simplify: Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ, through the will of God, according to a promise of life that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus,

To Timothy, my dear child, from Paul who, by the will of God, is an apostle of Christ Jesus, charged to proclaim the life that comes from union with Christ Jesus. May God, the Father, and Christ Jesus, our Lord, bless you, and be merciful to you, and give you peace.


simplify: And the sons of the prophets said unto Elisha, Behold now, the place where we dwell with thee is too strait for us.

Now the sons of the prophets said to Elisha, There is not room enough for us in the place where we are living under your care;


simplify: Howbeit I will not rend away all the kingdom; but will give one tribe to thy son for David my servant’s sake, and for Jerusalem’s sake which I have chosen.

Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah God formeth the man--dust from the ground, and breatheth into his nostrils breath of life, and the man becometh a living creature.

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


rate difficulty: Then give ear in heaven, and let the sin of your people Israel have forgiveness, and take them back again into the land which you gave to their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: and burn doth the anger of Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite, of the family of Ram; against Job hath his anger burned, because of his justifying himself more than God;

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


rate difficulty: And set bounds round about the people, saying, Take heed to yourselves, [not] to go up unto the mountain nor touch the border of it: whatever toucheth the mountain shall certainly be put to death:

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


simplify: But if we discerned ourselves, we should not be judged.

But if we were true judges of ourselves, punishment would not come on us.


simplify: Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, was the ruler of the house of God.

Seraiah, the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the ruler of the house of God,


simplify: And the goat shall bear upon him all their iniquities unto a land not inhabited: and he shall let go the goat in the wilderness.

And the goat will take all their sins into a land cut off from men, and he will send the goat away into the waste land.


simplify: this only do I wish to learn from you--by works of law the Spirit did ye receive, or by the hearing of faith?

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


simplify: And of the children of Israel’s half, which Moses divided off from the men that warred

And from the half given to the children of Israel, which Moses had kept separate from that given to the fighting-men,


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: My servant Moses is not so, who is faithful in all mine house.

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


simplify: and lo, a man, by name called Zaccheus, and he was a chief tax-gatherer, and he was rich,

There was a man there, known by the name of Zacchaeus, who was a commissioner of taxes and a rich man.


rate difficulty: These going before tarried for us at Troas.

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


simplify: But the very hairs of your head are all numbered.

But the hairs of your head are all numbered.


rate difficulty: And three tenth parts of fine flour as an oblation, mingled with oil, for one bullock; and two tenth parts of fine flour as an oblation, mingled with oil, for the ram;

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


simplify: And the woman of Tekoah said unto the king, My lord, O king, the iniquity be on me, and on my father’s house: and the king and his throne be guiltless.

And the woman of Tekoa said to the king, My lord, O king, may the sin be on me and on my family, and may the king and the seat of his kingdom be clear of sin!


rate difficulty: And he shall [again] consecrate to Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a yearling lamb for a trespass-offering. But the first days are forfeited, for his consecration hath been defiled.

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


rate difficulty: Because I saw that your heart was hard, and that your neck was an iron cord, and your brow brass;

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


simplify: She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbena, and the father of Gibea; and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.


simplify: But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:

But the father turned to his servants and said ‘Be quick and fetch a robe — the very best — and put it on him; give him a ring for his finger and sandals for his feet;


rate difficulty: If I wait--Sheol <FI>is<Fi> my house, In darkness I have spread out my couch.


simplify: Then Abram removed his tent, and came and dwelt in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and built there an altar unto the Lord.

And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.


rate difficulty: In these towns you may be safe from him who has the right of punishment; so that death may not overtake the taker of life till he has been judged by the meeting of the people.


rate difficulty: And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.

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


simplify: But the Pharisees said, He casteth out devils through the prince of the devils.

But the Pharisees said, By the ruler of evil spirits, he sends evil spirits out of men.


simplify: And the multitude said, This is Jesus the prophet of Nazareth of Galilee.

“Who is this?”, to which the crowd replied — “This is the prophet Jesus from Nazareth in Galilee.”


rate difficulty: `From the south, all the land of the Canaanite, and Mearah, which <FI>is<Fi> to the Sidonians, unto Aphek, unto the border of the Amorite;

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


rate difficulty: And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, I will do this thing also that thou hast spoken; for thou hast found favor in my sight, and I know thee by name.

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


simplify: and presently he did receive sight, and was following him, glorifying God; and all the people, having seen, did give praise to God.

Instantly he recovered his sight, and began to follow Jesus, praising God. And all the people, on seeing it, gave glory to God.


rate difficulty: Then David gave to Solomon his son the pattern of the porchof the temple, and of the houses thereof, and of the treasuries thereof, and of the upper rooms thereof, and of the inner chambers thereof, and of the place of the mercy-seat;

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


rate difficulty: Anything which comes from God is able to overcome the world: and the power by which we have overcome the world is our faith.

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


simplify: Take the rod, and gather thou the assembly together, thou, and Aaron thy brother, and speak ye unto the rock before their eyes; and it shall give forth his water, and thou shalt bring forth to them water out of the rock: so thou shalt give the congregation and their beasts drink.

Take the rod, you and Aaron, your brother, and make all the people come together, and before their eyes give orders to the rock to give out its water; and so make water come out of the rock for them, and give the people and their cattle drink.


simplify: and he answering said, Verily I say to you, I have not known you.

But the groom answered ‘I tell you, I do not know you.’


simplify: And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.

And when the virgins came together in the second house of the women, Mordecai took his seat in the doorway of the king's house.


rate difficulty: From the sons of Joab: Obadiah son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen who are males.


rate difficulty: Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

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


rate difficulty: And the time that David abode in the country of the Philistines was a year and four months.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless a lad saw them, and told Absalom: but they went both of them away quickly, and came to a man’s house in Bahurim, which had a well in his court; whither they went down.

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


rate difficulty: And Eber lived after he begat Peleg four hundred and thirty years, and begat sons and daughters.

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


simplify: and he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.


rate difficulty: And he showed them the entrance into the city; and they smote the city with the edge of the sword; but they let the man go and all his family.

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


rate difficulty: And come in to thee do these two things, In a moment, in one day, childlessness and widowhood, According to their perfection they have come upon thee, In the multitude of thy sorceries, In the exceeding might of thy charms.


simplify: For behold, this selfsame thing, that ye were made sorry after a godly sort, what earnest care it wrought in you, yea what clearing of yourselves, yea what indignation, yea what fear, yea what longing, yea what zeal, yea what avenging! In everything ye approved yourselves to be pure in the 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: A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

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


simplify: Now the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah, the son of Amittai, saying,


simplify: Who will render to every man according to his deeds:

Who will give to every man his right reward:


simplify: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: The city that went forth a thousand shall have a hundred left, and that which went forth a hundred shall have ten left, to the house of Israel.

For these are the words of the Lord God: The town which was able to send out a thousand, will have only a hundred; and that which sent out a hundred, will have only ten, in Israel.


