simplify: But I have all, and abound: I am full, having received of Epaphroditus the things which were sent from you, an odour of a sweet smell, a sacrifice acceptable, wellpleasing to God.

I have all things and more than enough: I am made full, having had from Epaphroditus the things which came from you, a perfume of a sweet smell, an offering well pleasing to God.


rate difficulty: It said — ‘Write what you see in a book and send it to the seven churches, to Ephesus, Smyrna, Pergamus, Thyatira, Sardis, Philadelphia, and Laodicaea.’

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


simplify: having the glory of God: her light was like unto a stone most precious, as it were a jasper stone, clear as crystal:

Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:


rate difficulty: I am standing at the door and knocking! If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will go in, and will feast with them, and they will feast with me.

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


rate difficulty: And his mother answering said, No; but he shall be called John.

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


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the sin offering, and slay it for a sin offering in the place where they kill the burnt offering.

And he is to put his hand on the head of the offering and put it to death for a sin-offering in the place where they put to death the burned offering.


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord God; I will even deal with thee as thou hast done, which hast despised the oath in breaking the covenant.

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


simplify: And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.

Sometimes the cloud was resting on the House for two or three days; then, by the order of the Lord, they kept their tents in that place, and when the Lord gave the order they went on.


rate difficulty: You will not, I tell you, come out until you have paid the very last cent.”


simplify: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

Among whom we all at one time were living in the pleasures of our flesh, giving way to the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and the punishment of God was waiting for us even as for the rest.


simplify: And he called to him one of the servants, and inquired what these things might be.

And he sent for one of the servants, questioning him about what it might be.


simplify: And he made the horns thereof upon the four corners of it; the horns thereof were of one piece with it: and he overlaid it with brass.

And he put horns at its four angles made of the same, plating it all with brass;


rate difficulty: the law and the prophets <FI>are<Fi> till John; since then the reign of God is proclaimed good news, and every one doth press into it;

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


rate difficulty: and from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, hath king David taken very much brass.

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


simplify: The godly man is perished out of the earth, and there is none upright among men: they all lie in wait for blood; they hunt every man his brother with a net.

The good man is gone from the earth, there is no one upright among men: they are all waiting secretly for blood, every man is going after his brother with a net.


simplify: whom they set before the apostles: and when they had prayed, they laid their hands upon them.

These they took to the Apostles, who, after prayer, put their hands on them.


simplify: The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The eighth captain for the eighth month was Sibbecai the Hushathite, of the Zerahites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: About this time, at a meeting of the Lord's followers, when there were about a hundred and twenty present, Peter rose to speak.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt suck the milk of the nations, and shalt suck the breast of kings; and thou shalt know that I, Jehovah, [am] thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the Mighty One of Jacob.

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


rate difficulty: As one who is off his head sends about flaming sticks and arrows of death,


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


simplify: And at the south side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure, and three gates: the gate of Simeon, one; the gate of Issachar, one; the gate of Zebulun, one.

And at the south side, four thousand five hundred by measure, and three doors, one for Simeon, one for Issachar, one for Zebulun;


simplify: And Araunah said unto David, Let my lord the king take and offer up what seemeth good unto him: behold, the oxen for the burnt-offering, and the threshing instruments and the yokes of the oxen for the wood:

And Araunah said to David, Let my lord the king take whatever seems right to him, and make an offering of it: see, here are the oxen for the burned offering, and the grain-cleaning instruments and the ox-yokes for wood:


rate difficulty: A voice of noise from the city, a voice from the temple, a voice of the Lord that rendereth recompence to his enemies.

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


simplify: The Lord is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

The Lord is slow to wrath and great in mercy, overlooking wrongdoing and evil, and will not let wrongdoers go free; sending punishment on children for the sins of their fathers, to the third and fourth generation.


simplify: If any man thinketh that he knoweth anything, he knoweth not yet as he ought to know;

If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;


simplify: Can thine heart endure, or can thine hands be strong, in the days that I shall deal with thee? I the Lord have spoken it, and will do it.

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.


rate difficulty: `And if for this ye hearken not to Me, and have walked with Me in opposition,

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


simplify: And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.

And all the years of Adam's life were nine hundred and thirty: and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: And Moses giveth to them, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land by its cities, in the borders, the cities of the land round about.

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


simplify: Children, obey your parents in all things: for this is well pleasing unto the Lord.

children, always obey your parents; for that is pleasant to see in those who belong to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And I decided this to myself, not again to come in sorrow unto you,

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


rate difficulty: The chief was Ahiezer; then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite, and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth, and Beracah, and Jehu the Anathothite,

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


simplify: But go, tell his disciples and Peter, He goeth before you into Galilee: there shall ye see him, as he said unto you.

But go, say to his disciples and to Peter, He goes before you into Galilee: there you will see him, as he said to you.


simplify: For all the prophets and the law prophesied until John.

For all the prophets and the law were in force till John.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

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


simplify: `He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,

Anyone who welcomes you is welcoming me; and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming him who sent me as his messenger.


simplify: Then shall ye return, and discern between the righteous and the wicked, between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.

Then you will again see how the upright man is different from the sinner, and the servant of God from him who is not.


rate difficulty: and he begged Jesus again and again not to send them away out of that country.

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


simplify: And the man bowed his head, and worshipped Jehovah.

And with bent head the man gave worship to the Lord;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will take away from thee all sickness; and none of the evil diseases of Egypt, which thou knowest, will he put upon thee, but will lay them upon all them that hate thee.

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


simplify: but he whom God did raise up, did not see corruption.

but Jesus, whom God raised from the dead, did not undergo corruption.


rate difficulty: The eye cannot say to the hand, I have not need of thee; or again, the head to the feet, I have not need of you.


rate difficulty: And the second is like, namely this, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is none other commandment greater than these.

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


simplify: And Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel.

And Jehoshaphat, the son of Asa, became king over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab's rule over Israel.


simplify: And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

On going out again, about nine o’clock, he saw some others standing in the marketplace, doing nothing.


rate difficulty: And he said to him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.


simplify: Because thou hast kept the word of my patience, I also will keep thee from the hour of temptation, which shall come upon all the world, to try them that dwell upon the earth.

Because you have kept my word in quiet strength, I will keep you from the hour of testing which is coming on all the world, to put to the test those who are on earth.


rate difficulty: And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: or, it hath been known that the ox is <FI>one<Fi> accustomed to gore heretofore, and its owner doth not watch it, he certainly repayeth ox for ox, and the dead is his.

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


simplify: Now go, write it before them in a table, and note it in a book, that it may be for the time to come for ever and ever:

Now go, put it in writing before them on a board, and make a record of it in a book, so that it may be for the future, a witness for all time to come.


rate difficulty: For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

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


rate difficulty: And the burden of the Lord shall ye mention no more: for every man’s word shall be his burden; for ye have perverted the words of the living God, of the Lord of hosts our God.

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


simplify: And they were astonished out of measure, saying among themselves, Who then can be saved?

