rate difficulty: Up! let us go up by night, and send destruction on her great houses.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus withdrew with his disciples unto the sea, and a great multitude from Galilee followed him, and from Judea,

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel — For I have seenGod face to face, and my life has been preserved.

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


rate difficulty: that all the peoples of the earth may know that Jehovah, he is God; there is none else.

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


simplify: Then the king sent unto him a captain of fifty with his fifty. And he went up to him: and, behold, he sat on the top of an hill. And he spake unto him, Thou man of God, the king hath said, Come down.

Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.


simplify: For they have taken of their daughters for themselves, and for their sons: so that the holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands: yea, the hand of the princes and rulers hath been chief in this trespass.

For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.


simplify: Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

Five times the Jews gave me forty blows but one.


simplify: The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;


rate difficulty: and didst make us to our God kings and priests, and we shall reign upon the earth.'

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


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

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


rate difficulty: In appearance the locusts were like horses equipped for battle. On their heads there were what appeared to be crowns that shone like gold, their faces resembled human faces,

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But when these things come about, let your heads be lifted up, because your salvation is near.

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


simplify: But before they lay down, the men of the city, even the men of Sodom, compassed the house round, both young and old, all the people from every quarter;

But before they had gone to bed, the men of the town, all the men of Sodom, came round the house, young and old, from every part of the town;


simplify: Dan shall judge his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.

Dan will be the judge of his people, as one of the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: And of Kohath was the family of the Amramites, and the family of the Izeharites, and the family of the Hebronites, and the family of the Uzzielites: these are the families of the Kohathites.


simplify: Then said the king to Amasa, Call me the men of Judah together within three days, and be thou here present.

Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.


rate difficulty: When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands:

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


rate difficulty: And he hath women, princesses, seven hundred, and concubines three hundred; and his wives turn aside his heart.

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


simplify: Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men.

And our desire is that you will keep control over those whose lives are not well ordered, giving comfort to the feeble-hearted, supporting those with little strength, and putting up with much from all.


simplify: For at that time day by day there came to David to help him, until it was a great host, like the host of God.

And from day to day more supporters came to David, till he had a great army like the army of God.


rate difficulty: But in Mount Zion some will be kept safe, and it will be holy; and the children of Jacob will take their heritage.


rate difficulty: (but if a man knoweth not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

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


simplify: And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of Jehovah thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,


rate difficulty: [As] he that taketh off a garment in cold weather, [and as] vinegar upon nitre, so is he that singeth songs to a sad heart.

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


simplify: It shall blossom abundantly, and rejoice even with joy and singing: the glory of Lebanon shall be given unto it, the excellency of Carmel and Sharon, they shall see the glory of the Lord, and the excellency of our God.

It will be flowering like the rose; it will be full of delight and songs; the glory of Lebanon will be given to it; the pride of Carmel and Sharon: they will see the glory of the Lord, the power of our God.


rate difficulty: Then on that day David delivered first [this psalm] to give thanks to Jehovah through Asaph and his brethren.

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


simplify: And Ashan with her suburbs, and Beth–shemesh with her suburbs:

And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;


rate difficulty: How do the beasts groan! the herds of cattle are perplexed, because they have no pasture; yea, the flocks of sheep are made desolate.


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

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


rate difficulty: Are not my days few? cease then, And let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.

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


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Ham, after their families, after their tongues, in their countries, and in their nations.

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


simplify: And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armour. But Asahel would not turn aside from following of him.

And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.


simplify: That good thing which was committed unto thee guard through the Holy Spirit which dwelleth in us.

That good thing which was given to you keep safe, through the Holy Spirit which is in us.


simplify: Then Jeremiah called Baruch the son of Neriah; and Baruch wrote from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of Jehovah, which he had spoken unto him, upon a roll of a book.

Then Jeremiah sent for Baruch, the son of Neriah; and Baruch took down from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the Lord which he had said to him, writing them in a book.


simplify: But the field of the suburbs of their cities may not be sold; for it is their perpetual possession.

But the land on the outskirts of their towns may not be exchanged for money, for it is their property for ever.


rate difficulty: For their feet are running after evil, and they are quick to take a man's life.


simplify: In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring ye ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.


rate difficulty: And they shall no more be a prey to the nations, neither shall the beasts of the earth devour them; but they shall dwell securely, and none shall make them afraid.


simplify: And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise, and make thy bed. And straightway he arose.

And Peter said to him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ makes you well: get up and make your bed. And straight away he got up.


simplify: For in one hour so great riches is come to nought. And every shipmaster, and all the company in ships, and sailors, and as many as trade by sea, stood afar off,

In a single hour your vast wealth vanished.’ Every ship’s captain and all who sail to any port, and sailors, and all who get their living from the sea, stood at a distance,


simplify: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their villages.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: Ye say, God layeth up his iniquity for his children. Let him recompense it unto himself, that he may know it:

You say, God keeps punishment stored up for his children. Let him send it on the man himself, so that he may have the punishment of it!


simplify: and the profane and old women's fables reject thou, and exercise thyself unto piety,

As for profane legends and old wives’ tales, leave them alone. Train yourself to lead a religious life;


simplify: Now the cherubim stood on the right side of the house, when the man went in; and the cloud filled the inner court.

Now the winged ones were stationed on the right side of the house when the man went in; and the inner square was full of the cloud.


rate difficulty: And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when all that knew him before saw that, behold, he prophesied among the prophets, then the people said one to another, What is this that has happened to the son of Kish? Is Saul also among the prophets?

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


simplify: The glory of young men is their strength: and the beauty of old men is the gray head.

The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.


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

And let not him who is in the field go back to get his coat.


simplify: Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;

Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;


rate difficulty: And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.

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


simplify: And they shall keep thy charge, and the charge of all the tabernacle: only they shall not come nigh the vessels of the sanctuary and the altar, that neither they, nor ye also, die.

They are to do your orders and be responsible for the work of the Tent; but they may not come near the vessels of the holy place or the altar, so that death may not overtake them or you.


simplify: All these were of costly stones, even of hewn stone, according to measure, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside unto the great court.

All these buildings were made, inside and out, from base to crowning stone, and outside to the great walled square, of highly priced stone, cut to different sizes with cutting-instruments.


simplify: and having passed through a first ward, and a second, they came unto the iron gate that is leading to the city, which of its own accord did open to them, and having gone forth, they went on through one street, and immediately the messenger departed from him.

Passing the first Guard, and then the second, they came to the iron gate leading into the city, which opened to them of itself; and, when they had passed through that, and had walked along one street, all at once the angel left him.


simplify: But vain man is void of understanding, Yea, man is born as a wild ass’s colt.

And so a hollow-minded man will get wisdom, when a young ass of the field gets teaching.


simplify: Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.

After the congregation had dispersed, many of the Jews, and of the converts who joined in their worship, followed Paul and Barnabas, who talked with them and urged them to continue to rely on the loving kindness of God.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any man of you or of your generations shall be unclean by reason of a dead body, or be on a journey afar off, yet he shall keep the passover unto Jehovah.

