simplify: Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

Who was your guide through that great and cruel waste, where there were poison-snakes and scorpions and a dry land without water; who made water come out of the hard rock for you;


rate difficulty: Both to Greeks and to foreigners, both to wise and to thoughtless, I am a debtor,

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rate difficulty: And when the devil had completed every temptation, he departed from him for a season.

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rate difficulty: The children of the porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all an hundred thirty and nine.

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rate difficulty: They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.

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


rate difficulty: for which I am an ambassador [bound] with a chain, that I may be bold in it as I ought to speak.


simplify: `Of this one's seed God, according to promise, did raise to Israel a Saviour--Jesus,

It was from this man’s descendants that God, in accordance with his promise, gave Israel a Savior — Jesus;


rate difficulty: what then? in every way, whether in pretence or in truth, Christ is proclaimed--and in this I rejoice, yea, and shall rejoice.

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


simplify: And he took them up in his arms, put his hands upon them, and blessed them.

Then he folded the children in his arms, and, placing his hands on them, gave them his blessing.


simplify: In the dark they dig through houses: They shut themselves up in the day-time; They know not the light.

In the dark he makes holes in the walls of houses: in the daytime they are shutting themselves up, they have no knowledge of the light.


rate difficulty: Sons of Bezai: three hundred twenty and four.

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


rate difficulty: The Pharisee noticed, to his astonishment, that Jesus omitted the ceremonial washing before breakfast.

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


simplify: and all Naphtali, and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, unto the hinder sea,

And all Naphtali and the land of Ephraim and Manasseh, and all the land of Judah, as far as the Great Sea of the west;


rate difficulty: `And he who heard and did not, is like to a man having builded a house upon the earth, without a foundation, against which the stream brake forth, and immediately it fell, and the ruin of that house became great.'

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rate difficulty: And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.


simplify: which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,

For all the things referred to in them cease to exist when used. You are following mere human directions and instructions.


simplify: What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.

Let not that which has been joined together by God be parted by man.


simplify: and in like manner also the males having left the natural use of the female, did burn in their longing toward one another; males with males working shame, and the recompense of their error that was fit, in themselves receiving.

while the men, disregarding that for which women were intended by nature, were consumed with passion for one another. Men indulged in vile practices with men, and incurred in their own persons the inevitable penalty for their perverseness.


rate difficulty: Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go to sojourn there.

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simplify: So although I wrote unto you, I wrote not for his cause that did the wrong, nor for his cause that suffered the wrong, but that your earnest care for us might be made manifest unto you in the sight of God.

So though I sent you a letter, it was not only because of the man who did the wrong, or because of him to whom the wrong was done, but so that your true care for us might be made clear in the eyes of God.


simplify: There is that maketh himself rich, yet hath nothing: there is that maketh himself poor, yet hath great riches.

A man may be acting as if he had wealth, but have nothing; another may seem poor, but have great wealth.


rate difficulty: And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.

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


rate difficulty: But if you do not do this, then you are sinners against the Lord; and you may be certain that your sin will have its reward.


rate difficulty: Today you have given witness that the Lord is your God, and that you will go in his ways and keep his laws and his orders and his decisions and give ear to his voice:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: but he said unto me, Behold, thou shalt conceive, and bear a son; and now drink no wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing; for the child shall be a Nazirite unto God from the womb to the day of his death.

But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.


rate difficulty: and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.

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


simplify: And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah an inheritor of my mountains: and mine elect shall inherit it, and my servants shall dwell there.

And I will take a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah one who will have my mountains for a heritage: and the people I have taken to be mine will have it for themselves, and my servants will have their resting-place there.


rate difficulty: But let them ask with confidence, never doubting; for the person who doubts is like a wave of the sea driven here and there at the mercy of the wind —

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


simplify: And hath put all things under his feet, and gave him to be the head over all things to the church,

And God placed ‘all things under Christ’s feet,’ and gave him to the church as its supreme head;


simplify: Then had the churches rest throughout all Judea and Galilee and Samaria, and were edified; and walking in the fear of the Lord, and in the comfort of the Holy Ghost, were multiplied.

And so it came about that the church, throughout Judea, Galilee, and Samaria, enjoyed peace and became firmly established; and, ordering its life by respect for the Lord and the help of the Holy Spirit, it increased in numbers.


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that their rulers and elders and scribes were gathered together in Jerusalem;

And on the day after, the rulers and those in authority and the scribes came together in Jerusalem;


rate difficulty: And Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: who also with many honours did honour us, and we setting sail--they were lading <FI>us<Fi> with the things that were necessary.

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


rate difficulty: And God made great sea-beasts, and every sort of living and moving thing with which the waters were full, and every sort of winged bird: and God saw that it was good.


rate difficulty: and I saw another messenger going up from the rising of the sun, having a seal of the living God, and he did cry with a great voice to the four messengers, to whom it was given to injure the land and the sea, saying,

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


simplify: And he said, Lay not thy hand upon the lad, neither do thou anything unto him; for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son, from me.

And he said, Let not your hand be stretched out against the boy to do anything to him; for now I am certain that the fear of God is in your heart, because you have not kept back your son, your only son, from me.


simplify: For this is the will of God, even your sanctification, that ye abstain from fornication;

For the purpose of God for you is this: that you may be holy, and may keep yourselves from the desires of the flesh;


simplify: and the prudent took oil in their vessels, with their lamps.

while the prudent ones, besides taking their lamps, took oil in their jars.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord unto the king’s house of Judah; Thou art Gilead unto me, and the head of Lebanon: yet surely I will make thee a wilderness, and cities which are not inhabited.

For this is what the Lord has said about the family of the king of Judah: You are Gilead to me, and the top of Lebanon: but, truly, I will make you waste, with towns unpeopled.


rate difficulty: In thee have they taken gifts to shed blood; thou hast taken usury and increase, and thou hast overreached thy neighbours by oppression, and hast forgotten me, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: But he turned, and rebuked them.

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


simplify: For I fear, lest, when I come, I shall not find you such as I would, and that I shall be found unto you such as ye would not: lest there be debates, envyings, wraths, strifes, backbitings, whisperings, swellings, tumults:

for I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill feeling, rivalry, slandering, backbiting, self-assertion, and disorder.


simplify: For every kind of beasts, and of birds, and of serpents, and of things in the sea, is tamed, and hath been tamed of mankind:

For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;


simplify: And the name of the wife of Abishur was Abihail; and she bare him Ahban, and Molid.

And the name of Abishur's wife was Abihail; and she had Ahban and Molid by him.


rate difficulty: Without knowledge, not true to their undertakings, unkind, having no mercy:

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simplify: That I may perform the oath which I have sworn unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as it is this day. Then answered I, and said, So be it, O Lord.