And they were greatly surprised, saying to him, Who then may have salvation?


rate difficulty: It shall not be baken with leaven. I have given it unto them for their portion of my offerings made by fire; it is most holy, as is the sin offering, and as the trespass offering.

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


simplify: and speaking boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, he was both speaking and disputing with the Hellenists, and they were taking in hand to kill him,

talking and arguing with the Jews of foreign birth, who, however, made attempts to kill him.


simplify: And yet count him not as an enemy, but admonish him as a brother.

Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.


rate difficulty: And the priests, and the Levites, and the doorkeepers, and the singers, and [some] of the people, and the Nethinim, and all Israel, dwelt in their cities. And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in their cities,

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


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

And on the limit of Zebulun, from the east side to the west side: Gad one part.


rate difficulty: Wherefore have I seen it? they are dismayed and are turned backward; and their mighty ones are beaten down, and are fled apace, and look not back: terror is on every side, saith Jehovah.


simplify: Now concerning the collection for the saints, as I have given order to the churches of Galatia, even so do ye.

Now about the giving of money for the saints, as I gave orders to the churches of Galatia, so do you.


simplify: And in all things that I have said unto you be circumspect: and make no mention of the name of other gods, neither let it be heard out of thy mouth.

Take note of all these things which I have said to you, and let not the names of other gods come into your minds or from your lips.


simplify: And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favour in the eyes of the Lord, he will bring me again, and shew me both it, and his habitation:

And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again:


simplify: for so, richly shall be superadded to you the entrance into the age-during reign of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ.

For in this way you will be given a triumphant admission into the eternal kingdom of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.


simplify: For the upright shall dwell in the land, And the perfect shall remain in it.

For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.


rate difficulty: And preached, saying, There cometh one mightier than I after me, the latchet of whose shoes I am not worthy to stoop down and unloose.

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


rate difficulty: John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace, from him who is and who was and who is to come; and from the seven Spirits that are before his throne;


simplify: And the people repented them for Benjamin, because that the Lord had made a breach in the tribes of Israel.

And the people were moved with pity for Benjamin, because the Lord had let his wrath loose on the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And let seven priests go before the ark with seven loud-sounding horns in their hands: on the seventh day you are to go round the town seven times, the priests blowing their horns.

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


simplify: Neither shall he go out of the sanctuary, nor profane the sanctuary of his God; for the crown of the anointing oil of his God is upon him: I am the Lord.

He may not go out of the holy place or make the holy place of his God common; for the crown of the holy oil of his God is on him: I am the Lord.


simplify: And when ye see the south wind blow, ye say, There will be heat; and it cometh to pass.

And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is.


rate difficulty: And it will come about, that if any nation does not become a servant to this same Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and does not put its neck under the yoke of the king of Babylon, then I will send punishment on that nation, says the Lord, by the sword and need of food and by disease, till I have given them into his hands.


rate difficulty: So will nations give him honour; kings will keep quiet because of him: for what had not been made clear to them they will see; and they will give their minds to what had not come to their ears.

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


rate difficulty: Wives should submit to their husbands as submitting to the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And Abigail went back to Nabal; and he was feasting in his house like a king; and Nabal's heart was full of joy, for he had taken much wine; so she said nothing to him till dawn came.


simplify: For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged.

But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.


simplify: I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

I did the planting, Apollos did the watering, but God gave the increase.


simplify: These are that Aaron and Moses, to whom Jehovah said, Bring out the children of Israel from the land of Egypt according to their hosts.

These are the same Aaron and Moses to whom the Lord said, Take the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in their armies.


simplify: Ye shall not make yourselves abominable with any creeping thing that creepeth, neither shall ye make yourselves unclean with them, that ye should be defiled thereby.

You are not to make yourselves disgusting with anything which goes about flat on the earth; you may not make yourselves unclean with them, in such a way that you are not holy to me.


simplify: And I answered again, and said unto him, What be these two olive branches which through the two golden pipes empty the golden oil out of themselves?

And answering a second time, I said to him, What are these two olive branches, through whose gold pipes the oil is drained out?


rate difficulty: And Adonijah son of Haggith is lifting himself up, saying, `I do reign;' and he prepareth for himself a chariot and horsemen, and fifty men running before him,

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


rate difficulty: In the six hundredth year of Noah's life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, all the fountains of the great deep came bursting through, and the windows of heaven were open;

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


simplify: And Hezekiah rejoiced, and all the people, that God had prepared the people: for the thing was done suddenly.

And Hezekiah and all the people were full of joy, because God had made the people ready: for the thing was done suddenly.


simplify: The people that sat in darkness  Saw a great light, And to them that sat in the region and shadow of death, To them did light spring up.

The people who were in the dark saw a great light, and to those in the land of the shade of death did the dawn come up.


simplify: And God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind: and it was so.

And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.


rate difficulty: “To you,”he said, “the knowledge of the hidden truths of the kingdom of God has been imparted, but to others in parables only, so that ‘though they have eyes they may not see, and though they have ears, they may not understand.’

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


simplify: And Jesus answering said unto them, `Did ye not read even this that David did, when he hungered, himself and those who are with him,

Jesus’ answer was: “Have not you read even of what David did, when he was hungry, he and his companions —


rate difficulty: And the scribes do so with their flashings, to bring out the gnats, and they have not been able, and the gnats are on man and on beast;

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


simplify: Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it; and, behold, the half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

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


simplify: And his return was to Ramah; for there was his house; and there he judged Israel; and there he built an altar unto the Lord.

And his base was at Ramah, where his house was; there he was judge of Israel and there he made an altar to the Lord.


simplify: for until the law sin was in the world; but sin is not imputed when there is no law.

Because, till the law came, sin was in existence, but sin is not put to the account of anyone when there is no law to be broken.


rate difficulty: Judge not, that ye be not judged.

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


rate difficulty: And your servant has round him the people of your selection, a people so great that they may not be numbered, and no account of them may be given.

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


simplify: for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me--because He is on my right hand--that I may not be moved;

Indeed he was the one David was referring to when he said —  ‘I have had the Lord ever before my eyes, For he stands at my right hand, so that I should not be disquieted.


simplify: `And no one doth put a patch of undressed cloth on an old garment, for its filling up doth take from the garment, and a worse rent is made.

Nobody ever puts a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old garment; for such a patch tears away from the garment, and a worse tear is made.


simplify: And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

Then Jephthah came back to his house in Mizpah, and his daughter came out, meeting him on his way with music and with dances; she was his only child; he had no other sons or daughters.


rate difficulty: And ye shall dispossess the inhabitants of the land, and dwell therein: for I have given you the land to possess it.

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


simplify: For every one shall be salted with fire.


simplify: He shall feed his flock like a shepherd: he shall gather the lambs with his arm, and carry them in his bosom, and shall gently lead those that are with young.