Say to the children of Israel, If any one of you or of your families is unclean because of a dead body, or is on a journey far away, still he is to keep the Passover to the Lord:


simplify: Ira an Ithrite, Gareb an Ithrite,


simplify: And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.

And then their eyes were open, and they had knowledge of him, but he went from their view.


simplify: And she called unto her husband, and said, Send me, I pray thee, one of the young men, and one of the asses, that I may run to the man of God, and come again.

And she said to her husband, Send me one of the servants and one of the asses so that I may go quickly to the man of God and come back again.


rate difficulty: And Abner and his men went all that night through the Arabah; and they passed over the Jordan, and went through all Bithron, and came to Mahanaim.


rate difficulty: and it was said to them, that they should not injure the grass of the earth, nor any green thing, nor any tree, but the men who have not the seal ofGod on their foreheads:

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


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from Rissah, and pitched in Kehelathah.

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


simplify: Who art thou that judgest another man’s servant? to his own master he standeth or falleth. Yea, he shall be holden up: for God is able to make him stand.

Who are you to make yourself a judge of another man's servant? it is to his master that he is responsible for good or bad. Yes, his place will be safe, because the Lord is able to keep him from falling.


rate difficulty: Thou didst strike through with his staves the head of his villages: they came out as a whirlwind to scatter me: their rejoicing was as to devour the poor secretly.

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


rate difficulty: Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand the report? Them that are weaned from the milk, withdrawn from the breasts?


rate difficulty: And he consulted with the people, and appointed singers to Jehovah, and those that should praise in holy splendour, as they went forth before the armed men, and say, Give thanks to Jehovah; for his loving-kindness [endureth] for ever!

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


rate difficulty: And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin;

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


rate difficulty: and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach unto the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

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


rate difficulty: But if there is not a resurrection of [those that are] dead, neither is Christ raised:


simplify: He who is regarding the day, to the Lord he doth regard <FI>it<Fi> , and he who is not regarding the day, to the Lord he doth not regard <FI>it<Fi> . He who is eating, to the Lord he doth eat, for he doth give thanks to God; and he who is not eating, to the Lord he doth not eat, and doth give thanks to God.

The person who observes a day, observes it to the Master’s honor. They, again, who eat meat eat it to the Master’s honor, for they give thanks to God; while the person who abstains from it abstains from it to the Master’s honor, and also gives thanks to God.


rate difficulty: one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: then I will give your rains in their season, and the land shall yield its increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.

Then I will give you rain at the right time, and the land will give her increase and the trees of the field will give their fruit;


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto me, A conspiracy is found among the men of Judah, and among the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: For I have come to put a man against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law:

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: If it be wonderful in the eyes of the remnant of this people in those days, should it also be wonderful in mine eyes? saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


simplify: And Hukok with her suburbs, and Rehob with her suburbs:

And Hukok with its outskirts, and Rehob with its outskirts;


rate difficulty: Let mine outcasts dwell with thee, Moab; be thou a covert to them from the face of the waster. For the extortioner is at an end, the wasting hath ceased, the oppressors are consumed out of the land.

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


simplify: And Solomon said, If he shall show himself a worthy man, there shall not a hair of him fall to the earth; but if wickedness be found in him, he shall die.

And Solomon said, If he is seen to be a man of good faith, not a hair of him will be touched; but if any wrongdoing is seen in him, he is to be put to death.


rate difficulty: I have digged and drunk water; and with the sole of my feet have I dried up all the streams of Matsor.

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


simplify: Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

Brothers and sisters, descendants of Abraham, and all those among you who worship God, it was to us that the message of this salvation was sent.


simplify: But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

while one who does not know his master’s wishes, but acts so as to deserve a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone to whom much has been given much will be expected, and from the man to whom much has been entrusted the more will be demanded.


rate difficulty: For the person who was a slave when they were called to the master’s service is the Master’s freedman; so, too, the person who was free when called is Christ’s slave.


simplify: neither shalt thou favor a poor man in his cause.

But, on the other hand, do not be turned from what is right in order to give support to a poor man's cause.


rate difficulty: His offering was one silver dish of the weight of a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for an oblation;

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


simplify: And he made the porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits; and a porch before them; and pillars and a threshold before them.

And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.


simplify: And David went up, and all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kirjath–jearim, which belonged to Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God the Lord, that dwelleth between the cherubims, whose name is called on it.

And David went up, with all Israel, to Baalah, that is, to Kiriath-jearim in Judah, to get up from there the ark of God, over which the holy Name is named, the name of the Lord whose place is between the winged ones.


simplify: They are created now, and not from of old; and before this day thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.


simplify: this one, having dealt subtilely with our kindred, did evil to our fathers, causing to expose their babes, that they might not live;

This king acted deceitfully towards our race and ill-treated our ancestors, making them abandon their own infants, so that they should not be reared.


simplify: And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most?

As they were unable to pay, he forgave them both. Which of them, do you think, will love him the more?”


simplify: As for my people, children are their oppressors, and women rule over them. O my people, they that lead thee cause thee to err, and destroy the way of thy paths.

As for my people, their ruler is acting like a child, and those who have authority over them are women. O my people, your guides are the cause of your wandering, turning your footsteps out of the right way.


simplify: And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus went before them: and they were amazed; and as they followed, they were afraid. And he took again the twelve, and began to tell them what things should happen unto him,

And they were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going before them: and they were full of wonder; but those who came after him were in fear. And again he took the twelve, and gave them word of the things which were to come on him,


simplify: And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so.

And to every beast of the earth and to every bird of the air and every living thing moving on the face of the earth I have given every green plant for food: and it was so.


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

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


rate difficulty: Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,

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


simplify: And he set the porters at the gates of the house of the Lord, that none which was unclean in any thing should enter in.

And he put door-keepers at the doors of the Lord's house, to see that no one who was unclean in any way might come in.


rate difficulty: But these things happened [as] types of us, that we should not be lusters after evil things, as they also lusted.

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


rate difficulty: The murderer rising with the light killeth the poor and needy, and in the night is as a thief.

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


rate difficulty: And the woman took the two men, and hid them, and said thus, There came men unto me, but I wist not whence they were:

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


simplify: Because thou hast had a perpetual hatred, and hast shed the blood of the children of Israel by the force of the sword in the time of their calamity, in the time that their iniquity had an end:

Because yours has been a hate without end, and you have given up the children of Israel to the power of the sword in the time of their trouble, in the time of the punishment of the end:


simplify: Now our Lord Jesus Christ himself, and God our Father who loved us and gave us eternal comfort and good hope through grace,

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,


simplify: And they went to Joshua unto the camp at Gilgal, and said unto him, and to the men of Israel, We are come from a far country: now therefore make ye a covenant with us.

And they came to Joshua to the tent-circle at Gilgal, and said to him and to the men of Israel, We have come from a far country: so now make an agreement with us.


simplify: And he said unto them, This is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many.

