simplify: And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

And I will make an eternal agreement with them, that I will never give them up, but ever do them good; and I will put the fear of me in their hearts, so that they will not go away from me.


rate difficulty: Asahel brother of Joab <FI>is<Fi> of the thirty; Elhanan son of Dodo of Beth-Lehem.

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


simplify: Should thy boastings make men hold their peace? And when thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

Are your words of pride to make men keep quiet? and are you to make sport, with no one to put you to shame?


rate difficulty: But when this has taken place, then that which was said in the Writings will come true, Death is overcome by life.

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


simplify: Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

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


rate difficulty: For they that are according to flesh mind the things of the flesh; and they that are according to Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

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


simplify: The cloths of service, to do service in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

The robes of needlework for the work of the holy place, the holy robes for Aaron the priest, and the robes for his sons when acting as priests.


simplify: Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign; and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.

Josiah was eight years old when he became king; he was ruling in Jerusalem for thirty-one years.


simplify: behold, I will send and take all the families of the north, saith Jehovah, and I will send unto Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will bring them against this land, and against the inhabitants thereof, and against all these nations round about; and I will utterly destroy them, and make them an astonishment, and a hissing, and perpetual desolations.

See, I will send and take all the families of the north, says the Lord, and Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, my servant, and make them come against this land, and against its people, and against all these nations on every side; and I will give them up to complete destruction, and make them a cause of fear and surprise and a waste place for ever.


simplify: And Moses said unto Aaron, Go unto the altar, and offer thy sin offering, and thy burnt offering, and make an atonement for thyself, and for the people: and offer the offering of the people, and make an atonement for them; as the Lord commanded.

And Moses said to Aaron, Come near to the altar and make your sin-offering and your burned offering to take away your sin and the sin of the people, and make the people's offering to take away their sin; as the Lord has given orders.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt die the deaths of the uncircumcised by the hand of strangers: for I have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

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


simplify: And, having seen him, they were amazed, and his mother said unto him, `Child, why didst thou thus to us? lo, thy father and I, sorrowing, were seeking thee.'

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


simplify: And the Spirit of God came upon Saul when he heard those tidings, and his anger was kindled greatly.

And at their words, the spirit of God came on Saul with power, and he became very angry.


simplify: And the thing which he did was evil in the sight of Jehovah: and he slew him also.

And what he did was evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death, like his brother.


simplify: Then he that had received the five talents went and traded with the same, and made them other five talents.

Straight away he who had been given the five talents went and did trade with them, and made five more.


simplify: and Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

And the son of Jacob was Joseph the husband of Mary, who gave birth to Jesus, whose name is Christ.


simplify: Lest haply if they of Macedonia come with me, and find you unprepared, we (that we say not, ye) should be ashamed in this same confident boasting.

Otherwise, if any Macedonians were to come with me, and find you unprepared, we — to say nothing of you — should feel ashamed of our present confidence.


simplify: Therefore hear now this, thou afflicted, and drunken, but not with wine:

So now give ear to this, you who are troubled and overcome, but not with wine:


simplify: And immediately Jesus, having stretched forth the hand, laid hold of him, and saith to him, `Little faith! for what didst thou waver?'

Instantly Jesus stretched out his hand, and caught hold of him. “You of little faith!” he said, “Why did you falter?”


simplify: And thou shalt say unto him, The Lord God of the Hebrews hath sent me unto thee, saying, Let my people go, that they may serve me in the wilderness: and, behold, hitherto thou wouldest not hear.

And say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has sent me to you, saying, Let my people go so that they may give me worship in the waste land; but up to now you have not given ear to his words.


rate difficulty: And he said also unto his disciples, `A certain man was rich, who had a steward, and he was accused to him as scattering his goods;

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


simplify: And all the people went to the house of Baal, and brake it down, and brake his altars and his images in pieces, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars.

Then all the people went to the house of Baal and had it pulled down, and its altars and images broken up; and Mattan, the priest of Baal, they put to death before the altars.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, that Jehu said to the guard and to the captains, Go in, and slay them; let none come forth. And they smote them with the edge of the sword; and the guard and the captains cast them out, and went to the city of the house of Baal.

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


rate difficulty: For though his crucifixion was due to weakness, his life is due to the power of God. And we, also, are weak in his weakness, but with him we will live for you through the power of God.

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


simplify: Through wisdom is a house builded; And by understanding it is established;

The building of a house is by wisdom, and by reason it is made strong:


simplify: And as soon as it was day, the assembly of the elders of the people was gathered together, both chief priests and scribes; and they led him away into their council, saying,

And when it was day, the rulers of the people came together, with the chief priests and the scribes, and they took him before their Sanhedrin, saying,


simplify: And he said, Thou knowest that the kingdom was mine, and that all Israel set their faces on me, that I should reign: howbeit the kingdom is turned about, and is become my brother’s: for it was his from the Lord.

And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.


rate difficulty: “What are we to do then?” the people asked.

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


rate difficulty: Woe to thee, Moab! thou art undone, O people of Chemosh: he hath given his sons that escaped, and his daughters, into captivity unto Sihon king of the Amorites.

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


simplify: And Balaam rose up, and went and returned to his place: and Balak also went his way.

Then Balaam got up and went back to his place: and Balak went away.


rate difficulty: Every one who is hating his brother--a man-killer he is, and ye have known that no man-killer hath life age-during in him remaining,

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


simplify: And Bath–sheba said, Well; I will speak for thee unto the king.

And Bath-sheba said, Good! I will make your request to the king.


simplify: To all that be in Rome, beloved of God, called to be saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

To all those who are in Rome, loved by God, marked out as saints: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Yes, truly, by your pride in me, my brothers in Christ Jesus our Lord, my life is one long death.

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


simplify: For those who are according to the flesh, the things of the flesh do mind; and those according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit;

They who follow their earthly nature are earthly-minded, while they who follow the Spirit are spiritually minded.


simplify: But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged of you, or of man’s judgment: yea, I judge not mine own self.

But it is a small thing to me that I am judged by you or by man's judging; I am not even a judge of myself.


rate difficulty: But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.


simplify: He said unto them, But whom say ye that I am? Peter answering said, The Christ of God.

“But you,”he went on, “who do you say that I am?”And to this Peter answered: “The Christ of God.”


rate difficulty: And when David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Ziba the servant of Mephibosheth met him, with a couple of asses saddled, and upon them two hundred loaves of bread, and an hundred bunches of raisins, and an hundred of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

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


simplify: And it is come to pass that, as he cried, and they would not hear, so they shall cry, and I will not hear, said Jehovah of hosts;

And it came about that as they would not give ear to his voice, so I would not give ear to their voice, says the Lord of armies:


simplify: Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: See, waters are coming up out of the north, and will become an overflowing stream, overflowing the land and everything in it, the town and those who are living in it; and men will give a cry, and all the people of the land will be crying out in pain.


rate difficulty: He lieth under the lotus-trees, In the covert of the reed, and the fen.

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


simplify: And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.

Giving the sheep of the peace-offerings, with the basket of unleavened bread; and at the same time, the priest will make his meal offering and his drink offering.


rate difficulty: wherefore? because I do not love you? God hath known!

