshua.


simplify: Then said I unto them, Cast ye away every man the abominations of his eyes, and defile not yourselves with the idols of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

And I said to them, Let every man among you put away the disgusting things to which his eyes are turned, and do not make yourselves unclean with the images of Egypt; I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And when he cometh home, he calleth together his friends and his neighbors, saying unto them, Rejoice with me, for I have found my sheep which was lost.

And when he gets back to his house, he sends for his neighbours and friends, saying to them, Be glad with me, for I have got back my sheep which had gone away.


simplify: And the Pharisees having gone forth, held a consultation against him, how they might destroy him,

On coming out, the Pharisees plotted against Jesus, to put him to death.


simplify: But God said unto him, Thou fool, this night thy soul shall be required of thee: then whose shall those things be, which thou hast provided?

But God said to the man ‘Fool! This very night your life is being demanded; and as for all you have prepared — who will have it?’


simplify: See that no one shall be carrying you away as spoil through the philosophy and vain deceit, according to the deliverance of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to Christ,

Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his ‘philosophy’ — a hollow sham! — following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.


simplify: And having in a readiness to revenge all disobedience, when your obedience is fulfilled.

and are fully prepared to punish every act of rebellion, when once your submission is complete.


simplify: but ye know that because of an infirmity of the flesh I preached the gospel unto you the first time:

But you have knowledge that with a feeble body I was preaching the good news to you the first time;


rate difficulty: And, in this present case, my advice to you is not to interfere with these men, but to let them alone, for, if their designs and their work are merely of human origin, they will come to an end;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You scour land and sea to make a single convert, and, when they are gained, you make them twice as deserving of Gehenna as you are yourselves.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: But the people said, Thou shalt not go forth, for if we should in any case flee, they will not care for us; neither if half of us die, will they care for us; for thou art worth ten thousand of us; and now it is better that thou succour us out of the city.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Jesus answering said, `Ye have not known what ye ask for yourselves; are ye able to drink of the cup that I am about to drink? and with the baptism that I am baptized with, to be baptized?' They say to him, `We are able.'

“You do not know what you are asking,” was Jesus’ answer. “Can you drink the cup that I am to drink?” “Yes,” they exclaimed, “we can.”


simplify: And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah; he did according to all that his father Uzziah had done.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done.


rate difficulty: For the nation and the kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; and those nations shall be utterly wasted.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: and we--we have known and believed the love, that God hath in us; God is love, and he who is remaining in the love, in God he doth remain, and God in him.

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us.   God is love; and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.


rate difficulty: a molten god thou dost not make to thyself.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I am the First and the Last, the start and the end.


simplify: For this cause left I thee in Crete, that thou shouldest set in order the things that are wanting, and ordain elders in every city, as I had appointed thee:

I did not take you with me when I went away from Crete, so that you might do what was necessary to put things in order there, placing men in authority over the churches in every town, as I said to you;


simplify: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


rate difficulty: And they gave unto them the cities of refuge, Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim with its suburbs; Gezer also with its suburbs,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Father, if it is your pleasure, take this cup from me: but still, let your pleasure, not mine, be done.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: and cried, seeing the smoke of her burning, saying, What [city] is like to the great city?


rate difficulty: The way of life is above to the wise, that he may depart from hell beneath.


rate difficulty: And Jesse made seven of his sons pass before Samuel. And Samuel said to Jesse, Jehovah has not chosen these.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all. Amen.  It was written to the Philippians from Rome by Epaphroditus.

The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with your spirit.


rate difficulty: When thou criest, let thy companies deliver thee; but the wind shall carry them all away; vanity shall take them: but he that putteth his trust in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain;

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for joy, but ran in, and told that Peter stood before the gate.

And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside.


rate difficulty: Your anger against her has been made clear by driving her away; he has taken her away with his storm-wind in the day of his east wind.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah said unto Manoah, Though thou detain me, I will not eat of thy bread; and if thou wilt make ready a burnt-offering, thou must offer it unto Jehovah. For Manoah knew not that he was the angel of Jehovah.

And the angel of the Lord said to Manoah, Though you keep me I will not take of your food; but if you will make a burned offering, let it be offered to the Lord. For it had not come into Manoah's mind that he was the angel of the Lord.


simplify: Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

Stubborn race, heathen in heart and ears, you are for ever resisting the Holy Spirit; your ancestors did it, and you are doing it still.


simplify: And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led captive into all the nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.

And they will be put to death with the sword, and will be taken as prisoners into all the nations; and Jerusalem will be crushed under the feet of the Gentiles, till the times of the Gentiles are complete.


rate difficulty: As clouds and wind without rain, So ishe that boasteth himself of his gifts falsely.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: My love be with you all in Christ Jesus. Amen.  The first epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi by Stephanas, and Fortunatus, and Achaicus, and Timotheus.

My love to all of you who are in union with Christ Jesus.


simplify: Then I said, I have laboured in vain, I have spent my strength for nought, and in vain: yet surely my judgment is with the Lord, and my work with my God.

