rate difficulty: if his sin, which he hath sinned, come to his knowledge, then he shall bring his offering, a goat, a female without blemish, for his sin which he hath sinned.

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


simplify: O Zion, that bringest good tidings, get thee up into the high mountain; O Jerusalem, that bringest good tidings, lift up thy voice with strength; lift it up, be not afraid; say unto the cities of Judah, Behold your God!

You who give good news to Zion, get up into the high mountain; you who give good news to Jerusalem, let your voice be strong; let it be sounding without fear; say to the towns of Judah, See, your God!


simplify: And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves odious to David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver to hire them chariots and horsemen out of Mesopotamia, and out of Aram-maacah, and out of Zobah.

And when the children of Ammon saw that they had made themselves hated by David, Hanun and the children of Ammon sent a thousand talents of silver as payment for war-carriages and horsemen from Mesopotamia and Aram-maacah and Zobah.


rate difficulty: And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the other Peninnah: and Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

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


rate difficulty: Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.

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


rate difficulty: And Elisha the prophet called one of the sons of the prophets, and said to him, Gird up thy loins, and take this vial of oil in thy hand, and go to Ramoth-Gilead.


rate difficulty: and they shall kill him; and the third day he shall be raised up. And they were greatly grieved.

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


simplify: Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honourable, because by him the Lord had given deliverance unto Syria: he was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a leper.

Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.


simplify: And he said to the king of Israel, Put thine hand upon the bow. And he put his hand upon it: and Elisha put his hands upon the king’s hands.

And he said to the king of Israel, Put your hand on the bow: and he put his hand on it; and Elisha put his hands on the king's hands.


simplify: so that the priests could not stand to minister by reason of the cloud; for the glory of Jehovah filled the house of Jehovah.

So that the priests were not able to keep their places to do their work because of the cloud, for the house of the Lord was full of the glory of the Lord.


simplify: And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem.

And when the seventh month came, and the children of Israel were in the towns, the people came together like one man to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard took them and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah;

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


simplify: Then Pharaoh said unto him, But what hast thou lacked with me, that, behold, thou seekest to go to thine own country? And he answered, Nothing: howbeit only let me depart.

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


rate difficulty: Make rods of the same wood, plated with gold, for lifting the table.


rate difficulty: That which was from [the] beginning, that which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes; that which we contemplated, and our hands handled, concerning the word of life;

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


rate difficulty: They that were foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them:


simplify: And to the messenger of the assembly in Sardis write: These things saith he who is having the Seven Spirits of God, and the seven stars: I have known thy works, and that thou hast the name that thou dost live, and thou art dead;

To the angel of the church in Sardis write: —  “These are the words of him who has the seven spirits of God and the seven stars; — I know your life, and that people say of you that you are living, though you are dead.


simplify: Now therefore behold the king whom ye have chosen, and whom ye have asked for: and, behold, Jehovah hath set a king over you.

Here, then, is the king marked out by you: the Lord has put a king over you.


rate difficulty: Sons of Rachel, Jacob's wife: Joseph and Benjamin.

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


simplify: and that thou mayest tell in the ears of thy son, and of thy son’s son, what things I have wrought upon Egypt, and my signs which I have done among them; that ye may know that I am Jehovah.

And so that you may be able to give to your son and to your son's son the story of my wonders in Egypt, and the signs which I have done among them; so that you may see that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, If you will let me put my dead to rest here, make a request for me to Ephron, the son of Zohar,

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


simplify: and having stood behind, beside his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with the tears, and with the hairs of her head she was wiping, and was kissing his feet, and was anointing with the ointment.

and placed herself behind Jesus, near his feet, weeping. Then she began to make his feet wet with her tears, and she dried them with the hair of her head, repeatedly kissing his feet and anointing them with the perfume.


rate difficulty: Whoever speaks against the Son of Man will be forgiven, but whoever speaks against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either in the present age, or in the age to come.

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


simplify: For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; As mine anger and my fury hath been poured forth upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem; so shall my fury be poured forth upon you, when ye shall enter into Egypt: and ye shall be an execration, and an astonishment, and a curse, and a reproach; and ye shall see this place no more.

For this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: As my wrath and passion have been let loose on the people of Jerusalem, so will my passion be let loose on you when you go into Egypt: and you will become an oath and a cause of wonder and a curse and a name of shame; and you will never see this place again.


simplify: And in the seventh year Jehoiada strengthened himself, and took the captains of hundreds, Azariah the son of Jeroham, and Ishmael the son of Jehohanan, and Azariah the son of Obed, and Maaseiah the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat the son of Zichri, into covenant with him.

In the seventh year, Jehoiada made himself strong, and made an agreement with the captains of hundreds, Azariah, the son of Jeroham, Ishmael, the son of Jehohanan, Azariah, the son of Obed, Maaseiah, the son of Adaiah, and Elishaphat, the son of Zichri.


simplify: And they sought to lay hold on him; and they feared the multitude; for they perceived that he spake the parable against them: and they left him, and went away.

And they made attempts to take him; but they were in fear of the people, because they saw that the story was against them; and they went away from him.


simplify: The wise in heart will receive commandments; But a prating fool shall fall.

The wise-hearted man will let himself be ruled, but the man whose talk is foolish will have a fall.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Zebulun: Sered, and Elon, and Jahleel.


simplify: or crook-backed, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or is scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;

Or one whose back is bent, or one who is unnaturally small, or one who has a damaged eye, or whose skin is diseased, or whose sex parts are damaged;


rate difficulty: And all to whose ears it came were full of wonder at his knowledge and the answers which he gave.

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


rate difficulty: And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless the cities of the Levites, the houses of the cities of their possession, may the Levites redeem at any time.

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


simplify: But the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace offerings, that pertain unto the Lord, having his uncleanness upon him, even that soul shall be cut off from his people.

But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.


rate difficulty: But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.


simplify: Howbeit he would not hearken unto her voice: but, being stronger than she, forced her, and lay with her.

But he would not give attention to what she said: but being stronger than she, he took her by force, and had connection with her.


simplify: behold, I will stir them up out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompense upon your own head;

See, I will have them moved from the place where you have sent them, and will let what you have done come back on your head;


simplify: And again, having gone forth from the coasts of Tyre and Sidon, he came unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis,

On returning from the district of Tyre, Jesus went, by way of Sidon, to the Sea of Galilee, across the district of the Ten Towns.


simplify: And those that remain shall hear, and fear, and shall henceforth commit no more any such evil in the midst of thee.

And the rest of the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear, and never again do such evil among you.


simplify: and Paul cried out with a loud voice, saying, `Thou mayest not do thyself any harm, for we are all here.'

But Paul called our loudly: “Do not harm yourself; we are all here.”


simplify: A land of darkness, as darkness itself; and of the shadow of death, without any order, and where the light is as darkness.

A land of thick dark, without order, where the very light is dark.


rate difficulty: And Solomon hath twelve officers over all Israel, and they have sustained the king and his household--a month in the year is on each one for sustenance;

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


simplify: Heaviness in the heart of a man maketh it stoop; But a good word maketh it glad.

