rate difficulty: `Thus said Cyrus king of Persia, All kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, God of the heavens, given to me, and He hath laid a charge on me to build to Him a house in Jerusalem, that <FI>is<Fi> in Judah;

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simplify: He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper; But whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall obtain mercy.

He who keeps his sins secret will not do well; but one who is open about them, and gives them up, will get mercy.


rate difficulty: And he settled his countenance stedfastly, until he was ashamed; and the man ofGod wept.

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


rate difficulty: for if ye live according to flesh, ye are about to die; but if, by the Spirit, ye put to death the deeds of the body, ye shall live:

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


simplify: And the word of the Lord of hosts came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And sent messengers before his face: and they went, and entered into a village of the Samaritans, to make ready for him.

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


simplify: and in the doing good we may not be faint-hearted, for at the proper time we shall reap--not desponding;

Let us never tire of doing right, for at the proper season we will reap our harvest, if we do not grow weary.


simplify: And when Saul and all Israel heard those words of the Philistine, they were dismayed, and greatly afraid.

And Saul and all Israel, hearing those words of the Philistine, were troubled and full of fear.


simplify: Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.


simplify: But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

But Absalom went on requesting him till he let Amnon and all the king's sons go with him. And Absalom made a great feast like a feast for a king.


rate difficulty: because thou shalt be his witness unto all men of what thou hast seen and heard;

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simplify: But those of them that escape shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them moaning, every one in his iniquity.

And those of them who get away safely will go and be in the secret places like the doves of the valleys, all of them will come to death, every one in his sin.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.

And in that day the Lord will send punishment on the army of the high ones on high, and on the kings of the earth on the earth.


rate difficulty: But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, [here am] I, let him do to me as seemeth good to him.

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


simplify: and over the olive-trees and the sycomore-trees that were in the lowland was Baal-hanan the Gederite: and over the cellars of oil was Joash:

Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;


simplify: So they turned and departed, and put the little ones and the cattle and the carriage before them.

So they went on their way again, putting the little ones and the oxen and the goods in front of them.


rate difficulty: Is there an end to words of wind? Or what doth embolden thee that thou answerest?

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


rate difficulty: And I hide not any more My face from them, In that I have poured out My spirit on the house of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah!'

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


rate difficulty: This twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

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


simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord: 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.


simplify: When I was a babe, as a babe I was speaking, as a babe I was thinking, as a babe I was reasoning, and when I have become a man, I have made useless the things of the babe;

When I was a child, I talked as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; now that I am a man, I have done with childish ways.


simplify: and I brought him near to thy disciples, and they were not able to heal him.'

I brought him to your disciples, but they could not cure him.”


rate difficulty: since many boast according to the flesh, I also will boast:

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


rate difficulty: But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

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


rate difficulty: I will not put into effect the heat of my wrath; I will not again send destruction on Ephraim; for I am God and not man, the Holy One among you; I will not put an end to you.

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


rate difficulty: And come to the king, and speak on this manner unto him. So Joab put the words in her mouth.

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


rate difficulty: Who ate the fat of their sacrifices, [And] drank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, That there may be a protection over you.


rate difficulty: And it will be that whoever makes his prayer to the name of the Lord will be kept safe: for in Mount Zion and in Jerusalem some will be kept safe, as the Lord has said, and will be among the small band marked out by the Lord.

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simplify: And all the wise men, that wrought all the work of the sanctuary, came every man from his work which they wrought;

Then the wise men, who were doing all the work of the holy place, came from their work;


rate difficulty: And he made a story for them, the point of which was that men were to go on making prayer and not get tired;

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simplify: And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of the Lord.

And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.

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


simplify: And Isaiah the prophet cried unto the Lord: and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward, by which it had gone down in the dial of Ahaz.

Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.


rate difficulty: And Moses saith unto the people, `Fear not, for to try you hath God come, and in order that His fear may be before your faces--that ye sin not.'

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rate difficulty: And the porch of the throne where he judgeth--the porch of judgment--he hath made, and <FI>it is<Fi> covered with cedar from the floor unto the floor.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,

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


simplify: so, then, the husband being alive, an adulteress she shall be called if she may become another man's; and if the husband may die, she is free from the law, so as not to be an adulteress, having become another man's.

If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.


simplify: They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the Lord, as the waters cover the sea.

There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain: for the earth will be full of the knowledge of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.


rate difficulty: Now therefore, if it seem good to the king, let there be search made in the king’s treasure house, which is there at Babylon, whether it be so, that a decree was made of Cyrus the king to build this house of God at Jerusalem, and let the king send his pleasure to us concerning this matter.


rate difficulty: So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.


rate difficulty: Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:


simplify: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

But to the woman were given the two wings of the great eagle, so that she might fly to her place in the wilderness, where she is being tended for ‘one year, and for two years, and for half a year’ in safety from the snake.


rate difficulty: And I have turned back My hand, And I do <FI>it<Fi> for My name's sake, Not to pollute <FI>it<Fi> before the eyes of the nations, Before whose eyes I brought them out.

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


simplify: Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

Which is the simpler, to say to a man who is ill, You have forgiveness for your sins, or, Get up, take up your bed, and go?


rate difficulty: And the fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth, and upon every bird of the heavens; with all wherewith the ground teemeth, and all the fishes of the sea, into your hand are they delivered.

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


simplify: And he answering said to them, `A generation, evil and adulterous, doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;

“It is a wicked and unfaithful generation,” answered Jesus, “that is asking for a sign, and no sign will be given it except the sign of the prophet Jonah.


simplify: Wherefore the people strove with Moses, and said, Give us water that we may drink. And Moses said unto them, Why strive ye with me? wherefore do ye tempt Jehovah?

So the people were angry with Moses, and said, Give us water for drinking. And Moses said, Why are you angry with me? and why do you put God to the test?


rate difficulty: Till the evening comes, and the sky slowly becomes dark, I will go to the mountain of myrrh, and to the hill of frankincense.

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


rate difficulty: And he said: Blessed be Jehovah theGod of Israel, who spoke with his mouth unto David my father, and hath with his hand fulfilled it, saying,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that on the sixth day they shall prepare that which they bring in; and it shall be twice as much as they gather daily.

And on the sixth day they are to make ready what they get in, and it will be twice as much as they get on the other days.


simplify: Jehovah is slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, forgiving iniquity and transgression; and that will by no means clear the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, upon the third and upon the fourth generation.

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.


rate difficulty: And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.

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rate difficulty: In vain have I smitten your children; they received no correction: your own sword hath devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

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


rate difficulty: Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

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


simplify: And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

There are three witnesses, the Spirit, the water, and the blood: and all three are in agreement.


simplify: For so an entrance shall be ministered unto you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For in this way you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.


simplify: But I say unto you, That in this place is one greater than the temple.

