rate difficulty: In those days, while Mordecai was seated at the king's doorway, two of the king's servants, Bigthan and Teresh, keepers of the door, being angry, were looking for a chance to make an attack on King Ahasuerus.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.

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


simplify: be it known to all of you, and to all the people of Israel, that in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom ye did crucify, whom God did raise out of the dead, in him hath this one stood by before you whole.

let me tell you all and all the people of Israel, that it is by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, whom you crucified and whom God raised from the dead — it is, I say, by his name that this man stands here before you lame no longer.


rate difficulty: Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens.

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


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees having been gathered together, Jesus did question them,


rate difficulty: Pharaoh was wroth with his bondmen, and put me in custody into the captain of the life-guard's house, me and the chief of the bakers.


rate difficulty: And now, is not Boaz of our kindred, with whose maidens thou wast? Behold, he is winnowing barley in the threshing-floor to-night.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And Hiram cometh out from Tyre to see the cities that Solomon hath given to him, and they have not been right in his eyes,

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


simplify: Take, my brethren, the prophets, who have spoken in the name of the Lord, for an example of suffering affliction, and of patience.

Take as an example of pain nobly undergone and of strength in trouble, the prophets who gave to men the words of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Son of man, set thy face against Pharaoh king of Egypt, and prophesy against him, and against all Egypt:

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


simplify: And we sailed thence, and came the next day over against Chios; and the next day we arrived at Samos, and tarried at Trogyllium; and the next day we came to Miletus.

The day after we had sailed from there, we arrived off Chios, touched at Samos the following day, and the next day reached Miletus;


rate difficulty: `But if I by Beelzeboul cast forth the demons--your sons, by whom do they cast forth? because of this your judges they shall be;

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


rate difficulty: And you said, Truly, I will be good to you, and make your seed like the sand of the sea which may not be numbered.


simplify: He bindeth up the waters in his thick clouds; and the cloud is not rent under them.

By him the waters are shut up in his thick clouds, and the cloud does not give way under them.


simplify: And having left them, having gone away again, he prayed a third time, saying the same word;

So he left them, and went away again, and prayed a third time, again saying the same words.


rate difficulty: for Heshbon is a city of Sihon king of the Amorite, and he hath fought against the former king of Moab, and taketh all his land out of his hand, unto Arnon;

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


rate difficulty: And in its resting he saith, `Return, O Jehovah, <FI>to<Fi> the myriads, the thousands of Israel.'

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


rate difficulty: For, lo, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons and our daughters and our wives are in captivity for this.


rate difficulty: Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, that they turn and encamp before Pi–hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, over against Baal–zephon: before it shall ye encamp by the sea.

Give orders to the children of Israel to go back and put up their tents before Pi-hahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, in front of Baal-zephon, opposite to which you are to put up your tents by the sea.


rate difficulty: and perfumeth his burnt-offering, and his present, and poureth out his libation, and sprinkleth the blood of the peace-offerings that he hath, on the altar.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua made him sharp knives, and circumcised the children of Israel at the hill of the foreskins.

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


simplify: And they said, Hath Jehovah indeed spoken only with Moses? hath he not spoken also with us? And Jehovah heard it.

And they said, Have the words of the Lord been given to Moses only? have they not come to us? And the Lord took note of it.


rate difficulty: Who can open the doors of his face? his teeth are terrible round about.

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


rate difficulty: And Azariah, the chief priest, of the family of Zadok, said in answer, From the time when the people first came with their offerings into the house of the Lord, we have had food enough, and more than enough: for the blessing of the Lord is on his people; and there is this great store which has not been used.

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


simplify: For meat destroy not the work of God. All things indeed are pure; but it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.


simplify: And there was given unto him a mouth speaking great things and blasphemies; and power was given unto him to continue forty and two months.

The Beast was given ‘a mouth that spoke proudly’ and blasphemously, and it was empowered to work its will for forty-two months.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing:


rate difficulty: As thou didst rejoice at the inheritance of the house of Israel, because it was desolated, so will I do unto thee: thou shalt be a desolation, O mount Seir, and all Edom, the whole of it: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

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


simplify: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,


rate difficulty: And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels that bore spices and gold in very great abundance, and precious stones; and she came to Solomon, and spoke to him of all that was in her heart.

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


rate difficulty: If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

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


simplify: Christ is become of no effect unto you, whosoever of you are justified by the law; ye are fallen from grace.

You are cut off from Christ, you who would have righteousness by the law; you are turned away from grace.


simplify: And said unto them, Sirs, I perceive that this voyage will be with hurt and much damage, not only of the lading and ship, but also of our lives.

“My friends,” he said, “I see that this voyage will be attended with injury and much damage, not only to the cargo and the ship, but to our own lives also.”


simplify: To the more thou shalt give the more inheritance, and to the fewer thou shalt give the less inheritance: to every one according to those that were numbered of him shall his inheritance be given.

To those families who are more in number, give a greater heritage; to those who are less in number, a smaller part: to every one let the heritage be given in relation to the number in his family.


simplify: Now the name of his first-born was Joel; and the name of his second, Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.

The name of his first son was Joel and the name of his second Abijah: they were judges in Beer-sheba.


simplify: that ye come not among these nations, these that remain among you; neither make mention of the name of their gods, nor cause to swear by them, neither serve them, nor bow down yourselves unto them;

Have nothing to do with these nations who still are living among you; let not their gods be named by you or used in your oaths; do not be their servants or give them worship:


simplify: And one of the company said unto him, Master, speak to my brother, that he divide the inheritance with me.

And one of the people said to him, Master, give an order to my brother to make division of the heritage with me.


rate difficulty: And the daughter of any priest, if she profane herself by playing the harlot, she profaneth her father: she shall be burnt with fire.


simplify: It pleased Jehovah, for his righteousness’ sake, to magnify the law, and make it honorable.

It was the Lord's pleasure, because of his righteousness, to make the teaching great and give it honour.


rate difficulty: and slaughtered the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

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


simplify: But the word of God grew and multiplied.

Meanwhile the Lord’s message kept extending, and spreading far and wide.


rate difficulty: The Lord will send wasting disease, and burning pain, and flaming heat against you, keeping back the rain till your land is waste and dead; so will it be till your destruction is complete.

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


simplify: And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:

And he took him to Jerusalem and put him on the highest point of the Temple and said to him, If you are the Son of God, let yourself go down from here; for it is said in the Writings,


rate difficulty: And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, that many times I did purpose to come unto you--and was hindered till the present time--that some fruit I might have also among you, even as also among the other nations.

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


simplify: And the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground: and the people did eat them with the blood.

And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.


rate difficulty: For a short time I gave you up; but with great mercies I will take you back again.

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


rate difficulty: Then Joseph said, This is the sense of your dream: the three baskets are three days;

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


simplify: Wherefore the anger of the Lord was kindled against Amaziah, and he sent unto him a prophet, which said unto him, Why hast thou sought after the gods of the people, which could not deliver their own people out of thine hand?