Care in the heart of a man makes it weighted down, but a good word makes it glad.


rate difficulty: Behold the mounts, they are come unto the city to take it; and the city is given into the hand of the Chaldeans, that fight against it, because of the sword, and of the famine, and of the pestilence: and what thou hast spoken is come to pass; and, behold, thou seest it.

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


rate difficulty: For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

Listen, my dear friends. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?


simplify: And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto Jehovah; the thunders shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know that the earth is Jehovah’s.

And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.


rate difficulty: but let them be covered with sackcloth, both man and beast, and let them cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in his hands.

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


simplify: She is not afraid of the snow for her household: for all her household are clothed with scarlet.

She has no fear of the snow for her family, for all those in her house are clothed in red.


simplify: Whose are the fathers, and of whom as concerning the flesh Christ came, who is over all, God blessed for ever. Amen.

They are descended from the Patriarchs; and, as far as his human nature was concerned, from them came the Christ — he who is supreme over all things, God for ever blessed. Amen.


rate difficulty: and suffered not that any one should carry any package through the temple.

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


simplify: And every meal-offering, mingled with oil, or dry, shall all the sons of Aaron have, one as well as another.

And every meal offering, mixed with oil or dry, is for all the sons of Aaron in equal measure.


simplify: And I beheld, and, lo, there were sinews upon them, and flesh came up, and skin covered them above; but there was no breath in them.

And looking I saw that there were muscles on them and flesh came up, and they were covered with skin: but there was no breath in them.


simplify: And having entered into the temple, he began to cast forth those selling in it, and those buying,

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


simplify: but he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, and made also molten images for the Baalim.

But he went in the ways of the kings of Israel and made images of metal for the Baals.


simplify: And they which went before rebuked him, that he should hold his peace: but he cried so much the more, Thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

Those who were in front kept telling him to be quiet, but he continued to call out the louder: “Son of David, take pity on me!”


rate difficulty: And they slew every one his man; and the Syrians fled, and Israel pursued them; and Ben-Hadad the king of Syria escaped on a horse with the horsemen.

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah received the letter from the hand of the messengers, and read it; and Hezekiah went up into the house of Jehovah, and spread it before Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.


simplify: And the children of Reuben, and the children of Gad, and half the tribe of Manasseh, passed over armed before the children of Israel, as Moses spake unto them:

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh went over armed before the children of Israel as Moses had said to them:


rate difficulty: because that they have forsaken Me, and make perfume to other gods, so as to provoke Me with all the works of their hands, and poured out is My fury upon this place, and it is not quenched.

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


rate difficulty: It is a part of your faith, is it not, that there is one God? Good; yet even the demons have that faith, and tremble at the thought.

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


rate difficulty: Take heed therefore to yourselves, and to all the flock, wherein the Holy Spirit has set you as overseers, to shepherd the assembly ofGod, which he has purchased with the blood of his own.

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


simplify: No man can serve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot serve God and mammon.

No one can serve two masters, for either they will hate one and love the other, or else they will attach themselves to one and despise the other. You cannot serve both God and Money.


simplify: Pure religion and undefiled before God and the Father is this, To visit the fatherless and widows in their affliction, and to keep himself unspotted from the world.

That religious observance which is pure and spotless in the eyes of God our Father is this — to visit orphans and widows in their trouble, and to keep oneself uncontaminated by the world.


simplify: Howbeit there was no reckoning made with them of the money that was delivered into their hand; for they dealt faithfully.

They did not have to give any account of the money which was handed to them, for they made use of it with good faith.


simplify: And when he heard concerning Jesus, he sent unto him elders of the Jews, asking him that he would come and save his servant.

And when news of Jesus came to his ears, he sent to him rulers of the Jews, requesting that he would come and make his servant well.


rate difficulty: And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.


simplify: These also are the chief of the mighty men whom David had, who strengthened themselves with him in his kingdom, and with all Israel, to make him king, according to the word of the Lord concerning Israel.

Now these are the chief of David's men of war who were his strong supporters in the kingdom, and, with all Israel, made him king, as the Lord had said about Israel.


rate difficulty: And all the doors and posts were square, with the windows: and light was against light in three ranks.


simplify: and he was preaching in the synagogues of Galilee.

And he continued to make his proclamation in the Synagogues of Judea.


rate difficulty: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in former days, By the hand of My servants, prophets of Israel, Who are prophesying in those days--years, To bring thee in against them?

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


simplify: They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.

They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden.


rate difficulty: So then, keep my orders, so that you may not do any of these disgusting things which were done before you, or make yourselves unclean through them: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: So they did eat, and were filled: and they took up of the broken meat that was left seven baskets.

The people had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left.


simplify: And he put the candlestick in the tent of the congregation, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side:


rate difficulty: Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

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


rate difficulty: And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.


simplify: Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted of the devil.

Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.


rate difficulty: So that you may keep in mind the words of the holy prophets in the past, and the law of the Lord and Saviour which was given to you by his Apostles.

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


simplify: And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is a sound of abundance of rain.

Then Elijah said to Ahab, Up! take food and drink, for there is a sound of much rain.


simplify: Circumcised the eighth day, of the stock of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, an Hebrew of the Hebrews; as touching the law, a Pharisee;

I was circumcised when eight days old; I am an Israelite by race, and of the tribe of Benjamin; I am a Hebrew, and the child of Hebrews. As to the law, I was a Pharisee;


rate difficulty: By the seed which was sown among the brambles is meant the person who hears the message, but the cares of life and the glamour of wealth completely choke the message, so that it gives no return.

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


rate difficulty: And there ariseth a great storm of wind, and the waves beat into the boat, insomuch that the boat was now filling.

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


simplify: Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come; all are yours;


rate difficulty: For from the rising of the sun even unto the going down of the same my name shall be great among the Gentiles; and in every place incense shall be offered unto my name, and a pure offering: for my name shall be great among the Gentiles, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: The sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jeremoth, three.

The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.


simplify: My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, As the channel of brooks that pass away;

My friends have been false like a stream, like streams in the valleys which come to an end:


simplify: and Saul was making havoc of the assembly, into every house entering, and haling men and women, was giving them up to prison;

But Saul began to devastate the church; he entered house after house, dragged out men and women alike, and threw them into prison.


simplify: And the Amorites forced the children of Dan into the mountain: for they would not suffer them to come down to the valley:

And the children of Dan were forced into the hill-country by the Amorites, who would not let them come down into the valley;


simplify: And Michael, and Ispah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah;

And Michael and Ishpah and Joha, the sons of Beriah;


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

For see what results that other sorrow — sorrow in accordance with God’s will — has had in your case. What earnestness it produced! What explanations! What strong feeling! What alarm! What longing! What eagerness! What readiness to punish! You have proved yourselves altogether free from guilt in that matter.


simplify: But ye have not so learned Christ;

For this was not the teaching of Christ which was given to you;


simplify: but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast--in those days.

But the days will come, when the groom will be taken away from them, and they will fast then — when that day comes.


simplify: And our adversaries said, They shall not know, neither see, till we come into the midst of them, and slay them, and cause the work to cease.

And those who were against us said, Without their knowledge and without their seeing us, we will come among them and put them to death, causing the work to come to a stop.


simplify: Watch therefore, for ye know not the day nor the hour.