And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men.


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

And they took the food, and had enough; and they took up seven baskets full of the broken bits.


simplify: And when we heard these things, we called upon <FI>him<Fi> --both we, and those of that place--not to go up to Jerusalem,

When we heard that, we and the people of the place began to entreat Paul not to go up to Jerusalem.


simplify: And those passing by were speaking evil of him, shaking their heads, and saying, `Ah, the thrower down of the sanctuary, and in three days the builder!

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads, as they said: “Ah! You who would destroy the Temple and build one in three days,


rate difficulty: One day, when Zechariah was officiating as priest before God, during the turn of his division,


rate difficulty: And keep hold on him doth his father-in-law, father of the young woman, and he abideth with him three days, and they eat and drink, and lodge there.

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


simplify: When they couch in their dens, Andabide in the covert to lie in wait?

When they are stretched out in their holes, and are waiting in the brushwood?


rate difficulty: Put me as a sign on your heart, as a sign on your arm; love is strong as death, and wrath bitter as the underworld: its coals are coals of fire; violent are its flames.

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


simplify: And when the day began to wear away, then came the twelve, and said unto him, Send the multitude away, that they may go into the towns and country round about, and lodge, and get victuals: for we are here in a desert place.

The day was drawing to a close, when the twelve came up to him, and said: “Send the crowd away, so that they may make their way to the villages and farms around about, and find themselves lodgings and provisions, for we are in a lonely spot here.”


simplify: But whensoever raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.

But whenever diseased flesh is seen on him, he will be unclean.


rate difficulty: Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

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


simplify: But in the end she is bitter as wormwood, Sharp as a two-edged sword.

But her end is bitter as wormwood, and sharp as a two-edged sword;


simplify: The way of the just is uprightness: thou that art upright dost direct the path of the just.

The way of the good man is straight; the road of the upright is made smooth by you.


simplify: Be diligent to come unto me quickly,


simplify: Wherefore ye must needs be in subjection, not only because of the wrath, but also for conscience’ sake.

So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.


rate difficulty: and he said unto them, Thus it is written, that the Christ should suffer, and rise again from the dead the third day;

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


simplify: A man’s pride shall bring him low: but honour shall uphold the humble in spirit.

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.


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

and, as soon as Jesus had got out of the boat, he met a man coming out of the tombs, who was under the power of a foul spirit,


simplify: As God liveth, who hath taken away my judgment; and the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul;

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;


simplify: The matter is not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba the son of Bichri by name, hath lifted up his hand against the king, even against David; deliver him only, and I will depart from the city. And the woman said unto Joab, Behold, his head shall be thrown to thee over the wall.

Not so: but a man of the hill-country of Ephraim, Sheba, son of Bichri, by name, has taken up arms against the king, against David: give up this man only, and I will go away from the town. And the woman said to Joab, His head will be dropped over the wall to you.


rate difficulty: Do not judge, and you will not be judged; do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven.


rate difficulty: And when Jesus had come to the end of all these words, he said to his disciples,


rate difficulty: And Absalom sent for Ahithophel the Gilonite, David’s counsellor, from his city, even from Giloh, while he was offering the sacrifices. And the conspiracy was strong; for the people increased continually with Absalom.

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simplify: and he answering said to them--`Well did Isaiah prophesy concerning you, hypocrites, as it hath been written, This people with the lips doth honour Me, and their heart is far from Me;

His answer was: “It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words — ‘This is a people who honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far removed from me;


simplify: And the men pursued after them the way to Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they which pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

So the men went after them on the road to Jordan as far as the river-crossing: and when they had gone out after them, the door into the town was shut.


simplify: for bodily exercise is profitable for a little; but godliness is profitable for all things, having promise of the life which now is, and of that which is to come.

For the training of the body is of profit for a little, but religion is of profit in every way, giving hope for the life which now is, and for that which is to come.


simplify: The chambers were in the thickness of the wall of the court toward the east, over against the separate place, and over against the building.

(And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.


simplify: And I will set up shepherds over them, who shall feed them; and they shall fear no more, nor be dismayed, neither shall any be lacking, saith Jehovah.

And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.


simplify: Seek ye Jehovah, all ye meek of the earth, that have kept his ordinances; seek righteousness, seek meekness: it may be ye will be hid in the day of Jehovah’s anger.

Make search for the Lord, all you quiet ones of the earth, who have done what is right in his eyes; make search for righteousness and a quiet heart: it may be that you will be safely covered in the day of the Lord's wrath.


simplify: His remembrance shall perish from the earth, And he shall have no name in the street.

His memory is gone from the earth, and in the open country there is no knowledge of his name.


rate difficulty: And I will make them and the places round about my hill a blessing; and I will cause the shower to come down in its season; there shall be showers of blessing.

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rate difficulty: and his sisters--are they not all with us? whence, then, to this one all these?'


simplify: Though it be given him to be in safety, whereon he resteth; yet his eyes are upon their ways.

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.


rate difficulty: And after crying out and shaking him violently, it came out: and the child became like one dead; so that most of them said, He is dead.

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rate difficulty: And David goeth up thence, and abideth in fortresses <FI>at<Fi> En-gedi.

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simplify: Therefore if I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be unto him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh shall be a barbarian unto me.

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Fear him not! for into thy hand have I given him, and all his people, and his land; and thou shalt do to him as thou didst unto Sihon the king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon.

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rate difficulty: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

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rate difficulty: The person who hates another is a murderer; and you know that no murderer has eternal life within them.


rate difficulty: But to every one of us has grace been given in the measure of the giving of Christ.


simplify: and he added to send a third, and this one also, having wounded, they did cast out.

He sent a third; but they wounded this man also, and threw him outside.


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh’s cup was in my hand; and I took the grapes, and pressed them into Pharaoh’s cup, and I gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand.


rate difficulty: I drew them with cords of a man, with bands of love: and I was to them as they that take off the yoke on their jaws, and I laid meat unto them.

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rate difficulty: But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.


simplify: These are the families of Manasseh; and they that were numbered of them were fifty and two thousand and seven hundred.

These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were fifty-two thousand, seven hundred.


simplify: Beerah his son, whom Tilgath–pilneser king of Assyria carried away captive: he was prince of the Reubenites.

Beerah his son, whom Tiglath-pileser, king of Assyria, took away as a prisoner: he was chief of the Reubenites.


rate difficulty: And all the service of Jehovah was prepared the same day, to hold the passover, and to offer burnt-offerings on the altar of Jehovah according to the commandment of king Josiah.

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


rate difficulty: At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, so that they could give him a share of the produce of the vineyard. The tenants, however, beat him and sent him away empty-handed.

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rate difficulty: For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

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simplify: And thou shalt make the court of the tabernacle: for the south side southward there shall be hangings for the court of fine twined linen a hundred cubits long for one side:

And let there be an open space round the House, with hangings for its south side of the best linen, a hundred cubits long.


rate difficulty: that it may be well with thee, and thou mayest live long on the earth.