And I said, I have undergone weariness for nothing, I have given my strength for no purpose or profit: but still the Lord will take up my cause, and my God will give me my reward.


rate difficulty: But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.


simplify: But he denied, saying, Woman, I know him not.

But he said, Woman, it is not true; I have no knowledge of him.


simplify: Since the days of our fathers we have been exceeding guilty unto this day; and for our iniquities have we, our kings, and our priests, been delivered into the hand of the kings of the lands, to the sword, to captivity, and to plunder, and to confusion of face, as it is this day.

From the days of our fathers till this day we have been great sinners; and for our sins, we and our kings and our priests have been given up into the hands of the kings of the lands, to the sword and to prison and to loss of goods and to shame of face, as it is this day.


simplify: Wherefore will ye contend with me? ye all have transgressed against me, saith Jehovah.

Why will you put forward your cause against me? You have all done evil against me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Take care there is not some one who will carry you away by his ‘philosophy’ — a hollow sham! — following, as it does, mere human traditions, and dealing with puerile questions of this world, and not with Christ.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Thou hast played the whore also with the Assyrians, because thou wast unsatiable; yea, thou hast played the harlot with them, and yet couldest not be satisfied.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

But Pilate was surprised to hear that he had already died. So he sent for the officer, and asked if he were already dead;


simplify: And he shall be thy spokesman unto the people; and it shall come to pass, that he shall be to thee a mouth, and thou shalt be to him as God.

And he will do the talking for you to the people: he will be to you as a mouth and you will be to him as God.


simplify: Of the sons of Uzziel; Michah: of the sons of Michah; Shamir.

The sons of Uzziel, Micah; of the sons of Micah, Shamir.


simplify: And when there was an assault made both of the Gentiles, and also of the Jews with their rulers, to use them despitefully, and to stone them,

And when a violent attempt was made by the Gentiles and the Jews, with their rulers, to make an attack on them and have them stoned,


rate difficulty: `When thou buyest a Hebrew servant--six years he doth serve, and in the seventh he goeth out as a freeman for nought;

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and they give money to hewers and to artificers, and food, and drink, and oil to Zidonians and to Tyrians, to bring in cedar-trees from Lebanon unto the sea of Joppa, according to the permission of Cyrus king of Persia concerning them.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, from day to day, and at the time when the second year was drawing to a close, that his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness, and he died in cruel sufferings. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.


rate difficulty: But who shall endure the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? For he will be like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' lye.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

But, if anyone puts temptation in the way of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be best for them to be sunk in the depths of the sea with a great millstone hung around their neck.


rate difficulty: And Naomi saith, `Turn back, my daughters; why do ye go with me? are there yet to me sons in my bowels that they have been to you for husbands?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.


simplify: Surely thou hast spoken in mine hearing, and I have heard the voice of thy words, saying,

But you said in my hearing, and your voice came to my ears:


rate difficulty: He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord’s house.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the rod-bearers told to the magistrates these sayings, and they were afraid, having heard that they are Romans,

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir: and went not.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And I will give the rain at the right time, and I will make the shower come down at the right time; there will be showers of blessing.


simplify: Look therefore carefully how ye walk, not as unwise, but as wise;

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;


simplify: And he that smiteth a beast mortally shall make it good, life for life.

And anyone wounding a beast and causing its death, will have to make payment for it: a life for a life.


rate difficulty: and over the herds that fed in Sharon was Shitrai the Sharonite: and over the herds that were in the valleys was Shaphat the son of Adlai:

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And when Phinehas the priest, and the princes of the congregation and heads of the thousands of Israel which were with him, heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spake, it pleased them.


simplify: Now, brethren, if I come unto you speaking with tongues, what shall I profit you, except I shall speak to you either by revelation, or by knowledge, or by prophesying, or by doctrine?

But, now, my brothers, if I come to you using tongues, what profit will it be to you, if I do not give you a revelation, or knowledge, or the word of the prophet, or teaching?


simplify: And thou shalt sanctify the breast of the wave-offering, and the thigh of the heave-offering, which is waved, and which is heaved up, of the ram of consecration, even of that which is for Aaron, and of that which is for his sons:

So you are to make holy the breast of the sheep which is waved and the leg which is lifted up on high, that is, of the sheep which is offered for Aaron and his sons;


rate difficulty: Strengthen ye the feeble hands, Yea, the stumbling knees strengthen.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Thou hast also made mine enemies turn their backs unto me, That I might cut off them that hate me.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Also he built altars in the house of the Lord, whereof the Lord had said, In Jerusalem shall my name be for ever.

And he made altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord had said, In Jerusalem will my name be for ever.


simplify: and that whosoever would not seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, should be put to death, whether small or great, whether man or woman.

And that anyone, small or great, man or woman, who was not true to the Lord, the God of Israel, would be put to death.


simplify: For I heard the defaming of many, fear on every side. Report, say they, and we will report it. All my familiars watched for my halting, saying, Peradventure he will be enticed, and we shall prevail against him, and we shall take our revenge on him.