Keep watch, then, because you are not certain of the day or of the hour.


simplify: But they had heard only, That he which persecuted us in times past now preacheth the faith which once he destroyed.

all that they had heard was — ‘The man who once persecuted us is now telling the good news of the faith of which he once made havoc.’


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel do according to all that Jehovah hath commanded Moses; so they have encamped by their standards, and so they have journeyed; each by his families, by the house of his fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat bowed his head with his face to the ground: and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem fell before the Lord, worshipping the Lord.

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


simplify: Gather yourselves together, yea, gather together, O nation not desired;

Come together, make everyone come together, O nation without shame;


simplify: For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.

for false Christs and false prophets will arise, and display signs and marvels, to lead astray, were it possible, even God’s people.


simplify: To whom it was revealed, that not unto themselves, but unto you, did they minister these things, which now have been announced unto you through them that preached the gospel unto you by the Holy Spirit sent forth from heaven; which things angels desire to look into.

And it was made clear to those prophets that they were God's servants not for themselves but for you, to give you word of the things which have now come to your ears from the preachers of the good news through the Holy Spirit sent down from heaven; things which even angels have a desire to see.


simplify: For it was said to me by the word of the Lord, Thou shalt eat no bread nor drink water there, nor turn again to go by the way that thou camest.

For the Lord said to me, You are not to take food or water there, or go back again by the way you came.


simplify: And they appointed two, Joseph called Barsabas, who was surnamed Justus, and Matthias.

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


rate difficulty: The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

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


simplify: And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and tongue and nation.

And it was given to him to make war on the saints and to overcome them: and there was given to him authority over every tribe and people and language and nation.


simplify: And said unto them, Whosoever shall receive this child in my name receiveth me: and whosoever shall receive me receiveth him that sent me: for he that is least among you all, the same shall be great.

and then said to them: “Anyone who, for the sake of my name, welcomes even this little child is welcoming me; and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming him who sent me as his messenger. For whoever is least among you all — that person is great.”


rate difficulty: But byGod's grace I am what I am; and his grace, which [was] towards me, has not been vain; but I have laboured more abundantly than they all, but not I, but the grace ofGod which [was] with me.

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


simplify: And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,

And a woman, who had suffered from hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom no one could cure,


simplify: But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men that were grown up with him, that stood before him.

But he gave no attention to the opinion of the old men, and went to the young men of his generation who were waiting before him:


rate difficulty: And he took the offering to Eglon, king of Moab, who was a very fat man.


simplify: One dieth in his full strength, being wholly at ease and quiet.

One comes to his end in complete well-being, full of peace and quiet:


simplify: Woe to the rebellious children, saith the Lord, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:


rate difficulty: Then Micaiah declared unto them all the words that he had heard, when Baruch read the book in the ears of the people.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman took and spread the covering over the well’s mouth, and strewed bruised grain thereon; and nothing was known.

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


rate difficulty: All the souls that came with Jacob to Egypt, that had come out of his loins, besides Jacob's sons' wives: all the souls were sixty-six.


rate difficulty: I saw the blood of Naboth and of his sons yesterday; and I will give you full payment in this field, says the Lord? So now, take him and put him in this field, as the Lord said.

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


simplify: But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

But he who has hate for his brother is in the dark, walking in the dark with no knowledge of where he is going, unable to see because of the dark.


rate difficulty: And David riseth, and all the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, and they pass over the Jordan, till the light of the morning, till one hath not been lacking who hath not passed over the Jordan.

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


simplify: Saying, Say ye, His disciples came by night, and stole him away while we slept.

and told them to say that his disciples came in the night, and stole him while they were asleep;


simplify: One man esteemeth one day above another: another esteemeth every day alike. Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

Again, one person considers some days to be more sacred than others, while another considers all days to be alike. Everyone ought to be fully convinced in their own mind.


rate difficulty: This mystery is great, but I speak as to Christ, and as to the assembly.


rate difficulty: Even as I give way to all men in all things, not looking for profit for myself, but for the good of others, that they may get salvation.

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


simplify: When thou buildest a new house, then thou shalt make a battlement for thy roof, that thou bring not blood upon thy house, if any man fall from thence.

If you are building a house, make a railing for the roof, so that the blood of any man falling from it will not come on your house.


rate difficulty: And when Hadad heard in Egypt that David slept with his fathers, and that Joab the captain of the host was dead, Hadad said to Pharaoh, Let me depart, that I may go to mine own country.

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


rate difficulty: And those of you who are kept safe will have me in mind among the nations where they have been taken away as prisoners, how I sent punishment on their hearts which were untrue to me, and on their eyes which were turned to their false gods: and they will be full of hate for themselves because of the evil things which they have done in all their disgusting ways.


rate difficulty: And I will send a fire on the wall of Gazah, and it shall devour the palaces thereof.

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


simplify: Only Luke is with me. Take Mark, and bring him with thee: for he is profitable to me for the ministry.

Only Luke is with me. Get Mark and take him with you; for he is of use to me in the work.


rate difficulty: If they hearken and serve him, They shall spend their days in prosperity, And their years in pleasures.

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


rate difficulty: Such will be the fate of all the men whose minds are fixed on going into Egypt and stopping there; they will come to their end by the sword, by being short of food, and by disease: not one of them will keep his life or get away from the evil which I will send on them.


simplify: and said unto them, Hear me, ye Levites; now sanctify yourselves, and sanctify the house of Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and carry forth the filthiness out of the holy place.

And said to them, Give ear to me, O Levites: now make yourselves holy, and make holy the house of the Lord, the God of your fathers, and take away everything unclean from the holy place.


simplify: Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation; and honourest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?


simplify: And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

After their arrival, they gathered the church together, and gave an account of all that God had helped them to do, and especially how he had opened to the Gentiles the door of faith;


rate difficulty: Even in thy mind a king revile not, And in the inner parts of thy bed-chamber Revile not the rich: For a fowl of the heavens causeth the voice to go, And a possessor of wings declareth the word.

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


simplify: And when they saw it, they made known concerning the saying which was spoken to them about this child.

And when they saw it, they gave them an account of the things which had been said to them about the child.


rate difficulty: And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

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


simplify: But thanks be unto God, who always leadeth us in triumph in Christ, and maketh manifest through us the savor of his knowledge in every place.

But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.


rate difficulty: And the seven thin and ill favoured kine that came up after them are seven years; and the seven empty ears blasted with the east wind shall be seven years of famine.

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


rate difficulty: And I, when I came to you, brethren, came not in excellency of word, or wisdom, announcing to you the testimony ofGod.


rate difficulty: Doing nothing through envy or through pride, but with low thoughts of self let everyone take others to be better than himself;

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


rate difficulty: Magpiash, Meshullam, Hezir,

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto God, Who am I, that I should go unto Pharaoh, and that I should bring forth the children of Israel out of Egypt?

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore should the Egyptians speak, saying, For evil did he bring them forth, to slay them in the mountains, and to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people.

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


simplify: Their bull gendereth, and faileth not; their cow calveth, and casteth not her calf.

