rate difficulty: And Joseph, who was given by the Apostles the name of Barnabas (the sense of which is, Son of comfort), a Levite and a man of Cyprus by birth,

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rate difficulty: Dead flies make the oil of the perfumer give out an evil smell; more valued is a little wisdom than the great glory of the foolish.

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simplify: withal praying for us also, that God may open unto us a door for the word, to speak the mystery of Christ, for which I am also in bonds;

And making prayer for us, that God may give us an open door for the preaching of the word, the secret of Christ, for which I am now in chains;


rate difficulty: And weighed unto them the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, even the offering of the house of our God, which the king, and his counsellors, and his lords, and all Israel there present, had offered:

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simplify: for we have known that the law is spiritual, and I am fleshly, sold by the sin;

We know that the law is spiritual, but I am earthly — sold into slavery to sin.


simplify: And they knew that it was he which sat for alms at the Beautiful gate of the temple: and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

And they saw that it was the man who made requests for money at the door of the Temple, and they were full of wonder and surprise at what had taken place.


rate difficulty: So that there was the face of a man turned to the palm-tree on one side, and the face of a young lion on the other side: so it was made all round the house.

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


rate difficulty: This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

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rate difficulty: For this child I prayed; and Jehovah hath given me my petition which I asked of him:

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


rate difficulty: And I have caused thy wickedness to cease from thee, And thy whoredoms out of the land of Egypt, And thou liftest not up thine eyes unto them, And Egypt thou dost not remember again.

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


rate difficulty: And God said to Balaam, You are not to go with them, or put a curse on this people, for they have my blessing.

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rate difficulty: who did not commit sin, nor was guile found in his mouth,


rate difficulty: and when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and danced, she pleased Herod and them that sat at meat with him; and the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

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


rate difficulty: O Lord, by these things men live; And wholly therein is the life of my spirit: Wherefore recover thou me, and make me to live.

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


rate difficulty: For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

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simplify: And the Spirit of the Lord will come upon thee, and thou shalt prophesy with them, and shalt be turned into another man.

And the spirit of the Lord will come on you with power, and you will be acting like a prophet with them, and will be changed into another man.


rate difficulty: And Joseph said to them, What deed is this which ye have done? Did ye not know that such a man as I can certainly divine?

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


simplify: And as he was now drawing nigh, even at the descent of the mount of Olives, the whole multitude of the disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for all the mighty works which they had seen;

And when he came near the foot of the Mountain of Olives, all the disciples with loud voices gave praise to God with joy, because of all the great works which they had seen;


simplify: for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

For the Lord your God goes with you, fighting for you to give you salvation from those who are against you.


simplify: is it not lawful to me to do what I will in mine own? is thine eye evil because I am good?

Have not I the right to do as I choose with what is mine? Are you envious because I am liberal?’


rate difficulty: Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.

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


simplify: And when her masters saw that the hope of their gains was gone, they caught Paul and Silas, and drew them into the marketplace unto the rulers,

But when her masters saw that their hope of profit was gone, they took Paul and Silas, pulling them into the market-place before the rulers;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Number all the first-born males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.

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


simplify: And he gave Joshua the son of Nun a charge, and said, Be strong and of a 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.


simplify: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

And said, Truly, I say to you, If you do not have a change of heart and become like little children, you will not go into the kingdom of heaven.


simplify: There are not found that returned to give glory to God, save this stranger.

Have not any of them come back to give glory to God, but only this one from a strange land?


rate difficulty: Saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said, while he was yet alive, After three days I will rise again.

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rate difficulty: And they brake down the altars of the Baalim in his presence; and the sun-images that were on high above them he hewed down; and the Asherim, and the graven images, and the molten images, he brake in pieces, and made dust of them, and strewed it upon the graves of them that had sacrificed unto them.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

And it came about that when he got near Beth-phage and Bethany by the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives, he sent two of the disciples,


rate difficulty: Again he was aware of a voice which said — “What God has pronounced ‘clean’, do not regard as ‘defiled’.”

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


simplify: Where we found brethren, and were desired to tarry with them seven days: and so we went toward Rome.

There we found some of the Lord's followers, and were urged to stay a week with them; after which we went on to Rome.


rate difficulty: because he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit, and of faith, and a great multitude was added to the Lord.

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


simplify: When a ruler sinneth, and doeth unwittingly any one of all the things which Jehovah his God hath commanded not to be done, and is guilty;

If a ruler does wrong, and in error does any of the things which, by the order of the Lord his God, are not to be done, causing sin to come on him;


rate difficulty: and expire doth all flesh that is moving on the earth, among fowl, and among cattle, and among beasts, and among all the teeming things which are teeming on the earth, and all mankind;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the young men that were spies went in, and brought out Rahab, and her father, and her mother, and her brethren, and all that she had; and they brought out all her kindred, and left them without the camp of Israel.

So the searchers went in and got out Rahab and her father and mother and her brothers and all she had, and they got out all her family; and they took them outside the tents of Israel.


rate difficulty: And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not turned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith the Lord.

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simplify: upon which when I had fastened mine eyes, I considered, and saw the fourfooted beasts of the earth and wild beasts and creeping things and birds of the heaven.

And looking on it with attention I saw in it all sorts of beasts and birds.


simplify: He shall keep in order the lamps upon the pure candlestick before Jehovah continually.

Let Aaron put the lights in order on the support before the Lord at all times.


rate difficulty: You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.

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


rate difficulty: Do you suppose there is no meaning in the passage of scripture which asks — ‘Is envy to result from the longings of the Spirit which God has implanted within you?’

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


simplify: And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah.

And I said, My strength is cut off, and my hope from the Lord.


simplify: for having found this man a pestilence, and moving a dissension to all the Jews through the world--a ringleader also of the sect of the Nazarenes--

We have found this man a public pest; he is one who stirs up disputes among our people all the world over, and is a ringleader of the Nazarene heretics.


rate difficulty: And as for their appearance, they four had one likeness, as if a wheel were in the midst of a wheel.


simplify: And David said on that day, Whosoever smiteth the Jebusites, let him get up to the watercourse, and smite the lame and the blind, that are hated of David’s soul. Wherefore they say, There are the blind and the lame; he cannot come into the house.

And that day David said, Whoever makes an attack on the Jebusites, let him go up by the water-pipe, and put to death all the blind and feeble-footed who are hated by David. And this is why they say, The blind and feeble-footed may not come into the house.


simplify: And they kept the passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at even, in the wilderness of Sinai: according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did the children of Israel.

So they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening, in the waste land of Sinai: as the Lord gave orders to Moses, so the children of Israel did.


rate difficulty: And he went down with them, and came to Nazareth; and he was subject unto them: and his mother kept all these sayings in her heart.

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


rate difficulty: When the even was come, they brought unto him many that were possessed with devils: and he cast out the spirits with his word, and healed all that were sick:

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


rate difficulty: Thus said the Lord unto me; Go and stand in the gate of the children of the people, whereby the kings of Judah come in, and by the which they go out, and in all the gates of Jerusalem;

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


simplify: And his mercy is on them that fear him from generation to generation.

His mercy is for all generations in whom is the fear of him.


simplify: She is more precious than rubies: And none of the things thou canst desire are to be compared unto her.