For numbers of them say evil secretly in my hearing (there is fear on every side): they say, Come, let us give witness against him; all my nearest friends, who are watching for my fall, say, It may be that he will be taken by deceit, and we will get the better of him and give him punishment.


simplify: This they shall give, every one that passeth over unto them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the sanctuary; (the shekel is twenty gerahs), half a shekel for an offering to Jehovah.

And this is what they are to give; let every man who is numbered give half a shekel, by the scale of the holy place: (the shekel being valued at twenty gerahs:) this money is an offering to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he said, I am Abraham's servant.


rate difficulty: Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


simplify: and give him no rest, till he establish, and till he make Jerusalem a praise in the earth.

And give him no rest, till he puts Jerusalem in her place to be praised in the earth.


rate difficulty: I have seen thine adulteries, and thy neighings, the lewdness of thy whoredom, and thine abominations on the hills in the fields. Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! wilt thou not be made clean? when shall it once be?

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The king of Taanach, one; the king of Megiddo, one;


simplify: But the men of the army whom Amaziah sent back, that they should not go with him to battle, fell upon the cities of Judah, from Samaria even unto Beth-horon, and smote of them three thousand, and took much spoil.

But the men of the band which Amaziah sent back and did not take with him to the fight, made attacks on the towns of Judah from Samaria to Beth-horon, putting to death three thousand of their people and taking away a great store of their goods.


simplify: and showing lovingkindness unto thousands of them that love me and keep my commandments.

And I will have mercy through a thousand generations on those who have love for me and keep my laws.


simplify: For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance.

For God never regrets his gifts or his call.


rate difficulty: to him, I say, the wise and only God, be ascribed, through Jesus Christ, all glory for ever and ever. Amen.


simplify: ye also, as living stones, are built up a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.


simplify: His own iniquities shall take the wicked, And he shall be holden with the cords of his sin.

The evil-doer will be taken in the net of his crimes, and prisoned in the cords of his sin.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: for fornicators, for abusers of themselves with men, for menstealers, for liars, for false swearers, and if there be any other thing contrary to the sound doctrine;

For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,


rate difficulty: And he made for the altar a grating of network of copper under its ledge from beneath, to the very middle of it.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: From Judah, Nahshon, the son of Amminadab;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And when neither sun nor stars shone upon us for many days, and no small tempest lay on us, all hope that we should be saved was now taken away.

And as we had not seen the sun or stars for a long time, and a great storm was on us, all hope of salvation was gone.


rate difficulty: And he coupled the five curtains one unto another: and the other five curtains he coupled one unto another.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And it came to pass, as the man of God had spoken to the king, saying, Two measures of barley for a shekel, and a measure of fine flour for a shekel, shall be to-morrow about this time in the gate of Samaria;

So the words of the man of God came true, which he said to the king: Two measures of barley will be offered for the price of a shekel and a measure of good meal for a shekel, tomorrow about this time in the market-place of Samaria.


simplify: And Jacob stole away unawares to Laban the Syrian, in that he told him not that he fled.

And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.


simplify: Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

Since, with Christ, you became dead to the puerile teaching of this world, why do you submit, as as if you still belonged to the world,


rate difficulty: Now if the first-fruit [be] holy, the lump also; and if the root [be] holy, the branches also.


rate difficulty: Because they had not executed my judgments, but had despised my statutes, and had polluted my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Baana the son of Hushai, in Asher and Bealoth;

Baana, the son of Hushai, in Asher and Aloth;


rate difficulty: And Hagar bare Abram a son: and Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael.


rate difficulty: So it seemed to me wise for the brothers to go before, and see that the amount which you had undertaken to give was ready, so that it might be a cause for praise, and not as if we were making profit out of you.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Solomon built Gezer, and Beth–horon the nether,

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: If we live in the Spirit, let us also walk in the Spirit.

If we are living by the Spirit, by the Spirit let us be guided.


simplify: So they cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him. What therefore shall the lord of the vineyard do unto them?

So they threw him outside the vineyard and killed him. Now what will the owner of the vineyard do to them?


simplify: For they vex you with their wiles, wherewith they have beguiled you in the matter of Peor, and in the matter of Cozbi, the daughter of a prince of Midian, their sister, which was slain in the day of the plague for Peor’s sake.

For they are a danger to you with their false ways, causing sin to come on you in the question of Peor, and because of Cozbi, their sister, the daughter of the chief of Midian, who was put to death at the time of the disease which came on you because of Peor.


rate difficulty: Good <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah for a strong place in a day of distress. And He knoweth those trusting in Him.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Why hast thou abode between the boundaries, To hear lowings of herds? For the divisions of Reuben, Great <FI>are<Fi> the searchings of heart!

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the people, when they knew it, followed him: and he received them, and spake unto them of the kingdom of God, and healed them that had need of healing.