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


simplify: And if a woman shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.

And if she herself puts away her husband and takes another, she is false to her husband.


simplify: And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the coasts of Egypt: very grievous were they; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them shall be such.

And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, resting on every part of the land, in very great numbers; such an army of locusts had never been seen before, and never will be again.


rate difficulty: As for the beauty of his ornament, he set it in majesty: but they made the images of their abominations and of their detestable things therein: therefore have I set it far from them.

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


rate difficulty: Who is aGod like unto thee, that forgiveth iniquity, and passeth by the transgression of the remnant of his heritage? He retaineth not his anger for ever, because he delighteth in loving-kindness.

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


simplify: Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for scripture says —  ‘Cursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.’


rate difficulty: These things therefore being undeniable, it is necessary that ye should be calm and do nothing headlong.

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


simplify: And God heard the voice of the lad; and the angel of God called to Hagar out of heaven, and said unto her, What aileth thee, Hagar? fear not; for God hath heard the voice of the lad where he is.

And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.


rate difficulty: So belief cometh of hearing, and hearing by the word of Christ.


rate difficulty: saying, `blessed <FI>is<Fi> he who is coming, a king in the name of the Lord; peace in heaven, and glory in the highest.'

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


simplify: My sons, be not now negligent: for the Lord hath chosen you to stand before him, to serve him, and that ye should minister unto him, and burn incense.

My sons, take care now: for you have been marked out by the Lord to come before him and to be his servants, burning offerings to him.


rate difficulty: There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.


simplify: And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ.

And the teaching I gave you, my brothers, was such as I was able to give, not to those who have the Spirit, but to those who are still in the flesh, even to children in Christ.


simplify: And he said unto her, Because I spake unto Naboth the Jezreelite, and said unto him, Give me thy vineyard for money; or else, if it please thee, I will give thee another vineyard for it: and he answered, I will not give thee my vineyard.

And he said to her, Because I was talking to Naboth the Jezreelite, and I said to him, Let me have your vine-garden for a price, or, if it is pleasing to you, I will give you another vine-garden for it: and he said, I will not give you my vine-garden.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, wait one for another.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, unto all that are carried away captives, whom I have caused to be carried away from Jerusalem unto Babylon;

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said to all those whom I have taken away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon:


rate difficulty: And thou hast given unto the priests, the Levites, who <FI>are<Fi> of the seed of Zadok--who are near unto Me, an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, to serve Me--a calf from the herd, for a sin-offering.

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


simplify: As for his father, because he cruelly oppressed, spoiled his brother by violence, and did that which is not good among his people, lo, even he shall die in his iniquity.

As for his father, because he was cruel, took goods by force, and did what is not good among his people, truly, death will overtake him in his evil-doing.


simplify: Assemble unto me all the elders of your tribes, and your officers, that I may speak these words in their ears, and call heaven and earth to witness against them.

Get together before me all those who are in authority in your tribes, and your overseers, so that I may say these things in their hearing, and make heaven and earth my witnesses against them.


simplify: He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.


simplify: and they made their lives bitter with hard service, in mortar and in brick, and in all manner of service in the field, all their service, wherein they made them serve with rigor.

And made their lives bitter with hard work, making building-material and bricks, and doing all sorts of work in the fields under the hardest conditions.


simplify: While he was yet speaking, there came also another, and said, The fire of God is fallen from heaven, and hath burned up the sheep and the servants, and consumed them; and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.

And this one was still talking when another came, and said, The fire of God came down from heaven, burning up the sheep and the goats and the young men completely, and I was the only one who got away safe to give you the news.


rate difficulty: And Solomon's horses came out of Egypt; the king's traders got them from Kue at a price.

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


simplify: But Peter said unto him, Thy silver perish with thee, because thou hast thought to obtain the gift of God with money.

But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.


rate difficulty: Wherefore hear the word of Jehovah, ye scoffers, that rule this people that is in Jerusalem:

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with him from whom usury is taken.

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


rate difficulty: And in the words which the Lord had given him he said, Up! Balak, and give ear; give attention to me, O son of Zippor:


simplify: but brother with brother doth go to be judged, and this before unbelievers!

Must a follower sue a fellow follower? In front of unbelievers?


simplify: Then saith he unto them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful, even unto death: abide ye here, and watch with me.

Then says he to them, My soul is very sad, even to death: keep watch with me here.


simplify: and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

And Shallum was the father of Jekamiah, and Jekamiah was the father of Elishama.


simplify: Now concerning virgins I have no commandment of the Lord: but I give my judgment, as one that hath obtained mercy of the Lord to be trustworthy.

Now about virgins I have no orders from the Lord: but I give my opinion as one to whom the Lord has given mercy to be true to him.


simplify: And he hath given it to be furbished, that it may be handled: this sword is sharpened, and it is furbished, to give it into the hand of the slayer.

And I have given it to the polisher so that it may be taken in the hand: he has made the sword sharp, he has had it polished, to put it into the hand of him who gives death.


simplify: And they that are far off shall come and build in the temple of the Lord, and ye shall know that the Lord of hosts hath sent me unto you. And this shall come to pass, if ye will diligently obey the voice of the Lord your God.

And those who are far away will come and be builders in the Temple of the Lord, and it will be clear to you that the Lord of armies has sent me to you.


rate difficulty: Then give your children the story, and say, Israel came over this river Jordan on dry land.

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


rate difficulty: `Thus said Sennacherib king of Asshur, On what are ye trusting and abiding in the bulwark, in Jerusalem?

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


rate difficulty: Ye stand this day all of you before Jehovah yourGod: your chiefs [of] your tribes, your elders, and your officers, all the men of Israel,

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


simplify: For he was astonished, and all that were with him, at the draught of the fishes which they had taken:

For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;


simplify: There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.

There went up a smoke from his nose, and a fire of destruction from his mouth: coals were lighted by it.


simplify: having judgment, because the first faith they did cast away,

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


rate difficulty: And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

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


rate difficulty: And if she bear a female, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and she shall continue sixty-six days in the blood of her cleansing.


rate difficulty: So that your lives might be pleasing to God, who has given you a part in his kingdom and his glory.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and as soon as the man touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

And while they were putting a dead man into the earth, they saw a band coming; and they put the man quickly into the place where Elisha's body was; and the dead man, on touching Elisha's bones, came to life again, and got up on his feet.


simplify: And if it be on the bed, or on anything whereon she sitteth, when he toucheth it, he shall be unclean until the even.

Anyone touching anything on the bed or on the thing on which she has been seated, will be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign.

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


rate difficulty: Anathoth and its suburbs, and Almon and its suburbs; four cities.

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


simplify: Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand;

Of the tribe of Simeon twelve thousand: of the tribe of Levi twelve thousand: of the tribe of Issachar twelve thousand:


rate difficulty: On the far side of Jordan in the land of Moab, Moses gave the people this law, saying,

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


simplify: And when the angel stretched out his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it, Jehovah repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough; now stay thy hand. And the angel of Jehovah was by the threshing-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.