She is of more value than jewels, and nothing for which you may have a desire is fair in comparison with her.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, To you is given [to know] the mystery of the kingdom ofGod; but to them who are without, all things are done in parables,

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


simplify: Why do we sit still? assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the defenced cities, and let us be silent there: for the Lord our God hath put us to silence, and given us water of gall to drink, because we have sinned against the Lord.

Why are we seated doing nothing? come together, and let us go to the walled towns, and let destruction overtake us there, for the Lord our God has sent destruction on us, and given us bitter water for our drink, because we have done evil against the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then died Jephthah the Gileadite, and was buried inone ofthe cities of Gilead.

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


simplify: So the altar shall be four cubits; and from the altar and upward shall be four horns.

And the fireplace is four cubits high: and coming up from the fireplace are the horns, a cubit high.


rate difficulty: And the captain of the guard charged Joseph with them, and he ministered unto them: and they continued a season in ward.

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


rate difficulty: And Shebuel the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, was ruler of the treasures.


rate difficulty: Remove thy way far from her, and come not nigh the door of her house:

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


rate difficulty: and he sent messengers before his face, and having gone on, they went into a village of Samaritans, to make ready for him,

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rate difficulty: But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

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simplify: `And--praying--ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,

When praying, do not repeat the same words over and over again, as is done by the Gentiles, who think that by using many words they will obtain a hearing.


simplify: And Saul knew David’s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

And Saul, conscious that the voice was David's, said, Is that your voice, David, my son? And David said, It is my voice, O my lord king.


rate difficulty: And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying,

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


simplify: And one cried unto another, and said, Holy, holy, holy, is Jehovah of hosts: the whole earth is full of his glory.

And one said in a loud voice to another, Holy, holy, holy, is the Lord of armies: all the earth is full of his glory.


rate difficulty: Then David came to Nob, to Ahimelech the priest: and Ahimelech was full of fear at meeting David, and said to him, Why are you by yourself, having no man with you?

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


simplify: Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to deliver? Behold, at my rebuke I dry up the sea, I make the rivers a wilderness: their fish stink, because there is no water, and die for thirst.

Why, then, when I came, was there no man? and no one to give answer to my voice? has my hand become feeble, so that it is unable to take up your cause? or have I no power to make you free? See, at my word the sea becomes dry, I make the rivers a waste land: their fish are dead for need of water, and make an evil smell.


rate difficulty: If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.

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


rate difficulty: And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him, and many were overthrown and wounded, even unto the entering of the gate.

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


simplify: He, therefore, who is supplying to you the Spirit, and working mighty acts among you--by works of law or by the hearing of faith <FI>is it<Fi> ?

He who supplies you abundantly with his Spirit and endows you with such powers — does he do this as the result of obedience to law? Or as the result of your having listened with faith?


simplify: For though I should boast somewhat more of our authority, which the Lord hath given us for edification, and not for your destruction, I should not be ashamed:

Even if I boast extravagantly about our authority — which the Lord gave us for building up your faith and not for overthrowing it — still I have no reason to be ashamed.


rate difficulty: whose mouths must be stopped; men who overthrow whole houses, teaching things which they ought not, for filthy lucre’s sake.


simplify: Hast thou not heard how I have done it long ago, and formed it of ancient times? now have I brought it to pass, that it should be thine to lay waste fortified cities into ruinous heaps.

Has it not come to your ears how I did it long before, purposing it in times long past? Now I have given effect to my design, so that by you strong towns might be turned into masses of broken walls.


simplify: And they entered in, and found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

And they went in, but the body of the Lord Jesus was not there.


simplify: These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old, and begat Arpachshad two years after the flood:

These are the generations of Shem. Shem was a hundred years old when he became the father of Arpachshad, two years after the great flow of waters;


rate difficulty: And the Ammonites give a present to Uzziah, and his name goeth unto the entering in of Egypt, for he strengthened himself greatly.

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


rate difficulty: that bringeth the princes to nothing, that maketh the judges of the earth as vanity.

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


rate difficulty: And ye have eaten fat to satiety, And ye have drunk blood--to drunkenness, Of My sacrifice that I sacrificed for you.

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


simplify: Set the trumpet to thy mouth. He shall come as an eagle against the house of the Lord, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.


rate difficulty: But when Pharaoh saw that there was peace for a time, he made his heart hard and did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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


simplify: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Verily I say unto you, If ye have faith, and doubt not, ye shall not only do what is done to the fig tree, but even if ye shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea, it shall be done.

And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.


simplify: He that toucheth the dead body of any man shall be unclean seven days.

Anyone touching a dead body will be unclean for seven days:


simplify: The Zidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, did oppress you; and ye cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand.

And the Zidonians and Amalek and Midian crushing you down, and in answer to your cry did I not give you salvation from their hands?


simplify: Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

Who will come between us and the love of Christ? Will trouble, or pain, or cruel acts, or the need of food or of clothing, or danger, or the sword?


simplify: And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

And they, if they give ear to you or if they do not give ear (for they are an uncontrolled people), will see that there has been a prophet among them.


simplify: And he said unto the disciples, `It is impossible for the stumbling blocks not to come, but woe <FI>to him<Fi> through whom they come;

Jesus said to his disciples: “It is inevitable that there should be temptations but sorrow awaits the person who does the tempting!


simplify: And they began to accuse him, saying, We found this man perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar, and saying that he himself is Christ a king.

And they made statements against him, saying, This man has to our knowledge been teaching our nation to do wrong, and not to make payment of taxes to Caesar, even saying that he himself is Christ, a king.


rate difficulty: She put her hand to the tent-pin, And her right hand to the workmen’s hammer; And with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote through his head; Yea, she pierced and struck through his temples.

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


simplify: And if one person sin unwittingly, then he shall offer a she-goat a year old for a sin-offering.

And if one person does wrong, without being conscious of it, then let him give a she-goat of the first year for a sin-offering.


simplify: Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.


simplify: For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting.

Because he who puts in the seed of the flesh will of the flesh get the reward of death; but he who puts in the seed of the Spirit will of the Spirit get the reward of eternal life.


simplify: Having damnation, because they have cast off their first faith.

and so they bring condemnation on themselves for having broken their previous promise.


simplify: And the fish that were in the river died; and the river became foul, and the Egyptians could not drink water from the river; and the blood was throughout all the land of Egypt.

And the fish in the Nile came to destruction, and a bad smell went up from the river, and the Egyptians were not able to make use of the water of the Nile for drinking; and there was blood through all the land of Egypt.


simplify: And Nathan said, My lord, O king, hast thou said, Adonijah shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne?

And Nathan said, O my lord king, have you said, Adonijah is to be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom?


simplify: And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow the trumpets; and they shall be to you for a statute for ever throughout your generations.

The horns are to be sounded by the sons of Aaron, the priests; this is to be a law for you for ever, from generation to generation.


rate difficulty: And Joash slept with his fathers; and Jeroboam sat upon his throne: and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

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


simplify: In the plain of Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

The king made them of liquid metal in the lowland of Jordan, in the soft earth between Succoth and Zeredah.


simplify: And their children, whom he raised up in their stead, them did Joshua circumcise: for they were uncircumcised, because they had not circumcised them by the way.

