simplify: and he said to them, `I was beholding the Adversary, as lightning from the heaven having fallen;

And Jesus replied: “I have had visions of Satan, fallen, like lightning from the heavens.


rate difficulty: And as they went up the hill to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said unto them, Is the seer here?

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


rate difficulty: And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and organ.

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


rate difficulty: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction: and the curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.


rate difficulty: And of the children of Ephraim, twenty thousand, eight hundred great men of war, men of great name in their families.

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


rate difficulty: (In the past the Emim were living there; a great people, equal in numbers to the Anakim and as tall;


simplify: And they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they come in unto the tabernacle of the congregation, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and his seed after him.

Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.


simplify: And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

And the other lamb is to be offered in the evening, and with it the same meal offering and drink offering, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: There is nothing in the ark but the two tables that Moses gave in Horeb, where Jehovah covenanted with the sons of Israel, in their going out from Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And David swore again and again, and said, Thy father certainly knows that I have found favour in thy sight: and he has thought, Jonathan shall not know this, lest he be grieved; but truly [as] Jehovah liveth, and [as] thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

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


simplify: And he saith unto me, See thou do it not: I am a fellow-servant with thee and with thy brethren the prophets, and with them that keep the words of this book: worship God.

And he said to me, See you do it not; I am a brother-servant with you and with your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book: give worship to God.


rate difficulty: But he said to me, You are with child and will give birth to a son; and now do not take any wine or strong drink or let anything unclean be your food; for the child will be separate to God from his birth to the day of his death.

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


simplify: And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee’s house, brought an alabaster box of ointment,

And there was a woman in the town who was a sinner; and when she had news that he was a guest in the Pharisee's house, she took a bottle of perfume,


rate difficulty: for the fourteenth, Mattithiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

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


rate difficulty: So the king and Haman came to banquet with Esther the queen.


rate difficulty: (For my father fought for you, and adventured his life far, and delivered you out of the hand of Midian:

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


simplify: All that pass by clap their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?


simplify: and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth:

And he saw the heavens opening, and a vessel coming down, like a great cloth let down on the earth,


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.


rate difficulty: and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O king of Judah, that sittest upon the throne of David, thou, and thy servants, and thy people that enter in by these gates.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother; since [otherwise] indeed your children are unclean, but now they are holy.

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


rate difficulty: Ashamed hath been your mother greatly, Confounded hath she been that bare you, Lo, the hindermost of nations <FI>is<Fi> a wilderness, A dry land, and a desert.

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


rate difficulty: and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

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


simplify: Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.

If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.


rate difficulty: and he bringeth us in unto this place, and giveth to us this land--a land flowing with milk and honey.

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


rate difficulty: And the days of Terah were two hundred and five years; and Terah died in Haran.

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


simplify: And he buried him in the valley in the land of Moab over against Beth-peor: but no man knoweth of his sepulchre unto this day.

And the Lord put him to rest in the valley in the land of Moab opposite Beth-peor: but no man has knowledge of his resting-place to this day.


rate difficulty: The grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you. Amen.  The first epistle unto the Thessalonians was written from Athens.

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


rate difficulty: If he say thus, It is well; thy servant shall have peace: but if he be wroth, then know that evil is determined by him.


rate difficulty: And he took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the Lord hath said will we do, and be obedient.

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


simplify: And when he was gone out into the porch, another maid saw him, and saith unto them that were there, This man also was with Jesus of Nazareth.

And when he had gone out into the doorway, another saw him and says to those who were there, This man was with Jesus the Nazarene.


rate difficulty: And if thou sell ought unto thy neighbour, or buyest ought of thy neighbour’s hand, ye shall not oppress one another:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he gave word of it to his father and his brothers; but his father protesting said, What sort of a dream is this? am I and your mother and your brothers to go down on our faces to the earth before you?

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


simplify: And the spoilers came out of the camp of the Philistines in three companies: one company turned unto the way that leadeth to Ophrah, unto the land of Shual:

And three bands of men came out from the Philistines to make an attack; one band went by the road which goes to Ophrah, into the land of Shual:


simplify: For after that in the wisdom of God the world by wisdom knew not God, it pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe.

For since the world, in God’s wisdom, did not by its philosophy learn to know God, God saw fit, by the ‘folly’ of our proclamation, to save those who believe in Christ!


rate difficulty: And he looked on the Kenite, and took up his parable, and said,  Strong is thy dwelling-place, And thy nest is set in the rock.

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


simplify: If ye are reproached for the name of Christ, blessed are ye; because the Spirit of glory and the Spirit of God resteth upon you.

If men say evil things of you because of the name of Christ, happy are you; for the Spirit of glory and of God is resting on you.


simplify: Now when Paul and his company loosed from Paphos, they came to Perga in Pamphylia: and John departing from them returned to Jerusalem.

Then Paul and those who were with him went by ship from Paphos and came to Perga in Pamphylia: and there John went away from them and came back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: (‘I will come quickly. I bring my rewards with me, to give to each what their actions deserve.


rate difficulty: And the men are shepherds, for their trade hath been to feed cattle; and they have brought their flocks, and their herds, and all that they have.


rate difficulty: And Jordan was the border of it on the east side. This was the inheritance of the children of Benjamin, by the coasts thereof round about, according to their families.

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


rate difficulty: And on the limit of Naphtali, from the east side to the west side: Manasseh, one part.


rate difficulty: And over the tribes of Israel were: for the Reubenites Eliezer the son of Zichri was the prince; for the Simeonites, Shephatiah the son of Maachah;


simplify: And afterwards she bare a daughter, and called her name Dinah.

After that she had a daughter, to whom she gave the name Dinah.


simplify: And it shall be, when he sitteth upon the throne of his kingdom, that he shall write him a copy of this law in a book out of that which is before the priests the Levites:

And when he has taken his place on the seat of his kingdom, he is to make in a book a copy of this law, from that which the priests, the Levites, have in their care:


rate difficulty: All the nations have been gathered together, And the peoples are assembled, Who among them declareth this, And former things causeth us to hear? They give their witnesses, And they are declared righteous, And they hear and say, `Truth.'

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Praise to the Lord, the God of Shem; let Canaan be his servant.


simplify: Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.


simplify: And he arose, and rebuked the wind, and said unto the sea, Peace, be still. And the wind ceased, and there was a great calm.

Jesus rose and rebuked the wind, and said to the sea: “Hush! Be still!”Then the wind dropped, and a great calm followed.


rate difficulty: When thou shalt beget children, and children’s children, and ye shall have been long in the land, and shall corrupt yourselves, and make a graven image in the form of anything, and shall do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah thy God, to provoke him to anger;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Gaal the son of Ebed came with his brethren, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their trust in him.

Then Gaal, the son of Ebed, came with his brothers, and went over to Shechem; and the men of Shechem put their faith in him.


rate difficulty: He who is poor <FI>by<Fi> heave-offerings, A tree not rotten doth choose, A skilful artisan he seeketh for it, To establish a graven image--not moved.