But I say to you that a greater thing than the Temple is here.


rate difficulty: And she said, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And he awoke out of his sleep, and said, I will go out as at other times before, and shake myself. And he wist not that the Lord was departed from him.

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


rate difficulty: and hast forgiven Thy people who have sinned against Thee, even all their transgressions which they have transgressed against Thee, and hast given them mercies before their captors, and they have had mercy <FI>on<Fi> them--

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

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


rate difficulty: And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.

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


simplify: of the nations concerning which Jehovah said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

The nations of which the Lord had said to the children of Israel, You are not to take wives from them and they are not to take wives from you; or they will certainly make you go after their gods: to these Solomon was united in love.


simplify: and he--he is a propitiation for our sins, and not for ours only, but also for the whole world,

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world besides.


simplify: Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man.

I am crying out to you, O men; my voice comes to the sons of men.


rate difficulty: Then he measured the wall; it was two hundred and eighty-eight feet, as people measure, that is as the angel measured.

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


simplify: And Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury: and many that were rich cast in much.

And he took a seat by the place where the money was kept, and saw how the people put money into the boxes: and a number who had wealth put in much.


simplify: Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.


rate difficulty: But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.


rate difficulty: For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:


simplify: And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what goodness the Lord shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.

And if you come with us, we will give you a part in whatever good the Lord does for us.


simplify: John answered, saying unto them all, I indeed baptize you with water; but one mightier than I cometh, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to unloose: he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost and with fire:

John made answer, saying to them all, Truly, I give you baptism with water, but one is coming who is greater than I, whose shoes I am not good enough to undo: he will give you baptism with the Holy Spirit, and with fire:


simplify: And the young men arose, wound him up, and carried him out, and buried him.

And the young men went and made ready his body, and took it out, and put it in the earth.


simplify: Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

The beasts of the field are turning to you with desire: for the water-streams are dry and fire has put an end to the grass-lands of the waste.


rate difficulty: Now he that delivered him up had given them a sign, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, he it is: seize him.


rate difficulty: Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

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


rate difficulty: By whom we come near to God without fear through faith in him.


simplify: For all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.


simplify: Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them whereunto this would grow.

Now, at these words, the captain of the Temple and the chief priests were greatly troubled about what might be the end of this business.


rate difficulty: `When they sin against Thee (for there is not a man who sinneth not), and Thou hast been angry with them, and hast given them up before an enemy, and they have taken captive their captivity unto the land of the enemy far off or near;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and all also who will to live piously in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted,


rate difficulty: And ye my flock, the flock of my pasture, are men, and I am your God, saith the Lord God.

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simplify: For these nations, which thou shalt possess, hearkened unto observers of times, and unto diviners: but as for thee, the Lord thy God hath not suffered thee so to do.

For these nations, whose land you are taking, give attention to readers of signs and to those using secret arts: but the Lord your God will not let you do so.


rate difficulty: And the hand of the Lord was with them: and a great number that believed turned unto the Lord.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which be Cesar’s, and unto God the things which be God’s.

And he said, Then give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's.


simplify: a time to seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away;

A time for search and a time for loss; a time to keep and a time to give away;


rate difficulty: and to the children of Israel shalt thou speak, saying, Take a buck of the goats for a sin-offering, and a calf and a lamb, yearlings, without blemish, for a burnt-offering;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For from you sounded out the word of the Lord not only in Macedonia and Achaia, but also in every place your faith to God-ward is spread abroad; so that we need not to speak any thing.

For it was from you that the Lord’s message resounded throughout Macedonia and Greece; and, more than that, your faith in God has become known far and wide; so that there is no need for us to say another word.


simplify: The princes digged the well, the nobles of the people digged it, by the direction of the lawgiver, with their staves. And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah:

The fountain made by the chiefs, made deep by the great ones of the people, with the law-givers' rod, and with their sticks. Then from the waste land they went on to Mattanah:


rate difficulty: But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man which had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he arose and stood forth.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when Samuel <FI>is<Fi> aged, that he maketh his sons judges over Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And thou, Beth-Lehem, the land of Judah, thou art by no means the least among the leaders of Judah, for out of thee shall come one leading, who shall feed My people Israel.'

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Cursed be he that lieth with his sister, the daughter of his father, or the daughter of his mother. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who has sex relations with his sister, the daughter of his father or of his mother. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall have gathered the house of Israel from the peoples among whom they are scattered, and shall be sanctified in them in the sight of the nations, then shall they dwell in their own land which I gave to my servant Jacob.

This is what the Lord has said: When I have got together the children of Israel from the peoples among whom they are wandering, and have been made holy among them before the eyes of the nations, then they will have rest in the land which is theirs, which I gave to my servant Jacob


simplify: Now the acts of David the king, first and last, behold, they are written in the history of Samuel the seer, and in the history of Nathan the prophet, and in the history of Gad the seer,

Now all the acts of David, first and last, are recorded in the words of Samuel the seer, and the words of Nathan the prophet, and the words of Gad the seer;


rate difficulty: And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.

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


simplify: Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

“Are not you, then, the Egyptian who some time ago raised an insurrection and led the four thousand Bandits out into the wilderness?”


simplify: For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord God of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains.

For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; ...


simplify: I will answer thee, and thy companions with thee.

I will make answer to you and to your friends:


rate difficulty: Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence <FI>to<Fi> the land, <FI>To<Fi> the city, and <FI>to<Fi> all dwelling in it.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

After this, I saw four angels standing ‘on the four corners of the earth,’ restraining the four winds of the earth, so that no wind should blow over the earth, or over the sea, or against any tree.


simplify: For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:

Because Christ once went through pain for sins, the upright one taking the place of sinners, so that through him we might come back to God; being put to death in the flesh, but given life in the Spirit;


simplify: For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

For, even while we were with you, we warned you beforehand that we were certain to encounter trouble. And so it proved, as you know.


rate difficulty: And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

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


rate difficulty: And he joined himself with him to make ships to go to Tarshish: and they made the ships in Ezion–geber.


simplify: Behold, we are servants this day, and for the land that thou gavest unto our fathers to eat the fruit thereof and the good thereof, behold, we are servants in it:

Now, today, we are servants, and as for the land which you gave to our fathers, so that the produce of it and the good might be theirs, see, we are servants in it:


simplify: and not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation.