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


simplify: And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not.

And when she got ready to take up the grain, Boaz gave his young men orders, saying, Let her take it even from among the cut grain, and say nothing to her.


simplify: that they teach you not to do after all their abominations, which they have done unto their gods; so would ye sin against Jehovah your God.

So that you may not take them as your example and do all the disgusting things which they do in the worship of their gods, so sinning against the Lord your God.


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

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


rate difficulty: Was it not told my lord what I did when Jezebel slew the prophets of Jehovah, how I hid a hundred men of Jehovah's prophets by fifty in a cave, and maintained them with bread and water?

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rate difficulty: And I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.


rate difficulty: This is the word which came to us from him and which we give to you, that God is light and in him there is nothing dark.

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


simplify: There is none like unto God, O Jeshurun, Who rideth upon the heavens for thy help, And in his excellency on the skies.

No other is like the God of Jeshurun, coming on the heavens to your help, and letting his glory be seen in the skies.


rate difficulty: Now these were David's sons, whose birth took place in Hebron: the oldest Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel; the second Daniel, by Abigail the Carmelite woman;

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


rate difficulty: Then touched he their eyes, saying, According to your faith be it unto you.


simplify: and thou shalt dwell in the land of Goshen, and thou shalt be near unto me, thou, and thy children, and thy children’s children, and thy flocks, and thy herds, and all that thou hast:

The land of Goshen will be your living-place, and you will be near me; you and your children and your children's children, and your flocks and herds and all you have:


simplify: But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

But I have a mind as well as you; I am equal to you: yes, who has not knowledge of such things as these?


rate difficulty: He will come, and destroy these husbandmen, and will give the vineyard to others.' And having heard, they said, `Let it not be!'


simplify: And they departed from Moseroth, and pitched in Bene–jaakan.

And they went on from Moseroth, and put up their tents in Bene-jaakan.


simplify: And the Babylonians came to her into the bed of love, and they defiled her with their whoredom, and she was polluted with them, and her soul was alienated from them.

And the Babylonians came to her, into the bed of love, and made her unclean with their loose desire, and she became unclean with them, and her soul was turned from them.


rate difficulty: because they have not come before the sons of Israel with bread and with water, and hire against them Balaam to revile them, and our God turneth the reviling into a blessing.

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simplify: And when he was entered into Capernaum, there came unto him a centurion, beseeching him,

And when Jesus was come into Capernaum, a certain captain came to him with a request,


simplify: To whom I answered, that it is not the custom of the Romans to give up any man, before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and have had opportunity to make his defence concerning the matter laid against him.

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


rate difficulty: and the Jebusite, and the Amorite, and the Girgashite,


simplify: Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the Lord: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.

Have no fear, O Jacob, my servant, says the Lord; for I am with you: for I will put an end to all the nations where I have sent you, but I will not put an end to you completely: though with wise purpose I will put right your errors, and will not let you go quite without punishment.


rate difficulty: the fifth, sardonyx; the sixth, sardius; the seventh, chrysolite; the eighth, beryl; the ninth, topaz; the tenth, chrysoprasus; the eleventh, jacinth; the twelfth, amethyst.

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


rate difficulty: And he called the porters; and they told it to the king’s house within.

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


simplify: But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah.

But where are the gods you have made for yourselves? let them come, if they are able to give you salvation in the time of your trouble: for the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah.


simplify: But he went in, and stood before his master. And Elisha said unto him, Whence comest thou, Gehazi? And he said, Thy servant went no whither.

Then he came in and took his place before his master. And Elisha said to him, Where have you come from, Gehazi? And he said, Your servant went nowhere.


simplify: But that ye may know that the Son of man hath authority on earth to forgive sins (he said unto him that was palsied), I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy couch, and go unto thy house.

But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (he said to the man who was ill,) I say to you, Get up, and take up your bed, and go into your house.


rate difficulty: For not through the law was the promise to Abraham or to his seed that he should be heir of the world, but through the righteousness of faith.

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rate difficulty: Would he make use of his great power to overcome me? No, but he would give attention to me.


simplify: A man’s pride shall bring him low; But he that is of a lowly spirit shall obtain honor.

A man's pride will be the cause of his fall, but he who has a gentle spirit will get honour.


simplify: The way of Jehovah is a stronghold to the upright; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

The way of the Lord is a strong tower for the upright man, but destruction to the workers of evil.


rate difficulty: He saith, who heareth the words ofGod, who seeth the vision of the Almighty, who falleth down, and who hath his eyes open:

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rate difficulty: For thou shalt spread abroad on the right hand and on the left; and thy seed shall possess the nations, and make the desolate cities to be inhabited.

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


rate difficulty: And I remembered the word of the Lord, how he said, John indeed baptized with water; but ye shall be baptized in the Holy Spirit.

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


simplify: And Ahaz slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Hezekiah his son reigned in his stead.

And Ahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David; and Hezekiah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: Do not then ask anxiously ‘What can we get to eat?’ or ‘What can we get to drink?’ or ‘What can we get to wear?’


rate difficulty: And the merchants of the earth shall weep and mourn over her; for no man buyeth their merchandise any more:


simplify: wherein the king granted the Jews that were in every city to gather themselves together, and to stand for their life, to destroy, to slay, and to cause to perish, all the power of the people and province that would assault them, their little ones and women, and to take the spoil of them for a prey,

In these letters the king gave authority to the Jews in every town to come together and make a fight for their lives, and to send death and destruction on the power of any people in any part of the kingdom attacking them or their children or their women, and to take their goods from them by force,


rate difficulty: having heard the things concerning Jesus, came in the crowd behind, and touched his garment.

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simplify: And the angel said unto them, Be not afraid; for behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy which shall be to all the people:

And the angel said, Have no fear; for truly, I give you good news of great joy which will be for all the people:


rate difficulty: But if we have hope for that which we see not, then we will be able to go on waiting for it.


simplify: For when the people were numbered, behold, there were none of the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead there.

For when the people were numbered, not one man of the people of Jabesh-gilead was present.


simplify: And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:

And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:


rate difficulty: did the gods of the nations deliver them whom my fathers destroyed--Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the sons of Eden, who <FI>are<Fi> in Thelassar?

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rate difficulty: For Jehovah thy God will bless thee, as he promised thee: and thou shalt lend unto many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees, which were of Jerusalem, saying,

Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus, and said:


simplify: Fight the good fight of the faith, lay hold on the life eternal, whereunto thou wast called, and didst confess the good confession in the sight of many witnesses.

Be fighting the good fight of the faith; take for yourself the life eternal, for which you were marked out, and of which you gave witness in the eyes of all.


rate difficulty: Elkanah his son, and Ebiasaph his son, and Assir his son,

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rate difficulty: This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.


simplify: Then I will command my blessing upon you in the sixth year, and it shall bring forth fruit for three years.