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


simplify: Wherefore we labour, that, whether present or absent, we may be accepted of him.

For this reason we make it our purpose, in the body or away from it, to be well-pleasing to him.


simplify: And Jabez called on the God of Israel, saying, Oh that thou wouldest bless me indeed, and enlarge my border, and that thy hand might be with me, and that thou wouldest keep me from evil, that it be not to my sorrow! And God granted him that which he requested.

And Jabez made a prayer to the God of Israel, saying, If only you would truly give me a blessing, and make wider the limits of my land, and let your hand be with me, and keep me from evil, so that I may not be troubled by it! And God gave him his desire.


rate difficulty: To the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its outskirts, and Ashtaroth with its outskirts;

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


simplify: But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

But if his offering is made because of an oath or given freely, it may be taken as food on the day when it is offered; and the rest may be used up on the day after:


rate difficulty: All this have I seen in my days of vanity: there is a righteous man that perisheth in his righteousness, and there is a wicked man that prolongeth his life in his evil-doing.

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


simplify: And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which the Lord our God doth give us.

And taking in their hands some of the fruit of the land, they came down again to us, and gave us their account, saying, It is a good land which the Lord our God is giving us.


simplify: and happy thou shalt be, because they have not to recompense thee, for it shall be recompensed to thee in the rising again of the righteous.'

and then you will be happy indeed, since they cannot reward you; for you will be rewarded at the resurrection of the good.”


simplify: Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

In connection with the leper's disease, take care to keep and do every detail of the teaching of the priests, the Levites: as I gave them orders, so you are to do.


simplify: For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?


simplify: So the posts passed from city to city through the country of Ephraim and Manasseh even unto Zebulun: but they laughed them to scorn, and mocked them.

So the runners went from town to town through all the country of Ephraim and Manasseh as far as Zebulun: but they were laughed at and made sport of.


rate difficulty: I have seen servants on horses, And princes walking as servants on the earth.

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


simplify: Terror and dread falleth upon them; By the greatness of thine arm they are as still as a stone; Till thy people pass over, O Jehovah, Till the people pass over that thou hast purchased.

Fear and grief came on them; by the strength of your arm they were turned to stone; till your people went over, O Lord, till the people went over whom you have made yours.


rate difficulty: And the man gave names to all cattle, and to the birds of the heavens, and to every beast of the field; but for man there was not found a help meet for him.

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


simplify: and seeing Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and saith, Thou also wast with the Nazarene, even Jesus.

And seeing Peter warming himself by the fire, she gave him a look, and said, You were with this Nazarene, even Jesus.


simplify: I have written unto you, fathers, because ye have known him that is from the beginning. I have written unto you, young men, because ye are strong, and the word of God abideth in you, and ye have overcome the wicked one.

I write, adults in the faith, to you, because you have learned to know him who has been from the beginning. I write, young ones in the faith, to you, because you are strong, and God’s message is always in your hearts, and you have conquered the evil one.


simplify: And Pilate gave sentence that what they asked for should be done.

And Pilate gave his decision for their desire to be put into effect.


rate difficulty: And the four tables were of hewn stone for the burnt offering, of a cubit and an half long, and a cubit and an half broad, and one cubit high: whereupon also they laid the instruments wherewith they slew the burnt offering and the sacrifice.

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


rate difficulty: for, as you eat, each of you tries to secure his own supper first, with the result that one has too little to eat, and another has too much to drink!

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


rate difficulty: The desire of the slothful killeth him; for his hands refuse to labour.

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


rate difficulty: And they said to him, Where is Sarah your wife? And he said, She is in the tent.


rate difficulty: I will not put forward words like these, or make use of your sayings in answer to him.


simplify: The Lord shall cause thee to be smitten before thine enemies: thou shalt go out one way against them, and flee seven ways before them: and shalt be removed into all the kingdoms of the earth.

The Lord will let you be overcome by your haters: you will go out against them one way, and you will go in flight before them seven ways: you will be the cause of fear among all the kingdoms of the earth.


rate difficulty: `And now, therefore, thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, concerning this city, of which ye are saying, It hath been given into the hand of the king of Babylon by sword, and by famine, and by pestilence,

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


simplify: And when they came unto the borders of Jordan, that are in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by Jordan, a great altar to see to.

Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.


simplify: And other fell into the good ground, and grew, and brought forth fruit a hundredfold. As he said these things, he cried, He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

And some falling on good earth, came up and gave fruit a hundred times as much. And with these words he said in a loud voice, He who has ears, let him give ear.


rate difficulty: Be still, ye inhabitants of the coast, thou whom the merchants of Sidon, that pass over the sea, have replenished.

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


simplify: When he gave to the sea its bound, That the waters should not transgress his commandment, When he marked out the foundations of the earth;

When he put a limit to the sea, so that the waters might not go against his word: when he put in position the bases of the earth:


simplify: Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

Now while the Pharisees were together, Jesus put a question to them, saying,


rate difficulty: And for the wood offering, at times appointed, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, for good.


simplify: But if thou shalt forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

But if you take no oath, there will be no sin.


simplify: And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers.

And after them, from all the tribes of Israel, all those whose hearts were fixed and true to the Lord, the God of Israel, came to Jerusalem to make offerings to the Lord, the God of their fathers.


simplify: and the wisdom from above, first, indeed, is pure, then peaceable, gentle, easily entreated, full of kindness and good fruits, uncontentious, and unhypocritical: --

But the wisdom from above is, before every thing else, pure; then peace-loving, gentle, open to conviction, rich in compassion and good deeds, and free from partiality and insincerity.


simplify: And grieve not the holy Spirit of God, whereby ye are sealed unto the day of redemption.

And do not grieve God’s Holy Spirit; for it was through that Spirit that God sealed you as his, against the day of Redemption.


rate difficulty: How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?

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


simplify: I am the Lord your God, which brought you forth out of the land of Egypt, that ye should not be their bondmen; and I have broken the bands of your yoke, and made you go upright.

I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt so that you might not be servants to them; by me the cords of your yoke were broken and I made you go upright.


simplify: To Titus, mine own son after the common faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ our Saviour.

To Titus, my true child in our common faith: Grace and peace from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Saviour.


rate difficulty: And I will set my face against them; they shall go out from one fire, and another fire shall devour them; and ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I set my face against them.

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


simplify: But Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard left of the poorest of the land to be vinedressers and husbandmen.

But Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, let the poorest of the land go on living there, to take care of the vines and the fields.


simplify: The length of each curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of each curtain four cubits: the eleven curtains shall have one measure.

Every curtain is to be thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.


simplify: Babylon is suddenly fallen and destroyed: wail for her; take balm for her pain, if so be she may be healed.

