rate difficulty: And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh’s horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

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rate difficulty: And he brought up Hadassah, that is, Esther, his uncle’s daughter: for she had neither father nor mother, and the maid was fair and beautiful; whom Mordecai, when her father and mother were dead, took for his own daughter.

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


rate difficulty: Who rejoice even exultingly and are glad when they find the grave? —

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


rate difficulty: Who has wisdom and good sense among you? let him make his works clear by a life of gentle wisdom.

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


simplify: They shall be divided, father against son, and son against father; mother against daughter, and daughter against her mother; mother in law against her daughter in law, and daughter in law against her mother in law.

They will be at war, the father against his son, and the son against his father; mother against daughter, and daughter against mother; mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, and daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.


rate difficulty: Answer me, Jehovah, answer me, that this people may know that thou Jehovah artGod, and [that] thou hast turned their heart back again.

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


simplify: O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

O Lord, you have taken up the cause of my soul, you have made my life safe.


simplify: And Noah began to be an husbandman, and he planted a vineyard:

In those days Noah became a farmer, and he made a vine-garden.


simplify: Now I have prepared with all my might for the house of my God the gold for things to be made of gold, and the silver for things of silver, and the brass for things of brass, the iron for things of iron, and wood for things of wood; onyx stones, and stones to be set, glistering stones, and of divers colours, and all manner of precious stones, and marble stones in abundance.

Now as far as I am able, I have made ready what is needed for the house of my God; the gold for the things of gold, and the silver for the silver things, and the brass for the brass things, iron for the things of iron, and wood for the things of wood; beryls and jewels to be framed, and stones of different colours for ornament; all sorts of stones of great price, and polished building-stone, as much as is needed and more.


rate difficulty: And now I commit you toGod, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build [you] up and give [to you] an inheritance among all the sanctified.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And he shall set his battering engines against thy walls, and with his axes he shall break down thy towers.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehu the son of Jehoshaphat, son of Nimshi, conspired against Joram. (Now Joram kept Ramoth-Gilead, he and all Israel, because of Hazael king of Syria;

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


simplify: Elijah was a man like affected as we, and with prayer he did pray--not to rain, and it did not rain upon the land three years and six months;

Elijah was only human like ourselves, but, when he prayed fervently that it might not rain, no rain fell on the land for three years and a half.


simplify: But all the silver, and gold, and vessels of brass and iron, are holy unto Jehovah: they shall come into the treasury of Jehovah.

But all the silver and gold and the vessels of brass and iron are holy to the Lord: they are to come into the store-house of the Lord.


simplify: And the men of Israel said unto the Hivites, Peradventure ye dwell among us; and how shall we make a league with you?

And the men of Israel said to the Hivites, It may be that you are living among us; how then may we make an agreement with you?


simplify: And he said, Far be it from me that I should do so: the man in whose hand the cup is found, he shall be my bondman; but as for you, get you up in peace unto your father.

Then he said, Far be it from me to do so: but the man who had my cup will be my servant; and you may go back to your father in peace.


rate difficulty: And she saith unto them, `Call me not Naomi; call me Mara, for the Almighty hath dealt very bitterly to me,

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


simplify: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.

And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.


simplify: and there was given over to him a roll of Isaiah the prophet, and having unfolded the roll, he found the place where it hath been written:

He was given the book of the prophet Isaiah; and Jesus opened the book and found the place where it says —


simplify: The same day did the king hallow the middle of the court that was before the house of Jehovah; for there he offered the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings, because the brazen altar that was before Jehovah was too little to receive the burnt-offering, and the meal-offering, and the fat of the peace-offerings.

The same day the king made holy the middle of the open square in front of the house of the Lord, offering there the burned offering and the meal offering and the fat of the peace-offerings; for there was not room on the brass altar of the Lord for the burned offerings and the meal offerings and the fat of the peace-offerings.


simplify: So Hiram gave Solomon timber of cedar and timber of fir according to all his desire.

So Hiram gave Solomon all the cedar-wood and cypress-wood he had need of;


simplify: And he said unto another, Follow me. But he said, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And he said to another, Come after me. But he said, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.


rate difficulty: the children of Neziah, the children of Hatipha.

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


simplify: And Jesus arose, and followed him, and so did his disciples.

And Jesus got up and went after him, and so did his disciples.


simplify: Behold, he is hid now in some pit, or in some other place: and it will come to pass, when some of them are fallen at the first, that whosoever heareth it will say, There is a slaughter among the people that follow Absalom.

But he will certainly have taken cover now in some hole or secret place; and if some of our people, at the first attack, are overcome, then any hearing of it will say, There is destruction among the people who are on Absalom's side.


rate difficulty: The Nethinims: the children of Ziha, the children of Hashupha, the children of Tabbaoth,

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


simplify: And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love dwelleth in God, and God in him.

And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us.   God is love; and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.


simplify: Write the things which thou hast seen, and the things which are, and the things which shall be hereafter;

Put in writing, then, the things which you have seen, and the things which are, and the things which will be after these;


simplify: And Iron, and Migdal–el, Horem, and Beth–anath, and Beth–shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

And Iron and Migdal-el, Horem and Beth-anath and Beth-shemesh; nineteen towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: When they therefore were come together, they asked of him, saying, Lord, wilt thou at this time restore again the kingdom to Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And I will make that land undergo everything I have said against it, even everything recorded in this book, which Jeremiah the prophet has said against all the nations.

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


simplify: Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste; and he said, I have sinned against the Lord your God, and against you.

Then Pharaoh quickly sent for Moses and Aaron, and said, I have done evil against the Lord your God and against you.


simplify: Ye hypocrites, ye know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven; but how is it that ye know not how to interpret this time?

O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?


simplify: Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin,


rate difficulty: And this offering heaved from the heave-offering of the land shall be unto them a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

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


simplify: and the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the loins, and the caul upon the liver, with the kidneys, shall he take away.

And the two kidneys, with the fat on them, which is by the top part of the legs, and the fat joining the liver and the kidneys, he is to take away;


simplify: With whom took he counsel, and who instructed him, and taught him in the path of justice, and taught him knowledge, and showed to him the way of understanding?

Who gave him suggestions, and made clear to him the right way? who gave him knowledge, guiding him in the way of wisdom?


simplify: And behold, a man from the multitude cried, saying, Teacher, I beseech thee to look upon my son; for he is mine only child:

And a man from among them, crying out, said, Master, I make a request to you, give a thought to my son, for he is my only child:


rate difficulty: and he taketh them, and causeth them to pass over the brook, and he causeth that which he hath to pass over.

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


rate difficulty: And Elisha saith unto the king of Israel, `What--to me and to thee? go unto the prophets of thy father, and unto the prophets of thy mother;' and the king of Israel saith to him, `Nay, for Jehovah hath called for these three kings to give them into the hand of Moab.'

