rate difficulty: Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall.

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


rate difficulty: Cry aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

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


simplify: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

I have put your evil doings out of my mind like a thick cloud, and your sins like a mist: come back to me; for I have taken up your cause.


simplify: And Hezekiah answered, It is a light thing for the shadow to go down ten degrees: nay, but let the shadow return backward ten degrees.

And Hezekiah said in answer, It is a simple thing for the shade to go forward; but let it go back ten degrees.


rate difficulty: And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards on the south side southward.

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


rate difficulty: Comfort ye, comfort ye my people, saith yourGod.

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


simplify: And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king’s servant, even me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz said in answer, When Joab sent me, your servant, I saw a great outcry going on, but I had no knowledge of what it was.


rate difficulty: Their love also, and their hatred, and their envy is already perished; neither have they any more for ever a portion in all that is done under the sun.


rate difficulty: And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, that abundance of waters may cover thee?

Is your voice sent up to the cloud, so that you may be covered by the weight of waters?


rate difficulty: When they fast, I hearken not unto their cry, And when they cause to ascend burnt-offering and present, I accept them not, For by sword, and by famine, And by pestilence, I am consuming them.

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


rate difficulty: `And, if that evil servant may say in his heart, My Lord doth delay to come,

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


rate difficulty: I have written to you in the epistle not to mix with fornicators;


rate difficulty: When I saw among their goods a fair robe of Babylon and two hundred shekels of silver, and a mass of gold, fifty shekels in weight, I was overcome by desire and took them; and they are put away in the earth in my tent, and the silver is under it.

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


simplify: that they may make the young women sober-minded, to be lovers of <FI>their<Fi> husbands, lovers of <FI>their<Fi> children,

that they should teach what is right, so as to train the younger women to love their husbands and children,


simplify: As the sin offering is, so is the trespass offering: there is one law for them: the priest that maketh atonement therewith shall have it.

As is the sin-offering, so is the offering for wrongdoing; there is one law for them: the priest who makes the offering to take away sin, he is to have it.


simplify: `Are not five sparrows sold for two assars? and one of them is not forgotten before God,

Are not five sparrows sold for two copper coins? Yet not one of them has escaped God’s notice.


rate difficulty: And upon a set day Herod, arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and made an oration unto them.

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


simplify: And they sent out unto him their disciples with the Herodians, saying, Master, we know that thou art true, and teachest the way of God in truth, neither carest thou for any man: for thou regardest not the person of men.

They sent their disciples, with the Herodians, to say to him: “Teacher, we know that you are an honest person, and that you teach the way of God honestly, and are not afraid of anyone; for you pay no regard to a person’s position.


simplify: Then Saul’s anger was kindled against Jonathan, and he said unto him, Thou son of a perverse rebellious woman, do not I know that thou hast chosen the son of Jesse to thine own shame, and unto the shame of thy mother’s nakedness?

Then Saul was moved to wrath against Jonathan, and he said to him, You son of an evil and uncontrolled woman, have I not seen how you have given your love to the son of Jesse, to your shame and the shame of your mother?


rate difficulty: But now this is the thing which we will do to Gibeah: we will go up against it by lot;

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


rate difficulty: How frequently is the light of the evil-doers put out, or does trouble come on them? how frequently does his wrath take them with cords?


simplify: On the four sides were the porters, toward the east, west, north, and south.

There were keepers of the doors on the four sides, to the east, west, north, and south.


simplify: The children of the other Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

The children of the other Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.


simplify: And Moses told these sayings unto all the children of Israel: and the people mourned greatly.

And when Moses put these words before the children of Israel, the people were full of grief.


rate difficulty: Son of man, thou dwellest in the midst of the rebellious house, that have eyes to see, and see not, that have ears to hear, and hear not; for they are a rebellious house.

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


simplify: And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release <FI>him<Fi> .'

“Why, what harm has this man done?” Pilate said to them for the third time. “I have found nothing in him for which he could be condemned to death. So I will have him scourged, and then release him.”


simplify: And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it.

And he gave them orders not to give news of it to anyone; but the more he made this request, so much the more they made it public.


rate difficulty: to whom the word of Jehovah came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.


rate difficulty: He will give his angels orders to take care of you:

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of strangers shall build up thy walls, and their kings shall minister unto thee: for in my wrath I smote thee, but in my favour have I had mercy on thee.

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


simplify: Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of the Lord, how I hid an hundred men of the Lord’s prophets by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water?

Has my lord not had word of what I did when Jezebel was putting the Lord's prophets to death? how I kept a hundred of them in a secret hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water?


simplify: And the Egyptians made the children of Israel to serve with rigor:

And they gave the children of Israel even harder work to do:


simplify: They are wet with the showers of the mountains, And embrace the rock for want of a shelter.

They are wet with the rain of the mountains, and get into the cracks of the rock for cover.


rate difficulty: For I will give honour to the name of the Lord: let our God be named great.


rate difficulty: Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod on one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: “Be on your guard against the leaven — that is, the hypocrisy — of the Pharisees.

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


rate difficulty: And your little ones, of whom ye said, They shall be a prey, and your children, who this day know neither good nor evil, they shall go in thither, and unto them will I give it, and they shall possess it.

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


simplify: And the pride of Israel doth testify to his face: therefore Israel and Ephraim shall stumble in their iniquity; Judah also shall stumble with them.

And the pride of Israel gives an answer to his face; and Ephraim will have a fall through his sins, and the fall of Judah will be the same as theirs.


rate difficulty: But the men having come to him said, John the baptist has sent us to thee, saying, Art thou he that is coming, or are we to wait for another?

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


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh turneth and goeth in unto his house, and hath not set his heart even to this;

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


simplify: night and day praying exceedingly that we may see your face, and may perfect that which is lacking in your faith?

Night and day requesting God again and again that we may see your face and make your faith complete.


simplify: For they that sleep sleep in the night; and they that be drunken are drunken in the night.

It is at night that people sleep, and at night that drunkards get drunk.


simplify: The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, and stood up.

The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;


rate difficulty: And one of those reclining with him, having heard these things, said to him, `Happy <FI>is<Fi> he who shall eat bread in the reign of God;'

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, They shall offer their offering, each prince on his day, for the dedicating of the altar.

And the Lord said to Moses, Let every chief on his day give his offering to make the altar holy.


rate difficulty: And his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, Shall I go and call thee a wet-nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

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


rate difficulty: Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.


rate difficulty: And I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah thy God, Quieting the sea, when its billows roar, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name.

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


rate difficulty: And they slew Hamor and Shechem his son with the edge of the sword, and took Dinah out of Shechem’s house, and went forth.