And when the hand of the angel was stretched out in the direction of Jerusalem, for its destruction, the Lord had regret for the evil, and said to the angel who was sending destruction on the people, It is enough; do no more. And the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Araunah the Jebusite.


simplify: And Jesus having known, said to them, `Why do ye give trouble to the woman? for a good work she wrought for me;

“Why are you troubling the woman?” Jesus said, when he noticed it. “For this is a beautiful deed that she has done to me.


rate difficulty: And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.


simplify: Be thou watchful, and establish the things that remain, which were ready to die: for I have found no works of thine perfected before my God.

Be on the watch, and make strong the rest of the things which are near to death; because as judged by me your works have not come up to God's measure.


simplify: But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.

But the flesh of the ox and its skin and its waste parts are to be burned outside the circle of the tents, for it is a sin-offering.


simplify: Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, to you have I given it, as I spake unto Moses.

Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.


simplify: And the Lord did so; and there came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt: the land was corrupted by reason of the swarm of flies.

And the Lord did so; and great clouds of flies came into the house of Pharaoh and into his servants' houses, and all the land of Egypt was made waste because of the flies.


rate difficulty: The ten horns that you saw, and the Beast — they will hate the Harlot, and cause her to become deserted and strip her bare; they will eat her flesh and utterly consume her with fire.

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


simplify: Moreover in a pillar of cloud thou leddest them by day; and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light in the way wherein they should go.

And you went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night, to give them light on the way they were to go.


simplify: Behold, the righteous shall be recompensed in the earth: much more the wicked and the sinner.

If the upright man is rewarded on earth, how much more the evil-doer and the sinner!


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

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


simplify: And he did evil, because he prepared not his heart to seek the Lord.

And he did evil because his heart was not true to the Lord.


simplify: An high look, and a proud heart, and the plowing of the wicked, is sin.

A high look and a heart of pride, *** of the evil-doer is sin.


simplify: When Jesus heard it, he marvelled, and said to them that followed, Verily I say unto you, I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel.

And when these words came to the ears of Jesus he was surprised, and said to those who came after him, Truly I say to you, I have not seen such great faith, no, not in Israel.


rate difficulty: and I have brought in on you a sword, executing the vengeance of a covenant; and ye have been gathered unto your cities, and I have sent pestilence into your midst, and ye have been given into the hand of an enemy.

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


rate difficulty: Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

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


rate difficulty: Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:

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


simplify: And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.


simplify: Many seek the ruler’s favor; But a man’s judgmentcomethfrom Jehovah.

The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.


simplify: And the Lord thy God will bring thee into the land which thy fathers possessed, and thou shalt possess it; and he will do thee good, and multiply thee above thy fathers.

Placing you again in the land of your fathers as your heritage; and he will do you good, increasing you till you are more in number than your fathers were.


simplify: And God is able to make all grace abound toward you; that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound to every good work:

And God is able to give you all grace in full measure; so that ever having enough of all things, you may be full of every good work:


simplify: `Or what man is of you, of whom, if his son may ask a loaf--a stone will he present to him?

Who among you, when their child asks them for bread, will give them a stone,


simplify: And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

One day, when they were on their way, going up to Jerusalem, Jesus was walking in front of the apostles, who were filled with misgivings; while those who were following behind were alarmed. Gathering the Twelve around him once more, Jesus began to tell them what was about to happen to him.


simplify: And a several tenth deal of flour mingled with oil for a meat offering unto one lamb; for a burnt offering of a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

And a separate tenth part of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering for every lamb; for a burned offering of a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Moses went out unto the Tent, that all the people rose up, and stood, every man at his tent door, and looked after Moses, until he was gone into the Tent.

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


rate difficulty: Blessed and holy he who has part in the first resurrection: over these the second death has no power; but they shall be priests ofGod and of the Christ, and shall reign with him a thousand years.

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


simplify: But godliness with contentment is great gain.

And a great source of gain religion is, when it brings contentment with it!


simplify: And here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call on thy name.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.


rate difficulty: And so were the churches established in the faith, and increased in number daily.

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


simplify: And the Levites took down the ark of the Lord, and the coffer that was with it, wherein the jewels of gold were, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth–shemesh offered burnt offerings and sacrificed sacrifices the same day unto the Lord.

Then the Levites took down the ark of the Lord and the chest in which were the gold images, and put them on the great stone: and the men of Beth-shemesh made burned offerings and gave worship that day before the Lord.


simplify: And the lord commended the unjust steward, because he had done wisely: for the children of this world are in their generation wiser than the children of light.

And his lord was pleased with the false servant, because he had been wise; for the sons of this world are wiser in relation to their generation than the sons of light.


simplify: And it was so, that, when they that bare the ark of Jehovah had gone six paces, he sacrificed an ox and a fatling.

And when those who were lifting the ark of the Lord had gone six steps, he made an offering of an ox and a fat young beast.


simplify: And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am the Lord, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.


simplify: And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? for now shall I sleep in the dust; and thou shalt seek me in the morning, but I shall not be.

And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.


simplify: Ye that have escaped the sword, go ye, stand not still; remember Jehovah from afar, and let Jerusalem come into your mind.

You who have got away safe from the sword, go, waiting for nothing; have the Lord in memory when you are far away, and keep Jerusalem in mind.


simplify: And as they thus spake, Jesus himself stood in the midst of them, and saith unto them, Peace be unto you.

And while they were saying these things, he himself was among them, and said to them, Peace be with you!


rate difficulty: The children of Pahath–moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand eight hundred and twelve.

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


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

Jesus replied to them: “See that no one leads you astray;


rate difficulty: And they laughed him to scorn. But he, having put them all forth, taketh the father of the child and her mother and them that were with him, and goeth in where the child was.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel came to Saul; and Saul said to him, Blessed art thou of Jehovah: I have fulfilled the word of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.

And Noah had three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.


simplify: And hearken not unto the words of the prophets that speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon; for they prophesy a lie unto you.

And you are not to give ear to the prophets who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon: for what they say is not true.


simplify: And Naomi said unto her daughter-in-law, Blessed be he of Jehovah, who hath not left off his kindness to the living and to the dead. And Naomi said unto her, The man is nigh of kin unto us, one of our near kinsmen.

And Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, May the blessing of the Lord, who has at all times been kind to the living and to the dead, be on him. And Naomi said to her, The man is of our family, one of our near relations.


simplify: Then said Paul, I wist not, brethren, that he was the high priest: for it is written, Thou shalt not speak evil of the ruler of thy people.

“I did not know, brothers, that it was the high priest,” said Paul, “for scripture says —  ‘Of the Ruler of your people you should speak no ill’.”


simplify: And the kinsman said, I cannot redeem it for myself, lest I mar mine own inheritance: redeem thou my right to thyself; for I cannot redeem it.

And the near relation said, I am not able to do the relation's part, for fear of damaging the heritage I have: you may do it in my place, for I am not able to do it myself.


rate difficulty: And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo the Ahohite, one of the three mighty men with David, when they defied the Philistines that were there gathered together to battle, and the men of Israel were gone away:

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


simplify: We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, And we have laid waste even unto Nophah, Whichreacheth unto Medeba.

