simplify: Beginning from the baptism of John, unto that same day that he was taken up from us, must one be ordained to be a witness with us of his resurrection.

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


simplify: These are they that were numbered of the families of the sons of Gershon, all that did serve in the tent of meeting, whom Moses and Aaron numbered according to the commandment of Jehovah.

This is the number of the sons of Gershon who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.


simplify: Simeon and Levi are brethren; Weapons of violence are their swords.

Simeon and Levi are brothers; deceit and force are their secret designs.


simplify: Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.

Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.


rate difficulty: Behold, thou hast driven me out this day from the face of the ground; and from thy face shall I be hid; and I shall be a fugitive and a wanderer in the earth; and it will come to pass, that whosoever findeth me will slay me.

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


simplify: And they come unto him, bringing a paralytic, borne by four,

Some people came, bringing to him a paralyzed man, who was being carried by four of them.


rate difficulty: Their throat is like an open place of death; with their tongues they have said what is not true: the poison of snakes is under their lips:

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


rate difficulty: (For we are walking by faith, not by seeing,)

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


simplify: So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

So the children went in and took the land, and you overcame before them the people of the land, the Canaanites, and gave them up into their hands, with their kings and the people of the land, so that they might do with them whatever it was their pleasure to do.


rate difficulty: You have heard that it was said — ‘An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.’


rate difficulty: For if your ways and your doings are truly changed for the better; if you truly give right decisions between a man and his neighbour;


rate difficulty: Some of the Pharisees’ party, however, who had become believers in Christ, came forward and declared that they were bound to circumcise converts and to direct them to observe the law of Moses.

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


rate difficulty: and having gone forth, he was following him, and he knew not that it is true that which is done through the messenger, and was thinking he saw a vision,

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


simplify: And he reigned over all the kings from the river even unto the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

And he was ruler over all the kings from the River to the land of the Philistines, as far as the limit of Egypt.


simplify: And one went in, and told his lord, saying, Thus and thus said the maiden that is of the land of Israel.

And someone went and said to his lord, This is what the girl from the land of Israel says.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to stumble.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night: for upon all the glory shall be a defence.

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


rate difficulty: Death and life are in the power of the tongue; and those to whom it is dear will have its fruit for their food.


simplify: and whoever may cause to stumble one of those little ones who are believing in me, it is better for him that a weighty millstone may be hanged upon his neck, and he may be sunk in the depth of the sea.

But, if anyone puts temptation in the way of one of these little ones who believe in me, it would be best for them to be sunk in the depths of the sea with a great millstone hung around their neck.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, after he had buried him, that he spake to his sons, saying, When I am dead, then bury me in the sepulchre wherein the man of God is buried; lay my bones beside his bones:

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


rate difficulty: But you did well to have care for me in my need.


rate difficulty: Provide you wise and understanding and known men, according to your tribes, that I may make them your chiefs.

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rate difficulty: Abundance of food--the tillage of the poor, And substance is consumed without judgment.


rate difficulty: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gaza, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they carried away captive the whole people, to deliver them up to Edom.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Gaza, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they took all the people away prisoners, to give them up to Edom.


simplify: And evening having come, when the sun did set, they brought unto him all who were ill, and who were demoniacs,

In the evening, after sunset, the people brought to Jesus all who were ill or possessed by demons;


simplify: saying, `Where is he who was born king of the Jews? for we saw his star in the east, and we came to bow to him.'

“Where is the newborn king of the Jews? For we saw his star in the east, and have come to worship him.”


simplify: And he shall offer the one of the turtledoves, or of the young pigeons, such as he can get;

And he will make an offering of one of the doves or the young pigeons, such as he is able to get;


simplify: for I am already being poured out, and the time of my release hath arrived;

As for me, my life blood is already being poured out; the time of my departure is close at hand.


simplify: And Jesus answered and spake unto them again by parables, and said,

And Jesus, talking to them again in stories, said:


simplify: And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thy heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honor, nor the life of them that hate thee, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

And God said to Solomon, Because this was in your heart, and you did not make request for money, property, or honour, or for the destruction of your haters, or for long life; but you have made request for wisdom and knowledge for yourself, so that you may be the judge of my people over whom I have made you king:


rate difficulty: And Moses told the children of Israel according to all that Jehovah had commanded Moses.

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


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, I will also ask you one thing; and answer me:

“I, too,”said Jesus in reply, “will ask you one question. Give me an answer to it.


rate difficulty: If brethren dwell together, and one of them die, and have no son, the wife of the dead shall not be married without unto a stranger: her husband’s brother shall go in unto her, and take her to him to wife, and perform the duty of a husband’s brother unto her.

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


simplify: And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.

And the women who were her neighbours gave it a name, saying, Naomi has a child; and they gave him the name of Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David.


simplify: Paul, an apostle--not from men, nor through man, but through Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who did raise him out of the dead--

To the churches in Galatia, from Paul, an apostle whose commission is not from any human authority and is given, not by human beings, but by Jesus Christ and God the Father who raised him from the dead;


rate difficulty: And Lamech took unto him two wives: the name of the one was Adah, and the name of the other Zillah.

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


rate difficulty: even the righteousness of God through faith in Jesus Christ unto all them that believe; for there is no distinction;


simplify: Thy father made our yoke grievous: now therefore make thou the grievous service of thy father, and his heavy yoke which he put upon us, lighter, and we will serve thee.

Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.


rate difficulty: if we are unfaithful, he abides faithful, for he cannot deny himself.

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


rate difficulty: and they departed, and dwelt at Geruth-Chimham, which is by Bethlehem, to go to enter into Egypt,

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


rate difficulty: and they gave them for the field of the potter, according as [the] Lord commanded me.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if thou shalt hearken diligently unto the voice of Jehovah thyGod, to take heed to do all his commandments which I command thee this day, that Jehovah thyGod will set thee supreme above all nations of the earth;

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


simplify: saying, We give thee thanks, O Lord God, the Almighty, who art and who wast; because thou hast taken thy great power, and didst reign.

We give you praise, O Lord God, Ruler of all, who is and who was; because you have taken up your great power and are ruling your kingdom.


simplify: And I will sow her unto me in the earth; and I will have mercy upon her that had not obtained mercy; and I will say to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall say, Thou art my God.

And I will put her as seed in the earth, and I will have mercy on her to whom no mercy was given; and I will say to those who were not my people, You are my people, and they will say, My God.


simplify: and be not drunk with wine, in which is dissoluteness, but be filled in the Spirit,

Do not drink wine to excess, for that leads to profligacy; but seek to be filled with the Spirit of God, and speak to one another in psalms and hymns and sacred songs.


simplify: And all flesh shall see that I, Jehovah, have kindled it; it shall not be quenched.

And all flesh will see that I the Lord have had it lighted: it will not be put out.


simplify: who is at the right hand of God, having gone on to heaven--messengers, and authorities, and powers, having been subjected to him.

who has gone into heaven, and is at God’s right hand, where angels and archangels and the powers of heaven now yield submission to him.


rate difficulty: Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;

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


rate difficulty: I did know thee in the wilderness, in the land of great drought.


simplify: And hast not suffered me to kiss my sons and my daughters? thou hast now done foolishly in so doing.