And so the wrath of the Lord was moved against Amaziah, and he sent a prophet to him, who said, Why have you gone after the gods of the people who have not given their people salvation from your hands?


rate difficulty: And now, Lord Jehovah, Thou <FI>art<Fi> God Himself, and Thy words are truth, and Thou speakest unto Thy servant this goodness,

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


rate difficulty: Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, as other people: for thou hast gone a whoring from thy God, thou hast loved a reward upon every cornfloor.

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


rate difficulty: Let another man give you praise, and not your mouth; one who is strange to you, and not your lips.


rate difficulty: These ten times ye put me to shame, ye blush not. Ye make yourselves strange to me--

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


simplify: And Absalom, and all the people, the men of Israel, came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel with him.

And Absalom and the men of Israel came to Jerusalem, and Ahithophel was with him.


rate difficulty: But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?

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


simplify: So the king sent Jehudi to fetch the roll; and he took it out of the chamber of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi read it in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all the princes that stood beside the king.

So the king sent Jehudi to get the book, and he took it from the room of Elishama the scribe. And Jehudi gave a reading of it in the hearing of the king and all the rulers who were by the king's side.


rate difficulty: And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the Lord, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:

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


simplify: Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

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


rate difficulty: Neither with you only do I make this covenant and this oath,


rate difficulty: `And when a man selleth a dwelling-house <FI>in<Fi> a walled city, then hath his right of redemption been until the completion of a year from its selling; days--is his right of redemption;

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


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

And hearing this, they went into the Temple at dawn, and were teaching. But the high priest and those who were with him got together the Sanhedrin and the representatives of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison to get them.


rate difficulty: Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s consecration, and wave it for a wave offering before the Lord: and it shall be thy part.

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


simplify: Amaziah was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem. And his mother’s name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.

Amaziah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling in Jerusalem for twenty-nine years; his mother's name was Jehoaddan of Jerusalem.


simplify: until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.

Till I come and take you away to a land like yours, a land of grain and wine, a land of bread and vine-gardens, a land of oil-giving olives and of honey, so that life and not death may be your fate. Give no attention to Hezekiah when he says to you, The Lord will keep us safe.


rate difficulty: How much then is a man of more value than a sheep! Wherefore it is lawful to do good on the sabbath day.

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


simplify: And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to a lad, Carry him to his mother.

And he said to his father, My head, my head! And the father said to a servant, Take him in to his mother.


simplify: And she said, Oh, my lord, as thy soul liveth, my lord, I am the woman that stood by thee here, praying unto Jehovah.

And she said, O my lord, as your soul is living, my lord, I am that woman who was making a prayer to the Lord here by your side:


rate difficulty: But Barnabas took him to the Apostles and gave them an account of how he had seen the Lord on the road, and had given hearing to his words, and how at Damascus he had been preaching in the name of Jesus without fear.

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


simplify: They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

And they gave money to the stoneworkers and woodworkers; and meat and drink and oil to the people of Zidon and of Tyre, for the transport of cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, to Joppa, as Cyrus, king of Persia, had given them authority to do.


simplify: It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, and make us to hear it, that we may do it?

They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them?


simplify: For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the Lord; and the Lord hath sent us to destroy it.

For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.


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

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


simplify: And ye shall leave your name for a curse unto my chosen; and the Lord Jehovah will slay thee; and he will call his servants by another name:

And your name will become a curse to my people, and the Lord God will put you to death, and give his servants another name:


simplify: Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?

Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?


rate difficulty: and Jehovah thy God hath given them before thee, and thou hast smitten them--thou dost utterly devote them--thou dost not make with them a covenant, nor dost thou favour them.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: To me belongeth vengeance, and recompence; their foot shall slide in due time: for the day of their calamity is at hand, and the things that shall come upon them make haste.

Punishment is mine and reward, at the time of the slipping of their feet: for the day of their downfall is near, sudden will be their fate.


simplify: and standing behind at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears, and wiped them with the hair of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment.

And went in and took her place at the back of him, near his feet, weeping, so that his feet were washed with the drops from her eyes, and with her hair she made them dry, and kissing his feet she put the perfume on them.


simplify: And thou shalt know that I am the Lord, and that I have heard all thy blasphemies which thou hast spoken against the mountains of Israel, saying, They are laid desolate, they are given us to consume.

And you will see that I the Lord have had knowledge of all the bitter things which you have said against the mountains of Israel, saying, They have been made waste, they are given to us to take for our heritage.


simplify: But they held their peace, and answered him not a word: for the king’s commandment was, saying, Answer him not.

But they kept quiet and gave him no answer: for the king's order was, Give him no answer.


simplify: And thou shalt set them in two rows, six on a row, upon the pure table before the Lord.

And put them in two lines, six in a line, on the holy table before the Lord.


simplify: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a net, that was cast into the sea, and gathered of every kind:

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a net, which was put into the sea and took in every sort of fish:


simplify: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find any thing thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for the time of figs was not yet.

And seeing a fig-tree in the distance with leaves, he went to see if by chance it had anything on it: and when he came to it, he saw nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for the fruit.


rate difficulty: And Mordecai wrote these things, and sent letters to all the Jews near and far that were in all the provinces of king Ahasuerus,

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


rate difficulty: And another angel came out from the altar, which had power over fire; and cried with a loud cry to him that had the sharp sickle, saying, Thrust in thy sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth; for her grapes are fully ripe.

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


simplify: And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek unto Jehovah; and he proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

Then Jehoshaphat, in his fear, went to the Lord for directions, and gave orders all through Judah for the people to go without food.


rate difficulty: And let the priests also, that come near to Jehovah, sanctify themselves, lest Jehovah break forth upon them.

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


rate difficulty: But Peter said to her, Why have you made an agreement together to be false to the Spirit of the Lord? See, the feet of the young men who have put the body of your husband in the earth, are at the door, and they will take you out.

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


rate difficulty: And say to the children of Ammon, Give ear to the word of the Lord; this is what the Lord has said: Because you said, Aha! against my holy place when it was made unclean, and against the land of Israel when it was made waste, and against the people of Judah when they were taken away as prisoners;

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


simplify: Behold, he breaketh down, and it cannot be built again: he shutteth up a man, and there can be no opening.

Truly, there is no building up of what is pulled down by him; when a man is shut up by him, no one may let him loose.


simplify: For as in the days that were before the flood they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark,

In those days before the flood they went on eating and drinking, marrying and being married, up to the very day on which Noah entered the ark,


simplify: When a strong man armed keepeth his palace, his goods are in peace:

When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:


simplify: And the third lot came up for the children of Zebulun according to their families. And the border of their inheritance was unto Sarid;

And the third heritage came out for Zebulun by their families; the limit of their heritage was as far as Sarid;


simplify: I am distressed for thee, my brother Jonathan: Very pleasant hast thou been unto me: Thy love to me was wonderful, Passing the love of women.