They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.


rate difficulty: Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

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


rate difficulty: The torrent of Kishon swept them away, That ancient torrent, the torrent Kishon. My soul, thou hast trodden down strength!

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


simplify: Some therefore cried one thing, and some another: for the assembly was confused; and the more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

And some said one thing, and some another: for there was no order in the meeting; and most of them had no idea why they had come together.


rate difficulty: But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

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


rate difficulty: If I be righteous, Mine mouth doth declare me wicked, Perfect I am! --it declareth me perverse.

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


simplify: And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Then the peace of God, which is beyond all human understanding, will stand guard over your hearts and thoughts, through your union with Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the twists to be opposite one another.

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


simplify: Then Jesus spake to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

Then Jesus speaking to the crowds and to his disciples, said:


rate difficulty: They have cried there: Pharaoh king of Egypt <FI>is<Fi> a desolation, Passed by hath the appointed time.

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


simplify: For what is a man profited, if he gain the whole world, and lose or forfeit his own self?

For what profit will a man have if he gets all the world, but undergoes loss or destruction himself?


simplify: And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,

At daybreak the National Council met — both the chief priests and the teachers of the law — and took Jesus before their High Council.


simplify: And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite: and afterward were the families of the Canaanites spread abroad.

And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;


rate difficulty: eighteen cubits <FI>is<Fi> the height of the one pillar, and the chapiter on it <FI>is<Fi> of brass, and the height of the chapiter <FI>is<Fi> three cubits, and the net and the pomegranates <FI>are<Fi> on the chapiter round about--the whole <FI>is<Fi> of brass; and like these hath the second pillar, with the net.

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


simplify: And Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

And Israel was crushed under the power of Hazael, king of Aram, all the days of Jehoahaz.


rate difficulty: And when Jesus was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

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


simplify: And the border of the children of Reuben was Jordan, and the border thereof. This was the inheritance of the children of Reuben after their families, the cities and the villages thereof.

And the limit of the children of Reuben was the edge of Jordan. This was the heritage of the children of Reuben by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places.


rate difficulty: They are like unto children that sit in the marketplace, and call one to another; who say, We piped unto you, and ye did not dance; we wailed, and ye did not weep.

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


rate difficulty: For, lo, I will raise and cause to come up against Babylon an assembly of great nations from the north country: and they shall set themselves in array against her; from thence she shall be taken: their arrows shall be as of a mighty expert man; none shall return in vain.

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


rate difficulty: That which is was long ago, and that which is to be hath already been; andGod bringeth back again that which is past.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahimaaz calleth and saith unto the king, `Peace;' and he boweth himself to the king, on his face, to the earth, and saith, `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah thy God who hath shut up the men who lifted up their hand against my lord the king.'

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


rate difficulty: Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

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


simplify: And the serpent cast out of his mouth after the woman water as a river, that he might cause her to be carried away by the stream.

And the snake sent out of his mouth after the woman a river of water, so that she might be taken away by the stream.


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

The prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick, and the Lord will raise them from their bed; and if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.


simplify: Elect according to the foreknowledge of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace unto you, and peace, be multiplied.

Who, through the purpose of God, have been made holy by the Spirit, disciples of Jesus, made clean by his blood: May you have grace and peace in full measure.


rate difficulty: And the thing was good in the sight of the children of Israel, and the children of Israel blessedGod, and no more said that they would go up in warfare against them, to destroy the land in which the children of Reuben and the children of Gad dwelt.

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


simplify: Therefore, my brethren dearly beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand fast in the Lord, my dearly beloved.

So my brothers, well loved and very dear to me, my joy and crown, be strong in the Lord, my loved ones.


rate difficulty: A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

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


simplify: The glory of this latter house shall be greater than of the former, saith the Lord of hosts: and in this place will I give peace, saith the Lord of hosts.

The second glory of this house will be greater than the first, says the Lord of armies: and in this place I will give peace, says the Lord of armies.


simplify: And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them: and David took the bridle of the mother city out of the hand of the Philistines.

And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them; and David took the authority of the mother-town from the hands of the Philistines.


rate difficulty: Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones.

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


rate difficulty: And he spake the saying openly. And Peter took him, and began to rebuke him.


simplify: And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said, How hardly shall they that have riches enter into the kingdom of God!

Seeing this, Jesus said to his disciples: “How hard it is for the wealthy to enter the kingdom of God!


rate difficulty: And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

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


simplify: And they rose early in the morning, and went forth into the wilderness of Tekoa: and as they went forth, Jehoshaphat stood and said, Hear me, O Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem; Believe in the Lord your God, so shall ye be established; believe his prophets, so shall ye prosper.

And early in the morning they got up and went out to the waste land of Tekoa: and when they were going out, Jehoshaphat took his station and said to them, Give ear to me, O Judah and you people of Jerusalem: have faith in the Lord your God and you will be safe; have faith in his prophets and all will go well for you.


rate difficulty: How do ye say, We are mighty, and men of valour for the war?


simplify: Come now therefore, and I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.

Come, then, and I will send you to Pharaoh, so that you may take my people, the children of Israel, out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people —


simplify: And we journeyed from Horeb, and went through all that great and terrible wilderness which ye saw, by the way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as Jehovah our God commanded us; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.

Then we went on from Horeb, through all that great and cruel waste which you saw, on our way to the hill-country of the Amorites, as the Lord gave us orders; and we came to Kadesh-barnea.


rate difficulty: Whensoever I take my journey into Spain, I will come to you: for I trust to see you in my journey, and to be brought on my way thitherward by you, if first I be somewhat filled with your company.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore they sent the ark of God to Ekron. And it came to pass, as the ark of God came to Ekron, that the Ekronites cried out, saying, They have brought about the ark of the God of Israel to us, to slay us and our people.

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


simplify: for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

for it is from within, out of the hearts of people, that there come evil thoughts — sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,


rate difficulty: Zebulun is a people [that] jeoparded their lives unto death, Naphtali also, on the high places of the field.

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


simplify: For when the ear heardme, then it blessed me; And when the eye sawme, it gave witness unto me:

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;


rate difficulty: And he said, Do it the second time. And they did it the second time. And he said, Do it the third time. And they did it the third time.

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


rate difficulty: See, this I have found, said the Preacher, one to one, to find out the reason


rate difficulty: And one ran, and filling a sponge full of vinegar, put it on a reed, and gave him to drink, saying, Let be; let us see whether Elijah cometh to take him down.

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


rate difficulty: every good giving, and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of the lights, with whom is no variation, or shadow of turning;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: according as it is righteous for me to think this in behalf of you all, because of my having you in the heart, both in my bonds, and <FI>in<Fi> the defence and confirmation of the good news, all of you being fellow-partakers with me of grace.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: I have given him up into the hands of a strong one of the nations; he will certainly give him the reward of his sin, driving him out.


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that is mine is thine.

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


simplify: And the seven years of famine began to come, according as Joseph had said: and there was famine in all lands; but in all the land of Egypt there was bread.

Then came the first of the seven years of need as Joseph had said: and in every other land they were short of food; but in the land of Egypt there was bread.


simplify: For I brought thee up out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage; and I sent before thee Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.