Then I will send my blessing on you in the sixth year, and the land will give fruit enough for three years.


rate difficulty: And she made haste, and let down her pitcher from her shoulder, and said, Drink, and I will give thy camels drink also: so I drank, and she made the camels drink also.


simplify: And David went up by the ascent of mount Olivet, and wept as he went up, and had his head covered, and he went barefoot: and all the people that was with him covered every man his head, and they went up, weeping as they went up.

And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.


simplify: If I wash myself with snow water, and make my hands never so clean;

If I am washed with snow water, and make my hands clean with soap;


simplify: And I heard the number of those sealed, (one hundred and forty four thousands were sealed out of all the tribes of the sons of Israel):

I heard, too, the number of those who had been sealed. It was one hundred and forty-four thousand; and they were from every tribe of the Israelites.


simplify: Behold, the people that is come out of Egypt, it covereth the face of the earth: now, come curse me them; peradventure I shall be able to fight against them, and shall drive them out.

See, the people who have come out of Egypt are covering all the earth: now, put a curse on this people for me, so that I may be able to make war on them, driving them out of the land.


rate difficulty: If one be found slain in the land which Jehovah thyGod giveth thee to possess, lying in the field, [and] it be not known who hath smitten him,

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simplify: And David sent to Joab, saying, Send me Uriah the Hittite. And Joab sent Uriah to David.

And David sent to Joab saying, Send Uriah the Hittite to me. And Joab sent Uriah to David.


rate difficulty: So they put forward two men, Joseph called Barsabas, whose other name was Justus, and Matthias;

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and to Hannah he giveth a certain portion--double, for he hath loved Hannah, and Jehovah hath shut her womb;

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


rate difficulty: When men strive together one with another, and the wife of the one draweth near for to deliver her husband out of the hand of him that smiteth him, and putteth forth her hand, and taketh him by the secrets:

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simplify: But hath in due times manifested his word through preaching, which is committed unto me according to the commandment of God our Saviour;

Who, in his time, made clear his word in the good news, of which, by the order of God our Saviour, I became a preacher;


simplify: and when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Seal the things that the seven thunders spake,' and, `Thou mayest not write these things.'

And, when they spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say — ‘Keep secret what the seven peals of thunder said, and do not write it down.’


rate difficulty: Thy neck is like the tower of David builded for an armoury, whereon there hang a thousand bucklers, all shields of mighty men.

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simplify: For their substance was too great for them to dwell together; and the land of their sojournings could not bear them because of their cattle.

For their wealth was so great that the land was not wide enough for the two of them and all their cattle.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Because the Philistines have dealt by revenge, and have taken vengeance with a despiteful heart, to destroy it for the old hatred;

This is what the Lord has said: Because the Philistines have taken payment, with the purpose of causing shame and destruction with unending hate;


simplify: The lotus-trees cover him with their shade; The willows of the brook compass him about.

He is covered by the branches of the trees; the grasses of the stream are round him.


rate difficulty: But now our soul is dried away: there is nothing at all, beside this manna, before our eyes.

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


rate difficulty: The blessing if you give ear to the orders of the Lord your God, which I give you this day:

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


simplify: Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.


rate difficulty: And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four winds of heaven, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

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


simplify: Then ye answered and said unto me, We have sinned against the Lord, we will go up and fight, according to all that the Lord our God commanded us. And when ye had girded on every man his weapons of war, ye were ready to go up into the hill.

Then you said to me, We have done evil against the Lord, we will go up to the attack, as the Lord our God has given us orders. And arming yourselves every one, you made ready to go up without care into the hill-country.


simplify: because of this I sent to you Timotheus, who is my child, beloved and faithful in the Lord, who shall remind you of my ways in Christ, according as everywhere in every assembly I teach.

This is my reason for sending Timothy to you. He is my own dear faithful child in the Master’s service, and he will remind you of my methods of teaching the faith of Christ Jesus — methods which I follow everywhere in every church.


rate difficulty: Go not forth hastily to strive, lest thou know not what to do in the end thereof, when thy neighbour hath put thee to shame.

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rate difficulty: And in the same way, after the meal, he took the cup, saying, This cup is the new testament, made with my blood which is given for you.

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simplify: And this whole land shall be a desolation, and an astonishment; and these nations shall serve the king of Babylon seventy years.

All this land will be a waste and a cause of wonder; and these nations will be the servants of the king of Babylon for seventy years.


simplify: glory not over the branches: but if thou gloriest, it is not thou that bearest the root, but the root thee.

Do not be uplifted in pride over the branches: because it is not you who are the support of the root, but it is by the root that you are supported.


rate difficulty: They made twenty boards for the south side of the House:


rate difficulty: And I thought I would apprise thee of it and say, Buy [it] in the presence of the inhabitants, and in the presence of the elders of my people. If thou wilt redeem [it], redeem; but if thou wilt not redeem, tell me, that I may know; for there is none to redeem besides thee; and I am after thee. And he said, I will redeem [it].

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


rate difficulty: We will go up early to the vineyards, We will see if the vine hath budded, [If] the blossom is opening, And the pomegranates are in bloom: There will I give thee my loves.

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


rate difficulty: And he spoke to the children of Israel, saying, When your children hereafter ask their fathers, saying, What [mean] these stones?

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


simplify: And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.

And one of the evil-doers on the cross, with bitter feeling, said to him, Are you not the Christ? Get yourself and us out of this.


simplify: And further, because the Preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge; yea, he pondered, and sought out, and set in order many proverbs.

And because the Preacher was wise he still gave the people knowledge; searching out, testing, and putting in order a great number of wise sayings.


rate difficulty: And Shamsherai, and Shehariah, and Athaliah,

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simplify: For which cause both thou and all thy company are gathered together against the Lord: and what is Aaron, that ye murmur against him?

So you and all your band have come together against the Lord; and Aaron, who is he, that you are crying out against him?


rate difficulty: Then Moses said to Aaron, This is what the Lord said, I will be holy in the eyes of all those who come near to me, and I will be honoured before all the people. And Aaron said nothing.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Put your burnt offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat flesh.

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


simplify: For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.

The people of Jerusalem and their leaders, failing to recognize Jesus, and not understanding the utterances of the prophets that are read every Sabbath, fulfilled them by condemning him.


simplify: Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Let every man do after the purpose of his heart; not giving with grief, or by force: for God takes pleasure in a ready giver.


rate difficulty: And king Solomon hath given to the queen of Sheba all her desire that she asked, apart from that which she had brought unto the king, and she turneth and goeth to her land, she and her servants.

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simplify: And Israel took all these cities: and Israel dwelt in all the cities of the Amorites, in Heshbon, and in all the villages thereof.