I am full of grief for you, my brother Jonathan: very dear have you been to me: your love for me was a wonder, greater than the love of women.


simplify: Thou shalt not eat it; that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, when thou shalt do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah.

Do not take it for food; so that it may be well for you and for your children after you, while you do what is right in the eyes of the Lord.


simplify: But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, Neither doth he greatly regard arrogance;


rate difficulty: take these and be purified with them, and pay their expenses, that they may have their heads shaved; and all will know that [of those things] of which they have been informed about thee nothing is [true]; but that thou thyself also walkest orderly, keeping the law.

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


simplify: And he looked up, and saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

And looking up, he saw the men of wealth putting their offerings in the money-box.


rate difficulty: So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy.

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


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah, saying,


simplify: But they understood not this saying, and it was hid from them, that they perceived it not: and they feared to ask him of that saying.

But the disciples did not understand the meaning of this; it had been concealed from them so that they did not see it, and they were afraid to question him as to what he meant.


rate difficulty: So, when they were together, they said to him, Lord, will you at this time give back the kingdom to Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Take nothing for your journey, neither staves, nor scrip, neither bread, neither money; neither have two coats apiece.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jesus said to the captain: “Go now, and it will be according to your faith.” And the man was cured that very hour.

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


simplify: And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;

And houses full of good things not stored up by you, and places for storing water which you did not make, and vine-gardens and olive-trees not of your planting; and you have taken food and are full;


simplify: but did renounce for ourselves the hidden things of shame, not walking in craftiness, nor deceitfully using the word of God, but by the manifestation of the truth recommending ourselves unto every conscience of men, before God;

No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God’s message, and commending ourselves to everyone’s conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the truth.


simplify: And in their mouth was found no guile: for they are without fault before the throne of God.

And in their mouth there was no false word, for they are untouched by evil.


simplify: a time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

A time to put to death and a time to make well; a time for pulling down and a time for building up;


simplify: that he may establish thee this day unto himself for a people, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he spake unto thee, and as he sware unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


rate difficulty: They send forth as a flock their sucklings, And their children skip,


rate difficulty: And Jacob cometh unto Isaac his father, at Mamre, the city of Arba (which <FI>is<Fi> Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac have sojourned.

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


simplify: And thou shalt say to Jehoiakim king of Judah, Thus saith the Lord; Thou hast burned this roll, saying, Why hast thou written therein, saying, The king of Babylon shall certainly come and destroy this land, and shall cause to cease from thence man and beast?

And about Jehoiakim, king of Judah, you are to say, This is what the Lord has said: You have put this book into the fire, saying, Why have you put in it that the king of Babylon will certainly come, causing the destruction of this land and putting an end to every man and beast in it?


rate difficulty: So he sent to Macedonia two of his helpers, Timothy and Erastus, while he himself stayed for some time longer in Roman Asia.

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


rate difficulty: and let him that is on the housetop not go down, nor enter in, to take anything out of his house:

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


rate difficulty: And a man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the fastenings and the corslet. And he said to the charioteer, Turn thy hand and drive me out of the camp; for I am wounded.

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


simplify: So ye abode in Kadesh many days, according unto the days that ye abode there.

So you were kept waiting in Kadesh for a long time.


simplify: `I will hear thee--said he--when thine accusers also may have come;' he also commanded him to be kept in the praetorium of Herod.

“I will hear all you have to say as soon as your accusers have arrived.” And he ordered Paul to be kept under guard in Herod’s Government house.


rate difficulty: And now behold, Jehovah has kept me alive, as he said, these forty-five years, since Jehovah spoke this word to Moses, when Israel wandered in the wilderness; and now behold, I am this day eighty-five years old.

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


simplify: he who is speaking in an <FI>unknown<Fi> tongue, himself doth edify, and he who is prophesying, an assembly doth edify;

Those who, when speaking, use the gift of ‘tongues’ builds up their own faith, while those who preach build up the faith of the church.


simplify: But all this is come to pass, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples left him, and fled.

But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.


rate difficulty: For behold, the winter is past, The rain is over, it is gone:

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


rate difficulty: as it is written in [the] book of [the] words of Esaias the prophet: Voice of one crying in the wilderness: Prepare ye the way of [the] Lord, make straight his paths.


simplify: And all the acts of his power and of his might, and the full account of the greatness of Mordecai, whereunto the king advanced him, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Media and Persia?

And all his acts of power and his great strength and the full story of the high place which the king gave Mordecai, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Media and Persia?


rate difficulty: And they shall build the old wastes, they shall raise up the former desolations, and they shall repair the waste cities, the desolations of many generations.

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


simplify: The voice of thy watchmen! they lift up the voice, together do they sing; for they shall see eye to eye, when Jehovah returneth to Zion.

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman conceive seed, and bear a man-child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of the impurity of her sickness shall she be unclean.

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


simplify: And this city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.

And this town will be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and a glory before all the nations of the earth, who, hearing of all the good which I am doing for them, will be shaking with fear because of all the good and the peace which I am doing for it.


rate difficulty: And on the servants and the servant-girls in those days I will send my spirit.

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


simplify: Wherein I suffer trouble, as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word of God is not bound.

In which I put up with the hardest conditions, even prison chains, like one who has done a crime; but the word of God is not in chains.


rate difficulty: Which he gave us freely through Jesus Christ our Saviour;

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


simplify: For thou writest bitter things against me, and makest me to possess the iniquities of my youth.

For you put bitter things on record against me, and send punishment on me for the sins of my early years;


simplify: For behold this selfsame thing, that ye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in you, yea, what clearing of yourselves, yea, what indignation, yea, what fear, yea, what vehement desire, yea, what zeal, yea, what revenge! In all things ye have approved yourselves to be clear in this matter.

For you see what care was produced in you by this very sorrow of yours before God, what clearing of yourselves, what wrath against sin, what fear, what desire, what serious purpose, what punishment. In everything you have made it clear that you are free from sin in this business.


rate difficulty: For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.

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


simplify: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

So by their fruits you will get knowledge of them.


rate difficulty: even as the duty of every day required, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and at the set feasts, three times in the year, — at the feast of unleavened bread, and at the feast of weeks, and at the feast of tabernacles.

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


simplify: And the ten having heard, began to be much displeased at James and John,

On hearing of this, the ten others were at first very indignant about James and John.


simplify: And it came to pass after the plague, that Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, saying,

Now after the disease was over, the Lord said to Moses and Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest,


rate difficulty: And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.


rate difficulty: Nevertheless if thou warn the righteous man, that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall surely live, because he is warned; also thou hast delivered thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: When Jesus was twelve years old, they went according to custom to Jerusalem,

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


rate difficulty: Against the shepherds did Mine anger burn, And against the he-goats I lay a charge, For inspected hath Jehovah of Hosts His flock, the house of Judah, And set them as His beauteous horse in battle.

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


simplify: Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.


rate difficulty: Ye shall not round the corners of your heads, neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard.

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


simplify: And Joshua the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, one of his chosen men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.