And their children, who came up in their place, now underwent circumcision by the hands of Joshua, not having had it before: for there had been no circumcision on the journey.


rate difficulty: for Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all the work of thy hands; He hath known thy walking in this great wilderness these forty years; Jehovah thy God <FI>is<Fi> with thee; thou hast not lacked anything.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and he cried with a great voice, as a lion roareth: and when he cried, the seven thunders uttered their voices.

And he gave a loud cry, like the angry voice of a lion: and at his cry the voices of the seven thunders were sounding.


rate difficulty: And they told him, and said, We came unto the land whither thou sentest us; and surely it floweth with milk and honey; and this is the fruit of it.

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


simplify: that they may want bread and water, and be dismayed one with another, and pine away in their iniquity.

So that they may be in need of bread and water and be wondering at one another, wasting away in their sin.


rate difficulty: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Dan, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.

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rate difficulty: But when I saw that they are not walking uprightly to the truth of the good news, I said to Peter before all, `If thou, being a Jew, in the manner of the nations dost live, and not in the manner of the Jews, how the nations dost thou compel to Judaize?

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


simplify: And for the sides of the tabernacle westward he made six boards.

And for the west side of the House, at the back, they made six boards,


simplify: Be not ye therefore partakers with them.

Therefore have nothing to do with such people.


simplify: And the waters prevailed upon the earth a hundred and fifty days.

And the waters were over the earth a hundred and fifty days.


rate difficulty: Tahath his son, Uriel his son, Uzziah his son, and Shaul his son.

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


simplify: And they arose out of Midian, and came to Paran: and they took men with them out of Paran, and they came to Egypt, unto Pharaoh king of Egypt; which gave him an house, and appointed him victuals, and gave him land.

And they went on from Midian and came to Paran; and, taking men from Paran with them, they came to Egypt, to Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who gave him a house and gave orders for his food and gave him land.


rate difficulty: And hope maketh not ashamed; because the love of God is shed abroad in our hearts by the Holy Ghost which is given unto us.

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


rate difficulty: And king Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. And Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.

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


simplify: And Joshua blessed him, and gave unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh Hebron for an inheritance.

And Joshua gave him his blessing; and he gave Hebron to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, for his heritage.


simplify: And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?


simplify: `And now, brethren, I have known that through ignorance ye did <FI>it<Fi> , as also your rulers;

And yet, my friends, I know that you acted as you did from ignorance, and your rulers also.


simplify: and I was afraid, and went away and hid thy talent in the earth: lo, thou hast thine own.

And I was in fear, and went away, and put your talent in the earth: here is what is yours.


simplify: They give gifts to all harlots; but thou givest thy gifts to all thy lovers, and bribest them, that they may come unto thee on every side for thy whoredoms.

They give payment to all loose women: but you give rewards to your lovers, offering them payment so that they may come to you on every side for your cheap love.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.


rate difficulty: Because his hand is stretched out against God, and his heart is lifted up against the Ruler of all,

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


rate difficulty: Her hand to the pin she sendeth forth, And her right hand to the labourers' hammer, And she hammered Sisera--she smote his head, Yea, she smote, and it passed through his temple.

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


simplify: therefore, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, I will prepare thee unto blood, and blood shall pursue thee: since thou hast not hated blood, therefore blood shall pursue thee.

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord, because you have been sinning through blood, blood will come after you.


rate difficulty: And in the morning, a long time before daylight, he got up and went out to a quiet place, and there he gave himself up to prayer.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.


rate difficulty: To keep the word untouched by evil, clear from all shame, till the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ:

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


simplify: Then the prophet Jeremiah said unto the prophet Hananiah in the presence of the priests, and in the presence of all the people that stood in the house of Jehovah,

Then the prophet Jeremiah said to the prophet Hananiah, before the priests and all the people who had come into the house of the Lord,


simplify: And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you.

In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, let there be a holy meeting; on it you may do no field-work; let the day be marked by the blowing of horns;


rate difficulty: Arise, and thresh, O daughter of Zion, For thy horn I make iron, And thy hoofs I make brass, And thou hast beaten small many peoples, And I have devoted to Jehovah their gain, And their wealth to the Lord of the whole earth!

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


rate difficulty: But when the chief priests and those in authority made statements against him, he gave no answer.


rate difficulty: and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the nations to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify, and the third day he will rise again.'

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


rate difficulty: `And if the priest see it, and lo, there is no white hair on the bright spot, and it is not lower than the skin, and it is become weak, then the priest hath shut him up seven days;

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


rate difficulty: And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtoreths.

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


simplify: but to sit on my right hand or on my left hand is not mine to give; but it is for them for whom it hath been prepared.

But to be seated at my right hand or at my left is not for me to give: but it is for those for whom it has been made ready.


simplify: And the Lord said, Like as my servant Isaiah hath walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and wonder upon Egypt and upon Ethiopia;

And the Lord said, As my servant Isaiah has gone unclothed and without shoes for three years as a sign and a wonder to Egypt and Ethiopia,


simplify: And the glory of the Lord went up from the midst of the city, and stood upon the mountain which is on the east side of the city.

And the glory of the Lord went up from inside the town, and came to rest on the mountain on the east side of the town.


rate difficulty: But Abijah waxed mighty, and took unto himself fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

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


rate difficulty: And after burning all their towns and all their tent-circles,


rate difficulty: and the latter man hath hated her, and written for her a writing of divorce, and given <FI>it<Fi> into her hand, and sent her out of his house, or when the latter man dieth, who hath taken her to himself for a wife:

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


simplify: Moreover of Israel: of the sons of Parosh; Ramiah, and Jeziah, and Malchiah, and Miamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

And of Israel, the sons of Parosh, Ramiah and Izziah and Malchijah and Mijamin and Eleazar and Malchijah and Benaiah.


simplify: In that day will I make the governors of Judah like an hearth of fire among the wood, and like a torch of fire in a sheaf; and they shall devour all the people round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem shall be inhabited again in her own place, even in Jerusalem.

In that day I will make the families of Judah like a pot with fire in it among trees, and like a flaming stick among cut grain; they will send destruction on all the peoples round about, on the right hand and on the left: and Jerusalem will be living again in the place which is hers, that is, in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: They send forth their little ones like a flock, And their children dance.


rate difficulty: And the officers shall speak unto the people, saying, What man is there that hath built a new house, and hath not dedicated it? let him go and return to his house, lest he die in the battle, and another man dedicate it.

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


simplify: Brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and those among you that fear God, to us is the word of this salvation sent forth.

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.


simplify: And the children of Israel set forward according to their journeys out of the wilderness of Sinai; and the cloud abode in the wilderness of Paran.

And the children of Israel went on their journey out of the waste land of Sinai; and the cloud came to rest in the waste land of Paran.


simplify: The word of Jehovah that came to Jeremiah concerning the drought.

The word of the Lord came to Jeremiah when there was no water.


simplify: because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be:

Because the mind of the flesh is opposite to God; it is not under the law of God, and is not able to be:


rate difficulty: And afterward Moses and Aaron went in, and told Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

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


simplify: And Azariah the priest went in after him, and with him fourscore priests of the Lord, that were valiant men:

And Azariah the priest went in after him, with eighty of the Lord's priests, who were strong men;


rate difficulty: And if any mischief follow, then thou shalt give life for life,

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


rate difficulty: And Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary his mother, Lo, this [child] is set for the fall and rising up of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against;

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


rate difficulty: and his son, the first-born, <FI>is<Fi> Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Nadab,

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


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

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


simplify: For their redeemer is mighty; he shall plead their cause with thee.