Their ox is ready at all times to give seed; their cow gives birth, without dropping her young.


simplify: neither did we eat bread for nought at any man’s hand, but in labor and travail, working night and day, that we might not burden any of you:

And we did not take food from any man for nothing, but were working hard night and day not to be a trouble to any of you:


simplify: For the indignation of the Lord is upon all nations, and his fury upon all their armies: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.


rate difficulty: merchandise of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearls, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet; and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel made of most precious wood, and of brass, and iron, and marble;

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


rate difficulty: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee earnestly: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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


simplify: And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

And day by day, going in agreement together regularly to the Temple and, taking broken bread together in their houses, they took their food with joy and with true hearts,


simplify: and having found him, they say to him, --`All do seek thee;'

and, when they found him, they exclaimed: “Everyone is looking for you!”


simplify: and Joshua said unto them, Pass over before the ark of Jehovah your God into the midst of the Jordan, and take you up every man of you a stone upon his shoulder, according unto the number of the tribes of the children of Israel;

And he said to them, Go over before the ark of the Lord your God into the middle of Jordan, and let every one of you take up a stone on his back, one for every tribe of the children of Israel:


simplify: Wail, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow in ashes, ye principal of the flock; for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are fully come, and ye shall fall like a goodly vessel.

Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.


rate difficulty: And there are three that bear witness in earth, the spirit, and the water, and the blood: and these three agree in one.

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


simplify: And there shall be no night there; and they need no candle, neither light of the sun; for the Lord God giveth them light: and they shall reign for ever and ever.

Night will cease to be. They have no need of the light of a lamp, nor have they the light of the sun; for the ‘Lord God will be their light, and they will reign for ever and ever.’


simplify: Then Jeremiah said unto Zedekiah, If I declare it unto thee, wilt thou not surely put me to death? and if I give thee counsel, wilt thou not hearken unto me?

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, If I give you the answer to your question, will you not certainly put me to death? and if I make a suggestion to you, you will not give it a hearing.


rate difficulty: and of cassia five hundred, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of olive oil a hin;

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel cried to Jehovah, and Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjaminite, a man left-handed. And by him the children of Israel sent a gift to Eglon king of Moab.

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


simplify: So Joab blew the trumpet; and all the people stood still, and pursued after Israel no more, neither fought they any more.

So Joab had a horn sounded, and all the people came to a stop, and gave up going after Israel and fighting them.


rate difficulty: Whose buyers slay them, and are not guilty, And their sellers say, Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, And I am rich, And their shepherds have no pity on them.

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


simplify: They shall run to and fro in the city; they shall run upon the wall, they shall climb up upon the houses; they shall enter in at the windows like a thief.

They make a rush on the town, running on the wall; they go up into the houses and in through the windows like a thief.


simplify: Nevertheless Haman refrained himself: and when he came home, he sent and called for his friends, and Zeresh his wife.

But controlling himself, he went to his house; and he sent for his friends and Zeresh, his wife.


rate difficulty: For you have not forgotten the directions that we gave you on the authority of our Lord Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

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


rate difficulty: and he maketh the middle bar to enter into the midst of the boards from end to end;

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


simplify: And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves from the people of the lands unto the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, every one having knowledge, and having understanding;

And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the door-keepers, the music-makers, the Nethinim, and all those who had made themselves separate from the peoples of the lands, to keep the law of God, their wives, their sons, and their daughters, everyone who had knowledge and wisdom;


rate difficulty: so as to make thee uppermost above all the nations whom He hath made for a praise, and for a name, and for beauty, and for thy being a holy people to Jehovah thy God, as He hath spoken.

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


simplify: And now, O our God, what shall we say after this? for we have forsaken thy commandments,

And now, O our God, what are we to say after this? for we have not kept your laws,


simplify: Is not Jehovah your God with you? and hath he not given you rest on every side? for he hath delivered the inhabitants of the land into my hand; and the land is subdued before Jehovah, and before his people.

Is not the Lord your God with you? and has he not given you rest on every side? for the Lord has given the people of the land into my hands, and the land is overcome before the Lord and before his people.


simplify: Moreover, thou son of man, take thee one stick, and write upon it, For Judah, and for the children of Israel his companions: then take another stick, and write upon it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and for all the house of Israel his companions:

And you, son of man, take one stick, writing on it, For Judah and for the children of Israel who are in his company: then take another stick, writing on it, For Joseph, the stick of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel who are in his company:


simplify: Who answered, Give me a blessing; for thou hast given me a south land; give me also springs of water. And he gave her the upper springs, and the nether springs.

And she said, Give me a blessing; because you have put me in dry south-land, now give me springs of water. So he gave her the higher spring and the lower spring.


rate difficulty: but he is notGod of [the] dead but of [the] living; for all live for him.

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


rate difficulty: Drop down, [ye] heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness; let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and with it let righteousness spring up. I, Jehovah, have created it.

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


simplify: Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.

The shame of your unclothed condition will be seen by all: I will give punishment without mercy,


simplify: concerning his Son, who was born of the seed of David according to the flesh,

About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,


rate difficulty: Then the Philistines went up, and encamped in Judah, and spread themselves in Lehi.

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


simplify: And when they shall say unto you, Seek unto them that have familiar spirits and unto the wizards, that chirp and that mutter: should not a people seek unto their God? on behalf of the living should they seek unto the dead?

And when they say to you, Make request for us to those who have control of spirits, and to those wise in secret arts, who make hollow bird-like sounds; is it not right for a people to make request to their gods, to make request for the living to the dead?


simplify: then those in Judea, let them flee to the mountains; and those in her midst, let them depart out; and those in the countries, let them not come in to her;

Then those of you who are in Judea must take refuge in the mountains, those who are in Jerusalem must leave at once, and those who are in the country places must not go into it.


simplify: men who have given up their lives for the name of our Lord Jesus Christ--

who have risked their lives for the name of our Lord, Jesus Christ.


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, My mother and my brethren are these which hear the word of God, and do it.

His reply, spoken to them all, was: “My mother and my brothers are those who listen to God’s teaching and do what it says.”


rate difficulty: Ye have sown much, and brought in little, To eat, and not to satiety, To drink, and not to drunkenness, To clothe, and none hath heat, And he who is hiring himself out, Is hiring himself for a bag pierced through.

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


simplify: If thou hast run with the footmen, and they have wearied thee, then how canst thou contend with horses? and if in the land of peace, wherein thou trustedst, they wearied thee, then how wilt thou do in the swelling of Jordan?

If running with the fighting-men has made you tired, how will you be able to keep up with horses? and if in a land of peace you go in flight, what will become of you in the thick growth of Jordan?


rate difficulty: These are they that went over Jordan in the first month, when it had overflown all his banks; and they put to flight all them of the valleys, both toward the east, and toward the west.

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


simplify: My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge: because thou hast rejected knowledge, I will also reject thee, that thou shalt be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I also will forget thy children.

Destruction has overtaken my people because they have no knowledge; because you have given up knowledge, I will give you up, so that you will be no priest to me, because you have not kept in mind the law of your God, I will not keep your children in my memory.


simplify: And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,

(And the word of the Lord came to Solomon, saying,


simplify: And I baptized also the household of Stephanas: besides, I know not whether I baptized any other.

And I gave baptism to the house of Stephanas; but I am not certain that any others had baptism from me.


simplify: So Moses hearkened to the voice of his father in law, and did all that he had said.