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: These are the rules and the laws and the decisions which Moses gave to the children of Israel after they came out of Egypt;

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


simplify: Of the children of Asher, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Asher were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


rate difficulty: And I have sent a fire against Teman, And it hath consumed palaces of Bozrah.

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


simplify: And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.

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


simplify: Therefore the men of Jabesh said, To-morrow we will come out unto you, and ye shall do with us all that seemeth good unto you.

So the men of Jabesh said, Tomorrow we will come out to you, and you may do to us whatever seems good to you.


simplify: The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.


simplify: even as he chose us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blemish before him in love:

Even as he made selection of us in him from the first, so that we might be holy and free from all evil before him in love:


simplify: Then goeth he, and taketh with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becometh worse than the first. Even so shall it be also unto this evil generation.

Then he goes and takes with him seven other spirits worse than himself, and they go in and make it their living-place: and the last condition of that man is worse than the first. Even so will it be with this evil generation.


simplify: These are they whom Jehovah commanded to divide the inheritance unto the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.

These are they to whom the Lord gave orders to make the distribution of the heritage among the children of Israel in the land of Canaan.


simplify: Ephraim, like as I have seen Tyre, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring out his children to the slayer.

As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.


simplify: Now the Hebrews that were with the Philistines as beforetime, and that went up with them into the camp, from the country round about, even they also turned to be with the Israelites that were with Saul and Jonathan.

Then the Hebrews who had been with the Philistines for some time, and had gone up with them to their tents, turning round were joined to those who were with Saul and Jonathan.


simplify: And they made their father drink wine that night: and the first-born went in, and lay with her father; and he knew not when she lay down, nor when she arose.

And that night they made their father take much wine; and the older daughter went into his bed; and he had no knowledge of when she went in or when she went away.


simplify: And there went a cry throughout the host about the going down of the sun, saying, Every man to his city, and every man to his country.

And about sundown a cry went up from all parts of the army, saying, Let every man go back to his town and his country, for the king is dead.


rate difficulty: it fell to him by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter into the temple of the Lord to burn incense.

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


rate difficulty: And these are the sons of Ehud: these are the heads of the fathers of the inhabitants of Geba, and they removed them to Manahath:

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


simplify: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

And I saw high seats, and they were seated on them, and the right of judging was given to them: and I saw the souls of those who were put to death for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and those who did not give worship to the beast, or to his image, and had not his mark on their brows or on their hands; and they were living and ruling with Christ a thousand years.


rate difficulty: Be it known unto the king, that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the great God, which is builded with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls; and this work goeth on with diligence and prospereth in their hands.

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


simplify: I say unto you, In that night there shall be two men on one bed; the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left.

I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.


rate difficulty: And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

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


rate difficulty: And he came to an agreement to do it, and sought an opportunity to deliver him up to them away from the crowd.

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


rate difficulty: There failed not ought of any good thing which the Lord had spoken unto the house of Israel; all came to pass.


simplify: And Abraham gat up early in the morning to the place where he stood before the Lord:

And Abraham got up early in the morning and went to the place where he had been talking with the Lord:


simplify: then thou shalt say unto thy son, We were Pharaoh’s bondmen in Egypt: and Jehovah brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand;

Then you will say to your son, We were servants under Pharaoh's yoke in Egypt; and the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand:


simplify: And there was war in heaven: Michael and his angels fought against the dragon; and the dragon fought and his angels,

Then a battle took place in the heavens. Michael and his angels fought with the Dragon. But though the Dragon, with his angels, fought,


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

And straight away they let go the nets and went after him.


simplify: When I brake the five loaves among five thousand, how many baskets full of fragments took ye up? They say unto him, Twelve.

when I broke up the five loaves for the five thousand, how many baskets of broken pieces you picked up?”   “Twelve,” they said.


rate difficulty: So will I make my holy name known in the midst of my people Israel; and I will not let them pollute my holy name any more: and the heathen shall know that I am the Lord, the Holy One in Israel.

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


simplify: Enflaming yourselves with idols under every green tree, slaying the children in the valleys under the clifts of the rocks?

You who are burning with evil desire among the oaks, under every green tree; putting children to death in the valleys, under the cracks of the rocks?


rate difficulty: Will your heart be high or your hands strong in the days when I take you in hand? I the Lord have said it and will do it.


simplify: A fool hath no delight in understanding, But only that his heart may reveal itself.

A foolish man has no pleasure in good sense, but only to let what is in his heart come to light.


rate difficulty: Abraham was the father of Isaac, Isaac of Jacob, Jacob of Judah and his brothers,

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


simplify: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,

These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.


simplify: And it came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem;

Now in the fifth year of King Rehoboam, Shishak, king of Egypt, came up against Jerusalem;


simplify: and shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy ground, until thou be destroyed; that also shall not leave thee grain, new wine, or oil, the increase of thy cattle, or the young of thy flock, until they have caused thee to perish.

He will take the fruit of your cattle and of your land till death puts an end to you: he will let you have nothing of your grain or wine or oil or any of the increase of your cattle or the young of your flock, till he has made your destruction complete.


rate difficulty: So Hanun took David’s servants, and shaved them, and cut off their garments in the middle, even to their buttocks, and sent them away.

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


rate difficulty: And the king answereth and saith unto the man of God, `Appease, I pray thee, the face of Jehovah thy God, and pray for me, and my hand doth come back unto me;' and the man of God appeaseth the face of Jehovah, and the hand of the king cometh back unto him, and it is as at the beginning.

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


simplify: And he that eateth of the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: he also that beareth the carcass of it shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even.

And he who makes use of any part of its body for food is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening; and anyone taking away its body is to have his clothing washed and be unclean till evening.


simplify: Behold, the Lord will cast her out, and he will smite her power in the sea; and she shall be devoured with fire.

See, the Lord will take away her heritage, overturning her power in the sea; and she will be burned up with fire.


simplify: And in the days of Joiakim were priests, the chief of the fathers: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

And in the days of Joiakim there were priests, heads of families: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;


simplify: Is anything too hard for Jehovah? At the set time I will return unto thee, when the season cometh round, and Sarah shall have a son.

Is there any wonder which the Lord is not able to do? At the time I said, in the spring, I will come back to you, and Sarah will have a child.


simplify: And Adonijah and all the guests that were with him heard it as they had made an end of eating. And when Joab heard the sound of the trumpet, he said, Wherefore is this noise of the city being in an uproar?

And it came to the ears of Adonijah and all the guests who were with him, when their meal was ended. And Joab, hearing the sound of the horn, said, What is the reason of this noise as if the town was worked up?


rate difficulty: Now some people who were there at that time, gave him an account of how the blood of some Galilaeans had been mixed by Pilate with their offerings.

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


simplify: So he departed thence, and found Elisha the son of Shaphat, who was plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the twelfth: and Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him.