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

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


rate difficulty: And their wings were stretched out over the cover; the faces of the winged ones were opposite one another and facing the cover.


simplify: And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

And the police gave an account of these words to the authorities, and they were full of fear on hearing that they were Romans;


rate difficulty: who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth;

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


simplify: And when there had been much questioning, Peter rose up, and said unto them, Brethren, ye know that a good while ago God made choice among you, that by my mouth the Gentiles should hear the word of the gospel, and believe.

And when there had been much discussion, Peter got up and said to them, My brothers, you have knowledge that some time back it was God's pleasure that by my mouth the good news might be given to the Gentiles so that they might have faith.


rate difficulty: And thou saidst in thy heart: the heavens I go up, Above stars of God I raise my throne, And I sit in the mount of meeting in the sides of the north.

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


rate difficulty: Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.

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


rate difficulty: Everyone, high and low, paid attention to him. ‘This man,’ they used to say, ‘must be that power of God which people call “The Great Power.”’

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


rate difficulty: know ye, then, that those of faith--these are sons of Abraham,


rate difficulty: I also to the house on which My name is called, In which ye are trusting, And to the place that I gave to you, and to your fathers, Have done, as I have done to Shiloh.

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


rate difficulty: My refreshing for me <FI>is<Fi> sorrow, For me my heart <FI>is<Fi> sick.

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


simplify: And there appeared to them Elijah with Moses, and they were talking with Jesus.

And Elijah appeared to them, in company with Moses; and they were talking with Jesus.


simplify: Concerning the divisions of the porters: Of the Korhites was Meshelemiah the son of Kore, of the sons of Asaph.

For the divisions of the door-keepers: of the Korahites, Meshelemiah, the son of Kore, of the sons of Ebiasaph.


simplify: And Eli said unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee.

And Eli said to her, How long are you going to be the worse for drink? Put away the effects of your wine from you.


rate difficulty: And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.


rate difficulty: for, Jehovah liveth, who is saving Israel: surely if it be in Jonathan my son, surely he doth certainly die;' and none is answering him out of all the people.

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


simplify: ye that rejoice in a thing of nought, that say, Have we not taken to us horns by our own strength?

You whose joy is in a thing of no value, who say, Have we not taken for ourselves horns by the strength which is ours?


simplify: And they encamped against them, and destroyed the increase of the earth, till thou come unto Gaza, and left no sustenance for Israel, neither sheep, nor ox, nor ass.

And put their army in position against them; and they took all the produce of the earth as far as Gaza, till there was no food in Israel, or any sheep or oxen or asses.


simplify: Wilt thou play with him as with a bird? Or wilt thou bind him for thy maidens?

Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?


simplify: And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.


simplify: So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh.

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, went back to his place at Nineveh.


rate difficulty: Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.


rate difficulty: And she said, As the Lord thy God liveth, I have not a cake, but an handful of meal in a barrel, and a little oil in a cruse: and, behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and dress it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and strong walls wherein thou trustedst come down, throughout all thy land; and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates in all thy land, which Jehovah thyGod hath given thee.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But he again denied it. And after a little while again they that stood by said to Peter, Of a truth thou art one of them; for thou art a Galilæan.

But again he said it was not so. And after a little time, again those who were near said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; for you are a Galilaean.


rate difficulty: But Adoni-bezek fled; and they pursued after him, and caught him, and cut off his thumbs and his great toes.

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


simplify: Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

Because punishment for an evil work comes not quickly, the minds of the sons of men are fully given to doing evil.


simplify: and then shall many be stumbled, and they shall deliver up one another, and shall hate one another.

And then many will fall away, and will betray one another, and hate one another.


simplify: And there was not a man left in Ai or Beth–el, that went not out after Israel: and they left the city open, and pursued after Israel.

There was not a man in Ai and Beth-el who did not go out after Israel; and the town was open and unwatched while they went after Israel.


rate difficulty: By whose hand the heavens were stretched out, and who is walking on the waves of the sea:


simplify: For he taught them as one having authority, and not as the scribes.

for he was teaching as one having authority, and not as their scribes.


simplify: then having called him, his lord saith to him, Evil servant! all that debt I did forgive thee, seeing thou didst call upon me,

So the master sent for the servant, and said to him ‘You wicked servant! When you begged me for mercy, I forgave you the whole of that debt.


simplify: And straightway they left the nets, and followed him.

And they went straight from their nets, and came after him.


rate difficulty: Oil for the light, spices for anointing oil, and for sweet incense,

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


rate difficulty: I am the Lord your God; be guided by my rules and keep my orders and do them:


rate difficulty: and the stars of heaven fell upon the earth, as a fig tree, shaken by a great wind, casts its unseasonable figs.

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


simplify: and in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.


simplify: and having embarked in a ship of Adramyttium, we, being about to sail by the coasts of Asia, did set sail, there being with us Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica,

We went on board a ship from Adramyttium, which was on the point of sailing to the ports along the coast of Roman Asia, and put to sea. Aristarchus, a Macedonian from Thessalonica, went with us.


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

For see, our fathers have been put to death with the sword, and our sons and daughters and wives have been taken away prisoners because of this.


simplify: And having come near, Jesus spake to them, saying, `Given to me was all authority in heaven and on earth;

Then Jesus came up, and spoke to them , saying:   “All authority in heaven and on the earth has been given to me.


simplify: And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

And the people took their bread-paste before it was leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their backs.


simplify: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

for it was by one Spirit that we were all baptized to form one body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free, and were all imbued with one Spirit.


rate difficulty: having made known to us the secret of His will, according to His good pleasure, that He purposed in Himself,

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


simplify: But though we, or an angel from heaven, preach any other gospel unto you than that which we have preached unto you, let him be accursed.

But even if we, or an angel from heaven, were to be a preacher to you of good news other than that which we have given you, let there be a curse on him.


simplify: And the four angels were loosed, which were prepared for an hour, and a day, and a month, and a year, for to slay the third part of men.

And the four angels were made free, who were ready for the hour and day and month and year, that they might put to death a third part of men.


rate difficulty: Thus she committed her whoredoms with them, with all them that were the chosen men of Assyria, and with all on whom she doted: with all their idols she defiled herself.

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


simplify: And Jehovah’s anger was kindled in that day, and he sware, saying,

And at that time the Lord was moved to wrath, and made an oath, saying,


simplify: Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and a bitter, that thou hast forsaken Jehovah thy God, and that my fear is not in thee, saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.


simplify: And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

Through him uniting all things with himself, having made peace through the blood of his cross; through him, I say, uniting all things which are on earth or in heaven.


simplify: Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Then they saw that it was not the leaven of bread which he had in mind, but the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


simplify: And thou shalt prepare a meal-offering with it morning by morning, the sixth part of an ephah, and the third part of a hin of oil, to moisten the fine flour; a meal-offering unto Jehovah continually by a perpetual ordinance.