Then Joshua, the son of Nun, who had been Moses' servant from the time when he was a child, said, My lord Moses, let them be stopped.


simplify: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

The unclean spirit, when he has gone out of a man, goes through dry places, looking for rest; and when he does not get it, he says, I will go back to my house from which I came.


simplify: Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.

Do not imagine that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I have come to bring, not peace, but the sword.


rate difficulty: your infants, your wives, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water--

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

And when she has it again, she gets her friends and neighbours together, saying, Be glad with me, for I have got back the bit of silver which had gone from me.


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

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


simplify: and being judged by the Lord, we are chastened, that with the world we may not be condemned;

Yet, in being judged by the Lord, we are undergoing discipline, so that we may not have judgment passed on us with the rest of the world.


simplify: And he answered and said unto him, Master, all these have I observed from my youth.

“Teacher,” he replied, “I have observed all these from my childhood.”


simplify: Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.

See, I have made the iron-worker, blowing on the burning coals, and making the instrument of war by his work; and I have made the waster for destruction.


rate difficulty: Then I consulted with myself, and contended with the nobles and the rulers, and said unto them, Ye exact usury, every one of his brother. And I held a great assembly against them.

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


simplify: Then Jeremiah the prophet said unto them, I have heard you; behold, I will pray unto the Lord your God according to your words; and it shall come to pass, that whatsoever thing the Lord shall answer you, I will declare it unto you; I will keep nothing back from you.

Then Jeremiah the prophet said to them, I have given ear to you; see, I will make prayer to the Lord your God, as you have said; and it will be that, whatever the Lord may say in answer to you, I will give you word of it, keeping nothing back.


rate difficulty: And there came of all people to hear the wisdom of Solomon, from all kings of the earth, which had heard of his wisdom.

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


simplify: As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in which there shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.


simplify: And the man waxed great, and grew more and more until he became very great:

And his wealth became very great, increasing more and more;


simplify: For the priests which bare the ark stood in the midst of Jordan, until every thing was finished that the Lord commanded Joshua to speak unto the people, according to all that Moses commanded Joshua: and the people hasted and passed over.

For the priests who took up the ark kept there in the middle of Jordan till all the orders given to Joshua by Moses from the Lord had been done: then the people went over quickly.


simplify: And she made him sleep upon her knees; and she called for a man, and shaved off the seven locks of his head; and she began to afflict him, and his strength went from him.

And she made him go to sleep on her knees; and she sent for a man and had his seven twists of hair cut off; and while it was being done he became feeble and his strength went from him.


rate difficulty: Son of man, set thy face against the children of Ammon, and prophesy against them;

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


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

Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.


rate difficulty: And yet they would not hearken unto their judges, but they went a whoring after other gods, and bowed themselves unto them: they turned quickly out of the way which their fathers walked in, obeying the commandments of the Lord; but they did not so.


simplify: And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

And Absalom, whom we made a ruler over us, is dead in the fight. So now why do you say nothing about getting the king back? And word of what all Israel was saying came to the king.


simplify: Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

Yet you have acted nobly in sharing my troubles.


rate difficulty: So thou dost do to all the cities which are very far off from thee, which are not of the cities of these nations.

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


rate difficulty: Let the heavens have joy and let the earth be glad; let them say among the nations, The Lord is King.


simplify: thou therefore that teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

You who give teaching to others, do you give it to yourself? you who say that a man may not take what is not his, do you take what is not yours?


simplify: So hast thou also some that hold the teaching of the Nicolaitans in like manner.

And you have those who keep the teaching of the Nicolaitans.


rate difficulty: and the priest hath seen it, and lo, the hair hath turned white in the bright spot, and its appearance <FI>is<Fi> deeper than the skin; leprosy it <FI>is<Fi> , in the burning it hath broken out, and the priest hath pronounced him unclean; it <FI>is<Fi> a plague of leprosy.

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


rate difficulty: I will be near you again, says the Lord, and your fate will be changed, and I will get you together from all the nations and from all the places where I had sent you away, says the Lord; and I will take you back again to the place from which I sent you away prisoners.

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


rate difficulty: Are not two sparrows sold for a one copper coin? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground without your Father’s knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: and ye have brought near a burnt-offering to Jehovah, a sweet fragrance, one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, seven lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones they are for you,

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


rate difficulty: There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God.

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


rate difficulty: And no sin-offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tent of meeting to make atonement in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burnt with fire.


simplify: But put forth thine hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will curse thee to thy face.

But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.


simplify: who also said, `Men, Galileans, why do ye stand gazing into the heaven? this Jesus who was received up from you into the heaven, shall so come in what manner ye saw him going on to the heaven.'

and said: “People of Galilee, why are you standing here looking up into the heavens? This same Jesus, who has been taken from you into the heavens, will come in the same way in which you have seen him go into the heavens.”


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah prayeth before Jehovah, and saith, `O Jehovah, God of Israel, inhabiting the cherubs, Thou <FI>art<Fi> God Himself--Thyself alone--to all the kingdoms of the earth: Thou hast made the heavens and the earth.

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


simplify: It is of the Lord’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

It is through the Lord's love that we have not come to destruction, because his mercies have no limit.


rate difficulty: And have a high opinion of them in love because of their work. Be at peace among yourselves.


rate difficulty: But he spake exceeding vehemently, If I must die with thee, I will not deny thee. And in like manner also said they all.

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


rate difficulty: And when Paul’s sister’s son heard of their lying in wait, he went and entered into the castle, and told Paul.

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


simplify: sell your goods, and give alms, make to yourselves bags that become not old, a treasure unfailing in the heavens, where thief doth not come near, nor moth destroy;

Sell what belongs to you, and give in charity. Make yourselves purses that will not wear out — an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near, or moth works ruin.


rate difficulty: So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount burned with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.


simplify: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

The Son of God, Christ Jesus, whom we — Silas, Timothy, and I — proclaimed among you, never wavered between ‘Yes’ and ‘No.’ With him it has always been ‘Yes.’


simplify: Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

My loved one, you are doing a good work in being kind to those brothers who come from other places;


simplify: and Philip was found at Azotus, and passing through, he was proclaiming good news to all the cities, till his coming to Caesarea.

But Philip was found at Ashdod, and, as he went on his way, he told the good news in all the towns through which he passed, until he came to Caesarea.


rate difficulty: And afterward Joshua smote them, and put them to death, and hanged them on five trees: and they were hanging upon the trees until the evening.

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


rate difficulty: How is the city of praise not left, the city of my joy!


rate difficulty: And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

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


rate difficulty: And they were all amazed and in perplexity, saying one to another, What would this mean?

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


simplify: Therefore we have been comforted: and in our comfort we joyed the more exceedingly for the joy of Titus, because his spirit hath been refreshed by you all.