You did not even let me give a kiss to my sons and my daughters. This was a foolish thing to do.


simplify: For if the casting away of them be the reconciling of the world, what shall the receiving of them be, but life from the dead?

For, if by their putting away, the rest of men have been made friends with God, what will their coming back again be, but life from the dead?


rate difficulty: And Shallum was the father of Hilkiah, and Hilkiah was the father of Azariah,


simplify: But when the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, Jehovah raised them up a saviour, Ehud the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a man left-handed. And the children of Israel sent tribute by him unto Eglon the king of Moab.

Then when the children of Israel made prayer to the Lord, he gave them a saviour, Ehud, the son of Gera, the Benjamite, a left-handed man; and the children of Israel sent an offering by him to Eglon, king of Moab.


simplify: I will consume man and beast; I will consume the birds of the heavens, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the face of the ground, saith Jehovah.

I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.


simplify: Then said Jeremiah, It is false; I am not falling away to the Chaldeans. But he hearkened not to him; so Irijah laid hold on Jeremiah, and brought him to the princes.

Then Jeremiah said, That is not true; I am not going to the Chaldaeans. But he would not give ear to him: so Irijah made him prisoner and took him to the rulers.


simplify: And when king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south, heard tell that Israel came by the way of the spies; then he fought against Israel, and took some of them prisoners.

And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

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


simplify: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

And his head and his hair were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;


simplify: And when he had thus spoken, he took bread, and gave thanks to God in presence of them all: and when he had broken it, he began to eat.

With these words he took some bread, and, after saying the thanksgiving to God before them all, broke it in pieces, and began to eat;


rate difficulty: With more than the weeping of Jazer will I weep for thee, O vine of Sibmah: thy branches passed over the sea, they reached even to the sea of Jazer: upon thy summer fruits and upon thy vintage the destroyer is fallen.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But I fear, lest by any means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty, so your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

But I have a fear, that in some way, as Eve was tricked by the deceit of the snake, your minds may be turned away from their simple and holy love for Christ.


simplify: where their worm is not dying, and the fire is not being quenched;

where ‘their worm does not die, and the fire is not put out.’


rate difficulty: Let everyone look into their own heart, and only then eat of the bread and drink from the cup.


simplify: And Asa had an army that bare bucklers and spears, out of Judah three hundred thousand; and out of Benjamin, that bare shields and drew bows, two hundred and fourscore thousand: all these were mighty men of valor.

And Asa had an army of three hundred thousand men of Judah armed with body-covers and spears, and two hundred and eighty thousand of Benjamin armed with body-covers and bows; all these were men of war.


rate difficulty: And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.

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


simplify: Therefore we conclude that a man is justified by faith without the deeds of the law.

For this reason, then, a man may get righteousness by faith without the works of the law.


simplify: Thou shalt not have in thine house divers measures, a great and a small.

Or in your house different measures, a great and a small.


simplify: There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days; for the child shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

No longer will there be there a child whose days are cut short, or an old man whose days have not come to their full measure: for the young man at his death will be a hundred years old, and he whose life is shorter than a hundred years will seem as one cursed.


rate difficulty: That your eyes may be open to this house night and day, to this place of which you have said, My name will be there; hearing the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.

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


simplify: But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:

But if our good news is veiled, it is veiled from those who are on the way to destruction:


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

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


simplify: And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


rate difficulty: He lodges with a certain Simon, a tanner, whose house is by the sea.


rate difficulty: As for the useless servant, ‘put him out into the darkness’ outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’

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


rate difficulty: Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.


simplify: These are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity, of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away, and came again to Jerusalem and to Judah, every one unto his city;

These are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, and taken away by him, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, every one to his town;


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? the great abominations that the house of Israel commit here, to cause [me] to go far off from my sanctuary? And yet again thou shalt see great abominations.

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


rate difficulty: And when the days of her cleansing are fulfilled, for a son or for a daughter, she shall bring a yearling lamb for a burnt-offering, and a young pigeon or a turtle-dove for a sin-offering, to the entrance of the tent of meeting, unto the priest.

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


simplify: Therefore set I in the lower places behind the wall, and on the higher places, I even set the people after their families with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.


rate difficulty: And they came to Ophir, and fetched from thence gold, four hundred and twenty talents, and brought it to king Solomon.

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


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and fourscore and five thousand; and when men arose early in the morning, behold, these were all dead bodies.

And the angel of the Lord went out and put to death in the army of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand men: and when the people got up early in the morning, there was nothing to be seen but dead bodies.


rate difficulty: and Thou--Thou hast said, I certainly do good with thee, and have set thy seed as the sand of the sea, which is not numbered because of the multitude.'

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


simplify: And the servant of the Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient,

For it is not right for the Lord's servant to make trouble, but he is to be gentle to all, ready in teaching, putting up with wrong,


simplify: And there came a messenger unto Job, and said, The oxen were plowing, and the asses feeding beside them:

And a man came to Job, and said, The oxen were ploughing, and the asses were taking their food by their side:


rate difficulty: Whose harvest the hungry eateth up, And taketh it even out of the thorns; And the snare gapeth for their substance.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


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


simplify: And the gates of it shall not be shut at all by day: for there shall be no night there.

And the doors of it will never be shut by day (for there is no night there):


rate difficulty: Only the land of the priests he did not buy; for the priests had an assigned portion from Pharaoh, and ate their assigned portion which Pharaoh had given them; so they did not sell their land.

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


simplify: Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the Lord.

Now the time came when Hannah, being with child, gave birth to a son; and she gave him the name Samuel, Because, she said, I made a prayer to the Lord for him.


simplify: The salutation of Paul with mine own hand, which is the token in every epistle: so I write.

I, Paul, add this greeting in my own handwriting. It is my signature to every letter. This is how I write.


simplify: And Abraham gave all that he had unto Isaac.

Now Abraham gave all his property to Isaac;


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

I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son: if he does wrong, I will give him punishment with the rod of men and with the blows of the children of men;


simplify: Since the day that I brought forth my people out of the land of Egypt I chose no city among all the tribes of Israel to build an house in, that my name might be there; neither chose I any man to be a ruler over my people Israel:

From the day when I took my people out of the land of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; and I took no man to be a ruler over my people Israel;


rate difficulty: And the Philistines stood on the mountain on the one side, and Israel stood on the mountain on the other side; and the ravine was between them.

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


rate difficulty: and Gideon maketh it into an ephod, and setteth it up in his city, in Ophrah, and all Israel go a-whoring after it there, and it is to Gideon and to his house for a snare.

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


simplify: and did eat and drink before Jehovah on that day with great gladness. And they made Solomon the son of David king the second time, and anointed him unto Jehovah to be prince, and Zadok to be priest.