For their saviour is strong, and he will take up their cause against you.


simplify: And there stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Cesar.

And one of them, named Agabus, said publicly through the Spirit that there would be serious need of food all over the earth: which came about in the time of Claudius.


simplify: Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this, which ye now see and hear.

And now that he has been exalted to the right hand of God, and has received from the Father the promised gift of the Holy Spirit, he has begun to pour out that gift, as you yourselves now see and hear.


rate difficulty: And they brought every man his present, vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and armour, and spices, horses, and mules, a rate year by year.

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


rate difficulty: But as for us, the Lord is our God, and we have not been turned away from him; we have priests who do the work of the Lord, even the sons of Aaron and the Levites in their places;

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


simplify: And when he said, From strangers, Jesus said unto him, Therefore the sons are free.

And when he said, From other people, Jesus said to him, Then are the sons free.


simplify: for he beholdeth himself, and goeth away, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.

For after looking at himself he goes away, and in a short time he has no memory of what he was like.


simplify: Be not ashamed therefore of the testimony of our Lord, nor of me his prisoner: but suffer hardship with the gospel according to the power of God;

Have no feeling of shame, then, for the witness of our Lord or for me, his prisoner: but undergo all things for the good news in the measure of the power of God;


simplify: Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

not as lords of your charges, but as examples to your flock.


simplify: Also the children of Noph and Tahapanes have broken the crown of thy head.

Even the children of Noph and Tahpanhes have put shame on you.


rate difficulty: Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

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


rate difficulty: And Lemech lived a hundred and eighty-two years, and begot a son.


simplify: The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

The sons of Ladan: Jehiel the chief, and Zetham and Joel, three.


rate difficulty: Your haters will be clothed with shame, and the tent of the sinner will not be seen again.

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


simplify: And they caused their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments, and sold themselves to do that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.

And they made their sons and their daughters go through the fire, and they made use of secret arts and unnatural powers, and gave themselves up to doing evil in the eyes of the Lord, till he was moved to wrath.


rate difficulty: And he appointeth the Levites in the house of Jehovah with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, by the command of David, and of Gad, seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, for by the hand of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the command, by the hand of His prophets;

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


simplify: And they came unto their brethren to Zorah and Eshtaol: and their brethren said unto them, What say ye?

So they came back to their brothers in Zorah and Eshtaol, and their brothers said to them, What news have you?


rate difficulty: `And Aaron hath finished--his sons also--covering the sanctuary, and all the vessels of the sanctuary, in the journeying of the camp, and afterwards do the sons of Kohath come in to bear <FI>it<Fi> , and they do not come unto the holy thing, that they have died; these <FI>things are<Fi> the burden of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting.

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


simplify: and on the morrow Paul was going in with us unto James, all the elders also came,

and the next day Paul went with us to see James, and all the officers of the church were present.


rate difficulty: Behold, here I am: witness against me before the Lord, and before his anointed: whose ox have I taken? or whose ass have I taken? or whom have I defrauded? whom have I oppressed? or of whose hand have I received any bribe to blind mine eyes therewith? and I will restore it you.

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


rate difficulty: and the kingdom of Jehoshaphat is quiet, and his God giveth rest to him round about.

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


rate difficulty: bear, therefore, fruits worthy of the reformation,

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


rate difficulty: These likewise cast lots even as their brethren the sons of Aaron in the presence of David the king, and Zadok, and Ahimelech, and the heads of the fathers’ houses of the priests and of the Levites; the fathers’ houses of the chief even as those of his younger brother.

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


rate difficulty: Let the elders that rule well be counted worthy of double honour, especially they who labour in the word and doctrine.

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


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was kindled against this land, to bring upon it all the curses that are written in this book:

And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against this land, to send on it all the curse recorded in this book:


rate difficulty: The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-five.

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


simplify: who may not receive an hundredfold now in this time, houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and fields, with persecutions, and in the age that is coming, life age-during;

who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present — houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land — though not without persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, eternal life.


simplify: Thy servant will go a little way over Jordan with the king: and why should the king recompense it me with such a reward?

Your servant's desire was only to take the king over Jordan; why is the king to give me such a reward?


rate difficulty: and, when the blood of your martyr, Stephen, was being shed, I was myself standing by, approving of his death, and took charge of the clothes of those who were murdering him.

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


rate difficulty: While he was still on the Bench, his wife sent this message to him — “Do not have anything to do with that good man, for I have been very unhappy today in a dream because of him.”


simplify: The Lord thy God, he will go over before thee, and he will destroy these nations from before thee, and thou shalt possess them: and Joshua, he shall go over before thee, as the Lord hath said.

The Lord your God, he will go over before you; he will send destruction on all those nations, and you will take their land as your heritage: and Joshua will go over at your head as the Lord has said.


simplify: Ye have lived in pleasure on the earth, and been wanton; ye have nourished your hearts, as in a day of slaughter.

You have lived on earth a life of extravagance and luxury; you have indulged your fancies in a time of bloodshed.


rate difficulty: Then from the time that a copy of the letter of king Artaxerxes is read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they have gone in haste to Jerusalem, unto the Jews, and caused them to cease by force and strength;


rate difficulty: Who opposeth and exalteth himself above all that is called God, or that is worshipped; so that he as God sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself that he is God.

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


rate difficulty: In whom ye also trusted, after that ye heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation: in whom also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise,

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


simplify: And when we were come to Jerusalem, the brethren received us gladly.

And when we came to Jerusalem, the brothers were pleased to see us.


rate difficulty: Now mediation implies more than one person, but God is one only.

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


rate difficulty: But they were not able to get the better of him, for his words were full of wisdom and of the Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: And when his armor-bearer saw that Saul was dead, he likewise fell upon his sword, and died.

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


simplify: And he came nigh and touched the bier: and the bearers stood still. And he said, Young man, I say unto thee, Arise.

And he came near, and put his hand on the stretcher where the dead man was: and those who were moving it came to a stop. And he said, Young man, I say to you, Get up.


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

To the feeble, I was as one who is feeble, so that they might have salvation: I have been all things to all men, so that some at least might have salvation.


rate difficulty: and that if the peoples of the land brought wares or any grain on the sabbath day to sell, we would not take it of them on the sabbath, or on [any] holy day; and that we would leave [the land uncultivated] the seventh year, and the exaction of every debt.

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


simplify: Whose home I have made the wilderness, And the salt land his dwelling-place?

To whom I have given the waste land for a heritage, and the salt land as a living-place.


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Joseph: of the children of Ephraim: their generations, after their families, according to their fathers' houses, by the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that went forth to military service:


rate difficulty: To the churches in Galatia, from Paul, an apostle whose commission is not from any human authority and is given, not by human beings, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead;

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


rate difficulty: Sow to yourselves in righteousness, reap in mercy; break up your fallow ground: for it is time to seek the Lord, till he come and rain righteousness upon you.


simplify: And he that received the five talents came and brought other five talents, saying, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me five talents: lo, I have gained other five talents.

