simplify: For he that said, Do not commit adultery, said also, Do not kill. Now if thou dost not commit adultery, but killest, thou art become a transgressor of the law.

For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.


rate difficulty: That the pride of the sinner is short, and the joy of the evil-doer but for a minute?

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simplify: But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.


rate difficulty: And Moses was instructed in all the wisdom of the Egyptians; and he was mighty in his words and works.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not sent the sons of Israel away.

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


rate difficulty: Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction,

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


rate difficulty: `Take in thy hand great stones, and thou hast hidden them, in the clay, in the brick-kiln, that <FI>is<Fi> at the opening of the house of Pharaoh in Tahpanhes, before the eyes of the men of Judah,

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


simplify: for Jehovah thy God in the midst of thee is a jealous God; lest the anger of Jehovah thy God be kindled against thee, and he destroy thee from off the face of the earth.

For the Lord your God who is with you is a God who will not let his honour be given to another; or the wrath of the Lord will be burning against you, causing your destruction from the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: These are unclean to you among all that creep: whosoever doth touch them, when they be dead, shall be unclean until the even.

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


rate difficulty: And they come again to Jerusalem. And as he walked about in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders come to him,

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rate difficulty: But Paul said, I am a Jew of Tarsus in Cilicia, which is not an unimportant town: I make a request to you to let me say a word to the people.


rate difficulty: And the cloud of the Lord was upon them by day, when they went out of the camp.

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


simplify: Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.

One day the Pharisees and some of the teachers of the law who had come from Jerusalem gathered around Jesus.


simplify: And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

And I took the little book out of the angel's hand and did as he said; and it was sweet as honey in my mouth: and when I had taken it, my stomach was made bitter.


rate difficulty: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Doth he not--in the place of the king who is causing him to reign, Whose oath he hath despised, And whose covenant he hath broken, With him--in the midst of Babylon--die?

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they shall say to you, See here; or, see there: go not after them, nor follow them.

People will say to you ‘There he is! Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.


simplify: and he looked toward Sodom and Gomorrah, and toward all the land of the Plain, and beheld, and, lo, the smoke of the land went up as the smoke of a furnace.

And looking in the direction of Sodom and Gomorrah and the lowland, he saw the smoke of the land going up like the smoke of an oven.


simplify: And I will cut off the chariot from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem; and the battle bow shall be cut off; and he shall speak peace unto the nations: and his dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.

And he will have the war-carriage cut off from Ephraim, and the horse from Jerusalem, and the bow of war will be cut off: and he will say words of peace to the nations: and his rule will be from sea to sea, and from the River to the ends of the earth.


simplify: And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

And a thousand, seven hundred and seventy-five shekels of silver was used to make the hooks for the pillars, and for plating the tops of the pillars and for making their bands.


simplify: And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he served them: and they continued a season in ward.

And the captain put them in Joseph's care, and he did what was needed for them; and they were kept in prison for some time.


simplify: And he had brethren the sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, and Jehiel, and Zechariah, and Azariah, and Michael, and Shephatiah: all these were the sons of Jehoshaphat king of Israel.

And he had brothers, sons of Jehoshaphat, Azariah, Jehiel, Zechariah, Azariah, Michael, and Shephatiah; all these were sons of Jehoshaphat, king of Israel.


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Good--I make with thee a covenant; only, one thing I am asking of thee, that is, Thou dost not see my face, except thou dost first bring in Michal, daughter of Saul in thy coming into see my face.'

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, behold, the days come, that I will do judgment upon the graven images of Babylon: and her whole land shall be confounded, and all her slain shall fall in the midst of her.

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


simplify: For the king will hear, to deliver his handmaid out of the hand of the man that would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.

For the king will give ear, and take his servant out of the power of the man whose purpose is the destruction of me and my son together from the heritage of God.


simplify: Then came he out of the land of the Chaldeans, and dwelt in Charran: and from thence, when his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell.

And so Abraham left the country of the Chaldaeans and settled in Haran; and from there, after his father’s death, God caused him to migrate into this country, in which you are now living.


simplify: So they went up, and spied out the land from the wilderness of Zin unto Rehob, to the entrance of Hamath.

So they went up and got a view of the land, from the waste land of Zin to Rehob, on the way to Hamath.


rate difficulty: And she brought forth a man child, who was to rule all nations with a rod of iron: and her child was caught up unto God, and to his throne.

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


simplify: And great multitudes were gathered together unto him, so that he went into a ship, and sat; and the whole multitude stood on the shore.

And great numbers of people came together to him, so that he got into a boat; and the people took up their position by the sea.


simplify: And Joseph said unto them, What deed is this that ye have done? wot ye not that such a man as I can certainly divine?

And Joseph said, What is this thing which you have done? had you no thought that such a man as I would have power to see what is secret?


simplify: but it shall be one day which is known unto Jehovah; not day, and not night; but it shall come to pass, that at evening time there shall be light.

And it will be unbroken day, such as the Lord has knowledge of, without change of day and night, and even at nightfall it will be light.


simplify: And six branches shall come out of the sides of it; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side:

It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.


rate difficulty: Do your utmost to come before winter. Eubulus, Pudens, Linus and Claudia send you their greetings, and so do the rest of the Lord's followers.

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


simplify: The former account, indeed, I made concerning all things, O Theophilus, that Jesus began both to do and to teach,

The first account which I drew up, Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the very first,


simplify: And Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan:

And Enosh was ninety years old when he became the father of Kenan:


rate difficulty: and David asketh again of God, and God saith to him, `Do not go up after them, turn round from them, and thou hast come to them from over-against the mulberries;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: shall we again break thy commandments, and join in affinity with the peoples that do these abominations? wouldest not thou be angry with us till thou hadst consumed us, so that there should be no remnant, nor any to escape?

Are we again to go against your orders, taking wives from among the people who do these disgusting things? would you not be angry with us till our destruction was complete, till there was not one who got away safe?


simplify: if any man speaketh, speaking as it were oracles of God; if any man ministereth, ministering as of the strength which God supplieth: that in all things God may be glorified through Jesus Christ, whose is the glory and the dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

If anyone has anything to say, let it be as the words of God; if anyone has the desire to be the servant of others, let him do it in the strength which is given by God; so that in all things God may have the glory through Jesus Christ, whose are the glory and the power for ever.


simplify: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

So then those who are of faith have a part in the blessing of Abraham who was full of faith.


rate difficulty: but, as to the spirit of holiness within him, was miraculously designated Son of God by his resurrection from the dead.

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


rate difficulty: Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause I also, having heard of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and the love which ye show toward all the saints,

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


rate difficulty: And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

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


rate difficulty: And he was king in Jeshurun, When the heads of the people were gathered, All the tribes of Israel together.

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


simplify: This is the inheritance of the children of Gad according to their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places


rate difficulty: Then Pharaoh also called for the wise men and the sorcerers: and they also, the magicians of Egypt, did in like manner with their enchantments.

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


simplify: And hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Father; to him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.