But the people, getting news of it, went after him: and he was pleased to see them, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God, and made those well who were in need of it.


rate difficulty: And the same offering is to be given by that one of his sons who takes his place as priest; by an order for ever, all of it is to be burned before the Lord.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Because I am going to have the upright and the evil cut off from you, for this cause my sword will go out from its cover against all flesh from the south to the north:

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: These are now the chief of their fathers, and this is the genealogy of them that went up with me from Babylon, in the reign of Artaxerxes the king.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Whether, then, ye eat, or drink, or do anything, do all to the glory of God;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors.


simplify: They have moved me to jealousy with that which is not God; they have provoked me to anger with their vanities: and I will move them to jealousy with those which are not a people; I will provoke them to anger with a foolish nation.

They have given my honour to that which is not God, moving me to wrath with their false worship: I will give their honour to those who are not a people, moving them to wrath by a foolish nation,


simplify: Now therefore call unto me all the prophets of Baal, all his worshippers, and all his priests; let none be wanting: for I have a great sacrifice to do to Baal; whosoever shall be wanting, he shall not live. But Jehu did it in subtlety, to the intent that he might destroy the worshippers of Baal.

Now send for all the prophets of Baal and all his servants and all his priests, to come to me; let no one keep away: for I have a great offering to make to Baal; anyone who is not present, will be put to death. This Jehu did with deceit, his purpose being the destruction of the servants of Baal.


simplify: But Rabshakeh said, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit upon the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

But the Rab-shakeh said, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.


simplify: therefore in the rising again, of which of the seven shall she be wife--for all had her?'

At the resurrection, then, whose wife will she be out of the seven, all of them having been married to her?”


rate difficulty: And they rise and go to Ziph before Saul, and David and his men <FI>are<Fi> in the wilderness of Maon, in the plain, at the south of the desolate place.


rate difficulty: For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.


simplify: and if they wish to learn anything, at home their own husbands let them question, for it is a shame to women to speak in an assembly.

If they want information on any point, they should ask their husbands about it at home; for it is unbecoming for a married woman to speak at a meeting of the church.


simplify: And all flesh died that moved upon the earth, both birds, and cattle, and beasts, and every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth, and every man:

And destruction came on every living thing moving on the earth, birds and cattle and beasts and everything which went on the earth, and every man.


simplify: They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and meat, and drink, and oil, unto them of Zidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar trees from Lebanon to the sea of Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.


rate difficulty: And under the expanse were their wings straight, the one toward the other: every one had two which covered on this side, and every one had two which covered on that side their bodies.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, the reign of God shall inherit.

or a thief, or covetous, or a drunkard, or abusive, or grasping, will have any share in God’s kingdom.


simplify: But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.

But if any of the flesh of the offering is still unused on the third day, it is to be burned with fire.


simplify: And the children of Israel carried away captive of their brethren two hundred thousand, women, sons, and daughters, and took also away much spoil from them, and brought the spoil to Samaria.

And the children of Israel took away as prisoners from their brothers, two hundred thousand, women and sons and daughters, and a great store of their goods, and took them to Samaria.


simplify: And Jesus having come forth thence, withdrew to the parts of Tyre and Sidon,

On going away from that place, Jesus went to the country around Tyre and Sidon.


rate difficulty: and I have left of them, a few in number, from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence, so that they recount all their abominations among the nations whither they have come, and they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

and you will give thanks to the Father who made you fit to share the lot which awaits Christ’s people in the realms of light.


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

Now on the day after, Hazael took the bed-cover, and making it wet with water, put it over Ben-hadad's face, causing his death: and Hazael became king in his place.


rate difficulty: If thou art the Christ, tell us. But he said unto them, If I tell you, ye will not believe:

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: the whole that Jehovah hath charged upon you by the hand of Moses, from the day that Jehovah hath commanded, and henceforth, to your generations,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But if we shall say, Of men; we fear the people; for all hold John as a prophet.

But if we say ‘human,’ we are afraid of the people, for everyone regards John as a prophet.”


simplify: `Then shall he answer them, saying, Verily I say to you, Inasmuch as ye did <FI>it<Fi> not to one of these, the least, ye did <FI>it<Fi> not to me.

And then he will reply ‘I tell you, as often as you failed to do it to one of these, however unimportant, you failed to do it to me.’


rate difficulty: And Shelemiah and Nathan and Adaiah,

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rate difficulty: And they read in the book, in the law of God, distinctly; and they gave the sense, so that they understood the reading.

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rate difficulty: And I gathered them together to the river that runneth to Ahava; and there we encamped three days: and I viewed the people, and the priests, and found there none of the sons of Levi.

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rate difficulty: These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

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simplify: The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

He who is purposing death gets up before day, so that he may put to death the poor and those in need.


simplify: And when Boaz had eaten and drunk, and his heart was merry, he went to lie down at the end of the heap of grain: and she came softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid her down.

Now when Boaz had taken meat and drink, and his heart was glad, he went to take his rest at the end of the mass of grain; then she came softly and, uncovering his feet, went to rest.


rate difficulty: The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.


rate difficulty: And they invited the people to the sacrifices of theirgods; and the people ate, and bowed down to theirgods.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: said unto them, `Ye brought to me this man as perverting the people, and lo, I before you having examined, found in this man no fault in those things ye bring forward against him;

and said to them: “You brought this man before me charged with misleading the people; and yet, for my part, though I examined him before you, I did not find this man to blame for any of the things of which you accuse him;


simplify: And the field, and the cave that is therein, were made sure unto Abraham for a possession of a burying-place by the children of Heth.