He will give food to his flock like a keeper of sheep; with his arm he will get it together, and will take up the lambs on his breast, gently guiding those which are with young.


simplify: If there is therefore any exhortation in Christ, if any consolation of love, if any fellowship of the Spirit, if any tender mercies and compassions,

If then there is any comfort in Christ, any help given by love, any uniting of hearts in the Spirit, any loving mercies and pity,


rate difficulty: This day there has been born to you, in the town of David, a Savior, who is Christ and Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And he took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of the house of Jehovah, and all the altars that he had built in the mount of the house of Jehovah, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.

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


rate difficulty: For the terrible one is brought to nought, and the scoffer ceaseth, and all they that watch for iniquity are cut off;

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


simplify: They did eat, they drank, they married wives, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noe entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.


simplify: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.


rate difficulty: I lifted up my hand also unto them in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the nations, and disperse them through the countries;

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


rate difficulty: And as soon as we had heard it, our hearts did melt, neither did there remain any more spirit in any man, because of you: for Jehovah your God, he is God in heaven above, and on earth beneath.

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


simplify: And the king sat upon his seat, as at other times, even upon the seat by the wall; and Jonathan stood up, and Abner sat by Saul’s side: but David’s place was empty.

And the king took his seat, as at other times, by the wall: and Jonathan was in front, and Abner was seated by Saul's side, but there was no one in David's seat.


simplify: He who is overcoming--this one--shall be arrayed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name from the scroll of the life, and I will confess his name before my Father, and before His messengers.

Those who conquer will be clothed in these white robes, and I will not ‘strike their name out of the book of life’; but I will own them before my Father, and before his angels.


simplify: Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

Because it has been said in the Writings, You are to be holy, for I am holy.


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

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: He feedeth on ashes: a deceived heart hath turned him aside, that he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?


rate difficulty: and the first messenger did sound, and there came hail and fire, mingled with blood, and it was cast to the land, and the third of the trees was burnt up, and all the green grass was burnt up.

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


rate difficulty: And the people gave a blessing to all the men who were freely offering to take up their places in Jerusalem.

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


simplify: That alone stretcheth out the heavens, And treadeth upon the waves of the sea;

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


simplify: And the children of Israel said unto the Lord, We have sinned: do thou unto us whatsoever seemeth good unto thee; deliver us only, we pray thee, this day.

And the children of Israel said to the Lord, We are sinners; do to us whatever seems good to you: only give us salvation this day.


rate difficulty: Does the fountain, out of the same opening, pour forth sweet and bitter?

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


rate difficulty: and the knives, and the bowls, and the cups, and the censers, of pure gold; and the entrance of the house, the inner folding-doors thereof for the most holy place, and the doors of the house, of the temple, of gold.

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


rate difficulty: The oath which he sware to our father Abraham,

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


rate difficulty: And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

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


rate difficulty: Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God, in whom thou trustest, deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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


rate difficulty: The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!


simplify: For as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of that one body, being many, are one body: so also is Christ.

For as the body is one, and has a number of parts, and all the parts make one body, so is Christ.


rate difficulty: but what saith the divine answer to him? `I left to Myself seven thousand men, who did not bow a knee to Baal.'

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


rate difficulty: Which you gave to your servants the prophets, saying, The land into which you are going, to take it for a heritage, is an unclean land, because of the evil lives of the peoples of the land and their disgusting ways, which have made the land unclean from end to end.

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


rate difficulty: And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, mocking.

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


simplify: And he stood between the dead and the living; and the plague was stayed.

And he took his place between the dead and the living: and the disease was stopped.


simplify: And when David came to Ziklag, he sent of the spoil unto the elders of Judah, even to his friends, saying, Behold a present for you of the spoil of the enemies of the Lord;

And when David came to Ziklag, he sent some of the goods to the responsible men of Judah, and to his friends, saying, Here is an offering for you from the goods of those who were fighting against the Lord;


rate difficulty: At her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay; At her feet he bowed, he fell: Where he bowed, there he fell down dead.


rate difficulty: But let your communication be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: for whatsoever is more than these cometh of evil.

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


simplify: And as they departed from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

And when they were going out from Jericho, a great number went after him.


simplify: And it came to pass, when all the nation were clean passed over the Jordan, that Jehovah spake unto Joshua, saying,

Now when all the nation had come to the other side of Jordan, the Lord said to Joshua,


rate difficulty: Hear, I beseech thee, and I will speak; I will demand of thee, and declare thou unto me.

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


simplify: Behold, they have there with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok’s son, and Jonathan, Abiathar’s son; and by them ye shall send unto me everything that ye shall hear.

See, they have with them their two sons, Ahimaaz, Zadok's son, and Jonathan, the son of Abiathar; by them you may send word to me of everything which comes to your ears.


rate difficulty: And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; for he hath spoken revolt against Jehovah yourGod who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, — to draw thee out of the way that Jehovah thyGod commanded thee to walk in; and thou shalt put evil away from thy midst.

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


rate difficulty: And on the second day, [ye shall present] twelve young bullocks, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs without blemish;

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


simplify: And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

And all the children of Israel who were present kept the Passover and the feast of unleavened bread at that time for seven days.


rate difficulty: Who <FI>is<Fi> this coming from the wilderness, Hasting herself for her beloved? Under the citron-tree I have waked thee, There did thy mother pledge thee, There she gave a pledge <FI>that<Fi> bare thee.

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


rate difficulty: Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?

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


rate difficulty: Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.


rate difficulty: only, a distance is between you and it, about two thousand cubits by measure; ye do not come near unto it, so that ye know the way in which ye go, for ye have not passed over in the way heretofore.'

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


simplify: Nor of men sought we glory, neither of you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome, as the apostles of Christ.

Or looking for glory from men, from you or from others, when we might have made ourselves a care to you as Apostles of Christ.


Do not put anyone to death without cause.


simplify: Thou shalt have a place also without the camp, whither thou shalt go forth abroad:

Let there be a place outside the tent-circle to which you may go;


simplify: The beams of our house are cedar, and our rafters of fir.

Cedar-trees are the pillars of our house; and our boards are made of fir-trees.


simplify: if in this life we have hope in Christ only, of all men we are most to be pitied.

If all that we have done has been to place our hope in Christ for this life, then we of all people are the most to be pitied.


rate difficulty: And the woman of Tekoah saith unto the king, `On me, my lord, O king, <FI>is<Fi> the iniquity, and on the house of my father; and the king and his throne <FI>are<Fi> innocent.'

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after this that Nahash king of the children of Ammon died, and his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel said unto Saul, I will not return with thee: for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord, and the Lord hath rejected thee from being king over Israel.

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


simplify: for they themselves concerning us do declare what entrance we had unto you, and how ye did turn unto God from the idols, to serve a living and true God,

Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living God,


simplify: And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,

When daylight came, they could not make out what land it was, but, observing a creek in which there was a beach, they consulted as to whether they could run the ship safely into it.


rate difficulty: Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee; for he is useful to me for ministering.