For I took you up out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; I sent before you Moses, Aaron, and Miriam.


simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, give pledges to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.


rate difficulty: Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, Long live the king.

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


simplify: these are the things defiling the man; but to eat with unwashen hands doth not defile the man.'

These are the things that defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile a person.”


simplify: Gird yourselves, and lament, ye priests: howl, ye ministers of the altar: come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye ministers of my God: for the meat offering and the drink offering is withholden from the house of your God.

Put haircloth round you and give yourselves to sorrow, you priests; give cries of grief, you servants of the altar: come in, and, clothed in haircloth, let the night go past, you servants of my God: for the meal offering and the drink offering have been kept back from the house of your God.


simplify: (as it is written, A father of many nations have I made thee) before him whom he believed, even God, who giveth life to the dead, and calleth the things that are not, as though they were.

(As it is said in the holy Writings, I have made you a father of a number of nations) before him in whom he had faith, that is, God, who gives life to the dead, and to whom the things which are not are as if they were.


simplify: Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought the Lord’s offering: and every man, with whom was found shittim wood for any work of the service, brought it.

Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.


rate difficulty: Who is this that cometh up from the wilderness Like pillars of smoke, Perfumed with myrrh and frankincense, With all powders of the merchant?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Again will I build thee, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel: again shalt thou be adorned with thy tabrets, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.

I will again make new your buildings, O virgin of Israel, and you will take up your place: again you will take up your instruments of music, and go out in the dances of those who are glad.


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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jesus had finished all these sayings, he said unto his disciples,

When Jesus had finished teaching all of that, he said to his disciples:


rate difficulty: And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which flows forward toward Asshur. And the fourth river, that is Euphrates.


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

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


rate difficulty: He built also the house of the forest of Lebanon; the length thereof was an hundred cubits, and the breadth thereof fifty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar pillars, with cedar beams upon the pillars.

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


rate difficulty: I will go before you, and make the rough places level: the doors of brass will be broken, and the iron rods cut in two:


simplify: He that trusteth in his riches shall fall; But the righteous shall flourish as the green leaf.

He who puts his faith in wealth will come to nothing; but the upright man will be full of growth like the green leaf.


simplify: Only know ye for certain that, if ye put me to death, ye will bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof; for of a truth Jehovah hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.


simplify: For thus hath the Lord said, The whole land shall be desolate; yet will I not make a full end.

For this is what the Lord has said: All the land will become a waste; I will make destruction complete.


rate difficulty: And of the tribe of the children of Issachar, a chief, Paltiel, the son of Azzan.


rate difficulty: And he took all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid the half of each opposite its fellow; but the birds he did not divide.


rate difficulty: And they arose early; and when it was about the dawning of the day, Samuel called to Saul on the roof, saying, Arise, that I may send thee away. And Saul arose, and they went out both of them, he and Samuel, into the street.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as he interpreted to us, so it was; me he restored unto mine office, and him he hanged.

And it came about as he said: I was put back in my place, and the bread-maker was put to death by hanging.


simplify: they gave after their ability into the treasury of the work threescore and one thousand darics of gold, and five thousand pounds of silver, and one hundred priests’ garments.

Every one, as he was able, gave for the work sixty-one thousand darics of gold, five thousand pounds of silver and a hundred priests' robes.


simplify: For thou art my lamp, O Jehovah; And Jehovah will lighten my darkness.

For you are my light, O Lord; and the Lord will make the dark bright for me.


rate difficulty: I have forsaken my house, I have cast off my heritage, I have given the beloved of my soul into the hand of her enemies.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose right hand I have holden, to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of kings; to open the doors before him, and the gates shall not be shut:

The Lord says to the man of his selection, to Cyrus, whom I have taken by the right hand, putting down nations before him, and taking away the arms of kings; making the doors open before him, so that the ways into the towns may not be shut;


rate difficulty: It was not David who went up into heaven; for he himself says —  ‘The Lord said to my master: “Sit on my right hand,

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


simplify: And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam, and he slept: and he took one of his ribs, and closed up the flesh instead thereof;

And the Lord God sent a deep sleep on the man, and took one of the bones from his side while he was sleeping, joining up the flesh again in its place:


simplify: And when they heard of the resurrection of the dead, some mocked: and others said, We will hear thee again of this matter.

Now on hearing about the coming back from death, some of them made sport of it, but others said, Let us go more fully into this another time.


rate difficulty: for, many will take my name, and come saying ‘I am the Christ,’ and will lead many astray.

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


rate difficulty: They who are earthly cannot please God.

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


simplify: Next unto him repaired Uzziel the son of Harhaiah, of the goldsmiths. Next unto him also repaired Hananiah the son of one of the apothecaries, and they fortified Jerusalem unto the broad wall.

Near them was working Uzziel, the son of Harhaiah, the gold-worker. And by him was Hananiah, one of the perfume-makers, building up Jerusalem as far as the wide wall.


simplify: And Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned as king, instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.


simplify: And now what hast thou to do in the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Sihor? or what hast thou to do in the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the river?

And now, what have you to do on the way to Egypt, to get your drink from the waters of the Nile? or what have you to do on the way to Assyria, to get your drink from the waters of the River?


simplify: Then Gideon took ten men of his servants, and did as the Lord had said unto him: and so it was, because he feared his father’s household, and the men of the city, that he could not do it by day, that he did it by night.

Then Gideon took ten of his servants and did as the Lord had said to him; but fearing to do it by day, because of his father's people and the men of the town, he did it by night.


rate difficulty: That thou mayest say to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pastures shall be in all high places.

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


rate difficulty: At the first God made the heaven and the earth.


simplify: Then he said unto him, Come home with me, and eat bread.

Then he said to him, Come back to the house with me and have a meal.


simplify: And David said unto God, I have sinned greatly, in that I have done this thing: but now, put away, I beseech thee, the iniquity of thy servant; for I have done very foolishly.

Then David said to God, Great has been my sin in doing this; but now, be pleased to take away the sin of your servant, for I have done very foolishly.


simplify: Even to prepare me timber in abundance: for the house which I am about to build shall be wonderful great.

To get trees for me in great numbers, for the house which I am building is to be great and a wonder.


rate difficulty: (from the wars and out of the spoils had they dedicated [them], to maintain the house of Jehovah),

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


rate difficulty: and he proclaimed — “After me is coming someone more powerful than I am, and I am not fit even to stoop down and unfasten his sandals.

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simplify: Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur the son of Michael.

Of the tribe of Asher, Sethur, the son of Michael


simplify: and the first did go away, and did pour out his vial upon the land, and there came a sore--bad and grievous--to men, those having the mark of the beast, and those bowing to his image.

The first angel went and emptied his bowl on the earth; and it turned to loathsome and painful sores on all who bore the brand of the Beast and who worshiped its image.


rate difficulty: And I will set my face against you, and ye shall be slain before your enemies: they that hate you shall reign over you; and ye shall flee when none pursueth you.

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rate difficulty: For Israel hath not been forsaken, nor Judah of his God, of the Lord of hosts; though their land was filled with sin against the Holy One of Israel.