Sudden is the downfall of Babylon and her destruction: make cries of grief for her; take sweet oil for her pain, if it is possible for her to be made well.


rate difficulty: and when we cried to Jehovah, he heard our voice, and sent an angel, and brought us forth out of Egypt; and behold, we are at Kadesh, a city at the extremity of thy border.

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


simplify: but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!

There is a baptism that I must undergo, and how great is my distress until it is over!


simplify: There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

In twos, male and female, they went into the ark with Noah, as God had said.


rate difficulty: And Simon answering said, `I suppose that to whom he forgave the more;' and he said to him, `Rightly thou didst judge.'

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


simplify: And patience, experience; and experience, hope:

And waiting gives experience; and experience, hope:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Aaron, saying,

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


rate difficulty: The walls of the house were covered inside with cedar-wood boards; from the floor to the roof of the house they were covered inside with wood; and the floor was covered with boards of cypress-wood.


simplify: and having fallen into a place of two seas, they ran the ship aground, and the fore-part, indeed, having stuck fast, did remain immoveable, but the hinder-part was broken by the violence of the waves.

They got, however, into a kind of channel, and there ran the ship aground. The bows stuck fast and could not be moved, while the stern began breaking up under the strain.


rate difficulty: And her brother Absalom said to her, Has your brother Amnon been with you? but now, let there be an end to your crying, my sister: he is your brother, do not take this thing to heart. So Tamar went on living uncomforted in her brother's house.


rate difficulty: The words of Nehemiah the son of Hacaliah. Now it came to pass in the month Chislev, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace,

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto his disciples, It is impossible but that occasions of stumbling should come; but woe unto him, through whom they come!


rate difficulty: All things are lawful; but not all things are expedient. All things are lawful; but not all things edify.

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


rate difficulty: Then took Jeremiah another roll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah; who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many like words.

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


rate difficulty: For the Lord brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he made Judah naked, and transgressed sore against the Lord.


rate difficulty: She gets wool and linen, working at the business of her hands.


rate difficulty: And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

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


simplify: And Hiram made the lavers, and the shovels, and the basins. So Hiram made an end of doing all the work that he wrought for king Solomon in the house of Jehovah:

And Hiram made the pots and spades and the basins. So Hiram came to the end of all the work he did for King Solomon in the house of the Lord:


rate difficulty: Again, I say to you, that if two of you are in agreement on earth about anything for which they will make a request, it will be done for them by my Father in heaven.

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


rate difficulty: and many who were paralyzed or lame were cured, so that there was great rejoicing throughout that city.

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


rate difficulty: and for the leprosy of a garment, and for a house,


rate difficulty: Thou shalt even drink it and drain it out, and thou shalt gnaw the sherds thereof, and shalt tear thy breasts; for I have spoken it, saith the Lord Jehovah.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

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


simplify: Thou wilt bring them in, and plant them in the mountain of thine inheritance, The place, O Jehovah, which thou hast made for thee to dwell in, The sanctuary, O Lord, which thy hands have established.

You will take them in, planting them in the mountain of your heritage, the place, O Lord, where you have made your house, the holy place, O Lord, the building of your hands.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, `The sabbath for man was made, not man for the sabbath,

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


rate difficulty: But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh saith unto Joseph, `I <FI>am<Fi> Pharaoh, and without thee a man doth not lift up his hand and his foot in all the land of Egypt;'

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


simplify: The God of Israel said, the Rock of Israel spake to me, He that ruleth over men must be just, ruling in the fear of God.

The God of Israel said, the word of the Rock of Israel came to me: When an upright king is ruling over men, when he is ruling in the fear of God,


rate difficulty: And God put them in the arch of heaven, to give light on the earth;


rate difficulty: And Jesus said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

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


rate difficulty: But the Lord was with Joseph, and was good to him, and made the keeper of the prison his friend.

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


simplify: And their border was toward Jezreel, and Chesulloth, and Shunem,

And their limit was to Jezreel and Chesulloth and Shunem


simplify: And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither shall it be upon them; there shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

And if the family of Egypt does not go up or come there, they will be attacked by the disease which the Lord will send on the nations:


rate difficulty: And now, I pray thee, forgive my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.


rate difficulty: On the other hand, a father, who has definitely made up his mind, and is under no compulsion, but is free to carry out his own wishes, and who has come to the decision, in his own mind, to keep his unmarried daughter at home will be doing right.

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simplify: For he needeth not further to consider a man, That he should go before God in judgment.

For he does not give man a fixed time to come before him to be judged.


simplify: Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.

Have pity on me, have pity on me, O my friends! for the hand of God is on me.


simplify: The Lord lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

May the Lord's approval be resting on you and may he give you peace.


simplify: But if a man come presumptuously upon his neighbour, to slay him with guile; thou shalt take him from mine altar, that he may die.

But if a man makes an attack on his neighbour on purpose, to put him to death by deceit, you are to take him from my altar and put him to death.


rate difficulty: Now Barzillai was a very aged man, even fourscore years old: and he had provided the king of sustenance while he lay at Mahanaim; for he was a very great man.

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simplify: Then did they spit in his face, and buffeted him; and others smote him with the palms of their hands,

Then they put shame on him, and were cruel to him: and some gave him blows, saying,


simplify: And said to the judges, Take heed what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for the Lord, who is with you in the judgment.

And said to the judges, Take care what you do, for you are judging not for man but for the Lord, and he is with you in the decisions you give.


simplify: And this is the manner of the release: every creditor shall release that which he hath lent unto his neighbor; he shall not exact it of his neighbor and his brother; because Jehovah’s release hath been proclaimed.

This is how it is to be done: every creditor is to give up his right to whatever he has let his neighbour have; he is not to make his neighbour, his countryman, give it back; because a general forgiveness has been ordered by the Lord.


simplify: Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem, and took the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and brought them to him to Babylon.

Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;


simplify: Dedan, and Tema, and Buz, and all that are in the utmost corners,

Dedan and Tema and Buz, and all who have the ends of their hair cut;


simplify: And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the truth to their own salvation.


rate difficulty: All the people of the sea-lands are overcome with wonder at you, and their kings are full of fear, their faces are troubled.

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rate difficulty: Then came the word of the Lord of hosts unto me, saying,

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simplify: And the daughter of Zion is left as a booth in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.

And the daughter of Zion has become like a tent in a vine-garden, like a watchman's house in a field of fruit, like a town shut in by armies.


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath made thee priest in the stead of Jehoiada the priest, that there should be officers [in] the house of Jehovah, over every madman and self-made prophet, that thou shouldest put him in the stocks and in the shackles.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Put me in remembrance; let us plead together: set thou forth thy cause, that thou mayest be justified.

Put me in mind of this; let us take up the cause between us: put forward your cause, so that you may be seen to be in the right.


rate difficulty: These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.