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


rate difficulty: His offering was one silver plate; a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;

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


rate difficulty: Then said the king, The one says, This that is living is my son, and thy son is the dead; and the other says, No, for thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

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


rate difficulty: Give my father word of all my glory in Egypt and of all you have seen; and come back quickly with my father.

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


rate difficulty: Let the nations bestir themselves, and come up to the valley of Jehoshaphat; for there will I sit to judge all the nations round about.


simplify: Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon, With the crown wherewith his mother hath crowned him In the day of his espousals, And in the day of the gladness of his heart.

Go out, O daughters of Jerusalem, and see King Solomon, with the crown which his mother put on his head on the day when he was married, and on the day of the joy of his heart.


simplify: and Kedemoth with its suburbs, and Mephaath with its suburbs;

And Kedemoth with its outskirts, and Mephaath with its outskirts;


simplify: the eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The eighth Jeshaiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; The gate of the inner court that looketh toward the east shall be shut the six working days; but on the sabbath it shall be opened, and in the day of the new moon it shall be opened.

This is what the Lord has said: The doorway of the inner square looking to the east is to be shut on the six working days; but on the Sabbath it is to be open, and at the time of the new moon it is to be open.


rate difficulty: Shall not the day of the Lord be darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Edom, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he pursued his brother with the sword, and cast off all pity; and his anger did tear continually, and he kept his wrath for ever.

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


simplify: `Two debtors were to a certain creditor; the one was owing five hundred denaries, and the other fifty;

“There were two people who were in debt to a moneylender; one owed five hundred silver coins, and the other fifty.


simplify: We have a little sister, And she hath no breasts:  What shall we do for our sister  In the day when she shall be spoken for?

We have a young sister, and she has no breasts; what are we to do for our sister in the day when she is given to a man?


rate difficulty: And Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.

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


simplify: And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:

And if the people of the land do not take note of that man when he gives his offspring to Molech, and do not put him to death,


simplify: And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Master, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

And Peter, having a memory of it, said to him, Master, see, the tree which was cursed by you is dead.


rate difficulty: And they ascended by the south, and came unto Hebron; where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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


rate difficulty: Be awake, O north wind; and come, O south, blowing on my garden, so that its spices may come out. Let my loved one come into his garden, and take of his good fruits.


rate difficulty: And he went from year to year in circuit to Bethel, and Gilgal, and Mizpah, and judged Israel in all those places.

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


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as his fathers had done: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done, not turning away from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.


rate difficulty: Whom resist, stedfast in faith, knowing that the selfsame sufferings are accomplished in your brotherhood which [is] in [the] world.

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


simplify: the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, departed not from before the people.

The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.


rate difficulty: But the Jews stirred up the devout and honourable women, and the chief men of the city, and raised persecution against Paul and Barnabas, and expelled them out of their coasts.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.

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


rate difficulty: And I said, Ah, Lord Jehovah! they say of me, Doth he not speak parables?


simplify: And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.


rate difficulty: But the men were very good unto us, and we were not hurt, neither missed we anything, as long as we went with them, when we were in the fields:

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph answered Pharaoh, saying, It is not in me: God shall give Pharaoh an answer of peace.

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


rate difficulty: To the saints and true brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father.


rate difficulty: Their horses were seven hundred and thirty-six; their mules two hundred and forty-five;


simplify: And his sons went and held a feast in the house of each one upon his day; and they sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them.

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


rate difficulty: having been confident of this very thing, that He who did begin in you a good work, will perform <FI>it<Fi> till a day of Jesus Christ,


simplify: For the people were numbered, and, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead there.

For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.


simplify: And when the king asked the woman, she told him. So the king appointed unto her a certain officer, saying, Restore all that was hers, and all the fruits of the field since the day that she left the land, even until now.

And in answer to the king's questions, the woman gave him all the story. So the king gave orders to one of his unsexed servants, saying, Give her back all her property, and all the produce of her fields from the day when she went away from the land up till now.


simplify: and they shall be dismayed; pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman in travail: they shall look in amazement one at another; their faces shall be faces of flame.

Their hearts will be full of fear; pains and sorrows will overcome them; they will be in pain like a woman in childbirth; they will be shocked at one another; their faces will be like flames.


rate difficulty: Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.


simplify: Then he said, Go, borrow thee vessels abroad of all thy neighbours, even empty vessels; borrow not a few.

Then he said, Go out to all your neighbours and get vessels, a very great number of them.


rate difficulty: And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

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


rate difficulty: To whom do I speak, and testify, and they hear? Lo, their ear <FI>is<Fi> uncircumcised, And they are not able to attend. Lo, a word of Jehovah hath been to them for a reproach, They delight not in it.

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


simplify: Wherefore they came again, and told him. And he said, This is the word of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the portion of Jezreel shall dogs eat the flesh of Jezebel:

So they came back and gave him word of it. And he said, This is what the Lord said by his servant Elijah the Tishbite, saying, In the heritage of Jezreel the flesh of Jezebel will become food for dogs;


simplify: To fetch about this form of speech hath thy servant Joab done this thing: and my lord is wise, according to the wisdom of an angel of God, to know all things that are in the earth.

This he did, hoping that the face of this business might be changed: and my lord is wise, with the wisdom of the angel of God, having knowledge of everything on earth.


simplify: And thou, child, Prophet of the Highest Shalt thou be called; For thou shalt go before the face of the Lord, To prepare His ways.

And you, child, will be called prophet of the Most High, For you will go before the Lord to make ready his way,


simplify: `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not kill, and whoever may kill shall be in danger of the judgment;

You have heard that to our ancestors it was said — ‘You must not commit murder,’ and ‘Whoever commits murder will be brought to trial.’


rate difficulty: Then Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, in what is thy great strength, and with what thou mightest be bound to overpower thee.

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


simplify: who saved us, and called us with a holy calling, not according to our works, but according to his own purpose and grace, which was given us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,

Who gave us salvation, marking us out for his purpose, not on account of our works, but in the measure of his purpose and his grace, which was given to us in Christ Jesus before times eternal,


simplify: So they brought the ark of God, and set it in the midst of the tent that David had pitched for it: and they offered burnt sacrifices and peace offerings before God.

Then they took in the ark of God and put it inside the tent which David had put up for it; and they made offerings, burned offerings and peace-offerings before God.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the king made a song of grief for Abner and said, Was the death of Abner to be like the death of a foolish man?

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


simplify: Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

Then his brothers and his father's people came down and took him up and put his body to rest in the earth between Zorah and Eshtaol in the resting-place of Manoah his father. And he had been judge of Israel for twenty years.


rate difficulty: And they removed from the desert of Sinai, and pitched at Kibroth–hattaavah.

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


simplify: Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


rate difficulty: And he struck it into the pan, or kettle, or caldron, or pot; all that the fleshhook brought up the priest took for himself. So they did in Shiloh unto all the Israelites that came thither.