And the field and the hollow rock were handed over to Abraham as his property by the children of Heth.


simplify: Then the king of Assyria commanded, saying, Carry thither one of the priests whom ye brought from thence; and let them go and dwell there, and let him teach them the manner of the God of the land.

Then the king of Assyria gave orders, saying, Send there one of the priests whom you took away, and let him be living there and teaching the people the way of the god of the land.


simplify: For Paul had determined to sail past Ephesus, that he might not have to spend time in Asia; for he was hastening, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

For Paul's purpose was to go past Ephesus, so that he might not be kept in Asia; for he was going quickly, in order, if possible, to be at Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost.


rate difficulty: Ye foolish ones, did not he that made the outside make the inside also?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: and Jesus said, `I am; and ye shall see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the power, and coming with the clouds, of the heaven.'

“I am,”replied Jesus, “and you will all see the Son of Man sitting on the right hand of the Almighty; and ‘coming in the clouds of heaven’.”


simplify: But when they departed from Perga, they came to Antioch in Pisidia, and went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

But they, going through from Perga, came to Antioch in Pisidia; and they went into the Synagogue on the Sabbath and were seated.


simplify: `So I say to you, joy doth come before the messengers of God over one sinner reforming.'

So, I tell you, there is rejoicing in the presence of God’s angels over one outcast who repents.”


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass in the going out of her soul (for she died), that she calleth his name Ben-Oni; and his father called him Benjamin;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


simplify: So the church throughout all Judæa and Galilee and Samaria had peace, being edified; and, walking in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was multiplied.

And so the church through all Judaea and Galilee and Samaria had peace and was made strong; and, living in the fear of the Lord and in the comfort of the Holy Spirit, was increased greatly.


simplify: But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

But this you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time of night the thief was coming, they would have been on the watch, and would not have allowed their house to be broken into.


simplify: and all their wealth, and all their little ones and their wives, took they captive and made a prey, even all that was in the house.

And all their wealth and all their little ones and their wives; everything in their houses they took and made them waste.


rate difficulty: and Me-Jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over-against Japho.

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simplify: Behold, therefore I will bring strangers upon thee, the terrible of the nations: and they shall draw their swords against the beauty of thy wisdom, and they shall defile thy brightness.

See, I am sending against you strange men, feared among the nations: they will let loose their swords against your bright wisdom, they will make your glory a common thing.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron, when they drew near before Jehovah, and died;

And the Lord said to Moses, after the death of the two sons of Aaron when they took in strange fire before the Lord and death overtook them;


simplify: neither shall they say, Lo, here! or, There! for lo, the kingdom of God is within you.

And men will not say, See, it is here! or, There! for the kingdom of God is among you.


rate difficulty: And he makes use of all the authority of the first beast before his eyes. And he makes the earth and those who are in it give worship to the first beast, whose death-wound was made well.

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simplify: My little children, may we not love in word nor in tongue, but in word and in truth!

My children, do not let our love be mere words, or end in talk; let it be true and show itself in acts.


simplify: Knowing that Christ being raised from the dead dieth no more; death hath no more dominion over him.

We know, indeed, that Christ, having once risen from the dead, will not die again. Death has power over him no longer.


rate difficulty: Rejoice not against me, O mine enemy: when I fall, I shall arise; when I sit in darkness, Jehovah will be a light unto me.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love ofGod, which [is] in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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rate difficulty: And the priest shall sprinkle the blood upon the altar of Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and burn the fat for a sweet odour to Jehovah.

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simplify: Whatsoever soul it be that eateth any manner of blood, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

Whoever takes any blood for food will be cut off from his people.


rate difficulty: And there stood up certain, and bare false witness against him, saying,


rate difficulty: And saying to Aaron, Make us gods to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has become of him.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: Hezekiah began to reign when he was five and twenty years old, and he reigned nine and twenty years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Abijah, the daughter of Zechariah.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.


rate difficulty: and these things charge, that they may be blameless;

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

After this, the Master appointed seventy-two other disciples, and sent them on as his messengers, two and two, in advance, to every town and place that he was himself intending to visit.


simplify: Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the sanctuaries, and prophesy against the land of Israel;

Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: I am returned unto Zion, and will dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and Jerusalem shall be called The city of truth; and the mountain of Jehovah of hosts, The holy mountain.

This is what the Lord has said: I have come back to Zion, and will make my living-place in Jerusalem: and Jerusalem will be named The town of good faith; and the mountain of the Lord of armies The holy mountain.


rate difficulty: When daylight came, they could not make out what land it was, but, observing a creek in which there was a beach, they consulted as to whether they could run the ship safely into it.

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simplify: nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Or things on high, or things under the earth, or anything which is made, will be able to come between us and the love of God which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.


simplify: And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food:

And God said, See, I have given you every plant producing seed, on the face of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit producing seed: they will be for your food:


simplify: And they came unto the brook of Eshcol, and cut down from thence a branch with one cluster of grapes, and they bare it between two upon a staff; and they brought of the pomegranates, and of the figs.