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simplify: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

To each of us there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.


simplify: and lo, there was a woman having a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and she was bowed together, and not able to bend back at all,

and he saw before him a woman who for eighteen years had suffered from weakness owing to her having an evil spirit in her. She was bent double, and was wholly unable to raise herself.


rate difficulty: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.


rate difficulty: What do you think of this? There was a man who had two sons. He went to the elder and said ‘Go and work in the vineyard today my son.’

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


simplify: and Jehovah showed signs and wonders, great and sore, upon Egypt, upon Pharaoh, and upon all his house, before our eyes;

And the Lord did great signs and wonders against Egypt, and against Pharaoh and all his house, before our eyes:


simplify: Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to himself to do the service of the tabernacle of the Lord, and to stand before the congregation to minister unto them?

Does it seem only a small thing to you that the God of Israel has made you separate from the rest of Israel, letting you come near himself to do the work of the House of the Lord, and to take your place before the people to do what has to be done for them;


rate difficulty: Until the Lord removed Israel out of his sight, as he had said by all his servants the prophets. So was Israel carried away out of their own land to Assyria unto this day.

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simplify: For if they which are of the law be heirs, faith is made void, and the promise made of none effect:

If those who take their stand on law are to inherit the world, then faith is robbed of its meaning and the promise comes to nothing!


rate difficulty: and He saith unto me: `Son of man, the place of My throne, And the place of the soles of My feet, Where I dwell in the midst of the sons of Israel to the age, Defile no more do the house of Israel My holy name, They, and their kings, by their whoredom, And by the carcases of their kings--their high places.

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

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


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


rate difficulty: And Moses giveth to the tribe of the sons of Reuben, for their families;

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


simplify: And the fourth angel sounded, and the third part of the sun was smitten, and the third part of the moon, and the third part of the stars; so as the third part of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of it, and the night likewise.

And at the sounding of the fourth angel, a third part of the sun, and of the moon, and of the stars was made dark, so that there was no light for a third part of the day and of the night.


rate difficulty: Folly is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place.


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

The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.


simplify: For as many as are of the works of the law are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things which are written in the book of the law to do them.

All who rely on obedience to law are under a curse, for scripture says —  ‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all that is written in the book of the law, and do it.’


simplify: if we do endure together--we shall also reign together; if we deny <FI>him<Fi> , he also shall deny us;

If we continue to endure, we will also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.


simplify: Because ye trespassed against me among the children of Israel at the waters of Meribah–Kadesh, in the wilderness of Zin; because ye sanctified me not in the midst of the children of Israel.

Because of your sin against me before the children of Israel at the waters of Meribath Kadesh in the waste land of Zin; because you did not keep my name holy among the children of Israel.


simplify: He hath holpen his servant Israel, in remembrance of his mercy;

His help he has given to Israel, his servant, so that he might keep in mind his mercy to Abraham and his seed for ever,


rate difficulty: The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.

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


simplify: And as one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the lodging-place, he espied his money; and, behold, it was in the mouth of his sack.

Now at their night's resting-place one of them, opening his bag to give his ass some food, saw his money in the mouth of the bag.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the Lord thy God.

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rate difficulty: That the wicked is reserved to the day of destruction? they shall be brought forth to the day of wrath.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Moses raised his hand, that Israel prevailed; and when he let down his hand, Amalek prevailed.


rate difficulty: and Ain and its suburbs, and Juttah and its suburbs, [and] Beth-shemesh and its suburbs: nine cities out of those two tribes;

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rate difficulty: But I will distress Ariel, and there shall be sorrow and sadness; and it shall be unto me as an Ariel.

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rate difficulty: And said to them, Whoever gives honour to this child in my name, gives honour to me: and whoever gives honour to me, gives honour to him who sent me: for whoever is least among you all, that man is great.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tablets, that he may run that readeth it.

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simplify: for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

For, as scripture says — ‘The Gentiles insult God's name because of you’!


rate difficulty: And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast brought forth a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

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


simplify: So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.

And the children of Israel were servants to Eglon, king of Moab, for eighteen years.


simplify: Now therefore take, I pray thee, thy weapons, thy quiver and thy bow, and go out to the field, and take me some venison;

So take your arrows and your bow and go out to the field and get meat for me;


simplify: I loathe my life; I would not live alway: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.

I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.


rate difficulty: Ah, the uproar of many peoples, that roar like the roaring of the seas; and the rushing of nations, that rush like the rushing of mighty waters!


simplify: the three and twentieth to Delaiah, the four and twentieth to Maaziah.

The twenty-third Delaiah, the twenty-fourth Maaziah.


rate difficulty: Of Hilkiah, Hashabiah; of Jedaiah, Nethaneel.

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


simplify: Wherefore do the wicked live, Become old, yea, wax mighty in power?

Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?


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

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


simplify: But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of the Lord his God, and strike his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

But Naaman was angry and went away and said, I had the idea that he would come out to see such an important person as I am, and make prayer to the Lord his God, and with a wave of his hand over the place make the leper well.


simplify: To God only wise, be glory through Jesus Christ for ever. Amen.  Written to the Romans from Corinthus, and sent by Phebe servant of the church at Cenchrea.

To the only wise God, through Jesus Christ, be the glory for ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: Let the work of this house of God alone; let the governor of the Jews and the elders of the Jews build this house of God in his place.

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rate difficulty: Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto other gods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore is my wrath poured out upon this place, and it shall not be quenched.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, thy redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb, I am the Lord that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth by myself;

The Lord, who has taken up your cause, and who gave you life in your mother's body, says, I am the Lord who makes all things; stretching out the heavens by myself, and giving the earth its limits; who was with me?


rate difficulty: And David said to Abiathar the priest, Ahimelech's son, Bring near to me, I pray thee, the ephod. And Abiathar brought the ephod near to David.


simplify: `And whoever shall impress thee one mile, go with him two,

If you are forced to carry a soldier's pack for one mile, carry it two.


rate difficulty: And they recount to him, and say, `We came in unto the land whither thou hast sent us, and also it <FI>is<Fi> flowing with milk and honey--and this <FI>is<Fi> its fruit;

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simplify: And out of the throne proceed lightnings and voices and thunders. And there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God;

And out of the high seat came flames and voices and thunders. And seven lights of fire were burning before the high seat, which are the seven Spirits of God;


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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, after that I have plucked them out I will return, and have compassion on them, and will bring them again, every man to his heritage, and every man to his land.

And it will come about that, after they have been uprooted, I will again have pity on them; and I will take them back, every man to his heritage and every man to his land.


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

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rate difficulty: And Saul was consenting unto his death. And at that time there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem; and they were all scattered abroad throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the apostles.

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


simplify: And from thence he arose, and went into the borders of Tyre and Sidon, and entered into an house, and would have no man know it: but he could not be hid.

On leaving that place, Jesus went to the district of Tyre and Sidon. He went into a house, and did not wish anyone to know it, but could not escape notice.


rate difficulty: Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?


rate difficulty: And Moses said, Thou hast spoken rightly: I will see thy face again no more!