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


rate difficulty: So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.

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


simplify: For I feared thee, because thou art an austere man: thou takest up that thou layedst not down, and reapest that thou didst not sow.

Because I was in fear of you, for you are a hard man: you take up what you have not put down, and get in grain where you have not put seed.


simplify: In the time that thou wast broken by the seas in the depths of the waters, thy merchandise and all thy company did fall in the midst of thee.

Now that you are broken by the seas in the deep waters, your goods and all your people will go down with you.


rate difficulty: From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;

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


rate difficulty: For they said, Not in the feast, lest perhaps there be a tumult of the people.

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


simplify: The servant therefore fell down and worshipped him, saying, Lord, have patience with me, and I will pay thee all.

So the servant went down on his face and gave him worship, saying, Lord, give me time to make payment and I will give you all.


simplify: Yet hast thou not walked after their ways, nor done after their abominations: but, as if that were a very little thing, thou wast corrupted more than they in all thy ways.

Still you have not gone in their ways or done the disgusting things which they have done; but, as if that was only a little thing, you have gone deeper in evil than they in all your ways.


rate difficulty: and Jehovah saith, Who doth entice Ahab, and he doth go up and fall in Ramoth-Gilead? and this one saith thus, and that one is saying thus.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But I say, Walk by the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.


rate difficulty: And Eleazar the priest saith unto the men of the host who go in to battle, `This <FI>is<Fi> the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus going up to Jerusalem, took the twelve disciples by themselves in the way, and said to them,


rate difficulty: And she brought it before Saul, and before his servants; and they did eat. Then they rose up, and went away that night.


rate difficulty: And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifice before the Lord.

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


simplify: But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.

But they would not give attention, turning their backs and stopping their ears from hearing;


simplify: And the sons of Midian: Ephah, and Epher, and Hanoch, and Abida, and Eldaah. All these were the children of Keturah.

And from Midian came Ephah and Epher and Hanoch and Abida and Eldaah. All these were the offspring of Keturah.


rate difficulty: Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.


simplify: I call heaven and earth to witness against you this day, that I have set before thee life and death, the blessing and the curse: therefore choose life, that thou mayest live, thou and thy seed;

Let heaven and earth be my witnesses against you this day that I have put before you life and death, a blessing and a curse: so take life for yourselves and for your seed:


rate difficulty: And Joshua sendeth men from Jericho to Ai, which <FI>is<Fi> near Beth-Aven, on the east of Bethel, and speaketh unto them, saying, `Go up and spy the land;' and the men go up and spy Ai,

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


simplify: But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles, and kings, and the children of Israel:

But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:


rate difficulty: And the king put Benaiah the son of Jehoiada in his stead over the host; and Zadok the priest the king put in the stead of Abiathar.


rate difficulty: he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of Joses, were beholding where he is laid.

Mary of Magdala and Mary, the mother of Joseph, were watching to see where he was laid.


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.

Then Jesus sat down opposite the chests for the Temple offerings, and watched how the people put money into them. Many rich people were putting in large sums;


rate difficulty: Be then complete in righteousness, even as your Father in heaven is complete.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus spoke up, and said to the men: “Have you come out, as if after a robber, with swords and clubs, to take me?


simplify: Thou shalt seek them, and shalt not find them, even them that contend with thee: they that war against thee shall be as nothing, and as a thing of nought.

You will make search for your haters but they will not be there; those who make war against you will be as nothing and will come to destruction.


simplify: For ye have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for ye sent me unto Jehovah your God, saying, Pray for us unto Jehovah our God; and according unto all that Jehovah our God shall say, so declare unto us, and we will do it.

For you have been acting with deceit in your hearts; for you sent me to the Lord your God, saying, Make prayer for us to the Lord our God, and give us word of everything he may say, and we will do it.


simplify: But thy servants will pass over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to battle, as my lord saith.

But your servants will go over, every man armed for war, before the Lord to the fight, as my lord says.


simplify: And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.

Nearest to him will be the tribe of Asher, with Pagiel, the son of Ochran, as their chief.


rate difficulty: Now there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.


rate difficulty: And that night God came to Balaam and said to him, If these men have come for you, go with them: but do only what I say to you.

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


simplify: and to the kings that were on the north, in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the heights of Dor on the west,

And to the kings on the north in the hill-country, and in the Arabah south of Chinneroth, and in the lowland, and in the highlands of Dor on the west,


rate difficulty: Saying, `Lo, one sendeth away his wife, And she hath gone from him, And she hath been to another man, Doth he turn back unto her again? Greatly defiled is not that land? And thou hast committed whoredom with many lovers, And turn again to Me, an affirmation of Jehovah.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and the haven being incommodious to winter in, the more part gave counsel to sail thence also, if by any means they might be able, having attained to Phenice, <FI>there<Fi> to winter, <FI>which is<Fi> a haven of Crete, looking to the south-west and north-west,

And, as the harbor was not a suitable one to winter in, the majority were in favor of continuing the voyage, in hope of being able to reach Phoenix, and winter there. Phoenix was a Cretan harbor, open to the north-east and south-east.


simplify: and lo, there are last who shall be first, and there are first who shall be last.'

there are some who are last now who will then be first, and some who are first now who will then be last!”


simplify: And having taken him, they led and brought him to the house of the chief priest. And Peter was following afar off,

Those who had taken Jesus prisoner took him away into the house of the high priest. Peter followed at a distance.


rate difficulty: For through the voice of Jehovah shall the Assyrian be dismayed; with his rod will he smite him.

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


rate difficulty: And I lifted up mine eyes again, and saw, and behold, there came four chariots out from between two mountains; and the mountains were mountains of brass.

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


rate difficulty: The owner of the hole is responsible; he will have to make payment to their owner, but the dead beast will be his.

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


simplify: for he who is not against us is for us;


simplify: For thou shalt break forth on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall inherit the Gentiles, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

For I will make wide your limits on the right hand and on the left; and your seed will take the nations for a heritage, and make the waste towns full of people.


simplify: because he slew me not from the womb; and so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb always great.

Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.


simplify: Have ye not known? have ye not heard? hath it not been told you from the beginning? have ye not understood from the foundations of the earth?

Have you no knowledge of it? has it not come to your ears? has not news of it been given to you from the first? has it not been clear to you from the time when the earth was placed on its base?


simplify: But unto Hannah he gave a worthy portion; for he loved Hannah: but the Lord had shut up her womb.

But to Hannah he gave one part, though Hannah was very dear to him, but the Lord had not let her have children.


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

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


simplify: Tell me, O thou whom my soul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou makest thy flock to rest at noon: for why should I be as one that turneth aside by the flocks of thy companions?

Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?


rate difficulty: To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:


simplify: `The reign of the heavens was likened to a man, a king, who made marriage-feasts for his son,

“The kingdom of heaven,” he said, “may be compared to a king who gave a banquet in honor of his son’s wedding.


rate difficulty: But if any one obey not our word by the letter, mark that man, and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed of himself;

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


rate difficulty: Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

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


rate difficulty: Now David was old and full of days; and he made his son Solomon king over Israel.


simplify: And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brethren, six hundred and ninety.