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


simplify: wherefore by works of law shall no flesh be declared righteous before Him, for through law is a knowledge of sin.

For ‘no human being will be pronounced righteous before God’ as the result of obedience to law; for it is law that shows what sin is.


simplify: To another faith by the same Spirit; to another the gifts of healing by the same Spirit;

To another faith in the same Spirit; and to another the power of taking away disease, by the one Spirit;


rate difficulty: Claudius Lysias unto the most excellent governor Felix sendeth greeting.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Yet Jeroboam the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon the son of David, rose up, and rebelled against his lord.

But Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, the servant of Solomon, the son of David, took up arms against his lord.


rate difficulty: Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.

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


simplify: And ye saw the breaches of the city of David, that they were many; and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool;

And you saw all the broken places in the wall of the town of David: and you got together the waters of the lower pool.


rate difficulty: For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

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


rate difficulty: But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and owls shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses fled at this saying, and became a sojourner in the land of Madiam, where he begat two sons.

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


simplify: And they set apart Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.

So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.


simplify: And thou shalt appoint Aaron and his sons, and they shall wait on their priest’s office: and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

And give orders that Aaron and his sons are to keep their place as priests; any strange person who comes near is to be put to death.


simplify: And Zadok the priest took the horn of oil out of the Tent, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, Long live king Solomon.

And Zadok the priest took the vessel of oil out of the Tent, and put the holy oil on Solomon. And when the horn was sounded, all the people said, Long life to King Solomon!


simplify: Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

Even if they go deep into the underworld, my hand will take them up from there; if they go up to heaven, I will get them down:


rate difficulty: Whoso curseth his father or his mother, his lamp shall be put out in the blackest darkness.

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


rate difficulty: I have seen the oppression of my people who are in Egypt, and heard their groans, and I have come down to deliver them. Come now and I will send you into Egypt.’

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


simplify: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

Let Deacons be husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their houses well.


simplify: Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done by him: and he was perplexed, because that it was said of some, that John was risen from the dead;

Now Herod the king had news of all these things: and he was in doubt, because it was said by some people that John had come back from the dead;


simplify: And they made war with the Hagarites, with Jetur, and Nephish, and Nodab.

And they went to war against the Hagarites, with Jetur and Naphish and Nodab.


rate difficulty: Simon has related howGod first visited to take out of [the] nations a people for his name.

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


rate difficulty: Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, Up! Put an end to us yourself: for you have a man's strength. Then Gideon got up and put Zebah and Zalmunna to death and took the ornaments which were on their camels' necks.


rate difficulty: You have heard that it was said — ‘You must not commit adultery.’


rate difficulty: `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> he who is lying with his sister, daughter of his father, or daughter of his mother, --and all the people have said, Amen.

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


simplify: Wherefore then do ye harden your hearts, as the Egyptians and Pharaoh hardened their hearts? When he had wrought wonderfully among them, did they not let the people go, and they departed?

Why do you make your hearts hard, like the hearts of Pharaoh and the Egyptians? When he had made sport of them, did they not let the people go, and they went away?


rate difficulty: And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:

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


simplify: And they journeyed from Ezion-geber, and encamped in the wilderness of Zin (the same is Kadesh).

And they went on from Ezion-geber, and put up their tents in the waste land of Zin (which is Kadesh).


simplify: For this cause was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.


rate difficulty: This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them--having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;

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


simplify: Or when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a burning by fire, and the quick flesh of the burning become a bright spot, reddish-white, or white;

Or if there is a burn on the skin of the flesh, and if the diseased flesh in the burn becomes a bright place, red and white or white,


rate difficulty: And one of the sons of Ahimelech the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

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


simplify: And they shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, which they offer unto Jehovah,

And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,


simplify: Forasmuch then as we are the offspring of God, we ought not to think that the Godhead is like unto gold, or silver, or stone, graven by art and man’s device.

If then we are the offspring of God, it is not right for us to have the idea that God is like gold or silver or stone, formed by the art or design of man.


simplify: For how great is his goodness, and how great is his beauty! grain shall make the young men flourish, and new wine the virgins.

For how good it is and how beautiful! grain will make the young men strong and new wine the virgins.


rate difficulty: And he made its horns on the four corners thereof; its horns were of itself; and he overlaid it with copper.

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


rate difficulty: Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore send quickly, and tell David, saying, Lodge not this night at the fords of the wilderness, but by all means pass over; lest the king be swallowed up, and all the people that are with him.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Every one when he revileth hisGod shall bear his sin.

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


rate difficulty: The children of Shephatiah, three hundred and seventy-two.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore we are always confident, knowing that, while our home is in the body, we are absent from our home with the Lord.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and hath caused the woman to drink the bitter waters which cause the curse, and the waters which cause the curse have entered into her for bitter things.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.

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


rate difficulty: Her ways are ways of delight, and all her goings are peace.

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


simplify: And the chief priests and the elders did persuade the multitudes that they might ask for themselves Barabbas, and might destroy Jesus;

But the chief priests and the councillors persuaded the crowds to ask for Barabbas, and to kill Jesus.


simplify: Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

I will make my flock safe, and they will no longer be taken away, and I will be judge between sheep and sheep.


rate difficulty: Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.


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

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be made sure in perpetuity to him that bought it, throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubilee.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.


simplify: For this cause, I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you the nations,

For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Jesus, the Christ, for the sake of you Gentiles —


simplify: There are also celestial bodies, and bodies terrestrial: but the glory of the celestial is one, and the glory of the terrestrial is another.

And there are bodies of heaven and bodies of earth, but the glory of the one is different from that of the other.


simplify: And I set before the sons of the house of the Rechabites pots full of wine, and cups, and I said unto them, Drink ye wine.

And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.


simplify: They are not humbled even unto this day, neither have they feared, nor walked in my law, nor in my statutes, that I set before you and before your fathers.

Even to this day their hearts are not broken, and they have no fear, and have not gone in the way of my law or of my rules which I gave to you and to your fathers.


rate difficulty: The space also before the little chambers was one cubit on this side, and the space was one cubit on that side: and the little chambers were six cubits on this side, and six cubits on that side.

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


rate difficulty: And thou givest to them this land that thou didst swear to their fathers to give to them, a land flowing with milk and honey,

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


rate difficulty: The glory of young men is their strength; and the beauty of old men is the grey head.


simplify: And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valour.

Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.


simplify: But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.

But Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, got away from Johanan, with eight men, and went to the children of Ammon.


rate difficulty: Thy princes <FI>are<Fi> apostates, and companions of thieves, Every one loving a bribe, and pursuing rewards, The fatherless they judge not, And the plea of the widow cometh not to them.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And this took place for two years, so that all that inhabited Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer unto his God, and the words of the seers that spake to him in the name of the Lord God of Israel, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Manasseh, and his prayer to his God, and the words which the seers said to him in the name of the Lord, the God of Israel, are recorded among the acts of the kings of Israel.


rate difficulty: But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses gave inheritance unto the tribe of Gad, even unto the children of Gad according to their families.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.


simplify: Servants, bein subjection to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.

Servants, take orders from your masters with all respect; not only if they are good and gentle, but even if they are bad-humoured.


rate difficulty: And going into the harbour at Syracuse, we were waiting there for three days.

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


simplify: And the Lord turned, and looked upon Peter. And Peter remembered the word of the Lord, how he had said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice.

And the Master turned and looked at Peter; and Peter remembered the words that the Master had said to him — “Before a cock has crowed today, you will disown me three times”;


rate difficulty: And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be betrayed into the hands of men:

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


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

Are you by chance the Egyptian who, before this, got the people worked up against the government and took four thousand men of the Assassins out into the waste land?


rate difficulty: And he saith to them, `Go, eat fat things, and drink sweet things, and sent portions to him for whom nothing is prepared, for to-day <FI>is<Fi> holy to our Lord, and be not grieved, for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.'

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


simplify: And I, whither shall I carry my shame? and as for thee, thou wilt be as one of the fools in Israel. Now therefore, I pray thee, speak unto the king; for he will not withhold me from thee.

What will become of me in my shame? and as for you, you will be looked down on with disgust by all Israel. Now then, go and make your request to the king, for he will not keep me from you.


rate difficulty: My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

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


rate difficulty: Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? And Abishai said, I will go down with thee.

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


simplify: The young man saith unto him, All these things have I kept from my youth up: what lack I yet?

The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?


simplify: Peace be to the brethren, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Peace be to the brothers, and love with faith, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at Baasha's hearing, that he ceaseth from building Ramah, and letteth his work rest;

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


simplify: I desire therefore that the men pray in every place, lifting up holy hands, without wrath and disputing.

It is my desire, then, that in every place men may give themselves to prayer, lifting up holy hands, without wrath or argument.


simplify: I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

I have become the sport of all the peoples; I am their song all the day.


simplify: And his name through faith in his name hath made this man strong, whom ye see and know: yea, the faith which is by him hath given him this perfect soundness in the presence of you all.

And his name, through faith in his name, has made this man strong, whom you see and have knowledge of: yes, the faith which is through him has made him well, before you all.


rate difficulty: From Jehovah's want of ability to bring in this people unto the land which He hath sworn to them--He doth slaughter them in the wilderness.

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


simplify: By what way is the light parted, which scattereth the east wind upon the earth?

Which is the way to the place where the wind is measured out, and the east wind sent out over the earth?


rate difficulty: And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we are to be his servants? Is it not right for the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his captain to be servants to the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem? But why are we to be his servants?


rate difficulty: and both Pilate and Herod became friends on that day with one another, for they were before at enmity between themselves.

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


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

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


simplify: I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.


simplify: And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?


simplify: And Abram said unto Lot, Let there be no strife, I pray thee, between me and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for we be brethren.

Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.


simplify: I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.


rate difficulty: And the lord praised the unrighteous steward because he had done prudently. For the sons of this world are, for their own generation, more prudent than the sons of light.

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


simplify: So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, dwelling with Naboth.

So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.


simplify: And Joash king of Israel sent to Amaziah king of Judah, saying, The thistle that was in Lebanon sent to the cedar that was in Lebanon, saying, Give thy daughter to my son to wife: and there passed by a wild beast that was in Lebanon, and trode down the thistle.

And Joash, king of Israel, sent to Amaziah, king of Judah, saying, The thorn-tree in Lebanon sent to the cedar in Lebanon, saying, Give your daughter to my son for a wife: and a beast from the woodland in Lebanon went by, crushing the thorn under his feet.


simplify: And the sons of Noah, that went forth of the ark, were Shem, and Ham, and Japheth: and Ham is the father of Canaan.

And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham is the father of Canaan.


rate difficulty: So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

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


simplify: and labour, working with <FI>our<Fi> own hands; being reviled, we bless; being persecuted, we suffer;

we work hard, toiling with our own hands. We meet abuse with blessings, we meet persecution with endurance,


simplify: Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself the pillar, which is in the king’s dale; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name; and it is called Absalom’s monument, unto this day.

Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.


simplify: And the word of God increased; and the number of the disciples multiplied in Jerusalem exceedingly; and a great company of the priests were obedient to the faith.

And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.


simplify: We would have healed Babylon, but she is not healed: forsake her, and let us go every one into his own country: for her judgment reacheth unto heaven, and is lifted up even to the skies.

We would have made Babylon well, but she is not made well: give her up, and let us go everyone to his country: for her punishment is stretching up to heaven, and lifted up even to the skies.


rate difficulty: Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.


simplify: Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

The chiefs of Edom were troubled in heart; the strong men of Moab were in the grip of fear: all the people of Canaan became like water.


rate difficulty: And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

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


rate difficulty: By night and by day she is not quenched, To the age go up doth her smoke, From generation to generation she is waste, For ever and ever, none is passing into her.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thou shalt buy diligently with this money bullocks, rams, lambs, with their oblations and their drink-offerings, and offer them upon the altar of the house of yourGod which is at Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And David and all Israel went to Jerusalem (the same is Jebus); and the Jebusites, the inhabitants of the land, were there.

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


simplify: Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.


simplify: And they shall waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod in the entrances thereof: thus shall he deliver us from the Assyrian, when he cometh into our land, and when he treadeth within our borders.

And they will make waste the land of Assyria with the sword, and the land of Nimrod with the edge of the sword: he will give us salvation from the Assyrian when he comes into our country, when his feet come inside the limit of our land.


simplify: Better is a little, with righteousness, Than great revenues with injustice.

Better is a little with righteousness, than great wealth with wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: that aforetime were disobedient, when the longsuffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a preparing, wherein few, that is, eight souls, were saved through water:

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For their rock is not as our Rock, Even our enemies themselves being judges.


rate difficulty: for we who live are always delivered unto death on account of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our mortal flesh;

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


simplify: and it shall be--in the place where it was said to them, Ye <FI>are<Fi> not My people; there they shall be called sons of the living God.'

And in the place where it was said to them — “You are not my people”, they will be called sons of the living God.’


simplify: And when they saw him, they worshipped him; but some doubted.

And when they saw him they gave him worship: but some were in doubt.


simplify: And ye shall do no work in that same day: for it is a day of atonement, to make an atonement for you before the Lord your God.