So we have been comforted: and we had the greater joy in our comfort because of the joy of Titus, for his spirit had been made glad by you all.


simplify: Moreover concerning the foreigner, that is not of thy people Israel, when he shall come from a far country for thy great name’s sake, and thy mighty hand, and thine outstretched arm; when they shall come and pray toward this house:

And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:


simplify: For I am jealous over you with a godly jealousy: for I espoused you to one husband, that I might present you as a pure virgin to Christ.

For I have a very great care for you: because you have been married by me to one husband, and it is my desire to give you completely holy to Christ.


rate difficulty: be ye therefore merciful, as also your Father is merciful.


simplify: This, now, beloved, a second letter to you I write, in both which I stir up your pure mind in reminding <FI>you<Fi> ,

This, dear friends, is my second letter to you. In both of them I have tried, by appealing to your remembrance, to arouse your better feelings.


simplify: Confirming the souls of the disciples, and exhorting them to continue in the faith, and that we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.

Making strong the souls of the disciples, saying to them that they were to keep the faith, and that we have to go through troubles of all sorts to come into the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: My sojourning hath departed, And been removed from me as a shepherd's tent, I have drawn together, as a weaver, my life, By weakness it cutteth me off, From day unto night Thou dost end me.

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


simplify: And God Almighty bless thee, and make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, that thou mayest be a company of peoples;

And may God, the Ruler of all, give you his blessing, giving you fruit and increase, so that you may become an army of peoples.


simplify: Duke Aholibamah, duke Elah, duke Pinon,

The chief of Oholibamah, the chief of Elah, the chief of Pinon,


simplify: And the next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Cesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.

And on the day after, we went away and came to Caesarea, where we were guests in the house of Philip, the preacher, who was one of the seven.


simplify: Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the River, that they may let me pass through till I come unto Judah;

Further, I said to the king, If it is the king's pleasure, let letters be given to me for the rulers across the river, so that they may let me go through till I come to Judah;


simplify: And turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrha into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, making them an ensample unto those that after should live ungodly;

And sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah, burning them up with fire as an example to those whose way of life might in the future be unpleasing to him;


rate difficulty: Their sheep, and their oxen, and their asses, and what [was] in the city, and what [was] in the field they took;

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


rate difficulty: because he has fixed a day on which he intends to ‘judge the world with justice,’ by a man whom he has appointed — and of this he has given all people a pledge by raising this man from the dead.”

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


simplify: Now all the work of Solomon was prepared unto the day of the foundation of the house of the Lord, and until it was finished. So the house of the Lord was perfected.

And all the work of Solomon was complete, from the day when he put the base of the Lord's house in position, till Solomon had come to the end of building the Lord's house.


simplify: And the king made of the almug-trees pillars for the house of Jehovah, and for the king’s house, harps also and psalteries for the singers: there came no such almug-trees, nor were seen, unto this day.

And from the sandal-wood the king made pillars for the house of the Lord, and for the king's house, and instruments of music for the makers of melody: never has such sandal-wood been seen to this day.


rate difficulty: With whomsoever of thy servants it be found, both let him die, and we also will be my lord’s bondmen.

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


simplify: And they crying out and casting up their garments, and throwing dust into the air,

As they were shouting, tearing off their clothes, and throwing dust in the air,


simplify: Solomon sought therefore to kill Jeroboam; but Jeroboam arose, and fled into Egypt, unto Shishak king of Egypt, and was in Egypt until the death of Solomon.

And Solomon was looking for a chance to put Jeroboam to death; but he went in flight to Egypt, to Shishak, king of Egypt, and was in Egypt till the death of Solomon.


simplify: And the Lord their God shall save them in that day as the flock of his people: for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted up as an ensign upon his land.

And the Lord their God will be their saviour in that day, giving them food like the flock of his people: for they will be like the jewels of a crown shining over his land.


simplify: Moab is spoiled, and gone up out of her cities, and his chosen young men are gone down to the slaughter, saith the King, whose name is the Lord of hosts.

He who makes Moab waste has gone up against her; and the best of her young men have gone down to their death, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: In the womb he took his brother by the heel; and in his manhood he had power with God:

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


simplify: But if he be not able to bring two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, then he that sinned shall bring for his offering the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a sin offering; he shall put no oil upon it, neither shall he put any frankincense thereon: for it is a sin offering.

But if he has not enough money for two doves or two young pigeons, then let him give, for the sin he has done, the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal, for a sin-offering; let him put no oil on it, and no perfume, for it is a sin-offering.


simplify: After these things I saw, and lo, a great multitude, which to number no one was able, out of all nations, and tribes, and peoples, and tongues, standing before the throne, and before the Lamb, arrayed in white robes, and palms in their hands,

After this, in my vision, I saw a vast throng which no one could number, of people from every nation and of all tribes, and peoples, and languages. They stood in front of the throne and in front of the Lamb, robed in white, holding palm branches in their hands.


simplify: And he saith unto them, But whom say ye that I am? And Peter answereth and saith unto him, Thou art the Christ.

And he said to them, But who do you say I am? Peter said in answer, You are the Christ.


rate difficulty: Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

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


rate difficulty: And I said, Am I the sort of man to go in flight? what man, in my position, would go into the Temple to keep himself safe? I will not go in.


rate difficulty: All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not. For I have smitten thee with the stroke of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the greatness of thine iniquity: thy sins are manifold.

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


simplify: Not <FI>as<Fi> putting you to shame do I write these things, but as my beloved children I do admonish,

It is with no wish to shame you that I am writing like this; but to warn you as my own dear children.


simplify: And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue; then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

And when a man who has a flow from his body is made clean from it, he is to take seven days to make himself clean, washing his clothing and bathing his body in flowing water, and then he will be clean.


simplify: Then Samuel took a stone, and set it between Mizpah and Shen, and called the name of it Eben-ezer, saying, Hitherto hath Jehovah helped us.

Then Samuel took a stone and put it up between Mizpah and Jeshanah, naming it Eben-ezer, and saying, Up to now the Lord has been our help.


rate difficulty: And the other five thousand, measured from side to side, in front of the twenty-five thousand, is to be for common use, for the town, for living in and for a free space: and the town will be in the middle of it.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore will I cast you out of this land into a land that ye know not, neither ye nor your fathers; and there shall ye serve other gods day and night; where I will not shew you favour.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph said to him, This is the interpretation of it: the three branches are three days.


simplify: but, in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subjected to you, but rejoice rather that your names were written in the heavens.'

Yet do not rejoice in the fact that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been enrolled in heaven.”


simplify: And there were six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

It had six branches coming out from its sides, three from one side and three from the other;


rate difficulty: Thou hast walked in the way of thy sister; and I have given her cup into thy hand.

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


simplify: And Hakkoz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.


simplify: And in those days, when the number of the disciples was multiplied, there arose a murmuring of the Grecians against the Hebrews, because their widows were neglected in the daily ministration.

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


simplify: Remember me, O my God, concerning this, and wipe not out my good deeds that I have done for the house of my God, and for the observances thereof.