So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.


rate difficulty: And with this confidence I purposed to come to you previously, that ye might have a second favour;

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


simplify: And while they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.


simplify: And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:

And Aaron, placing his two hands on the head of the living goat, will make a public statement over him of all the evil doings of the children of Israel and all their wrongdoing, in all their sins; and he will put them on the head of the goat and send him away, in the care of a man who will be waiting there, into the waste land.


rate difficulty: And they committed whoredom in Egypt; they committed whoredom in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there were handled the teats of their virginity.

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


rate difficulty: And the gatekeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, those watching at the gates, <FI>are<Fi> a hundred seventy and two.

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


rate difficulty: A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

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


simplify: And he took all the fat that was upon the inwards, and the caul above the liver, and the two kidneys, and their fat, and Moses burned it upon the altar.

And he took all the fat on the inside parts, and the fat on the liver, and the two kidneys with their fat, to be burned on the altar;


rate difficulty: Dost thou give to the horse might? Dost thou clothe his neck <FI>with<Fi> a mane?

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


rate difficulty: and all against which the unclean person cometh is unclean, and the person who is coming against <FI>it<Fi> is unclean till the evening.'

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


rate difficulty: All the cities of the families of the rest of the children of Kohath were ten with their suburbs.

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rate difficulty: These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Edom, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because his sword was turned against his brother, without pity, and his wrath was burning at all times, and he was angry for ever.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Joshua, Stretch out the spear that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thine hand. And Joshua stretched out the spear that he had in his hand toward the city.

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


rate difficulty: Now may our God and Father himself, and our Lord Jesus, direct our way unto you:

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


simplify: Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.

Therefore in one day will these curses strike her — death, misery, and famine, and she will be utterly consumed by fire; for mighty is the Lord God who condemned her.


rate difficulty: and they take captive the women who <FI>are<Fi> in it; from small unto great they have not put any one to death, and they lead away, and go on their way.


simplify: And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb, and Jabneel, unto Lakkum; and the goings out thereof were at the Jordan;

And their limit was from Heleph, from the oak-tree in Zaanannim, and Adami-hannekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum, ending at Jordan;


rate difficulty: And they will put on one side men to do no other work but to go through the land and put in the earth the rest of those who are still on the face of the land, to make it clean: after seven months are ended they are to make a search.

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


simplify: And the fifth angel sounded, and I saw a star fall from heaven unto the earth: and to him was given the key of the bottomless pit.

And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.


rate difficulty: Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I may have somewhat to write.

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


simplify: Let all bitterness, and wrath, and anger, and clamour, and evil speaking, be put away from you, with all malice:

Let all bitter, sharp and angry feeling, and noise, and evil words, be put away from you, with all unkind acts;


simplify: Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My father, thou art the guide of my youth?

Will you not, from this time, make your prayer to me, crying, My father, you are the friend of my early years?


simplify: Behold, God is great, and we know him not; The number of his years is unsearchable.

Truly, God is great, greater than all our knowledge; the number of his years may not be searched out.


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

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


rate difficulty: And this rumour of him went forth throughout all Judea, and throughout all the region round about.

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


rate difficulty: All ye, gather yourselves together, and hear: which among them hath declared these things? He whom Jehovah hath loved shall execute his pleasure on Babylon, and his arm [shall be on] the Chaldeans.

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


rate difficulty: And if you go to war in your land against any who do you wrong, then let the loud note of the horn be sounded; and the Lord your God will keep you in mind and give you salvation from those who are against you.


rate difficulty: will Jehovah be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my first-born for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


simplify: Nevertheless God, that comforteth those that are cast down, comforted us by the coming of Titus;

But God, who encourages the downcast, has encouraged us by the arrival of Titus.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto him, saying,


simplify: And John answered him, saying, Master, we saw one casting out devils in thy name, and he followeth not us: and we forbad him, because he followeth not us.

John said to him, Master, we saw one driving out evil spirits in your name: and we said that he might not, because he is not one of us.


simplify: And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and the frogs died out of the houses, out of the courts, and out of the fields.

And the Lord did as Moses said; and there was an end of all the frogs in the houses and in the open spaces and in the fields.


rate difficulty: Then the Lord will send these nations in flight before you, and you will take the lands of nations greater and stronger than yourselves.

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


rate difficulty: and the priest of Zeus-beyond-the-Walls, accompanied by the crowd, brought bullocks and garlands to the gates, with the intention of offering sacrifices.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And if it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto Jehovah thy God.

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


rate difficulty: And David sware unto Saul. And Saul went home; but David and his men gat them up unto the stronghold.

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


simplify: And he saith to them, `Be not amazed, ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified: he did rise--he is not here; lo, the place where they laid him!

“Do not be dismayed; you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified; he has risen, he is not here! Look! Here is the place where they laid him.


rate difficulty: For if I make you sorry, who then is he that maketh me glad but he that is made sorry by me?

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


rate difficulty: And having come to Mysia, they made an attempt to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not let them;

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Jesus ended directing his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and to preach in their cities.

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


rate difficulty: as those who from the beginning were eye-witnesses of and attendants on the Word have delivered them to us,


simplify: Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:

Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:


simplify: O Jehovah, do not thine eyes look upon truth? thou hast stricken them, but they were not grieved; thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they have refused to return.

O Lord, do not your eyes see good faith? you have given them punishment, but they were not troubled; you have sent destruction on them, but they did not take your teaching to heart: they have made their faces harder than a rock; they would not come back.


simplify: Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good?

Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?


simplify: And when Jehovah raised them up judges, then Jehovah was with the judge, and saved them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented Jehovah because of their groaning by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.


rate difficulty: And he answered him, It is I: go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

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


simplify: And by the border of Benjamin, from the east side unto the west side, Simeon shall have a portion.

And on the limit of Benjamin, from the east side to the west side: Simeon, one part.


rate difficulty: For I have pity no more on inhabitants of the land, An affirmation of Jehovah, And lo, I am causing man to come forth, Each into the hand of his neighbour, And into the hand of his king, And they have beaten down the land, And I do not deliver out of their hand.'

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


simplify: Son of man, because that Tyre hath said against Jerusalem, Aha, she is broken that was the gate of the peoples; she is turned unto me; I shall be replenished, now that she is laid waste:

Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, Aha, she who was the doorway of the peoples is broken; she is turned over to them; she who was full is made waste;


simplify: and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

And blue and purple and red and the best linen and goats' hair,


rate difficulty: Deliver thyself as a roe from the hand of the hunter, And as a bird from the hand of the fowler.

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


rate difficulty: Riches profit not in the day of wrath; But righteousness delivereth from death.