And you are to give, morning by morning, a meal offering with it, a sixth of an ephah and a third of a hin of oil dropped on the best meal; a meal offering offered to the Lord at all times by an eternal order.


rate difficulty: And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

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


rate difficulty: And one goat for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.


simplify: and I will give them one heart and one way, that they may fear me for ever, for the good of them, and of their children after them:

And I will give them one heart and one way, so that they may go on in the worship of me for ever, for their good and the good of their children after them:


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who was yet in Egypt, heard of it, (for he was fled from the presence of king Solomon, and Jeroboam dwelt in Egypt;)

And, hearing of it, Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, who was still in Egypt, where he had gone in flight from Solomon, and was living there, came back to his town Zeredah, in the hill-country of Ephraim;


rate difficulty: All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.

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


simplify: And Delilah said unto Samson, Hitherto thou hast mocked me, and told me lies: tell me wherewith thou mightest be bound. And he said unto her, If thou weavest the seven locks of my head with the web.

Then Delilah said to Samson, Up to now you have made sport of me with false words; now say truly, how may you be put in bands? And he said to her, If you get the seven twists of my hair worked into the cloth you are making and fixed with the pin, I will become feeble and will be like any other man.


simplify: And they said unto him, Why do the disciples of John fast often, and make prayers, and likewise the disciples of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink?

And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.


simplify: And he called the name of that place Kibroth–hattaavah: because there they buried the people that lusted.

So that place was named Kibroth-hattaavah; because there they put in the earth the bodies of the people who had given way to their desires.


simplify: A drought is upon her waters, and they shall be dried up; for it is a land of graven images, and they are mad over idols.

A sword is on her waters, drying them up; for it is a land of images, and their minds are fixed on false gods.


simplify: In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

In that day I will put up the tent of David which has come down, and make good its broken places; and I will put up again his damaged walls, building it up as in the past;


simplify: Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.


simplify: And when the people were come unto the forest, behold, the honey dropped: but no man put his hand to his mouth; for the people feared the oath.

But not a man put his hand to his mouth for fear of the curse.


simplify: In their setting of their threshold by my thresholds, and their post by my posts, and the wall between me and them, they have even defiled my holy name by their abominations that they have committed: wherefore I have consumed them in mine anger.

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


simplify: And in this confidence I was minded to come first unto you, that ye might have a second benefit;

And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;


simplify: And that he might make known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy, which he had afore prepared unto glory,

And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,


rate difficulty: And there was one called Barabbas, lying bound with them that had made insurrection, men who in the insurrection had committed murder.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Joshua had spoken unto the people, that the seven priests bearing the seven trumpets of rams’ horns passed on before the Lord, and blew with the trumpets: and the ark of the covenant of the Lord followed them.

So after Joshua had said this to the people, the seven priests with their seven horns went forward before the Lord, blowing on their horns: and the ark of the Lord's agreement went after them.


rate difficulty: And David gathered all the people, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it and took it.


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, against the shepherds that feed my people: Ye have scattered my flock, and driven them away, and have not visited them; behold, I will visit upon you the evil of your doings, saith Jehovah.

So this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said against the keepers who have the care of my people: You have let my flock be broken up, driving them away and not caring for them; see, I will send on you the punishment for the evil of your doings, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the building of its wall [was] jasper; and the city pure gold, like pure glass:

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


simplify: Even so ye, forasmuch as ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may excel to the edifying of the church.

And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the church.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah that doeth it, Jehovah that formeth it to establish it; Jehovah is his name:

These are the words of the Lord, who is doing it, the Lord who is forming it, to make it certain; the Lord is his name;


rate difficulty: And the provision of Solomon for one day is thirty cors of flour, and sixty cors of meal;

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


rate difficulty: “Elijah indeed does come,” Jesus replied, “and will restore everything;

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


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


simplify: And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

And it will be turned to a witness for you.


rate difficulty: then shall that which cometh forth from the door of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, be Jehovah's, and I will offer it up for a burnt-offering.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to her, Thou art mad. But she maintained that it was so. And they said, It is his angel.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said, Who is the Lord, to whose voice I am to give ear and let Israel go? I have no knowledge of the Lord and I will not let Israel go.

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


rate difficulty: And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

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


simplify: For, as for thy waste and thy desolate places, and thy land that hath been destroyed, surely now shalt thou be too strait for the inhabitants, and they that swallowed thee up shall be far away.

For though the waste places of your land have been given to destruction, now you will not be wide enough for your people, and those who made you waste will be far away.


rate difficulty: And Moses returned to Jehovah, and said, Alas, this people has sinned a great sin, and they have made themselves agod of gold!

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


rate difficulty: And they have made for thee baldness, And they have girded on sackcloth, And they have wept for thee, In bitterness of soul--a bitter mourning.

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


simplify: And Eliud begat Eleazar; and Eleazar begat Matthan; and Matthan begat Jacob;

And Eliud had Eleazar; and Eleazar had Matthan; and Matthan had Jacob;


rate difficulty: And I will set thy bounds from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the river; for I will give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, that thou mayest dispossess them from before thee.

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


simplify: And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.

And the hand-part went in after the blade, and the fat was joined up over the blade; for he did not take the sword out of his stomach. And he went out into the ...


simplify: And, behold, the whole family is risen against thy handmaid, and they say, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him for the life of his brother whom he slew, and so destroy the heir also. Thus will they quench my coal which is left, and will leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the face of the earth.

And now all the family is turned against me, your servant, saying, Give up him who was the cause of his brother's death, so that we may put him to death in payment for the life of his brother, whose life he took; and we will put an end to the one who will get the heritage: so they will put out my last burning coal, and my husband will have no name or offspring on the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: And on the day after, we came to Sidon; and Julius was kind to Paul, and let him go to see his friends and take a rest.


rate difficulty: And Eliab, his oldest brother, hearing what David said to the men, was moved to wrath against David, and said, Why have you come here? Into whose care have you given that little flock of sheep in the waste land? I have knowledge of your pride and the evil of your heart, you have come down to see the fight.

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


simplify: Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand, and meted out heaven with the span, and comprehended the dust of the earth in a measure, and weighed the mountains in scales, and the hills in a balance?

In the hollow of whose hand have the waters been measured? and who is able to take the heavens in his stretched-out fingers? who has got together the dust of the earth in a measure? who has taken the weight of the mountains, or put the hills into the scales?


simplify: So he reasoned in the synagogue with the Jews and the devout persons, and in the marketplace every day with them that met him.

So he had discussions in the Synagogue with the Jews and God-fearing Gentiles, and every day in the market-place with those who were there.


simplify: Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, so that they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.


simplify: Where were white, green, and blue, hangings, fastened with cords of fine linen and purple to silver rings and pillars of marble: the beds were of gold and silver, upon a pavement of red, and blue, and white, and black, marble.

There were fair hangings of white and green and blue, fixed with cords of purple and the best linen to silver rings and pillars of polished stone: the seats were of gold and silver on a floor of red and white and yellow and black stone.


rate difficulty: All the assembly of Israel shall hold it.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding, Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations wherewith Manasseh had provoked him.

But still the heat of the Lord's wrath was not turned back from Judah, because of all Manasseh had done in moving him to wrath.


simplify: and he made no distinction between us and them, cleansing their hearts by faith.