And on that day you may do no sort of work, for it is a day of taking away sin, to make you clean before the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;


rate difficulty: On the third day Eliab, the son of Helon, chief of the children of Zebulun:


simplify: But godliness with contentment is great gain:

But true faith, with peace of mind, is of great profit:


simplify: And they put him in ward, that it might be declared unto them at the mouth of Jehovah.

And they kept him shut up, till a decision might be given by the mouth of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Pharaoh also saith, `Lo, numerous now <FI>is<Fi> the people of the land, and ye have caused them to cease from their burdens!'

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


simplify: Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish from it, that ye may keep the commandments of Jehovah your God which I command you.

Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Render unto Cæsar the things that are Cæsar’s, and unto God the things that are God’s. And they marvelled greatly at him.

And Jesus said to them, Give to Caesar the things which are Caesar's, and to God the things which are God's. And they were full of wonder at him.


simplify: And Jehu said, Proclaim a solemn assembly for Baal. And they proclaimed it.

And Jehu said, Let there be a special holy meeting for the worship of Baal. So a public statement was made.


simplify: So Joshua smote all the country of the hills, and of the south, and of the vale, and of the springs, and all their kings: he left none remaining, but utterly destroyed all that breathed, as the Lord God of Israel commanded.

So Joshua overcame all the land, the hill-country and the South and the lowland and the mountain slopes, and all their kings; all were put to death: and every living thing he gave up to the curse, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.


simplify: in good works being testified to: if she brought up children, if she entertained strangers, if saints' feet she washed, if those in tribulation she relieved, if every good work she followed after;

and be well spoken of for her kind actions. She should have brought up children, have shown hospitality to strangers, have washed the feet of her fellow Christians, have relieved those who were in distress, and devoted herself to every kind of good action.


rate difficulty: there went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noah.

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


simplify: Then said we unto them after this manner, What are the names of the men that make this building?

Then they said these words to them: What are the names of the men who are at work on this building?


rate difficulty: And the priest said, The sword of Goliath the Philistine, whom thou slewest in the vale of Elah, behold, it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod: if thou wilt take that, take it; for there is no other save that here. And David said, There is none like that; give it me.

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


rate difficulty: And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.

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


simplify: And the flood was forty days upon the earth; and the waters increased, and bare up the ark, and it was lift up above the earth.

And for forty days the waters were over all the earth; and the waters were increased so that the ark was lifted up high over the earth.


simplify: Fear, and the pit, and the snare, are upon thee, O inhabitant of the earth.

Fear, and death, and the net, are come on you, O people of the earth.


rate difficulty: And we were in all in the ship two hundred threescore and sixteen souls.

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


simplify: And all flesh shall see the salvation of God.

And all flesh will see the salvation of God.


rate difficulty: For in the past, your yoke was broken by your hands and your cords parted; and you said, I will not be your servant; for on every high hill and under every branching tree, your behaviour was like that of a loose woman

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


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

Give to him who comes with a request, and keep not your property from him who would for a time make use of it.


rate difficulty: If, then, you are not able to do even that which is least, why are you troubled about the rest?


rate difficulty: And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

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


simplify: For he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was a hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

And he made the house of the Woods of Lebanon, which was a hundred cubits long and fifty cubits wide and thirty cubits high, resting on four lines of cedar-wood pillars with cedar-wood supports on the pillars.


rate difficulty: Then the people came to Moses and said, We have done wrong in crying out against the Lord and against you: make prayer to the Lord to take away the snakes from us. So Moses made prayer for the people.


rate difficulty: Now therefore arise, O Lord God, into thy resting place, thou, and the ark of thy strength: let thy priests, O Lord God, be clothed with salvation, and let thy saints rejoice in goodness.

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


rate difficulty: and the people hath Joshua commanded, saying, `Ye do not shout, nor cause your voice to be heard, nor doth there go out from your mouth a word, till the day of my saying unto you, Shout ye--then ye have shouted.'

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


simplify: For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

It is my desire that all men might be even as I am. But every man has the power of his special way of life given him by God, one in this way and one in that.


rate difficulty: Say not, I will recompense evil: wait on Jehovah, and he shall save thee.


rate difficulty: He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey — not even bread, or a bag, or coins in their purse;

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


simplify: Every one who is doing the sin, the lawlessness also he doth do, and the sin is the lawlessness,

Everyone who lives sinfully is living in violation of law. Sin is violation of law.


rate difficulty: For all the prophets and the law have prophesied unto John.

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


simplify: According to the lot shall the possession thereof be divided between many and few.

As it is ordered by the decision of the Lord, let distribution be made between those who are more in number and those who are less.


rate difficulty: At that time king Ahaz sent to the kings of Assyria to help him.


simplify: and thence did sail to Antioch, whence they had been given by the grace of God for the work that they fulfilled;

From there they sailed to Antioch — the place where they had been committed to the gracious care of God for the work which they had now finished.


rate difficulty: To declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Swear unto me: and he sware unto him. And Israel bowed himself upon the bed’s head.

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


simplify: That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world:

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.


rate difficulty: The word that Jehovah spoke to Jeremiah the prophet, concerning the coming of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon to smite the land of Egypt:

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simplify: Now he that establisheth us with you in Christ, and anointed us, is God;

Now he who makes our faith strong together with you, in Christ, and has given us of his grace, is God;


simplify: In that day I will perform against Eli all things which I have spoken concerning his house: when I begin, I will also make an end.

In that day I will do to Eli everything which I have said about his family, from first to last.


rate difficulty: And he deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by reason of the signs which it was given him to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast who hath the stroke of the sword and lived.

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


simplify: And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, Of a truth I am a widow, and my husband is dead.

And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.


simplify: And the sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz.

The sons of Eliphaz were Teman, Omar, Zepho, Gatam, and Kenaz.


simplify: My son, forget not my law; But let thy heart keep my commandments:

My son, keep my teaching in your memory, and my rules in your heart:


simplify: And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

His parents were amazed when they saw him, and his mother said to him: “My child, why have you treated us like this? Your father and I have been searching for you in great distress.”


simplify: And he said, Do it the second time; and they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time; and they did it the third time.

And he said, Do it a third time, and they did it a third time.


simplify: And in those days cometh John the Baptist, proclaiming in the wilderness of Judea,

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


simplify: In thee have they uncovered their fathers’ nakedness; in thee have they humbled her that was unclean in her impurity.

In you they have let the shame of their fathers be seen; in you they have done wrong to a woman at the time when she was unclean.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: They also that uphold Egypt shall fall; and the pride of her power shall come down: from the tower of Seveneh shall they fall in it by the sword, saith the Lord Jehovah.

This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.


simplify: And the king said unto him, Turn aside, and stand here. And he turned aside, and stood still.