So he went away from there and came across Elisha, the son of Shaphat, ploughing with twelve yoke of oxen, he himself walking with the twelfth; and Elijah went up to him and put his robe on him.


simplify: When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

When they go, my net will be stretched out over them; I will take them like the birds of heaven, I will give them punishment, I will take them away in the net for their sin.


simplify: I was in the city of Joppa praying: and in a trance I saw a vision, A certain vessel descend, as it had been a great sheet, let down from heaven by four corners; and it came even to me:

I was in the town of Joppa, at prayer: and falling into a deep sleep, I saw in a vision a vessel like a great cloth let down from heaven, and it came down to me:


rate difficulty: But if any one loveGod, he is known of him):

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


rate difficulty: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

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


simplify: In the fourteenth day of this month, at even, ye shall keep it in his appointed season: according to all the rites of it, and according to all the ceremonies thereof, shall ye keep it.

In the fourteenth day of this month, at evening, you are to keep it at the regular time, and in the way ordered in the law.


simplify: And they gave them Shechem with its suburbs in the hill-country of Ephraim, the city of refuge for the manslayer, and Gezer with its suburbs,

And they gave them Shechem with its grass-lands in the hill-country of Ephraim, the town where the taker of life might be safe, and Gezer with its grass-lands;


simplify: But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned, and the sword come, and take any person from among them; he is taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

But if the watchman sees the sword coming, and does not give a note on the horn, and the people have no word of the danger, and the sword comes and takes any person from among them; he will be taken away in his sin, but I will make the watchman responsible for his blood.


rate difficulty: But the chief priests and the elders persuaded the crowds that they should beg for Barabbas, and destroy Jesus.

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


simplify: saying, Amen: Blessing, and glory, and wisdom, and thanksgiving, and honor, and power, and might, be unto our God for ever and ever. Amen.

So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.


simplify: And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread unto the Lord: seven days ye must eat unleavened bread.

And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the feast of unleavened bread; for seven days let your food be unleavened bread.


simplify: But did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, like unto the abominations of the heathen, whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.


simplify: Which wise men have told from their fathers, and have not hid it:

(The things which wise men have got from their fathers, and have not kept secret from us;


simplify: Then said the king, The one saith, This is my son that liveth, and thy son is the dead: and the other saith, Nay; but thy son is the dead, and my son is the living.

Then the king said, One says, The living child is my son, and yours is the dead: and the other says, Not so; but your son is the dead one and mine is the living.


simplify: For they that have used the office of a deacon well purchase to themselves a good degree, and great boldness in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.

For those who have done good work as Deacons get for themselves a good position and become free from fear in the faith which is in Christ Jesus.


simplify: Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.


simplify: And because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.)

and, when he saw that the Jews were pleased with this, he proceeded to arrest Peter also. (This was during the Festival of the unleavened bread.)


rate difficulty: Of the Rock that begat thee thou art unmindful, And hast forgotten God that gave thee birth.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.

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


rate difficulty: `And that He did raise him up out of the dead, no more to return to corruption, he hath said thus--I will give to you the faithful kindnesses of David;

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


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> sons of Levi, by the house of their fathers, heads of the fathers, by their appointments, in the number of names, by their polls, doing the work for the service of the house of Jehovah, from a son of twenty years and upward,

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


rate difficulty: And the evil spirits made strong prayers to him, saying, If you send us out, let us go into the herd of pigs.

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


simplify: And the sons of Pedaiah were, Zerubbabel, and Shimei: and the sons of Zerubbabel; Meshullam, and Hananiah, and Shelomith their sister:

And the sons of Pedaiah: Zerubbabel and Shimei; and the sons of Zerubbabel: Meshullam and Hananiah; and Shelomith was their sister;


simplify: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?


rate difficulty: And [the devil], leading him up into a high mountain, shewed him all the kingdoms of the habitable world in a moment of time.

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


rate difficulty: And the captain in answer said, Lord, I am not good enough for you to come under my roof; but only say the word, and my servant will be made well.

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


rate difficulty: and I--I set My face against that man, and have cut him off from the midst of his people, for of his seed he hath given to the Molech, so as to defile My sanctuary, and to pollute My holy name.

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


simplify: Thou shalt surely give him, and thy heart shall not be grieved when thou givest unto him; because that for this thing Jehovah thy God will bless thee in all thy work, and in all that thou puttest thy hand unto.

But it is right for you to give to him, without grief of heart: for because of this, the blessing of the Lord your God will be on all your work and on everything to which you put your hand.


simplify: And there was evening and there was morning, a fifth day.

And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.


simplify: How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

How he was taken up into Paradise, and words came to his ears which may not be said, and which man is not able to say.


rate difficulty: That being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

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


simplify: while we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal.

While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.


rate difficulty: then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom over Israel for ever, according as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.

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


rate difficulty: which are all for destruction with the using, after the commands and teachings of men,


rate difficulty: And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold, the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt-offering?

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


simplify: Wail, ye inhabitants of Maktesh; for all the people of Canaan are undone; all they that were laden with silver are cut off.

Because of the downfall of all the people of Canaan: all those who were weighted down with silver have been cut off.


simplify: On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

On that day there was a reading from the book of Moses in the hearing of the people; and they saw that it said in the book that no Ammonite or Moabite might ever come into the meeting of God;


simplify: and having gone in, they found not the body of the Lord Jesus.

and, on going into it, they could not find the body .


simplify: And as he was praying, the fashion of his countenance was altered, and his raiment became white and dazzling.

And while he was in prayer, his face was changed and his clothing became white and shining.


simplify: For the Son of man is not come to destroy men’s lives, but to save them. And they went to another village.

And they made their way to another village.


simplify: Cursed be he that lieth with his mother-in-law. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who has sex relations with his mother-in-law. And let all the people say, So be it.


rate difficulty: And if aught of the flesh of the consecration, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.

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


rate difficulty: and also of the sons of the settlers who are sojourning with you, of them ye buy, and of their families who <FI>are<Fi> with you, which they have begotten in your land, and they have been to you for a possession;

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


rate difficulty: And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.


simplify: For this cause God gave them up unto vile passions: for their women changed the natural use into that which is against nature:

For this reason God gave them up to evil passions, and their women were changing the natural use into one which is unnatural:


rate difficulty: The astrologers heard what the king had to say, and then continued their journey. The star which they had seen in the east led them on, until it reached, and stood over, the place where the child was.

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


simplify: The thought of foolishness is sin: and the scorner is an abomination to men.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.


rate difficulty: Praise ye Jehovah, for excellence He hath done, Known is this in all the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbour, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

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


simplify: Ye shall therefore make a distinction between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean fowl and the clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by bird, or by anything wherewith the ground teemeth, which I have separated from you as unclean.

So then, make division between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the clean bird and the unclean: do not make yourselves disgusting by any beast or bird or anything which goes flat on the earth, which has been marked by me as unclean for you.


rate difficulty: Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?

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


simplify: Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee shall surely die.