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.


simplify: Son of man, prophesy against the prophets of Israel that prophesy, and say thou unto them that prophesy out of their own hearts, Hear ye the word of the Lord;

Son of man, be a prophet against the prophets of Israel, and say to those prophets whose words are the invention of their hearts, Give ear to the word of the Lord;


rate difficulty: `And now, at my coming in unto thy servant my father, and the youth not with us (and his soul is bound up in his soul),

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


simplify: Neither have our kings, our princes, our priests, nor our fathers, kept thy law, nor hearkened unto thy commandments and thy testimonies, wherewith thou didst testify against them.

And our kings, our rulers, our priests, and our fathers have not kept your law or given attention to your orders and your witness, with which you gave witness against them.


rate difficulty: Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.

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


simplify: Now shall the isles tremble in the day of thy fall; yea, the isles that are in the sea shall be dismayed at thy departure.

Now the sea-lands will be shaking in the day of your fall; and all the ships on the sea will be overcome with fear at your going.


simplify: and of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites; and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites;

And of Asriel, the family of the Asrielites: and of Shechem, the family of the Shechemites:


rate difficulty: So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.

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


rate difficulty: For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

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


simplify: in whom each several building, fitly framed together, groweth into a holy temple in the Lord;

In whom all the building, rightly joined together, comes to be a holy house of God in the Lord;


simplify: And thou shalt make staves for the altar, staves of shittim wood, and overlay them with brass.

And make rods for the altar, of hard wood, plated with brass.


rate difficulty: And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire.

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


rate difficulty: They also presented us with many gifts, and when we set sail they put supplies of necessaries on board.

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


rate difficulty: For if there is a ready mind, a man will have God's approval in the measure of what he has, and not of what he has not.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore shall evil come upon thee; thou shalt not know from whence it riseth: and mischief shall fall upon thee; thou shalt not be able to put it off: and desolation shall come upon thee suddenly, which thou shalt not know.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: medium


simplify: The word of Jehovah came again unto me, saying,

The word of the Lord came to me again, saying,


rate difficulty: Are they Hebrews? So am I! Are they Israelites? So am I! Are they descendants of Abraham? So am I!


simplify: Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.

Saying, Where is the King of the Jews whose birth has now taken place? We have seen his star in the east and have come to give him worship.


rate difficulty: And he assembled all Judah and Benjamin, and the strangers with them out of Ephraim and Manasseh, and out of Simeon; for they fell away to him out of Israel in abundance, when they saw that Jehovah hisGod was with him.

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rate difficulty: The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass when I bring clouds over the earth, that the bow shall be seen in the cloud,

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rate difficulty: Because thou hast had a perpetual enmity, and hast given over the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time of the iniquity of the end;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and thou hast been for an astonishment, for a simile, and for a byword among all the peoples whither Jehovah doth lead thee.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then Saul, turning back, went after the Philistines no longer: and the Philistines went back to their place.

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


simplify: As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.

As it is taken from the ox of the peace-offering; and it is to be burned by the priest on the altar of burned offerings.


simplify: And his sons went and feasted in their houses, every one his day; and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

His sons regularly went to one another's houses, and every one on his day gave a feast: and at these times they sent for their three sisters to take part in their feasts with them.


rate difficulty: Now if a brother or a sister is naked and destitute of daily food,


rate difficulty: But they may be caretakers in my holy place, and overseers at the doors of the house, doing the work of the house: they will put to death the burned offering and the beasts offered for the people, and they will take their place before them as their servants.

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


rate difficulty: and he shall purge the house from the defilement with the blood of the bird, and with the running water, and with the living bird, and with the cedar-wood, and with the hyssop, and with the scarlet;

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


simplify: Let me pass through thy land: I will go along by the high way, I will neither turn unto the right hand nor to the left.

Let me go through your land: I will keep to the highway, not turning to the right or to the left;


rate difficulty: For in the days of David and Asaph in the past, there was a master of the music, and songs of blessing and praise to God.


rate difficulty: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs.


simplify: So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, he was received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.


simplify: In those days came John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judea,

About that time John the Baptist first appeared, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea:


rate difficulty: And Laban said to him, I pray thee, if I have found favour in thine eyes — I have discovered that Jehovah has blessed me for thy sake.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Is anyone among you ill? let him send for the rulers of the church; and let them say prayers over him, putting oil on him in the name of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it shall be on the day when ye shall pass over the Jordan unto the land which Jehovah thy God giveth thee, that thou shalt set thee up great stones, and plaster them with plaster:

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


simplify: Enter not into the gate of my people in the day of their calamity; yea, look not thou on their affliction in the day of their calamity, neither lay ye hands on their substance in the day of their calamity.

Do not go into the doors of my people on the day of their downfall; do not be looking on their trouble with pleasure on the day of their downfall, or put your hands on their goods on the day of their downfall.


simplify: And the servant that was set over the reapers answered and said, It is the Moabitish damsel that came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab:

And the servant who was in authority over the cutters said, It is a Moabite girl who came back with Naomi out of the country of Moab;


simplify: for they had seen before Trophimus, the Ephesian, in the city with him, whom they were supposing that Paul brought into the temple.

(For they had previously seen Trophimus the Ephesian in Paul’s company in the city, and were under the belief that Paul had taken him into the Temple.)


simplify: Then the devil taketh him up into the holy city, and setteth him on a pinnacle of the temple,

Then the devil took him to the Holy City, and, placing him on the parapet of the temple, said to him:


simplify: And taking the child by the hand, he saith unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, Arise.

And taking her by the hand, he said to her, Talitha cumi, which is, My child, I say to you, Get up.


simplify: And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

And you are to take one chief from every tribe to make the distribution of the land.


simplify: And he said, Verily I say unto you, No prophet is accepted in his own country.

I tell you,”he continued, “that no prophet is acceptable in his own country.


simplify: He saved others; himself he cannot save. If he be the King of Israel, let him now come down from the cross, and we will believe him.

“He saved others, but he cannot save himself! He is the ‘king of Israel’! Let him come down from the cross now, and we will believe in him.


simplify: `But the Most High in sanctuaries made with hands doth not dwell, according as the prophet saith:

Yet it is not in buildings made by hands that the Most High dwells. As the prophet says —


rate difficulty: And Joseph said, It is as I said; you have come with some secret purpose;

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


rate difficulty: And he answering said to them, `One of the twelve who is dipping with me in the dish;


rate difficulty: The way of Jehovah is strength to the perfect [man], but destruction to the workers of iniquity.

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rate difficulty: and Bela son of Azaz, son of Shema, son of Joel--he is dwelling in Aroer, even unto Nebo and Baal-Meon;

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


rate difficulty: How much less man, a worm, and the son of man, a worm!


simplify: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.

But of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you may not take; for on the day when you take of it, death will certainly come to you.


rate difficulty: and the one went out from me, and I said, He must certainly have been torn in pieces; and I have not seen him [again] hitherto.