So Moses took note of the words of his father-in-law, and did as he had said.


simplify: Hear then ye the parable of the sower.

Give ear, then, to the story of the man who put the seed in the earth.


rate difficulty: Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who had love for us and has given us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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


rate difficulty: And we took all his cities at that time; there was not a city which we took not from them; threescore cities, all the region of Argob, the kingdom of Og in Bashan.

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


rate difficulty: for it was signified to me concerning you, my brethren, by those of Chloe, that contentions are among you;

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


simplify: and so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, Luke, my fellow-workers.

And so do Mark, Aristarchus, Demas, and Luke, my brother-workers.


simplify: And ye shall be holy men unto me: neither shall ye eat any flesh that is torn of beasts in the field; ye shall cast it to the dogs.

You are to be holy men to me: the flesh of no animal whose death has been caused by the beasts of the field may be used for your food; it is to be given to the dogs.


simplify: And if a man take a wife and her mother, it is wickedness: they shall be burnt with fire, both he and they; that there be no wickedness among you.

And if a man takes as wife a woman and her mother, it is an act of shame; let them be burned with fire, all three of them, so that there may be no shame among you.


rate difficulty: And David commanded to gather together the strangers that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

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


simplify: And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song.


rate difficulty: Tell us therefore, What thinkest thou? Is it lawful to give tribute unto Cæsar, or not?

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


simplify: And he cast for it four rings of gold, and put the rings in the four corners that were on the four feet thereof.

And he made four gold rings, and put the rings at the angles of its four feet.


simplify: The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said to be bountiful.

The foolish man will no longer be named noble, and they will not say of the false man that he is a man of honour.


simplify: And another angel came out of the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade.


simplify: And the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

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


simplify: Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

Take note of them when they are seated, and when they get up; I am their song.


rate difficulty: And he cast for it four rings of gold, for its four corners: two rings on the one side of it, and two rings on the other side of it.


rate difficulty: those that were numbered of them, of the tribe of Reuben, were forty and six thousand and five hundred.

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


simplify: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


simplify: And the lot for the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families was unto the border of Edom, even to the wilderness of Zin southward, at the uttermost part of the south.

Now the part of the land marked out for the children of Judah by families, went up to the edge of Edom, as far as the waste land of Zin to the south, to the farthest point of it on the south.


rate difficulty: Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned.

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


rate difficulty: And [there was] a poor man, by name Lazarus, [who] was laid at his gateway full of sores,

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


simplify: And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

And the king of Assyria took Israel away as prisoners into Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes;


rate difficulty: Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah, the son of Johanan, Berechiah, the son of Meshillemoth Jehizkiah, the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, put themselves against those who had come from the war,

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


simplify: And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

To have rule over the day and the night, and for a division between the light and the dark: and God saw that it was good.


simplify: But Levi and Benjamin counted he not among them: for the king’s word was abominable to Joab.

But Levi and Benjamin were not numbered among them, for Joab was disgusted with the king's order.


simplify: And she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name JESUS: for he shall save his people from their sins.

And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.


simplify: So the Lord sent a pestilence upon Israel from the morning even to the time appointed: and there died of the people from Dan even to Beer–sheba seventy thousand men.

So David made selection of the disease; and the time was the days of the grain-cutting, when the disease came among the people, causing the death of seventy thousand men from Dan as far as Beer-sheba.


simplify: And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was returned, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.

Now when all Israel had news that Jeroboam had come back, they sent for him to come before the meeting of the people, and made him king over Israel: not one of them was joined to the family of David but only the tribe of Judah.


rate difficulty: And ten portions fall <FI>to<Fi> Manasseh, apart from the land of Gilead and Bashan, which <FI>are<Fi> beyond the Jordan;

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


rate difficulty: Leaving the straight road, they have gone astray and followed in the steps of Balaam, the son of Beor, who set his heart on the reward for wrong-doing,

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


simplify: Behold, it is the litter of Solomon; Threescore mighty men are about it, Of the mighty men of Israel.

See, it is the bed of Solomon; sixty men of war are about it, of the army of Israel,


rate difficulty: And he made ornaments of apples; and two lines of apples all round over the network, covering the crowns of the pillars, the two crowns in the same way.


rate difficulty: For this is he that was spoken of through Isaiah the prophet, saying,  The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Make ye ready the way of the Lord, Make his paths straight.

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


simplify: And the name of Hebron before was Kirjath–arba; which Arba was a great man among the Anakims. And the land had rest from war.

In earlier times the name of Hebron had been Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the greatest of the Anakim. And the land had rest from war.


simplify: Ye have heard that it was said by them of old time, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:


rate difficulty: And all the company of the sons of Israel murmur against Moses and against Aaron in the wilderness;

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


simplify: And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; take away this cup from me: nevertheless not what I will, but what thou wilt.

And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible to you; take away this cup from me: but even so let not my pleasure, but yours be done.


rate difficulty: Who is the liar, except he who is denying that Jesus is the Christ? this one is the antichrist who is denying the Father and the Son;


simplify: The word that Isaiah the son of Amoz saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem.

The word which Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saw about Judah and Jerusalem.


simplify: Then I looked, and, behold, in the firmament that was over the head of the cherubim there appeared above them as it were a sapphire stone, as the appearance of the likeness of a throne.

Then looking, I saw that on the arch which was over the head of the winged ones there was seen over them what seemed like a sapphire stone, having the form of a king's seat.


rate difficulty: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, We took no bread.

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


rate difficulty: And Baasha the son of Ahijah, of the house of Issachar, conspired against him; and Baasha smote him at Gibbethon, which [belonged] to the Philistines, when Nadab and all Israel were besieging Gibbethon.

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


simplify: And he preached in the synagogues of Galilee.

And he was teaching in the Synagogues of Galilee.


simplify: And Jesus answering said unto him, Simon, I have somewhat to say unto thee. And he saith, Master, say on.

But, addressing him, Jesus said: “Simon, I have something to say to you.”   “Pray do so, teacher,” Simon answered; and Jesus began:


simplify: So there were delivered, out of the thousands of Israel, a thousand of every tribe, twelve thousand armed for war.

So from the thousands of Israel a thousand were taken from every tribe, twelve thousand men armed for war.


simplify: The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, according to their families.

The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families.


simplify: And now, behold, I go unto my people: come therefore, and I will advertise thee what this people shall do to thy people in the latter days.

So now I will go back to my people: but first let me make clear to you what this people will do to your people in days to come.


simplify: For Gaza shall be forsaken, and Ashkelon a desolation; they shall drive out Ashdod at noonday, and Ekron shall be rooted up.

For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.


simplify: And Hushai said unto Absalom, Nay; but whom Jehovah, and this people, and all the men of Israel have chosen, his will I be, and with him will I abide.

And Hushai said to Absalom, Not so; I am for that man whom the Lord and this people and all the men of Israel have taken as king, and I will take my place with him.


simplify: For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the prosperity of fools shall destroy them.

For the turning back of the simple from teaching will be the cause of their death, and the peace of the foolish will be their destruction.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi: these are the families of Levi according to their generations.