Making no division between them and us, but making clean their hearts by faith.


simplify: Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

You are actually witnesses to your ancestors’ acts and show your approval of them, because, while they killed the prophets, you build tombs for them.


rate difficulty: See, I have called by name Bezaleel the son of Uri, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah,


rate difficulty: Heshbon, and all its cities which <FI>are<Fi> in the plain, Dibon, and Bamoth-Baal, and Beth-Baal-Meon,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: But when he was at the Benjamin door, a captain of the watch named Irijah, the son of Shelemiah, the son of Hananiah, who was stationed there, put his hand on Jeremiah the prophet, saying, You are going to give yourself up to the Chaldaeans.

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


rate difficulty: He that giveth unto the poor shall not lack; but he that withdraweth his eyes shall have many a curse.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

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


simplify: What ye know, the same do I know also: I am not inferior unto you.

The same things are in my mind as in yours; I am equal to you.


rate difficulty: And the Spirit hath clothed Amasai, head of the captains: `To thee, O David, and with thee, O son of Jesse--peace! peace to thee, and peace to thy helper, for thy God hath helped thee;' and David receiveth them, and putteth them among the heads of the troop.

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


simplify: And he went into the temple, and began to cast out them that sold therein, and them that bought;

Jesus went into the Temple Courts and began to drive out those who were selling,


rate difficulty: Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.


rate difficulty: For the gifts and the calling ofGod [are] not subject to repentance.


simplify: But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

Then Joshua said to the two men who had been sent to make a search through the land, Go into the house of the loose woman, and get her out, and all who are with her, as you gave her your oath.


simplify: Moreover I will endeavour that ye may be able after my decease to have these things always in remembrance.

And I will take every care so that you may have a clear memory of these things after my death.


simplify: And they said, Thy servants are twelve brethren, the sons of one man in the land of Canaan; and, behold, the youngest is this day with our father, and one is not.

Then they said, We your servants are twelve brothers, sons of one man in the land of Canaan; the youngest of us is now with our father, and one is dead.


rate difficulty: However, the son of Paul’s sister, hearing of the plot, went to the Fort, and on being admitted, told Paul about it.

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


simplify: Yea, thou shalt be as he that lieth down in the midst of the sea, or as he that lieth upon the top of a mast.

Yes, you will be like him who takes his rest on the sea, or on the top of a sail-support.


simplify: And all Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on this side the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, which bare the ark of the covenant of the Lord, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; half of them over against mount Gerizim, and half of them over against mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel.

And all Israel, those who were Israelites by birth, as well as the men from other lands living with them, and their responsible men and their overseers and judges, took their places round the ark, in front of the priests, the Levites, whose work it was to take up the ark of the Lord's agreement; half of them were stationed in front of Mount Gerizim and half in front of Mount Ebal, in agreement with the orders for the blessing of the children of Israel which Moses, the servant of the Lord, had given.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt be polluted through thyself in the sight of the nations, and thou shalt know that I [am] Jehovah.

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


simplify: have ye not known that he who is joined to the harlot is one body? `for they shall be--saith He--the two for one flesh.'

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for ‘the two,’ it is said, ‘will become one’);


simplify: His branches shall spread, and his beauty shall be as the olive tree, and his smell as Lebanon.

His branches will be stretched out, he will be beautiful as the olive-tree and sweet-smelling as Lebanon.


rate difficulty: Then Jonathan sent for David and gave him word of all these things. And Jonathan took David to Saul, who kept him by his side as in the past.

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


simplify: And he said, Open the window eastward; and he opened it. Then Elisha said, Shoot; and he shot. And he said, Jehovah’s arrow of victory, even the arrow of victory over Syria; for thou shalt smite the Syrians in Aphek, till thou have consumed them.

Then he said; Let the window be open to the east: and he got it open. Then Elisha said, Let the arrow go; and he let it go. And he said, The Lord's arrow of salvation, of salvation over Aram; for you will overcome the Aramaeans in Aphek and put an end to them.


rate difficulty: They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills.

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


rate difficulty: So take twelve men out of the tribes of Israel, a man from every tribe.


simplify: And Saul disguised himself, and put on other raiment, and he went, and two men with him, and they came to the woman by night: and he said, I pray thee, divine unto me by the familiar spirit, and bring me him up, whom I shall name unto thee.

So Saul, putting on other clothing, so that he might not be seen to be the king, took two men with him and went to the woman by night; and he said, Now, with the help of the spirit which you have, make the person whose name I will give you come up.


simplify: Yea, before the day was I am he; and there is none that can deliver out of my hand: I will work, and who shall let it?

From time long past I am God, and from this day I am he: there is no one who is able to take you out of my hand: when I undertake a thing, by whom will my purpose be changed?


simplify: And he said unto me, It is done. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end. I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

And he said to me — ‘They are fulfilled. I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the End. To those who thirst I will give of the spring of the water of life, freely.


rate difficulty: Then did he see it, and declare it; he established it, yea, and searched it out;

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


rate difficulty: And these came into Micah's house, and took the carved image, the ephod, and the teraphim, and the molten image. And the priest said to them, What do ye?


simplify: And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

But Esau said, I have enough; keep what is yours, my brother, for yourself.


rate difficulty: And war hath been between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days;

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


simplify: And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

Then Rachel said, God has been my judge, and has given ear to my voice, and has given me a son; so he was named Dan.


rate difficulty: For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

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


rate difficulty: Though the fig-tree doth not flourish, And there is no produce among vines, Failed hath the work of the olive, And fields have not yielded food, Cut off from the fold hath been the flock, And there is no herd in the stalls.

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


simplify: And they went up into the city: and when they were come into the city, behold, Samuel came out against them, for to go up to the high place.

So they went up to the town, and when they came inside the town, Samuel came face to face with them on his way to the high place.


rate difficulty: But it shall be one day which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening time it shall be light.

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


rate difficulty: `Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and thou hast spoken with them, and brought them into the house of Jehovah, unto one of the chambers, and caused them to drink wine.'

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


simplify: And he erected there an altar, and called it El–elohe–Israel.

And there he put up an altar, naming it El, the God of Israel.


simplify: As they gather silver, and brass, and iron, and lead, and tin, into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire upon it, to melt it; so will I gather you in mine anger and in my fury, and I will leave you there, and melt you.

As they put silver and brass and iron and lead and tin together inside the oven, heating up the fire on it to make it soft; so will I get you together in my wrath and in my passion, and, heating the fire with my breath, will make you soft.


rate difficulty: The children of Harim, a thousand and seventeen.

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


rate difficulty: and the scribes do so with their flashings, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: But if in those lands you are turned again to the Lord your God, searching for him with all your heart and soul, he will not keep himself from you.

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


rate difficulty: but the fat, and the kidneys, and the caul from the liver of the sin-offering, he burnt upon the altar; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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


rate difficulty: The Jews made a rule and gave an undertaking, causing their seed and all those who were joined to them to do the same, so that it might be in force for ever, that they would keep those two days, as ordered in the letter, at the fixed time every year;

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


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Uzziel; Amminadab the chief, and his brethren an hundred and twelve.


simplify: And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of sealskin, and shall put in the staves thereof:

On the gold altar they are to put a blue cloth, covering it with a leather cover; and they are to put its rods in their places.