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


simplify: And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

The apostles and the officers of the church held a meeting to consider this question.


simplify: And when he looked on Amalek, he took up his parable, and said, Amalek was the first of the nations; but his latter end shall be that he perish for ever.

Then, turning his eyes to Amalek, he went on with his story and said, Amalek was the first of the nations, but his part will be destruction for ever.


simplify: And having stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, he said, `Lo, my mother and my brethren!

Then, stretching out his hands towards his disciples, he said: “Here are my mother and my brothers!


simplify: Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house, because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be thy wife.

So now the sword will never be turned away from your family; because you have had no respect for me, and have taken the wife of Uriah the Hittite to be your wife.


rate difficulty: And this suggestion seemed good to the king and the captains; and the king did as Memucan said;


simplify: Now if their fall is the riches of the world, and their loss the riches of the Gentiles; how much more their fulness?

Now, if their fall is the wealth of the world, and their loss the wealth of the Gentiles, how much greater will be the glory when they are made full?


simplify: and Ishbi-benob, who was of the sons of the giant, the weight of whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, he being girded with a new sword, thought to have slain David.

And there came against David one of the offspring of the Rephaim, whose spear was three hundred shekels of brass in weight, and having a new sword, he made an attempt to put David to death.


rate difficulty: And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;

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


simplify: He saith unto them, How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,

He says to them, How then does David in the Spirit give him the name of Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Gad were the builders of Dibon and Ataroth and Aroer;

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


rate difficulty: Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


simplify: and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;


rate difficulty: Be full of wonder, O heavens, at this; be overcome with fear, be completely waste, says the Lord.

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


simplify: Let all the house of Israel therefore know assuredly, that God hath made him both Lord and Christ, this Jesus whom ye crucified.

For this reason, let all Israel be certain that this Jesus, whom you put to death on the cross, God has made Lord and Christ.


simplify: And having seen the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, that they were faint and cast aside, as sheep not having a shepherd,

But, when he saw the crowds, his heart was moved with compassion for them, because they were distressed and harassed, ‘like sheep without a shepherd’;


simplify: but the seventh day is a sabbath unto Jehovah thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy man-servant and thy maid-servant may rest as well as thou.

But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day do no work, you or your son or your daughter, or your man-servant or your woman-servant, or your ox or your ass or any of your cattle, or the man from a strange country who is living among you; so that your man-servant and your woman-servant may have rest as well as you.


rate difficulty: Now the name of his firstborn was Joel; and the name of his second, Abiah: they were judges in Beer–sheba.


simplify: But a certain Samaritan, as he journeyed, came where he was: and when he saw him, he was moved with compassion,

But a certain man of Samaria, journeying that way, came where he was, and when he saw him, he was moved with pity for him,


simplify: And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

And a blessing will be on him who has no doubts about me.


simplify: Moreover he must have a good report of them which are without; lest he fall into reproach and the snare of the devil.

They should also be well spoken of by outsiders, so that they may not incur censure and so fall into the devil's trap.


rate difficulty: But ye are forgers of lies; Ye are all physicians of no value.

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


simplify: As for the earth, out of it cometh bread: and under it is turned up as it were fire.

As for the earth, bread comes out of it; but under its face it is turned up as if by fire.


rate difficulty: He made also ten tables, and placed them in the temple, five on the right side, and five on the left. And he made an hundred basons of gold.

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


rate difficulty: And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,


rate difficulty: Be not thou therefore ashamed of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but be thou partaker of the afflictions of the gospel according to the power of God;

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


simplify: Which sometime were disobedient, when once the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved by water.

who once were disobedient, at the time when God patiently waited, in the days of Noah, while the ark was being prepared; in which some few lives, eight in all, were saved by means of water.


rate difficulty: Give to all what is their right: taxes to him whose they are, payment to him whose right it is, fear to whom fear, honour to whom honour is to be given.


simplify: And Judah saw there a daughter of a certain Canaanite, whose name was Shuah; and he took her, and went in unto her.

And there he saw the daughter of a certain man of Canaan named Shua, and took her as his wife.


rate difficulty: And they came to Jesus, and saw the man in whom had been the evil spirits seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, and they were full of fear.

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


simplify: When the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the daughters of Zion, and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the spirit of judgment, and by the spirit of burning.

When Zion has been washed from her sin by the Lord, and Jerusalem made clean from her blood by a judging and a burning wind.


rate difficulty: And the gatekeepers <FI>are<Fi> Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren--Shallum <FI>is<Fi> the head;

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


simplify: He was a mighty hunter before the Lord: wherefore it is said, Even as Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

He was a very great bowman, so that there is a saying, Like Nimrod, a very great bowman.


rate difficulty: And the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position at the way into the town: and the Aramaeans of Zobah and of Rehob, with the men of Tob and Maacah, were by themselves in the field.

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


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

And he said, What have they seen in your house? And Hezekiah said in answer, They saw everything in my house: there is nothing among my stores which I did not let them see.


simplify: And he went out, and followed him; and wist not that it was true which was done by the angel; but thought he saw a vision.

And he went out after him; and he was not certain if what was done by the angel was a fact, for it seemed to him that he was seeing a vision.


simplify: And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and caught him, and said unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?


rate difficulty: And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the Lord shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in this book of the law:

He will be marked out by the Lord, from all the tribes of Israel, for an evil fate, in keeping with all the curses of the agreement recorded in this book of the law.


simplify: And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?


rate difficulty: and his allowance was a continual allowance given him by the king, every day a portion, all the days of his life.


rate difficulty: And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.

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


rate difficulty: And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: If I cause noisome beasts to pass through the land, and they spoil it, so that it be desolate, that no man may pass through because of the beasts:


rate difficulty: And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

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


rate difficulty: And Judah captureth Gaza and its border, and Askelon and its border, and Ekron and its border;

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Where is your faith? And they being afraid wondered, saying one to another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and water, and they obey him.

And he said to them, Where is your faith? And fear and wonder overcame them, and they said to one another, Who then is this, who gives orders even to the winds and the water and they do what he says?


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And Abraham begot Isaac. The sons of Isaac: Esau and Israel.

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


simplify: And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom her mother bare to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.


simplify: Now there dwelt an old prophet in Beth–el; and his sons came and told him all the works that the man of God had done that day in Beth–el: the words which he had spoken unto the king, them they told also to their father.

Now there was an old prophet living in Beth-el; and one of his sons came and gave him word of all the man of God had done that day in Beth-el, and they gave their father an account of the words he had said to the king.


rate difficulty: But when evening comes near, let him take a bath: and after sundown he may come back to the tents.