And Israel took all their towns, living in Heshbon and all the towns and small places of the Amorites.


rate difficulty: And that year ended; and they came to him the second year, and said to him, We will not hide [it] from my lord that since [our] money is come to an end, and the herds of cattle are in the possession of my lord, nothing is left before my lord but our bodies and our land.


rate difficulty: <FI> even<Fi> that which his hand reacheth to), the one a sin-offering, and the one a burnt offering, besides the present, and the priest hath made atonement for him who is to be cleansed before Jehovah.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then the priest shall look upon it: and, behold, if the rising of the sore be white reddish in his bald head, or in his bald forehead, as the leprosy appeareth in the skin of the flesh;

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


simplify: For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

For the Lord is coming with fire, and his war-carriages will be like the storm-wind; to give punishment in the heat of his wrath, and his passion is like flames of fire.


rate difficulty: And he maketh a mercy-seat of pure gold, two cubits and a half its length, and a cubit and a half its breadth;

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


simplify: With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

With kings and the wise ones of the earth, who put up great houses for themselves;


rate difficulty: Have the gods of the nations delivered them, which my fathers have destroyed, Gozan, and Haran, and Rezeph, and the children of Eden that were in Telassar?

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


simplify: Cretes and Arabians, we did hear them speaking in our tongues the great things of God.'

either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians — yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done.”


simplify: They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

And they kept the feast of tents, as it is recorded, making the regular burned offerings every day by number, as it is ordered; for every day what was needed.


simplify: And in the days of Saul, they made war with the Hagrites, who fell by their hand; and they dwelt in their tents throughout all the land east of Gilead.

And in the days of Saul they made war on the Hagarites, and overcame them; and they put up their tents through all the land east of Gilead.


simplify: If thou wilt return, O Israel, saith the Lord, return unto me: and if thou wilt put away thine abominations out of my sight, then shalt thou not remove.

If you will come back, O Israel, says the Lord, you will come back to me: and if you will put away your disgusting ways, you will not be sent away from before me.


simplify: And he said, Abba, Father, all things are possible unto thee; remove this cup from me: howbeit 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.


simplify: And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

and, on getting ashore, Jesus met a man, who had demons in him, coming out of the town. For a long time this man had worn no clothing, and he had not lived in a house, but in the tombs.


simplify: And I sent messengers out of the wilderness of Kedemoth unto Sihon king of Heshbon with words of peace, saying,

Then from the waste land of Kedemoth I sent representatives to Sihon, king of Heshbon, with words of peace, saying,


simplify: Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a great number of cattle: and when they saw that the land of Jazer and the land of Gilead was a good place for cattle;


rate difficulty: And they buried him in his own sepulchre, which he had excavated for himself in the city of David, and laid him in a bed filled with spices, a mixture of divers kinds prepared by the perfumer's art; and they made a very great burning for him.

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


simplify: And Aaron did so; he lighted the lamps thereof so as to give light in front of the candlestick, as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And Aaron did so; he put the lights in their places so that they gave light in front of the support, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


simplify: so as into the broad places to bring forth the ailing, and to lay <FI>them<Fi> upon couches and mats, that at the coming of Peter, even <FI>his<Fi> shadow might overshadow some one of them;

The consequence was that people would bring out their sick even into the streets, and lay them on mattresses and mats, in the hope that, as Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some one of them.


rate difficulty: If he is a poor man, do not keep his property all night;

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


simplify: and they were glorifying God in me.


simplify: Be patient, then, brethren, till the presence of the Lord; lo, the husbandman doth expect the precious fruit of the earth, being patient for it, till he may receive rain--early and latter;

Be patient, then, friends, until the coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, until it has had the spring and summer rains.


rate difficulty: Set up waymarks, make for thyself signposts; set thy heart toward the highway, the way by which thou wentest: turn again, O virgin of Israel, turn again to these thy cities.

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


simplify: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

There is no fear in love. No! Love, when perfect, drives out fear, because fear implies punishment, and the person who feels fear has not attained to perfect love.


simplify: And there were four tables for the burnt-offering, of hewn stone, a cubit and a half long, and a cubit and a half broad, and one cubit high; whereupon they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt-offering and the sacrifice.

And there were four tables for the burned offering, made of cut stone, one and a half cubits long, one and a half cubits wide and a cubit high, where the instruments were placed which were used for putting to death the burned offering and the beasts for the offerings.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to the assembly, This is the thing which Jehovah has commanded to be done.

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


rate difficulty: And Miriam and Aaron spoke against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had taken; for he had taken a Cushite as wife.

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


rate difficulty: Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,

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


simplify: and Judas Iscariot, who also betrayed him. And he cometh into a house.

And Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.


simplify: And Moses took the breast, and waved it for a wave offering before the Lord: for of the ram of consecration it was Moses’ part; as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Moses took the breast, waving it for a wave offering before the Lord; it was Moses' part of the sheep of the priest's offering, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: In the fulness of his sufficiency he is straitened. Every perverse hand doth meet him.

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


rate difficulty: male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

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


simplify: In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken.


rate difficulty: Among these were the divisions of the doorkeepers, among the head-men, as to the charges together with their brethren, for performing the service in the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts,

Give ear now, and give witness against the family of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of armies;


simplify: they also did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine-skins, old and rent and bound up,

Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;


rate difficulty: There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel died; and all the Israelites were gathered together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. And David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.


simplify: and I will turn thee about, and put hooks into thy jaws, and I will bring thee forth, and all thine army, horses and horsemen, all of them clothed in full armor, a great company with buckler and shield, all of them handling swords:

And turning you round, I will put hooks in your mouth and make you come out with all your army, horses and horsemen, all of them in full war-dress, a great force with breastplate and body-cover, all of them armed with swords:


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

On getting out of the boat, Jesus saw a great crowd, and his heart was moved at the sight of them, because they were ‘like sheep without a shepherd’; and he began to teach them many things.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as he came nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, unto the mount called of the Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

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


simplify: `And when ye may see Jerusalem surrounded by encampments, then know that come nigh did her desolation;

As soon, however, as you see Jerusalem surrounded by armed camps, then you may know that the hour of her desecration is at hand.


simplify: And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph,

And their limit was Helkath and Hali and Beten and Achshaph


rate difficulty: But Jehovah turned not from the fierceness of his great wrath, wherewith his anger was kindled against Judah, because of all the provocations with which Manasseh had provoked him.

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


rate difficulty: For my own part, friends, when I came to you, it was with no display of eloquence or philosophy that I came to tell the hidden purpose of God;

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


rate difficulty: And they sacrificed sacrifices to Jehovah, and offered up burnt-offerings to Jehovah, on the morrow after that day: a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, a thousand lambs, with their drink-offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: At that same time Jesus uttered the words: “I thank you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth, that, though you have hidden these things from the wise and learned, you have revealed them to the child-like!


simplify: And when ye came unto this place, Sihon the king of Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, came out against us unto battle, and we smote them:

When you came to this place, Sihon, king of Heshbon, and Og, king of Bashan, came out to make war against us and we overcame them:


simplify: a time to love, and a time to hate; a time for war, and a time for peace.