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rate difficulty: But one man of your family will not be cut off by my hand, and his eyes will be made dark, and grief will be in his heart: and all the offspring of your family will come to their end by the sword of men.

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simplify: So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.


rate difficulty: Then did Solomon build a high place for Chemosh the abomination of the Moabites, on the hill that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

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simplify: Jehovah will bring a nation against thee from far, from the end of the earth, as the eagle flieth; a nation whose tongue thou shalt not understand;

The Lord will send a nation against you from the farthest ends of the earth, coming with the flight of an eagle; a nation whose language is strange to you;


rate difficulty: This being so, I strive at all times to keep my conscience clear before both God and people.


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

And the Lord said to Moses, Has the Lord's hand become short? Now you will see if my word comes true for you or not.


simplify: And anotherhorsecame forth, a red horse: and to him that sat thereon it was given to take peace from the earth, and that they should slay one another: and there was given unto him a great sword.

And another horse came out, a red horse; and it was given to him who was seated on it to take peace from the earth, so that people might put one another to death: and there was given to him a great sword.


simplify: And all this came to pass, that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through the prophet, saying,

This happened in fulfillment of these words in the prophet —


simplify: Wrath is cruel, and anger is overwhelming; But who is able to stand before jealousy?

Wrath is cruel, and angry feeling an overflowing stream; but who does not give way before envy?


simplify: And certain men came down from Judæa and taught the brethren, saying, Except ye be circumcised after the custom of Moses, ye cannot be saved.

Now certain men came down from Judaea, teaching the brothers and saying that without circumcision, after the rule of Moses, there is no salvation.


simplify: And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city, and that the smoke of the city ascended, then they turned again, and slew the men of Ai.

And when Joshua and all Israel saw that the town had been taken by the surprise attack, and that the smoke of the town had gone up, turning round they overcame the men of Ai.


rate difficulty: Behold, he was more honorable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.


rate difficulty: Give the word, put forward your cause, let us have a discussion together: who has given news of this in the past? who made it clear in early times? did not I, the Lord? and there is no God but me; a true God and a saviour; there is no other.

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rate difficulty: The noise of a multitude on the mountains, as of a great people; a tumultuous noise of the kingdoms of nations assembled together: Jehovah of hosts mustereth the host of the battle.

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


simplify: and she shall say to me, Both drink thou, and I will also draw for thy camels: let the same be the woman whom Jehovah hath appointed for my master’s son.

Take a drink, and I will get water for your camels; let her be the woman marked out by the Lord for my master's son.


rate difficulty: And on the coming sabbath almost all the city was gathered together to hear the word ofGod.

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simplify: And said unto the children of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, I brought up Israel out of Egypt, and delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all kingdoms, and of them that oppressed you:

And he said to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I took Israel out of Egypt, and made you free from the hands of the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms which kept you down:


simplify: And the Lord shall inherit Judah his portion in the holy land, and shall choose Jerusalem again.

And Judah will be the Lord's heritage in the holy land, and Jerusalem will again be his.


simplify: And David arose, and went with all the people that were with him from Baale of Judah, to bring up from thence the ark of God, whose name is called by the name of the Lord of hosts that dwelleth between the cherubims.

And David, and all the people who were with him, went to Baal of Judah to get the ark of God, over which the holy name is named, the name of the Lord of armies, whose place is between the winged ones.


rate difficulty: Sibbechai the Hushathite, Ilai the Ahohite,

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rate difficulty: and if we know that he heareth us whatsoever we ask, we know that we have the petitions which we have asked of him.

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simplify: That confirmeth the word of his servant, and performeth the counsel of his messengers; that saith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt be inhabited; and to the cities of Judah, Ye shall be built, and I will raise up the decayed places thereof:

Who makes the word of his servants certain, and gives effect to the purposes of his representatives; who says of Jerusalem, Her people will come back to her; and of the towns of Judah, I will give orders for their building, and will make her waste places fertile again:


simplify: And many of the children of Israel shall he turn unto the Lord their God.

And through him great numbers of the children of Israel will be turned to the Lord their God.


rate difficulty: But this is a people robbed and plundered; they are all of them snared in holes, and they are hid in prison-houses: they are for a prey, and none delivereth; for a spoil, and none saith, Restore.

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


rate difficulty: For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.

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simplify: As he spake by the mouth of his holy prophets, which have been since the world began:

As he promised by the lips of his holy prophets of old —


simplify: And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten’s sake.

And he said, O let not the Lord be angry and I will say only one word more: by chance there may be ten there. And he said, I will have mercy because of the ten.


simplify: and increase ye in grace, and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; to him <FI>is<Fi> the glory both now, and to the day of the age! Amen.

and advance in the love and knowledge of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. All glory be to him now and for ever.


simplify: For ye have heard of my conversation in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and wasted it:

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism — how I persecuted the church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,


rate difficulty: and of asses one and sixty thousand;

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rate difficulty: Nay but, O man, who art thou that repliest against God? Shall the thing formed say to him that formed it, Why didst thou make me thus?

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


simplify: Cry yet again, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: My cities shall yet overflow with prosperity; and Jehovah shall yet comfort Zion, and shall yet choose Jerusalem.

And again let your voice be loud and say, This is what the Lord of armies has said: My towns will again be overflowing with good things, and again the Lord will give comfort to Zion and take Jerusalem for himself.


rate difficulty: In my trouble my voice went up to the Lord, and my cry to my God: my voice came to his hearing in his holy Temple, and my prayer came to his ears.

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simplify: Close by the border were the rings, the places for the staves to bear the table.

The rings were fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table was to be lifted.


simplify: And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

And the people were looking on. And the rulers made sport of him, saying, He was a saviour of others; let him do something for himself, if he is the Christ, the man of God's selection.


rate difficulty: We all fell to the ground, and then I heard a voice saying to me in Hebrew — ‘Saul, Saul, why are you persecuting me? By kicking against the goad you are punishing yourself.’


simplify: that I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

So that I may make it clear, as it is right for me to do.


simplify: And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:

And after looking at the diseased place, if it does not seem to go deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, then the priest will have him shut up for seven days:


rate difficulty: So mightily grew the word of God and prevailed.


simplify: And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

And their keepers went in flight to the town and gave an account of everything, and of the men who had the evil spirits.


simplify: And the children of Israel returned from chasing after the Philistines, and they plundered their camp.

Then the children of Israel came back from going after the Philistines, and took their goods from the tents.


rate difficulty: That day--even unto thee it doth come in, From Asshur and the cities of the fortress, And from the fortress even unto the river, And from sea to sea, and mount to mount.

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simplify: Thy bars shall be iron and brass; And as thy days, so shall thy strength be.

Your shoes will be iron and brass; and as your days, so may your work be.


rate difficulty: And on the seventh day seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen he-lambs a year old without blemish;

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rate difficulty: And he is to take away all the fat of the ox of the sin-offering; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat of the inside parts,

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rate difficulty: And thy poverty hath come as a traveller, And thy want as an armed man.

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simplify: And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand hewers in the mountains;

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;


rate difficulty: So six hundred men of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol went out armed with instruments of war.