And of the sons of Zerah: Jeuel, and their brothers, six hundred and ninety.


simplify: And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

And he gave orders for the carriage to be stopped, and the two of them went down into the water, and Philip gave him baptism.


simplify: But the angel of Jehovah said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that ye go to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?

But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?


simplify: He sent from above, he took me; he drew me out of many waters;

He sent from on high, he took me, pulling me out of great waters.


simplify: And the sixth angel sounded, and I heard a voice from the four horns of the golden altar which is before God,

And at the sounding of the sixth angel a voice came to my ears from the horns of the gold altar which is before God,


rate difficulty: sons of Hanan, sons of Giddel, sons of Gahar,

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


rate difficulty: And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

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


simplify: (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

Because the Gentiles go in search of all these things: for your Father in heaven has knowledge that you have need of all these things:


rate difficulty: 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,

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


rate difficulty: And they went out, they and all their hosts with them, much people, even as the sand that is upon the sea shore in multitude, with horses and chariots very many.

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


simplify: And Jesus having heard that John was delivered up, did withdraw to Galilee,

When Jesus heard that John had been arrested, he returned to Galilee.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses, Pharaoh shall not hearken unto you; that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: `Do ye not know what I have done--I and my fathers--to all peoples of the lands? Were the gods of the nations of the lands at all able to deliver their land out of my hand?

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


rate difficulty: Give thanks unto the Lord, call upon his name, make known his deeds among the people.


simplify: and he continued a year and six months, teaching among them the word of God.

So he settled there for a year and a half, and taught God’s message among the people.


simplify: So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the assembly.

So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.


simplify: Now therefore take you twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, out of every tribe a man.

So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.


rate difficulty: And he had greaves of brass upon his legs, and a target of brass between his shoulders.

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


rate difficulty: for Jeshuah the ninth, for Shecaniah the tenth,


rate difficulty: — He that sacrificeth to [any]god, save to Jehovah only, shall be devoted to destruction.

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


simplify: for I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

For I have five brothers; and let him give them an account of these things, so that they may not come to this place of pain.


rate difficulty: So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.

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


rate difficulty: And the day is, that sons of God come in to station themselves by Jehovah, and there doth come also the Adversary in their midst.

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


rate difficulty: Ye yourselves know that these hands ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

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


rate difficulty: He brought them out, after that he had shewed wonders and signs in the land of Egypt, and in the Red sea, and in the wilderness forty years.

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


simplify: He built Beth-lehem, and Etam, and Tekoa,

He was the builder of Beth-lehem and Etam and Tekoa


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the seven lamps thereof, and they shall light the lamps thereof, that they may shine out before it;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And she saith to her young men, `Pass over before me; lo, after you I am coming;' and to her husband Nabal she hath not declared <FI>it<Fi> ;

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


rate difficulty: And they were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath day, so that they might have something against him.

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


simplify: And one said, Be pleased, I pray thee, to go with thy servants. And he answered, I will go.

And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.


simplify: And when David had called him, he did eat and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but went not down to his house.

And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.


simplify: And seek not ye what ye shall eat, and what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.


rate difficulty: For if their casting away [be the] world's reconciliation, what [their] reception but life from among [the] dead?

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


simplify: And we took all his cities at that time, and utterly destroyed the men, and the women, and the little ones, of every city, we left none to remain:

At that time we took all his towns, and gave them over to complete destruction, together with men, women, and children; we had no mercy on any:


rate difficulty: And a strong angel took up a stone, as a great millstone, and cast [it] into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall Babylon the great city be cast down, and shall be found no more at all;

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


simplify: Be not overcome of evil, but overcome evil with good.

Do not let evil overcome you, but overcome evil by good.


rate difficulty: And I made an ark of acacia-wood, and hewed two tables of stone like the first, and went up the mountain with the two tables in my hand.


rate difficulty: From the voice: Captured was Babylon, Hath the earth been shaken, And a cry among nations hath been heard!

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


rate difficulty: And I said after she had done all these things, She will return unto me; but she returned not: and her treacherous sister Judah saw it.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass, after that Amaziah was come from the slaughter of the Edomites, that he brought the gods of the children of Seir, and set them up to be his gods, and bowed down himself before them, and burned incense unto them.

Now when Amaziah came back from the destruction of the Edomites, he took the gods of the children of Seir and made them his gods, worshipping them and burning offerings before them.


rate difficulty: that the kingdom might be base, that it might not lift itself up, but that by keeping his covenant it might stand.

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


simplify: Nevertheless he that comforteth the lowly, even God, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

But God who gives comfort to the poor in spirit gave us comfort by the coming of Titus;


rate difficulty: So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: From Kibroth-Hattaavah have the people journeyed to Hazeroth, and they are in Hazeroth.


simplify: And when the blood of thy martyr Stephen was shed, I also was standing by, and consenting unto his death, and kept the raiment of them that slew him.

And when Stephen your witness was put to death, I was there, giving approval, and looking after the clothing of those who put him to death.


rate difficulty: Keep far from it, do not go near; be turned from it, and go on your way.


simplify: For he hath put all things under his feet. But when he saith all things are put under him, it is manifest that he is excepted, which did put all things under him.

for God has placed all things under Christ’s feet. (But, when it is said that all things have been placed under Christ, it is plain that God is excepted who placed everything under him.)


simplify: And Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;


simplify: And it came to pass, when God caused me to wander from my father’s house, that I said unto her, This is thy kindness which thou shalt shew unto me; at every place whither we shall come, say of me, He is my brother.

And when God sent me wandering from my father's house, I said to her, Let this be the sign of your love for me; wherever we go, say of me, He is my brother.


rate difficulty: And Laban went into Jacob's tent, and into Leah's tent, and into the two handmaids' tents, and found nothing; and he went out of Leah's tent, and entered into Rachel's tent.

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


simplify: Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh, my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant; for thou art even as Pharaoh.

Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.


simplify: and didst not suffer me to kiss my sons and my daughters? now hast thou done foolishly.

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.


rate difficulty: And, behold, I will lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to another, till thou hast ended the days of thy siege.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Haggai said, If one that is unclean by a dead body touch any of these, is it become unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

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


rate difficulty: The whole assembly together was forty and two thousand three hundred and threescore,

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


rate difficulty: They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.


simplify: On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

But on the day after, they sent the horsemen on with him, and went back to their place:


simplify: Woe unto us! who shall deliver us out of the hand of these mighty Gods? these are the Gods that smote the Egyptians with all the plagues in the wilderness.

Trouble is ours! Who will give us salvation from the hands of these great gods? These are the gods who sent all sorts of blows on the Egyptians in the waste land.


rate difficulty: When therefore the lord of the vineyard comes, what shall he do to those husbandmen?


simplify: Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; and thou hadst a whore’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.


simplify: And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them: and Ben-hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with horsemen.