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


rate difficulty: when thou shalt hearken to the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep all his commandments which I command thee this day, to do that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

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


simplify: What wilt thou say, when he shall set over thee as head those whom thou hast thyself taught to be friends to thee? shall not sorrows take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

What will you say when he puts over you those whom you yourself have made your friends? will not pains take you like a woman in childbirth?


rate difficulty: And they have cast lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.


simplify: Or else let these same here say, if they have found any evil doing in me, while I stood before the council,

Or else let my opponents here say what they found wrong in me when I was before the Council,


rate difficulty: I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men and with the stripes of the sons of men;


simplify: And I raised up of your sons for prophets, and of your young men for Nazarites. Is it not even thus, O ye children of Israel? saith the Lord.

And some of your sons I made prophets, and some of your young men I made separate for myself. Is it not even so, O children of Israel? says the Lord.


simplify: Many of them also which used curious arts brought their books together, and burned them before all men: and they counted the price of them, and found it fifty thousand pieces of silver.

while a number of people, who had practiced magic, collected their books and burnt them publicly; and on reckoning up the price of these, they found it amounted to fifty thousand silver coins.


simplify: And Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor:

And Serug was thirty years old when he became the father of Nahor:


rate difficulty: And it will be in that day that a great horn will be sounded; and those who were wandering in the land of Assyria, and those who had been sent away into the land of Egypt, will come; and they will give worship to the Lord in the holy mountain at Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: True; it was because of their want of faith that they were broken off, and it is because of your faith that you are standing. Do not think too highly of yourself, but beware.


rate difficulty: the children of Keros, the children of Siaha, the children of Padon,

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


simplify: And the king of Babylon smote them, and put them to death in Riblah in the land of Hamath. Thus Judah was carried away captive out of his own land.

And the king of Babylon put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken prisoner away from his land.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord of hosts, that I will cut off the names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more be remembered: and also I will cause the prophets and the unclean spirit to pass out of the land.

And it will come about on that day, says the Lord of armies, that I will have the names of the images cut off out of the land, and there will be no more memory of them: and I will send all the prophets and the unclean spirit away from the land.


rate difficulty: And the fountain-gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the chief of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up its doors, its locks and its bars, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, and to the stairs that go down from the city of David.

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


rate difficulty: Fear not; for thou shalt not be ashamed: neither be thou confounded; for thou shalt not be put to shame: for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth; and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou remember no more.

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


simplify: And when ye shall err, and not observe all these commandments, which Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses,

And if in error you go against any of these laws which the Lord has given to Moses,


rate difficulty: And Boaz ate and drank, and his heart was merry, and he went to lie down at the end of the heap of corn. Then she went softly, and uncovered his feet, and laid herself down.


simplify: Sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy: for I am the Lord your God.

So make and keep yourselves holy, for I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And say, How have I hated instruction, and my heart despised reproof;


rate difficulty: and those reclining with him (at meat) began to say within themselves, `Who is this, who also doth forgive sins?'

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


simplify: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.

The troubler of his house will have the wind for his heritage, and the foolish will be servant to the wise-hearted.


simplify: And when he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast.

And when he was twelve years old, they went up, as their way was, to the feast;


simplify: in like manner also the second, and the third, unto the seventh,

The same thing happened to the second and the third brothers, and indeed to all the seven.


rate difficulty: And one came to him and said, Master, what good thing have I to do, so that I may have eternal life?


rate difficulty: His flesh is consumed away from view, and his bones that were not seen stick out;


simplify: Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, that take counsel, but not of me; and that make a league, but not of my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,

Ho! uncontrolled children, says the Lord, who give effect to a purpose which is not mine, and who make an agreement, but not by my spirit, increasing their sin:


rate difficulty: According to the multitude of the years thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the fewness of the years thou shalt diminish the price of it; for the number of the crops doth he sell unto thee.

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


simplify: For it seemeth to me unreasonable to send a prisoner, and not withal to signify the crimes laid against him.

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


simplify: For because thou hast trusted in thy works and in thy treasures, thou shalt also be taken: and Chemosh shall go forth into captivity with his priests and his princes together.

For because you have put your faith in your strong places, you, even you, will be taken: and Chemosh will go out as a prisoner, his priests and his rulers together.


simplify: and they forgot to take loaves, and except one loaf they had nothing with them in the boat,

Now the disciples had forgotten to take any bread with them, one loaf being all that they had in the boat.


simplify: And we have known that to those loving God all things do work together for good, to those who are called according to purpose;

But we do know that God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love him — those who have received the call in accordance with his purpose.


simplify: the festival robes, and the mantles, and the shawls, and the satchels;

The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,


rate difficulty: Therefore speak unto them, and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Every man of the house of Israel that setteth up his idols in his heart, and putteth the stumblingblock of his iniquity before his face, and cometh to the prophet; I the Lord will answer him that cometh according to the multitude of his idols;

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


rate difficulty: And I will punish him and his seed and his servants for their iniquity; and I will bring upon them, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and upon the men of Judah, all the evil that I have pronounced against them, but they hearkened not.

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


simplify: First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.


rate difficulty: `For I testify to every one hearing the words of the prophecy of this scroll, if any one may add unto these, God shall add to him the plagues that have been written in this scroll,

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


simplify: And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so in earth.

“When you pray,”Jesus answered, “say —  ‘Father, May your name be held holy, your kingdom come.


rate difficulty: If others partake of this right over you, do not we yet more? Nevertheless we did not use this right; but we bear all things, that we may cause no hindrance to the gospel of Christ.

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


simplify: For Zedekiah king of Judah had shut him up, saying, Wherefore dost thou prophesy, and say, Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall take it;

For Zedekiah, king of Judah, had had him shut up, saying, Why have you, as a prophet, been saying, The Lord has said, See, I will give this town into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take it;


simplify: And he departed thence, and went into the house of a certain man named Titus Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

And moving from there, he went into the house of a man named Titus Justus, a God-fearing man, whose house was very near the Synagogue.


simplify: I would lead thee, and bring thee into my mother’s house, Who would instruct me; I would cause thee to drink of spiced wine, Of the juice of my pomegranate.

I would take you by the hand into my mother's house, and she would be my teacher. I would give you drink of spiced wine, drink of the pomegranate.


rate difficulty: For from the top of rocks I see it, And from heights I behold it; Lo a people! alone it doth tabernacle, And among nations doth not reckon itself.

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


simplify: And when Simon saw that through laying on of the apostles’ hands the Holy Ghost was given, he offered them money,

Now when Simon saw that the Holy Spirit was given through the touch of the Apostles' hands, he made them an offering of money, saying,


rate difficulty: And Dilean, and Mizpeh, and Joktheel,

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


simplify: He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy.

He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.


simplify: beginning from the baptism of John, unto the day in which he was received up from us, one of these to become with us a witness of his rising again.'

From his baptism by John down to that day on which he was taken from us — some one must be found to join us as a witness of his resurrection.”


simplify: For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

for out of the heart proceed evil thoughts — murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, perjury, slander.


rate difficulty: And whatsoever house ye enter into, there abide, and thence depart.

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


simplify: For days beyond a year shall ye be troubled, ye careless women; for the vintage shall fail, the ingathering shall not come.