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


simplify: For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon him.

For no distinction is made between the Jew and the Greek, for all have the same Lord, and he is bountiful to all who invoke him.


simplify: For if a man think himself to be something, when he is nothing, he deceiveth himself.

If a person imagines themselves to be somebody, when they are really nobody, they deceive themselves.


simplify: But they were filled with madness; and communed one with another what they might do to Jesus.

But they were full of wrath, and were talking together about what they might do to Jesus.


simplify: They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep and camels in abundance, and returned to Jerusalem.

And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.


simplify: The singers: the children of Asaph, a hundred twenty and eight.

The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and twenty-eight


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: And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he parted from them, and was carried up into heaven.

And while he was doing so, he went from them and was taken up into heaven.


simplify: And Jacob blessed Pharaoh, and went out from the presence of Pharaoh.

And Jacob gave Pharaoh his blessing, and went out from before him.


rate difficulty: So the people took victuals in their hand, and their trumpets: and he sent all the rest of Israel every man unto his tent, and retained those three hundred men: and the host of Midian was beneath him in the valley.

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simplify: but ye--ye do injustice, and ye defraud, and these--brethren!

Instead of this, you wrong and cheat others yourselves — yes, even other followers!


rate difficulty: And Maachah the wife of Machir bore a son, and she called his name Peresh; and the name of his brother was Sheresh; and his sons were Ulam and Rakem.

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


rate difficulty: He hath walled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked.

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


simplify: But straightway Jesus spake unto them, saying, Be of good cheer; it is I; be not afraid.

But straight away Jesus said to them, Take heart; it is I, have no fear.


simplify: And as they spake unto the people, the priests, and the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees, came upon them,

And while they were talking to the people, the priests and the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees came up to them,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when the king dwelt in his house, and Jehovah had given him rest from all his enemies round about,

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking unto all the people all the words of the Lord their God, for which the Lord their God had sent him to them, even all these words,

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


simplify: And while they were eating, Jesus having taken the bread, and having blessed, did brake, and was giving to the disciples, and said, `Take, eat, this is my body;'

While they were eating, Jesus took some bread, and, after saying the blessing, broke it and, as he gave it to his disciples, said: “Take it and eat it; this is my body.”


rate difficulty: For, behold, Jehovah commandeth, and the great house shall be smitten with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

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rate difficulty: and he saith, `Hagar, Sarai's handmaid, whence hast thou come, and whither dost thou go?' and she saith, `From the presence of Sarai, my mistress, I am fleeing.'

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


simplify: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables; I will utter things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world.

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet — ‘I will speak to them in parables; I will utter things kept secret since the foundation of the world.’


rate difficulty: And the ambush arose quickly out of their place, and they ran as soon as he had stretched out his hand, and entered into the city, and took it; and they hasted and set the city on fire.

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


simplify: And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.

And said to them, Go into the little town opposite: and when you come to it, you will see a young ass with a cord round his neck, on which no man has ever been seated; let him loose, and come back with him.


simplify: Who hitherto waited in the king’s gate eastward: they were porters in the companies of the children of Levi.

Up till then they had been at the king's door to the east. They were door-keepers for the tents of the sons of Levi.


rate difficulty: Then he called hastily unto the young man his armourbearer, and said unto him, Draw thy sword, and slay me, that men say not of me, A woman slew him. And his young man thrust him through, and he died.

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


rate difficulty: and that is why I submit to anything for the sake of God’s people: so that they also may obtain the salvation which comes from union with Christ Jesus, and imperishable glory.

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simplify: Then said he unto me, Son of man, these are the men that devise mischief, and give wicked counsel in this city:

Then he said to me, Son of man, these are the men who are designing evil, who are teaching evil ways in this town:


simplify: And it came to pass, when Rachel had borne Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.


simplify: they were a wall unto us both by night and by day, all the while we were with them keeping the sheep.

But day and night they were like a wall round us while we were with them, looking after the sheep.


simplify: But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.


simplify: (I stood between Jehovah and you at that time, to show you the word of Jehovah: for ye were afraid because of the fire, and went not up into the mount), saying,

(I was between the Lord and you at that time, to make clear to you the word of the Lord: because, through fear of the fire, you did not go up the mountain;) saying,


rate difficulty: And he closed the book, and he gave it again to the minister, and sat down. And the eyes of all them that were in the synagogue were fastened on him.


simplify: And the angel that I saw standing upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his right hand to heaven,

And the angel which I saw taking his position on the sea and on the earth, put up his right hand to heaven,


simplify: And afterward they made ready for themselves, and for the priests: because the priests the sons of Aaron were busied in offering of burnt offerings and the fat until night; therefore the Levites prepared for themselves, and for the priests the sons of Aaron.

And after that, they made ready for themselves and for the priests; for the priests, the sons of Aaron, were offering the burned offerings and the fat till night; so the Levites made ready what was needed for themselves and for the priests, the sons of Aaron.


simplify: And thou shalt write upon the stones all the words of this law very plainly.

And put on the stones all the words of this law, writing them very clearly.


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

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simplify: He that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all heavens, that he might fill all things.)

He who went down is the same as he who went up — up beyond the highest heaven, so that he might fill all things with his presence.


simplify: Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, Except these abide in the ship, ye cannot be saved.

But Paul said to the captain and his men, If you do not keep these men in the ship, you will not be safe.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for his two tenons, and two sockets under another board for his two tenons.

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simplify: that in every thing ye were enriched in him, in all discourse and all knowledge,

For through union with him you were enriched in every way — in your power to preach, and in your knowledge of the truth;


rate difficulty: And they shall be joined unto thee, and keep the charge of the tabernacle of the congregation, for all the service of the tabernacle: and a stranger shall not come nigh unto you.

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


simplify: So David hid himself in the field: and when the new moon was come, the king sat him down to eat food.

So David went to a secret place in the country: and when the new moon came, the king took his place at the feast.


simplify: Wherefore thus saith the Lord God; Woe to the bloody city, to the pot whose scum is therein, and whose scum is not gone out of it! bring it out piece by piece; let no lot fall upon it.

For this is what the Lord has said: A curse is on the town of blood, the cooking-pot which is unclean inside, which has never been made clean! take out its bits; its fate is still to come on it.


simplify: By his knowledge the depths were broken up, And the skies drop down the dew.

By his knowledge the deep was parted, and dew came dropping from the skies.


simplify: For I will defend this city, to save it, for mine own sake, and for my servant David’s sake.

For I will keep this town safe, for my honour, and for the honour of my servant David.


rate difficulty: But he said unto them, All men cannot receive this saying, save they to whom it is given.

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rate difficulty: For verily, when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

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


rate difficulty: He who gives honour to a prophet, in the name of a prophet, will be given a prophet's reward; and he who gives honour to an upright man, in the name of an upright man, will be given an upright man's reward.