And every one of them put his man to death, and the Aramaeans went in flight with Israel after them; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, got away safely on a horse with his horsemen.


simplify: To cause it to rain on the earth, where no man is; on the wilderness, wherein there is no man;

Causing rain to come on a land where no man is living, on the waste land which has no people;


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew no man. And it was a custom in Israel,

And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,


simplify: then the priest shall command that they take out the stones in which the plague is, and cast them into an unclean place without the city:

Then the priest will give orders to them to take out the stones in which the disease is seen, and put them out into an unclean place outside the town:


rate difficulty: `And when a woman hath an issue--blood is her issue in her flesh--seven days she is in her separation, and any one who is coming against her is unclean till the evening.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: every one who is denying the Son, neither hath he the Father, <FI>he who is confessing the Son hath the Father also.<Fi>

No one who rejects the Son has found the Father; the person who acknowledges the Son has found the Father also.


rate difficulty: so as to prevent Satan from taking advantage of us; for we are not ignorant of his devices.


rate difficulty: To the wise in heart is called, `Intelligent,' And sweetness of lips increaseth learning.

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


rate difficulty: And his concubine that was in Shechem, she also bore him a son, and he gave him the name of Abimelech.


simplify: How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, and thy tabernacles, O Israel!

How fair are your tents, O Jacob, your houses, O Israel!


rate difficulty: And these things didst thou hide in thy heart; I know that this was with thee.

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


simplify: Every bed whereon she lieth all the days of her issue shall be unto her as the bed of her separation: and whatsoever she sitteth upon shall be unclean, as the uncleanness of her separation.

Every bed on which she has been resting will be unclean, as at the times when she normally has a flow of blood, and everything on which she has been seated will be unclean, in the same way.


rate difficulty: While the king sitteth at his table, my spikenard sendeth forth the smell thereof.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

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


simplify: and above all these things, <FI>have<Fi> love, which is a bond of the perfection,

Over all these virtues put on love; for that is the girdle which makes all complete.


simplify: And thou shalt consider in thy heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so Jehovah thy God chasteneth thee.

Keep in mind this thought, that as a son is trained by his father, so you have been trained by the Lord your God.


simplify: For the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim: therefore they gave no part unto the Levites in the land, save cities to dwell in, with their suburbs for their cattle and for their substance.

Because the children of Joseph were two tribes, Manasseh and Ephraim; and they gave the Levites no part in the land, only towns for their living-places, with the grass-lands for their cattle and for their property.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be the Lord this day, which hath given unto David a wise son over this great people.

And these words of Solomon made Hiram glad, and he said, Now may the Lord be praised who has given to David a wise son to be king over this great people.


rate difficulty: So I came out in the hope of meeting you, looking for you with care, and now I have you.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto them, `A Hebrew I <FI>am<Fi> , and Jehovah, God of the heavens, I am reverencing, who made the sea and the dry land.'

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


simplify: Therefore will I return, and take away my corn in the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and will recover my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness.

So I will take away again my grain in its time and my wine, and I will take away my wool and my linen with which her body might have been covered.


simplify: Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the Lord.

And in Judah the power of God gave them one heart to do the orders of the king and the captains, which were taken as the word of the Lord.


simplify: And the men said unto her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business; and it shall be, when Jehovah giveth us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep our business secret; and when the Lord has given us the land, we will keep faith and be kind to you.


rate difficulty: The defense that I make to my critics is this:

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


rate difficulty: While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?

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


simplify: And Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,


simplify: Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:


rate difficulty: I earnestly pointed both Jews and Greeks to the repentance that leads to God, and to faith in Jesus, our Lord.

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


simplify: Then king David sent, and fetched him out of the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, from Lo-debar.

Then King David sent, and had him taken from Lo-debar, from the house of Machir, the son of Ammiel.


rate difficulty: Concerning Kedar, and concerning the kingdoms of Hazor, that Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath smitten: `Thus said Jehovah: Arise ye, go ye up unto Kedar, And spoil the sons of the east.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Jehovah met Balaam, and put a word in his mouth, and said, Return unto Balak, and thus shalt thou speak.

And the Lord came to Balaam, and put words in his mouth, and said, Go back to Balak, and this is what you are to say.


simplify: Then Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost, said unto them, Ye rulers of the people, and elders of Israel,

Then, Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, said: “Leaders of the people and councillors,


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that he who fleeth from the noise of the fear shall fall into the pit; and he that cometh up out of the midst of the pit shall be taken in the snare: for the windows from on high are open, and the foundations of the earth do shake.

And it will be that he who goes in flight from the sound of fear will be overtaken by death; and he who gets free from death will be taken in the net: for the windows on high are open, and the bases of the earth are shaking.


simplify: and let them judge the people at all seasons: and it shall be, that every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge themselves: so shall it be easier for thyself, and they shall bear the burden with thee.

And let them be judges in the causes of the people at all times: and let them put before you all important questions, but in small things let them give decisions themselves: in this way, it will be less hard for you, and they will take the weight off you.


simplify: and as they were going to tell to his disciples, then lo, Jesus met them, saying, `Hail!' and they having come near, laid hold of his feet, and did bow to him.

Suddenly Jesus met them. “Welcome!” he said. The women went up to him, and clasped his feet, bowing to the ground before him. Then Jesus said to them:


simplify: And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were sons of Abiel.


simplify: `This is he who was in the assembly in the wilderness, with the messenger who is speaking to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers who did receive the living oracles to give to us;

He, too, it was who was present at the assembly in the desert, with the angel who talked to him on Mount Sinai, and with our ancestors, and who received living truths to impart to you.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land that I have given unto the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: The liberal soul shall be made fat; And he that watereth shall be watered also himself.

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


rate difficulty: for I have not shrunk from announcing to you all the counsel ofGod.


rate difficulty: and he overlayeth it with pure gold within and without, and maketh for it a wreath of gold round about;

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


simplify: He trusteth on God; let him deliver him now, if he desireth him: for he said, I am the Son of God.

He put his faith in God; let God be his saviour now, if he will have him; for he said, I am the Son of God.


rate difficulty: Thine ointments savour sweetly; Thy name is an ointment poured forth: Therefore do the virgins love thee.

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


rate difficulty: who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom <FI>is<Fi> honour and might age-during! Amen.

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


rate difficulty: all the cities of the plain, and all Gilead, and all Bashan, unto Salecah and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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


simplify: I counsel thee to buy from me gold fired by fire, that thou mayest be rich, and white garments that thou mayest be arrayed, and the shame of thy nakedness may not be manifest, and with eye-salve anoint thine eyes, that thou mayest see.

Therefore I counsel you to buy from me gold which has been refined by fire so that you may grow rich; and white robes, so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness be hidden; and ointment to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.


simplify: For even the Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many.

for even the Son of Man came, not be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many.”


rate difficulty: And she hath rebelled against my judgments in wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her: for mine ordinances have they refused; and my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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


rate difficulty: Wine makes men foolish, and strong drink makes men come to blows; and whoever comes into error through these is not wise.