And the king said, Get back and take your place here. So turning to one side, he took his place there.


rate difficulty: He despised the oath, and broke the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, yet hath he done all these things: he shall not escape.

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rate difficulty: The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

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


rate difficulty: Hearken not to Hezekiah: for thus saith the king of Assyria, Make an agreement with me by a present, and come out to me, and then eat ye every man of his own vine, and every one of his fig tree, and drink ye every one the waters of his cistern:

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


rate difficulty: So everything was made ready and the priests took their places with the Levites in their divisions, as the king had said.

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


rate difficulty: The voice of your watchmen! their voices are loud in song together; for they will see him, eye to eye, when the Lord comes back to Zion.


rate difficulty: And he overtaketh them, and speaketh unto them these words,

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simplify: Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, which by interpretation is called Dorcas: this woman was full of good works and almsdeeds which she did.

Now there was at Joppa a certain disciple named Tabitha, that is, Dorcas: this woman was given to good works and acts of mercy at all times.


simplify: But Sihon trusted not Israel to pass through his coast: but Sihon gathered all his people together, and pitched in Jahaz, and fought against Israel.

But Sihon would not give way and let Israel go through his land; and Sihon got together all his people, and put his army in position in Jahaz, and made war on Israel.


simplify: This is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour;

This is good and pleasing in the eyes of God our Saviour;


rate difficulty: A day of darkness and of gloominess, a day of clouds and of thick darkness, as the morning spread upon the mountains: a great people and a strong; there hath not been ever the like, neither shall be any more after it, even to the years of many generations.

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


simplify: The fourteenth to Mattithiah, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The fourteenth Mattithiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: Grace shall be with you, mercy, peace fromGod [the] Father, and from [the] Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

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


rate difficulty: Then two men will be in the field; one is taken, and one let go;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put it before the vail that is by the ark of the testimony, before the mercy seat that is over the testimony, where I will meet with thee.

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simplify: So Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat the son of Nimshi conspired against Joram. (Now Joram had kept Ramoth–gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria.

So Jehu, the son of Jehoshaphat, the son of Nimshi, made designs against Joram. (Now Joram and all the army of Israel were keeping watch on Ramoth-gilead because of Hazael, king of Aram:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah hath been for judge, and hath judged between me and thee, yea, he seeth and pleadeth my cause, and doth deliver me out of thy hand.'

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simplify: This Moses whom they refused, saying, Who made thee a ruler and a judge? him hath God sent to be both a ruler and a deliverer with the hand of the angel that appeared to him in the bush.

This Moses, whom they would not have, saying, Who made you a ruler and a judge? him God sent to be a ruler and a saviour, by the hand of the angel whom he saw in the thorn-tree.


simplify: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.  The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.


rate difficulty: And John went through the whole district of the Jordan, proclaiming baptism on repentance, for the forgiveness of sins.

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


simplify: And David enquired at the Lord, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he answered him, Pursue: for thou shalt surely overtake them, and without fail recover all.

Then David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go after this band? will I be able to overtake them? And in answer he said, Go after them, for you will certainly overtake them, and get back everything.


simplify: For men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, haughty, railers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,


simplify: And the Lord shall make thee the head, and not the tail; and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath; if that thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and to do them:

The Lord will make you the head and not the tail; and you will ever have the highest place, if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God which I give you today, to keep and to do them;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses, Is the Lord’s hand waxed short? thou shalt see now whether my word shall come to pass unto thee or not.

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


simplify: and Peter said to him, `Aeneas, heal thee doth Jesus the Christ; arise and spread for thyself;' and immediately he rose,

“Aeneas,” Peter said to him, “Jesus Christ cures you. Get up, and make your bed.” Aeneas got up at once;


rate difficulty: She makes linen robes and gets a price for them, and traders take her cloth bands for a price.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the names of those that were born unto him in Jerusalem: Shammua, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon,

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


rate difficulty: And the Kohathites have journeyed, bearing the tabernacle, and the <FI>others<Fi> have raised up the tabernacle until their coming in.

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


simplify: And all the days of Jared were nine hundred sixty and two years: and he died.

And all the years of Jared's life were nine hundred and sixty-two: and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: These six [things] doth Jehovah hate, yea, seven are an abomination unto him:

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rate difficulty: Thou art this day to pass over Ar, the border of Moab:

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh sendeth and calleth Joseph, and they cause him to run out of the pit, and he shaveth, and changeth his garments, and cometh in unto Pharaoh.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

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


rate difficulty: take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitant of the land into which thou art going, lest it become a snare in thy midst;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the Lord said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Beth–lehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.


simplify: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

so that in adoration of the name of Jesus every knee should bend, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth,


simplify: And he conferred with Joab the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest: and they following Adonijah helped him.

And he had talk with Joab, the son of Zeruiah, and with Abiathar the priest; and they were on his side and gave him their support.


rate difficulty: Yet in this thing ye did not believe the Lord your God,

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


rate difficulty: And Gideon buildeth there an altar to Jehovah, and calleth it Jehovah-Shalom, unto this day it <FI>is<Fi> yet in Ophrah of the Abi-Ezrites.

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


simplify: Who, being in the form of God, thought it not robbery to be equal with God:

Though the divine nature was his from the beginning, yet he did not look on equality with God as above all things to be clung to,


rate difficulty: And when the Syrians saw that they were put to the worse before Israel, they sent messengers, and drew forth the Syrians that were beyond the river: and Shophach the captain of the host of Hadarezer went before them.

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


rate difficulty: For this reason keep it in mind that in the past you, the Gentiles in the flesh, who are looked on as being outside the circumcision by those who have circumcision, in the flesh, made by hands;

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


simplify: Then shall the Lord go forth, and fight against those nations, as when he fought in the day of battle.

Then the Lord will go out and make war against those nations, as he did in the day of the fight.


simplify: And in the time of his distress did he trespass yet more against the Lord: this is that king Ahaz.

And in the time of his trouble, this same King Ahaz did even more evil against the Lord.


simplify: Watch ye, stand in the faith; be men, be strong;

Be watchful; stand firm in your faith; be brave; be strong.


simplify: And they slew the kings of Midian, beside the rest of them that were slain; namely, Evi, and Rekem, and Zur, and Hur, and Reba, five kings of Midian: Balaam also the son of Beor they slew with the sword.

They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.


simplify: And Ahio, Shashak, and Jeremoth,

And their brothers Shashak and Jeremoth.


simplify: And when he came into the house, he suffered no man to go in, save Peter, and James, and John, and the father and the mother of the maiden.

When he reached the house, he did not allow anyone to go in with him, except Peter, John, and James, and the child’s father and mother.


simplify: And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.