But still, because you have had no respect for the Lord, death will certainly overtake the child who has newly come to birth.


simplify: Sheol is naked beforeGod, And Abaddon hath no covering.

The underworld is uncovered before him, and Destruction has no veil.


rate difficulty: But it seemed to me necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, who has taken part with me in the work and in the fight, and your servant, sent by you for help in my need;

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years.

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


simplify: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

But now we are free from the law, having been made dead to that which had power over us; so that we are servants in the new way of the spirit, not in the old way of the letter.


rate difficulty: And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his body was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it; the lion also stood by the body.

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


rate difficulty: Afterwards turned back have the sons of Israel, and sought Jehovah their God, and David their king, and have hastened unto Jehovah, and unto His goodness, in the latter end of the days.

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


rate difficulty: From him will come the keystone, from him the nail, from him the bow of war, from him will come every ruler;

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


simplify: Wherefore I delivered her into the hand of her lovers, into the hand of the Assyrians, upon whom she doted.

For this cause I gave her up into the hands of her lovers, into the hands of the Assyrians on whom her desire was fixed.


simplify: `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

You snakes and children of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When either man or woman shall make a special vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to separate himself unto Jehovah,

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman takes an oath to keep himself separate and give himself to the Lord;


simplify: Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have laid waste all the nations, and their countries,

Truly, O Lord, the kings of Assyria have made waste all the nations and their lands,


simplify: And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with its suburbs, and Kartah with its suburbs,

And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;


rate difficulty: And the oxen were thirty and six thousand; of which Jehovah’s tribute was threescore and twelve.


rate difficulty: `If any one doth come unto me, and doth not hate his own father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brothers, and sisters, and yet even his own life, he is not able to be my disciple;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: The children of Israel and the children of Judah were together oppressed; and all that took them captives held them fast: they refused to let them go.

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


simplify: Neither let him which is in the field return back to take his clothes.

nor must one who is on their farm turn back to get his cloak.


simplify: As the door turneth upon his hinges, so doth the slothful upon his bed.

A door is turned on its pillar, and the hater of work on his bed.


simplify: Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

Why, then, you teacher of others, do not you teach yourself? Do you preach against stealing, and yet steal?


rate difficulty: I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: These shall ye offer to Jehovah in your set feasts, besides your vows, and your voluntary-offerings, for your burnt-offerings, and for your oblations, and for your drink-offerings, and for your peace-offerings.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they straightway left their nets, and followed him.


rate difficulty: I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

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


simplify: The heaven shall reveal his iniquity; and the earth shall rise up against him.

The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord God; Woe unto the foolish prophets, that follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

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


simplify: Before him went the pestilence, And fiery bolts went forth at his feet.

Before him went disease, and flames went out at his feet.


simplify: Then it shall be, that whatsoever cometh forth of the doors of my house to meet me, when I return in peace from the children of Ammon, shall surely be the Lord’s, and I will offer it up for a burnt offering.

Then whoever comes out from the door of my house, meeting me when I come back in peace from the children of Ammon, will be the Lord's and I will give him as a burned offering.


rate difficulty: And they heard the voice of Jehovah God walking in the garden in the cool of the day: and the man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah God amongst the trees of the garden.

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


simplify: Vex the Midianites, and smite them;

Take up arms against the Midianites and overcome them;


simplify: And whatsoever is for the prince shall be on the one side and on the other side of the holy oblation and of the possession of the city, in front of the holy oblation and in front of the possession of the city, on the west side westward, and on the east side eastward; and in length answerable unto one of the portions, from the west border unto the east border.

And for the ruler there is to be a part on one side and on the other side of the holy offering and of the property of the town, in front of the holy offering and in front of the property of the town on the west of it and on the east: measured in the same line as one of the parts of the land, from its limit on the west to its limit on the east of the land.


simplify: And Jehovah their God will save them in that day as the flock of his people; for they shall be as the stones of a crown, lifted on high over his land.

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


simplify: Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so did they.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: And Jesus, when he came out, saw much people, and was moved with compassion toward them, because they were as sheep not having a shepherd: and he began to teach them many things.

And he got out, and saw a great mass of people, and he had pity on them, because they were like sheep without a keeper: and he gave them teaching about a number of things.


rate difficulty: And ye shall measure, without the city, the east side two thousand cubits, and the south side two thousand cubits, and the west side two thousand cubits, and the north side two thousand cubits, and the city shall be in the midst: they shall have this as suburbs of the cities.

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


rate difficulty: if ye be reproached in the name of Christ--happy <FI>are ye<Fi> , because the Spirit of glory and of God upon you doth rest; in regard, indeed, to them, he is evil-spoken of, and in regard to you, he is glorified;

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


simplify: Therefore said I, The Philistines will come down now upon me to Gilgal, and I have not made supplication unto the Lord: I forced myself therefore, and offered a burnt offering.

I said, Now the Philistines will come down on me at Gilgal, and I have made no prayer for help to the Lord: and so, forcing myself to do it, I made a burned offering.


simplify: And straightway there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

And there was in their Synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he gave a cry,


rate difficulty: Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew,

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


rate difficulty: So Moses took the money, the price of those whose place had not been taken by the Levites;

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


simplify: And all the elders and all the people said unto him, Hearken not unto him, nor consent.

And all the responsible men and the people said to him, Do not give attention to him or do what he says.


simplify: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?


rate difficulty: O my threshing, and the son of my floor, That which I heard from Jehovah of Hosts, God of Israel, I have declared to you!'

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


rate difficulty: With such a hope as this, we speak with all plainness;

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


simplify: But the things which proceed out of the mouth come forth out of the heart; and they defile the man.

But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.


simplify: Incline thine ear, and hear the words of the wise, And apply thy heart unto my knowledge.

Let your ear be bent down for hearing my words, and let your heart give thought to knowledge.


simplify: And Amnon was so vexed, that he fell sick for his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and Amnon thought it hard for him to do any thing to her.

And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.


simplify: Our cattle also shall go with us; there shall not an hoof be left behind; for thereof must we take to serve the Lord our God; and we know not with what we must serve the Lord, until we come thither.

So our cattle will have to go with us, not one may be kept back; for they are needed for the worship of the Lord our God; we have no knowledge what offering we have to give till we come to the place.


simplify: Who were snatched away before their time, Whose foundation was poured out as a stream,

Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:


simplify: And there came against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore: but they knew not that evil was near them.

And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.


simplify: Hear ye the word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, and all the families of the house of Israel:

Give ear to the words of the Lord, O sons of Jacob and all the families of Israel:


simplify: and Uzziah begat Jotham; and Jotham begat Ahaz; and Ahaz begat Hezekiah;

And the son of Uzziah was Jotham; and the son of Jotham was Ahaz; and the son of Ahaz was Hezekiah;


rate difficulty: And not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first-fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for our adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

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


rate difficulty: Now it was in the heart of David my father to build an house for the name of the Lord God of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And he who is bringing near on the first day his offering is Nahshon son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Be ye therefore perfect as your heavenly Father is perfect.