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


rate difficulty: And Adam was not taken by deceit, but the woman, being tricked, became a wrongdoer.

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


simplify: And when they had brought them, they set them before the council: and the high priest asked them,

And they took them into the Sanhedrin, and the high priest said to them,


simplify: The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and threescore.

The children of Zaccai, seven hundred and sixty.


simplify: And having passed through Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia,

Paul and Barnabas then went through Pisidia, and came into Pamphylia,


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Hearken not unto the words of the prophets that prophesy unto you: they make you vain: they speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: Do not give ear to the words which the prophets say to you: they give you teaching of no value: it is from themselves that their vision comes, and not out of the mouth of the Lord.


rate difficulty: See, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will give effect to the good word which I have said about the people of Israel and the people of Judah.

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rate difficulty: `When any person doth sin, and hath committed a trespass against Jehovah, and hath lied to his fellow concerning a deposit, or concerning fellowship, or concerning violent robbery, or hath oppressed his fellow;

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rate difficulty: The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.


simplify: for it behoveth him to reign till he may have put all the enemies under his feet--

For he must reign until God ‘has put all his enemies under his feet.’


rate difficulty: And he shall put the incense upon the fire before Jehovah, that the cloud of the incense may cover the mercy-seat which is upon the testimony, that he die not.

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simplify: And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.

And more than forty of them took this oath.


simplify: And Balak offered oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam, and to the princes that were with him.

And Balak made offerings of oxen and sheep, and sent to Balaam and the chiefs who were with him.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah saith unto Isaiah, `Good <FI>is<Fi> the word of Jehovah that thou hast spoken;' and he saith, `Because there is peace and truth in my days.'

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rate difficulty: And they brought near the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the congregation; and they laid their hands upon them.

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rate difficulty: (he had not consented to their counsel and deed), a man of Arimathæa, a city of the Jews, who was looking for the kingdom of God:

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rate difficulty: For before the child is able to say, Father, or, Mother, the wealth of Damascus and the goods of Samaria will be taken away by the king of Assyria.


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

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, the inheritance thereof shall be his sons’; it shall be their possession by inheritance.

This is what the Lord has said: If the ruler gives a property to any of his sons, it is his heritage and will be the property of his sons; it is theirs for their heritage.


simplify: And when he had made an end to offer the present, he sent away the people that bare the present.

And after giving the offering, he sent away the people who had come with the offering.


simplify: And Herod said, John have I beheaded: but who is this, of whom I hear such things? And he desired to see him.

And Herod said, I put John to death: but who is this, of whom such stories are given to me? And he had a desire to see him.


simplify: Who, when they came to Cesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him.

On arriving at Caesarea, the troopers delivered the letter to the Governor, and brought Paul before him.


simplify: But if the scall be in his sight at a stay, and that there is black hair grown up therein; the scall is healed, he is clean: and the priest shall pronounce him clean.

But if, in his opinion, the growth is stopped, and black hair has come up on it, the disease has gone; he is clean and the priest will say that he is clean.


simplify: And thou shalt set bounds unto the people round about, saying, Take heed to yourselves, that ye go not up into the mount, or touch the border of it: whosoever toucheth the mount shall be surely put to death:

And let limits be marked out for the people round the mountain, and say to them, Take care not to go up the mountain or near the sides of it: whoever puts his foot on the mountain will certainly come to his death:


rate difficulty: when the sin which they have sinned concerning it hath been known, then have the assembly brought near a bullock, a son of the herd, for a sin-offering, and they have brought it in before the tent of meeting;

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rate difficulty: and all the days of Noah are nine hundred and fifty years, and he dieth.

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simplify: the tabernacle, its tent, and its covering, its clasps, and its boards, its bars, its pillars, and its sockets;

The House and its tent and its cover, its hooks and its boards, its rods and its pillars and its bases;


rate difficulty: and having entered into the sepulchre, they saw a young man sitting on the right hand, arrayed in a long white robe, and they were amazed.

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rate difficulty: And this shall be a sign unto you; Ye shall find the babe wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

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simplify: If we suffer, we shall also reign with him: if we deny him, he also will deny us:

If we continue to endure, we will also share his throne. If we should ever disown him, he, too, will disown us.


rate difficulty: Ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of the Lord your God.

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rate difficulty: And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?

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


rate difficulty: And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:


simplify: And Jehovah hath established his word that he spake; for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and sit on the throne of Israel, as Jehovah promised, and have built the house for the name of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

And the Lord has made his word come true; for I have taken my father David's place on the seat of the kingdom of Israel, as the Lord gave his word; and I have made a house for the name of the Lord, the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I, even I, am against thee, and will execute judgments in the midst of thee in the sight of the nations.

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rate difficulty: For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

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simplify: The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.  The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.

The Lord be with your spirit. Grace be with you.


simplify: And the sons of Caleb the son of Jephunneh; Iru, Elah, and Naam: and the sons of Elah, even Kenaz.

And the sons of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh: Iru, Elah, and Naam; and the son of Elah: Kenaz.


simplify: And Sharaim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen cities with their villages:

And Shaaraim, and Adithaim, and Gederah, and Gederothaim; fourteen towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: And they all forsook him, and fled.

And all the apostles forsook him, and fled.


simplify: And would not suffer that any man should carry any vessel through the temple.

And he would not let any man take a vessel through the Temple.


rate difficulty: Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.


rate difficulty: And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.

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rate difficulty: Evil-doers are overturned and never seen again, but the house of upright men will keep its place.

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rate difficulty: He hath given help to Israel his servant, That he might remember mercy

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simplify: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; But much increase is by the strength of the ox.

Where there are no oxen, their food-place is clean; but much increase comes through the strength of the ox.


simplify: And when they were come to Capernaum, they that received the half-shekel came to Peter, and said, Doth not your teacher pay the half-shekel?

And when they had come to Capernaum, those who took the Temple tax came to Peter and said, Does not your master make payment of the Temple tax?


simplify: For out of prison he cometh to reign; whereas also he that is born in his kingdom becometh poor.

Because out of a prison the young man comes to be king, though by birth he was only a poor man in the kingdom.


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

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simplify: For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.

For his eyes are on the ways of a man, and he sees all his steps.


rate difficulty: and again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to enter a needle's eye than a rich man into the kingdom ofGod.

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simplify: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

He will have rule over the house of Jacob for ever, and of his kingdom there will be no end.


simplify: After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth;

After these things, he went away from Athens, and came to Corinth.


simplify: And the men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, and went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.

So they took what their father said for the man, and twice as much money in their hands, and Benjamin, and went on their journey to Egypt, and came before Joseph.


rate difficulty: They shall smite upon the breasts for the pleasant fields, for the fruitful vine.

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rate difficulty: So Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab–saris, and Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;

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rate difficulty: And of the birds of the air, seven males and seven females, so that their seed may still be living on the face of the earth.