And he who had the five talents came with his other five talents, saying, Lord, you gave into my care five talents: see, I have got five more.


rate difficulty: Sons of Gibeon: ninety and five.

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


simplify: And the king said unto Haman, The silver is given to thee, the people also, to do with them as it seemeth good to thee.

And the king said to Haman, The money is yours, and the people, to do with them whatever seems right to you.


simplify: who his own self bare our sins in his body upon the tree, that we, having died unto sins, might live unto righteousness; by whose stripes ye were healed.

He took our sins on himself, giving his body to be nailed on the tree, so that we, being dead to sin, might have a new life in righteousness, and by his wounds we have been made well.


simplify: the <FI>son<Fi> of Methuselah, the <FI>son<Fi> of Enoch, the <FI>son<Fi> of Jared, the <FI>son<Fi> of Mahalaleel,

Methuselah, Enoch, Jared, Mahalalel, Kenan,


rate difficulty: Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.


simplify: In his days did Hiel the Beth-elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof with the loss of Abiram his first-born, and set up the gates thereof with the loss of his youngest son Segub, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.


rate difficulty: And I also have made you contemptible and base before all the people, because ye have not kept my ways, but have respect of persons in [administering] the law.

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


simplify: It is better to go to the house of mourning than to go to the house of feasting: for that is the end of all men; and the living will lay it to his heart.

It is better to go to the house of weeping, than to go to the house of feasting; because that is the end of every man, and the living will take it to their hearts.


simplify: Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,


rate difficulty: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

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


simplify: Ye mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew, neither let there be rain, upon you, nor fields of offerings: for there the shield of the mighty is vilely cast away, the shield of Saul, as though he had not been anointed with oil.

O mountains of Gilboa, let there be no dew or rain on you, you fields of death: for there the arms of the strong have been shamed, the arms of Saul, as if he had not been marked with the holy oil.


simplify: Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.

Who is there to condemn them? He who died for us is Christ Jesus! — or, rather, it was he who was raised from the dead, and who is now at God’s right hand and is even pleading on our behalf!


rate difficulty: The length of one curtain shall be twenty-eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for all the curtains.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith, `I wipe away man whom I have prepared from off the face of the ground, from man unto beast, unto creeping thing, and unto fowl of the heavens, for I have repented that I have made them.'

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


simplify: How he went into the house of God in the days of Abiathar the high priest, and did eat the shewbread, which is not lawful to eat but for the priests, and gave also to them which were with him?

How he went into the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which only the priests are allowed to eat, and gave some to his comrades as well?”


simplify: Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: This is he that came by water and blood, even Jesus Christ; not by water only, but by water and blood. And it is the Spirit that beareth witness, because the Spirit is truth.

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


simplify: They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all other, and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.


rate difficulty: All these joined together in the vale of Siddim (the same is the Salt Sea).

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


simplify: Are ye so foolish? having begun in the Spirit, are ye now made perfect by the flesh?

Can you be so foolish? After beginning with what is spiritual, do you now end with what is external?


simplify: But Saul, who is also called Paul, filled with the Holy Spirit, fastened his eyes on him,

But Saul, whose other name is Paul, being full of the Holy Spirit, looking hard at him, said,


simplify: And charged them that they should not make him known:

but he warned them not to make him known,


rate difficulty: and then Jesus, after sternly warning him, immediately sent him away, and said to him:

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


rate difficulty: and Moza begat Binea, Raphah <FI>is<Fi> his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

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


simplify: And the day following Paul went in with us unto James; and all the elders were present.

And on the day after, Paul went with us to James, and all the rulers of the church were present.


simplify: This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Here is the one thing that I want to find out from you — Did you receive the Spirit as the result of obedience to law, or of your having listened with faith?


simplify: these are the two olive <FI>trees<Fi> , and the two lamp-stands that before the God of the earth do stand;

These men are represented by ‘the two olive trees and the two lamps that stand before the Lord of the earth.’


rate difficulty: I rejoice greatly that I have foundcertainof thy children walking in truth, even as we received commandment from the Father.

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


simplify: And Mephibosheth had a young son, whose name was Micha. And all that dwelt in the house of Ziba were servants unto Mephibosheth.

And Mephibosheth had a young son named Mica. And all the people living in the house of Ziba were servants to Mephibosheth.


rate difficulty: In every place are the eyes of Jehovah, Watching the evil and the good.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he and all his army, against Jerusalem, and encamped against it; and they built forts against it round about.

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


rate difficulty: The first man art thou born? And before the heights wast thou formed?

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


rate difficulty: Now when Saul had taken the kingdom over Israel, he fought against all his enemies on every side, against Moab, and against the children of Ammon, and against Edom, and against the kings of Zobah, and against the Philistines: and whithersoever he turned himself, he put them to the worse.

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


simplify: Shall two walk together, except they have agreed?

Is it possible for two to go walking together, if not by agreement?


simplify: And all his fugitives with all his bands shall fall by the sword, and they that remain shall be scattered toward all winds: and ye shall know that I the Lord have spoken it.

All his best fighting-men will be put to the sword, and the rest will be sent away to every wind: and you will be certain that I the Lord have said it.


simplify: It is like unto leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till it was all leavened.

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.


simplify: Then Menahem smote Tiphsah, and all that were therein, and the borders thereof, from Tirzah: because they opened not to him, therefore he smote it; and all the women therein that were with child he ripped up.

Then Menahem sent destruction on Tappuah and all the people in it, and its limits, from Tirzah, because they would not let him come in; and he had all the women who were with child cut open.


simplify: And they brought it out of the house of Abinadab, which was in the hill, with the ark of God: and Ahio went before the ark.

And Uzzah went by the side of the ark, while Ahio went before it.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Aaron, saying,


rate difficulty: The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops?

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


simplify: for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided--three against two, and two against three;

For from this time, if there are five people in a house, they will be divided, three against two, and two against three.


simplify: And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.


simplify: And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant might be with Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.

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


simplify: Now Sheshan had no sons, but daughters. And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.

Now Sheshan had no sons, but only daughters. And Sheshan had an Egyptian servant, whose name was Jarha.


simplify: But be not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren.

But you may not be named Teacher: for one is your teacher, and you are all brothers.


simplify: The Lord is my strength and song, and he is become my salvation: he is my God, and I will prepare him an habitation; my father’s God, and I will exalt him.

The Lord is my strength and my strong helper, he has become my salvation: he is my God and I will give him praise; my father's God and I will give him glory.


simplify: and they shall say unto the elders of his city, This our son is stubborn and rebellious, he will not obey our voice; he is a glutton, and a drunkard.

And say to them, This son of ours is hard-hearted and uncontrolled, he will not give attention to us; he gives himself up to pleasure and strong drink.


simplify: And between the passes, by which Jonathan sought to go over unto the Philistines’ garrison, there was a rocky crag on the one side, and a rocky crag on the other side: and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.

Now between the narrow roads over the mountains by which Jonathan was making his way to the Philistines' forces, there was a sharp overhanging rock on one side, and a sharp rock on the other side: one was named Bozez and the other Seneh.


simplify: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.


rate difficulty: fear is not in the love, but the perfect love doth cast out the fear, because the fear hath punishment, and he who is fearing hath not been made perfect in the love;

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


rate difficulty: Behold, I will stir up the Medes against them, who do not regard silver, and as for gold, they have no delight in it.