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


simplify: Ye have been rebellious against the Lord from the day that I knew you.

From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.


simplify: If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?

If you, then, naturally wicked though you are, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will the Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who ask him!”


simplify: Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go in unto them, and they to you:

For if you go back, joining yourselves to the rest of these nations who are still among you, getting married to them and living with them and they with you:


simplify: And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high captains, and chief estates of Galilee;

A suitable opportunity, however, occurred when Herod, on his birthday, gave a dinner to his high officials, and his generals, and the foremost men in Galilee.


simplify: But take ye heed: behold, I have told you all things beforehand.

But take care; see, I have made all things clear to you before the time.


rate difficulty: For we commend not ourselves again unto you, but give you occasion to glory on our behalf, that ye may have somewhat to answer them which glory in appearance, and not in heart.

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


rate difficulty: In the day of prosperity be joyful, and in the day of adversity consider; yea, God hath made the one side by side with the other, to the end that man should not find out anything that shall be after him.

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


simplify: From thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entereth into the service, for the work in the tabernacle of the congregation,

All those from thirty to fifty years old who were able to do the work in the Tent of meeting,


rate difficulty: The men of Michmas, a hundred and twenty-two.

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


simplify: And the blind and the lame came to him in the temple; and he healed them.

And the blind and the broken in body came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.


rate difficulty: Is notGod in the height of the heavens? And behold the summit of the stars: how exalted are they!

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


simplify: Whereof I am made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which is given to me for you, to fulfil the word of God;

of which I myself became a minister in virtue of the office with which God entrusted me for your benefit, to declare the message of God in all its fulness —


simplify: Then shalt thou break the bottle in the sight of the men that go with thee,

Then let the potter's bottle be broken before the eyes of the men who have gone with you,


rate difficulty: of Sallai, Kallai; of Amok, Eber;


simplify: Who is a liar but he that denieth that Jesus is the Christ? He is antichrist, that denieth the Father and the Son.

Who is a liar, if not the person who rejects the truth that Jesus is the Christ? That person is the antichrist — the person who rejects the Father and the Son.


simplify: and he who is in the field, let him not turn to the things behind, to take up his garment.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman cometh and speaketh to her husband, saying, `A man of God hath come unto me, and his appearance <FI>is<Fi> as the appearance of a messenger of God, very fearful, and I have not asked him whence he <FI>is<Fi> , and his name he hath not declared to me;

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


rate difficulty: and he also, the son of valour, whose heart <FI>is<Fi> as the heart of the lion, doth utterly melt, for all Israel doth know that thy father is a hero, and sons of valour <FI>are<Fi> those with him.

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


rate difficulty: And if certain of the branches were broken off, and thou, being a wild olive tree, wast graffed in among them, and a fellow-partaker of the root and of the fatness of the olive tree didst become--

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.


simplify: that we may be no longer children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;


simplify: `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

It was this Jesus, whom God raised to life; and of that we are ourselves all witnesses.


simplify: And now they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, even idols according to their own understanding, all of them the work of the craftsmen: they say of them, Let the men that sacrifice kiss the calves.

And now their sins are increased; they have made themselves a metal image, false gods from their silver, after their designs, all of them the work of the metal-workers; they say of them, Let them give offerings, let men give kisses to the oxen.


simplify: Thou art Jehovah the God, who didst choose Abram, and broughtest him forth out of Ur of the Chaldees, and gavest him the name of Abraham,

You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;


rate difficulty: In the twentieth year that Jeroboam was king of Israel, Asa became king over Judah.

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


rate difficulty: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

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


simplify: If therefore they shall say unto you, Behold, he is in the wilderness; go not forth: Behold, he is in the inner chambers; believe it not.

If, then, they say to you, See, he is in the waste land; go not out: See, he is in the inner rooms; put no faith in it.


simplify: And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tarea, and Ahaz.

And the sons of Micah: Pithon and Melech and Tarea and Ahaz.


rate difficulty: Then the men feared Jehovah exceedingly; and they offered a sacrifice unto Jehovah, and made vows.

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


simplify: For ye are yet carnal: for whereas there is among you envying, and strife, and divisions, are ye not carnal, and walk as men?

While there exist among you jealousy and party feeling, is it not true that you are worldly, and are acting merely as other people do?


simplify: And Esther said, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.

And Esther in answer said, If it seems good to the king, let the king and Haman come today to the feast which I have made ready for him.


simplify: And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before the Lord, be nigh unto the Lord our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel at all times, as the matter shall require:

And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.


simplify: And Paul stood up, and beckoning with the hand said, Men of Israel, and ye that fear God, hearken:

And Paul, getting up and making a sign with his hand, said, Men of Israel, and you who have the fear of God, give ear.


simplify: `And, that servant having come forth, found one of his fellow-servants who was owing him an hundred denaries, and having laid hold, he took him by the throat, saying, Pay me that which thou owest.

But, on going out, that same servant came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. Seizing him by the throat, he said ‘Pay what you owe me.’


simplify: And the fenced cities are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth,

And the walled towns are Ziddim, Zer, and Hammath, Rakkath, and Chinnereth


simplify: And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have gathered the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of them that do the work, that have the oversight of the house of the Lord.

Then, after reading it, Shaphan the scribe went in to the king and gave him an account of what had been done, saying, Your servants have given out the money which was in the house, and have given it to the overseers of the work of the house of the Lord.


simplify: O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?


rate difficulty: And on the eighth day she shall take unto her two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, and bring them unto the priest, to the door of the tent of meeting.

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


rate difficulty: Because Syria, Ephraim, and the son of Remaliah, have taken evil counsel against thee, saying,

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


rate difficulty: my brethren ye <FI>are<Fi> , my bone and my flesh ye <FI>are<Fi> , and why are ye last to bring back the king?

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


simplify: In the first day ye shall have an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

On the first day you will have a holy meeting; you may do no sort of field-work.


simplify: And Moses came and told the people all the words of the Lord, and all the judgments: and all the people answered with one voice, and said, All the words which the Lord hath said will we do.

Then Moses came and put before the people all the words of the Lord and his laws: and all the people, answering with one voice, said, Whatever the Lord has said we will do.


simplify: Hollow with planks shalt thou make it: as it hath been showed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.


rate difficulty: And he said to me, What do you see? And I said, I see a light-support, made all of gold, with its cup on the top of it and seven lights on it; and there are seven pipes to every one of the lights which are on the top of it;

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


rate difficulty: And if ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, that is to come.

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


simplify: Who are they among all the gods of the countries, that have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?

Who among all the gods of these countries have kept their country from falling into my hands, to give cause for the thought that the Lord will keep Jerusalem from falling into my hands?


rate difficulty: For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

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


simplify: He mocketh at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from the sword.

In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast lifted up thyself in stature, ...and he hath set his top amidst the thick boughs, and his heart is lifted up in his height,

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Go and tell the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, Will ye not receive instruction to hearken to my words? saith the Lord.