And they came to the valley of Eshcol, and cutting down a vine-branch with its grapes, two of them took it on a rod between them; and they took some pomegranates and figs.


rate difficulty: Even so, when you see these things taking place, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.

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simplify: And day having come, having gone forth, he went on to a desert place, and the multitudes were seeking him, and they came unto him, and were staying him--not to go on from them,

At daybreak, Jesus went out and walked to a lonely spot. But crowds of people began to look for him; and they came to where he was and tried to detain him and prevent his leaving them.


simplify: And every open vessel, which hath no covering bound upon it, is unclean.

And every open vessel without a cover fixed on it will be unclean.


simplify: (According as it is written, God hath given them the spirit of slumber, eyes that they should not see, and ears that they should not hear;) unto this day.

The rest grew callous; as scripture says — ‘God has given them a deadness of mind — eyes that are not to see and ears that are not to hear — and it is so to this very day.’


simplify: and as they were continuing there more days, Festus submitted to the king the things concerning Paul, saying, `There is a certain man, left by Felix, a prisoner,

and, as they were staying there for several days, Festus laid Paul’s case before the king. “There is a man here,” he said, “left a prisoner by Felix,


simplify: send, therefore, to Joppa, and call for Simon, who is surnamed Peter; this one doth lodge in the house of Simon a tanner, by the sea, who having come, shall speak to thee;

Therefore send to Jaffa, and invite the Simon, who is also known as Peter, to come here. He is lodging in the house of Simon the tanner, near the sea.’


rate difficulty: And he said, Is not he rightly named Jacob? for he hath supplanted me these two times: he took away my birthright; and, behold, now he hath taken away my blessing. And he said, Hast thou not reserved a blessing for me?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And thou shalt not let anything cleave to thy hand of the devoted thing; that Jehovah may turn from the fierceness of his anger, and shew thee mercy, and have compassion upon thee, and multiply thee, as he hath sworn unto thy fathers;

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simplify: He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.


simplify: Let her not be as one dead, of whom the flesh is half consumed when he cometh out of his mother’s womb.

Let her not be as one dead, whose flesh is half wasted when he comes out from the body of his mother.


rate difficulty: The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.

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simplify: And Jokshan begat Sheba, and Dedan. And the sons of Dedan were Asshurim, and Letushim, and Leummim.

And Jokshan became the father of Sheba and Dedan. And from Dedan came the Asshurim and Letushim and Leummim.


rate difficulty: and he saith unto his father, `My head, my head;' and he saith unto the young man, `Bear him unto his mother;'

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: To the weak became I as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some.

To the weak I became weak, to win the weak. I have become all things to all people, so as at all costs to save some.


rate difficulty: But they, supposing him to have been in the company, went a day’s journey; and they sought him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance.


simplify: Come ye near unto me, hear ye this; I have not spoken in secret from the beginning; from the time that it was, there am I: and now the Lord God, and his Spirit, hath sent me.

Come near to me, and give ear to this; from the start I did not keep it secret; from the time of its coming into existence I was there: and now the Lord God has sent me, and given me his spirit.


simplify: Who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?


rate difficulty: How beautiful are thy footsteps in sandals, O prince's daughter! The roundings of thy thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of an artist.

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rate difficulty: And he taketh up his simile, and saith: `From Aram he doth lead me--Balak king of Moab; From mountains of the east: Come--curse for me Jacob, And come--be indignant <FI>with<Fi> Israel.

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rate difficulty: These have the power to keep the heaven shut, so that there may be no rain in the days when they are prophets: and they have power over the waters to make them into blood, and to send every sort of disease on the earth as their pleasure is.

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simplify: And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

Now in the twelfth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the tenth month, on the fifth day of the month, one who had got away in flight from Jerusalem came to me, saying, The town has been taken.


simplify: And the king went up to the house of Jehovah, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of Jehovah.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.


simplify: And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Yes, and in her was to be found the blood of the prophets and of Christ’s people, and of all who have been put to death on the earth.’


rate difficulty: And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.


rate difficulty: and Pathrusim, and Casluhim (whence went forth the Philistines), and Caphtorim.

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rate difficulty: Sihon, king of the Amorite, who is dwelling in Heshbon, ruling from Aroer which <FI>is<Fi> on the border of the brook Arnon, and the middle of the brook, and half of Gilead, and unto Jabok the brook, the border of the Bene-Ammon;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Ephraim is oppressed, he is crushed in judgment; because he was content to walk after man’s command.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Moses said, I will turn aside now, and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt.

And Moses said, I will go and see this strange thing, why the tree is not burned up,


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Pagiel the son of Ochran.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Pagiel, the son of Ochran.


simplify: Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, and obtaineth favour of the Lord.