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rate difficulty: Rise up, let us go; lo, he that betrayeth me is at hand.

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simplify: And he cried unto Jehovah, and said, O Jehovah my God, hast thou also brought evil upon the widow with whom I sojourn, by slaying her son?

And crying to the Lord he said, O Lord my God, have you sent evil even on the widow whose guest I am, by causing her son's death?


rate difficulty: I adjure you by the Lord that this epistle be read unto all the brethren.

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simplify: But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent forth his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,

but, when the full time came, God sent his Son — born a woman’s child, born subject to law —


simplify: And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, that have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in twain and passed between the parts thereof;

And I will give the men who have gone against my agreement and have not given effect to the words of the agreement which they made before me, when the ox was cut in two and they went between the parts of it,


rate difficulty: And the appearance of the vision that I saw was according to the vision that I had seen when I came to destroy the city; and the visions were like the vision that I saw by the river Chebar: and I fell upon my face.

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rate difficulty: and the Nethinim are dwelling in Ophel, and Ziha and Gishpa <FI>are<Fi> over the Nethinim.

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rate difficulty: A sword is upon their horses, and upon their chariots, and upon all the mingled people that are in the midst of her; and they shall become as women: a sword is upon her treasures; and they shall be robbed.


rate difficulty: and Nadab dieth--Abihu also--in their bringing near strange fire before Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: And at Jericho the sons of the prophets came up to Elisha and said to him, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said in answer, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.

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simplify: And the sons of Samuel: the first-born, Joel, and the second Abijah.

And the sons of Samuel: the oldest Joel, and the second Abiah.


simplify: How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!


rate difficulty: let no one despise thy youth, but a pattern become thou of those believing in word, in behaviour, in love, in spirit, in faith, in purity;

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rate difficulty: who ought to have been here before thee, and to make accusation, if they had aught against me.

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simplify: And David answered the priest, and said unto him, Of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days; when I came out, the vessels of the young men were holy, though it was but a common journey; how much more then to-day shall their vessels be holy?

And David in answer said to the priest, Certainly women have been kept from us; and as has been done before when I have gone out the arms of the young men were made holy, even though it was a common journey; how much more today will their arms be made holy.


simplify: Moreover I will give all the riches of this city, and all the gains thereof, and all the precious things thereof, yea, all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies; and they shall make them a prey, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

And more than this, I will give all the wealth of this town and all its profits and all its things of value, even all the stores of the kings of Judah will I give into the hands of their haters, who will put violent hands on them and take them away to Babylon.


rate difficulty: The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

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simplify: Insomuch that we desired Titus, that as he had begun, so he would also finish in you the same grace also.

And this led us beg Titus, since he had started the work for you, he should also see to the completion of this expression of your love.


rate difficulty: Howbeit, as the disciples stood round about him, he rose up, and came into the city: and the next day he departed with Barnabas to Derbe.

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simplify: And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and was come again.

And news was given to Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath and had come back again.


rate difficulty: Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand [your] defence,

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simplify: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

Though they take cover on the top of Carmel, I will go in search of them and get them out; though they keep themselves from my eyes in the bed of the sea, I will give orders to the great snake there and he will give them a bite:


simplify: Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying,  Saul hath slain his thousands, And David his ten thousands?

Is this not David, who was named in their songs, when in the dance they said to one another, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?


simplify: The integrity of the upright shall guide them; But the perverseness of the treacherous shall destroy them.

The righteousness of the upright will be their guide, but the twisted ways of the false will be their destruction.


simplify: In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest, saying,

In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, on the first day of the month, came the word of the Lord by Haggai the prophet to Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, ruler of Judah, and to Joshua, the son of Jehozadak, the high priest, saying,


simplify: And the priests that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah stood firm on dry ground in the midst of the Jordan; and all Israel passed over on dry ground, until all the nation were passed clean over the Jordan.

And the priests who took up the ark of the agreement of the Lord kept their places, with their feet on dry land in the middle of Jordan, while all Israel went over on dry land, till all the nation had gone over Jordan.


simplify: And they told the king, saying, Behold, Nathan the prophet. And when he was come in before the king, he bowed himself before the king with his face to the ground.

And they said to the king, Here is Nathan the prophet. And when he came in before the king, he went down on his face on the earth.


rate difficulty: And he built towers in the desert and digged many cisterns; for he had much cattle, both in the lowland and on the plateau, husbandmen [also] and vinedressers on the mountains and in Carmel; for he loved husbandry.

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rate difficulty: and every armed man of you will pass over the Jordan before Jehovah, until he hath driven out his enemies from before him,

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rate difficulty: So when the Lord your God has given you rest from all who are against you on every side, in the land which the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, see to it that the memory of Amalek is cut off from the earth; keep this in mind.

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rate difficulty: And My Spirit I give in your midst, And I have done this, so that in My statutes ye walk, And My judgments ye keep, and have done them.

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rate difficulty: `Now, my son, Jehovah is with thee, and thou hast prospered, and hast built the house of Jehovah thy God, as He spake concerning thee.

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simplify: (and we were--all the souls in the ship--two hundred, seventy and six),

There were about seventy-six of us on board, all told.


simplify: There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was: yet they that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.


rate difficulty: and if he be found, he shall restore sevenfold; he shall give all the substance of his house.


simplify: Therefore shall Moab howl for Moab, every one shall howl: for the foundations of Kir–hareseth shall ye mourn; surely they are stricken.

For this cause everyone in Moab will give cries of grief for Moab: crushed to the earth, they will be weeping for the men of Kir-hareseth.


rate difficulty: A king sitting on the throne of judgment scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

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rate difficulty: and his clothes became of a more dazzling white than any bleacher in the world could make them.

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rate difficulty: And Moses said, We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast unto Jehovah.

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simplify: And now, I pray you, consider from this day and upward, from before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of the Lord:

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the seventh year, in the fifth <FI>month<Fi> , in the tenth of the month, come in have certain of the elders of Israel to seek Jehovah, and they sit before me;

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rate difficulty: It is true that we have our full share of the sufferings of the Christ, but through the Christ we have also our full share of consolation.

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simplify: Yet for love’s sake I rather beseech thee, being such an one as Paul the aged, and now also a prisoner of Jesus Christ.

yet the claims of love make me prefer to plead with you — yes, even me, Paul, though I am an ambassador for Christ Jesus and, now a prisoner for him as well.


rate difficulty: And Zedekiah king of Judah and his princes will I give into the hand of their enemies, and into the hand of them that seek their life, and into the hand of the king of Babylon’s army, that are gone away from you.

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rate difficulty: and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name.

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simplify: But he said, Then bring meal. And he cast it into the pot; and he said, Pour out for the people, that they may eat. And there was no harm in the pot.

But he said, Get some meal. And he put it into the pot, and said, Now give it to the people so that they may have food. And there was nothing bad in the pot.


rate difficulty: And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.