This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: Go and say to the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem, Is there no hope of teaching you to give ear to my words? says the Lord.


simplify: The eyes of your understanding being enlightened; that ye may know what is the hope of his calling, and what the riches of the glory of his inheritance in the saints,

And that having the eyes of your heart full of light, you may have knowledge of what is the hope of his purpose, what is the wealth of the glory of his heritage in the saints,


simplify: saying, `Did not we strictly command you not to teach in this name? and lo, ye have filled Jerusalem with your teaching, and ye intend to bring upon us the blood of this man.'

“We gave you strict orders,” he said, “not to teach in this name. Yet you have actually flooded Jerusalem with your teaching, and you want to make us responsible for the death of this man.”


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

Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same.


simplify: And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh returned, and departed from the children of Israel out of Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan, to go unto the country of Gilead, to the land of their possession, whereof they were possessed, according to the word of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

So Reuben and Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went back, parting from the children of Israel at Shiloh in the land of Canaan, to go to the land of Gilead, to the land of their heritage which had been given to them by the Lord's order to Moses.


simplify: At that hour came the disciples near to Jesus, saying, `Who, now, is greater in the reign of the heavens?'

On the same occasion the disciples came to Jesus, and asked him: “Who is really the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?”


rate difficulty: one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering;

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


rate difficulty: Now Rachel, because she had no children, was full of envy of her sister; and she said to Jacob, If you do not give me children I will not go on living.


rate difficulty: Remember, I pray thee, Who, being innocent, hath perished? And where have the upright been cut off?

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


rate difficulty: And they went down into the open mouth of the earth, together with Korah, when death overtook him and all his band; at the time when two hundred and fifty men were burned in the fire, and they became a sign.

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


rate difficulty: For this ye are [well] informed of, knowing that no fornicator, or unclean person, or person of unbridled lust, who is an idolater, has inheritance in the kingdom of the Christ andGod.

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


rate difficulty: I say then, Hath God cast away his people? God forbid. For I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.

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


simplify: And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.


rate difficulty: and the golden mice--the number of all the cities of the Philistines--for the five princes, from the fenced city even unto the hamlet of the villages, even unto the great meadow on which they placed the ark of Jehovah--<FI> are<Fi> unto this day in the field of Joshua the Beth-Shemeshite.

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


simplify: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

The living are conscious that death will come to them, but the dead are not conscious of anything, and they no longer have a reward, because there is no memory of them.


simplify: And he shall send Jesus Christ, which before was preached unto you:

And that he may send the Christ who was marked out for you from the first, even Jesus:


simplify: Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath:

Mark this, my dear friends — Let everyone be quick to listen, slow to speak, and slow to get angry;


simplify: when the Christ--our life--may be manifested, then also we with him shall be manifested in glory.

When the Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.


simplify: To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.


simplify: And he said unto me, My grace is sufficient for thee: for my strength is made perfect in weakness. Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

And he said to me, My grace is enough for you, for my power is made complete in what is feeble. Most gladly, then, will I take pride in my feeble body, so that the power of Christ may be on me.


rate difficulty: Have ye not asked the wayfarers? and do ye not regard their tokens:


simplify: But it came to pass in the morning, when the wine was gone out of Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became as a stone.

And in the morning, when the effect of the wine was gone, Nabal's wife gave him an account of all these things, and all the heart went out of him, and he became like stone.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Becher: Zemirah, and Joash, and Eliezer, and Elioenai, and Omri, and Jeremoth, and Abijah, and Anathoth, and Alemeth. All these were the sons of Becher.

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


rate difficulty: for indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, that I might not have sorrow upon sorrow.


simplify: Peter saith unto him, Of strangers. Jesus saith unto him, Then are the children free.

“From others,” answered Peter. “Well then,” continued Jesus, “their sons go free.


simplify: Is not this the fast that I have chosen: to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Is not this the holy day for which I have given orders: to let loose those who have wrongly been made prisoners, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the crushed go free, and every yoke be broken?


simplify: Now he that ministereth seed to the sower both minister bread for your food, and multiply your seed sown, and increase the fruits of your righteousness;)

And he who supplies ‘seed to the sower, and bread for eating,’ will supply you with seed, and cause it to increase, and will multiply ‘the fruits of your righteousness’).


rate difficulty: And he saith unto him, `O, my lord, wherewith do I save Israel? lo, my chief <FI>is<Fi> weak in Manasseh, and I the least in the house of my father.'

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


simplify: And I will cut off the inhabitant from Ashdod, and him that holdeth the sceptre from Ashkelon; and I will turn my hand against Ekron; and the remnant of the Philistines shall perish, saith the Lord Jehovah.

Him who is seated in power I will have cut off from Ashdod, and him in whose hand is the rod from Ashkelon; and my hand will be turned against Ekron, and the rest of the Philistines will come to destruction, says the Lord God.


simplify: And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

And all these your servants will come to me, going down on their faces before me and saying, Go out, and all your people with you: and after that I will go out. And he went away from Pharaoh burning with wrath.


rate difficulty: and from among your own selves shall men arise, speaking perverse things, to draw away the disciples after them.

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


simplify: Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? Shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.

When has such a story come to men's ears? who has seen such things? will a land come to birth in one day? will a nation be given birth in a minute? For when Zion's pains came on her, she gave birth to her children straight away.


simplify: And the people stood afar off, and Moses drew near unto the thick darkness where God was.

And the people kept their places far off, but Moses went near to the dark cloud where God was.


rate difficulty: And they bring out Urijah from Egypt, and bring him in unto the king Jehoiakim, and he smiteth him with a sword, and casteth his corpse unto the graves of the sons of the people.'

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


rate difficulty: Seize ye silver, seize ye gold, And there is no end to the prepared things, <FI>To<Fi> the abundance of all desirable vessels.

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


simplify: The eye also of the adulterer waiteth for the twilight, Saying, No eye shall see me: And he disguiseth his face.

And the man whose desire is for the wife of another is waiting for the evening, saying, No eye will see me; and he puts a cover on his face. And in the night the thief goes about;


simplify: And was transfigured before them: and his face did shine as the sun, and his raiment was white as the light.

There his appearance was transformed before their eyes; his face shown like the sun, and his clothes became as white as the light.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And Jeroboam ordained a feast in the eighth month, on the fifteenth day of the month, like unto the feast that is in Judah, and he offered upon the altar. So did he in Beth–el, sacrificing unto the calves that he had made: and he placed in Beth–el the priests of the high places which he had made.

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


simplify: If thou put the brethren in mind of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Christ Jesus, nourished in the words of the faith, and of the good doctrine which thou hast followed until now:

If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:


rate difficulty: Salmon of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed of Jesse,

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


simplify: For Herod had laid hold on John, and bound him, and put him in prison for the sake of Herodias, his brother Philip’s wife.

For Herod had taken John and put him in prison because of Herodias, his brother Philip's wife.