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


simplify: For the Lord your God is God of gods, and Lord of lords, a great God, a mighty, and a terrible, which regardeth not persons, nor taketh reward:

For the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, strong in power and greatly to be feared, who has no respect for any man's position and takes no rewards:


simplify: And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

And Saul's son Jonathan went to David in Horesh, and made his hands strong in God;


simplify: But they shall fly upon the shoulders of the Philistines toward the west; they shall spoil them of the east together: they shall lay their hand upon Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon shall obey them.

And they will be united in attacking the Philistines on the west, and together they will take the goods of the children of the east: their hand will be on Edom and Moab; and the children of Ammon will be under their rule.


rate difficulty: How many are mine iniquities and sins? Make me to know my transgression and my sin.

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


rate difficulty: They come from a far country, from the uttermost part of heaven, even Jehovah, and the weapons of his indignation, to destroy the whole land.

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


simplify: Come ye, say they, I will fetch wine, and we will fill ourselves with strong drink; and to morrow shall be as this day, and much more abundant.

Come, they say, I will get wine, and we will take strong drink in full measure; and tomorrow will be like today, full of pleasure.


simplify: And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

And Saul gave approval to his death. Now at that time a violent attack was started against the church in Jerusalem; and all but the Apostles went away into all parts of Judaea and Samaria.


rate difficulty: Who knoweth but thatGod will turn and repent, and will turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

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


simplify: and the table and all the vessels thereof, and the candlestick and the vessels thereof, and the altar of incense,

And on the table and all its vessels, and on the support for the lights, with its vessels, and on the altar for burning spices,


simplify: And when he had looked round about on them with anger, being grieved at the hardening of their heart, he saith unto the man, Stretch forth thy hand. And he stretched it forth; and his hand was restored.

And looking round on them he was angry, being sad because of their hard hearts; and he said to the man, Put out your hand. And he put it out, and his hand was made well.


simplify: Observe the sabbath day, to keep it holy, as Jehovah thy God commanded thee.

Keep the Sabbath day as a holy day, as you have been ordered by the Lord your God.


simplify: and happy is he who may not be stumbled in me.'

Blessed is the person who finds no hindrance in me.”


simplify: And, behold, there was a man which had his hand withered. And they asked him, saying, Is it lawful to heal on the sabbath days? that they might accuse him.

And there was a man with a dead hand. And they put a question to him, saying, Is it right to make a man well on the Sabbath day? so that they might have something against him.


simplify: For the king of Babylon stood at the parting of the way, at the head of the two ways, to use divination: he made his arrows bright, he consulted with images, he looked in the liver.

For the king of Babylon took his place at the parting of the ways, at the top of the two roads, to make use of secret arts: shaking the arrows this way and that, he put questions to the images of his gods, he took note of the inner parts of dead beasts.


simplify: Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

But I have this against you, that you are turned away from your first love.


simplify: Doth he that ploweth to sow plow continually? doth he continually open and harrow his ground?

Is the ploughman for ever ploughing? does he not get the earth ready and broken up for the seed?


rate difficulty: I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a calf unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art Jehovah my God.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But many first shall be last, and the last first.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall keep my charge, lest they bear sin for it, and die by it, if they profane it: I am Jehovah who do hallow them.

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


rate difficulty: Give attention to me, O my people; and give ear to me, O my nation; for teaching will go out from me, and the knowledge of the true God will be a light to the peoples.


simplify: And in the house his disciples asked him again of the same matter.

When they were indoors, the disciples asked him again about this,


simplify: Whereupon he promised with an oath to give her whatsoever she should ask.

So he gave her his word with an oath to let her have whatever she might make request for.


rate difficulty: and the priest shall look on him the seventh day: and, behold, if in his eyes the plague be at a stay, and the plague be not spread in the skin, then the priest shall shut him up seven days more:

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


simplify: Observe the month of Abib, and keep the passover unto the Lord thy God: for in the month of Abib the Lord thy God brought thee forth out of Egypt by night.

Take note of the month of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God: for in the month of Abib the Lord your God took you out of Egypt by night.


rate difficulty: Set up the standard upon the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set up the watchmen, prepare the ambushes: for the Lord hath both devised and done that which he spake against the inhabitants of Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast shrivelled me up! it is become a witness; and my leanness riseth up against me, it beareth witness to my face.

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


simplify: And Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,


simplify: And the voice of harpers and minstrels and flute-players and trumpeters shall be heard no more at all in thee; and no craftsman, of whatsoever craft, shall be found any more at all in thee; and the voice of a mill shall be heard no more at all in thee;

And the voice of players and makers of music will never again be sounding in you: and no worker, expert in art, will ever again be living in you; and there will be no sound of the crushing of grain any more at all in you;


simplify: and he said, This I will do, I will take down my storehouses, and greater ones I will build, and I will gather together there all my products and my good things,

This is what I will do,’ he said; ‘I will pull down my barns and build larger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them;


rate difficulty: They make Him zealous with strangers, With abominations they make Him angry.

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


simplify: From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

From that time Jesus went on to make clear to his disciples how he would have to go up to Jerusalem, and undergo much at the hands of those in authority and the chief priests and scribes, and be put to death, and the third day come again from the dead.


simplify: And it shall be at that day, saith Jehovah, that thou shalt call me Ishi, and shalt call me no more Baali.

And in that day, says the Lord, you will say to me, Ishi; and you will never again give me the name of Baali;


simplify: and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel; and for a sign which is spoken against;

And Simeon gave them his blessing and said to Mary, his mother, See, this child will be the cause of the downfall and the lifting up of great numbers of people in Israel, and he will be a sign against which hard words will be said;


rate difficulty: Adah had a son Eliphaz; and Basemath was the mother of Reuel;

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


rate difficulty: of Hezron the family of the Hezronite; of Carmi the family of the Carmite.

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


rate difficulty: Wisely do you set aside God’s commandments,”he exclaimed, “to keep your own traditions!

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


simplify: And if Christ be in you, the body is dead because of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

but, if Christ is within you, then, though the body is dead as a consequence of sin, the spirit is life as a consequence of righteousness.


rate difficulty: and we--we are witnesses of all things that he did, both in the country of the Jews, and in Jerusalem, --whom they did slay, having hanged upon a tree.

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


simplify: According to the number of years after the jubilee thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of years of the crops he shall sell unto thee.

Let your exchange of goods with your neighbours have relation to the number of years after the year of Jubilee, and the number of times the earth has given her produce.


simplify: And the children of Ammon came out, and put the battle in array at the gate of the city: and the kings that were come were by themselves in the field.