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


rate difficulty: he is not here, for he rose, as he said; come, see the place where the Lord was lying;

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


simplify: But in mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their possessions.

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


rate difficulty: From the days of Gibeah hast thou sinned, O Israel: there they stood: the battle in Gibeah against the children of iniquity did not overtake them.

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rate difficulty: until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of grain and new wine, a land of bread and vineyards, a land of olive-trees and of honey, that ye may live, and not die: and hearken not unto Hezekiah, when he persuadeth you, saying, Jehovah will deliver us.

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rate difficulty: So it is my desire for you to be clear about this; that no one is able to say by the Spirit of God that Jesus is cursed; and no one is able to say that Jesus is Lord, but by the Holy Spirit.


simplify: Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted.

Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.


simplify: And Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves: and after came Joseph near and Rachel, and they bowed themselves.

And Leah came near with her children, and then Joseph and Rachel, and they did the same.


simplify: Behold, we put bits in the horses’ mouths, that they may obey us; and we turn about their whole body.

When we put bits into horses’ mouths, to make them obey us, we control the rest of their bodies so.


rate difficulty: and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'


rate difficulty: And to the angel of the church in Sardis say: These things says he who has the seven Spirits of God and the seven stars: I have knowledge of your works, that you seem to be living but are dead.


simplify: And while they abode in Galilee, Jesus said unto them, The Son of man shall be delivered up into the hands of men;

And while they were going about in Galilee, Jesus said to them, The Son of man will be given up into the hands of men;


rate difficulty: and there shall be six branches going out of the sides thereof; three branches of the candlestick out of the one side thereof, and three branches of the candlestick out of the other side thereof:

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simplify: I have sent him therefore the more diligently, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.


rate difficulty: Then he will do the work of a priest in the name of the Lord his God, with all his brothers the Levites who are there before the Lord.

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simplify: Ye shall keep my sabbaths, and reverence my sanctuary: I am the Lord.

Keep my Sabbaths and give honour to my holy place: I am the Lord.


simplify: and now, God did set the members each one of them in the body, according as He willed,

But in fact God has placed each individual part just where he thought fit in the body.


rate difficulty: For unto me the children of Israel are servants; they are my servants whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

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


simplify: Go ye, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according unto all that is written in this book.

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.


simplify: And he went his way, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might betray him unto them.

and he went and discussed with the chief priests and officers in charge at the Temple the best way of betraying Jesus to them.


simplify: Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying, Whom shall I send, and who will go for us? Then said I, Here am I; send me.

And the voice of the Lord came to my ears, saying, Whom am I to send, and who will go for us? Then I said, Here am I, send me.


simplify: And Abishai the brother of Joab, he was chief of the three: for lifting up his spear against three hundred, he slew them, and had a name among the three.

And Abishai, the brother of Joab, was chief of the thirty, for he put to death three hundred with his spear, but he had not a name among the three.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, he is recounting to the king how he had revived the dead, and lo, the woman whose son he had revived is crying unto the king, for her house and for her field, and Gehazi saith, `My lord, O king, this <FI>is<Fi>  the woman, and this her son, whom Elisha revived.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: as sorrowful, and always rejoicing; as poor, and making many rich; as having nothing, and possessing all things.

as saddened, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things!


rate difficulty: For, if there was a glory in the religion that involved condemnation, far greater is the glory of the religion that confers righteousness!

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


rate difficulty: He that begetteth a fool [doeth it] to his sorrow, and the father of a vile [man] hath no joy.

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


simplify: and immediately the father of the child, having cried out, with tears said, `I believe, sir; be helping mine unbelief.'

The boy’s father immediately cried out: “I have faith; help my want of faith!”


simplify: And as soon as she saw them she doted upon them, and sent messengers unto them into Chaldea.

And when she saw them she was full of desire for them, and sent servants to them in Chaldaea.


rate difficulty: The caldrons also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

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


simplify: And in the sixth month was the messenger Gabriel sent by God, to a city of Galilee, the name of which <FI>is<Fi> Nazareth,

Six months later the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee called Nazareth,


simplify: As for all the people that were left of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not of the children of Israel;

As for the rest of the Amorites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, who were not children of Israel;


simplify: And Moses saw all the work, and, behold, they had done it; as Jehovah had commanded, even so had they done it: and Moses blessed them.

Then Moses, when he saw all their work and saw that they had done everything as the Lord had said, gave them his blessing.


simplify: And the priest shall offer them, the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering; and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the Lord for his issue.

And they are to be offered by the priest, one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering, and the priest will take away his sin before the Lord on account of his flow.


simplify: And the veil of the temple was rent in twain from the top to the bottom.

The Temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom.


simplify: Then said Agrippa unto Festus, This man might have been set at liberty, if he had not appealed unto Cesar.

And Agrippa said to Festus, This man might have been made free, if he had not put his cause before Caesar.


rate difficulty: There came then his brethren and his mother, and, standing without, sent unto him, calling him.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And in the house the disciples asked him again of this matter.

And in the house the disciples put questions to him again about this thing.


rate difficulty: After him repaired Hananiah the son of Shelemiah, and Hanun the sixth son of Zalaph, another portion. After him repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah over against his chamber.

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


rate difficulty: While He had not made the earth, and out-places, And the top of the dusts of the world.

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


simplify: Now therefore make confession unto Jehovah, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land, and from the foreign women.

So now, give praise to the Lord, the God of your fathers, and do his pleasure; and make yourselves separate from the peoples of the land and from the strange women.


simplify: But he answered and said unto him that told him, Who is my mother? and who are my brethren?

But he in answer said to him who gave the news, Who is my mother and who are my brothers?


rate difficulty: and said to him, Go out of thy land and out of thy kindred, and come into the land which I will shew thee.

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


simplify: But thou, O man of God, flee these things; and follow after righteousness, godliness, faith, love, patience, meekness.

But you, O man of God, keep yourself from these things, and go after righteousness, religion, faith, love, a quiet mind, gentle behaviour.


simplify: And every wise hearted among you shall come, and make all that the Lord hath commanded;

And let every wise-hearted man among you come and make whatever has been ordered by the Lord;


simplify: Having therefore such a hope, we use great boldness of speech,

Having then such a hope, we keep nothing back,


rate difficulty: Then Laban said to Jacob, Because you are my brother are you to be my servant for nothing? say now, what is your payment to be?


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.


rate difficulty: and the hand of Jehovah was on Elijah; and he girded up his loins, and ran before Ahab to the entrance of Jezreel.


simplify: And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel brought in abundance the firstfruits of corn, wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.


simplify: Yet I supposed it necessary to send to you Epaphroditus, my brother, and companion in labour, and fellowsoldier, but your messenger, and he that ministered to my wants.

Still I think it necessary to send Epaphroditus to you now, for he is my dear friend, fellow worker, and fellow soldier, and he was also your messenger to help me in my need.