In not much more than a year, you, who are not looking for evil, will be troubled: for the produce of the vine-gardens will be cut off, and there will be no getting in of the grapes.


rate difficulty: The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the corn is wasted, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

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


simplify: And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favour in thy sight; and let me not see my wretchedness.

If this is to be my fate, put me to death now in answer to my prayer, if I have grace in your eyes; and let me not see my shame.


rate difficulty: And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;

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


rate difficulty: Take no gold or silver or copper in your pockets;


simplify: And if a leprosy break out abroad in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of him that hath the plague from his head even to his foot, wheresoever the priest looketh;

And if the disease comes out all over his skin, from his head to his feet, as far as the priest is able to see,


simplify: for Jehovah hath made the Jordan a border between us and you, ye children of Reuben and children of Gad; ye have no portion in Jehovah: so might your children make our children cease from fearing Jehovah.

For the Lord has made Jordan a line of division between us and you, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad; you have no part in the Lord: so your children will make our children give up fearing the Lord.


simplify: The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.

The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety-eight.


simplify: The servants! obey the masters according to the flesh with fear and trembling, in the simplicity of your heart, as to the Christ;

Slaves, obey your earthly masters, with anxious care, giving them ungrudging service, as if obeying the Christ;


rate difficulty: For it was handed down to me from the Lord, as I gave it to you, that the Lord Jesus, on the night when Judas was false to him, took bread,

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


simplify: But now Jehovah my God hath given me rest on every side; there is neither adversary, nor evil occurrence.

But now the Lord my God has given me rest on every side; no one is making trouble, and no evil is taking place.


rate difficulty: Now the men did diligently observe whether any thing would come from him, and did hastily catch it: and they said, Thy brother Ben–hadad. Then he said, Go ye, bring him. Then Ben–hadad came forth to him; and he caused him to come up into the chariot.

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


rate difficulty: And all the meeting of the children of Israel came together at Shiloh and put up the Tent of meeting there: and the land was crushed before them.

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


simplify: because this my son was dead, and did live again, and he was lost, and was found; and they began to be merry.

for here is my son who was dead, and is alive again, was lost, and is found.’ So they began making merry.


rate difficulty: And the nations shall know that the house of Israel went into captivity for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful against me; and I hid my face from them, and gave them into the hand of their enemies, so that they fell all of them by the sword.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses went up from the plains of Moab unto the mountain of Nebo, to the top of Pisgah, that is over against Jericho. And the Lord shewed him all the land of Gilead, unto Dan,

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


rate difficulty: No strange perfume, no burned offering or meal offering, and no drink offering is to be offered on it.

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


rate difficulty: Simeon and Levi <FI>are<Fi> brethren! Instruments of violence--their espousals!

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


simplify: If thieves came to thee, if robbers by night (how art thou cut off!), would they not steal only till they had enough? if grape-gatherers came to thee, would they not leave some gleaning grapes?

If thieves came, attacking you by night, (how are you cut off!) would they not go on taking till they had enough? if men came cutting your grapes would they take them all?


simplify: He shall break in pieces mighty men without number, and set others in their stead.

He sends the strong to destruction without searching out their cause, and puts others in their place.


simplify: Whoredom is actually heard of among you, and such whoredom as is not even named among the nations--as that one hath the wife of the father! --

There is a wide-spread report respecting a case of immorality among you, and that, too, of a kind that does not occur even among the Gentiles — a man, I hear, is living with his father’s wife!


rate difficulty: Then, looking up to the window, he said, Who is on my side, who? and two or three unsexed servants put out their heads.

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


simplify: Saying unto them, Go into the village over against you, and straightway ye shall find an ass tied, and a colt with her: loose them, and bring them unto me.

“Go to the village facing you,” he said, “and you will immediately find an ass tethered, with a foal by her side; untie her, and lead her here for me.


simplify: Beside that he had of the merchantmen, and of the traffick of the spice merchants, and of all the kings of Arabia, and of the governors of the country.

In addition to what came to him from the business of the traders, and from all the kings of the Arabians, and from the rulers of the country.


simplify: To what purpose cometh there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt-offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing unto me.

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.


rate difficulty: for which I am an ambassador in chains; that in it I may speak boldly, as I ought to speak.


simplify: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

So that those who are in the flesh are not able to give pleasure to God.


rate difficulty: And when the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.


simplify: And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And the ox is to be put to death before the Lord: then Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and put some of it on and round the altar which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: hereby we know that we abide in him and he in us, because he hath given us of his Spirit.

And his Spirit which he has given us is the witness that we are in him and he is in us.


simplify: Because the Lord hath spoiled Babylon, and destroyed out of her the great voice; when her waves do roar like great waters, a noise of their voice is uttered:

For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:


simplify: And thou shalt make staves of acacia wood, and overlay them with gold.

And make rods of the same wood, plating them with gold.


simplify: Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My oblation, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell.


simplify: and the nations of the saved in its light shall walk, and the kings of the earth do bring their glory and honour into it,

‘The nations walk by the light of it; and the kings of the earth bring their glory into it.


simplify: Each charger of silver weighing an hundred and thirty shekels, each bowl seventy: all the silver vessels weighed two thousand and four hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

The weight of every silver plate was a hundred and thirty shekels, and of every basin seventy; the weight of all the silver of the vessels was two thousand and four hundred shekels, by the scale of the holy place;


rate difficulty: And they said, Cornelius, a centurion, a righteous man, and fearingGod, and borne witness to by the whole nation of the Jews, has been divinely instructed by a holy angel to send for thee to his house, and hear words from thee.

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.

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


simplify: And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

Stephen replied: “Brothers and fathers, hear what I have to say. God, who manifests himself in the glory, appeared to our ancestor Abraham when he was in Mesopotamia, and before he settled in Haran, and said to him —


rate difficulty: And Jabez called on theGod of Israel saying, Oh that thou wouldest richly bless me, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it may not grieve me! AndGod brought about what he had requested.

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


simplify: And of the tribe of the children of Asher a prince, Ahihud the son of Shelomi.

And of the tribe of the children of Asher, a chief, Ahihud, the son of Shelomi.


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

And he went away from them again, and a third time said the same prayer.


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.


rate difficulty: Am I only a God who is near, says the Lord, and not a God at a distance?

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


simplify: Jehovah will bring thee, and thy king whom thou shalt set over thee, unto a nation that thou hast not known, thou nor thy fathers; and there shalt thou serve other gods, wood and stone.

And you, and the king whom you have put over you, will the Lord take away to a nation strange to you and to your fathers; there you will be servants to other gods of wood and stone.


simplify: and all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Sidon, and the kings of the isle which is beyond the sea;

And all the kings of Tyre, and all the kings of Zidon, and the kings of the lands across the sea;


simplify: And the hand of the Lord was there upon me; and he said unto me, Arise, go forth into the plain, and I will there talk with thee.

And the hand of the Lord was on me there; and he said, Get up and go out into the valley and there I will have talk with you.


rate difficulty: So Benaiah the son of Jehoiada went up, and fell upon him, and slew him: and he was buried in his own house in the wilderness.

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


simplify: By little and little I will drive them out from before thee, until thou be increased, and inherit the land.

Little by little I will send them away before you, till your numbers are increased and you take up your heritage in the land.


rate difficulty: And he asked them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven.


rate difficulty: That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

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


rate difficulty: The feet of His saints He keepeth, And the wicked in darkness are silent, For not by power doth man become mighty.