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


rate difficulty: And Esther said, The adversary and enemy is this wicked Haman. Then Haman was afraid before the king and the queen.


simplify: Then the soldiers cut away the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

Then the armed men, cutting the cords of the boat, let her go.


rate difficulty: and the king putteth Benaiah son of Jehoiada in his stead over the host, and Zadok the priest hath the king put in the stead of Abiathar.

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


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

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


simplify: And it was told him by certain which said, Thy mother and thy brethren stand without, desiring to see thee.

And someone said to him, Your mother and your brothers are outside desiring to see you.


simplify: But when two years were fulfilled, Felix was succeeded by Porcius Festus; and desiring to gain favor with the Jews, Felix left Paul in bonds.

But after two years Porcius Festus took the place of Felix, who, desiring to have the approval of the Jews, kept Paul in chains.


rate difficulty: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and righteous to forgive us [our] sins, and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

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


rate difficulty: And the east border was the Salt Sea, even unto the end of the Jordan. And the border of the north quarter was from the bay of the sea at the end of the Jordan;

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


rate difficulty: In whom we have salvation through his blood, the forgiveness of our sins, through the wealth of his grace,

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


simplify: therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I will stretch out my hand upon the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites, and destroy the remnant of the sea coast.

The Lord has said, See, my hand will be stretched out against the Philistines, cutting off the Cherethites and sending destruction on the rest of the sea-land.


simplify: For I perceive that thou art in the gall of bitterness, and in the bond of iniquity.

For I see that you are prisoned in bitter envy and the chains of sin.


rate difficulty: But go ye, I pray you, Unto My place that <FI>is<Fi> in Shiloh, Where I caused My name to dwell at first, And see that which I have done to it, For the wickedness of My people Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to him, What is that in thy hand? And he said, A staff.


simplify: Seest thou a man diligent in his business? he shall stand before kings; He shall not stand before mean men.

Have you seen a man who is expert in his business? he will take his place before kings; his place will not be among low persons.


rate difficulty: Yet, even as things are, I beg you not to lose courage, for there will not be a single life lost among you — only the ship.


simplify: But ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord seven days: in the seventh day is an holy convocation: ye shall do no servile work therein.

And every day for seven days you will give a burned offering to the Lord; and on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.


rate difficulty: Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

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


rate difficulty: And they are haughty and do abomination before Me, And I turn them aside when I have seen.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: If thou return, then will I bring thee again, thou shalt stand before me; and if thou take forth the precious from the vile, thou shalt be as my mouth. Let them return unto thee; but return not thou unto them.

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


rate difficulty: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, and brother of James, and Joses, and Judas, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended in him.


rate difficulty: And the men took of their victuals, but they did not inquire at the mouth of Jehovah.

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


simplify: He goeth after her straightway, As an ox goeth to the slaughter, Or asone infetters to the correction of the fool;

The simple man goes after her, like an ox going to its death, like a roe pulled by a cord;


simplify: And the Lord said, `Hear ye what the unrighteous judge saith:

Then the Master added: “Listen to what this iniquitous judge says!


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jeroboam the son of Nebat heard of it (for he was in Egypt, whither he had fled from the presence of king Solomon), that Jeroboam returned out of Egypt.

And when Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, had news of it, (for he was in Egypt where he had gone in flight from King Solomon,) he came back from Egypt.


rate difficulty: To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

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


simplify: Having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will,

As we were designed before by him for the position of sons to himself, through Jesus Christ, in the good pleasure of his purpose,


simplify: And thou shalt not take a wife to her sister, to be a rival to her, to uncover her nakedness, besides the other in her life-time.

And you may not take as wife a woman and at the same time her sister, to be in competition with her in her life-time.


simplify: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

and whoever wants to take the first place among you must be the servant of all;


rate difficulty: Thy teeth are like a flock of sheep that are even shorn, which came up from the washing; whereof every one bear twins, and none is barren among them.

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


simplify: And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

Above him were the words —  ‘THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.’


rate difficulty: And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,

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


simplify: Added yet this above all, that he shut up John in prison.

crowned them all by shutting John up in prison.


simplify: For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through.

And I will make the land a waste and a cause of wonder, and the pride of her strength will come to an end; and the mountains of Israel will be made waste so that no one will go through.


simplify: And Moses said unto Aaron, Take a pot, and put an omer full of manna therein, and lay it up before the Lord, to be kept for your generations.

And Moses said to Aaron, Take a pot and put one omer of manna in it, and put it away before the Lord, to be kept for future generations.


simplify: and there were going forth to him all the region of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and they were all baptized by him in the river Jordan, confessing their sins.

The whole of Judea, as well as all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, went out to him; and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.


simplify: Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.

Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethanel.


simplify: God forbid: yea, let God be true, but every man a liar; as it is written, That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings, and mightest overcome when thou art judged.

God must prove true, though everyone prove a liar! As scripture says of God — ‘That you may be pronounced righteous in what you say, and gain your cause when people would judge you.’


rate difficulty: Then the word of Jeremiah the prophet came true,


simplify: He taketh the wise in their own craftiness; And the counsel of the cunning is carried headlong.

He takes the wise in their secret designs, and the purposes of the twisted are cut off suddenly.


simplify: And when they asked him to abide a longer time, he consented not;

And being requested by them to be there for a longer time, he said, No;


simplify: Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:

And the disciples, everyone as he was able, made a decision to send help to the brothers living in Judaea:


simplify: And to offer a sacrifice according to that which is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.

And also to offer the sacrifice required by the law of the Lord — ‘a pair of turtle-doves or two young pigeons.’


rate difficulty: And Jehovah gave me knowledge of it, and I knew it: then thou showedst me their doings.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if ye hearken to these ordinances, and keep and do them, that Jehovah thyGod will keep with thee the covenant and the mercy which he swore unto thy fathers;

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


rate difficulty: that they may present sweet odours to theGod of the heavens, and pray for the life of the king and of his sons.

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


simplify: This day the Lord thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and judgments: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

Today the Lord your God gives you orders to keep all these laws and decisions: so then keep and do them with all your heart and all your soul.


simplify: A several tenth deal shalt thou offer for every lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;


rate difficulty: Send Zenas, the man of law, and Apollos on their journey with all care, so that they may be in need of nothing.


rate difficulty: A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;

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


rate difficulty: And on the eighth day he sent the people away, and, blessing the king, they went to their tents full of joy and glad in their hearts, because of all the good which the Lord had done to David his servant and to Israel his people.

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


simplify: Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.


simplify: And the sons of Reuben the first-born of Israel (for he was the first-born; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel; and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.

And the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, (for he was the oldest son, but, because he made his father's bride-bed unclean, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph, the son of Israel; but he is not to be given the place of the oldest.


simplify: And there he found a certain man named Eneas, which had kept his bed eight years, and was sick of the palsy.