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.


simplify: Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not the God of Gentiles also? Yea, of Gentiles also:

Or is God the God of Jews only? is he not in the same way the God of Gentiles? Yes, of Gentiles:


simplify: Then Jacob was greatly afraid and distressed: and he divided the people that was with him, and the flocks, and herds, and the camels, into two bands;

Then Jacob was in great fear and trouble of mind: and he put all the people and the flocks and the herds and the camels into two groups;


simplify: And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon; and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the chief men of the land, carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.


simplify: and his breath is as an overflowing stream, that reacheth even unto the neck, to sift the nations with the sieve of destruction: and a bridle that causeth to err shall be in the jaws of the peoples.

And his breath is as an overflowing stream, coming up even to the neck, shaking the nations for their destruction, like the shaking of grain in a basket: and he will put a cord in the mouths of the people, turning them out of their way.


rate difficulty: These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, fed the flock with his brethren; and he was doing service with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives. And Joseph brought to his father an evil report of them.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: giving thanks unto the Father, who made us meet to be partakers of the inheritance of the saints in light;

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simplify: And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.

And all the years of Terah's life were two hundred and five: and Terah came to his end in Haran.


simplify: (and if any one his own house <FI>how<Fi> to lead hath not known, how an assembly of God shall he take care of?)

If someone does not know how to provide for their own household, how can they take charge of the church of God?


rate difficulty: And Joseph said unto his father, Not so, my father; for this is the first-born; put thy right hand upon his head.

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rate difficulty: And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valor, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were of the sons of Benjamin.


rate difficulty: And Jesse made seven of his sons to pass before Samuel. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Jehovah hath not chosen these.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the sea coast shall be dwellings and cottages for shepherds, and folds for flocks.

And the land by the sea will be grass-land, with houses for keepers of sheep and walled places for flocks.


rate difficulty: Then thou shalt say unto them, I presented my supplication before the king, that he would not cause me to return to Jonathan’s house, to die there.

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rate difficulty: and he has given some apostles, and some prophets, and some evangelists, and some shepherds and teachers,

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And all the drinking vessels of king Solomon were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the forest of Lebanon were of pure gold: none were of silver; it was not any thing accounted of in the days of Solomon.

All King Solomon's drinking-vessels were of gold, and all the vessels of the house of the Woods of Lebanon were of the best gold: no one gave a thought to silver in the days of Solomon.


simplify: wherefore not even myself thought I worthy to come unto thee, but say in a word, and my lad shall be healed;

That was why I did not even venture to come to you myself; but speak, and let my manservant be cured.


simplify: Behold, is it not of Jehovah of hosts that the peoples labor for the fire, and the nations weary themselves for vanity?

See, is it not the pleasure of the Lord of armies that the peoples are working for the fire and using themselves up for nothing?


rate difficulty: For God do ye speak perverseness? And for Him do ye speak deceit?


simplify: and I pray before God that ye do no evil, not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do that which is right, and we may be as disapproved;

We pray God that you may do nothing wrong, not that we may be seen to stand the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem not to stand the test.


rate difficulty: And I intreat thee also, true yokefellow, help those women which laboured with me in the gospel, with Clement also, and with other my fellowlabourers, whose names are in the book of life.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Jehu slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son reigned in his stead.

And Jehu went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria. And Jehoahaz his son became king in his place.


simplify: David said moreover, The Lord that delivered me out of the paw of the lion, and out of the paw of the bear, he will deliver me out of the hand of this Philistine. And Saul said unto David, Go, and the Lord be with thee.

And David said, The Lord, who kept me safe from the grip of the lion and the bear, will be my saviour from the hands of this Philistine. And Saul said to David, Go! and may the Lord be with you.


rate difficulty: And of the priests: sons of Habaiah sons of Koz, sons of Barzillai, who hath taken from the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite a wife, and is called by their name.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And from those who were esteemed to be something--whatever they were then, it maketh no difference to me--the face of man God accepteth not, for--to me those esteemed did add nothing,

Of those who are thought somewhat highly of — what they once were makes no difference to me; God does not recognize human distinctions — those, I say, who are thought highly of added nothing to my message.


simplify: And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And Jehovah had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;


simplify: Then Zedekiah the king commanded, and they committed Jeremiah into the court of the guard; and they gave him daily a loaf of bread out of the bakers’ street, until all the bread in the city was spent. Thus Jeremiah remained in the court of the guard.

Then by the order of Zedekiah the king, Jeremiah was put into the place of the armed watchmen, and they gave him every day a cake of bread from the street of the bread-makers, till all the bread in the town was used up. So Jeremiah was kept in the place of the armed watchmen.


simplify: And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.


simplify: Thorns also and thistles shall it bring forth to thee; and thou shalt eat the herb of the field;

Thorns and waste plants will come up, and the plants of the field will be your food;


simplify: Now mine eyes shall be open, and mine ears attent unto the prayer that is made in this place.

Now my eyes will be open and my ears awake to the prayers made in this place.


rate difficulty: And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.

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simplify: And a maid saw him again, and began to say to them that stood by, This is one of them.

And the girl saw him, and said again to those who were near, This is one of them.


simplify: By stretching forth thine hand to heal; and that signs and wonders may be done by the name of thy holy child Jesus.

while you stretch out your hand to heal, and cause signs and wonders to take place through the name of your holy servant Jesus.”


simplify: Neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself: neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself.