So the children of Ammon came out and put their forces in position on the way into the town; and the kings who had come were stationed by themselves in the field.


rate difficulty: I have done as you said: I have given you a wise and far-seeing heart, so that there has never been your equal in the past, and never will there be any like you in the future.


rate difficulty: So the Levites appointed Heman the son of Joel; and of his brethren, Asaph the son of Berechiah; and of the sons of Merari their brethren, Ethan the son of Kushaiah;

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simplify: The horse is prepared against the day of battle; But victory is of Jehovah.

The horse is made ready for the day of war, but power to overcome is from the Lord.


rate difficulty: that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

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


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did Manasseh his father.


simplify: seeing that we, who are many, are one bread, one body: for we all partake of the one bread.

Because we, being a number of persons, are one bread, we are one body: for we all take part in the one bread.


rate difficulty: One who, as a rotten thing consumeth, as a garment that the moth eateth.

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simplify: And Jehovah saw that Leah was hated, and he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.


rate difficulty: and that by the exceeding greatness of the revelations I might not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of the Adversary, that he might buffet me, that I might not be exalted overmuch.

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass in process of time, that the king of Egypt died: and the children of Israel sighed by reason of the bondage, and they cried, and their cry came up unto God by reason of the bondage.

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rate difficulty: The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.


simplify: but the more was the report going abroad concerning him, and great multitudes were coming together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities,

However, the story about Jesus spread all the more, and great crowds came together to listen to him, and to be cured of their illnesses;


rate difficulty: Doth God pervert judgment? And doth the Mighty One pervert justice?


rate difficulty: And the centurion having seen what was done, did glorify God, saying, `Really this man was righteous;'

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rate difficulty: And he said unto them that stood by, Take from him the pound, and give it to him that hath ten pounds.

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


simplify: be not therefore afraid, than many sparrows ye are better.

Do not, therefore, be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.


rate difficulty: And the people answered him after this manner, saying, So shall it be done to the man that killeth him.


simplify: And he said, Go and see where he is, that I may send and fetch him. And it was told him, saying, Behold, he is in Dothan.

Then he said, Go and see where he is, so that I may send and get him. And news came to him that he was in Dothan.


simplify: As for me, is my complaint to man? And why should I not be impatient?

As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?


rate difficulty: Now the feast of unleavened bread was near, which is called the Passover.

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simplify: And they said, Should he deal with our sister as with a harlot?

But they said, Were we to let him make use of our sister as a loose woman?


simplify: Give to him that asketh thee, and from him that would borrow of thee turn not thou away.

Give to anyone who asks and, if someone wants to borrow from you, do not turn them away.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven, and said, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.

But the voice of the angel of the Lord came from heaven, saying, Abraham, Abraham: and he said, Here am I.


simplify: And ye shall teach them your children, speaking of them when thou sittest in thine house, and when thou walkest by the way, when thou liest down, and when thou risest up.

Teaching them to your children, and talking of them when you are at rest in your house or walking by the way, when you go to sleep and when you get up:


simplify: And it was so, when the king went into the house of the Lord, that the guard bare them, and brought them back into the guard chamber.

And whenever the king went into the house of the Lord, the armed men went with him taking the body-covers, and then took them back to their room.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.


rate difficulty: but rise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.

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


simplify: And Rehoboam took him a wife, Mahalath the daughter of Jerimoth the son of David, and of Abihail the daughter of Eliab the son of Jesse;

And Rehoboam took as his wife Mahalath, the daughter of Jerimoth, the son of David and of Abihail, the daughter of Eliab, the son of Jesse;


simplify: For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

For their rock is not like our Rock, even our haters themselves being judges.


rate difficulty: The sons of Rachel; Joseph, and Benjamin:

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


rate difficulty: And now, I pray you, abide ye also here this night, and I shall know what Jehovah will say to me further.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And it came to pass, when our enemies heard that it was known unto us, and God had brought their counsel to nought, that we returned all of us to the wall, every one unto his work.

And when it came to the ears of those who were against us, that we had knowledge of their designs and that God had made their purpose come to nothing, we all went back to the wall, everyone to his work


rate difficulty: For sevenfold is required for Cain, And for Lamech seventy and sevenfold.'

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


rate difficulty: And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

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


simplify: And he commanded also the second, and the third, and all that followed the droves, saying, On this manner shall ye speak unto Esau, when ye find him;

And he gave the same orders to the second and the third and to all those who were with the herds, saying, This is what you are to say to Esau when you see him;


rate difficulty: And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age <FI>are<Fi> vanity!

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rate difficulty: There were, doubtless, many widows in Israel in Elijah’s days, when the heavens were closed for three years and six months, and a severe famine prevailed throughout the country;

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simplify: Therefore, son of man, prophesy, and say unto Gog, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: In that day when my people Israel dwelleth securely, shalt thou not know it?

For this cause, son of man, be a prophet and say to Gog, These are the words of the Lord: In that day, when my people Israel are living without fear of danger, will you not be moved against them?


rate difficulty: And Joseph, who by the apostles was surnamed Barnabas (which is, being interpreted, Son of exhortation), a Levite, a man of Cyprus by race,

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


simplify: And the hangings of the court, and the hanging for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and by the altar round about, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and all that is made for them: so shall they serve.

And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, with the cords and all the things used for them; whatever is necessary for these, they are to do.


rate difficulty: He may prepare it, but the just shall put it on; and the innocent shall divide the silver.

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


simplify: Then shalt thou walk in thy way safely, and thy foot shall not stumble.

Then you will go safely on your way, and your feet will have no cause for slipping.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Whoso hath sinned against Me--I blot him out of My book;

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyrus, which shall devour the palaces thereof.

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


simplify: And into whatsoever house ye enter, first say, Peace be to this house.

Whatever house you go to stay at, begin by praying for a blessing on it.


simplify: So he let him alone. Then she said, A bridegroom of blood art thou, because of the circumcision.

So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.


simplify: But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and spake forth unto them, saying, Ye men of Judæa, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and give ear unto my words.

But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.


rate difficulty: And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone: therefore they have destroyed them.


simplify: This was the word of Jehovah which he spake unto Jehu, saying, Thy sons to the fourth generation shall sit upon the throne of Israel. And so it came to pass.

This was what the Lord had said to Jehu, Your sons to the fourth generation will be kings of Israel. And so it came about.


simplify: And Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to slay thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself in the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

And Jonathan said to David, Saul, my father, is purposing your death: so now, take care in the morning, and keep yourself safe in a secret place:


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come upon thee.

For this is what the Lord has said: The sword of the king of Babylon will come on you.


simplify: I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I put away thereof, being unclean, nor given thereof for the dead: I have hearkened to the voice of Jehovah my God; I have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.

No part of these things has been used for food in a time of weeping, or put away when I was unclean, or given for the dead: I have given ear to the voice of the Lord my God, and have done all you have given me orders to do.


simplify: Arise, and let us go by night, and let us destroy her palaces.

Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.


simplify: If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

If, then, an uncircumcised man pays regard to the requirements of the law, will not he, although not circumcised, be regarded by God as if he were?


simplify: for what is a man profited, having gained the whole world, and having lost or having forfeited himself?