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


rate difficulty: For many deceivers are gone forth into the world, even they that confess not that Jesus Christ cometh in the flesh. This is the deceiver and the antichrist.

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


simplify: And this know thou, that in the last days there shall come perilous times,

Be sure of this, that in the last days difficult times will come.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,


simplify: and Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;

And Eliud had Eleazar; and Eleazar had Matthan; and Matthan had Jacob;


rate difficulty: Gird up now thy loins like a man: I will demand of thee, and inform thou me.

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


simplify: have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;

Do not you know that on a racecourse, though all run, yet only one wins the prize? Run in such a way that you may win.


simplify: And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word. And the angel departed from her.

“I am the servant of the Lord,” exclaimed Mary; “let it be with me as you have said.” Then the angel left her.


simplify: And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon;

And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,


simplify: And those feeding the swine did flee, and told in the city, and in the fields, and they came forth to see what it is that hath been done;

Then the men who tended them ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around; and the people went to see what had happened.


simplify: And they journeyed from Kehelathah, and encamped in mount Shepher.

And they went on from Kehelathah, and put up their tents in Mount Shepher.


simplify: And ye shall dwell with us: and the land shall be before you; dwell and trade ye therein, and get you possessions therein.

Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.


rate difficulty: `And he who smiteth a beast repayeth it, and he who smiteth <FI>the life of<Fi> man is put to death;

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


rate difficulty: And we are witnesses of these things; and so is the Holy Spirit, whom God hath given to them that obey him.

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


simplify: And I also say unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it.

And I say to you that you are Peter, and on this rock will my church be based, and the doors of hell will not overcome it.


rate difficulty: And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

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


rate difficulty: Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

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


simplify: And thou, O tower of the flock, the hill of the daughter of Zion, unto thee shall it come, yea, the former dominion shall come, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.

And you, O tower of the flock, Ophel of the daughter of Zion, to you it will come, even the earlier authority, the kingdom of the daughter of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And the woman arose, and did after the saying of the man of God: and she went with her household, and sojourned in the land of the Philistines seven years.

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


rate difficulty: All Nature awaits with eager expectation the appearing of the sons of God.

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


rate difficulty: And I have poured on thee Mine indignation, With fire of My wrath I blow against thee, And have given thee into the hand of brutish men--artificers of destruction.

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simplify: And the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened her mouth, and swallowed up the flood which the dragon cast out of his mouth.

And the earth gave help to the woman, and with open mouth took up the river which the dragon sent out of his mouth.


rate difficulty: and demons also went out from many, crying out and saying, Thou art the Son ofGod. And rebuking them, he suffered them not to speak, because they knew him to be the Christ.

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


simplify: In the ninth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, in the tenth month, came Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon and all his army against Jerusalem, and they besieged it.

And it came about, that when Jerusalem was taken, (in the ninth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, in the tenth month, Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, with all his army, came against Jerusalem, shutting it in on every side;


simplify: Strength and honour are her clothing; and she shall rejoice in time to come.

Strength and self-respect are her clothing; she is facing the future with a smile.


simplify: Which think to cause my people to forget my name by their dreams which they tell every man to his neighbour, as their fathers have forgotten my name for Baal.

Whose purpose is to take away the memory of my name from my people by their dreams, of which every man is talking to his neighbour, as their fathers gave up the memory of my name for the Baal.


rate difficulty: and, on getting ashore, Jesus met a man, who had demons in him, coming out of the town. For a long time this man had worn no clothing, and he had not lived in a house, but in the tombs.


simplify: Nevertheless death reigned from Adam to Moses, even over them that had not sinned after the similitude of Adam’s transgression, who is the figure of him that was to come.

Yet, from Adam to Moses, death reigned even over those whose sin was not a breach of a law, as Adam’s was. And Adam foreshadows the One to come.


rate difficulty: `Lo, to Jehovah thy God <FI>are<Fi> the heavens and the heavens of the heavens, the earth and all that <FI>is<Fi> in it;

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


simplify: And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the midst of the camp;

And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,


simplify: And the angel of God said unto me in the dream, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.

And in my dream the angel of the Lord said to me, Jacob: and I said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: Are not these the words that Jehovah cried by the former prophets, when Jerusalem was inhabited and at peace, and her cities round about her, when the south and the lowland were inhabited?

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


rate difficulty: In the multiplying of the righteous the people rejoice, And in the ruling of the wicked the people sigh.

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


rate difficulty: A true witness is delivering souls, And a deceitful one breatheth out lies.

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


simplify: The children of Hashum, three hundred twenty and eight.

The children of Hashum, three hundred and twenty-eight.


simplify: Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: ye shall say unto them,

Say to Aaron and his sons, These are the words of blessing which are to be used by you in blessing the children of Israel; say to them,


simplify: Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth: therefore despise not thou the chastening of the Almighty:

Truly, that man is happy who has training from the hand of God: so do not let your heart be shut to the teaching of the Ruler of all.


simplify: For Jehovah had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

For the Lord had said of them, Death will certainly overtake them in the waste land. And of them all, only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun, were still living.


simplify: Not because we have not power, but to make ourselves an ensample unto you to follow us.

Not because we have not the right, but to make ourselves an example to you, so that you might do the same.


simplify: Then said Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into his place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Then says Jesus to him, Put up your sword again into its place: for all those who take the sword will come to death by the sword.


simplify: To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.

to a maiden there who was engaged to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. Her name was Mary.


simplify: And she sitteth at the door of her house, On a seat in the high places of the city,

Seated at the door of her house, in the high places of the town,


simplify: and he said to them, `Having gone to all the world, proclaim the good news to all the creation;

Then he said to them: “Go into all the world, and proclaim the good news to all creation.


rate difficulty: The children of Ater of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

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


rate difficulty: And when this order, given by the king, is made public through all his kingdom (for it is great), all the wives will give honour to their husbands, great as well as small.

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


simplify: The fear of Jehovahtendethto life; And hethat hath itshall abide satisfied; He shall not be visited with evil.

The fear of the Lord gives life: and he who has it will have need of nothing; no evil will come his way.


rate difficulty: and the crowds were astonished, when they saw the dumb talking, the cripples made sound, the lame walking about, and the blind with their sight restored; and they praised the God of Israel.


simplify: Then answered Esther, and said, My petition and my request is:

Then Esther said in answer, My prayer and my request is this:


simplify: And they removed from Almon–diblathaim, and pitched in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

And from Almon-diblathaim they went on, and put up their tents in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.


simplify: With the hoofs of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets; he shall slay thy people with the sword; and the pillars of thy strength shall go down to the ground.

Your streets will be stamped down by the feet of his horses: he will put your people to the sword, and will send down the pillars of your strength to the earth.


rate difficulty: For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are as angels ofGod in heaven.