And with great joy they made a feast before the Lord that day. And they made Solomon, the son of David, king a second time, putting the holy oil on him to make him holy to the Lord as ruler, and on Zadok as priest.


rate difficulty: by the hand of Elasah the son of Shaphan, and Gemariah the son of Hilkiah, (whom Zedekiah king of Judah sent unto Babylon to Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon), saying,

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


rate difficulty: And it is declared to David, and he gathereth all Israel, and passeth over the Jordan, and cometh in to Helam, and Aram setteth itself in array to meet David, and they fight with him;

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


rate difficulty: God shall enlarge Japheth, and he shall dwell in the tents of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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


rate difficulty: I say this for your own benefit, not with any intention of putting a halter around your necks, but in order to secure for the Master seemly and constant devotion, free from all distraction.

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


simplify: When I therefore was thus minded, did I use lightness? or the things that I purpose, do I purpose according to the flesh, that with me there should be yea yea, and nay nay?

As this was my plan, where, pray, did I show any fickleness of purpose? Or do you think that my plans are formed on mere impulse, so that in the same breath I say ‘Yes’ and ‘No’?


simplify: And Solomon sat upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.

And Solomon took his place on the seat of David his father, and his kingdom was made safe and strong.


rate difficulty: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

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


rate difficulty: And that day Joshua took Makkedah, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and the king thereof he utterly destroyed, them, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain: and he did to the king of Makkedah as he did unto the king of Jericho.

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


rate difficulty: And king Rehoboam consulteth with the elders who have been standing in the presence of Solomon his father, in his being alive, saying, `How are ye counselling to answer this people?'

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


simplify: I chose out their way, and sataschief, And dwelt as a king in the army, As one that comforteth the mourners.

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...


simplify: And David called one of the young men, and said, Go near, and fall upon him. And he smote him, so that he died.

And David sent for one of his young men and said, Go near and put an end to him. And he put him to death.


simplify: For, behold, Jehovah will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, 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.


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

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


simplify: Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

To whom your love is given, though you have not seen him; and the faith which you have in him, though you do not see him now, gives you joy greater than words and full of glory:


simplify: So all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet. And Athaliah they had slain with the sword at the king’s house.

So all the people of the land were glad, and the town was quiet; and they had put Athaliah to death with the sword at the king's house.


simplify: In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO THE LORD; and the pots in the Lord’s house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

On that day all the bells of the horses will be holy to the Lord, and the pots in the Lord's house will be like the basins before the altar.


rate difficulty: And there go up of the sons of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the gatekeepers, and the Nethinim, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.

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


simplify: And Gaal the son of Ebed went out, and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city: and Abimelech rose up, and the people that were with him, from the ambushment.

And Gaal, the son of Ebed, went out, and took his place at the doorway into the town; then Abimelech and his people got up from the place where they had been waiting.


rate difficulty: If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.

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


simplify: I smote you with blasting and with mildew and with hail in all the labours of your hands; yet ye turned not to me, saith the Lord.

And I sent burning and wasting and a rain of ice-drops on all the works of your hands; but still you were not turned to me, says the Lord.


simplify: He hath also kindled his wrath against me, and he counteth me unto him as one of his enemies.

His wrath is burning against me, and I am to him as one of his haters.


rate difficulty: Then he put out the eyes of Zedekiah; and the king of Babylon bound him in chains, and carried him to Babylon, and put him in prison till the day of his death.

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simplify: But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

But Lot's wife, looking back, became a pillar of salt.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


rate difficulty: For yet a very little while, and the indignation against thee shall be accomplished, and mine anger shall be directed to his destruction.

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simplify: Moreover he said unto me, Son of man, behold, I will break the staff of bread in Jerusalem: and they shall eat bread by weight, and with fearfulness; and they shall drink water by measure, and in dismay:

And he said to me, Son of man, see, I will take away from Jerusalem her necessary bread: they will take their bread by weight and with care, measuring out their drinking-water with fear and wonder:


simplify: Which are a shadow of things to come; but the body is of Christ.

For these are an image of the things which are to come; but the body is Christ's.


rate difficulty: And if you say to me, Our hope is in the Lord our God; is it not he whose high places and altars Hezekiah has taken away, saying to Judah and Jerusalem that worship may only be given before this altar?

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


rate difficulty: Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

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


simplify: The just Lord is in the midst thereof; he will not do iniquity: every morning doth he bring his judgment to light, he faileth not; but the unjust knoweth no shame.

The Lord in her is upright; he will not do evil; every morning he lets his righteousness be seen, he is unchanging; but the evil-doer has no sense of shame.


simplify: These going before tarried for us at Troas.

But these had gone before, and were waiting for us at Troas.


simplify: Then took he him up in his arms, and blessed God, and said,

Simeon himself took the child in his arms, and blessed God, and said:


rate difficulty: Let my lord give no attention to Nabal, that good-for-nothing: for as his name is, so is he, a man without sense: but I, your servant, did not see the young men whom my lord sent.


simplify: And when it was day, he came out and went into a desert place: and the multitudes sought after him, and came unto him, and would have stayed him, that he should not go from them.

And when it was day, he came out and went to a waste place; and great numbers of people came looking for him, and they came to him and would have kept him from going away.


rate difficulty: Open your hearts to us: we wronged no man, we corrupted no man, we took advantage of no man.


simplify: But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed.

But every man is tested when he is turned out of the right way by the attraction of his desire.


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that Naboth the Jezreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jezreel, hard by the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

Now Naboth the Jezreelite had a vine-garden in Jezreel, near the house of Ahab, king of Samaria.


simplify: and when this corruptible may have put on incorruption, and this mortal may have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the word that hath been written, `The Death was swallowed up--to victory;

And, when this dying body has put on its deathless form, then indeed will the words of scripture come true —


simplify: But Abraham saith, They have Moses and the prophets; let them hear them.

But Abraham said, They have Moses and the prophets; let them give ear to what they say.


rate difficulty: and gavest them bread from heaven for their hunger, and broughtest forth water for them out of the rock for their thirst, and commandedst them that they should go in to possess the land which thou hadst sworn to give them.

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


rate difficulty: Truly, you have all seen it yourselves; why then have you become completely foolish?


simplify: How then shall they call upon <FI>him<Fi> in whom they did not believe? and how shall they believe <FI>on him<Fi> of whom they did not hear? and how shall they hear apart from one preaching?

But how, it may be asked, are they to invoke one in whom they have not learned to believe? And how are they to believe in one whose words they have not heard? And how are they to hear his words unless some one proclaims him?


rate difficulty: The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

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


rate difficulty: Again, when a righteous man doth turn from his righteousness, and commit iniquity, and I lay a stumblingblock before him, he shall die: because thou hast not given him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he hath done shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in the multitude pressing on him to hear the word of God, that he was standing beside the lake of Gennesaret,

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rate difficulty: And David passeth over to the other side, and standeth on the top of the hill afar off--great <FI>is<Fi> the place between them;

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


simplify: Dost thou know when God disposed them, and caused the light of his cloud to shine?