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simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will beat off his fruit from the flood of the River unto the brook of Egypt; and ye shall be gathered one by one, O ye children of Israel.

And it will be in that day that the Lord will get together his grain, from the River to the stream of Egypt, and you will be got together with care, O children of Israel.


simplify: Take the sum of the prey that was taken, both of man and of beast, thou, and Eleazar the priest, and the chief fathers of the congregation:

Get an account of everything which was taken in the war, of man and of beast, you and Eleazar the priest and the heads of families of the people:


rate difficulty: for the three and twentieth to Mahazioth, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

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rate difficulty: for he doth love our nation, and the synagogue he did build to us.'

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simplify: And the men that have been mentioned by name rose up, and took the captives, and with the spoil clothed all that were naked among them, and arrayed them, and shod them, and gave them to eat and to drink, and anointed them, and carried all the feeble of them upon asses, and brought them to Jericho, the city of palm-trees, unto their brethren: then they returned to Samaria.

And those men who have been named went up and took the prisoners, clothing those among them who were uncovered, with things from the goods which had been taken in the war, and putting robes on them and shoes on their feet; and they gave them food and drink and oil for their bodies, and seating all the feeble among them on asses, they took them to Jericho, the town of palm-trees, to their people, and then went back to Samaria.


simplify: Shew me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a penny.

Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny.


rate difficulty: For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.


simplify: And it came to pass the same night, that the Lord said unto him, Take thy father’s young bullock, even the second bullock of seven years old, and throw down the altar of Baal that thy father hath, and cut down the grove that is by it:

The same night the Lord said to him, Take ten men of your servants and an ox seven years old, and after pulling down the altar of Baal which is your father's, and cutting down the holy tree by its side,


simplify: for even if there are those called gods, whether in heaven, whether upon earth--as there are gods many and lords many--

Even supposing that there are so-called ‘gods’ either in heaven or on earth — and there are many such ‘gods’ and ‘lords’ —


simplify: Then Herod, when he saw that he was mocked of the wise men, was exceeding wroth, and sent forth, and slew all the children that were in Bethlehem, and in all the coasts thereof, from two years old and under, according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men.

When Herod found out that the astrologers had tricked him, he flew into a rage. He sent and put to death all the boys in Bethlehem and the whole of that neighborhood, who were two years old or under, guided by the date which he had learned from the astrologers.


simplify: Even as the Lord commanded Moses, so did the daughters of Zelophehad:

So the daughters of Zelophehad did as the Lord gave orders to Moses:


rate difficulty: And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.

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simplify: Else if thou bless with the spirit, how shall he that filleth the place of the unlearned say the Amen at thy giving of thanks, seeing he knoweth not what thou sayest?

For if you give a blessing with the spirit, how will the man who has no knowledge say, So be it, after your prayer, seeing that he has not taken in what you are saying?


rate difficulty: But I had no faith in what was said about you, till I came and saw for myself; and truly, word was not given me of half your great wisdom; you are much greater than they said.

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


simplify: That thou mightest know the certainty of those things, wherein thou hast been instructed.

in order that you may be able to satisfy yourself of the accuracy of the story which you have heard from the lips of others.


simplify: the table, all the vessels thereof, and the showbread;

The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread;


rate difficulty: And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man is about to be delivered up into [the] hands of men,

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rate difficulty: And he made three hundred shields of beaten gold; three pound of gold went to one shield: and the king put them in the house of the forest of Lebanon.


simplify: Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision: for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.

Masses on masses in the valley of decision! for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of decision.


simplify: Which was with the deputy of the country, Sergius Paulus, a prudent man; who called for Barnabas and Saul, and desired to hear the word of God.

He was at the court of the Governor, Sergius Paulus, a man of intelligence, who sent for Barnabas and Saul and asked to be told God’s message.


simplify: And all her graven images shall be beaten to pieces, and all her hires shall be burned with fire, and all her idols will I lay desolate; for of the hire of a harlot hath she gathered them, and unto the hire of a harlot shall they return.

And all her pictured images will be hammered into bits, and all the payments for her loose ways will be burned with fire, and all the images of her gods I will make waste: for with the price of a loose woman she got them together, and as the price of a loose woman will they be given back.


rate difficulty: Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

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simplify: And I looked, and there was none to help; and I wondered that there was none to uphold: therefore mine own arm brought salvation unto me; and my fury, it upheld me.

And I saw that there was no helper, and I was wondering that no one gave them support: so my arm did the work of salvation, and my wrath was my support.


simplify: And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

And though they are taken away as prisoners by their attackers, even there will I give orders to the sword to put them to death: my eyes will be fixed on them for evil and not for good.


simplify: For the company of the godless shall be barren, And fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

For the band of the evil-doers gives no fruit, and the tents of those who give wrong decisions for reward are burned with fire.


simplify: because God did not appoint us to anger, but to the acquiring of salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ,

For God destined us, not for wrath, but to win salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us,


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that the butler of the king of Egypt and his baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

Now after these things the chief servant who had the care of the wine, and the chief bread-maker in Pharaoh's house, did something against Pharaoh's orders;


simplify: And this was yet a small thing in thine eyes, O Lord Jehovah; but thou hast spoken also of thy servant’s house for a great while to come; and this too after the manner of men, O Lord Jehovah!

And this was only a small thing to you, O Lord God; but your words have even been about the far-off future of your servant's family, O Lord God!


simplify: Now I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that oftentimes I purposed to come unto you, (but was let hitherto,) that I might have some fruit among you also, even as among other Gentiles.

I want you to know, my friends, that I have many times intended coming to see you — but until now I have been prevented — that I might find among you some fruit of my labors, as I have already among the other nations.


simplify: And when the words were heard which David spake, they rehearsed them before Saul: and he sent for him.

And, hearing what David said, they gave Saul word of it: and he sent for him.


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

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rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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rate difficulty: And I adorn thee with adornments, And I give bracelets for thy hands, And a chain for thy neck.

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simplify: And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the officers received him with blows of their hands.

And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.


rate difficulty: and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

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rate difficulty: And David said, This is the house of Jehovah Elohim, and this is the altar of burnt-offering for Israel.

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simplify: And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, Come hither, and hear the words of the Lord your God.

And Joshua said to the children of Israel, Come to me here: and give ear to the words of the Lord your God.


simplify: If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the Lord thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the Lord thy God, in transgressing his covenant,

If there is any man or woman among you, in any of the towns which the Lord your God gives you, who does evil in the eyes of the Lord your God, sinning against his agreement,


simplify: `And his fellow-servants having seen the things that were done, were grieved exceedingly, and having come, shewed fully to their lord all the things that were done;

When his fellow servants saw what had happened, they were greatly distressed, and went to their master and laid the whole matter before him.


rate difficulty: And to you, who once were ‘dead,’ by reason of your sins and your uncircumcised nature — to you God gave life in giving life to Christ! He pardoned all our sins!

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rate difficulty: What more may David say to you? for you have knowledge of your servant, O Lord God.

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simplify: To the end he may stablish your hearts unblameable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints.