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


simplify: And when they heard that, they entered into the temple early in the morning, and taught. But the high priest came, and they that were with him, and called the council together, and all the senate of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to have them brought.

When they heard this, they went at daybreak into the Temple Courts, and began to teach. The high priest and his party, on their arrival, summoned the High Council, including all the leaders of the people among the Israelites, and sent to the jail to fetch the apostles.


simplify: and all things He did put under his feet, and did give him--head over all things to the assembly,

And God placed ‘all things under Christ’s feet,’ and gave him to the church as its supreme head;


rate difficulty: Turn again, my daughters, go your way; for I am too old to have a husband. If I should say, I have hope, if I should even have a husband to-night, and should also bear sons;

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


rate difficulty: And you are to put the ox to death before the Lord at the door of the Tent of meeting.

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


simplify: For in that he died, he died unto sin once: but in that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the life that he now lives, he lives for God.


rate difficulty: Jehovah, God of your fathers, is adding to you, as ye <FI>are<Fi> , a thousand times, and doth bless you as He hath spoken to you.

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


simplify: for we cannot but speak the things which we saw and heard.

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, The labor of Egypt, and the merchandise of Ethiopia, and the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall go after thee, in chains they shall come over; and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.


rate difficulty: then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands?

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


simplify: And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: this first knowing, that no prophecy of the Writing doth come of private exposition,

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


rate difficulty: And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and Jehovah was with him.

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


rate difficulty: Then I said, Ah, Lord! they say of me, Is he not a maker of stories?


simplify: and shall come forth to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.

And will go out to put in error the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to get them together to the war, the number of whom is like the sands of the sea.


rate difficulty: And the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, which they have made unclean, will be like the place of Topheth, even all the houses on whose roofs perfumes have been burned to all the army of heaven, and drink offerings drained out to other gods.

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


simplify: a time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; a time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing;

A time to take stones away and a time to get stones together; a time for kissing and a time to keep from kissing;


rate difficulty: and they will put him to death, but on the third day he will rise.” The disciples were greatly distressed.


rate difficulty: Then all the trees said to the thorn, You come and be king over us.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord, Enter not into the house of mourning, neither go to lament nor bemoan them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, saith the Lord, even lovingkindness and mercies.

For this is what the Lord has said: Do not go into the house of sorrow, do not go to make weeping or songs of grief for them: for I have taken away my peace from this people, says the Lord, even mercy and pity.


rate difficulty: I have said before, and I say <FI>it<Fi> before, as being present, the second time, and being absent, now, do I write to those having sinned before, and to all the rest, that if I come again, I will not spare,

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


simplify: All the ways of a man are clean in his own eyes; But Jehovah weigheth the spirits.

All a man's ways are clean to himself; but the Lord puts men's spirits into his scales.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.


rate difficulty: And he entered and was passing through Jericho.


simplify: I made me great works; I builded me houses; I planted me vineyards;

I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.


simplify: Let no man deceive you with empty words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the sons of disobedience.

Do not be turned from the right way by foolish words; for because of these things the punishment of God comes on those who do not put themselves under him.


simplify: wherefore he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue--let him pray that he may interpret;

Therefore let him who, when speaking, uses the gift of ‘tongues’ pray for ability to interpret them.


rate difficulty: who has been delivered for our offences and has been raised for our justification, it will be reckoned.

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simplify: Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Show them, therefore — so that the churches may see it — the proof of your affection, and the ground for our boasting to them about you.


simplify: That saith of Cyrus, He is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure: even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be built; and to the temple, Thy foundation shall be laid.

Who says of Cyrus, He will take care of my sheep, and will do all my pleasure: who says of Jerusalem, I will give the word for your building; and of the Temple, Your bases will be put in place.


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had set their faces on me that I should reign; but the kingdom is turned about and is become my brother's, for it was his from Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and they bury him, and mourn for him do all Israel, according to the word of Jehovah, that he spake by the hand of His servant Ahijah the prophet.

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


simplify: But they shall serve the Lord their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.


simplify: Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

And then many lips will give thanks on our behalf for the blessing granted us in answer to many prayers.


simplify: And Absalom’s servants came to the woman to the house; and they said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said unto them, They are gone over the brook of water. And when they had sought and could not find them, they returned to Jerusalem.

And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Jehu gathered all the people together, and said unto them, Ahab served Baal a little; but Jehu will serve him much.

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


rate difficulty: Nebuchadnezzar also carried of the vessels of the house of Jehovah to Babylon, and put them in his temple at Babylon.

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


simplify: Death and life are in the power of the tongue: and they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.


simplify: Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.

Just as he approached the gate of the town, there was a dead man being carried out for burial — an only son, and his mother was a widow. A large number of the people of the town were with her.


simplify: And that we would not give our daughters unto the people of the land, nor take their daughters for our sons:

And that we would not give our daughters to the peoples of the lands, or take their daughters for our sons;


rate difficulty: these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.


simplify: Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath Jehovah, the God of heaven, given me; and he hath charged me to build him a house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whosoever there is among you of all his people, Jehovah his God be with him, and let him go up.

Cyrus, king of Persia, has said, All the kingdoms of the earth have been given to me by the Lord, the God of heaven; and he has made me responsible for building a house for him in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Whoever there is among you of all his people, may the Lord his God be with him and let him go up.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I have marked that which Amalek did to Israel, how he set himself against him in the way, when he came up out of Egypt.

The Lord of armies says, I will give punishment to Amalek for what he did to Israel, fighting against him on the way when Israel came out of Egypt.


simplify: because of this we have been comforted in your comfort, and more abundantly the more did we rejoice in the joy of Titus, that his spirit hath been refreshed from you all;

In addition to the encouragement that this gave us, we were made far happier still by the happiness of Titus for his heart has been cheered by you all.


simplify: And the burnt-offering that the prince shall offer unto Jehovah shall be on the sabbath day six lambs without blemish and a ram without blemish;

And the burned offering offered to the Lord by the ruler on the Sabbath day is to be six lambs without a mark on them and a male sheep without a mark;


rate difficulty: And the king said unto the footmen that stood about him, Turn, and slay the priests of the Lord; because their hand also is with David, and because they knew when he fled, and did not shew it to me. But the servants of the king would not put forth their hand to fall upon the priests of the Lord.

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


simplify: For when David was up in the morning, the word of the Lord came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,


simplify: The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

The sons of Levi, heads of families, were recorded in the book of the histories, even till the days of Johanan, the son of Eliashib.


simplify: In those days there was no king in Israel, but every man did that which was right in his own eyes.