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


simplify: When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

When you get in the grain from your field, if some of the grain has been dropped by chance in the field, do not go back and get it, but let it be for the man from a strange land, the child without a father, and the widow: so that the blessing of the Lord your God may be on all the work of your hands.


simplify: John having first preached, before his coming, a baptism of reformation to all the people of Israel;

John having first proclaimed, before the appearance of Jesus, a baptism on repentance for all the people of Israel.


rate difficulty: As a grain of mustard, which, whenever it may be sown on the earth, is less than any of the seeds that are on the earth;


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

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


simplify: And he is the propitiation for our sins: and not for ours only, but also for the sins of the whole world.

and he is the atoning sacrifice for our sins, and not for ours only, but for those of the whole world besides.


simplify: for all the land which thou seest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed for ever.

For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.


rate difficulty: Thou hast been in Eden the garden of God; every precious stone was thy covering, the sardius, topaz, and the diamond, the beryl, the onyx, and the jasper, the sapphire, the emerald, and the carbuncle, and gold: the workmanship of thy tabrets and of thy pipes was prepared in thee in the day that thou wast created.

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


simplify: I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; Neither did I turn again till they were consumed.

I go after my haters and overtake them; not turning back till they are all overcome.


rate difficulty: For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh, but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, a salt land and not inhabited.

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


rate difficulty: Of Gershom: Libni his son, Jahath his son, Zimmah his son,

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


simplify: They shall not offer wine offerings to the Lord, neither shall they be pleasing unto him: their sacrifices shall be unto them as the bread of mourners; all that eat thereof shall be polluted: for their bread for their soul shall not come into the house of the Lord.

They will give no wine offering to the Lord, they will not make offerings ready for him; their bread will be like the bread of those in sorrow; all who take it will be unclean, because their bread will be only for their desire, it will not come into the house of the Lord.


simplify: And Jesus came and touched them, and said, Arise, and be not afraid.

But Jesus came and touched them, saying as he did so: “Rise up, and do not be afraid.”


rate difficulty: And Simon and those with him went after him:

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


rate difficulty: And our God and Father Himself, and our Lord Jesus Christ, direct our way unto you,


rate difficulty: Then the Pharisees went and had a meeting to see how they might make use of his words to take him.


simplify: and he, having cast away his garment, having risen, did come unto Jesus.

The man threw off his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.


simplify: And he came to Derbe and Lystra, and lo, a certain disciple was there, by name Timotheus son of a certain woman, a believing Jewess, but of a father, a Greek,

Among other places Paul went to Derbe and Lystra. At the latter place they found a disciple, named Timothy, whose mother was a Jewess who had become a believer in Christ, while his father was a Greek,


rate difficulty: Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

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


simplify: He hath shewed thee, O man, what is good; and what doth the Lord require of thee, but to do justly, and to love mercy, and to walk humbly with thy God?

He has made clear to you, O man, what is good; and what is desired from you by the Lord; only doing what is right, and loving mercy, and walking without pride before your God.


simplify: And some of them believed, and consorted with Paul and Silas; and of the devout Greeks a great multitude, and of the chief women not a few.

And some of them had faith, and were joined to Paul and Silas; and a number of the God-fearing Greeks, and some of the chief women.


rate difficulty: And when they went, the sound of their wings was like the sound of great waters to my ears, like the voice of the Ruler of all, a sound like the rushing of an army: when they came to rest they let down their wings.

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


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, though not like the kings of Israel before him.


simplify: And Hilkiah the high priest said unto Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan, and he read it.

Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan;


rate difficulty: If I covered my transgressions as Adam, by hiding mine iniquity in my bosom:

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


simplify: Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Let your life, then, prove your repentance;


rate difficulty: Jehovah, there is none like thee, neither is there anyGod beside thee, according to all that we have heard with our ears.

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


rate difficulty: 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.


simplify: Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

Who is moving the earth out of its place, so that its pillars are shaking:


rate difficulty: and he brought Aaron's sons near, and Moses put of the blood on the tip of their right ear, and on the thumb of their right hand, and on the great toe of their right foot; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

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


simplify: Shall not his majesty make you afraid, And his dread fall upon you?

Will not his glory put you in fear, so that your hearts will be overcome before him?


simplify: As the Lord hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon and make the seat of his authority greater than that of my lord King David.


simplify: And there was no deliverer, because it was far from Sidon, and they had no dealings with any man; and it was in the valley that lieth by Beth-rehob. And they built the city, and dwelt therein.

And they had no saviour, because it was far from Zidon, and they had no business with Aram; and it was in the valley which is the property of Beth-rehob. And building up the town again they took it for their living-place.


rate difficulty: But when the husbandmen saw him, they reasoned one with another, saying, This is the heir; let us kill him, that the inheritance may be ours.

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


simplify: And Jehoshaphat feared, and set himself to seek the Lord, and proclaimed a fast throughout all Judah.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith to me, `The waters that thou didst see, where the whore doth sit, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues;'

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


rate difficulty: Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

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


simplify: And they kept that saying with themselves, questioning one with another what the rising from the dead should mean.

And they kept the saying, questioning among themselves what the coming back from the dead might be.


rate difficulty: And his trespass-offering shall he bring to Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the small cattle according to thy valuation, as a trespass-offering, unto the priest.

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


rate difficulty: And there was set [meat] before him to eat; but he said, I will not eat until I have made known my business. And he said, Speak on.

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


simplify: And there were voices, and thunders, and lightnings; and there was a great earthquake, such as was not since men were upon the earth, so mighty an earthquake, and so great.

There followed ‘flashes of lightning, cries, and peals of thunder’; and there was a great earthquake, such as had not occurred since man began to be on the earth — none so great;


simplify: this is he concerning whom it hath been written, Lo, I send my messenger before thy face, who shall prepare thy way before thee;

This is the man of whom scripture says —  ‘I am sending my messenger ahead of you, and he will prepare your way before you.’


rate difficulty: And the great dragon was cast down, the old serpent, he that is called the Devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world; he was cast down to the earth, and his angels were cast down with him.

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


simplify: and put on the new man, that after God hath been created in righteousness and holiness of truth.

And put on the new man, to which God has given life, in righteousness and a true and holy way of living.


simplify: For he was a good man, and full of the Holy Ghost and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

For Barnabas was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith — and a large number of people took their stand on the Lord’s side.


simplify: And having called together his twelve disciples, he gave them power and authority over all the demons, and to cure sicknesses,

Jesus called the Twelve together, and gave them power and authority over all demons, as well as to cure diseases.


simplify: Thy two breasts are like two fawns That are twins of a roe, Which feed among the lilies.

Your two breasts are like two young roes of the same birth, which take their food among the lilies.


simplify: and be ye kind one to another, tenderhearted, forgiving each other, even as God also in Christ forgave you.