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


rate difficulty: And removed have been gladness and joy from the fruitful field, And in vineyards they sing not, nor shout, Wine in the presses treadeth not the treader, Shouting I have caused to cease.

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


simplify: for as yet he was fallen upon none of them, and only they have been baptized--to the name of the Lord Jesus;

(As yet the Spirit had not descended on any of them; they had only been baptized into the faith of the Lord Jesus).


simplify: But seek ye first his kingdom, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

But let your first care be for his kingdom and his righteousness; and all these other things will be given to you in addition.


simplify: For was not Israel a derision unto thee? was he found among thieves? for since thou spakest of him, thou skippedst for joy.

For did you not make sport of Israel? was he taken among thieves? for whenever you were talking about him, you were shaking your head over him.


rate difficulty: therefore behold, days come, saith Jehovah, that this place shall no more be called Topheth, nor Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: A wise sonhearethhis father’s instruction; But a scoffer heareth not rebuke.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.


simplify: And when he opened the third seal, I heard the third living creature saying, Come. And I saw, and behold, a black horse; and he that sat thereon had a balance in his hand.

And when the third stamp was undone, the voice of the third beast came to my ears, saying, Come and see. And I saw a black horse; and he who was seated on it had scales in his hand.


rate difficulty: Once Jesus was driving out a dumb demon, and, when the demon had gone out, the dumb man spoke. The people were amazed at this;


simplify: If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? or what receiveth he of thine hand?

If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?


simplify: teaching them to observe all, whatever I did command you,) and lo, I am with you all the days--till the full end of the age.'

and teaching them to lay to heart all the commands that I have given you; and, remember, I myself am with you every day until the close of the age.”


simplify: And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the creditor, so with the debtor; as with the taker of interest, so with the giver of interest to him.

And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.


rate difficulty: And having watched [him], they sent out suborned persons, pretending to be just men, that they might take hold of him in [his] language, so that they might deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

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


simplify: The lion hath roared, who will not fear? the Lord God hath spoken, who can but prophesy?

The cry of the lion is sounding; who will not have fear? The Lord God has said the word; is it possible for the prophet to keep quiet?


rate difficulty: For it was the good pleasure of the Father that in him should all the fulness dwell;

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


simplify: and he began to anathematize, and to swear--`I have not known this man of whom ye speak;'

But he said to them: “I swear that I do not know the man you are talking about! May God punish me if I am lying!”


rate difficulty: And there came war in the heaven; Michael and his messengers did war against the dragon, and the dragon did war, and his messengers,

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


simplify: and having known that he is from the jurisdiction of Herod, he sent him back unto Herod, he being also in Jerusalem in those days.

and, having satisfied himself that Jesus came under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who also was at Jerusalem at the time.


rate difficulty: And the children of the Kenite, Moses' father-in-law, had gone up out of the city of palm-trees with the children of Judah into the wilderness of Judah, which is in the south of Arad; and they went and dwelt with the people.

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


rate difficulty: Now Ahaziah had a fall from the window of his room in Samaria, and was ill. And he sent men, and said to them, Put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron, about the outcome of my disease, to see if I will get well or not.


rate difficulty: And as it took place in the days of Noe, thus also shall it be in the days of the Son of man:


simplify: As a sweet savor will I accept you, when I bring you out from the peoples, and gather you out of the countries wherein ye have been scattered; and I will be sanctified in you in the sight of the nations.

I will take pleasure in you as in a sweet smell, when I take you out from the peoples and get you together from the countries where you have been sent in flight; and I will make myself holy in you before the eyes of the nations.


simplify: They that forsake the law praise the wicked: but such as keep the law contend with them.

Those who have no respect for the law give praise to the evil-doer; but such as keep the law are against him.


rate difficulty: But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

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


simplify: Burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.


rate difficulty: For so the way will be open to you into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; let us lodge in the villages.


simplify: And he said unto them, The kings of the Gentiles have lordship over them; and they that have authority over them are called Benefactors.

And he said, The kings of the Gentiles are lords over them, and those who have authority are given names of honour.


simplify: And the word of God did grow and did multiply,

Meanwhile the Lord’s message kept extending, and spreading far and wide.


simplify: Then judgment shall dwell in the wilderness, and righteousness remain in the fruitful field.

Then in the waste land there will be an upright rule, and righteousness will have its place in the fertile field.


rate difficulty: For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.


simplify: And the lords of the Philistines came up unto her, and said unto her, Entice him, and see wherein his great strength lieth, and by what means we may prevail against him, that we may bind him to afflict him: and we will give thee every one of us eleven hundred pieces of silver.

And the chiefs of the Philistines came up to her, and said to her, Make use of your power over him and see what is the secret of his great strength, and how we may get the better of him, and put bands on him, so that we may make him feeble; and every one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.


simplify: And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it.

And you are to make an altar for the burning of perfume; of hard wood let it be made.


simplify: Behold, I will stand before thee there upon the rock in Horeb; and thou shalt smite the rock, and there shall come water out of it, that the people may drink. And Moses did so in the sight of the elders of Israel.

See, I will take my place before you on the rock in Horeb; and when you give the rock a blow, water will come out of it, and the people will have drink. And Moses did so before the eyes of the chiefs of Israel.


simplify: and the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the plague be turned into white, then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease.


simplify: And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

The man of sudden impulses will become wise in heart, and he whose tongue is slow will get the power of talking clearly.


rate difficulty: Therefore my heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and my heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; because the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.

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


simplify: And the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to pray before the Lord, and to seek the Lord of hosts: I will go also.

And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.


simplify: Come, and let us return unto Jehovah; for he hath torn, and he will heal us; he hath smitten, and he will bind us up.

Come, let us go back to the Lord; for he has given us wounds and he will make us well; he has given blows and he will give help.


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, Every one who hath been left of all the nations, Who are coming in against Jerusalem, They have also gone up from year to year, To bow themselves to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, And to celebrate the feast of the booths.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But we had the sentence of death in ourselves, that we should not trust in ourselves, but in God which raiseth the dead:

Yes, we ourselves have had the answer of death in ourselves, so that our hope might not be in ourselves, but in God who is able to give life to the dead:


simplify: Therefore they enquired of the Lord further, if the man should yet come thither. And the Lord answered, Behold, he hath hid himself among the stuff.

So they put another question to the Lord, Is the man present here? And the answer of the Lord was, He is keeping himself from view among the goods.


simplify: Canst thou number the months that they fulfil? or knowest thou the time when they bring forth?

Is the number of their months fixed by you? or is the time when they give birth ordered by you?


simplify: Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

Say when these things will be, and what will be the sign when these things are all about to be done.


simplify: for this ointment could have been sold for much, and given to the poor.'