There he found a man named Aeneas, who had been bedridden for eight years with paralysis.


simplify: Yea, when they had made them a molten calf, and said, This is thy God that brought thee up out of Egypt, and had wrought great provocations;

Even when they had made for themselves an ox of metal, and said, This is your God who took you up out of Egypt, and had done so much to make you angry;


simplify: And Moses sent them to the war, a thousand of every tribe, them and Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest, to the war, with the holy instruments, and the trumpets to blow in his hand.

And Moses sent them out to war, a thousand from every tribe, and with them Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, taking in his hands the vessels of the holy place and the horns for sounding the note of war.


simplify: any one of those whom I have sent unto you--by him did I take advantage of you?

Do you assert that I took advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you?


simplify: The archers have sorely grieved him, And shot at him, and persecuted him:

He was troubled by the archers; they sent out their arrows against him, cruelly wounding him:


rate difficulty: And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.

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


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, to thee that addest thy venom, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Even as I begged thee to remain in Ephesus, [when I was] going to Macedonia, that thou mightest enjoin some not to teach other doctrines,

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


simplify: And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the plague be turned into white; then the priest shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: he is clean.

And the priest will see him: and if the place is turned white, then the priest will say that he is free from the disease.


rate difficulty: I said in my heart, `The righteous and the wicked doth God judge, for a time <FI>is<Fi> to every matter and for every work there.'

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hands, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.


simplify: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation; for when he hath been approved, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord promised to them that love him.

There is a blessing on the man who undergoes testing; because, if he has God's approval, he will be given the crown of life, which the Lord has said he will give to those who have love for him.


simplify: And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel; for Joab held back the people.

And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.


rate difficulty: But David's men had put to death three hundred and sixty of the men of Benjamin and of Abner's men

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


rate difficulty: To be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering; and the priest will take away her sin before the Lord on account of her unclean condition.


rate difficulty: Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the seventh time that he said, Behold there is a cloud, small as a man's hand, arising out of the sea. And he said, Go up, say to Ahab, Harness and go down, that the pour of rain stop thee not.

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


rate difficulty: For if, being enemies, we have been reconciled toGod through the death of his Son, much rather, having been reconciled, we shall be saved in [the power of] his life.

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


simplify: and the land is subdued before Jehovah; then afterward ye shall return, and be guiltless towards Jehovah, and towards Israel; and this land shall be unto you for a possession before Jehovah.

And the land is under the rule of the Lord: then after that you may come back, having done no wrong to the Lord and to Israel; and this land will be yours for your heritage before the Lord.


rate difficulty: then Thou dost hear from the heavens, from the settled place of Thy dwelling, and hast done according to all that the stranger calleth unto Thee for: so that all the peoples of the earth do know Thy name, so as to fear Thee, as Thy people Israel, and to know that Thy name is called on this house that I have built.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and after they are silent, James answered, saying, `Men, brethren, hearken to me;

After they had finished speaking, James addressed the Council.   “Friends,” he began, “hear what I have to say.


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

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


rate difficulty: and the border went up toward Debir from the valley of Achor, and turned northward to Gilgal, which is opposite to the ascent of Adummim, which is on the south side of the torrent; and the border passed to the waters of En-shemesh, and ended at En-rogel;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Behold, I am bringing such evil upon Jerusalem and Judah, that whosoever heareth of it, both his ears shall tingle.

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


simplify: And the evil spirit answered and said, Jesus I know, and Paul I know; but who are ye?

but the wicked spirit answered them: “Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you — who are you?”


simplify: A glorious throne, seton high from the beginning, is the place of our sanctuary.

A seat of glory, placed on high from the first, is our holy place.


simplify: For indeed he was sick nigh unto death: but God had mercy on him; and not on him only, but on me also, lest I should have sorrow upon sorrow.

And I can assure you that his illness very nearly proved fatal. But God had pity on him, and not on him only but also on me, so that I might not have sorrow on sorrow.


simplify: but now, having no more any place in these regions, and having these many years a longing to come unto you,

But now, having no longer any place in these parts and having had for a number of years a great desire to come to you,


rate difficulty: For as a snare shall it come on all them that dwell on the face of the whole earth.

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


rate difficulty: And the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.

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


simplify: But him that is weak in faith receive ye, yet not for decision of scruples.

Do not put on one side him who is feeble in faith, and do not put him in doubt by your reasonings.


rate difficulty: Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

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


simplify: So then he hath mercy on whom he will, and whom he will he hardeneth.

So then, at his pleasure he has mercy on a man, and at his pleasure he makes the heart hard.


simplify: He maketh the deep to boil like a pot: He maketh the sea like a pot of ointment.

The deep is boiling like a pot of spices, and the sea like a perfume-vessel.


simplify: Are ye ignorant, brethren--for to those knowing law I speak--that the law hath lordship over the man as long as he liveth?

Surely, friends, you know (for I am speaking to people who know what law means) that law has power over a person only as long as they lives.


rate difficulty: And having found the disciples, we tarried there seven days: and these said to Paul through the Spirit, that he should not set foot in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: among whom was Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

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


rate difficulty: But if he sanctify his field after the jubilee, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain unto the year of jubilee; and an abatement shall be made from thy estimation.

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


simplify: Then answered all the people, and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

And all the people answered: “His blood be on our heads and on our children’s!”


rate difficulty: And Enosh lived ninety years, and begot Cainan.

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


simplify: And Avim, and Parah, and Ophrah,


simplify: For who hath stood in the council of Jehovah, that he should perceive and hear his word? who hath marked my word, and heard it?

For which of them has knowledge of the secret of the Lord, and has seen him, and given ear to his word? which of them has taken note of his word and given attention to it?


simplify: And now thy two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh, which were born unto thee in the land of Egypt before I came unto thee into Egypt, are mine; as Reuben and Simeon, they shall be mine.

And now your two sons who came to birth in Egypt before I came to you here, are mine; Ephraim and Manasseh will be mine, in the same way as Reuben and Simeon are.


simplify: If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, Or if thou hast thought evil, Lay thy hand upon thy mouth.

If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Now this time will my husband be joined unto me, because I have borne him three sons: therefore was his name called Levi.

And she was with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Now at last my husband will be united to me, because I have given him three sons: so he was named Levi.


simplify: And he went forth to Tarsus to seek for Saul;

Then he went on to Tarsus, looking for Saul;


simplify: And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would that we had died in this wilderness!

And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!


simplify: If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.

If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?


simplify: And they first took their journey according to the commandment of Jehovah by Moses.

They went forward for the first time on their journey as the Lord had given orders by the hand of Moses.


rate difficulty: And Laban said unto Jacob, Because thou art my brother, shouldest thou therefore serve me for nought? tell me, what shall thy wages be?

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


simplify: and Kattath, and Nahalal, and Shimron, and Idalah, and Bethlehem: twelve cities with their villages.

And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: and his friends having heard, went forth to lay hold on him, for they said that he was beside himself,

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


simplify: But my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus.