What good does it do someone if, when they has gained the whole world, they has lost or forfeited themselves?


simplify: Come now, ye rich, weep and howl for your miseries that are coming upon you.

Come now, you men of wealth, give yourselves to weeping and crying because of the bitter troubles which are coming to you.


rate difficulty: For the scripture saith unto Pharaoh, Even for this same purpose have I raised thee up, that I might shew my power in thee, and that my name might be declared throughout all the earth.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: saying, These last have worked one hour, and thou hast made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the day and the heat.

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


rate difficulty: Wealth gotten by vanity shall be diminished; But he that gathereth by labor shall have increase.

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


simplify: And it was given them that they should not kill them, but that they should be tormented five months: and their torment was as the torment of a scorpion, when it striketh a man.

And orders were given them not to put them to death, but to give them great pain for five months: and their pain was as the pain from the wound of a scorpion.


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and Jesus having taken up <FI>the word<Fi> , said, `A certain man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho, and fell among robbers, and having stripped him and inflicted blows, they went away, leaving <FI>him<Fi> half dead.

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


rate difficulty: For the Sadducees say that there is no coming back from the dead, and no angels or spirits: but the Pharisees have belief in all these.

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rate difficulty: And I will take great payment from them with acts of wrath; and they will be certain that I am the Lord when I send my punishment on them.


rate difficulty: Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

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rate difficulty: But if your heart is turned away and your ear is shut, and you go after those who would make you servants and worshippers of other gods:

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simplify: And Barnabas went forth to Tarsus, to seek for Saul,

Afterwards Barnabas left for Tarsus to look for Saul;


simplify: for they prophesy a lie unto you, to remove you far from your land, and that I should drive you out, and ye should perish.

For they say false words to you, so that you may be sent away far from your land, and so that you may be forced out by me and come to destruction.


rate difficulty: He that giveth answer before he heareth, it is folly and shame unto him.

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


simplify: Yet wilt thou plunge me in the ditch, And mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.


rate difficulty: And ye have known that in the midst of Israel <FI>am<Fi> I, And I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah your God, and there is none else, And not ashamed are My people to the age.

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


simplify: and having known the voice of Peter, from the joy she did not open the porch, but having run in, told of the standing of Peter before the porch,

She recognized Peter’s voice, but in her joy left the gate unopened, and ran in, and told them that Peter was standing outside.


rate difficulty: What profit is it to me, and how am I better off than if I had done wrong?


simplify: Why doth thine heart carry thee away? and what do thy eyes wink at,

Why is your heart uncontrolled, and why are your eyes lifted up;


simplify: And she went up, and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.


simplify: And ye shall eat the flesh of your sons, and the flesh of your daughters shall ye eat.

Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;


simplify: And when they had been long without food, then Paul stood forth in the midst of them, and said, Sirs, ye should have hearkened unto me, and not have set sail from Crete, and have gotten this injury and loss.

And when they had been without food for a long time, Paul got up among them and said, Friends, it would have been better if you had given attention to me and not gone sailing out from Crete, to undergo this damage and loss.


simplify: And having risen out of the synagogue, he entered into the house of Simon, and the mother-in-law of Simon was pressed with a great fever, and they did ask him about her,

On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went into Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a severe attack of fever, and they asked Jesus to cure her.


simplify: Then the king answered and said unto the woman, Hide not from me, I pray thee, the thing that I shall ask thee. And the woman said, Let my lord the king now speak.

Then the king said to the woman, Now give me an answer to the question I am going to put to you; keep nothing back. And the woman said, Let my lord the king say on.


rate difficulty: that Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying, `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, speak unto Pharaoh king of Egypt all that I am speaking unto thee.'

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


rate difficulty: And Amaziah gathereth Judah, and appointeth them, according to the house of the fathers, for heads of the thousands, and for heads of the hundreds, for all Judah and Benjamin; and he inspecteth them from a son of twenty years and upward, and findeth them three hundred thousand chosen ones, going forth to the host, holding spear and target.

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


rate difficulty: But I wrought for my name's sake, that it should not be profaned in the sight of the nations among whom they were, in whose sight I had made myself known unto them in bringing them forth out of the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

And he said to Korah and his band, In the morning the Lord will make clear who are his, and who is holy, and who may come near him: the man of his selection will be caused to come near him.


rate difficulty: And Isaac his father answered and said unto him, Behold, thy dwelling shall be the fatness of the earth, and of the dew of heaven from above;

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


rate difficulty: And when he was come in, he did eat and drink; and he said, See now to this cursed woman, and bury her; for she is a king’s daughter.

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


rate difficulty: and neither so was their testimony alike.

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


simplify: So Joash the king of Israel went up; and they saw one another in the face, both he and Amaziah king of Judah, at Beth–shemesh, which belongeth to Judah.

And so Joash, king of Israel, went up; and he and Amaziah, king of Judah, came face to face at Beth-shemesh in Judah.


rate difficulty: Much more, then, now that we have been pronounced righteous by virtue of the shedding of his blood, will we be saved through him from the wrath of God.

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


rate difficulty: that thou keep the commandment, without spot, without reproach, until the appearing of our Lord Jesus Christ:

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


rate difficulty: So two or three cities wandered unto one city, to drink water; but they were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

Do not say sharp words to one who has authority in the church, but let your talk be as to a father, and to the younger men as to brothers:


simplify: Even as they delivered them unto us, which from the beginning were eyewitnesses, and ministers of the word;

As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,


rate difficulty: The heart knoweth its own bitterness, And with its joy a stranger doth not intermeddle.

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


rate difficulty: And a certain man found him, and, behold, he was wandering in the field: and the man asked him, saying, What seekest thou?

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


simplify: Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us, and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins.

And this is love, not that we had love for God, but that he had love for us, and sent his Son to be an offering for our sins.


rate difficulty: For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.


simplify: Now therefore, I pray you, swear unto me by the Lord, since I have shewed you kindness, that ye will also shew kindness unto my father’s house, and give me a true token:

So now, will you give me your oath by the Lord, that, because I have been kind to you, you will be kind to my father's house,


simplify: And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

And his servants took him in a carriage to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.


rate difficulty: But, when they came up out of the water, the Spirit of the Lord caught Philip away, and the Treasurer saw no more of him; for he continued his journey with a joyful heart.


rate difficulty: The enemy said, I pursue, I overtake; I apportion spoil; Filled is my soul with them; I draw out my sword; My hand destroyeth them: --

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


simplify: to drive out nations from before thee greater and mightier than thou, to bring thee in, to give thee their land for an inheritance, as at this day.

Driving out before you nations greater and stronger than you, to take you into their land and give it to you for your heritage, as at this day.


simplify: And their brethren among all the families of Issachar were valiant men of might, reckoned in all by their genealogies fourscore and seven thousand.

And there were recorded among all the families of Issachar, great men of war, eighty-seven thousand.