In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did as seemed right to him.


simplify: if we may say--`we have not sin,' ourselves we lead astray, and the truth is not in us;

If we say that there is no sin in us, we are deceiving ourselves, and the truth has no place in us.


simplify: Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

Give to everyone who comes with a request, and if a man takes away your property, make no attempt to get it back again.


rate difficulty: Now you are the body of Christ, and every one of you the separate parts of it.

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


simplify: And Pilate, wishing to content the multitude, released unto them Barabbas, and delivered Jesus, when he had scourged him, to be crucified.

And Pilate, desiring to do what was pleasing to the people, let Barabbas go free, and gave up Jesus, when he had been whipped, to be put to death on the cross.


simplify: And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

And they said to Moses, Was there no resting-place for the dead in Egypt, that you have taken us away to come to our death in the waste land? why have you taken us out of Egypt?


simplify: The wise men are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the Lord; and what wisdom is in them?

The wise men are shamed, they are overcome with fear and taken: see, they have given up the word of the Lord; and what use is their wisdom to them?


rate difficulty: and the priest hath seen him, and lo, the plague hath been turned to white, and the priest hath pronounced clean <FI>him who hath<Fi> the plague; he <FI>is<Fi> clean.

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


simplify: he is like to a man building a house, who did dig, and deepen, and laid a foundation upon the rock, and a flood having come, the stream broke forth on that house, and was not able to shake it, for it had been founded upon the rock.

They may be compared to a person building a house, who dug, and went deep, and laid the foundation on the rock. Then, when a flood came, the river swept down on that house, but had no power to shake it, because it had been built well.


simplify: Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

Alas for you Pharisees! You delight to have the front seat in the Synagogues, and to be greeted in the markets with respect.


simplify: And the witness is this, that God gave unto us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.

And his witness is this, that God has given us eternal life, and this life is in his Son.


simplify: In those days Hezekiah was sick even unto death: and he prayed unto Jehovah; and he spake unto him, and gave him a sign.

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death; and he made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord in answer gave him a sign.


simplify: And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

And a strong angel took up a stone like the great stone with which grain is crushed, and sent it into the sea, saying, So, with a great fall, will Babylon, the great town, come to destruction, and will not be seen any more at all.


simplify: For whatsoever things were written aforetime were written for our learning, that we through patience and comfort of the scriptures might have hope.

Whatever was written in the scriptures in days gone by was written for our instruction, so that, through patient endurance, and through the encouragement drawn from the scriptures, we might hold fast to our hope.


rate difficulty: And Naomi said unto her two daughters-in-law, Go, return each of you to her mother’s house: Jehovah deal kindly with you, as ye have dealt with the dead, and with me.

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


rate difficulty: Is prey taken from the mighty? And the captive of the righteous delivered?


simplify: And he went in unto Hagar, and she conceived: and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes.

And he went in to Hagar and she became with child, and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for her master's wife.


rate difficulty: But Saul said nothing that day, for his thought was, Something has taken place making him unclean; it is clear that he is not clean.


simplify: Then spake the priests and the prophets unto the princes and to all the people, saying, This man is worthy of death; for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.

Then the priests and the prophets said to the rulers and to all the people, The right fate for this man is death; for he has said words against this town in your hearing.


simplify: For though I preach the gospel, I have nothing to glory of: for necessity is laid upon me; yea, woe is unto me, if I preach not the gospel!

For if I am a preacher of the good news, I have no cause for pride in this; because I am forced to do so, for a curse is on me if I do not.


rate difficulty: Your doors will be open at all times; they will not be shut day or night; so that men may come into you with the wealth of the nations, with their kings at their head.


rate difficulty: But when Peter came to Antioch, I withstood him to [the] face, because he was to be condemned:

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


rate difficulty: And the captain of the body-guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three doorkeepers.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sin, and encamped in Dophkah.

And they went on from the waste land of Sin, and put up their tents in Dophkah.


rate difficulty: O my soul, come not thou into their secret; unto their assembly, mine honour, be not thou united: for in their anger they slew a man, and in their selfwill they digged down a wall.

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


rate difficulty: And Joab sent men to David, saying, I have made war against Rabbah and have taken the water-town.

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


rate difficulty: And with him they crucify two robbers, one on his right hand, and one on his left.

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


rate difficulty: The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.


simplify: And they shall take a cloth of blue, and cover the candlestick of the light, and his lamps, and his tongs, and his snuffdishes, and all the oil vessels thereof, wherewith they minister unto it:

And they are to take a blue cloth, covering with it the light-support with its lights and its instruments and its trays and all the oil vessels which are used for it:


rate difficulty: But Jesus said, Suffer the little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for to such belongeth the kingdom of heaven.

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


simplify: And to Elisabeth was the time fulfilled for her bringing forth, and she bare a son,

When Elizabeth’s time came, she gave birth to a son;


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will raise up evil against thee out of thine own house; and I will take thy wives before thine eyes, and give them unto thy neighbor, and he shall lie with thy wives in the sight of this sun.

The Lord says, From those of your family I will send evil against you, and before your very eyes I will take your wives and give them to your neighbour, and he will take your wives to his bed by the light of this sun.


rate difficulty: And Moses by the commandment of the Lord sent them from the wilderness of Paran: all those men were heads of the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: `Or those eighteen, on whom the tower in Siloam fell, and killed them; think ye that these became debtors beyond all men who are dwelling in Jerusalem?

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


rate difficulty: But when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man who had not on a guest's robe;


simplify: The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.


simplify: A rebuke entereth deeper into one that hath understanding Than a hundred stripes into a fool.

A word of protest goes deeper into one who has sense than a hundred blows into a foolish man.


simplify: and the prayer of faith shall save him that is sick, and the Lord shall raise him up; and if he have committed sins, it shall be forgiven him.

And by the prayer of faith the man who is ill will be made well, and he will be lifted up by the Lord, and for any sin which he has done he will have forgiveness.


simplify: And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

And now, O Lord God, may the word which you have said about your servant and about his family, be made certain for ever, and may you do as you have said!


simplify: This, then, having finished, and having sealed to them this fruit, I will return through you, to Spain;

When I have settled this matter, and have secured to the poor at Jerusalem the enjoyment of these benefits, I will go, by way of you, to Spain.


rate difficulty: At that time, when David saw that the Lord had given him an answer on the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite, he made an offering there.


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


rate difficulty: Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt set apart three cities for thee.

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


rate difficulty: But we pray toGod that ye may do nothing evil; not that we may appear approved, but that ye may do what is right, and we be as reprobates.

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


rate difficulty: And they made two rings of gold, and put [them] on the two ends of the breastplate, on the border thereof, which faceth the ephod inwards.

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


rate difficulty: Shem, Arphaxad, Shelah,

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


simplify: Seest thou how faith wrought with his works, and by works was faith made perfect?