Have you knowledge of God's ordering of his works, how he makes the light of his cloud to be seen?


simplify: Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

Did, then, a thing, which in itself was good, involve death in my case? Heaven forbid! It was sin that involved death; so that, by its use of what I regarded as good to bring about my death, its true nature might appear; and in this way the Commandment showed how intensely sinful sin is.


simplify: And when he had called the people unto him with his disciples also, he said unto them, Whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.


rate difficulty: And I will bring you in unto the land which I sware to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for a heritage: I am Jehovah.

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


simplify: Behold, I will put a spirit in him, and he shall hear tidings, and shall return unto his own land; and I will cause him to fall by the sword in his own land.

See, I will put a spirit into him, and bad news will come to his ears, and he will go back to his land; and there I will have him put to death.


simplify: And he fell upon his brother Benjamin’s neck, and wept; and Benjamin wept upon his neck.

Then, weeping, he took Benjamin in his arms, and Benjamin himself was weeping on Joseph's neck.


simplify: and dissemble with him also did the other Jews, so that also Barnabas was carried away by their dissimulation.

The rest of the Jewish converts were guilty of the same hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led away by it.


simplify: My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.


simplify: And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with candles, and punish the men that are settled on their lees: that say in their heart, The Lord will not do good, neither will he do evil.

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.


rate difficulty: (For this we say to you in [the] word of [the] Lord, that we, the living, who remain to the coming of the Lord, are in no way to anticipate those who have fallen asleep;

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


simplify: They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.


rate difficulty: for thus once also the holy women who did hope on God, were adorning themselves, being subject to their own husbands,


rate difficulty: And he did wash the inwards and the legs, and burnt them upon the burnt offering on the altar.

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rate difficulty: Issachar, Zebulun, and Benjamin;

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


simplify: The preparations of the heart in man, and the answer of the tongue, is from the Lord.

The designs of the heart are man's, but the answer of the tongue comes from the Lord.


rate difficulty: And immediately he constrained his disciples to go into the boat, and to go before to the other side, unto Bethsaida, till he may let the multitude away,

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


simplify: And they that kept them fled, and went their ways into the city, and told every thing, and what was befallen to the possessed of the devils.

At this the men who tended them ran away and went to the town, carrying the news of all that had occurred, and of what had happened to the possessed men.


simplify: And when they had preached the gospel to that city, and had taught many, they returned again to Lystra, and to Iconium, and Antioch,

And having made a number of disciples through the preaching of the good news in that town, they went back to Lystra and Iconium and Antioch,


rate difficulty: At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.

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


rate difficulty: And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

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


simplify: And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zina, and Jeush, and Beriah. These four were the sons of Shimei.

And the sons of Shimei: Jahath, Zizah and Jeush and Beriah; these four were the sons of Shimei.


simplify: (And his daughter was Sherah, who built Beth–horon the nether, and the upper, and Uzzen–sherah.)

And his daughter was Sheerah, the builder of Beth-horon the lower and the higher, and Uzzen-sheerah.


simplify: It is enough for the disciple that he be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have called the master of the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they call them of his household?

It is enough for the disciple that he may be as his master, and the servant as his lord. If they have given the name Beelzebub to the master of the house, how much more to those of his house!


simplify: And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah commanded that ye should do: and the glory of Jehovah shall appear unto you.

And Moses said, This is what the Lord has said you are to do; and you will see the glory of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Now fourteen thousand, seven hundred deaths were caused by that disease, in addition to those who came to their end because of what Korah had done.

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simplify: And the king of Israel answered and said, My lord, O king, according to thy saying, I am thine, and all that I have.

And the king of Israel sent him an answer saying, As you say, my lord king, I am yours with all I have.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will hiss for the fly which is at the extremity of the streams of Egypt, and for the bee which is in the land of Assyria;

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simplify: for there is no respect of persons with God.

For one man is not different from another before God.


simplify: And Aaron shall bring the goat upon which the Lord’s lot fell, and offer him for a sin offering.

And the goat which is marked out for the Lord, let Aaron give for a sin-offering.


simplify: In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.

In the eighteenth year of King Jeroboam, Abijah became king over Judah.


rate difficulty: And Eber lived thirty-four years, and begot Peleg.

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


simplify: about to receive a reward of unrighteousness, pleasures counting the luxury in the day, spots and blemishes, luxuriating in their deceits, feasting with you,

suffering themselves, as the penalty for the suffering that they have inflicted. They think that pleasure consists in the self-indulgence of the moment. They are a stain and a disgrace, indulging, as they do, in their wanton revelry, even while joining you at your feasts.


simplify: Mishma, and Dumah, Massa, Hadad, and Tema,

Mishma and Dumah, Massa, Hadad and Tema,


simplify: But Elisha was sitting in his house, and the elders were sitting with him; andthe kingsent a man from before him: but ere the messenger came to him, he said to the elders, See ye how this son of a murderer hath sent to take away my head? look, when the messenger cometh, shut the door, and hold the door fast against him: is not the sound of his master’s feet behind him?

But Elisha was in his house, and the responsible men were seated there with him; and before the king got there, Elisha said to those who were with him, Do you see how this cruel and violent man has sent to take away my life?


simplify: if we may say--`we have not sinned,' a liar we make Him, and His word is not in us.

If we say that we have not sinned, we are making God a liar, and his message has no place in us.


simplify: And when his disciples heard of it, 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.


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways, and his sayings, are written in the story of the prophet Iddo.

And the rest of the acts of Abijah, and his ways and his sayings, are recorded in the account of the prophet Iddo.


rate difficulty: And the Lord was with Judah; and he drave out the inhabitants of the mountain; but could not drive out the inhabitants of the valley, because they had chariots of iron.

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


simplify: And the land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together: for their substance was great, so that they could not dwell together.

So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.


rate difficulty: And Zilpah Leah's maidservant bore Jacob a second son.


rate difficulty: The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, an hundred thirty and eight.

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


rate difficulty: And an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

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


rate difficulty: Is the iniquity of Peor too little for us, from which we have not cleansed ourselves unto this day, although there came a plague upon the congregation of Jehovah,

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


simplify: He that receiveth you receiveth me, and he that receiveth me receiveth him that sent me.

He who gives honour to you gives honour to me; and he who gives honour to me gives honour to him who sent me.


simplify: But every woman shall borrow of her neighbour, and of her that sojourneth in her house, jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment: and ye shall put them upon your sons, and upon your daughters; and ye shall spoil the Egyptians.

For every woman will get from her neighbour and from the woman living in her house, ornaments of silver and gold, and clothing; and you will put them on your sons and your daughters; you will take the best of their goods from the Egyptians.


rate difficulty: After these things I saw, and behold, a door opened in heaven, and the first voice which I heard as of a trumpet speaking with me, saying, Come up here, and I will shew thee the things which must take place after these things.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Know ye Laban the son of Nahor? And they said, We know him.