So he went and engaged himself to one of the people of that country, who sent him into his fields to tend pigs.


rate difficulty: And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

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


simplify: But Jonathan heard not when his father charged the people with the oath: wherefore he put forth the end of the rod that was in his hand, and dipped it in an honeycomb, and put his hand to his mouth; and his eyes were enlightened.

But Jonathan, having no knowledge of the oath his father had put on the people, stretching out the rod which was in his hand, put the end of it in the honey, and put it to his mouth; then his eyes were made bright.


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel do commit here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? But thou shalt again see yet other great abominations.

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


rate difficulty: And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife’s name was Maacah;

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


rate difficulty: Thou, O Jehovah, to the age remainest, Thy throne to generation and generation.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.

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


simplify: Now to Abraham were the promises spoken, and to his seed. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ.

Now to Abraham were the undertakings given, and to his seed. He says not, And to seeds, as of a great number; but as of one, he says, And to your seed, which is Christ.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said, Ye know not what ye ask. Can ye drink the cup which I am about to drink? They say to him, We are able.

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


rate difficulty: ye that inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; that slay the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?

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


rate difficulty: I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting. Remember these chains of mine. God’s blessing be with you.

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


rate difficulty: and Peter said unto them, `Reform, and be baptized each of you on the name of Jesus Christ, to remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Spirit,

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


rate difficulty: if possible, as far as depends on you, living in peace with all men;


rate difficulty: Who gives us more knowledge than the beasts of the earth, and makes us wiser than the birds of the heaven?

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


rate difficulty: How much less to him that accepteth not the persons of princes, nor regardeth the rich more than the poor? for they all are the work of his hands.

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


simplify: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

For they are evil spirits, working signs; who go out even to the kings of all the earth, to get them together to the war of the great day of God, the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: In the place where they kill the burnt offering shall they kill the trespass offering: and the blood thereof shall he sprinkle round about upon the altar.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you to become fishers of men.

“Come and follow me,”Jesus said, “and I will teach you to fish for people.”


simplify: Know therefore this day, and consider it in thine heart, that the Lord he is God in heaven above, and upon the earth beneath: there is none else.

So today be certain, and keep the knowledge deep in your hearts, that the Lord is God, in heaven on high and here on earth; there is no other God.


rate difficulty: Therefore I will judge you, O house of Israel, every one according to his ways, saith the Lord Jehovah. Return ye, and turn yourselves from all your transgressions; so iniquity shall not be your ruin.


rate difficulty: But not long after there arose against it a tempestuous wind, called Euroclydon.


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

And Hagar gave birth to a child, the son of Abram, to whom Abram gave the name of Ishmael.


simplify: Strive not with a man without cause, If he have done thee no harm.

Do not take up a cause at law against a man for nothing, if he has done you no wrong.


simplify: And the fame thereof was heard in Pharaoh’s house, saying, Joseph’s brethren are come: and it pleased Pharaoh well, and his servants.

And news of these things went through Pharaoh's house, and it was said that Joseph's brothers were come; and it seemed good to Pharaoh and his servants.


simplify: and let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel; and blow ye the trumpet, and say, Long live king Solomon.

And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon!


simplify: And unto Adam he said, Because thou hast hearkened unto the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, of which I commanded thee, saying, Thou shalt not eat of it: cursed is the ground for thy sake; in toil shalt thou eat of it all the days of thy life;

And to Adam he said, Because you gave ear to the voice of your wife and took of the fruit of the tree which I said you were not to take, the earth is cursed on your account; in pain you will get your food from it all your life.


rate difficulty: And so, when the streets of Jerusalem were getting dark before the Sabbath, I gave orders for the doors to be shut and not to be open again till after the Sabbath: and I put some of my servants by the door so that nothing might be taken in on the Sabbath day.

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


rate difficulty: A man shall not be established by wickedness; But the root of the righteous shall not be moved.


rate difficulty: Keep therefore the words of this covenant, and do them, that ye may prosper in all that ye do.

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


simplify: and the golden altar, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door of the Tent;

And the gold altar, and the holy oil, and the sweet perfume for burning, and the curtain for the doorway of the tent;


rate difficulty: For it is the Lord our God who has taken us and our fathers out of the land of Egypt, out of the prison-house, and who did all those great signs before our eyes, and kept us safe on all our journeys, and among all the peoples through whom we went:

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


simplify: And he will lift up an ensign to the nations from far, and will hiss unto 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: Cut off the sower from Babylon, and him that handleth the sickle in the time of harvest: for fear of the oppressing sword they shall turn every one to his people, and they shall flee every one to his own land.

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.


simplify: But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

‘I do not know where you come from. Leave my presence, all you who are living in wickedness.’


rate difficulty: I denounce unto you this day that ye shall surely perish; ye shall not prolong your days upon the land whereunto thou passest over the Jordan to possess it.

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


rate difficulty: So, if you have proved untrustworthy with the ‘dishonest money,’ who will trust you with the true?

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


simplify: And out of the city he took an officer that was set over the men of war, and five men of them that were in the king’s presence, which were found in the city, and the principal scribe of the host, which mustered the people of the land, and threescore men of the people of the land that were found in the city:

And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military order, and sixty men of the people of the land who were in the town.


simplify: Then Jacob gave Esau bread and pottage of lentiles; and he did eat and drink, and rose up, and went his way: thus Esau despised his birthright.

Then Jacob gave him bread and soup; and he took food and drink and went away, caring little for his birthright.


rate difficulty: When Moses heard this, he fell on his face.

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


rate difficulty: and upon her forehead a name written, Mystery, great Babylon, the mother of the harlots, and of the abominations of the earth.


rate difficulty: `And dost thou say unto me, Unto Jehovah our God we have trusted? is it not He, whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah hath turned aside, and saith to Judah and to Jerusalem, Before this altar ye do bow yourselves?

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


simplify: let it not be! and let God become true, and every man false, according as it hath been written, `That Thou mayest be declared righteous in Thy words, and mayest overcome in Thy being judged.'

God must prove true, though everyone prove a liar! As scripture says of God — ‘That you may be pronounced righteous in what you say, and gain your cause when people would judge you.’


rate difficulty: When people rise from the dead, there is no marrying or being married; but they are as angels in heaven.

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


rate difficulty: All the Levites, in the holy city, <FI>are<Fi> two hundred eighty and four.


simplify: My fruit is better than gold, yea, than fine gold; And my revenue than choice silver.

My fruit is better than gold, even than the best gold; and my increase is more to be desired than silver.


rate difficulty: And those encamping by him <FI>are of<Fi> the tribe of Simeon; and the prince of the sons of Simeon <FI>is<Fi> Shelumiel son of Zurishaddai;

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


rate difficulty: `Ask thy young men, and they declare to thee, and the young men find grace in thine eyes, for on a good day we have come; give, I pray thee, that which thy hand findeth, to thy servants, and to thy son, to David.'