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


rate difficulty: And its chambers were three on this side and three on that side; and its posts and its projections were according to the measure of the first gate: its length was fifty cubits, and breadth five and twenty cubits.


rate difficulty: The nations also heard of him; he was taken in their pit, and they brought him with chains unto the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw another messenger flying in mid-heaven, having good news age-during to proclaim to those dwelling upon the earth, and to every nation, and tribe, and tongue, and people,

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


rate difficulty: And the men of the garrison answered Jonathan and his armorbearer, and said, Come up to us, and we will show you a thing. And Jonathan said unto his armorbearer, Come up after me; for Jehovah hath delivered them into the hand of Israel.

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


simplify: And he took the elders of the city, and thorns of the wilderness and briers, and with them he taught the men of Succoth.

Then he took the responsible men of the town and had them crushed on a bed of thorns and sharp stems.


simplify: He shall break also the images of Beth–shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of the Egyptians shall he burn with fire.

And the stone pillars of Beth-shemesh in the land of Egypt will be broken by him, and the houses of the gods of Egypt burned with fire.


rate difficulty: Even the righteousness of God which is by faith of Jesus Christ unto all and upon all them that believe: for there is no difference:


simplify: Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

Say, His disciples came by night and took him away secretly while we were sleeping.


rate difficulty: The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.


rate difficulty: And the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgasite,


simplify: Behold, we count them happy which endure. Ye have heard of the patience of Job, and have seen the end of the Lord; that the Lord is very pitiful, and of tender mercy.

We count those who displayed such endurance blessed! You have heard, too, of Job’s endurance, and have seen what the Lord’s purpose was, for ‘the Lord is full of pity and compassion.’


simplify: But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

Yet, I tell you, the doom of Sodom will be more bearable in the ‘day of judgment’ than yours.”


rate difficulty: Behold, I stand at the door, and knock: if any man hear my voice, and open the door, I will come in to him, and will sup with him, and he with me.

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


simplify: But the mountain falling cometh to nought; And the rock is removed out of its place;

But truly a mountain falling comes to dust, and a rock is moved from its place;


simplify: Then said Saul to his servant, But, behold, if we go, what shall we bring the man? for the bread is spent in our vessels, and there is not a present to bring to the man of God: what have we?

Then Saul said to his servant, But if we go, what are we to take the man? all our bread is gone, and we have no offering to take to the man of God: what are we to do?


simplify: And after that Hezron was dead in Caleb–ephratah, then Abiah Hezron’s wife bare him Ashur the father of Tekoa.

And after the death of Hezron, Caleb had connection with Ephrath, his father Hezron's wife, and she gave birth to his son Asshur, the father of Tekoa.


rate difficulty: the chief captain commanded him to be brought into the castle, bidding that he should be examined by scourging, that he might know for what cause they so shouted against him.

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


rate difficulty: But even among these, there are some which may not be used for food: such as the camel, the hare, and the coney, which are unclean to you, because, though their food comes back, the horn of their feet is not parted in two.

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


rate difficulty: and they have put it and all its vessels unto a covering of badger skin, and have put <FI>it<Fi> on the bar.

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


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

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


simplify: Behold, I have made thee small among the heathen: thou art greatly despised.

See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.


simplify: And the priest that is anointed shall bring of the bullock’s blood to the tabernacle of the congregation:

And the priest is to take some of its blood to the Tent of meeting;


rate difficulty: `The pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords,

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


simplify: For my name’s sake will I defer mine anger, and for my praise will I refrain for thee, that I cut thee not off.

Because of my name I will put away my wrath, and for my praise I will keep myself from cutting you off.


simplify: And Elisha said, As Jehovah of hosts liveth, before whom I stand, surely, were it not that I regard the presence of Jehoshaphat the king of Judah, I would not look toward thee, nor see thee.

Then Elisha said, By the life of the Lord of armies whose servant I am, if it was not for the respect I have for Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, I would not give a look at you, or see you.


simplify: how strait <FI>is<Fi> the gate, and compressed the way that is leading to the life, and few are those finding it!

for small is the gate, and narrow the road, who leads to life, and those that find it are few.


rate difficulty: for many shall come in my name, saying--I am <FI>he<Fi> , and many they shall lead astray;

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


simplify: He who is having ears to hear--let him hear.'


simplify: For many bare false witness against him, but their witness agreed not together.

for, though there were many who gave false evidence against him, yet their evidence did not agree.


simplify: for this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.

For this, my son, who was dead, is living again; he had gone away from me, and has come back. And they were full of joy.


rate difficulty: for, if thou art not sending My people away, lo, I am sending against thee, and against thy servants, and against thy people, and against thy houses, the beetle, and the houses of the Egyptians have been full of the beetle, and also the ground on which they are.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they beckoned unto their partners, which were in the other ship, that they should come and help them. And they came, and filled both the ships, so that they began to sink.

And they made signs to their friends in the other boat to come to their help. And they came, and the two boats were so full that they were going down.


rate difficulty: And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

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


simplify: Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

Let your conversation always be kindly, but not bland, season it, as it were, with salt; be aware in each case of the answer you should be giving.


simplify: And he said, The Lord came from Sinai, and rose up from Seir unto them; he shined forth from mount Paran, and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand went a fiery law for them.

He said, The Lord came from Sinai, dawning on them from Seir; shining out from Mount Paran, coming from Meribath Kadesh: from his right hand went flames of fire: his wrath made waste the peoples.


simplify: Son of man, say unto her, Thou art the land that is not cleansed, nor rained upon in the day of indignation.

Son of man, say to her, You are a land on which no rain or thunderstorm has come in the day of wrath.


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


simplify: I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I possess.

Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.


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

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


simplify: the sixth to Bukkiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The sixth Bukkiah, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: Jehovah will make the rain of thy land powder and dust: from heaven shall it come down upon thee, until thou be destroyed.

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


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

Now the acts of Asa, first and last, are recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel.


rate difficulty: Wherefore I will be careful to put you always in mind of these things, although knowing [them] and established in the present truth.

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


rate difficulty: The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.


simplify: He shall not make himself unclean for his father, or for his mother, for his brother, or for his sister, when they die: because the consecration of his God is upon his head.

He may not make himself unclean for his father or his mother, his sister or his brother, if death comes to them; because he is under an oath to keep himself separate for God.


rate difficulty: And Isaac said, How is it that you have got it so quickly, my son? And he said, Because the Lord your God made it come my way.

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


rate difficulty: Move not, I pray Thee, from this, till my coming in unto Thee, and I have brought out my present, and put it before Thee;' and he saith, `I--I do abide till thy return.'

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


simplify: And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he offered sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, one of David's helpers, from Giloh his town, while he was making the offerings. And the design against David became strong, for more and more people were joined to Absalom.


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Izhar; Shelomith the chief.

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


rate difficulty: saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.


simplify: And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

And the scribe said to him, Truly, Master, you have well said that he is one, and there is no other but he:


rate difficulty: And it shall be as with a chased roe, and as with a flock that no man gathereth together; every one shall turn to his own people, and every one flee into his own land.