A time for love and a time for hate; a time for war and a time for peace.


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

The ends of the hair round your face and on your chin may not be cut off.


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?


rate difficulty: and the sign or the wonder come to pass that he told unto thee, when he said, Let us go after othergods, whom thou hast not known, and let us serve them,

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


simplify: that thou mayest not appear to men fasting, but to thy Father who <FI>is<Fi> in secret, and thy Father, who is seeing in secret, shall reward thee manifestly.

so that they may not be seen by people to be fasting, but by their Father who dwells in secret; and their Father, who sees what is secret, will reward them.


rate difficulty: And Gideon went up by the way used by the people living in tents on the east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and made an attack on the army when they had no thought of danger.

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


rate difficulty: Howbeit there is not in every man that knowledge: for some with conscience of the idol unto this hour eat it as a thing offered unto an idol; and their conscience being weak is defiled.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Nay, father Abraham: but if one go to them from the dead, they will repent.

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


simplify: Of the sons of Bani: Maadai, Amram, and Uel,

Of the sons of Bani, Maadai, Amram, and Uel,


simplify: And the Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. And David waxed faint;

And the Philistines went to war again with Israel; and David went down with his people, and while they were at Gob they had a fight with the Philistines:


simplify: And the children of Israel gave unto the Levites out of their inheritance, at the commandment of the Lord, these cities and their suburbs.

And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.


simplify: And it came to pass, as soon as Isaac had made an end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob was yet scarce gone out from the presence of Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came in from his hunting.

And when Isaac had come to the end of blessing Jacob, and Jacob had not long gone away from Isaac his father, Esau came in from the field.


simplify: Wherefore I also said, I will not drive them out from before you; but they shall be as thorns in your sides, and their gods shall be a snare unto you.

And so I have said, I will not send them out from before you; but they will be a danger to you, and their gods will be a cause of falling to you.


simplify: And it came to pass, after these words, as it were eight days, that having taken Peter, and John, and James, he went up to the mountain to pray,

About eight days after speaking these words, Jesus went up the mountain to pray, taking with him Peter, John, and James.


simplify: And if he that sanctified the field will in any wise redeem it, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be assured to him.

And if the man who has given the field has a desire to get it back, let him give a fifth more than the price at which it was valued and it will be his.


simplify: Thou shalt therefore obey the voice of the Lord thy God, and do his commandments and his statutes, which I command thee this day.

For this cause you are to give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and do his orders and his laws which I give you this day.


rate difficulty: Also I have made a decree, that whosoever shall alter this word, let timber be pulled down from his house, and being set up, let him be hanged thereon; and let his house be made a dunghill for this.

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


simplify: Afterwards I came into the regions of Syria and Cilicia;

Then I came to the parts of Syria and Cilicia.


simplify: And Kish was the father of Saul; and Ner the father of Abner was the son of Abiel.

Kish, the father of Saul, and Ner, the father of Abner, were sons of Abiel.


simplify: Beloved, if our heart may not condemn us, we have boldness toward God,

Dear friends, if our conscience does not condemn us, then we approach God with confidence,


simplify: also filthiness, and foolish talking, or jesting, --the things not fit--but rather thanksgiving;

nor shameful conduct, nor foolish talk or jesting, for they are wholly out of place among you; but rather thanksgiving.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat?

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


rate difficulty: Which is really no good news at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: I have declared, and have saved, and I have shewed, when there was no strange god among you: therefore ye are my witnesses, saith the Lord, that I am God.

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


rate difficulty: And he riseth, and goeth to Zarephath, and cometh in unto the opening of the city, and lo there, a widow woman gathering sticks, and he calleth unto her, and saith, `Bring, I pray thee, to me, a little water in a vessel, and I drink.'

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


rate difficulty: the finely wrought garments, for ministering in the holy place, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to minister in the priest’s office.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, How long will this people despise me? and how long will they not believe me, for all the signs which I have done among them?


simplify: Lay thy hand upon him; Remember the battle, and do so no more.

Only put your hand on him, and see what a fight you will have; you will not do it again!


simplify: But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.

But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.


simplify: And ye know that he was manifested to take away our sins; and in him is no sin.

And you have knowledge that he came to take away sin: and in him there is no sin.


rate difficulty: And they who had been sent returning to the house found the bondman, who was ill, in good health.


rate difficulty: for through your union with Christ Jesus, the law of the life-giving Spirit has set you free from the law of sin and death.

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


rate difficulty: Never do we put an obstacle in anyone’s way, so that no fault may be found with our ministry.


simplify: And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

And on the third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight.


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

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


rate difficulty: but seek ye first the reign of God and His righteousness, and all these shall be added to you.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel seeth the sons of Joseph, and saith, `Who <FI>are<Fi> these?'

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


rate difficulty: For these cravings of our earthly nature conflict with the Spirit, and the Spirit with our earthly nature — they are two contrary principles — so that you cannot do what you wish.

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


simplify: and in this confidence I was purposing to come unto you before, that a second favour ye might have,

With this conviction in my mind, I planned to come to see you first, so that your pleasure might be doubled —


simplify: Rob not the poor, because he is poor: neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:


rate difficulty: Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

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


simplify: Therefore being a prophet, and knowing that God had sworn with an oath to him, that of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, he would raise up Christ to sit on his throne;

David, then, prophet as he was, knowing that God ‘had solemnly sworn to him to set one of his descendants on his throne,’ looked into the future,


rate difficulty: And Jesus went about all the cities and villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing every sickness and every disease among the people.


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

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


simplify: insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb speaking, the maimed whole, and the lame walking, and the blind seeing: and they glorified the God of Israel.

So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.


simplify: And they departed quickly from the sepulchre with fear and great joy; and did run to bring his disciples word.

And they went away quickly, with fear and great joy, to give his disciples the news.


simplify: And he rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two womenservants, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford Jabbok.

And in the night he got up, and taking with him his two wives and the two servant-women and his eleven children, he went over the river Jabbok.


rate difficulty: Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

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


simplify: And when he looked on him, he was afraid, and said, What is it, Lord? And he said unto him, Thy prayers and thine alms are come up for a memorial before God.

Cornelius fixed his eyes on him and, in great alarm, said: “What is it, Lord?”  “Your prayers and your charities,” the angel answered, “have been an acceptable offering to God.


rate difficulty: Neither did Jeroboam recover strength again in the days of Abijah: and Jehovah smote him, and he died.


simplify: And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people.


simplify: Seeing it is God, that said, Light shall shine out of darkness, who shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: But I tell you of a truth, there be some standing here, which shall not taste of death, till they see the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: When Jehovah spake at the first by Hosea, Jehovah said unto Hosea, Go, take unto thee a wife of whoredom and children of whoredom; for the land doth commit great whoredom, departing from Jehovah.