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


simplify: If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.

Put all this before the followers, and you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, sustained by the precepts of the faith and of that good teaching by which you have guided your life.


simplify: And they were all amazed, and spake among themselves, saying, What a word is this! for with authority and power he commandeth the unclean spirits, and they come out.

And they were all lost in amazement, and kept saying to one another: “What words are these? For he gives his commands to the foul spirits with a marvelous authority, and they come out.”


simplify: And when I shall extinguish thee, I will cover the heavens, and make the stars thereof dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light.

And when I put out your life, the heaven will be covered and its stars made dark; I will let the sun be covered with a cloud and the moon will not give her light.


rate difficulty: And He kindleth against me His anger, And reckoneth me to Him as His adversaries.

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


simplify: But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.

Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny.


simplify: Neither be ye called masters: for one is your Master, even Christ.

And you may not be named guides: because one is your Guide, even Christ.


simplify: And he is before all things, and by him all things consist.

All has been created through him and for him. He was before all things, and all things unite in him;


rate difficulty: He doth turn back, He pitieth us, He doth subdue our iniquities, And Thou castest into the depths of the sea all their sins.

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


simplify: Saying, Thou wentest in to men uncircumcised, and didst eat with them.

on the ground that he had visited people who were not circumcised, and had taken meals with them.


rate difficulty: A disciple is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his lord.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, I am pushing away before you the seed, And have scattered dung before your faces, Dung of your festivals, And it hath taken you away with it.

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


simplify: In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.

In the fifteenth year of the rule of Amaziah, son of Joash, king of Judah, Jeroboam, the son of Joash, king of Israel, became king in Samaria, ruling for forty-one years.


simplify: And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubim were of one measure and one form.

The two winged ones were ten cubits high, of the same size and form.


simplify: For though I be absent in the flesh, yet am I with you in the spirit, joying and beholding your order, and the stedfastness of your faith in Christ.

For though I am not present in the flesh, still I am with you in the spirit, seeing with joy your order, and your unchanging faith in Christ.


rate difficulty: And finding a ship sailing over unto Phenicia, we went aboard, and set forth.

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


rate difficulty: And ye have an anointing from the Holy One, and ye know all things.

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


simplify: And on the second day thou shalt offer a kid of the goats without blemish for a sin offering; and they shall cleanse the altar, as they did cleanse it with the bullock.

And on the second day you are to have a he-goat without any mark on it offered for a sin-offering; and they are to make the altar clean as they did with the young ox.


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

I was but a little way from them, when I came face to face with him who is the love of my soul. I took him by the hands, and did not let him go, till I had taken him into my mother's house, and into the room of her who gave me birth.


simplify: In the tenth year, in the tenthmonth, in the twelfth day of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

In the tenth year, in the tenth month, on the twelfth day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: And to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the fine linen is the righteousness of saints.

And to her it was given to be clothed in delicate linen, clean and shining: for the clean linen is the righteousness of the saints.


simplify: And the eunuch answered Philip, and said, I pray thee, of whom speaketh the prophet this? of himself, or of some other man?

And the Ethiopian said to Philip, About whom are these words said by the prophet? about himself, or some other?


simplify: Then David put garrisons in Syria of Damascus: and the Syrians became servants to David, and brought gifts. And the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

And David put armed forces in Aram of Damascus: and the Aramaeans became servants to David and gave him offerings. And the Lord made David overcome wherever he went.


simplify: But the Lord of hosts shall be exalted in judgment, and God that is holy shall be sanctified in righteousness.

But the Lord of armies is lifted up as judge, and the Holy God is seen to be holy in righteousness.


rate difficulty: And the jailor reported the words to Paul, saying, The magistrates have sent to let you go: now therefore come forth, and go in peace.


rate difficulty: When thou shalt besiege a city a long time, in making war against it to take it, thou shalt not destroy the trees thereof by wielding an axe against them; for thou mayest eat of them, and thou shalt not cut them down; for is the tree of the field man, that it should be besieged of thee?

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


rate difficulty: and submit to one another because you honor and respect him.

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


simplify: and it is easier to the heaven and the earth to pass away, than of the law one tittle to fall.

It would be easier for the heavens and the earth to disappear than for one stroke of a letter in the law to be lost.


simplify: And the table and his furniture, and the pure candlestick with all his furniture, and the altar of incense,

And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,


simplify: Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

And the priest, after washing his clothing and bathing his body in water, may come back to the tent-circle, and will be unclean till evening.


simplify: and changed the glory of the incorruptible God for the likeness of an image of corruptible man, and of birds, and four-footed beasts, and creeping things.

And by them the glory of the eternal God was changed and made into the image of man who is not eternal, and of birds and beasts and things which go on the earth.


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

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


simplify: whose adorning--let it not be that which is outward, of plaiting of hair, and of putting around of things of gold, or of putting on of garments,

Yours should be, not the external adornment of the arrangement of the hair, the wearing of jewelery, or the putting on of dresses,


rate difficulty: And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that the people went out into the field; and they told Abimelech.

Now the day after, the people went out into the fields; and news of it came to Abimelech.


rate difficulty: For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

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


simplify: And the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we do toward you:

And for you, may the Lord fill you to overflowing with love for one another and for everyone, just as we are filled with love for you;


rate difficulty: Then Baruch answered them, He pronounced all these words unto me with his mouth, and I wrote them with ink in the book.

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


rate difficulty: And the men of Judah said, Why are ye come up against us? And they said, To bind Samson are we come up, to do to him as he hath done to us.

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


simplify: Then the angel that talked with me answered and said unto me, Knowest thou not what these be? And I said, No, my lord.

Then the angel who was talking to me, answering me, said, Have you no knowledge of what these are? And I said, No, my lord.


rate difficulty: The children of Senaah, three thousand nine hundred and thirty.


simplify: And Bath-sheba went in unto the king into the chamber: and the king was very old; and Abishag the Shunammite was ministering unto the king.

Then Bath-sheba went into the king's room; now the king was very old, and Abishag the Shunammite was waiting on him.


rate difficulty: And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,


simplify: and as to the rest, it is required in the stewards that one may be found faithful,

Now what we look for in stewards is that they should be trustworthy.


simplify: Now the chief priests, and elders, and all the council, sought false witness against Jesus, to put him to death;

Meanwhile the chief priests and the whole of the High Council were trying to get such false evidence against Jesus, as would warrant putting him to death,


rate difficulty: Speak unto Aaron, saying, Any of thy seed throughout their generations that hath any defect, shall not approach to present the bread of hisGod;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah smote the king, so that he was a leper to the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house. And Jotham the king's son was over the house, judging the people of the land.


simplify: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

But at a meeting of the church I would rather speak five words with my mind, and so teach others, than ten thousand words when using the gift of ‘tongues.’


rate difficulty: Now when she saw that she had waited, and her hope was lost, then she took another of her whelps, and made him a young lion.

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


simplify: Thanks be unto God for his unspeakable gift.

Praise be to God for what he has given, which words have no power to say.


simplify: Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath one of his friends, and Phichol the chief captain of his army.

And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.