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


rate difficulty: But who may have strength enough to make a house for him, seeing that the heaven and the heaven of heavens are not wide enough to be his resting-place? who am I then to make a house for him? But I am building it only for the burning of perfume before him.


simplify: And he laid his hands upon him, and gave him a charge, as the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses.

And he put his hands on him and gave him his orders, as the Lord had said by Moses.


simplify: Moreover Jeremiah said unto king Zedekiah, What have I offended against thee, or against thy servants, or against this people, that ye have put me in prison?

Then Jeremiah said to King Zedekiah, What has been my sin against you or against your servants or against this people, that you have put me in prison?


rate difficulty: My covenant was with him of life and peace; and I gave them to him that he might fear; and he feared me, and stood in awe of my name.


rate difficulty: And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Is it thou, my lord Elijah?

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


simplify: And he said also unto his disciples, There was a certain rich man, which had a steward; and the same was accused unto him that he had wasted his goods.

And another time he said to the disciples, There was a certain man of great wealth who had a servant; and it was said to him that this servant was wasting his goods.


simplify: Commanding his accusers to come unto thee: by examining of whom thyself mayest take knowledge of all these things, whereof we accuse him.

and you will be able, by examining him on all these points, to satisfy yourself as to the charges which we are bringing against him.”


simplify: And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.

And early in the morning they got up and went to the top of the mountain, saying, We are here and we will go up to the place which the Lord said he would give us: for we have done wrong.


rate difficulty: And they all said, Thou then art the Son ofGod? And he said to them, Ye say that I am.

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


simplify: And Israel saw the great work which Jehovah did upon the Egyptians, and the people feared Jehovah: and they believed in Jehovah, and in his servant Moses.

And Israel saw the great work which the Lord had done against the Egyptians, and the fear of the Lord came on the people and they had faith in the Lord and in his servant Moses.


simplify: If his master have given him a wife, and she have born him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.


rate difficulty: And ye, be fruitful and multiply, teem in the earth, and multiply in it.'

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


simplify: And she said unto the men, I know that the Lord hath given you the land, and that your terror is fallen upon us, and that all the inhabitants of the land faint because of you.

And said to them, It is clear to me that the Lord has given you the land, and that the fear of you has come on us;


simplify: And in the wilderness, where thou hast seen how that the Lord thy God bare thee, as a man doth bear his son, in all the way that ye went, until ye came into this place.

And in the waste land, where you have seen how the Lord was supporting you, as a man does his son, in all your journeying till you came to this place.


simplify: He said unto him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spake unto me by the word of the Lord, saying, Bring him back with thee into thine house, that he may eat bread and drink water. But he lied unto him.

Then he said to him, I am a prophet like you; and an angel said to me by the word of the Lord, Take him back with you and give him food and water. But he said false words to him.


simplify: Yea, ye yourselves know, that these hands have ministered unto my necessities, and to them that were with me.

You, yourselves, know that these hands of mine provided not only for my own wants, but for my companions also.


simplify: Moreover the sons of Obed–edom were, Shemaiah the firstborn, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethaneel the fifth,

And Obed-edom had sons: Shemaiah the oldest, Jehozabad the second, Joah the third, and Sacar the fourth, and Nethanel the fifth,


rate difficulty: And the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel: and because of the Midianites the children of Israel made them the dens which are in the mountains, and caves, and strong holds.

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


rate difficulty: And he received the sign of circumcision, a seal of the righteousness of the faith which he had yet being uncircumcised: that he might be the father of all them that believe, though they be not circumcised; that righteousness might be imputed unto them also:

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


simplify: And Saul was afraid of David, because Jehovah was with him, and was departed from Saul.

And Saul went in fear of David, because the Lord was with David and had gone away from Saul.


simplify: And the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to Elijah the Tishbite, saying,


rate difficulty: And the time that he reigned over Israel was forty years: he reigned seven years in Hebron, and he reigned thirty-three years in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: one God and Father of all, who <FI>is<Fi> over all, and through all, and in you all,

There is but one God and Father of all — the God who is over all, pervades all, and is in all.


simplify: Some indeed preach Christ even of envy and strife; and some also of good will:

Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:


simplify: And the men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,

The men of Babylon made Succoth-benoth, and the men of Cuth made Nergal, and the men of Hamath made Ashima,


rate difficulty: And ye came near unto me every one of you, and said, We will send men before us, and they shall search us out the land, and bring us word again by what way we must go up, and into what cities we shall come.

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


rate difficulty: For the nation and the kingdom that do not serve thee perish, Yea, the nations are utterly wasted.

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


simplify: that He might show, in the ages that are coming, the exceeding riches of His grace in kindness toward us in Christ Jesus,

in order that, by his goodness to us in Christ Jesus, he might display in the ages to come the boundless wealth of his loving kindness.


simplify: Moreover thou hast taken thy sons and thy daughters, whom thou hast borne unto me, and these hast thou sacrificed unto them to be devoured. Is this of thy whoredoms a small matter,

And you took your sons and your daughters whom I had by you, offering even these to them to be their food. Was your loose behaviour so small a thing,


rate difficulty: If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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


rate difficulty: from which things some having swerved have turned aside unto vain talking;

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


rate difficulty: And the wife of Jeroboam doth so, and riseth, and goeth to Shiloh, and entereth the house of Ahijah, and Ahijah is not able to see, for his eyes have stood because of his age.

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


simplify: Examine yourselves, whether ye be in the faith; prove your own selves. Know ye not your own selves, how that Jesus Christ is in you, except ye be reprobates?

Put yourselves to the proof, to see whether you are holding to the faith. Test yourselves. Surely you recognize this fact about yourselves — that Jesus Christ is in you! Unless indeed you cannot stand the test!


simplify: 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.

This he put into the pot, and everything which came up on the hook the priest took for himself. This they did in Shiloh to all the Israelites who came there.


simplify: And the Lord discomfited them before Israel, and slew them with a great slaughter at Gibeon, and chased them along the way that goeth up to Beth–horon, and smote them to Azekah, and unto Makkedah.

And the Lord made them full of fear before Israel, and they put great numbers of them to death at Gibeon, and went after them by the way going up to Beth-horon, driving them back to Azekah and Makkedah


simplify: But Peter rehearsed the matter from the beginning, and expounded it by order unto them, saying,

But Peter gave them an account of it all in order, saying to them,


simplify: And the water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.

And when all the water in the skin was used up, she put the child down under a tree.


simplify: and from Jerusalem, and from Idumæa, and beyond the Jordan, and about Tyre and Sidon, a great multitude, hearing what great things he did, came unto him.

And from Jerusalem, and from Idumaea, and the other side of Jordan, and the country about Tyre and Sidon, a great number, hearing what great things he did, came to him.


rate difficulty: When Jehovah thyGod shall bring thee into the land whither thou goest to possess it, and shall cast out many nations from before thee, the Hittites, and the Girgashites, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, seven nations greater and mightier than thou,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


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.


rate difficulty: And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.


simplify: And they went out, and preached that men should repent.