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


simplify: Thou shalt not remove thy neighbor’s landmark, which they of old time have set, in thine inheritance which thou shalt inherit, in the land that Jehovah thy God giveth thee to possess it.

Your neighbour's landmark, which was put in its place by the men of old times, is not to be moved or taken away in the land of your heritage which the Lord your God is giving you.


rate difficulty: And also Maachah his mother, even her he removed from being queen, because she had made an idol in a grove; and Asa destroyed her idol, and burnt it by the brook Kidron.

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


rate difficulty: So shall it be at the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the just,

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


rate difficulty: And you have made yourselves great against me with your mouths, increasing your words against me; and it has come to my ears.


simplify: And Naarah bare him Ahuzzam, and Hepher, and Temeni, and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.

And Naarah had Ahuzzam by him, and Hepher and Temeni and Haahashtari. These were the sons of Naarah.


rate difficulty: The former spread the news of the Christ in a factious spirit, and not sincerely, thinking to add to the pain of my chains.

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


simplify: and they having come, say to him, `Teacher, we have known that thou art true, and thou art not caring for any one, for thou dost not look to the face of men, but in truth the way of God dost teach; is it lawful to give tribute to Caesar or not? may we give, or may we not give?'

These men came to him and said: “Teacher, we know that you are an honest man, and are not afraid of anyone, for you pay no regard to a person’s position, but teach the way of God honestly; are we right in paying taxes to the Emperor, or not?


rate difficulty: My brethren, if any among you err from the truth, and one convert him;

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


rate difficulty: having known that he hath been subverted who <FI>is<Fi> such, and doth sin, being self-condemned.

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


simplify: Ben-geber, in Ramoth-gilead (to him pertained the towns of Jair the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead; even to him pertained the region of Argob, which is in Bashan, threescore great cities with walls and brazen bars);

... the son of Geber in Ramoth-gilead; he had the towns of Jair, the son of Manasseh, which are in Gilead, and the country of Argob, which is in Bashan, sixty great towns with walls and locks of brass.


simplify: The same following after Paul and us cried out, saying, These men are servants of the Most High God, who proclaim unto you the way of salvation.

She came after Paul and us, crying out and saying, These men are the servants of the Most High God, who are giving you news of the way of salvation.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah unto this people, Even so have they loved to wander; they have not refrained their feet: therefore Jehovah doth not accept them; now will he remember their iniquity, and visit their sins.

This is what the Lord has said about this people: Even so they have been glad to go from the right way; they have not kept their feet from wandering, so the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep their wrongdoing in mind and send punishment for their sins.


rate difficulty: And Paul standing in the midst of Areopagus said, Athenians, in every way I see you given up to demon worship;

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simplify: But unto the place which Jehovah your God shall choose out of all your tribes, to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come;

But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;


simplify: The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a certain king, who made a marriage feast for his son,

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a feast when his son was married,


simplify: And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of good courage; for thou shalt bring the children of Israel into the land which I sware unto them: and I will be with thee.

Then he gave orders to Joshua, the son of Nun, saying to him, Be strong and take heart: for you are to go at the head of the children of Israel into the land which I made an oath to give them; and I will be with you.


rate difficulty: And Urijah said to David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah abide in booths; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields: shall I then go into my house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? [As] thou livest, and [as] thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

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rate difficulty: Wherefore Jehovah theGod of Israel saith, I said indeed, Thy house and the house of thy father should walk before me for ever. But now Jehovah saith, Be it far from me; for them that honour me I will honour, and they that despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

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simplify: How fair is thy love, my sister, my spouse! how much better is thy love than wine! and the smell of thine ointments than all spices!

How fair is your love, my sister! How much better is your love than wine, and the smell of your oils than any perfume!


simplify: And he shall take a wife in her virginity.

And let him take as his wife one who has not had relations with a man.


simplify: But avoid foolish questions, and genealogies, and contentions, and strivings about the law; for they are unprofitable and vain.

But have nothing to do with foolish questionings, and lists of generations, and fights and arguments about the law; for they are of no profit and foolish.


rate difficulty: Thornsandsnares are in the way of the perverse: He that keepeth his soul shall be far from them.


rate difficulty: Of the drops, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

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simplify: And he said, Behold, I make a covenant: before all thy people I will do marvels, such as have not been wrought in all the earth, nor in any nation; and all the people among which thou art shall see the work of Jehovah; for it is a terrible thing that I do with thee.

And the Lord said, See, this is what I will undertake: before the eyes of your people I will do wonders, such as have not been done in all the earth or in any nation: and all your people will see the work of the Lord, for what I am about to do for you is greatly to be feared.


rate difficulty: And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab, and those of mount Seir, amongst whom thou wouldest not let Israel go when they came out of the land of Egypt, (for they turned from them, and destroyed them not,)

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rate difficulty: And Israel doth tabernacle <FI>in<Fi> confidence alone; The eye of Jacob <FI>is<Fi> unto a land of corn and wine; Also His heavens drop down dew.

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simplify: for Demas forsook me, having loved the present age, and went on to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, Titus to Dalmatia,

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.


rate difficulty: Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

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rate difficulty: Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

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simplify: Knowing that whatsoever good thing any man doeth, the same shall he receive of the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.


simplify: And Achish believed David, saying, He hath made his people Israel utterly to abhor him; therefore he shall be my servant for ever.

And Achish had belief in what David said, saying, He has made himself hated by all his people Israel, and so he will be my servant for ever.


rate difficulty: And he gathered unto him the children of Ammon and Amalek; and he went and smote Israel, and they possessed the city of palm-trees.

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simplify: And Balaam said unto Balak, Lo, I am come unto thee: have I now any power at all to say any thing? the word that God putteth in my mouth, that shall I speak.

Then Balaam said to Balak, Now I have come to you; but have I power to say anything? Only what God puts into my mouth may I say.


simplify: Neither shall ye build house, nor sow seed, nor plant vineyard, nor have any: but all your days ye shall dwell in tents; that ye may live many days in the land where ye be strangers.

And you are to make no houses, or put in seed, or get vine-gardens planted, or have any: but all your days you are to go on living in tents, so that you may have a long life in the land where you are living as in a strange country.


simplify: And it came to pass in these days, that he went out into the mountain to pray; and he continued all night in prayer to God.

And it came about in those days that he went out to the mountain for prayer; and he was all night in prayer to God.


rate difficulty: And they came and told Jehoshaphat saying, A great multitude is come against thee from beyond the sea, from Syria; and behold, they are in Hazazon-tamar, which is Engedi.

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rate difficulty: For I have no man of like mind who will truly have care for you.