You see how, in his case, faith and actions went together; that his faith was perfected as the result of his actions;


simplify: And then shall they see the Son of man coming in the clouds with great power and glory.

And then they will see the Son of man coming in clouds with great power and glory.


rate difficulty: Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.


simplify: For, behold, I am for you, and I will turn unto you, and ye shall be tilled and sown:

For truly I am for you, and I will be turned to you, and you will be ploughed and planted:


rate difficulty: And Huram sent him by his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and fetched thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

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


simplify: Wherefore he saith, Awake thou that sleepest, and arise from the dead, and Christ shall give thee light.

For everything that has its true character made manifest is clear as light. And that is why it is said —  ‘Sleeper, awake! Arise from the dead, And the Christ will give you light!’


rate difficulty: I--I have spoken, yea, I have called him, I have brought him in, And he hath made prosperous his way.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: The Patriarchs, out of jealousy, sold Joseph into slavery in Egypt; but God was with him,

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


simplify: Then shall the man be guiltless from iniquity, and this woman shall bear her iniquity.

Then the man will be free from all wrong, and the woman's sin will be on her.


simplify: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;


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

Presently the servant said ‘Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.’


rate difficulty: Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Gilead’s wife bare him sons; and when his wife’s sons grew up, they drove out Jephthah, and said unto him, Thou shalt not inherit in our father’s house; for thou art the son of another woman.

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


rate difficulty: Oh, Lord, what do I say, after that Israel hath turned the neck before its enemies?

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


simplify: Is it not calamity to the unrighteous, And disaster to the workers of iniquity?

Is it not trouble for the sinner, and destruction for the evil-doers?


simplify: But be ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving your own selves.

But be doers of the word, and not only hearers of it, blinding yourselves with false ideas.


simplify: This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? the same did God send to be a ruler and a deliverer by the hand of the angel which appeared to him in the bush.

This same Moses, whom they had disowned with the words — ‘Who made you a ruler and a judge?’ was the man whom God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer, under the guidance of the angel that had appeared to him in the bush.


rate difficulty: But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (he said unto him that was palsied), I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go unto thy house.

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


rate difficulty: For by him all things were made, in heaven and on earth, things seen and things unseen, authorities, lords, rulers, and powers; all things were made by him and for him;

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


simplify: And Saul also went to his house to Gibeah; and there went with him the host, whose hearts God had touched.

And Saul went to Gibeah, to his house; and with him went the men of war whose hearts had been touched by God.


rate difficulty: And My servant David <FI>is<Fi> king over them, And one shepherd have they all, And in My judgments they go, And My statutes they keep, and have done them.

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


rate difficulty: Persia, Cush, and Phut, with them, All of them <FI>with<Fi> shield and helmet.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: The ship was caught by it and was unable to keep her head to the wind, so we had to give way and let her drive before it.

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


rate difficulty: And he built altars in the house of the Lord, of which the Lord said, In Jerusalem will I put my name.

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


rate difficulty: I desire to be present with you now, and to change my voice; for I stand in doubt of you.

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


simplify: And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

And David gave orders to get together all the men from strange lands who were in the land of Israel; and he put stone-cutters to work, cutting stones for building the house of God.


rate difficulty: And the vulture, and the kite after his kind;


simplify: I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And when the sons of the prophets which were to view at Jericho saw him, they said, The spirit of Elijah doth rest on Elisha. And they came to meet him, and bowed themselves to the ground before him.

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


rate difficulty: so thou dost to thine ox, to thy sheep; seven days it is with its dam, on the eighth day thou dost give it to Me.

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


rate difficulty: For the tribe of Benjamin, Palti son of Raphu.


rate difficulty: And Aaron the priest went up into the mountain at the order of the Lord, and came to his death there, in the fortieth year after the children of Israel had come out of the land of Egypt, in the fifth month, on the first day of the month.

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


simplify: Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, And kept close from the birds of the heavens.

For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.


simplify: But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.

Barnabas, however, taking him by the hand, brought him to the apostles, and told them the whole story of how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord, and how the Lord had talked to him, and how in Damascus he had spoken out fearlessly in the name of Jesus.


simplify: So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the Lord hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;

May God's punishment be on Abner, if I do not for David as the Lord in his oath has said,


rate difficulty: Thy heart doth meditate terror, Where <FI>is<Fi> he who is counting? Where <FI>is<Fi> he who is weighing? Where <FI>is<Fi> he who is counting the towers?

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


simplify: And they did all eat, and were filled, and they took up what was over of the broken pieces seven baskets full,

Everyone had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces left.


rate difficulty: This is the thing that ye shall do: a third part of you, that come in on the sabbath, of the priests and of the Levites, shall be porters of the thresholds;

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: As the new wine is found in the cluster, and it is said, Destroy it not, for a blessing is in it; so will I do for my servants' sakes, that I may not destroy [them] all.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thy God, to observe to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thy God will set thee on high above all the nations of the earth:

Now if you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and keep with care all these orders which I have given you today, then the Lord your God will put you high over all the nations of the earth:


rate difficulty: Jehovah reigneth--to the age, and for ever!'


simplify: And when they were at Salamis, they proclaimed the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John as their attendant.

And at Salamis they were preaching the word of God in the Synagogues of the Jews: and John was with them, helping them.


simplify: Publish ye in the palaces at Ashdod, and in the palaces in the land of Egypt, and say, Assemble yourselves upon the mountains of Samaria, and behold what great tumults are therein, and what oppressions in the midst thereof.

Give out the news in the great houses of Assyria and in the land of Egypt, and say, Come together on the mountains of Samaria, and see what great outcries are there, and what cruel acts are done in it.


simplify: saying, I have sinned in that I betrayed innocent blood. But they said, What is that to us? see thou to it.

Saying, I have done wrong in giving into your hands an upright man. But they said, What is that to us? it is your business.


simplify: And their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith the Lord.

And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For even now some are turned away to Satan.

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


rate difficulty: Jesus sent him to his home, and said: “Do not go even into the village.”


rate difficulty: And the man knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man with the help of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And David saith unto Abishai, `Destroy him not; for who hath put forth his hand against the anointed of Jehovah, and been acquitted?'

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


rate difficulty: And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

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


rate difficulty: And he put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass; and the king of Babylon carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.


rate difficulty: And the sin of the young men was very great before Jehovah; for the men despised the offering of Jehovah.


simplify: Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him: for ye were strangers in the land of Egypt.

Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Job hath spoken without knowledge, and his words were without wisdom.

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


simplify: For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.

for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.


rate difficulty: So shall thy poverty come [as] a roving plunderer, and thy penury as an armed man.