And be kind to one another, full of pity, having forgiveness for one another, even as God in Christ had forgiveness for you.


rate difficulty: And hearing that he addressed them in the Hebrew tongue, they kept the more quiet; and he says,


rate difficulty: When did we see you a stranger, and take you to our homes? Or naked, and clothe you?


rate difficulty: and for the tribe of the children of Dan, a prince, Bukki the son of Jogli;


simplify: And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were expressed by name, to give thanks to the Lord, because his mercy endureth for ever;

And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever;


simplify: And out of the half tribe of Manasseh, Tanach with her suburbs, and Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; two cities.

And from the half-tribe of Manasseh, Taanach and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, two towns.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to inquire of me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land.

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said: This is what you are to say to the king of Judah who sent you to get directions from me: See, Pharaoh's army, which has come out to your help, will go back to Egypt, to their land.


rate difficulty: And Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is beside Beth-Aven, on the east side of Bethel, and spoke to them, saying, Go up and spy out the country. And the men went up and spied out Ai.


simplify: And the men which journeyed with him stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing no man.

The men traveling with Saul were meanwhile standing speechless; they heard the sound of the voice, but saw no one.


rate difficulty: Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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


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

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


simplify: And when we cried unto the Lord, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and hath brought us forth out of Egypt: and, behold, we are in Kadesh, a city in the uttermost of thy border:

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of our cry, and sent an angel and took us out of Egypt: and now we are in Kadesh, a town on the edge of your land;


simplify: Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and he reigned two years over Israel.

Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, became king over Israel in Samaria in the seventeenth year of the rule of Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, and he was king over Israel for two years.


simplify: These ye may eat of all that are in the waters: whatsoever hath fins and scales may ye eat;

And of the things living in the waters, you may take all those who have wings for swimming with and skins formed of thin plates.


simplify: And the pillars of Egypt shall be broken in pieces; all they that work for hire shall be grieved in soul.

And the makers of twisted thread will be crushed, and those who ... will be sad in heart.


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

And he made this story for some people who were certain that they were good, and had a low opinion of others:


rate difficulty: Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

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


rate difficulty: And Jezebel his wife cometh in unto him, and speaketh unto him, `What <FI>is<Fi> this? --thy spirit sulky, and thou art not eating bread!'

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


simplify: But let a man examine himself, and so let him eat of that bread, and drink of that cup.

But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.


simplify: The Lord Jehovah, who gathereth the outcasts of Israel, saith, Yet will I gather others to him, besides his own that are gathered.

The Lord God, who gets together the wandering ones of Israel, says, I will get together others in addition to those of Israel who have come back.


rate difficulty: Then a spirit passed before my face; The hair of my flesh stood up.

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


simplify: And the king said unto Araunah, Nay; but I will surely buy it of thee at a price: neither will I offer burnt offerings unto the Lord my God of that which doth cost me nothing. So David bought the threshingfloor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.

And the king said to Araunah, No, but I will give you a price for it; I will not give to the Lord my God burned offerings for which I have given nothing. So David got the grain-floor and the oxen for fifty shekels of silver.


rate difficulty: For, lo, they are gone because of destruction: Egypt shall gather them up, Memphis shall bury them: the pleasant places for their silver, nettles shall possess them: thorns shall be in their tabernacles.

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


rate difficulty: the apostles heard of it, and took refuge in Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and in the district around,

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


simplify: And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho with his disciples and a great number of people, blind Bartimeus, the son of Timeus, sat by the highway side begging.

They came to Jericho. When Jesus was going out of the town with his disciples and a large crowd, Bartimaeus, the son of Timaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the roadside.


rate difficulty: And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.

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


rate difficulty: When the seventy-two returned, they exclaimed joyfully: “Master, even the demons submit to us when we use your name.”

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


simplify: For his sons carried him into the land of Canaan, and buried him in the cave of the field of Machpelah, which Abraham bought with the field for a possession of a buryingplace of Ephron the Hittite, before Mamre.

For they took him into the land of Canaan and put him to rest in the hollow rock in the field of Machpelah, which Abraham got with the field, for a resting-place, from Ephron the Hittite at Mamre.


rate difficulty: Then the sign went up out of the town in the pillar of smoke, and the Benjamites, turning back, saw all the town going up in smoke to heaven.

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


simplify: John came, who baptized in the wilderness and preached the baptism of repentance unto remission of sins.

John came, and gave baptism in the waste land, preaching baptism as a sign of forgiveness of sin for those whose hearts were changed.


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

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


simplify: And he made the ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.


rate difficulty: Thou hast persuaded me, O Jehovah, and I am persuaded; Thou hast hardened me, and dost prevail, I have been for a laughter all the day, Every one is mocking at me,

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


simplify: And Saul armed David with his armour, and he put an helmet of brass upon his head; also he armed him with a coat of mail.

Then Saul gave David his clothing of war, and put a head-dress of brass on his head and had him clothed with a coat of metal.


simplify: And behold, men bring on a bed a man that was palsied: and they sought to bring him in, and to lay him before him.

And some men had with them, on a bed, a man who was ill, without power of moving; and they made attempts to get him in and put him before Jesus.


simplify: And ye are witnesses of these things.

You yourselves are to be witnesses to all this.


rate difficulty: Now the first lot came forth for Asaph to Joseph: the second to Gedaliah; he and his brethren and sons were twelve:


simplify: And Joseph fell upon his father’s face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

And Joseph put his head down on his father's face, weeping and kissing him.


simplify: And in the day of the Pentecost being fulfilled, they were all with one accord at the same place,

In the course of the Festival at the close of the Harvest the disciples had all met together,


simplify: Then measured he the porch of the gate, eight cubits; and the posts thereof, two cubits; and the porch of the gate was toward the house.

Eight cubits; and its uprights, two cubits; the covered way of the doorway was inside.


simplify: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

“Who are you, Lord?” he asked.   “I am Jesus, whom you are persecuting,”the voice answered;


simplify: Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.

They are not to have all the hair cut off their heads, and they are not to let their hair get long, but they are to have the ends of their hair cut.


simplify: and they could not find what they might do; for the people all hung upon him, listening.

But they were not able to do anything, because the people all kept near him, being greatly interested in his words.


rate difficulty: But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.

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


rate difficulty: if the priest that is anointed sin according to the trespass of the people; then for his sin which he hath sinned shall he present a young bullock without blemish to Jehovah for a sin-offering.

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


simplify: `But, take heed of the false prophets, who come unto you in sheep's clothing, and inwardly are ravening wolves.

Beware of false teachers — people who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Josiah were, the firstborn Johanan, the second Jehoiakim, the third Zedekiah, the fourth Shallum.

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


simplify: Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;


simplify: And Balak said unto Balaam, Come now, I will take thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

Then Balak said to Balaam, Come now, I will take you to another place; it may be that God will let you put a curse on them from there.


simplify: And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach, and Bimhal, and Ashvath. These are the children of Japhlet.