And he said to them, Have you any knowledge of Laban, the son of Nahor? And they said, We have.


simplify: But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then they will go without food.


rate difficulty: Let thy fountains be scattered abroad, In broad places rivulets of waters.

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


rate difficulty: For the morning is to them even as the shadow of death: if one know them, they are in the terrors of the shadow of death.


simplify: And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And it was so, that, when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, Let me go over, the men of Gilead said unto him, Art thou an Ephraimite? If he said, Nay;

And the Gileadites took the crossing-places of Jordan against the Ephraimites; and when any of the men of Ephraim who had gone in flight said, let me go over; the men of Gilead said to him, Are you an Ephraimite? And if he said, No;


simplify: And Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness.

And Jesus went about all the towns and small places, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom and making well all sorts of disease and pain.


rate difficulty: For he put his life in danger and overcame the Philistine, and the Lord gave all Israel salvation: you saw it and were glad: why then are you sinning against him who has done no wrong, desiring the death of David without cause?


simplify: Lest the avenger of the blood pursue the slayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and slay him; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

For if not, he who has the right of punishment may go running after the taker of life in the heat of his wrath, and overtake him because the way is long, and give him a death-blow; though it is not right for him to be put to death because he was not moved by hate.


simplify: When they go into the tabernacle of the congregation, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn offering made by fire unto the Lord:

Whenever they go into the Tent of meeting they are to be washed with water, to keep them from death; and whenever they come near to do the work of the altar, or to make an offering by fire to the Lord,


simplify: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven.

Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.


rate difficulty: Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you in due time:

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simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that endureth to the end shall be saved.

and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.


simplify: And I will fill his mountains with his slain men: in thy hills, and in thy valleys, and in all thy rivers, shall they fall that are slain with the sword.

I will make his mountains full of those who have been put to death; in your valleys and in all your water-streams men will be falling by the sword.


rate difficulty: `Lo, thou hast trusted on the staff of this broken reed--on Egypt--which a man leaneth on, and it hath gone into his hand, and pierced it--so <FI>is<Fi> Pharaoh king of Egypt to all those trusting on him.

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


simplify: If any one commit a trespass, and sin unwittingly, in the holy things of Jehovah; then he shall bring his trespass-offering unto Jehovah, a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation in silver by shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, for a trespass-offering:

If anyone is untrue, sinning in error in connection with the holy things of the Lord, let him take his offering to the Lord, a male sheep from the flock, without any mark, of the value fixed by you in silver by shekels, by the scale of the holy place.


simplify: And all the women whose heart stirred them up in wisdom spun goats’ hair.

And those women who had the knowledge, made the goats' hair into cloth.


simplify: But I know thy sitting down, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

But I have knowledge of your getting up and your resting, of your going out and your coming in.


rate difficulty: And they smote his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul knew David’s voice, and said, Is this thy voice, my son David? And David said, It is my voice, my lord, O king.

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


simplify: And when they came to Nachon’s threshingfloor, Uzzah put forth his hand to the ark of God, and took hold of it; for the oxen shook it.

And when they came to Nacon's grain-floor, Uzzah put his hand on the ark of God to keep it safe in its place, for the oxen were out of control.


rate difficulty: And when, having got away from them, we at last sailed away, we came by a direct course to Cos, and on the morrow to Rhodes, and thence to Patara.

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


simplify: Him God raised up the third day, and gave him to be made manifest,

On the third day God gave him back to life, and let him be seen,


rate difficulty: Was it not my hand that made all these things?’

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


rate difficulty: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.


simplify: And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

And to the people Jesus said: “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once ‘There is a storm coming,’ and come it does.


rate difficulty: And Jonathan made [a covenant] with the house of David, [saying,] Let Jehovah even require [it] at the hand of David's enemies!

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


rate difficulty: This is a faithful saying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners; of whom I am chief.

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


rate difficulty: When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.


simplify: And David prepared iron in abundance for the nails for the doors of the gates, and for the couplings; and brass in abundance without weight;

And he got together a great store of iron, for the nails for the doors and for the joins; and brass, more in weight than might be measured;


rate difficulty: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada answered the king, and said, Amen: Jehovah, the God of my lord the king, say so too.


simplify: is not this the carpenter's son? is not his mother called Mary, and his brethren James, and Joses, and Simon, and Judas?

Is not he the carpenter’s son? Is not his mother called Mary, and his brothers James, and Joseph, and Simon, and Judas?


simplify: And David said unto him, To whom belongest thou? and whence art thou? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master left me, because three days ago I fell sick.

And David said to him, Whose man are you and where do you come from? And he said, I am a young man of Egypt, servant to an Amalekite; and my master went on without me because three days back I became ill.


rate difficulty: Pilate therefore, willing to release Jesus, spake again to them.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam said to Balak, Make me here seven altars and get ready seven oxen and seven male sheep.

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


simplify: (Yea, I have not suffered my mouth to sin By asking his life with a curse);

(For I did not let my mouth give way to sin, in putting a curse on his life;)


rate difficulty: For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great day of God Almighty.

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


rate difficulty: and Jeroboam maketh a festival in the eighth month, in the fifteenth day of the month, like the festival that <FI>is<Fi> in Judah, and he offereth on the altar--so did he in Beth-El--to sacrifice to the calves which he made, and he hath appointed in Beth-El the priests of the high places that he made.

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


simplify: No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

No man, when the light is lighted, puts a cover over it, or puts it under a bed, but he puts it on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.


simplify: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.


rate difficulty: Was your wrath burning against the rivers? were you angry with the sea, that you went on your horses, on your war-carriages of salvation?


simplify: and they shall say to you, Lo, here; or lo, there; ye may not go away, nor follow;

People will say to you ‘There he is! Or ‘Here he is!’ Do not go and follow them.


rate difficulty: And Joseph saw Ephraim's children of the third generation: and the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, came to birth on Joseph's knees.

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


rate difficulty: It is a true saying, in which all may put their faith, that Christ Jesus came into the world to give salvation to sinners, of whom I am the chief:

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simplify: Then certain of the vagabond Jews, exorcists, took upon them to call over them which had evil spirits the name of the Lord Jesus, saying, We adjure you by Jesus whom Paul preacheth.

But some of the Jews who went from place to place driving out evil spirits, took it on themselves to make use of the name of the Lord Jesus over those who had evil spirits, saying, I give you orders, by Jesus, whom Paul is preaching.


rate difficulty: The children of Gershon by their families were given thirteen towns from the tribes of Issachar and Asher and Naphtali and the half-tribe of Manasseh which was in Bashan.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass afterwards that Absalom son of David hath a fair sister, and her name <FI>is<Fi> Tamar, and Amnon son of David loveth her.

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


simplify: The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred fourscore and eight.

The men of Beth-lehem and Netophah, a hundred and eighty-eight.


rate difficulty: And there was again a battle, at Gath; and there was a man [there] of great stature, whose fingers [and toes] were four and twenty, six [on each hand], and six [on each foot]; and he also was born to Rapha.

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


rate difficulty: And he came unto his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I; who art thou, my son?