Keep me in mind, O my God, in connection with this, and do not let the good which I have done for the house of my God and its worship go from your memory completely.


rate difficulty: but if he do not redeem the field, or if he sell the field to another man, it cannot be redeemed any more;

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rate difficulty: And I think it right, as long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up by putting you in remembrance;

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rate difficulty: For a breach of the daughter of my people have I been broken, I have been black, astonishment hath seized me.

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rate difficulty: and to have power [to heal diseases, and] to cast out demons.

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


rate difficulty: There were, however, some people who joined him, and became believers in Christ. Among them were Dionysius, a member of the Court of Areopagus, a woman named Damaris, and several others.


simplify: Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

So I beg you to take something to eat; your safety depends on it, for not one of you will lose even a hair of his head.”


simplify: (For the children being not yet born, neither having done any good or evil, that the purpose of God according to election might stand, not of works, but of him that calleth;)

Before the children had come into existence, or had done anything good or bad, in order that God's purpose and his selection might be effected, not by works, but by him whose purpose it is,


simplify: And Abner sent messengers to David on his behalf, saying, Whose is the land? saying also, Make thy league with me, and, behold, my hand shall be with thee, to bring about all Israel unto thee.

And Abner sent men to David at Hebron, saying, Make an agreement with me, and I will give you my support in getting all Israel on your side.


simplify: And when they were come to him, he said unto them,  Ye yourselves know, from the first day that I set foot in Asia, after what manner I was with you all the time,

And when they had come, he said to them, You yourselves have seen what my life has been like all the time from the day when I first came into Asia,


rate difficulty: this is the burnt-offering of every sabbath, besides the continual burnt-offering, and the drink-offering thereof.

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


simplify: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

And they will see the fulfillment of my covenant, when I have taken away their sins.’


simplify: And they put forward two, Joseph called Barsabbas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

And they made selection of two, Joseph, named Barsabbas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias.


simplify: And thy servant my father said unto us, Ye know that my wife bare me two sons:

And our father said to us, You have knowledge that my wife gave me two sons;


simplify: Son of man, set thy face against Zidon, and prophesy against it,

Son of man, let your face be turned to Zidon, and be a prophet against it, and say,


simplify: For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church: and he is the saviour of the body.

For the husband is the head of the wife, as Christ is the head of the church, being himself the saviour of the body.


simplify: who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

And who, himself, made clear to us your love in the Spirit.


rate difficulty: and he measured its wall, an hundred forty-four cubits, the measure of a man, that is, of the messenger;


rate difficulty: And I have brought you forth from the peoples, And assembled you from the lands In which ye have been scattered, With a strong hand and with a stretched-out arm, And with fury poured out.

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rate difficulty: And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,


simplify: Or if he smite him with an hand weapon of wood, wherewith he may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall surely be put to death.

Or if he gave him blows with a wood instrument in his hands, causing his death, he is a taker of life and is certainly to be put to death.


simplify: And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.

And sometimes the cloud was there only from evening to morning; and when the cloud was taken up in the morning they went on their journey again: or if it was resting there by day and by night, whenever the cloud was taken up they went forward.


simplify: And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.


rate difficulty: There is a generation that curseth their father, and doth not bless their mother;

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rate difficulty: And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.

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


rate difficulty: Ye shall not make any cuttings in your flesh for the dead, nor print any marks upon you: I am Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Also when I call and cry out, He hath shut out my prayer.

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


simplify: There is therefore now no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus.

For this cause those who are in Christ Jesus will not be judged as sinners.


simplify: that by revelation He made known to me the secret, according as I wrote before in few <FI>words<Fi> --

and also that it was by direct revelation that the hidden purpose of God was made known to me, as I have already briefly told you.


simplify: For this cause many are weak and sickly among you, and many sleep.

For this cause a number of you are feeble and ill, and a number are dead.


rate difficulty: But will he not say to him, Prepare what I shall sup on, and gird thyself and serve me that I may eat and drink; and after that thou shalt eat and drink?

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


simplify: And these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and to Apollos for your sakes; that ye might learn in us not to think of men above that which is written, that no one of you be puffed up for one against another.

All this, friends, I have, for your sakes, applied to Apollos and myself, so that, from our example, you may learn to observe the precept — ‘Keep to what is written,’ that none of you may speak boastfully of one teacher to the disparagement of another.


rate difficulty: And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.

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


simplify: And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

Then God made with Abraham the covenant of circumcision; and under it Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him when he was eight days old; and Isaac became the father of Jacob; and Jacob of the Twelve Patriarchs.


rate difficulty: So Abijah slept with his fathers, and they buried him in the city of David; and Asa his son reigned in his stead. In his days the land was quiet ten years.


simplify: And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of Jehovah.

So they came to Jerusalem with corded instruments and wind-instruments into the house of the Lord.


simplify: They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off.

The daughter of Dibon has gone up to the high places, weeping: Moab is sounding her cry of sorrow over Nebo, and over Medeba: everywhere the hair of the head and of the face is cut off.


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

And the people gave him this answer, So it will be done to the man who overcomes him.


rate difficulty: For if you truly do this, then there will come in through the doors of this house kings seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, he and his servants and his people

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


simplify: and ye, then, become ye ready, because at the hour ye think not, the Son of Man doth come.'

You must also prepare, for when you are least expecting him the Son of Man will come.”


simplify: And there went great multitudes with him: and he turned, and said unto them,

Now a great number of people went with him.


rate difficulty: And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, the day of Jehovah doth come, Fierce, with wrath, and heat of anger, To make the land become a desolation, Yea, its sinning ones He destroyeth from it.

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


simplify: These were of the sons of Gad, captains of the host: one of the least was over an hundred, and the greatest over a thousand.

These Gadites were captains of the army; the least of them was captain over a hundred men, and the greatest over a thousand.


rate difficulty: And I have given wonders in the heavens, and in the earth, Blood and fire, and columns of smoke.

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simplify: Speak now in the ears of the people, and let every man borrow of his neighbour, and every woman of her neighbour, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold.

So go now and give orders to the people that every man and every woman is to get from his or her neighbour ornaments of silver and of gold.


simplify: And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of Jehovah in Jehovah’s house.

And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did as Jeremiah the prophet gave him orders to do, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.


simplify: be patient, ye also; establish your hearts, because the presence of the Lord hath drawn nigh;

And you must be patient also, and not be discouraged; for the Lord’s coming is near.


rate difficulty: And ye have left your name For an oath for My chosen ones, And the Lord Jehovah hath put thee to death, And to His servants He giveth another name.

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


rate difficulty: So the two of them went on till they came to Beth-lehem. And when they came to Beth-lehem all the town was moved about them, and they said, Is this Naomi?


rate difficulty: Because that they have forsaken me, and have worshipped Ashtoreth the goddess of the Zidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the children of Ammon, and have not walked in my ways, to do that which is right in mine eyes, and to keep my statutes and my judgments, as did David his father.