The start of the word of the Lord by Hosea: And the Lord said to Hosea, Go, take for yourself a wife of loose ways, and children of the same, for the land has been untrue to the Lord.


simplify: `And forgive us our debts, as also we forgive our debtors.

and forgive us our wrong-doings,  as we have forgiven those who have wronged us;


simplify: For now it would be heavier than the sand of the sea: therefore my words are swallowed up.

For then its weight would be more than the sand of the seas: because of this my words have been uncontrolled.


rate difficulty: Then Abimelech called Isaac, and said, Behold, she is certainly thy wife; and how saidst thou, She is my sister? and Isaac said to him, Because I said, Lest I die on account of her.

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


simplify: and one having run, and having filled a spunge with vinegar, having put <FI>it<Fi> also on a reed, was giving him to drink, saying, `Let alone, let us see if Elijah doth come to take him down.'

And a man ran, and, soaking a sponge in common wine, put it on the end of a rod, and offered it to him to drink, saying as he did so: “Wait and let us see if Elijah is coming to take him down.”


simplify: then said he unto them, `The harvest indeed <FI>is<Fi> abundant, but the workmen few; beseech ye then the Lord of the harvest, that He may put forth workmen to His harvest.

“The harvest,”he said, “is abundant, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray to the owner of the harvest to send laborers to gather in his harvest.


rate difficulty: Ask, and it shall be given to you. Seek, and ye shall find. Knock, and it shall be opened to you.

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob went away secretly, without giving news of his flight to Laban the Aramaean.

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


simplify: and the altar of incense, and its staves, and the anointing oil, and the sweet incense, and the screen for the door, at the door of the tabernacle;

And the altar for burning spices, with its rods, and the holy oil and the sweet perfume, and the curtain for the door, at the door of the House;


simplify: For the good that I would I do not: but the evil which I would not, that I do.

I fail to do the good thing that I want to do, but the bad thing that I want not to do — that I habitually do.


simplify: And thou shalt put oil upon it, and lay frankincense thereon: it is a meat offering.

And put oil on it and perfume: it is a meal offering.


simplify: And they shall divide it into seven portions: Judah shall abide in his border on the south, and the house of Joseph shall abide in their border on the north.

And let them make division of it into seven parts: let Judah keep inside his limit on the south, and let the children of Joseph keep inside their limit on the north.


rate difficulty: And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

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


simplify: And to the sons of Gershom, according to their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen cities.

And to the sons of Gershom, by their families, out of the tribe of Issachar, and out of the tribe of Asher, and out of the tribe of Naphtali, and out of the tribe of Manasseh in Bashan, thirteen towns.


simplify: It is he that sitteth above the circle of the earth, and the inhabitants thereof are as grasshoppers; that stretcheth out the heavens as a curtain, and spreadeth them out as a tent to dwell in;

It is he who is seated over the arch of the earth, and the people in it are as small as locusts; by him the heavens are stretched out like an arch, and made ready like a tent for a living-place.


rate difficulty: but their minds were hardened, for unto this day the same vail at the reading of the Old Covenant doth remain unwithdrawn--which in Christ is being made useless--

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


rate difficulty: And Ish-bosheth sent, and took her from her husband, even from Paltiel the son of Laish.

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


rate difficulty: He breaketh me with breach upon breach; he runneth upon me like a mighty man.

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


simplify: And Jesus having stood, he commanded him to be called, and they call the blind man, saying to him, `Take courage, rise, he doth call thee;'

Then Jesus stopped. “Call him,”he said. So they called the blind man. “Courage!” they exclaimed. “Get up; he is calling you.”


rate difficulty: And these are they which ye shall have in abomination among the fowls; they shall not be eaten, they are an abomination: the eagle, and the ossifrage, and the ospray,

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


rate difficulty: And Gideon said unto them, I would desire a request of you, that ye would give me every man the earrings of his prey. (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

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


simplify: And the Lord hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and he called the name of the place Hormah.

And the Lord, in answer to the voice of Israel, gave the Canaanites up to them; and they put them and their towns completely to destruction: and that place was named Hormah.


rate difficulty: And Elisha died, and they buried him. Now the bands of the Moabites invaded the land at the coming in of the year.

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


simplify: But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.

The day of the Lord will come like a thief; and on that day the heavens will pass away with a crash, the elements will be burnt up and dissolved, and the earth and all that is in it will be disclosed.


simplify: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:

See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will make a new agreement with the people of Israel and with the people of Judah:


rate difficulty: And Samuel said, How shall I go? if Saul hear [it], he will kill me. And Jehovah said, Take a heifer with thee, and say, I am come to sacrifice to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: So take care that the light which is in you is not dark.

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


simplify: And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.

Yes, and I say to you, Your name is ‘Peter — a Rock, and on this rock I will build my church, and the powers of the place of death will not prevail over it.


simplify: And Shaphan the scribe came to the king, and brought the king word again, and said, Thy servants have emptied out the money that was found in the house, and have delivered it into the hand of the workmen that have the oversight of the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Afterward came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.

Afterwards the other bridesmaids came. ‘Sir, Sir,’ they said, ‘open the door to us!’


simplify: Notwithstanding Hezekiah humbled himself for the pride of his heart, both he and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, so that the wrath of Jehovah came not upon them in the days of Hezekiah.

But then, Hezekiah, in sorrow for what he had done, put away his pride; and he and all Jerusalem made themselves low, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come on them in Hezekiah's life-time.


rate difficulty: Jehovah is my strength and song, And he is become my salvation: This is my God, and I will praise him; My father’s God, and I will exalt him.


simplify: Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:


rate difficulty: But against any of the children of Israel shall not a dog move his tongue, against man or beast: that ye may know how that Jehovah doth make a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

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


simplify: And when his disciples heard thereof, they came and took up his corpse, and laid it in a tomb.

And when his disciples had news of it, they came and took up his body, and put it in its last resting-place.


rate difficulty: and madest them to be unto our God a kingdom and priests; and they reign upon the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And he sendeth two of his disciples, and saith unto them, Go into the city, and there shall meet you a man bearing a pitcher of water: follow him;

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


rate difficulty: The good man out of the good treasure of his heart bringeth forth that which is good; and the evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaketh.


rate difficulty: Go ye up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end: take away her branches; for they are not Jehovah’s.

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


simplify: And ye returned and wept before Jehovah; but Jehovah hearkened not to your voice, nor gave ear unto you.

And you came back, weeping before the Lord; but the Lord gave no attention to your cries and did not give ear to you.


simplify: And the men of Israel were distressed that day: for Saul had adjured the people, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food until evening, that I may be avenged on mine enemies. So none of the people tasted any food.

And all the people were with Saul, about twenty thousand men, and the fight was general through all the hill-country of Ephraim; but Saul made a great error that day, by putting the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes food before evening comes and I have given punishment to those who are against me. So the people had not a taste of food.


rate difficulty: And they, when they had heard that he was alive, and had been seen of her, believed not.


simplify: show me the tribute-coin?' and they brought to him a denary;

Show me the coin with which the tax is paid.” And, when they had brought him a coin,