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


rate difficulty: and Ishbi-Benob, who <FI>is<Fi> among the children of the giant--the weight of his spear <FI>is<Fi> three hundred <FI>shekels<Fi> weight of brass, and he is girded with a new one--speaketh of smiting David,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt say unto him, Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou hast not hearkened.

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


rate difficulty: Yes, and the confidence that our union with the Lord enables us to place in you leads us to believe that you are doing, and will do, what we direct you.

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


rate difficulty: And the border went over from thence toward Luz, to the side of Luz, which is Beth–el, southward; and the border descended to Ataroth–adar, near the hill that lieth on the south side of the nether Beth–horon.

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


rate difficulty: And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be slain at the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person that he die.

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


rate difficulty: Let the planter of seed be cut off from Babylon, and everyone using the curved blade at the time of the grain-cutting: for fear of the cruel sword, everyone will be turned to his people, everyone will go in flight to his land.

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


simplify: Moreover he made high places in the mountains of Judah, and made the inhabitants of Jerusalem to play the harlot, and led Judah astray.

And more than this, he made high places in the mountains of Judah, teaching the people of Jerusalem to go after false gods, and guiding Judah away from the true way.


simplify: in whom are all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge hidden.

In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.


simplify: and thence, the brethren having heard the things concerning us, came forth to meet us, unto Appii Forum, and Three Taverns--whom Paul having seen, having given thanks to God, took courage.

The followers there had heard about us, and came out as far as the Market of Appius and the Three Taverns to meet us. At sight of them Paul thanked God and was much cheered.


rate difficulty: How can you tell, wife, whether you may not save your husband? And how can you tell, husband, whether you may not save your wife?

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


simplify: Why dost thou strive against him? for he giveth not account of any of his matters.

Why do you put forward your cause against him, saying, He gives no answer to any of my words?


rate difficulty: And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms.


simplify: And the fathers! provoke not your children, but nourish them in the instruction and admonition of the Lord.

And fathers, do not irritate your children, but bring them up with Christian discipline and instruction.


rate difficulty: And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part.


simplify: And he said, I am seeking my brethren: tell me, I pray thee, where they are feeding the flock.

And he said, I am looking for my brothers; please give me word of where they are keeping their flock.


rate difficulty: For the outcome of life in the light may be seen in every form of goodness, righteousness, and sincerity —

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


simplify: Their widows are increased to me above the sand of the seas: I have brought upon them against the mother of the young men a spoiler at noonday: I have caused him to fall upon it suddenly, and terrors upon the city.

I have let their widows be increased in number more than the sand of the seas: I have sent against them, against the mother and the young men, one who makes waste in the heat of the day, causing pain and fears to come on her suddenly.


simplify: They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

Have sorrow for the fields, the pleasing fields, the fertile vine;


simplify: and lo, a voice out of the heavens, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.

And a voice came out of heaven, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.


simplify: Remove far from me vanity and lies: give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with food convenient for me:

Put far from me all false and foolish things: do not give me great wealth or let me be in need, but give me only enough food:


rate difficulty: And ye, hearken not to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your soothsayers, nor to your sorcerers, who speak unto you saying: Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.


simplify: Dig thou through the wall in their sight, and carry out thereby.

Make a hole in the wall, before their eyes, and go out through it.


simplify: And David said to Solomon, My son, as for me, it was in my mind to build an house unto the name of the Lord my God:

And David said to Solomon, My son, it was my desire to put up a house for the name of the Lord my God.


simplify: Jesus saith unto them, Did ye never read in the scriptures,  The stone which the builders rejected, The same was made the head of the corner; This was from the Lord, And it is marvellous in our eyes?

Jesus says to them, Did you never see in the Writings, The stone which the builders put on one side, the same has been made the chief stone of the building: this was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?


simplify: For when they came into the house, he lay on his bed in his bedchamber, and they smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head, and gat them away through the plain all night.

And when they came into the house, Ish-bosheth was stretched on his bed in his bedroom; and they made an attack on him and put him to death, and, cutting off his head, they took it with them and went by the road through the Arabah all night.


simplify: Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:

Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.


rate difficulty: Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.


simplify: And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

And you have the Spirit from the Holy One and you all have knowledge.


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;


rate difficulty: With a pen of iron and lead--For ever in a rock they may be hewn.

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


simplify: Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

Let every valley be lifted up, and every mountain and hill be made low, and let the rough places become level, and the hilltops become a valley,


simplify: persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed;

though pursued, never abandoned; though struck down, never killed!


rate difficulty: And he is to put his hand on the head of the sin-offering and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering.

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


simplify: Now these are the generations of Esau, who is Edom.

Now these are the generations of Esau, that is to say, Edom.


rate difficulty: `These men are peaceable with us; then let them dwell in the land, and trade <FI>in<Fi> it; and the land, lo, <FI>is<Fi> wide before them; their daughters let us take to ourselves for wives, and our daughters give to them.

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


rate difficulty: for a holy people <FI>art<Fi> thou to Jehovah thy God, and on thee hath Jehovah fixed to be to Him for a people, a peculiar treasure, out of all the peoples who <FI>are<Fi> on the face of the ground.

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


simplify: And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss for them from the end of the earth; and, behold, they shall come with speed swiftly.

And he will let a flag be lifted up as a sign to a far-off nation, whistling to them from the ends of the earth: and they will come quickly and suddenly.


simplify: And he said, About this season, according to the time of life, thou shalt embrace a son. And she said, Nay, my lord, thou man of God, do not lie unto thine handmaid.

And Elisha said, At this time in the coming year you will have a son in your arms. And she said, No, my lord, O man of God, do not say what is false to your servant.


rate difficulty: Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

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


simplify: Iron is taken out of the earth, and brass is molten out of the stone.

Iron is taken out of the earth, and stone is changed into brass by the fire.


simplify: With whomsoever thou findest thy gods, let him not live: before our brethren discern thou what is thine with me, and take it to thee. For Jacob knew not that Rachel had stolen them.

As for your gods, if anyone of us has them, let him be put to death: make search before us all for what is yours, and take it. For Jacob had no knowledge that Rachel had taken them.


simplify: and he said--`The Jews agreed to request thee, that to-morrow to the sanhedrim thou mayest bring down Paul, as being about to enquire something more exactly concerning him;

“Some men have agreed,” answered the lad, “to ask you to bring Paul down before the Council tomorrow, on the plea of your making further inquiry into his case.


simplify: And he shall go out unto the altar that is before the Lord, and make an atonement for it; and shall take of the blood of the bullock, and of the blood of the goat, and put it upon the horns of the altar round about.

And he is to go out to the altar which is before the Lord and make it free from sin; and he is to take some of the blood of the ox and the blood of the goat and put it on the horns of the altar and round it;


simplify: With him is strength and wisdom: the deceived and the deceiver are his.