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.


rate difficulty: And they set them up images and groves in every high hill, and under every green tree:


simplify: Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.

But Peter and the Apostles, answering, said, We have to do the orders of God, not of man.


simplify: And it came to pass in the eighteenth year of king Josiah, that the king sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of Jehovah, saying,

Now in the eighteenth year after he became king, Josiah sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, the son of Meshullam, the scribe, to the house of the Lord, saying to him,


simplify: And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.

One Sabbath Jesus was walking through cornfields, and his disciples were picking the ears of wheat, and rubbing them in their hands, and eating them.


simplify: And he spake the more vehemently, `If it may be necessary for me to die with thee--I will in no wise deny thee;' and in like manner also said they all.

But Peter vehemently protested: “Even if I must die with you, I will never disown you!” And they all said the same.


rate difficulty: Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season, if need be, ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations:

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


rate difficulty: Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

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


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, on the third day, that lo, a man hath come in out of the camp from Saul, and his garments <FI>are<Fi> rent, and earth on his head; and it cometh to pass, in his coming in unto David, that he falleth to the earth, and doth obeisance.

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


simplify: and with every living creature that is with you, the birds, the cattle, and every beast of the earth with you; of all that go out of the ark, even every beast of the earth.

And with every living thing with you, all birds and cattle and every beast of the earth which comes out of the ark with you.


simplify: There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend its roots toward him, and shot forth its branches toward him, from the beds of its plantation, that he might water it.

And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.


rate difficulty: and are making perfume to Jehovah, burnt-offerings morning by morning, and evening by evening, and perfume of spices, and the arrangement of bread <FI>is<Fi> on the pure table, and the candlestick of gold, and its lamps, to burn evening by evening, for we are keeping the charge of Jehovah our God, and ye--ye have forsaken Him.


simplify: Therefore shall a tumult arise among thy people, and all thy fortresses shall be spoiled, as Shalman spoiled Beth–arbel in the day of battle: the mother was dashed in pieces upon her children.

So a great outcry will go up from among your people, and all your strong places will be broken, as Beth-arbel was broken by Shalman in the day of war, as the mother was broken on the rocks with her children.


simplify: And in that day I will punish all those that leap over the threshold, that fill their master’s house with violence and deceit.

And in that day I will send punishment on all those who come jumping over the doorstep and make their master's house full of violent behaviour and deceit.


simplify: Israel is a luxuriant vine, that putteth forth his fruit: according to the abundance of his fruit he hath multiplied his altars; according to the goodness of their land they have made goodly pillars.

Israel is a branching vine, full of fruit; as his fruit is increased, so the number of his altars is increased; as the land is fair, so they have made fair pillars.


rate difficulty: and having come forth, Jesus saw a great multitude, and was moved with compassion on them, that they were as sheep not having a shepherd, and he began to teach many things.

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


simplify: And thou shalt stumble in the day, and the prophet also shall stumble with thee in the night; and I will destroy thy mother.

You will not be able to keep on your feet by day, and by night the prophet will be falling down with you, and I will give your mother to destruction.


simplify: And the uttermost cities of the tribe of the children of Judah toward the coast of Edom southward were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur,

The farthest towns of the tribe of Judah in the direction of the limits of Edom to the south, were Kabzeel, and Eder, and Jagur;


rate difficulty: And Haman answered the king, For the man whom the king delighteth to honour,

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


simplify: For Israel and the Philistines had put the battle in array, army against army.

And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.


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

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


rate difficulty: but if thou return to the city, and say to Absalom, I will be thy servant, O king; as I have been thy father's servant hitherto, so now will I be thy servant; then mayest thou for me defeat the counsel of Ahithophel.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And I will sanctify my great name, which hath been profaned among the nations, which ye have profaned in the midst of them; and the nations shall know that I am Jehovah, saith the Lord Jehovah, when I shall be sanctified in you before their eyes.

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


rate difficulty: We be twelve brethren, sons of our father; one is not, and the youngest is this day with our father in the land of Canaan.

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


simplify: And he sent Peter and John, saying, Go and prepare us the passover, that we may eat.

And Jesus sent Peter and John, saying, Go and make the Passover ready for us, so that we may take it.


simplify: And he said unto them, What communications are these that ye have one with another, as ye walk? And they stood still, looking sad.

And he said to them, What are you talking about together while you go?


simplify: And he commanded the chariot to stand still: and they both went down into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.

And he gave orders for the carriage to be stopped, and the two of them went down into the water, and Philip gave him baptism.


simplify: Why should it be thought a thing incredible with you, that God should raise the dead?

Why, in your opinion, is it outside belief for God to make the dead come to life again?


rate difficulty: And they kept striking him on the head with a rod, spitting at him, and bowing to the ground before him — going down on their knees;

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


rate difficulty: and on the morrow, going forth, taking out two denaries, he gave to the innkeeper, and said to him, Be careful of him, and whatever thou mayest spend more, I, in my coming again, will give back to thee.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And it came to pass after many days, that the word of the Lord came to Elijah in the third year, saying, Go, shew thyself unto Ahab; and I will send rain upon the earth.

Now after a long time, the word of the Lord came to Elijah, in the third year, saying, Go and let Ahab see you, so that I may send rain on the earth.


simplify: The Spirit of God hath made me, and the breath of the Almighty hath given me life.

The spirit of God has made me, and the breath of the Ruler of all gives me life.


rate difficulty: And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And the graves were opened; and many bodies of the saints which slept arose,

the tombs opened, and the bodies of many of God’s people who had fallen asleep rose,


simplify: And the flax and the barley was smitten: for the barley was in the ear, and the flax was bolled.

And the flax and the barley were damaged, for the barley was almost ready to be cut and the flax was in flower.


simplify: And Joshua set up twelve stones in the midst of Jordan, in the place where the feet of the priests which bare the ark of the covenant stood: and they are there unto this day.

And Joshua put up twelve stones in the middle of Jordan, where the feet of the priests who took up the ark of the agreement had been placed: and there they are to this day.


rate difficulty: and Cain knoweth his wife, and she conceiveth, and beareth Enoch; and he is building a city, and he calleth the name of the city, according to the name of his son--Enoch.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall flee unto one of those cities, and shall stand at the entrance of the gate of the city, and declare his cause in the ears of the elders of that city; and they shall take him into the city unto them, and give him a place, that he may dwell among them.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Take heed what ye hear: with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you: and unto you that hear shall more be given.

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


rate difficulty: And He saith to man: --`Lo, fear of the Lord, that <FI>is<Fi> wisdom, And to turn from evil <FI>is<Fi> understanding.'

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


rate difficulty: And if the person is from one month to five years old, then the value for a male will be five shekels of silver, and for a female three shekels.

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


rate difficulty: In that hour said Jesus to the multitudes, Are ye come out as against a robber with swords and staves to seize me? I sat daily in the temple teaching, and ye took me not.