And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.


rate difficulty: Which was the son of Melea, which was the son of Menan, which was the son of Mattatha, which was the son of Nathan, which was the son of David,

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rate difficulty: Then David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How glorious was the king of Israel to day, who uncovered himself to day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the vain fellows shamelessly uncovereth himself!

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: But God said unto me, Thou shalt not build a house for my name, because thou art a man of war, and hast shed blood.

But God said to me, You are not to be the builder of a house for my name, because you are a man of war and have taken life;


rate difficulty: And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell before thee is too strait for us.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For if ye turn away from after him, he will yet again leave them in the wilderness; and ye shall destroy all this people.

For if you are turned away from him, he will send them wandering again in the waste land; and you will be the cause of the destruction of all this people.


simplify: Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.

Be ready then; for at a time which you have no thought of the Son of man will come.


rate difficulty: All things [are] pure to the pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving nothing [is] pure; but both their mind and their conscience are defiled.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: `And now, O God of Israel, let it be established, I pray Thee, Thy word which Thou hast spoken to Thy servant, David my father.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,

High and low, rich and poor, free and enslaved — it causes a brand to be put on the right hand or on the forehead of every one of them,


simplify: for what, if certain were faithless? shall their faithlessness the faithfulness of god make useless?

What follows then? Some, no doubt, showed a want of faith; but will their want of faith make God break faith? Heaven forbid!


simplify: The righteousness of the perfect shall direct his way: but the wicked shall fall by his own wickedness.

The righteousness of the good man will make his way straight, but the sin of the evil-doer will be the cause of his fall.


simplify: And the Lord heard the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.


rate difficulty: What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And his servants conspired against him, and slew him in his own house.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the priest that cleanseth him shall set the man that is to be cleansed, and those things, before Jehovah, at the door of the tent of meeting.

And the priest who is making him clean will put the man who is being made clean, together with these things, before the door of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: Know ye not, that to whom ye yield yourselves servants to obey, his servants ye are to whom ye obey; whether of sin unto death, or of obedience unto righteousness?

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Ten cubits was the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

The boards were ten cubits long and one cubit and a half wide.


rate difficulty: This is a faithful saying, and these things I will that thou affirm constantly, that they which have believed in God might be careful to maintain good works. These things are good and profitable unto men.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah [with] the seed of man and the seed of beast.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

I say to you, Though he will not get up and give to him, because he is his friend, still, if he keeps on making his request, he will get up and give him as much as he has need of.


simplify: Phrygia also, and Pamphylia, Egypt, and the parts of Libya, that <FI>are<Fi> along Cyrene, and the strangers of Rome, both Jews and proselytes,

in Phrygia and Pamphylia, in Egypt and the districts of Libya adjoining Cyrene; some of us are visitors from Rome,


simplify: And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, The Lord be witness between us, if we do not so according to thy words.

And the responsible men of Gilead said to Jephthah, May the Lord be our witness: we will certainly do as you say.


simplify: And Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh: and Jehovah hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

All these wonders Moses and Aaron did before Pharaoh: but the Lord made Pharaoh's heart hard, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.


rate difficulty: Therefore all consuming thee are consumed, And all thine adversaries--all of them--Into captivity do go, And thy spoilers have been for a spoil, And all thy plunderers I give up to plunder.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Mine anger was kindled against the shepherds, and I punished the goats: for the Lord of hosts hath visited his flock the house of Judah, and hath made them as his goodly horse in the battle.

My wrath is burning against the keepers of the flock, and I will send punishment on the he-goats: for the Lord of armies takes care of his flock, the people of Judah, and will make them like the horse of his pride in the fight.


rate difficulty: But so much the more went abroad the report concerning him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed of their infirmities.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: That I should be the minister of Jesus Christ to the Gentiles, ministering the gospel of God, that the offering up of the Gentiles might be acceptable, being sanctified by the Holy Ghost.

because of the charge with which God has entrusted me, that I should be a minister of Christ Jesus to go to the Gentiles — that I should act as a priest of God’s good news, so that the offering up of the Gentiles may be an acceptable sacrifice, consecrated by the Holy Spirit.


simplify: And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open.

And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.


simplify: And didst see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and heardest their cry by the Red sea;

And you saw the trouble of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry came to your ears by the Red Sea;


simplify: And, lo, I perceived that God had not sent him; but that he pronounced this prophecy against me: for Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

Then it became clear to me that God had not sent him: he had given this word of a prophet against me himself: and Tobiah and Sanballat had given him money to do so.


rate difficulty: Benaiah, Bedeiah, Cheluhi,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: Of the children of Asher after their families: of Jimna, the family of the Jimnites: of Jesui, the family of the Jesuites: of Beriah, the family of the Beriites.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And the sons of Levi: Gershon, Kohath, and Merari;


simplify: Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: keep her; for she is thy life.

Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.


rate difficulty: And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcass thereof shall be unclean until the even.

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: medium