So that your hearts may be strong and free from all sin before our God and Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus with all his saints.


rate difficulty: Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.


rate difficulty: But the Lord gave him an answer and said, O you false men! do you not, every one of you, on the Sabbath, let loose his ox and his ass and take it to the water?


rate difficulty: and came up [to him] and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine; and having put him on his own beast, took him to [the] inn and took care of him.


rate difficulty: and now, rise up by night, thou and the people that are with thee, and lie in ambush in the fields.

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rate difficulty: The son of Jahath, the son of Gershom, the son of Levi.


simplify: and oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the sojourner, nor the poor; and let none of you devise evil against his brother in your heart.

Do not be hard on the widow, or the child without a father, on the man from a strange country, or on the poor; let there be no evil thought in your heart against your brother.


simplify: And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

And Elijah said to Elisha, Come no farther for the Lord has sent me to Beth-el. But Elisha said, As the Lord is living and as your soul is living, I will not be parted from you. So they went down to Beth-el.


simplify: For shame hath devoured the labour of our fathers from our youth; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


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

Claudius Lysias, to the most noble ruler, Felix, peace be with you.


simplify: And as Lydda was nigh unto Joppa, the disciples, hearing that Peter was there, sent two men unto him, entreating him, Delay not to come on unto us.

And because Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having knowledge that Peter was there, sent two men to him, requesting him to come to them straight away.


rate difficulty: And there shall come forth a shoot out of the stock of Jesse, and a branch out of his roots shall be fruitful;


rate difficulty: And looking up, he saw by his head a cake cooked on the stones and a bottle of water. So he took food and drink and went to sleep again.


rate difficulty: The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood.


rate difficulty: and said to them, `Whoever may receive this child in my name, doth receive me, and whoever may receive me, doth receive Him who sent me, for he who is least among you all--he shall be great.'

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simplify: He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

He takes his rest under the trees of the river, and in the pool, under the shade of the water-plants.


simplify: And Samuel said, As thy sword hath made women childless, so shall thy mother be childless among women. And Samuel hewed Agag in pieces before Jehovah in Gilgal.

And Samuel said, As your sword has made women without children, so now your mother will be without children among women. And Agag was cut up by Samuel, bone from bone, before the Lord in Gilgal.


rate difficulty: As Jesus was passing on from there, he was followed by two blind men, who kept calling out: “Take pity on us, Son of David!”


simplify: I, even I, am the Lord; and beside me there is no saviour.

I, even I, am the Lord; and there is no saviour but me.


simplify: And he spake this parable unto certain which trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and despised others:

Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded everyone else with scorn, Jesus told this parable —


simplify: Now therefore take and prepare you a new cart, and two milch kine, on which there hath come no yoke; and tie the kine to the cart, and bring their calves home from them;

So now, take and make ready a new cart, and two cows which have never come under the yoke, and have the cows yoked to the cart, and take their young ones away from them:


rate difficulty: Because, even because, they did cause My people to err, Saying, Peace! and there is no peace, And that one is building a wall, And lo, they are daubing it with chalk.

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simplify: And there was a man in Maon, whose possessions were in Carmel; and the man was very great, and he had three thousand sheep, and a thousand goats: and he was shearing his sheep in Carmel.

Now there was a man in Maon whose business was in Carmel; he was a great man and had three thousand sheep and a thousand goats: and he was cutting the wool of his sheep in Carmel.


simplify: Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel, who I have chosen:

And now, give ear, O Jacob my servant, and Israel whom I have taken for myself:


simplify: But the Levites shall do the service of the tent of meeting, and they shall bear their iniquity: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations; and among the children of Israel they shall have no inheritance.

But the Levites are to do the work of the Tent of meeting, and be responsible for errors in connection with it: this is a law for ever through all your generations; and among the children of Israel they will have no heritage.


rate difficulty: for no other things do we write to you, but what ye either do read or also acknowledge, and I hope that also unto the end ye shall acknowledge,

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rate difficulty: Because of the sin of the land, its troubles are increased; but by a man of wisdom and knowledge they will be put out like a fire.

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rate difficulty: To the angel of the church in Ephesus write: These things saith he that holdeth the seven stars in his right hand, he that walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks:

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


rate difficulty: And she said to her young men, Go on in front of me and I will come after you. But she said nothing to her husband Nabal.

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


rate difficulty: Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Zebidah the daughter of Pedaiah of Rumah.

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


rate difficulty: And I speak unto the people in the morning, and my wife dieth in the evening, and I do in the morning as I have been commanded.

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


rate difficulty: And they were wondering among themselves which of them it was who would do this thing.

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


simplify: Thou seest many things, but thou observest not; his ears are open, but he heareth not.

Seeing much, but keeping nothing in mind; his ears are open, but there is no hearing.


simplify: but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

However, when we had come to the end of our visit, we went on our way, all the disciples with their wives and children escorting us out of the city. We knelt down on the beach, and prayed,


rate difficulty: And thanks to God, who is putting the same diligence for you in the heart of Titus,


simplify: Shall we then hearken unto you to do all this great evil, to trespass against our God in marrying foreign women?

Are we then without protest to let you do all this great evil, sinning against our God by taking strange women for your wives?


simplify: And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

They arrested the apostles and, as it was already evening, had them placed in custody until the next day.


rate difficulty: And Joshua, and all the people of war with him, came upon them by the waters of Merom suddenly, and fell upon them.

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


simplify: Whatsoever shall touch the flesh thereof shall be holy: and when there is sprinkled of the blood thereof upon any garment, thou shalt wash that whereon it was sprinkled in the holy place.

Anyone touching the flesh of it will be holy: and if any of the blood is dropped on any clothing, the thing on which the blood has been dropped is to be washed in a holy place.


simplify: And the third took her; and in like manner the seven also: and they left no children, and died.

and so, too, did all seven — dying without children.


rate difficulty: And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of the city of Nazareth, into Judæa, to the city of David, which is called Bethlehem, because he was of the house and family of David;

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


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass in the third year, that Jehoshaphat king of Judah cometh down unto the king of Israel,

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


rate difficulty: constant quarrellings of men corrupted in mind and destitute of the truth, holding gain to be [the end of] piety.

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


simplify: The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough:

The night-spirit has two daughters, Give, give. There are three things which are never full, even four which never say, Enough:


simplify: And they were not able to withstand the wisdom and the Spirit by which he spake.

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


rate difficulty: An angry man stirreth up strife, and a furious man aboundeth in transgression.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus knowing [it] said to them, Why do ye trouble the woman? for she has wrought a good work toward me.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall not lie with the mighty that are fallen of the uncircumcised, that are gone down to Sheol with their weapons of war, and have laid their swords under their heads, and their iniquities are upon their bones; forthey werethe terror of the mighty in the land of the living.

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


simplify: As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they which lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.


simplify: Blessed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,  for they will be satisfied.


rate difficulty: And he said to her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink, for I am thirsty. And she opened the flask of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

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


simplify: I know thy works, and thy love and faith and ministry and patience, and that thy last works are more than the first.

I have knowledge of your works, and your love and faith and help and strength in trouble, and that your last works are more than the first.


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

And the king and the ruler and Bernice and those who were seated with them got up;