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


simplify: Because it shut not up the doors of mymother’swomb, Nor hid trouble from mine eyes.

Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.


simplify: A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance: but by sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.

A glad heart makes a shining face, but by the sorrow of the heart the spirit is broken.


simplify: Wherefore gloriest thou in the valleys, thy flowing valley, O backsliding daughter? that trusted in her treasures, saying, Who shall come unto me?

Why are you lifted up in pride on account of your valleys, your flowing valley, O daughter ever turning away? who puts her faith in her wealth, saying, Who will come against me?


simplify: And he answered and said, He that dipped his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.

And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me.


rate difficulty: Then why did not you put my money into a bank? And I, on my return, could have claimed it with interest.

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


rate difficulty: Suppose some brother or sister should be in need of clothes and of daily bread,

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


simplify: If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it; he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

If a man takes without right another man's ox or his sheep, and puts it to death or gets a price for it, he is to give five oxen for an ox, or four sheep for a sheep, in payment: the thief will have to make payment for what he has taken; if he has no money, he himself will have to be exchanged for money, so that payment may be made.


rate difficulty: And when Aaron saw this, he made an altar before it, and made a public statement, saying, Tomorrow there will be a feast to the Lord.

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


simplify: And Abram said, Lord God, what wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless, and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?

And Abram said, What will you give me? for I have no child and this Eliezer of Damascus will have all my wealth after me.


simplify: Then said Saul unto the people that were with him, Number now, and see who is gone from us. And when they had numbered, behold, Jonathan and his armourbearer were not there.

Then Saul said to the people who were with him, Let everyone be numbered and let us see who has gone from us. And when they had been numbered, it was seen that Jonathan and his servant were not there.


rate difficulty: Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.

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


simplify: `And this is the simile: The seed is the word of God,

This is the parable — The seed is God’s message.


simplify: And David spake unto the Lord the words of this song in the day that the Lord had delivered him out of the hand of all his enemies, and out of the hand of Saul:

And David made a song to the Lord in these words, on the day when the Lord made him free from the hands of all his haters, and from the hand of Saul:


rate difficulty: And he is to take off all its fat, burning it on the altar.

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


rate difficulty: The burden of a word of Jehovah against the land of Hadrach, and Demmeseh--his place of rest: (When to Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> the eye of man, And of all the tribes of Israel.)


rate difficulty: And he got into a boat and went across and came to his town.


simplify: And Moses said unto them, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.


simplify: The Lord will not spare him, but then the anger of the Lord and his jealousy shall smoke against that man, and all the curses that are written in this book shall lie upon him, and the Lord shall blot out his name from under heaven.

The Lord will have no mercy on him, but the wrath of the Lord will be burning against that man, and all the curses recorded in this book will be waiting for him, and the Lord will take away his name completely from the earth.


rate difficulty: And the glory of the Lord was like a flame on the top of the mountain before the eyes of the children of Israel.

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


simplify: `The silver or gold or garments of no one did I covet;

I have never coveted anyone’s gold or silver or clothing.


rate difficulty: And Mordecai went out from the presence of the king in royal apparel of blue and white, and with a great crown of gold, and with a garment of fine linen and purple: and the city of Shushan rejoiced and was glad.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that when Jesus had finished these parables, he departed thence.

When Jesus had finished these parables, he withdrew from that place.


simplify: And God appeared unto Jacob again, when he came out of Padan–aram, and blessed him.

Now when Jacob was on his way from Paddan-aram, God came to him again and, blessing him, said,


simplify: And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood,


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


rate difficulty: that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And he bringeth me forth unto the outer court, the way northward, and he bringeth me in unto the chamber that <FI>is<Fi> over-against the separate place, and that <FI>is<Fi> over-against the building at the north.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, as ye abound in every thing, in faith, and utterance, and knowledge, and in all diligence, and in your love to us, see that ye abound in this grace also.

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


simplify: According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

Because by his power he has given us everything necessary for life and righteousness, through the knowledge of him who has been our guide by his glory and virtue;


rate difficulty: And Jozacar, the son of Shimeath, and Jehozabad, the son of Shomer, his servants, came to him and put him to death; and they put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Amaziah his son became king in his place.

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


rate difficulty: And I--I have laid on thee the years of their iniquity, the number of days, three hundred and ninety days; and thou hast borne the iniquity of the house of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;

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


simplify: The words of Agur the son of Jakeh, even the prophecy: the man spake unto Ithiel, even unto Ithiel and Ucal,

The words of Agur, the son of Jakeh, from Massa. The man says: I am full of weariness, O God, I am full of weariness; O God, I have come to an end:


simplify: and I delivered you out of the hand of the Egyptians, and out of the hand of all that oppressed you, and drove them out from before you, and gave you their land;

And I took you out of the hands of the Egyptians and out of the hands of all who were cruel to you, and I sent them out by force from before you and gave you their land;


simplify: And the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

And the folded part which is over of the curtains of the tent, the half-curtain which is folded back, will be hanging down over the back of the House.


rate difficulty: Behold, ye trust in lying words, that cannot profit.

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


rate difficulty: Whom God has put forward as the sign of his mercy, through faith, by his blood, to make clear his righteousness when, in his pity, God let the sins of earlier times go without punishment;

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


simplify: Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.


rate difficulty: And the angel of the Lord called unto Abraham out of heaven the second time,

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


simplify: How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.

How is it that you say, We are wise and the law of the Lord is with us? But see, the false pen of the scribes has made it false.


rate difficulty: And he walked in all the way of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing what was right in the sight of Jehovah. Only, the high places were not removed: the people offered and burned incense still on the high places.


rate difficulty: And I heard a voice in the midst of the four beasts say, A measure of wheat for a penny, and three measures of barley for a penny; and see thou hurt not the oil and the wine.


rate difficulty: And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast salt therein, and said, Thus saith Jehovah, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or miscarrying.

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


simplify: Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

And you, son of man, have two ways marked out, so that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; let the two of them come out of one land: and let there be a pillar at the top of the road:


simplify: that thine eyes may be open toward this house day and night, even toward the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall pray toward this place.

That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.


simplify: And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the two maidservants’ tents; but he found them not. Then went he out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.

So Laban went into Jacob's tent and into Leah's tent, and into the tents of the two servant-women, but they were not there; and he came out of Leah's tent and went into Rachel's.


rate difficulty: Even as I please all men in all things, not seeking mine own profit, but the profit of many, that they may be saved.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that there shall not be light; the bright ones shall withdraw themselves:


rate difficulty: But Pharaoh said to him, What have you been short of while you have been with me, that you are desiring to go back to your country? And he said, Nothing; but even so, send me back.


simplify: And when the cloud tarried long upon the tabernacle many days, then the children of Israel kept the charge of the Lord, and journeyed not.

When the cloud was resting on the House for a long time the children of Israel, waiting for the order of the Lord, did not go on.


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

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


rate difficulty: Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal-Gad,

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


simplify: And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.