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

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


rate difficulty: having the glory ofGod. Her shining [was] like a most precious stone, as a crystal-like jasper stone;


simplify: `And to the messenger of the assembly of the Smyrneans write: These things saith the First and the Last, who did become dead and did live;

To the angel of the church in Smyrna write: —  “These are the words of him who is the First and the Last, who died, but is restored to life: —


rate difficulty: Deck thyself now with excellency and dignity; And array thyself with honor and majesty.

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


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

And Pilate was surprised that he was dead; and, sending for the captain, he put a question to see if he had been dead for long.


rate difficulty: Then the spirit of the Lord came on Jephthah, and he went through Gilead and Manasseh, and came to Mizpeh of Gilead; and from Mizpeh of Gilead he went over to the children of Ammon.

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


simplify: And he put the table in the tent of the congregation, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the vail.

And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the veil.


simplify: And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the Lord shut him in.

Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.


rate difficulty: (but he shall have one tribe, for my servant David’s sake and for Jerusalem’s sake, the city which I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel);

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rate difficulty: And again he began to teach by the sea. And a great crowd was gathered together to him, so that going on board ship he sat in the sea, and all the crowd were close to the sea on the land.

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


simplify: There is a generation whose teeth areasswords, and their jaw teethasknives, To devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.


simplify: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

And Joshua, with all Israel, went back to the tent-circle at Gilgal.


simplify: Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy words were unto me a joy and the rejoicing of my heart: for I am called by thy name, O Jehovah, God of hosts.

But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.


rate difficulty: I have long been quiet, I have kept myself in and done nothing: now I will make sounds of pain like a woman in childbirth, breathing hard and quickly.

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


simplify: Now there was a certain rich man, and he was clothed in purple and fine linen, faring sumptuously every day:

Now there was a certain man of great wealth, who was dressed in fair clothing of purple and delicate linen, and was shining and glad every day.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of heaven have a resting-place; but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.


rate difficulty: For by me thy days shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased.

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


simplify: Now for a recompense in like kind (I speak as unto my children), be ye also enlarged.

Now to give me back payment of the same sort (I am talking as to my children), let your hearts be wide open to me.


simplify: And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:

And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:


simplify: And when the servants of Hadarezer saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they made peace with David, and served him: neither would the Syrians help the children of Ammon any more.

And when the servants of Hadadezer saw that they were overcome by Israel, they made peace with David and became his servants: and the Aramaeans would give no more help to the children of Ammon.


simplify: Also to punish the righteous is not good, Norto smite the noble fortheiruprightness.

To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: All the inhabitants of the isles are astonished at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid; they are troubled in their countenance.

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


simplify: and he said to him--Thy brother is arrived, and thy father did kill the fatted calf, because in health he did receive him back.

‘Your brother has come back,’ the servant told him, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’


simplify: If, then, ye are not able for the least--why for the rest are ye anxious?

And, if you cannot do even the smallest thing, why be anxious about other things?


simplify: And for the chief things of the ancient mountains, And for the precious things of the everlasting hills,

And the chief things of the oldest mountains, and the good things of the eternal hills,


simplify: And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

And you will be made low, and your voice will come out of the earth, and your words will be low out of the dust; and your voice will come out of the earth like that of a spirit, making bird-like noises out of the dust.


simplify: And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and to all that were in his house.

Then they spoke to him of God’s message, and to all his household as well.


simplify: And while he yet spake, behold a multitude, and he that was called Judas, one of the twelve, went before them, and drew near unto Jesus to kiss him.

And while he was saying these words, there came a band of people, and Judas, one of the twelve, was in front of them, and he came near to Jesus to give him a kiss.


simplify: `We heard him saying--I will throw down this sanctuary made with hands, and by three days, another made without hands I will build;'

“We ourselves heard him say ‘I will destroy this Temple made with hands, and in three days build another made without hands.’”


rate difficulty: And Jesus, being moved with compassion, touched their eyes; and straightway they received their sight, and followed him.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus at once spoke to them. “Courage!” he said, “It is I; do not be afraid!”

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


simplify: he is puffed up, knowing nothing, but doting about questionings and disputes of words, whereof cometh envy, strife, railings, evil surmisings,

He has an over-high opinion of himself; being without knowledge, having only an unhealthy love of questionings and wars of words, from which come envy, fighting, cruel words, evil thoughts,


simplify: Then I contended with the nobles of Judah, and said unto them, What evil thing is this that ye do, and profane the sabbath day?

Then I made protests to the chiefs of Judah, and said to them, What is this evil which you are doing, not keeping the Sabbath day holy?


simplify: Now in these days, when the number of the disciples was multiplying, there arose a murmuring of the Grecian Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

Now in those days, when the number of the disciples was increasing, protests were made by the Greek Jews against the Hebrews, because their widows were not taken care of in the distribution of food every day.


simplify: and I have known such a man--whether in the body, whether out of the body, I have not known, God hath known, --

And I know that this man — whether in the body or separated from the body I do not know; God knows —


rate difficulty: turn you, and take your journey, and go to the hill-country of the Amorites, and unto all the places nigh thereunto, in the Arabah, in the hill-country, and in the lowland, and in the South, and by the sea-shore, the land of the Canaanites, and Lebanon, as far as the great river, the river Euphrates.

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


rate difficulty: And Chaldea shall be a spoil: all the spoilers thereof shall be satiated, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Suffer hardship with me, as a good soldier of Christ Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

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


simplify: 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.

And my bitter feeling will be working against you, and they will take you in hand with passion; they will take away your nose and your ears, and the rest of you will be put to the sword: they will take your sons and daughters, and the rest of you will be burned up in the fire.


simplify: when the sin wherein they have sinned is known, then the assembly shall offer a young bullock for a sin-offering, and bring it before the tent of meeting.

When the sin which they have done comes to light, then let all the people give an ox for a sin-offering, and take it before the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: Its brilliance was like a precious stone, like a jasper, transparent as crystal.

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


rate difficulty: Thou art beautiful, O my love, as Tirzah, comely as Jerusalem, terrible as an army with banners.

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


rate difficulty: Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

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


simplify: of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand were sealed;

from the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand, from the tribe of Levi twelve thousand, from the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand,


rate difficulty: and the prophets shall become wind, and the word is not in them: thus shall it be done unto them.


rate difficulty: And Zerah the Ethiopian, with an army of a million, and three hundred war-carriages, came out against them to Mareshah.

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


simplify: And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his own arm brought salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it upheld him.

And he saw that there was no man, and was surprised that there was no one to take up their cause: so his arm gave salvation, and he made righteousness his support.


simplify: And he left them, and went away again, and prayed the third time, saying the same words.

And he went away from them again, and a third time said the same prayer.


simplify: And his disciples answered him, From whence can a man satisfy these men with bread here in the wilderness?

“Where will it be possible,” his disciples answered, “to get sufficient bread for these people in this lonely place?”


rate difficulty: And I am this day weak, though anointed king; and these men the sons of Zeruiah be too hard for me: the Lord shall reward the doer of evil according to his wickedness.

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