With him are strength and wise designs; he who is guided into error, together with his guide, are in his hands;


simplify: And that from a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: If a man takes a wife, and after they are married she is unpleasing to him because of some bad quality in her, let him give her a statement in writing and send her away from his house.

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


rate difficulty: If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.

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


rate difficulty: For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,

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


simplify: And the account of this went forth in all Judea about him, and in all the region around.

And this story about Jesus spread all through Judea, and in the neighboring countries as well.


simplify: And I will also take of them for priests and for Levites, saith the Lord.

And some of them will I take for priests and Levites, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he took away the horses that the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entering in of the house of the Lord, by the chamber of Nathan–melech the chamberlain, which was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire.

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


rate difficulty: Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that.


rate difficulty: For the married woman is bound by law to her husband so long as he is alive; but if the husband should die, she is clear from the law of the husband:

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


simplify: But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless.

But if these words had been in your minds, My desire is for mercy and not for offerings, you would not have been judging those who have done no wrong.


simplify: And I will give unto thee, and to thy seed after thee, the land of thy sojournings, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.

And to you and to your seed after you, I will give the land in which you are living, all the land of Canaan for an eternal heritage; and I will be their God.


simplify: And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have wrought with you for my name’s sake, not according to your wicked ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord God.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And when the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead heard of that which the Philistines had done to Saul;

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


simplify: While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain:

While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, are not dark, and the clouds come not back after the rain;


simplify: Joseph of Arimathea, an honourable counsellor, which also waited for the kingdom of God, came, and went in boldly unto Pilate, and craved the body of Jesus.

Joseph from Ramah, a Councillor of good position, who was himself living in expectation of the kingdom of God, came and ventured to go in to see Pilate, and to ask for the body of Jesus.


rate difficulty: But Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard left of the poor of the land for vinedressers and for husbandmen.

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


simplify: And again he sent unto them another servant; and him they wounded in the head, and handled shamefully.

And again he sent to them another servant; and they gave him wounds on the head, and were very cruel to him.


simplify: They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.


simplify: and say unto Tyre, O thou that dwellest at the entry of the sea, that art the merchant of the peoples unto many isles, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Thou, O Tyre, hast said, I am perfect in beauty.

And say to Tyre, O you who are seated at the doorway of the sea, trading for the peoples with the great sea-lands, these are the words of the Lord: You, O Tyre, have said, I am a ship completely beautiful.


rate difficulty: And Jacob calleth unto his sons and saith, `Be gathered together, and I declare to you that which doth happen with you in the latter end of the days.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all the captivity, whom I have caused to be carried away captive from Jerusalem unto Babylon:

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


simplify: Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Putting all your troubles on him, for he takes care of you.


rate difficulty: The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.

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


simplify: that the fellowship of thy faith may become effectual, in the knowledge of every good thing which is in you, unto Christ.

That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.


simplify: and if I delay, that thou mayest know how it behoveth <FI>thee<Fi> to conduct thyself in the house of God, which is an assembly of the living God--a pillar and foundation of the truth,

but in case I should be delayed, I want you to know what your conduct ought to be in the Household of God, which is the church of the living God — the pillar and stay of the truth.


simplify: Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

And Pilate again said to them that it was his desire to let Jesus go free.


simplify: And Moses said unto the Lord, The people cannot come up to mount Sinai: for thou chargedst us, saying, Set bounds about the mount, and sanctify it.

And Moses said to the Lord, The people will not be able to come up the mountain, for you gave us orders to put limits round the mountain, marking it out and making it holy.


simplify: Therefore hear ye the word of Jehovah, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt: Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith Jehovah, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, As the Lord Jehovah liveth.

And now give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who are living in the land of Egypt: Truly, I have taken an oath by my great name, says the Lord, that my name is no longer to be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, By the life of the Lord God.


rate difficulty: that the house of Israel may go no more astray from me, neither make themselves any more unclean with all their transgressions; and they shall be my people, and I will be theirGod, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore are they before the throne of God, and serve him day and night in his temple: and he that sitteth on the throne shall dwell among them.

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


simplify: That he that escapeth in that day shall come unto thee, to cause thee to hear it with thine ears?

In that day, one who has got away safe will come to you to give you news of it.


simplify: and whosoever would be first among you, shall be servant of all.

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.


simplify: But when king David heard of all these things, he was very wroth.

But when King David had news of all these things he was very angry; but he did not make trouble for Amnon his son, for he was dear to David, being his oldest son.


simplify: But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

But the Lord is true, who will give you strength and keep you safe from evil.


simplify: Even so faith, if it have not works, is dead in itself.


rate difficulty: `And his guilt-offering he bringeth in to Jehovah, a ram, a perfect one, out of the flock, at thy estimation, for a guilt-offering, unto the priest,

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


rate difficulty: And on the third day eleven oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, without any mark;

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


simplify: For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.

For you yourselves have the knowledge that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night.


simplify: And they, when they heard it, lifted up their voice to God with one accord, and said, O Lord, thou that didst make the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

And hearing it, they all, with one mind, made prayer to God and said, O Lord, maker of heaven and earth and the sea and all things in them:


rate difficulty: And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and ye shall offer a burnt-offering, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old; they shall be without blemish;

And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord, thirteen oxen, two male sheep, fourteen he-lambs of the first year, all without any mark on them;


simplify: And all these kings and their land did Joshua take at one time, because the Lord God of Israel fought for Israel.

And all these kings and their land Joshua took at the same time, because the Lord, the God of Israel, was fighting for Israel.


rate difficulty: Even if those who have been forced out are living in the farthest part of heaven, the Lord your God will go in search of you, and take you back;

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


simplify: that which we have seen and heard declare we to you, that ye also may have fellowship with us, and our fellowship <FI>is<Fi> with the Father, and with His Son Jesus Christ;

It is of what we have seen and heard that we now tell you, so that you may have communion with us. And our communion is with the Father and with his Son, Jesus Christ.


simplify: Return, return, O Shulamite; return, return, that we may look upon thee. What will ye see in the Shulamite? As it were the company of two armies.

Come back, come back, O Shulammite; come back, come back, so that our eyes may see you. What will you see in the Shulammite? A sword-dance.


simplify: And Joshua said unto them, Fear not, nor be dismayed; be strong and of good courage: for thus shall Jehovah do to all your enemies against whom ye fight.

And Joshua said to them, Have no fear and do not be troubled; be strong and take heart: for so will the Lord do to all against whom you make war.


simplify: Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

But, perhaps, you bear the name of ‘Jew,’ and are relying on law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,


simplify: Behold, the Lord hath proclaimed unto the end of the world, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

The Lord has sent out word to the end of the earth, Say to the daughter of Zion, See, your saviour comes; those whom he has made free are with him, and those to whom he has given salvation go before him.


simplify: Be thou prepared, yea, prepare thyself, thou, and all thy companies that are assembled unto thee, and be thou a guard unto them.