And David's men said to him, Now is the time when the Lord says to you, I will give up your hater into your hands to do with him whatever seems good to you. Then David, getting up, took the skirt of Saul's robe in his hand, cutting off the end of it without his knowledge.


simplify: All the cities of the children of Aaron, the priests, were thirteen cities with their suburbs.

Thirteen towns with their grass-lands were given to the children of Aaron, the priests.


simplify: The Lord forbid that I should stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed: but, I pray thee, take thou now the spear that is at his bolster, and the cruse of water, and let us go.

Never will my hand be stretched out against the man marked with the holy oil; but take the spear which is by his head and the vessel of water, and let us go.


rate difficulty: And I said, Who are you, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking.


rate difficulty: Then Judah said to Israel, his father, Send the boy with me, and let us be up and going, so that we and you and our little ones may not come to destruction.

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


simplify: For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.

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


simplify: And Samson went and caught three hundred foxes, and took firebrands, and turned tail to tail, and put a firebrand in the midst between two tails.

So Samson went and got three hundred foxes and some sticks of fire-wood; and he put the foxes tail to tail with a stick between every two tails;


simplify: for it doth seem to me irrational, sending a prisoner, not also to signify the charges against him.'

For it seems to me absurd to send a prisoner, without at the same time stating the charges made against him.”


rate difficulty: and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.

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


rate difficulty: And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, besides that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went to her own land, she and her servants.

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


simplify: being diligent to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of the peace;

and striving to maintain in the bond of peace the unity given by the Spirit.


rate difficulty: Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

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


simplify: And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

John wore clothes made of camels’ hair, with a leather strap around his waist, and lived on locusts and wild honey;


simplify: Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it.


simplify: And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon: all the cities are twenty and nine, with their villages:

And Lebaoth, and Shilhim, and Ain, and Rimmon; all the towns are twenty-nine, with their unwalled places.


simplify: And they shall amerce him in an hundred shekels of silver, and give them unto the father of the damsel, because he hath brought up an evil name upon a virgin of Israel: and she shall be his wife; he may not put her away all his days.

They will take from him a hundred shekels of silver, which are to be given to the father of the girl, because he has given an evil name to a virgin of Israel: she will go on being his wife, he may never put her away all his life.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Joseph was come unto his brethren, that they stript Joseph out of his coat, his coat of many colours that was on him;

So when Joseph came to his brothers, they took off his long coat which he had on;


simplify: And he brought forth the people that were therein, and put them under saws, and under harrows of iron, and under axes of iron, and made them pass through the brickkiln: and thus did he unto all the cities of the children of Ammon. And David and all the people returned unto Jerusalem.

And he took the people out of the town and put them to work with wood-cutting instruments, and iron grain-crushers, and iron axes, and at brick-making: this he did to all the towns of the children of Ammon. Then David and all the people went back to Jerusalem.


simplify: And when he was come out of the boat, straightway there met him out of the tombs a man with an unclean spirit,

And when he had got out of the boat, straight away there came to him from the place of the dead a man with an unclean spirit.


rate difficulty: On his return, Jesus was welcomed by the people; for everyone was looking out for him.


simplify: For I desired mercy, and not sacrifice; and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.


simplify: Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will save you no more.

But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.


simplify: And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did ye not believe him?

And they gave thought to it among themselves, saying, If we say, From heaven; he will say, Why then did you not have faith in him?


simplify: For a voice declareth from Dan, and publisheth affliction from mount Ephraim.

For a voice is sounding from Dan, giving out evil from the hills of Ephraim:


rate difficulty: And hath raised up a horn of salvation for us  In the house of his servant David

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


rate difficulty: and they offered this prayer —  “Lord, who reads all hearts, show which of these two men you have chosen

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


rate difficulty: And He saith unto him, `I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah who brought thee out from Ur of the Chaldees, to give to thee this land to possess it;'

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


simplify: Then Paul, after that the governor had beckoned unto him to speak, answered, Forasmuch as I know that thou hast been of many years a judge unto this nation, I do the more cheerfully answer for myself:

Then when the ruler had given him a sign to make his answer, Paul said, Because I have knowledge that you have been a judge over this nation for a number of years, I am glad to make my answer:


simplify: And he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin; The Lord is with you, while ye be with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.


simplify: Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.

Keep in memory the Sabbath and let it be a holy day.


simplify: Behold, his soul which is lifted up is not upright in him: but the just shall live by his faith.

As for the man of pride, my soul has no pleasure in him; but the upright man will have life through his good faith.


rate difficulty: Who does great things outside our knowledge, wonders without number:


simplify: Let my lord, I pray thee, pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come unto my lord unto Seir.

Do you, my lord, go on before your servant; I will come on slowly, at the rate at which the cattle and the children are able to go, till I come to my lord at Seir.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it.

Truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be put into the sea; and has no doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says will come about, he will have his desire.


rate difficulty: and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

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


rate difficulty: And there was a walk in front of them like that by the rooms on the north; they were equally long and wide; and the ways out of them were the same in design and had the same sort of doors.


simplify: And shall not uncircumcision which is by nature, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision dost transgress the law?

And they, by their keeping of the law without circumcision, will be judges of you, by whom the law is broken though you have the letter of the law and circumcision.


simplify: The earth beareth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, then the full grain in the ear.

The earth gives fruit by herself; first the leaf, then the head, then the full grain.


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred shillings’ worth of bread, and give them to eat?

But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?


simplify: And thou shalt number seven sabbaths of years unto thee, seven times seven years; and there shall be unto thee the days of seven sabbaths of years, even forty and nine years.

And let seven Sabbaths of years be numbered to you, seven times seven years; even the days of seven Sabbaths of years, that is forty-nine years;


simplify: This Jesus did God raise up, whereof we all are witnesses.

This Jesus God has given back to life, of which we all are witnesses.


simplify: And the Lord hath performed his word that he spake, and I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as the Lord promised, and have built an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was a thousand and seven hundred shekels of gold; beside ornaments, and collars, and purple raiment that was on the kings of Midian, and beside the chains that were about their camels’ necks.

The weight of the gold ear-rings which he got from them was one thousand, seven hundred shekels of gold; in addition to the moon-ornaments and jewels and the purple robes which were on the kings of Midian, and the chains on their camels' necks.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Aaron, Behold, I also have given thee the charge of mine heave offerings of all the hallowed things of the children of Israel; unto thee have I given them by reason of the anointing, and to thy sons, by an ordinance for ever.

And the Lord said to Aaron, See, I have given into your care my lifted offerings; even all the holy things of the children of Israel I have given to you and to your sons as your right for ever, because you have been marked with the holy oil.


simplify: And Jehoiakim the king sent men into Egypt, namely, Elnathan the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt;

And Jehoiakim the king sent Elnathan, the son of Achbor, and certain men with him, into Egypt.


simplify: And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel, and Guni, and Jezer, and Shillem.

And the sons of Naphtali: Jahzeel and Guni and Jezer and Shillem.


simplify: The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

The hater of work does not get his desires, but the soul of the hard workers will be made fat.


simplify: And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years:

And God said, Let there be lights in the arch of heaven, for a division between the day and the night, and let them be for signs, and for marking the changes of the year, and for days and for years:


rate difficulty: The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled; for Jehovah hath spoken this word.