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


rate difficulty: And Samlah died, and Shaul of Rehoboth by the River reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: All the saints send their love to you.


simplify: And when Joshua had let the people go, the children of Israel went every man unto his inheritance to possess the land.

And Joshua let the people go away, and the children of Israel went, every man to his heritage, to take the land for themselves.


simplify: Brethren, even if a man be overtaken in any trespass, ye who are spiritual, restore such a one in a spirit of gentleness; looking to thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.


rate difficulty: And when they went, I heard the noise of their wings like the noise of great waters, like the voice of the Almighty, a noise of tumult like the noise of a host: when they stood, they let down their wings.

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


simplify: This is that which belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service in the work of the tent of meeting:

This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;


simplify: And the anger of the Lord was hot against Israel; and he said, Because that this people hath transgressed my covenant which I commanded their fathers, and have not hearkened unto my voice;

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he said, Because this nation has not been true to my agreement which I made with their fathers, and has not given ear to my voice;


simplify: And these things write we unto you, that your joy may be full.

And we are writing all this to you that our joy may be complete.


rate difficulty: For God shall cast upon him, and not spare: he would fain flee out of his hand.

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


simplify: Why shouldest thou be as a man affrighted, as a mighty man that cannot save? Yet thou, O Jehovah, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.


simplify: And having gone forth out of the synagogue of the Jews, the nations were calling upon <FI>them<Fi> that on the next sabbath these sayings may be spoken to them,

As Paul and Barnabas were leaving the synagogue, the people begged for a repetition of this teaching on the next Sabbath.


rate difficulty: The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

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rate difficulty: and the pillars of the court round about, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords.

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rate difficulty: And Zion saith, `Jehovah hath forsaken me, And my Lord hath forgotten me.'

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


simplify: O thou that art full of shoutings, a tumultuous city, a joyous town; thy slain are not slain with the sword, neither are they dead in battle.

You, who are full of loud voices, a town of outcries, given up to joy; your dead men have not been put to the sword, or come to their death in war.


rate difficulty: And next unto them repaired Jedaiah the son of Harumaph, over against his house. And next unto him repaired Hattush the son of Hashabneiah.

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


simplify: And David said unto Ahimelech, And is there not here under thy hand spear or sword? for I have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me, because the king’s business required haste.

And David said to Ahimelech, Have you no sword or spear with you here? for I have come without my sword and other arms, because the king's business had to be done quickly.


simplify: Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.

Being of good behaviour among the Gentiles; so that though they say now that you are evil-doers, they may see your good works and give glory to God when he comes to be their judge.


rate difficulty: And, he having spoken these things, the king rose up, and the governor, Bernice also, and those sitting with them,


simplify: And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting.

And suddenly there came from heaven a sound like the rushing of a violent wind, and all the house where they were was full of it.


rate difficulty: And Shebuel son of Gershom, son of Moses, <FI>is<Fi> president over the treasures.

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simplify: And their pillars were four, and their sockets four, of brass; their hooks of silver, and the overlaying of their capitals, and their fillets, of silver.

There were four pillars with their bases, all of brass, the hooks being of silver, and their tops and their bands being covered with silver.


simplify: Then called he Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, and all the people from the least even to the greatest,

And he sent for Johanan, the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces who were still with him, and all the people, from the least to the greatest,


simplify: And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord stood firm on dry ground in the midst of Jordan, and all the Israelites passed over on dry ground, until all the people were passed clean over Jordan.

And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.


simplify: for it were better to them not to have acknowledged the way of the righteousness, than having acknowledged <FI>it<Fi> , to turn back from the holy command delivered to them,

It would, indeed, have been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after knowing it, to turn away from the holy command delivered to them.


simplify: And, behold, a certain lawyer stood up, and tempted him, saying, Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

Just then a Student of the law came forward to test Jesus further. “Teacher,” he said, “what must I do if I am to ‘gain eternal life’?”


simplify: in the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it; and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all birds of every wing; in the shade of the branches thereof shall they dwell.

It will be planted on the high mountain of Israel: it will put out branches and have fruit and be a fair cedar: under it all birds of every sort will make their living-place, resting in the shade of its branches.


rate difficulty: And king Rehoboam made in their stead shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the captains of the guard, that kept the door of the king’s house.

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rate difficulty: But he knoweth the way that I take; When he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

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rate difficulty: And David sent the people out, a third of them under the orders of Joab, and a third under the orders of Abishai, son of Zeruiah, Joab's brother, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the people, And I myself will certainly go out with you.

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


rate difficulty: But to the tribe of Levi Moses gave no inheritance: Jehovah theGod of Israel is their inheritance, as he said to them.

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simplify: And Judah took a wife for Er his first-born, and her name was Tamar.

And Judah took a wife for his first son Er, and her name was Tamar.


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

Jehoram was thirty-two years old when he became king; and he was ruling in Jerusalem for eight years.


rate difficulty: And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people to David. And all they of Israel were eleven hundred thousand men that drew sword; and of Judah, four hundred and seventy thousand men that drew sword.


rate difficulty: They shall cut down her forest, saith Jehovah, though it be impenetrable; for they are more than the locusts, and are innumerable.

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


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

So the churches were made strong in the faith and were increased in number every day.


rate difficulty: And you have seen how I have done all in my power for your father,

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rate difficulty: But the sense of my letter was that if a brother had the name of being one who went after the desires of the flesh, or had the desire for other people's property, or was in the way of using violent language, or being the worse for drink, or took by force what was not his, you might not keep company with such a one, or take food with him.

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


simplify: He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

He is like a bear waiting for me, like a lion in secret places.


simplify: Be not afraid of sudden fear, neither of the desolation of the wicked, when it cometh.

Have no fear of sudden danger, or of the storm which will come on evil-doers:


simplify: For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:

For David said of him, I saw the Lord before my face at all times, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved:


rate difficulty: Now the Levites were numbered from the age of thirty years and upward: and their number by their polls, man by man, was thirty and eight thousand.


rate difficulty: We lodge in the villages, we go early to the vineyards, We see if the vine hath flourished, The sweet smelling-flower hath opened. The pomegranates have blossomed, There do I give to thee my loves;

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


rate difficulty: for Mine <FI>is<Fi> every first-born among the sons of Israel, among man and among beast; in the day of my smiting every first-born in the land of Egypt I sanctified them for Myself;

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


simplify: The Amalekites dwell in the land of the south: and the Hittites, and the Jebusites, and the Amorites, dwell in the mountains: and the Canaanites dwell by the sea, and by the coast of Jordan.

And the Amalekites are in the South; and the Hittites and the Jebusites and the Amorites are living in the hill-country; and the Canaanites by the sea and by the side of Jordan.


simplify: She that hath borne seven languisheth: she hath given up the ghost; her sun is gone down while it was yet day: she hath been ashamed and confounded: and the residue of them will I deliver to the sword before their enemies, saith the Lord.