“It could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to poor people.”


rate difficulty: And a man of God came near and spake unto the king of Israel, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, Because the Syrians have said, Jehovah is a god of the hills, but he is not a god of the valleys; therefore will I deliver all this great multitude into thy hand, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But thegodless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast built thy lofty place at the head of every way, and hast made thy beauty an abomination, and hast opened thy feet to every one that passed by, and multiplied thy whoredom.

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


rate difficulty: and through him to reconcile all things unto himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, whether things upon the earth, or things in the heavens.

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


simplify: Much every way: chiefly, because that unto them were committed the oracles of God.

Great in every way. First of all, because the Jews were entrusted with God’s utterances.


rate difficulty: For as touching the ministering to the saints, it is superfluous for me to write to you:

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


simplify: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away.

And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;


simplify: And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

And not Nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit — we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons — the redemption of our bodies.


simplify: in hope of eternal life, which God, who cannot lie, promised before times eternal;

In the hope of eternal life, which was made certain before eternal time, by the word of God who is ever true;


rate difficulty: My friends, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves adults.

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


simplify: `This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;

Jesus is ‘the stone which, scorned by you the builders, has yet become the corner stone.’


simplify: And the king answered, Chimham shall go over with me, and I will do to him that which shall seem good unto thee: and whatsoever thou shalt require of me, that will I do for thee.

And the king said in answer, Let Chimham go over with me, and I will do for him whatever seems good to you: and whatever your desire is, I will do it for you.


simplify: whom God did raise up, having loosed the pains of the death, because it was not possible for him to be held by it,

But God released him from the pangs of death and raised him to life, it being impossible for death to retain its hold on him.


rate difficulty: The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

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


simplify: Wherefore say, Behold, I give unto him my covenant of peace:

So say to them that I will make with him an agreement of peace:


simplify: And they blindfolded him, and asked him, saying, Prophesy: who is he that struck thee?

And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?


simplify: And working together also we call upon <FI>you<Fi> that ye receive not in vain the grace of God--

Therefore, as God’s fellow workers, we also appeal to you not to receive his loving kindness in vain.


simplify: Therefore thou deliveredst them into the hand of their enemies, who vexed them: and in the time of their trouble, when they cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and according to thy manifold mercies thou gavest them saviours, who saved them out of the hand of their enemies.

And so you gave them up into the hands of their haters who were cruel to them: and in the time of their trouble, when they made their prayer to you, you gave ear to them from heaven; and in your great mercy gave them saviours, who made them free from the hands of their haters.


rate difficulty: Sibbecai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,


rate difficulty: and his host, even those that were numbered of them, forty thousand five hundred.


rate difficulty: for I will give you a mouth and wisdom which all your opposers shall not be able to reply to or resist.


rate difficulty: All the brothers of the poor man are against him: how much more do his friends go far from him! ...

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


simplify: And when the children of thy people shall speak unto thee, saying, Wilt thou not shew us what thou meanest by these?

And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?


simplify: Sigh therefore, thou son of man, with the breaking of thy loins; and with bitterness sigh before their eyes.

Make sounds of grief, son of man; with body bent and a bitter heart make sounds of grief before their eyes.


simplify: And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

And they sent for them, and gave them orders not to make statements or give teaching in the name of Jesus.


simplify: And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.

And some of those who were with us went to the place, and saw that it was as the women had said, but him they did not see.


rate difficulty: Remember ye not, that, when I was yet with you, I told you these things?

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


rate difficulty: And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.

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


simplify: And Abraham ran unto the herd, and fetcht a calf tender and good, and gave it unto a young man; and he hasted to dress it.

And running to the herd, he took a young ox, soft and fat, and gave it to the servant and he quickly made it ready;


simplify: For there stood by me this night an angel of the God whose I am, whom also I serve,

For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,


rate difficulty: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: And hast thou not there with thee Zadok and Abiathar the priests? therefore it shall be, that what thing soever thou shalt hear out of the king’s house, thou shalt tell it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.

And have you not there Zadok and Abiathar the priests? so whatever comes to your ears from the king's house, give word of it to Zadok and Abiathar the priests.


simplify: And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies; if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity:

So that I went against them and sent them away into the land of their haters: if then the pride of their hearts is broken and they take the punishment of their sins,


simplify: When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.

When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came face to face with them. Now Joab had on his war-dress, and round him a band from which his sword was hanging in its cover; and while he was walking, it came out, falling to the earth.


simplify: Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?


simplify: An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,

A heart full of evil designs, feet which are quick in running after sin;


simplify: And straightway in the morning the chief priests held a consultation with the elders and scribes and the whole council, and bound Jesus, and carried him away, and delivered him to Pilate.

And the first thing in the morning the chief priests, with those in authority and the scribes and all the Sanhedrin, had a meeting, and put cords round Jesus, and took him away, and gave him up to Pilate.


rate difficulty: Drop as rain doth My doctrine; Flow as dew doth My sayings; As storms on the tender grass, And as showers on the herb,

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


simplify: Upon this I awaked, and beheld; and my sleep was sweet unto me.

At this, awaking from my sleep, I saw; and my sleep was sweet to me.


simplify: Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Jehovah.

For seven days let your food be unleavened cakes; and on the seventh day there is to be a feast to the Lord.


simplify: And Solomon had four thousand stalls for horses and chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen, that he bestowed in the chariot cities, and with the king at Jerusalem.

Solomon had four thousand buildings for his horses and his war-carriages, and twelve thousand horsemen whom he kept, some in the carriage-towns and some with the king in Jerusalem.


simplify: His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the rivers of waters, washed with milk, and fitly set.

His eyes are as the eyes of doves by the water streams, washed with milk, and rightly placed.


simplify: For the kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.

for the kingdom of God is based, not on words, but on power.


simplify: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

And Peter said, Let your hearts be changed, every one of you, and have baptism in the name of Jesus Christ, for the forgiveness of your sins; and you will have the Holy Spirit given to you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go, get thee down; for thy people, that thou broughtest up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves:

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


simplify: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven kine, well-favored and fat-fleshed; and they fed in the reed-grass.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.


rate difficulty: If any hath ears to hear--let him hear.'

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


rate difficulty: And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are aged; wherefore I was timid, and feared to shew you what I know.

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


rate difficulty: Having got news of it, they went in flight to the towns of Lycaonia, Lystra, and Derbe, and the country round about:

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


rate difficulty: for Herod feared John, knowing that he was a righteous and holy man, and kept him safe. And when he heard him, he was much perplexed; and he heard him gladly.

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


simplify: And the sons of Helem his brother: Zophah, and Imna, and Shelesh, and Amal.