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


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

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


simplify: and Elishama, and Beeliada, and Eliphelet.

And Elishama and Beeliada and Eliphelet.


simplify: (Now this, He ascended, what is it but that he also descended into the lower parts of the earth?

(Now this, He went up, what is it but that he first went down into the lower parts of the earth?


rate difficulty: and Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher;

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


simplify: And they asked him, saying, Why say the scribes that Elias must first come?

“How is it,” they asked Jesus, “that our teachers of the law say that Elijah has to come first?”


simplify: And he overlaid it with pure gold, both the top of it, and the sides thereof round about, and the horns of it: also he made unto it a crown of gold round about.

The top and the sides and the horns were all plated with the best gold; and he put an edge of gold all round it.


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord: he departed not from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, who made Israel to sin.

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


rate difficulty: And the king Ahasuerus laid a tribute upon the land, and upon the isles of the sea.


simplify: and said unto them, I see your father’s countenance, that it is not toward me as beforetime; but the God of my father hath been with me.

And he said to them, It is clear to me that your father's feeling is no longer what it was to me; but the God of my father has been with me


rate difficulty: On the eighth day let there be a holy meeting: you may do no field-work;

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore come out from among them, and be ye separate, saith the Lord, and touch not the unclean thing; and I will receive you,

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


simplify: Moreover thou shalt provide out of all the people able men, such as fear God, men of truth, hating covetousness; and place such over them, to be rulers of thousands, and rulers of hundreds, rulers of fifties, and rulers of tens:

But for the rest, take from among the people able men, such as have the fear of God, true men hating profits wrongly made; and put such men over them, to be captains of thousands, captains of hundreds and of fifties and of tens;


rate difficulty: and he would not, but having gone away, he cast him into prison, till he might pay that which was owing.

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


simplify: Neither did he leave of the people to Jehoahaz but fifty horsemen, and ten chariots, and ten thousand footmen; for the king of Syria had destroyed them, and had made them like the dust by threshing.

For out of all his army, Jehoahaz had only fifty horsemen and ten carriages and ten thousand footmen; the king of Aram had given them up to destruction, crushing them like dust.


simplify: They sacrificed unto demons, which were no God, To gods that they knew not, To newgodsthat came up of late, Which your fathers dreaded not.

They made offerings to evil spirits which were not God, to gods who were strange to them, which had newly come up, not feared by your fathers.


rate difficulty: And the east border was the salt sea, even unto the end of Jordan. And their border in the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the uttermost part of Jordan:

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


rate difficulty: Say to all the people of Israel, You are to be holy, for I, the Lord your God, am holy.


rate difficulty: for they all saw him, and were troubled, and immediately he spake with them, and saith to them, `Take courage, I am <FI>he<Fi> , be not afraid.'

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


simplify: And David behaved himself wisely in all his ways; and the Lord was with him.

And in all his undertakings David did wisely; and the Lord was with him.


simplify: Yet shalt thou plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes shall abhor me.

Then you will have me pushed into the dust, so that I will seem disgusting to my very clothing.


simplify: And Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech, and his name was Boaz.

And Naomi had a relation of her husband, a man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.


simplify: And she went up and laid him on the bed of the man of God, and shut the door upon him, and went out.

Then she went up and put him on the bed of the man of God, shutting the door on him, and went out.


rate difficulty: And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the wayfaring man in the street of the city; and the old man said, Whither goest thou? and whence comest thou?

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


simplify: Howbeit, if the land of your possession be unclean, then pass ye over unto the land of the possession of Jehovah, wherein Jehovah’s tabernacle dwelleth, and take possession among us: but rebel not against Jehovah, nor rebel against us, in building you an altar besides the altar of Jehovah our God.

But if the land you now have is unclean, come over into the Lord's land where his House is, and take up your heritage among us: but do not be false to the Lord and to us by building yourselves an altar in addition to the altar of the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: Pharaoh hath been wroth against his servants, and giveth me into charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;

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


rate difficulty: When the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, death will overtake him; in the evil which he has done death will overtake him.

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


simplify: But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

But if you are given to fighting with one another, take care that you are not the cause of destruction one to another.


rate difficulty: For before the lad knoweth to cry, My father! and, My mother! the riches of Damascus and the spoil of Samaria shall be taken away before the king of Assyria.

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


simplify: To whom I answered, It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver any man to die, before that he which is accused have the accusers face to face, and have licence to answer for himself concerning the crime laid against him.

To whom I gave answer that it is not the Roman way to give a man up, till he has been face to face with those who are attacking him, and has had a chance to give an answer to the statements made against him.


rate difficulty: And he said, What did the Lord say to you? Do not keep it from me: may God's punishment be on you if you keep from me anything he said to you.

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


rate difficulty: I have heard what the prophets say, who prophesy falsehood in my name, saying, I have dreamed, I have dreamed.

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


simplify: And they came to the threshing-floor of Atad, which is beyond the Jordan, and there they lamented with a very great and sore lamentation: and he made a mourning for his father seven days.

And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.


rate difficulty: Now Samuel was dead, and all Israel had lamented him, and buried him in Ramah, even in his own city. And Saul had put away those that had familiar spirits, and the wizards, out of the land.

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


simplify: and Jesus said to him, `The foxes have holes, and the fowls of the heaven places of rest, but the Son of Man hath not where he may recline the head.'

“Foxes have holes,”he replied, “and wild birds their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”


simplify: And he made the middle bar to shoot through the boards from the one end to the other.

The middle rod was made to go right through the rings of all the boards from one end to the other.


simplify: Bless those persecuting you; bless, and curse not;

Bless your persecutors — bless and never curse.


simplify: Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

But still the number of the children of Israel will be like the sand of the sea, which may not be measured or numbered; and in place of its being said to them, You are not my people, it will be said to them, You are the sons of the living God


simplify: In that day, saith Jehovah of hosts, will I take thee, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, saith Jehovah, and will make thee as a signet; for I have chosen thee, saith Jehovah of hosts.

In that day, says the Lord of armies, I will take you, O Zerubbabel, my servant, the son of Shealtiel, says the Lord, and will make you as a jewelled ring: for I have taken you to be mine, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And I have covered over this city, To save it, for Mine own sake, And for the sake of David My servant.'


simplify: And they shall teach my people the difference between the holy and profane, and cause them to discern between the unclean and the clean.

And they are to make clear to my people the division between what is holy and what is common, and to give them the knowledge of what is clean and what is unclean.


rate difficulty: Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither have they shewed difference between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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


rate difficulty: in whom ye were also circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;

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


simplify: And Abel, he also brought of the firstlings of his flock and of the fat thereof. And the Lord had respect unto Abel and to his offering:

And Abel gave an offering of the young lambs of his flock and of their fat. And the Lord was pleased with Abel's offering;


simplify: And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

And part of the meal of the offering and part of the oil and all the perfume is to be burned for a sign by the priest: it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: for the things that are done by them in secret it is shameful even to say.

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