And my God will give you all you have need of from the wealth of his glory in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: `When anything is too hard for thee for judgment, between blood and blood, between plea and plea, and between stroke and stroke--matters of strife within thy gates--then thou hast risen, and gone up unto the place on which Jehovah thy God doth fix,

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


rate difficulty: And Abiathar informed David that Saul had slain Jehovah's priests.

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


rate difficulty: Come, I pray you, and we reason, saith Jehovah, If your sins are as scarlet, as snow they shall be white, If they are red as crimson, as wool they shall be!

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


rate difficulty: But thou shalt remember the Lord thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and heaven departed as a scroll rolled up, and every mountain and island--out of their places they were moved;

The heavens disappeared like a scroll when it is rolled up, and every mountain and island was moved from its place.


simplify: And Azariah the chief priest, of the house of Zadok, answered him and said, Since the people began to bring the oblations into the house of Jehovah, we have eaten and had enough, and have left plenty: for Jehovah hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.

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


rate difficulty: Whether, therefore, I or they, thus we preach, and thus ye have believed.

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


rate difficulty: At every head of the way thou hast built thy high place, And thou dost make thy beauty abominable, And dost open wide thy feet to every passer by, And dost multiply thy whoredoms,

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


simplify: These things write I unto thee, hoping to come unto thee shortly:

I am writing this to you, though I hope that I will come to see you before long;


rate difficulty: Now the weight of gold that came to Solomon in one year was six hundred and threescore and six talents of gold,

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


simplify: murmur not against one another, brethren, that ye may not be condemned; lo, the Judge before the door hath stood.

Do not make complaints against one another, friends, or judgment will be passed on you. The judge is already standing at the door!


simplify: Therefore, behold, I will this once cause them to know, I will cause them to know mine hand and my might; and they shall know that my name is The Lord.

For this reason, truly, I will make them see, this once I will give them knowledge of my hand and my power; and they will be certain that my name is the Lord.


rate difficulty: thou shalt die in peace; and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings that were before thee, so shall they make a burning for thee; and they shall lament thee, saying, Ah Lord! for I have spoken the word, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the people could not discern the noise of the shout of joy from the noise of the weeping of the people; for the people shouted with a great shout, and the noise was heard afar off.


rate difficulty: And they took grain and dry grass for the horses and the carriage-horses, to the right place, every man as he was ordered.

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


rate difficulty: For ye are to pass over the Jordan to go in to possess the land which Jehovah your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.

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


simplify: And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and confidence for ever.

And the work of righteousness will be peace; and the effect of an upright rule will be to take away fear for ever.


simplify: And in the eleventh year of Joram the son of Ahab began Ahaziah to reign over Judah.

(In the eleventh year of the rule of Joram, the son of Ahab, Ahaziah became king over Judah.)


simplify: but he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

But the chief bread-maker was put to death by hanging, as Joseph had said.


simplify: But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

And you, my brothers, do not get tired of well-doing.


simplify: have we not authority to eat and to drink?


simplify: and he taught them many things in similes, and he said to them in his teaching:

Then he taught them many truths in parables; and in the course of his teaching he said to them:


simplify: This man was seized by the Jews, and was about to be slain of them, when I came upon them with the soldiers and rescued him, having learned that he was a Roman.

This man was taken by the Jews, and was about to be put to death by them, when I came on them with the army and took him out of danger, having knowledge that he was a Roman.


rate difficulty: And the forms of the locusts were like horses made ready for war; and on their heads they had crowns like gold, and their faces were as the faces of men.

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


simplify: Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,


simplify: And Jiphtah, and Ashnah, and Nezib,


rate difficulty: And the two kidneys, and the fat that is upon them, which is by the flanks, and the caul above the liver, with the kidneys, it shall he take away,

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simplify: Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the way to her house,

Walking in the street near the turn of her road, going on the way to her house,


simplify: For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall.

For you have been a strong place for the poor and the crushed in their trouble, a safe place from the storm, a shade from the heat, when the wrath of the cruel ones is like a winter storm.


simplify: These are the sons of Seir the Horite, the inhabitants of the land: Lotan and Shobal and Zibeon and Anah,

These are the sons of Seir the Horite who were living in that country; Lotan, Shobal, Zibeon, Anah,


simplify: And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.


simplify: And they were glad, and covenanted to give him money.

And they were glad, and undertook to give him money.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

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simplify: and she, at that hour, having come in, was confessing, likewise, to the Lord, and was speaking concerning him, to all those looking for redemption in Jerusalem.

At that moment she came up, and began publicly to thank God and to speak about the child to all who were looking for the deliverance of Jerusalem.


simplify: And, behold, there was a great earthquake: for the angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled back the stone from the door, and sat upon it.

And there was a great earth-shock; for an angel of the Lord came down from heaven and, rolling back the stone, took his seat on it.


simplify: Speak unto Aaron, and say unto him, When thou lightest the lamps, the seven lamps shall give light over against the candlestick.

Say to Aaron, When you put the lights in their places, the seven lights will give light in front of the support.


simplify: And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.

And when he has got it again, he takes it in his arms with joy.


rate difficulty: However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: “Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I will go to the Gentiles.”

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rate difficulty: Thou shalt be blessed above all peoples: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

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simplify: And when he was come in, he saith unto them, Why make ye this ado, and weep? the damsel is not dead, but sleepeth.

And when he had gone in, he said to them, Why are you making such a noise and weeping? The child is not dead, but sleeping.


rate difficulty: And he said to the Levites, that taught all Israel, [and] who were holy to Jehovah, Put the holy ark in the house that Solomon the son of David, king of Israel, built; ye have not to carry it upon your shoulders. Serve now Jehovah yourGod, and his people Israel;

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simplify: And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia;

And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was from Cilicia,


simplify: The cup of the blessing that we bless--is it not the fellowship of the blood of the Christ? the bread that we break--is it not the fellowship of the body of the Christ?

In the cup of blessing which we bless, is not there a sharing in the blood of the Christ? And in the bread which we break, is not there a sharing in the body of the Christ?


simplify: each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

Let everyone give as he has determined before hand, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves ‘a cheerful giver.’


rate difficulty: And you husbands, give thought to your way of life with your wives, giving honour to the woman who is the feebler vessel, but who has an equal part in the heritage of the grace of life; so that you may not be kept from prayer.

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simplify: And Solomon spake unto all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and to the judges, and to every prince in all Israel, the heads of the fathers’ houses.

And Solomon sent word to all Israel, to the captains of thousands and of hundreds and to the judges and to every chief in all Israel, heads of their families.


simplify: Thou hast made us an offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

You have made us like waste and that for which there is no use, among the peoples.


rate difficulty: And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, who smote of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox-goad: and he also saved Israel.


simplify: And having stood, Jesus called them, and said, `What will ye <FI>that<Fi> I may do to you?'

Then Jesus stopped and called them. “What do you want me to do for you?” he said.


simplify: For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,

For I am certain that not death, or life, or angels, or rulers, or things present, or things to come, or powers,


rate difficulty: In the third month they began to lay the foundation of the heaps, and finished them in the seventh month.