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


simplify: And he spake unto them, saying, Return with much riches unto your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver, and with gold, and with brass, and with iron, and with very much raiment: divide the spoil of your enemies with your brethren.

And said to them, Go back with much wealth to your tents, and with very much cattle, with silver and gold and brass and iron, and with a very great store of clothing; give your brothers a part of the goods taken in the war.


simplify: And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.

And if I by Beelzebub send evil spirits out of men, by whom do your sons send them out? So let them be your judges.


simplify: Go, and tell Hananiah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Thou hast broken the bars of wood; but thou hast made in their stead bars of iron.

Go and say to Hananiah, This is what the Lord has said: Yokes of wood have been broken by you, but in their place I will make yokes of iron.


simplify: And if thy hand offend thee, cut it off: it is better for thee to enter into life maimed, than having two hands to go into hell, into the fire that never shall be quenched:

If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It would be better for you to enter the life maimed, than to have both your hands and go into Gehenna, into the fire that cannot be put out.


simplify: My days are past, my purposes are broken off, Even the thoughts of my heart.

My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering saith unto them, Have faith in God.

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


rate difficulty: Howbeit what things were gain to me, these have I counted loss for Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And after that they durst not ask him any question at all.


rate difficulty: Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are profuse.


simplify: Howbeit we may not give them wives of our daughters, for the children of Israel had sworn, saying, Cursed be he that giveth a wife to Benjamin.

Seeing that we may not give them our daughters as wives? For the children of Israel had taken an oath, saying, Cursed is he who gives a wife to Benjamin.


rate difficulty: And they said, Give way there. This one man, they said, came here from a strange country, and will he now be our judge? now we will do worse to you than to them; and pushing violently against Lot, they came near to get the door broken in.

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


rate difficulty: He doth not become weak nor bruised, Till he setteth judgment in the earth, And for his law isles wait with hope.

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


simplify: Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.

“Are you, then, the Son of God?” they all asked. “It is true,”answered Jesus, “I am.”


rate difficulty: Then the steward said within himself, What shall I do? for my lord taketh away from me the stewardship: I cannot dig; to beg I am ashamed.

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


simplify: And Ephron dwelt among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the audience of the children of Heth, even of all that went in at the gate of his city, saying,

Now Ephron was seated among the children of Heth: and Ephron the Hittite gave Abraham his answer in the hearing of the children of Heth, and of all those who came into his town, saying,


rate difficulty: Do horses run on a rock? Doth one plough <FI>it<Fi> with oxen? For ye have turned to gall judgment, And the fruit of righteousness to wormwood.

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


simplify: for the fifteenth to Jeremoth, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The fifteenth Jeremoth, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: And this shall be the border of the land toward the north side, from the great sea, the way of Hethlon, as men go to Zedad;

And this is to be the limit of the land: on the north side, from the Great Sea, in the direction of Hethlon, as far as the way into Hamath;


simplify: Yea, my hand hath laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand hath spread out the heavens: when I call unto them, they stand up together.

Yes, by my hand was the earth placed on its base, and by my right hand the heavens were stretched out; at my word they take up their places.


rate difficulty: And the side-chambers <FI>are<Fi> side-chamber by side-chamber, three and thirty times; and they are entering into the wall--which the house hath for the side-chambers all round about--to be taken hold of, and they are not taken hold of by the wall of the house.

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


simplify: Then the king of Assyria came up throughout all the land, and went up to Samaria, and besieged it three years.

Then the king of Assyria went through all the land and came up to Samaria, shutting it in with his forces for three years.


simplify: I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.

I will make your towns unpeopled and you will be a waste; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: Vexation is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better.

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


simplify: But when he had turned about and looked on his disciples, he rebuked Peter, saying, Get thee behind me, Satan: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but the things that be of men.

But he, turning about, and seeing his disciples, said sharply to Peter, Get out of my way, Satan: for your mind is not on the things of God, but on the things of men.


simplify: and said, For this cause shall a man leave father and mother, and cleave to his wife, and they shall be--the two--for one flesh?

and said — ‘For this reason a man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife, and the man and his wife will become one’?


simplify: And, behold, I purpose to build a house for the name of Jehovah my God, as Jehovah spake unto David my father, saying, Thy son, whom I will set upon thy throne in thy room, he shall build the house for my name.

And so it is my purpose to make a house for the name of the Lord my God, as he said to David my father, Your son, whom I will make king in your place, will be the builder of a house for my name.


rate difficulty: Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:

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


simplify: And Simon answered and said, Master, we toiled all night, and took nothing: but at thy word I will let down the nets.

And Simon, answering, said, Master, we were working all night and we took nothing: but at your word I will let down the nets.


rate difficulty: And David returned to bless his household. And Michal the daughter of Saul came out to meet David, and said, How honourable did the king of Israel make himself to-day, who uncovered himself to-day in the eyes of the handmaids of his servants, as one of the lewd fellows shamelessly uncovers himself!

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


simplify: For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, and had smitten every male in Edom

And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;


rate difficulty: And for this, I tell you, her sins, many as they are, have been pardoned, because she has loved greatly; but one who has little pardoned him, loves but little.”


rate difficulty: Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

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


simplify: And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness: and the Levites and the priests praised the Lord day by day, singing with loud instruments unto the Lord.

So the children of Israel who were present in Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread for seven days with great joy: and the Levites and the priests gave praise to the Lord day by day, making melody to the Lord with loud instruments.


simplify: And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kir–haraseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.

Pulling down the towns, covering every good field with stones, stopping up all the water-springs, and cutting down all the good trees; they went on driving Moab before them till only in Kir-hareseth were there any Moabites; and the fighting-men went round the town raining stones on it.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.


rate difficulty: And if the Lord has delight in us, he will take us into this land and give it to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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


simplify: And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?


simplify: Then shall thy light break forth as the morning, and thine health shall spring forth speedily: and thy righteousness shall go before thee; the glory of the Lord shall be thy rereward.

Then will light be shining on you like the morning, and your wounds will quickly be well: and your righteousness will go before you, and the glory of the Lord will come after you.


rate difficulty: DothGod pervert judgment, and the Almighty pervert justice?

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


simplify: And the other woman said, Nay; but the living is my son, and the dead is thy son. And this said, No; but the dead is thy son, and the living is my son. Thus they spake before the king.

And the other woman said, No; but the living child is my son and the dead one yours. But the first said, No; the dead child is your son and the living one mine. So they kept on talking before the king.


simplify: and David himself saith in the Book of Psalms, The Lord said to my lord, Sit thou on my right hand,

For David, in the book of Psalms, says himself —  ‘The Lord said to my lord: “Sit at my right hand,


simplify: The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

The Lord is slow to get angry and great in power, and will not let the sinner go without punishment: the way of the Lord is in the wind and the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.


rate difficulty: And he made answer and said to them, He who has two coats, let him give to him who has not even one; and he who has food, let him do the same.