Be ready, make yourself ready, you and all the forces who are with you, and be ready for my orders.


simplify: Therefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.


simplify: And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:

In the streets of Lystra there used to sit a man who had no power in his feet; he had been lame from his birth, and had never walked.


simplify: And he repaired the altar of the Lord, and sacrificed thereon peace offerings and thank offerings, and commanded Judah to serve the Lord God of Israel.

And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: And their faces and their wings were separate above; two wings of every one were joined one to another, and two covered their bodies.

And their wings were separate at the top; two of the wings of every one were joined one to another, and two were covering their bodies.


simplify: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

With prayers and deep desires, making requests at all times in the Spirit, and keeping watch, with strong purpose, in prayer for all the saints,


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Take heed that no man deceive you.

And Jesus said to them in answer, Take care that you are not tricked.


rate difficulty: And when he had spent three months there, and a plot was laid against him by the Jews as he was about to set sail for Syria, he determined to return through Macedonia.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

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


simplify: He is not here, but is risen: remember how he spake unto you when he was yet in Galilee,

He is not here, he has come back to life: have in mind what he said to you when he was still in Galilee, saying,


rate difficulty: And their land is full of idols; they bow themselves down to the work of their own hands, to that which their fingers have made.

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


rate difficulty: When you are pulling the grapes from your vines, do not take up those which have been dropped; let them be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow.


rate difficulty: For David has not ascended into the heavens, but he says himself, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit at my right hand

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


rate difficulty: and said, My God forbid it me, that I should do this: shall I drink the blood of these men that have put their lives in jeopardy? for with the jeopardy of their lives they brought it. Therefore he would not drink it. These things did the three mighty men.


simplify: But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

But he made answer and said, Truly I say to you, I have no knowledge of you.


simplify: And he arose and went: and, behold, a man of Ethiopia, an eunuch of great authority under Candace queen of the Ethiopians, who had the charge of all her treasure, and had come to Jerusalem for to worship,

And he went and there was a man of Ethiopia, a servant of great authority under Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, and controller of all her property, who had come up to Jerusalem for worship;


simplify: And join them one to another into one stick; and they shall become one in thine hand.

Then, joining them one to another, make them one stick, so that they may be one in your hand.


rate difficulty: But whoever gives ear to me will take his rest safely, living in peace without fear of evil.

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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt offer thy burnt-offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of Jehovah thyGod; and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of Jehovah thyGod, and the flesh shalt thou eat.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Go in flight out of Jerusalem, so that you may be safe, you children of Benjamin, and let the horn be sounded in Tekoa, and the flag be lifted up on Beth-haccherem: for evil is looking out from the north, and a great destruction.

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


simplify: In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.


simplify: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;


rate difficulty: `A woman, a harlot, or polluted, they do not take, and a woman cast out from her husband they do not take, for he <FI>is<Fi> holy to his God;

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


rate difficulty: For at one time you lived in sin, following the ways of the world, in subjection to the Ruler of the powers of the air — the Spirit who is still at work among the disobedient.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And Joash the king of Israel took Amaziah king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, at Beth–shemesh, and brought him to Jerusalem, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem from the gate of Ephraim to the corner gate, four hundred cubits.

And Joash, king of Israel, made Amaziah, king of Judah, the son of Joash, the son of Jehoahaz, prisoner at Beth-shemesh, and took him to Jerusalem; and he had the wall of Jerusalem pulled down from the doorway of Ephraim to the doorway in the angle, four hundred cubits.


simplify: But they, passing through from Perga, came to Antioch of Pisidia; and they went into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and sat down.

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


simplify: And be renewed in the spirit of your mind;

And be made new in the spirit of your mind,


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon these tables the words that were in the first tables, which thou brakest.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.


rate difficulty: And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.


simplify: And when she had brought them near unto him to eat, he took hold of her, and said unto her, Come, lie with me, my sister.

And when she took them to give them to him, he put his arms round her and said, Come to bed, my sister.


rate difficulty: The anger of Jehovah doth not turn back Till His doing, and till His establishing, The thoughts of His heart, In the latter end of the days ye attend to it With understanding.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will lift up my hand to the nations, and set up my banner to the peoples; and they shall bring thy sons in [their] bosom, and thy daughters shall be carried upon the shoulder.

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


rate difficulty: For his princes were at Zoan, and his ambassadors came to Hanes.

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


rate difficulty: and Josias begat Jechonias and his brethren, at the time of the carrying away of Babylon.

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


simplify: And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.

And he took them out till they were near Bethany, and lifting up his hands, he gave them a blessing.


simplify: And they did so, and brought forth those five kings unto him out of the cave, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.

And they did so, and made those five kings come out of the hole to him, the king of Jerusalem, the king of Hebron, the king of Jarmuth, the king of Lachish, and the king of Eglon.


simplify: When he established the heavens, I was there: When he set a circle upon the face of the deep,

When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:


rate difficulty: With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

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


simplify: Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink.

Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.


rate difficulty: If ye know that he is righteous, ye know that every one also that doeth righteousness is begotten of him.

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


rate difficulty: The merciful man doeth good to his own soul; but the cruel troubleth his own flesh.

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


rate difficulty: because at the first <FI>it was<Fi> not ye, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, because we sought Him not according to the ordinance.'

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


rate difficulty: what think ye?' and they answering said, `He is worthy of death.'


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man, by whom we may enquire of the Lord: but I hate him; for he never prophesied good unto me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.


rate difficulty: Every athlete exercises self-restraint in everything; they, indeed, for a crown that fades, we for one that is unfading.

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


rate difficulty: This was the first enrolment made when Quirinius was governor of Syria.

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


rate difficulty: It is enough for a scholar to be treated like his teacher, and a servant like his master. If the head of the house has been called Beelzebul, how much more the members of his household!


rate difficulty: Make no store of wealth for yourselves on earth, where it may be turned to dust by worms and weather, and where thieves may come in by force and take it away.

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


rate difficulty: So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when he came near the camp, and saw the calf and the dancing, that Moses' anger burned, and he cast the tables out of his hands, and shattered them beneath the mountain.

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


rate difficulty: And Samson took hold of the two middle pillars upon which the house stood, and on which it was borne up, of the one with his right hand, and of the other with his left.

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


rate difficulty: Though thou, Israel, play the harlot, yet let not Judah offend; and come not ye unto Gilgal, neither go ye up to Beth–aven, nor swear, The Lord liveth.

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


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

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