The mother of seven is without strength; her spirit is gone from her, her sun has gone down while it is still day: she has been shamed and overcome: and the rest of them I will give up to the sword before their haters, says the Lord.


simplify: Now when the apostles that were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John;


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

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.


rate difficulty: And Boaz saith to her, `At meal-time come nigh hither, and thou hast eaten of the bread, and dipped thy morsel in the vinegar.' And she sitteth at the side of the reapers, and he reacheth to her roasted corn, and she eateth, and is satisfied, and leaveth.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And it was so, when Elisha the man of God heard that the king of Israel had rent his clothes, that he sent to the king, saying, Wherefore hast thou rent thy clothes? let him come now to me, and he shall know that there is a prophet in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: That the communication of thy faith may become effectual by the acknowledging of every good thing which is in you in Christ Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: May God give you the dew of heaven, and the good things of the earth, and grain and wine in full measure:


simplify: And it came to pass, when all our enemies heardthereof, that all the nations that were about us feared, and were much cast down in their own eyes; for they perceived that this work was wrought of our God.

And when our haters had news of this, all the nations round about us were full of fear and were greatly shamed, for they saw that this work had been done by our God.


rate difficulty: Then all the people, answering, said with a loud voice, As you have said, so it is right for us to do.

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


rate difficulty: For ask now of the days that are past, which were before thee, since the day that God created man upon the earth, and ask from the one side of heaven unto the other, whether there hath been any such thing as this great thing is, or hath been heard like it?

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


rate difficulty: And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive into Babylon the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to him, with the rest of the people that were left.

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


simplify: and in the middle of the night a cry was made, Lo, the bridegroom doth come; go ye forth to meet him.

But at midnight a shout was raised — ‘The groom is coming! Come out to meet him!’


simplify: And his mother said unto him, Upon me be thy curse, my son; only obey my voice, and go fetch me them.

And his mother said, Let the curse be on me, my son: only do as I say, and go and get them for me.


rate difficulty: I will take my position and be on watch, placing myself on my tower, looking out to see what he will say to me, and what answer he will give to my protest.

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


simplify: But I beseech you, that I may not be bold when I am present with that confidence, wherewith I think to be bold against some, which think of us as if we walked according to the flesh.

I implore you not to drive me to “show my boldness,” when I do come, by the confident tone which I expect to have to adopt towards some of you, who are expecting to find us influenced in our conduct by earthly motives.


simplify: I know thy works, and thy labour, and thy patience, and how thou canst not bear them which are evil: and thou hast tried them which say they are apostles, and are not, and hast found them liars:

I know your life, your toil and endurance, and I know that you cannot tolerate evil-doers. I know, too, how you tested those who declare that they are apostles, though they are not, and how you proved them false.


rate difficulty: and to esteem them very abundantly in love, because of their work; be at peace among yourselves;

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


simplify: When Joab saw that the front of the battle was against him before and behind, he chose of all the choice men of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians:

Now when Joab saw that their forces were in position against him in front and at his back, he took the best of the men of Israel and put them in line against the Aramaeans;


simplify: These were the sons of Caleb, the son of Hur, the first-born of Ephrathah: Shobal the father of Kiriath-jearim,

The sons of Hur, the oldest son of Ephrathah; Shobal, the father of Kiriath-jearim,


rate difficulty: And you, the steward said to the next, ‘how much do you owe?’ ‘Seventy quarters of wheat,’ he replied. ‘Here is your agreement,’ the steward said; ‘make it fifty-six.’


rate difficulty: And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.


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

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


rate difficulty: And immediately he compelled his disciples to go on board ship, and to go on before to the other side to Bethsaida, while he sends the crowd away.

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


simplify: The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

To the kings of the earth and to all the people of the world it did not seem possible that the attackers and the haters would go into the doors of Jerusalem.


simplify: Out of that land he went forth into Assyria, and builded Nineveh, and Rehoboth-Ir, and Calah,

From that land he went out into Assyria, building Nineveh with its wide streets and Calah,


simplify: And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me that part of your property which will be mine. And he made division of his goods between them.


simplify: In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And thepainsthat gnaw me take no rest.

The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.


rate difficulty: And the Lord shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel dwelt among the Canaanites, Hittites, and Amorites, and Perizzites, and Hivites, and Jebusites:

Now the children of Israel were living among the Canaanites, the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites:


rate difficulty: Is it not now the time of the grain cutting? My cry will go up to the Lord and he will send thunder and rain: so that you may see and be conscious of your great sin which you have done in the eyes of the Lord in desiring a king for yourselves.


simplify: And his master saw that the Lord was with him, and that the Lord made all that he did to prosper in his hand.

And his master saw that the Lord was with him, making everything he did go well.


simplify: And the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back unto Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

And the king of Israel said, Take Micaiah and send him back to Amon, the ruler of the town, and to Joash, the king's son;


rate difficulty: who is marked out Son of God in power, according to the Spirit of sanctification, by the rising again from the dead,) Jesus Christ our Lord;

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


rate difficulty: But when it was day, the authorities sent the police, saying, Let these men go.


simplify: And dost thou think this, O man, who art judging those who such things are practising, and art doing them, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them — do you suppose that you of all people will escape God’s judgment?


simplify: Neither is there salvation in any other: for there is none other name under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved.

And salvation is in him alone; for there is no other name in the whole world, given to people, to which we must look for our salvation.”


simplify: I was at ease, and he brake me asunder; Yea, he hath taken me by the neck, and dashed me to pieces: He hath also set me up for his mark.

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.


rate difficulty: and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.

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


rate difficulty: Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.

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


rate difficulty: And I scattered them among the heathen, and they were dispersed through the countries: according to their way and according to their doings I judged them.

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


rate difficulty: And my master made me swear, saying, Thou shalt not take a wife to my son of the daughters of the Canaanites, in whose land I dwell:

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


simplify: I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntyche, to live in harmony, in union with the Lord;


simplify: In his humiliation his judgment was taken away: and who shall declare his generation? for his life is taken from the earth.

Being of low degree, his cause was not given a hearing: who has knowledge of his family? for his life is cut off from the earth.


rate difficulty: Then Joram turned his hand, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, Treachery, Ahaziah!

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


simplify: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.


rate difficulty: for each his own supper doth take before in the eating, and one is hungry, and another is drunk;

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


simplify: for God is my witness, whom I serve in my spirit in the good news of His Son, how unceasingly I make mention of you,

God, to whom I offer the worship of my soul as I tell the goodness of his Son, is my witness how constantly I mention you when I pray,


simplify: And he said, Bring me a new cruse, and put salt therein. And they brought it to him.

So he said, Get me a new vessel, and put salt in it; and they took it to him.


rate difficulty: And in every province, wherever the king's commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing: many lay in sackcloth and ashes.

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


simplify: And thou shalt say unto them, This is the nation that hath not hearkened to the voice of Jehovah their God, nor received instruction: truth is perished, and is cut off from their mouth.

And you are to say to them, This is the nation which has not given ear to the voice of their God, or taken his teaching to heart: good faith is dead and is cut off from their mouths.