And they went out, preaching the need for a change of heart in men.


simplify: in their setting of their threshold by my threshold, and their door-post beside my door-post, and there was but the wall between me and them; and they have defiled my holy name by their abominations which they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

By putting their doorstep by my doorstep, and the pillar of their door by the pillar of my door, with only a wall between me and them; and they have made my holy name unclean by the disgusting things which they have done: so in my wrath I sent destruction on them.


rate difficulty: And the brethren of Joseph see that their father is dead, and say, `Peradventure Joseph doth hate us, and doth certainly return to us all the evil which we did with him.'


simplify: And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

And at the sounding of the second angel, it was as if a great mountain burning with fire was sent into the sea: and a third part of the sea became blood,


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Yet once, it is a little while, and I will shake the heavens, and the earth, and the sea, and the dry land;

For this is what the Lord of armies has said: In a short time I will make a shaking of the heavens and the earth and the sea and the dry land;


rate difficulty: The king of Mekkedah, one; The king of Beth-El, one;

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


rate difficulty: But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up unto the faith which should afterwards be revealed.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said to his uncle, He told us for certain that the asses were found. But of the matter of the kingdom, of which Samuel had spoken, he told him not.


simplify: lest again having come, my God may humble me in regard to you, and I may bewail many of those having sinned before, and not having reformed concerning the uncleanness, and whoredom, and lasciviousness, that they did practise.

I am afraid that, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.


rate difficulty: And Jacob saw that Laban's feeling for him was no longer what it had been before.


simplify: `Tell us when these things shall be? and what <FI>is<Fi> the sign when all these may be about to be fulfilled?'

“Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign when all this is drawing to its close.”


rate difficulty: And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.


simplify: And he said to them, `Did ye never read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, he and those with him?

“Have you never read,”answered Jesus, “what David did when he was in need and hungry, he and his companions —


rate difficulty: And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath let me see thy seed also.

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


rate difficulty: And David taketh the shields of gold that have been on the servants of Hadarezer, and bringeth them in to Jerusalem;

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


rate difficulty: For every battle of a warrior <FI>is<Fi> with rushing, and raiment rolled in blood, And it hath been for burning--fuel of fire.

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


simplify: Behold, I will send you Elijah the prophet before the coming of the great and dreadful day of the Lord:

See, I am sending you Elijah the prophet before the day of the Lord comes, that great day, greatly to be feared.


rate difficulty: You crave, yet do not obtain. You murder and rage, yet cannot gain your end. You quarrel and fight. You do not obtain, because you do not ask.


simplify: For before those days there was no hire for man, nor any hire for beast; neither was there any peace to him that went out or came in, because of the adversary: for I set all men every one against his neighbor.

For before those days there was no payment for a man's work, or for the use of a beast, and there was no peace for him who went out or him who came in, because of the attacker: for I had every man turned against his neighbour.


rate difficulty: We are not “commending ourselves” again to you, but rather are giving you cause for pride in us, so that you may have an answer ready for those who pride themselves on appearances and not on character.

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


simplify: O Israel, thou hast destroyed thyself; but in me is thine help.

I have sent destruction on you, O Israel; who will be your helper?


rate difficulty: And the woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet colour, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls, having a golden cup in her hand full of abominations and filthiness of her fornication:

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he called unto him two centurions, saying, Make ready two hundred soldiers to go to Cesarea, and horsemen threescore and ten, and spearmen two hundred, at the third hour of the night;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,

And, getting on his feet, he gave a blessing to all the men of Israel, saying with a loud voice,


simplify: we have sent, therefore, Judas and Silas, and they by word are telling the same things.

We are accordingly sending Judas and Silas, and they will tell you by word of mouth what we are now writing.


simplify: And these are they which are sown on good ground; such as hear the word, and receive it, and bring forth fruit, some thirtyfold, some sixty, and some an hundred.

And these are they who were planted on the good earth; such as give ear to the word, and take it into their hearts, and give fruit, thirty and sixty and a hundred times as much.


rate difficulty: Only thou shalt not eat the blood thereof; thou shalt pour it out upon the ground as water.

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simplify: For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

For my yoke is good, and the weight I take up is not hard.


rate difficulty: And when it was day, the elderhood of the people, both [the] chief priests and scribes, were gathered together, and led him into their council, saying,

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rate difficulty: And he said to him, Thus saith Jehovah: Because thou hast let go out of thy hand the man that I had devoted to destruction, thy life shall be for his life, and thy people for his people.

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rate difficulty: But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

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rate difficulty: Rephaim they are reckoned, they also, as the Anakim; and the Moabites call them Emim.

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rate difficulty: For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am Jehovah your God.

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simplify: for what have I also those without to judge? those within do ye not judge?

What have I to do with judging those outside the church? Is it not for you to judge those who are within the church,


simplify: And the priest shall take of the log of oil, and pour it into the palm of his own left hand;

And take some of the oil and put it in the hollow of his left hand;


simplify: but after my having risen I will go before you to Galilee.'

Yet, after I have risen, I will go before you into Galilee.”


simplify: And, behold, men passed by, and saw the carcase cast in the way, and the lion standing by the carcase: and they came and told it in the city where the old prophet dwelt.

And some men, going by, saw the body stretched out in the road with the lion by its side; and they came and gave news of it in the town where the old prophet was living.


simplify: Let them therefore, said he, which among you are able, go down with me, and accuse this man, if there be any wickedness in him.

“So let the influential men among you,” he said, “go down with me, and if there is anything amiss in the man, charge him formally with it.”


rate difficulty: Mercy and truth preserve the king: and his throne is upholden by mercy.


simplify: but it behoveth me to-day, and to-morrow, and the <FI>day<Fi> following, to go on, because it is not possible for a prophet to perish out of Jerusalem.

But today and tomorrow and the day after I must go on my way, because it cannot be that a prophet should meet his end outside Jerusalem.


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

O give praise to the Lord; give honour to his name, talking of his doings among the peoples.


rate difficulty: Only the trees which thou knowest are not trees for meat, thou mayest destroy and cut them down, and build bulwarks against the city that maketh war with thee, until it fall.

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rate difficulty: Now let them put away their fornication, and the carcases of their kings, far from me, and I will dwell in the midst of them for ever.

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

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


rate difficulty: Then they spat in his face, and struck him, while others dealt blows at him, saying as they did so:


rate difficulty: for before these days Theudas rose up, alleging himself to be somebody, to whom a number of men, about four hundred, were joined; who was slain, and all, as many as obeyed him, were dispersed and came to nothing.

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rate difficulty: Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

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rate difficulty: Pilate again then--wishing to release Jesus--called to them,

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simplify: And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerusalem with great joy:


simplify: but if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.


simplify: I gave thee a king in mine anger, and took him away in my wrath.

I have given you a king, because I was angry, and have taken him away in my wrath.


rate difficulty: The sons of Jacob came upon the slain, and plundered the city, because they had defiled their sister.


simplify: For this ye know, that no whoremonger, nor unclean person, nor covetous man, who is an idolater, hath any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.

For of this you may be sure — that no one who is unchaste or impure or greedy of gain (for to be greedy of gain is idolatry) has any place awaiting him in the kingdom of the Christ and God.


rate difficulty: Thy dead shall live, my dead bodies shall arise. Awake and sing in triumph, ye that dwell in dust; for thy dew is the dew of the morning, and the earth shall cast forth the dead.

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rate difficulty: A friend loveth at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.

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