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


simplify: And there came unto him great multitudes, having with them the lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they cast them down at his feet; and he healed them:

And there came to him great numbers of people having with them those who were broken in body, or blind, or without voice, or wounded, or ill in any way, and a number of others; they put them down at his feet and he made them well:


simplify: They shall be ashamed, and also confounded, all of them: they shall go to confusion together that are makers of idols.

All those who have gone against him will be put to shame; the makers of images will be made low.


rate difficulty: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And David lamented with this lamentation over Saul and over Jonathan his son

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


simplify: Handle not, nor taste, nor touch

Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,


rate difficulty: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry [land] to make one proselyte, and when he is become [such], ye make him twofold more [the] son of hell than yourselves.

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


simplify: In their heat I will make their feasts, and I will make them drunken, that they may rejoice, and sleep a perpetual sleep, and not wake, saith the Lord.

When they are heated, I will make a feast for them, and overcome them with wine, so that they may become unconscious, sleeping an eternal sleep without awaking, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel did secretly those things that were not right against the Lord their God, and they built them high places in all their cities, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

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


simplify: And this I say for your own profit; not that I may cast a snare upon you, but for that which is seemly, and that ye may attend upon the Lord without distraction.

Now I say this for your profit; not to make things hard for you, but because of what is right, and so that you may be able to give all your attention to the things of the Lord.


simplify: And we having gone before unto the ship, did sail to Assos, thence intending to take in Paul, for so he had arranged, intending himself to go on foot;

We started first, went on board ship, and sailed for Assos, intending to take Paul on board there. This was by his own arrangement, as he intended to go by land himself.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: for there shall be a season when the sound teaching they will not suffer, but according to their own desires to themselves they shall heap up teachers--itching in the hearing,

For a time will come when people will not tolerate sound teaching. They will follow their own wishes, and, in their itching for novelty, procure themselves a crowd of teachers.


rate difficulty: And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country.

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


rate difficulty: If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.

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


simplify: And Judas the Iscariot, one of the twelve, went away unto the chief priests that he might deliver him up to them,

After this, Judas Iscariot, one of the Twelve, went to the chief priests, to betray Jesus to them.


rate difficulty: And the valiant men of the forces were: Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,

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


simplify: Remove not the ancient landmark, Which thy fathers have set.

Let not the old landmark be moved which your fathers have put in place.


simplify: who the righteous judgment of God having known--that those practising such things are worthy of death--not only do them, but also have delight with those practising them.

Well aware of God’s decree, that those who do such things deserve to die, not only are they guilty of them themselves, but they even applaud those who do them.


rate difficulty: Know therefore this day, and lay it to thy heart, that Jehovah he is God in heaven above and upon the earth beneath; there is none else.

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


rate difficulty: These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty-two thousand two hundred.

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


simplify: And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him, and he was wounded of the archers.

And the fight was going against Saul, and the archers came across him, and he was wounded by the archers.


simplify: And they conspired against him, and stoned him with stones at the commandment of the king in the court of the house of the Lord.

But when they had made a secret design against him, he was stoned with stones, by the king's order, in the outer square of the Lord's house.


simplify: But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, and doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked man doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous deeds that he hath done shall be remembered: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

But when the upright man, turning away from his righteousness, does evil, like all the disgusting things which the evil man does, will he have life? Not one of his upright acts will be kept in memory: in the wrong which he has done and in his sin death will overtake him.


rate difficulty: But he repeatedly warned them not to make him known.

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


simplify: And it was so, that, at what time the chest was brought unto the king’s officers by the hand of the Levites, and when they saw that there was much money, the king’s scribe and the chief priest’s officer came and emptied the chest, and took it, and carried it to its place again. Thus they did day by day, and gathered money in abundance.

So when the chest was taken to the king's servants by the Levites, and they saw that there was much money in it, the king's scribe and the chief priest's servant took the money out, and put the chest back in its place. They did this day by day, and got together a great amount of money.


simplify: Go, now, ye rich! weep, howling over your miseries that are coming upon <FI>you<Fi> ;

Listen to me, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you!


rate difficulty: on his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and his soul yearneth after it; lest he cry against thee to Jehovah, and it be a sin in thee.

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


simplify: The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred twenty and three.

The men of Beth-el and Ai, a hundred and twenty-three.


rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord spake by me, and his word was in my tongue.

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


simplify: I said, I shall not see the Lord, even the Lord, in the land of the living: I shall behold man no more with the inhabitants of the world.

I said, I will not see the Lord, even the Lord in the land of the living: I will not see man again or those living in the world.


simplify: And the name of Amram’s wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, who was born to Levi in Egypt: and she bare unto Amram Aaron and Moses, and Miriam their sister.

Amram's wife was Jochebed, the daughter of Levi, whom he had in Egypt: by Amram she had Moses and Aaron and their sister Miriam.


rate difficulty: Behold, a tempest of Jehovah, fury is gone forth, a sweeping storm: it shall whirl down upon the head of the wicked.

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


simplify: Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven;

Then the Lord sent fire and flaming smoke raining down from heaven on Sodom and Gomorrah.


rate difficulty: Truly with a small company of men came the army of the Syrians, but Jehovah delivered a very great army into their hand, because they had forsaken Jehovah theGod of their fathers; and they executed judgment upon Joash.

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


simplify: neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt-offerings, and to burn meal-offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.


rate difficulty: And it came--the great city--into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger,

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


rate difficulty: And he that was sown upon the rocky places, this is he that heareth the word, and straightway with joy receiveth it;

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as he sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with Jesus and his disciples.

And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.


simplify: And these are the goings out of the city on the north side, four thousand and five hundred measures.

And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;


rate difficulty: But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say to you, and [what is] more excellent than a prophet.

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


simplify: but now our soul is dried away; there is nothing at all save this manna to look upon.

But now our soul is wasted away; there is nothing at all: we have nothing but this manna before our eyes.


rate difficulty: And behold, seven ears, withered, thin, parched with the east wind, sprung up after them;

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


simplify: For circumcision indeed profiteth, if thou be a doer of the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is become uncircumcision.

It is true that circumcision is of use if you keep the law, but if you go against the law it is as if you had it not.


rate difficulty: — And the breadth of the court on the west side, hangings of fifty cubits; their pillars ten, and their bases ten.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lord brought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage:

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


rate difficulty: and all the brethren that are with me, unto the churches of Galatia:

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


rate difficulty: And Deborah, the servant who had taken care of Rebekah from her birth, came to her end, and was put to rest near Beth-el, under the holy tree: and they gave it the name of Allon-bacuth.

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


simplify: Hanan the son of Maachah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,

Hanan, the son of Maacah, and Joshaphat the Mithnite,


simplify: And the Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue of the Egyptian sea; and with his mighty wind shall he shake his hand over the river, and shall smite it in the seven streams, and make men go over dryshod.

And the Lord will make the tongue of the Egyptian sea completely dry; and with his burning wind his hand will be stretched out over the River, and it will be parted into seven streams, so that men may go over it with dry feet.


simplify: And whatsoever shall seem good to thee, and to thy brethren, to do with the rest of the silver and the gold, that do after the will of your God.