And the sons of Hotham, his brother: Zophah and Imna and Shelesh and Amal.


simplify: Concerning therefore the eating of things sacrificed to idols, we know that no idol is anything in the world, and that there is no God but one.

So, then, as to the question of taking food offered to images, we are certain that an image is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.


rate difficulty: People will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.


simplify: look out, therefore, brethren, seven men of you who are well testified of, full of the Holy Spirit and wisdom, whom we may set over this necessity,

Therefore, friends, look for seven men of reputation among yourselves, wise and spiritually-minded men, and we will appoint them to attend to this matter;


simplify: The sons of Japheth; Gomer, and Magog, and Madai, and Javan, and Tubal, and Meshech, and Tiras.

The sons of Japheth: Gomer and Magog and Madai and Javan and Tubal and Meshech and Tiras.


simplify: All things have been delivered unto me of my Father: and no one knoweth the Son, save the Father; neither doth any know the Father, save the Son, and he to whomsoever the Son willeth to reveal him.

All things have been given to me by my Father; and no one has knowledge of the Son, but the Father; and no one has knowledge of the Father, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.


rate difficulty: and they have turned <FI>it<Fi> back unto their heart in the land whither they have been taken captive, and have turned back, and made supplication unto Thee in the land of their captivity, saying, We have sinned, we have done perversely, and have done wickedly;

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


simplify: And Gideon sent messengers throughout all mount Ephraim, saying, Come down against the Midianites, and take before them the waters unto Beth–barah and Jordan. Then all the men of Ephraim gathered themselves together, and took the waters unto Beth–barah and Jordan.

Then Gideon sent through all the hill-country of Ephraim saying, Come down against Midian, and keep the ways across Jordan before they come. So all the men of Ephraim, massing themselves together, kept the ways across Jordan.


simplify: And they did so; and Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and there were lice upon man, and upon beast; all the dust of the earth became lice throughout all the land of Egypt.

And they did so; and Aaron, stretching out the rod in his hand, gave a touch to the dust of the earth, and insects came on man and on beast; all the dust of the earth was changed into insects through all the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Then he said, I pray thee therefore, father, that thou wouldest send him to my father’s house:

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


rate difficulty: If it is I who cause you pain, why, who is there to cheer me, except the person whom I am paining?

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


rate difficulty: Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

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


simplify: And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,

And Attai was the father of Nathan, and Nathan was the father of Zabad,


rate difficulty: And he said, All is well: but my master has sent me, saying, Even now, two young men of the sons of the prophets have come to me from the hill-country of Ephraim; will you give me a talent of silver and two changes of clothing for them?


rate difficulty: Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?

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


rate difficulty: do not evil with us, as we have not touched thee, and as we have only done good with thee, and send thee away in peace; thou <FI>art<Fi> now blessed of Jehovah.'

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto Jehovah, Wherefore hast thou dealt ill with thy servant? and wherefore have I not found favor in thy sight, that thou layest the burden of all this people upon me?

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Wherefore having much boldness in Christ to enjoin thee what is fitting,

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


rate difficulty: ministrants of Christ are they? --as beside myself I speak--I more; in labours more abundantly, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequently, in deaths many times;

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


rate difficulty: And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.

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


simplify: And Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Cononiah and Shimei his brother, at the commandment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

And Jehiel and Azaziah and Nahath and Asahel and Jerimoth and Jozabad and Eliel and Ismachiah and Mahath and Benaiah were overseers, under the directions of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the order of Hezekiah the king and Azariah, the ruler of the house of God.


simplify: And the priest shall bring her near, and set her before the Lord:

And the priest will make her come near and put her before the Lord;


simplify: His bones are full of his youth, But it shall lie down with him in the dust.

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.


simplify: And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah thy brother to wife.

And she said, Let Abishag the Shunammite be given to Adonijah your brother for a wife.


simplify: Then said I, Whither goest thou? And he said unto me, To measure Jerusalem, to see what is the breadth thereof, and what is the length thereof.

And I said to him, Where are you going? And he said to me, To take the measure of Jerusalem, to see how wide and how long it is.


rate difficulty: A voice saith, Cry. And he saith, What shall I cry? — All flesh is grass, and all the comeliness thereof as the flower of the field.

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


simplify: But even in those days, saith Jehovah, I will not make a full end with you.

But even in those days, says the Lord, I will not let your destruction be complete.


simplify: And unto Eber were born two sons: the name of the one was Peleg; for in his days was the earth divided; and his brother’s name was Joktan.

And Eber had two sons: the name of the one was Peleg, because in his time the peoples of the earth became separate; and his brother's name was Joktan.


simplify: lo, also the ships, being so great, and by fierce winds being driven, are led about by a very small helm, whithersoever the impulse of the helmsman doth counsel,

Again, think of ships. Large as they are, and even when driven by fierce winds, they are controlled by a very small rudder and steered in whatever direction the man at the helm may determine.


rate difficulty: `And if the scab spread greatly in the skin, after his being seen by the priest for his cleansing, then he hath been seen a second time by the priest;

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


simplify: Sing and rejoice, O daughter of Zion: for, lo, I come, and I will dwell in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.

Give songs of joy, O daughter of Zion: for I come, and I will make my resting-place among you, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first month, in the seventh day of the month, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: His head isasthe most fine gold; His locks are bushy, and black as a raven.

His head is as the most delicate gold; his hair is thick, and black as a raven.


simplify: If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.

If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:


simplify: and he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding-garment? And he was speechless.

And he says to him, Friend, how came you in here not having a guest's robe? And he had nothing to say.


simplify: And the king said, Who is in the court? Now Haman was come into the outward court of the king’s house, to speak unto the king to hang Mordecai on the gallows that he had prepared for him.

Then the king said, Who is in the outer room? Now Haman had come into the outer room to get the king's authority for the hanging of Mordecai on the pillar which he had made ready for him.


simplify: And I polluted them in their own gifts, in that they caused to pass through the fire all that openeth the womb, that I might make them desolate, to the end that they might know that I am the Lord.

I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.


simplify: In that night did God appear unto Solomon, and said unto him, Ask what I shall give thee.

In that night God came to Solomon in a vision, and said to him, Say what I am to give you.


rate difficulty: In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zechariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.

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


simplify: And he kneeled down, and cried with a loud voice, Lord, lay not this sin to their charge. And when he had said this, he fell asleep.

And going down on his knees, he said in a loud voice, Lord, do not make them responsible for this sin. And when he had said this, he went to his rest.


simplify: but they only heard say, He that once persecuted us now preacheth the faith of which he once made havoc;

Only it came to their ears that he who at one time was cruel to us is now preaching the faith which before had been attacked by him;