And the sons of Japhlet: Pasach and Bimhal and Ashvath. These are the sons of Japhlet.


rate difficulty: And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my son.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.


rate difficulty: For the Levites left their suburbs and their possession, and came to Judah and Jerusalem: for Jeroboam and his sons had cast them off from executing the priest’s office unto the Lord:


simplify: And when they had sent away the multitude, they took him even as he was in the ship. And there were also with him other little ships.

And going away from the people, they took him with them, as he was, in the boat. And other boats were with him.


simplify: Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

Simon, in answer, said, It seems he whose debt was greater. And he said, Your decision is right.


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

But this saying was not clear to them and its sense was kept secret from them so that they were not able to see it: and they had fear of questioning him about it.


simplify: I speak not by way of commandment, but as proving through the earnestness of others the sincerity also of your love.

I am not giving you an order, but using the ready mind of others as a test of the quality of your love.


simplify: The Lord hath been sore displeased with your fathers.

The Lord has been very angry with your fathers:


simplify: Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.

Let each of us please our neighbor for our neighbor’s good, to help in the building up of their character.


rate difficulty: Therefore as a tongue of fire devoureth the stubble, and dry grass sinketh down in the flame, their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust; for they have rejected the law of Jehovah of hosts, and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.

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


simplify: So the priests, and the Levites, and the porters, and the singers, and some of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities.  And when the seventh month was come, the children of Israel were in their cities.

So the priests and the Levites and the door-keepers and the music-makers and some of the people and the Nethinim, and all Israel, were living in their towns.


rate difficulty: Submit to all human institutions for the Lord’s sake, alike to the emperor as the supreme authority,

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


rate difficulty: And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.

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


simplify: And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

And we have seen and had faith in the love which God has for us. God is love, and everyone who has love is in God, and God is in him.


rate difficulty: `And thou, take to thyself principal spices, wild honey five hundred <FI>shekels<Fi> ; and spice-cinnamon, the half of that, two hundred and fifty; and spice-cane two hundred and fifty;

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


rate difficulty: And in the fourth generation they will come back here; for at present the sin of the Amorite is not full.


simplify: Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:

“The teachers of the law and the Pharisees now occupy the chair of Moses.


rate difficulty: ‘Be angry, yet do not sin.’ Do not let the sun go down on your anger;

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


simplify: and all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and they have their genealogy.

And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.


simplify: And for this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when ye received from us the word of the message, even the word of God, ye accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also worketh in you that believe.

And for this cause we still give praise to God, that, when the word came to your ears through us, you took it, not as the word of man, but, as it truly is, the word of God, which has living power in you who have faith.


simplify: Is any among you suffering? let him pray. Is any cheerful? let him sing praise.

Is anyone among you in trouble? let him say prayers. Is anyone glad? let him make a song of praise.


simplify: and now it hath pleased thee to bless the house of thy servant, that it may continue for ever before thee: for thou, O Jehovah, hast blessed, and it is blessed for ever.

And now you have been pleased to give your blessing to the family of your servant, so that it may go on for ever before you; you, O Lord, have given your blessing, and a blessing will be on it for ever.


rate difficulty: And Abimelech with his band made a rush, and took up their position at the doorway into the town; and the other two bands made a rush on all those who were in the fields, and overcame them.

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


simplify: And he asked him, What is thy name? And he answered, saying, My name is Legion: for we are many.

And Jesus said, What is your name? And he made answer, My name is Legion, because there are a great number of us.


rate difficulty: But the children of those that smote [him] he did not put to death; according to that which is written in the book of the law of Moses, wherein Jehovah commanded saying, The fathers shall not be put to death for the children, neither shall the children be put to death for the fathers; but every man shall be put to death for his own sin.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

The number of his army was fifty-three thousand, four hundred.


simplify: While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, --the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

While he was still speaking, a bright cloud enveloped them, and there was a voice from the cloud that said — “This is my dearly loved son, who brings me great joy; listen to him.”


simplify: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Zebulun, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

Fifty-seven thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Zebulun were numbered.


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

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


simplify: Salute Tryphæna and Tryphosa, who labor in the Lord. Salute Persis the beloved, who labored much in the Lord.

Give my love to Tryphaena and Tryphosa, workers in the Lord. Give my love to my dear Persis, who did much work in the Lord.


rate difficulty: But David was loved by all Israel and Judah, for he went out and came in before them.

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


simplify: And it came to pass at that time, that Abimelech and Phichol the chief captain of his host spake unto Abraham, saying, God is with thee in all that thou doest:

Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were Mesha his firstborn, who was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.


simplify: now therefore let me alone, that my wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them: and I will make of thee a great nation.

Now do not get in my way, for my wrath is burning against them; I will send destruction on them, but of you I will make a great nation.


simplify: And they thirsted not when he led them through the deserts: he caused the waters to flow out of the rock for them: he clave the rock also, and the waters gushed out.

They had no need of water when he was guiding them through the waste lands: he made water come out of the rock for them: the rock was parted and the waters came flowing out.


rate difficulty: It was but a little that I passed from them, When I found him whom my soul loveth: I held him, and would not let him go, Until I had brought him into my mother’s house, And into the chamber of her that conceived me.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall take one prince of every tribe, to divide the land for inheritance.

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


simplify: Among which was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee’s children.

Among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary, the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.


rate difficulty: and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

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


simplify: And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

O you, who are full of false tricks and evil ways, a son of the Evil One, hating all righteousness, will you for ever be turning people from the right ways of the Lord?


simplify: for I fear lest, having come, not such as I wish I may find you, and I--I may be found by you such as ye do not wish, lest there be strifes, envyings, wraths, revelries, evil-speakings, whisperings, puffings up, insurrections,

for I am afraid that perhaps, when I come, I may find that you are not what I want you to be, and, on the other hand, that you may find that I am what you do not want me to be. I am afraid that I may find quarreling, jealousy, ill feeling, rivalry, slandering, backbiting, self-assertion, and disorder.


simplify: Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

And the children of Israel are to keep the Sabbath holy, from generation to generation, by an eternal agreement.


rate difficulty: Then the Spirit came upon Amasai, who was chief of the thirty, and he said, Thine are we, David, and on thy side, thou son of Jesse: peace, peace be unto thee, and peace be to thy helpers; for thy God helpeth thee. Then David received them, and made them captains of the band.

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


rate difficulty: and said to Jeroboam, Take thee ten pieces; for thus saith Jehovah theGod of Israel: Behold, I will rend the kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and will give ten tribes to thee;

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


simplify: and after those days, his wife Elisabeth conceived, and hid herself five months, saying--

After this his wife, Elizabeth, became pregnant and lived in seclusion for five months.


rate difficulty: Although the fig tree shall not blossom, neither shall fruit be in the vines; the labour of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no meat; the flock shall be cut off from the fold, and there shall be no herd in the stalls:


simplify: Beloved, no new commandment write I unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning: the old commandment is the word which ye heard.