And whatever seems right to you and to your brothers to do with the rest of the silver and gold, that do, as may be pleasing to your God.


simplify: Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is begotten of God, and knoweth God.

My loved ones, let us have love for one another: because love is of God, and everyone who has love is a child of God and has knowledge of God.


simplify: `But I have against thee a few things: That thou hast there those holding the teaching of Balaam, who did teach Balak to cast a stumbling-block before the sons of Israel, to eat idol-sacrifices, and to commit whoredom;

Yet I have a few things against you — You have among you those who hold to the teaching of Balaam, who taught Balak to put temptations in the way of the Israelites, so that they should eat idol-offerings and commit licentious acts.


rate difficulty: Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon;


simplify: This is the law of him that hath an issue, and of him whose seed of copulation goeth from him, so that he is unclean thereby;

This is the law for the man who has a flow from his body, or whose seed goes from him so that he is unclean;


simplify: and they shall take all the vessels of ministry, wherewith they minister in the sanctuary, and put them in a cloth of blue, and cover them with a covering of sealskin, and shall put them on the frame.

All the vessels which are used in the holy place they are to put in a blue cloth, covering them with a leather cover, and put them on the frame.


simplify: I have pursued mine enemies, and destroyed them; and turned not again until I had consumed them.

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


simplify: then Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, Whoso is on Jehovah’s side, let him come unto me. And all the sons of Levi gathered themselves together unto him.

Then Moses took his place at the way into the tents, and said, Whoever is on the Lord's side, let him come to me. And all the sons of Levi came together to him.


simplify: And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.

But Paul went down, threw himself on him, and put his arms around him.   “Do not be alarmed,” he said, “he is still alive.”


rate difficulty: So, from Troas we went straight by ship to Samothrace and the day after to Neapolis;


rate difficulty: Because, even as the sufferings of the Christ abound towards us, so through the Christ does our encouragement also abound.

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


rate difficulty: And she sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedesh-Naphtali, and said to him, Hath not Jehovah theGod of Israel commanded? Go and draw towards mount Tabor, and take with thee ten thousand men of the children of Naphtali and of the children of Zebulun,

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


simplify: to Timothy, my beloved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

To Timothy, my well-loved child: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


simplify: And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him.

And the scribes and Pharisees were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to say something against him.


rate difficulty: Of a foreigner thou mayest exact it: but whatsoever of thine is with thy brother thy hand shall release.

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


simplify: Many seek the ruler’s favour; but every man’s judgment cometh from the Lord.

The approval of a ruler is desired by great numbers: but the decision in a man's cause comes from the Lord.


simplify: And the shepherds returned, glorifying and praising God for all the things that they had heard and seen, even as it was spoken unto them.

Then the keepers of the sheep went back, giving glory and praise to God for all the things which had come to their ears and which they had seen, as it had been said to them.


rate difficulty: The voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths straight.

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


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> families of Judah, by their numbered ones, six and seventy thousand and five hundred.

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


simplify: Abraham begat Isaac; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat Judas and his brethren;

The son of Abraham was Isaac; and the son of Isaac was Jacob; and the sons of Jacob were Judah and his brothers;


simplify: And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded him: and Jehovah shut him in.

Male and female of all flesh went in, as God had said, and the ark was shut by the Lord.


simplify: And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.


simplify: For even that which was made glorious had no glory in this respect, by reason of the glory that excelleth.

Indeed, that which then had glory has lost its glory, because of the glory which surpasses it.


rate difficulty: And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

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rate difficulty: The Lord is living; praise be to my Rock, and let the God of my salvation be honoured:

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simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Take all the heads of the people, and hang them up before the Lord against the sun, that the fierce anger of the Lord may be turned away from Israel.

Then the Lord said to Moses, Take all the chiefs of the people, hanging them up in the sun before the Lord, so that the wrath of the Lord may be turned from Israel.


rate difficulty: but it shall be a witness between us and you, and between our generations after us, that we may do the service of Jehovah before him with our burnt-offerings, and with our sacrifices, and with our peace-offerings; that your children may not say to our children in time to come, Ye have no portion in Jehovah.

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simplify: and he, having looked up, said, `I behold men, as I see trees, walking.'

The man looked up, and said: “I see the people, for, as they walk about, they look to me like trees.”


rate difficulty: having run about through all that region round about, they began upon the couches to carry about those ill, where they were hearing that he is,

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rate difficulty: And the multitudes gave heed with one accord unto the things that were spoken by Philip, when they heard, and saw the signs which he did.

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rate difficulty: And Zophar the Naamathite answereth and saith: --

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simplify: Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy law behind their backs, and slew thy prophets which testified against them to turn them to thee, and they wrought great provocations.

But they were hard-hearted, and went against your authority, turning their backs on your law, and putting to death your prophets, who gave witness against them with the purpose of turning them back again to you, and they did much to make you angry.


simplify: And Jesus passing by thence, saw a man sitting at the tax-office, named Matthew, and saith to him, `Be following me,' and he, having risen, did follow him.

As Jesus went along, he saw a man, called Matthew, sitting in the tax office, and said to him: “Follow me.” Matthew got up and followed him.


rate difficulty: He also made his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he practised augury, and used enchantments, and practised sorcery, and dealt with them that had familiar spirits, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger.


rate difficulty: and cried out with a loud voice and said, Blessed [art] thou amongst women, and blessed the fruit of thy womb.

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simplify: And this declaring, I give no praise, because not for the better, but for the worse ye come together;

In giving directions on the next subject, I cannot praise you; because your meetings do more harm than good.


rate difficulty: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

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rate difficulty: Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:

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rate difficulty: Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

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simplify: Israel is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land they have made goodly images.

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


simplify: And of the sons of Adonikam, that were the last; and these are their names: Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them threescore males.

And of the sons of Adonikam, the last, whose names were Eliphelet, Jeuel, and Shemaiah; and with them sixty males.


simplify: Nevertheless he left not himself without witness, in that he did good, and gave us rain from heaven, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness.

Yet he has not failed to give you, in the good he does, some revelation of himself — sending you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, and gladdening your hearts with plenty and good cheer.”


rate difficulty: And have knowledge of his desires, and are a judge of the things which are different, having the learning of the law,


rate difficulty: And when he that hath a flux is clean of his flux, then he shall count seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes, and bathe his flesh in running water, and he shall be clean.

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simplify: And the waters prevailed, and were increased greatly upon the earth; and the ark went upon the face of the waters.

And the waters overcame everything and were increased greatly on the earth, and the ark was resting on the face of the waters.


simplify: Yet they obeyed not, nor inclined their ear, but walked every one in the stubbornness of their evil heart: therefore I brought upon them all the words of this covenant, which I commanded them to do, but they did them not.

But they gave no attention and did not give ear, but they went on, every man in the pride of his evil heart: so I sent on them all the curses in this agreement, which I gave them orders to keep, but they did not.


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

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