My loved ones, I do not give you a new law, but an old law which you had from the first; this old law is the word which came to your ears.


simplify: that the proof of your faith--much more precious than of gold that is perishing, and through fire being approved--may be found to praise, and honour, and glory, in the revelation of Jesus Christ,

that the genuineness of your faith — a thing far more precious than gold, which is perishable, yet has to be tested by fire — may win praise and glory and honor at the appearing of Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Then the woman went unto all the people in her wisdom. And they cut off the head of Sheba the son of Bichri, and threw it out to Joab. And he blew the trumpet, and they were dispersed from the city, every man to his tent. And Joab returned to Jerusalem unto the king.

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


simplify: One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the first year, for a burnt offering:

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


rate difficulty: And king Solomon, and all the assembly of Israel that were assembled to him, [who were] with him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be counted nor numbered for multitude.

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


simplify: And ye shall tell my father of all my glory in Egypt, and of all that ye have seen; and ye shall haste and bring down my father hither.

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


simplify: Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Zedekiah was twenty-one years old when he became king, and he was king in Jerusalem for eleven years; his mother's name was Hamutal, daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


rate difficulty: But the people, getting news of it, went after him: and he was pleased to see them, and gave them teaching about the kingdom of God, and made those well who were in need of it.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

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


rate difficulty: Then Jehovah opened the eyes of Balaam, and he saw the angel of Jehovah standing in the way, with his sword drawn in his hand; and he bowed his head, and fell on his face.


simplify: But if some of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive, wast grafted in among them, and didst become partaker with them of the root of the fatness of the olive tree;

But if some of the branches were broken off, and you, an olive-tree of the fields, were put in among them, and were given a part with them in the root by which the olive-tree is made fertile,


simplify: And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

And they put them with the bones of Saul and his son Jonathan in the resting-place of Kish, his father, in Zela in the country of Benjamin; they did all the king had given them orders to do. And after that, God gave ear to their prayers for the land.


simplify: Did Hezekiah king of Judah and all Judah put him at all to death? did he not fear the Lord, and besought the Lord, and the Lord repented him of the evil which he had pronounced against them? Thus might we procure great evil against our souls.

Did Hezekiah and all Judah put him to death? did he not in the fear of the Lord make prayer for the grace of the Lord, and the Lord let himself be turned from the decision he had made against them for evil? By this act we might do great evil against ourselves.


simplify: I am glad of the coming of Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus: for that which was lacking on your part they have supplied.

I am glad Stephanas and Fortunatus and Achaicus have come, for they have made up for your absence;


simplify: The sons of Ham; Cush, and Mizraim, Put, and Canaan.

The sons of Ham: Cush and Egypt, Put and Canaan.


simplify: A stone is heavy, and the sand weighty; But a fool’s vexation is heavier than they both.

A stone has great weight, and sand is crushing; but the wrath of the foolish is of greater weight than these.


rate difficulty: Who are Israelites; to whom pertaineth the adoption, and the glory, and the covenants, and the giving of the law, and the service of God, and the promises;

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


rate difficulty: And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham’s offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: and now, rise, O Jehovah God, to Thy rest, Thou, and the ark of Thy strength; Thy priests, O Jehovah God, are clothed with salvation, and Thy saints rejoice in the goodness,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I have laid a snare for thee, and thou art also taken, O Babylon, and thou wast not aware: thou art found, and also caught, because thou hast striven against the Lord.

I have put a net for you, and you have been taken, O Babylon, without your knowledge: you have been uncovered and taken because you were fighting against the Lord.


simplify: For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith Jehovah; because they have called thee an outcast, saying, It is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

For I will make you healthy again and I will make you well from your wounds, says the Lord; because they have given you the name of an outlaw, saying, It is Zion cared for by no man.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Because thou hast lifted up thyself in height, and he hath shot up his top among the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height;

For this cause the Lord has said: Because he is tall, and has put his top among the clouds, and his heart is full of pride because he is so high,


simplify: And the scribes and the chief priests heard, and they were seeking how they shall destroy him, for they were afraid of him, because all the multitude was astonished at his teaching;

Now the chief priests and the teachers of the law heard this and began to look for some way of putting Jesus to death; for they were afraid of him, since all the people were greatly impressed by his teaching.


simplify: and always, night and day, in the mountains, and in the tombs he was, crying and cutting himself with stones.

Night and day alike, he was continually shrieking in the tombs and among the hills, and cutting himself with stones.


simplify: Azmaveth the Baharumite, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,

Azmaveth of Bahurim, Eliahba the Shaalbonite,


rate difficulty: And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'

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


rate difficulty: So she caught him, and kissed him, Andwith an impudent face she said unto him:

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


simplify: But neither so did their witness agree together.

And even so their witness was not in agreement.


rate difficulty: The former things, lo, have come, And new things I am declaring, Before they spring up I cause you to hear.

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


simplify: and the Pharisees, having heard that he did silence the Sadducees, were gathered together unto him;

When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they collected together.


simplify: And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah made him horns of iron and said, Thus saith Jehovah, With these shalt thou push the Syrians, until they be consumed.

And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself iron horns and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.


simplify: They have blown the trumpet, even to make all ready; but none goeth to the battle: for my wrath is upon all the multitude thereof.

And he who has given a price for goods will not get them, for my wrath is on all of them.


simplify: For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles last, as it were appointed to death: for we are made a spectacle unto the world, and to angels, and to men.

For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as people doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to people!


rate difficulty: And Solomon awoke, and behold, it was a dream. And he came to Jerusalem, and stood before the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings, and offered peace-offerings, and made a feast to all his servants.

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


simplify: Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect.

You, then, must become perfect — as your heavenly Father is perfect.


rate difficulty: And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, ye that work iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: And he will have the house rubbed all over inside, and the paste which is rubbed off will be put out into an unclean place outside the town:

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


simplify: and Jehovah brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with signs, and with wonders;

And the Lord took us out of Egypt with a strong hand and a stretched-out arm, with works of power and signs and wonders:


simplify: nor shall they say, Lo, here; or lo, there; for lo, the reign of God is within you.'

nor will people say ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There it is!’; for the kingdom of God is within you!


rate difficulty: and the Israelitish woman's son blasphemed the Name, and cursed; and they brought him to Moses. And his mother's name was Shelomith, the daughter of Dibri, of the tribe of Dan.

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


rate difficulty: `And for the second side of the tabernacle, for the north side, <FI>are<Fi> twenty boards,

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate was full of wonder.


simplify: For if, by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; much more shall they that receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.

For, if by the wrongdoing of one, death was ruling through the one, much more will those to whom has come the wealth of grace and the giving of righteousness, be ruling in life through the one, even Jesus Christ.