rate difficulty: But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:


rate difficulty: And Zephaniah the priest made clear to Jeremiah the prophet what was said in the letter, reading it to him.

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rate difficulty: Rehum the chancellor, and Shimshai the scribe, and the rest of their companions, the Dinaites, and the Apharsathchites, the Tarpelites, the Apharsites, the Archevites, the Babylonians, the Shushanchites, the Dehaites, the Elamites,

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


rate difficulty: And when she saw that he had got away, letting her keep his coat,

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


simplify: And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.


simplify: Moreover the children of Ammon passed over Jordan to fight also against Judah, and against Benjamin, and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sore distressed.

And the children of Ammon went over Jordan, to make war against Judah and Benjamin and the house of Ephraim; and Israel was in great trouble.


rate difficulty: and he sacrificeth ox, and fatling, and sheep in abundance, and calleth for all the sons of the king, and for Abiathar the priest, and for Joab head of the host--and for Solomon thy servant he hath not called.

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


simplify: Then Joseph being raised from sleep did as the angel of the Lord had bidden him, and took unto him his wife:

And Joseph did as the angel of the Lord had said to him, and took her as his wife;


rate difficulty: And they removed from Almon-Diblathaim, and encamped in the mountains of Abarim, before Nebo.

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


rate difficulty: And they come unto him, bringing one sick of the palsy, which was borne of four.

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


rate difficulty: So the work of the house of God at Jerusalem came to an end; so it was stopped, till the second year of the rule of Darius, king of Persia.

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


simplify: And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

And the light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: wasting and burning up his thorns in one day.


simplify: And there was delivered unto him the book of the prophet Esaias. And when he had opened the book, he found the place where it was written,

He was given the book of the prophet Isaiah; and Jesus opened the book and found the place where it says —


rate difficulty: For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to them, `Can the sons of the bride-chamber mourn, so long as the bridegroom is with them? but days shall come when the bridegroom may be taken from them, and then they shall fast.

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


simplify: I speak as to wise men; judge ye what I say.

What I am saying is for wise men, do you be the judges of it.


rate difficulty: It is a snare to the man who devoureth that which is holy, and after vows to make enquiry.

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


simplify: Cast out the scoffer, and contention will go out; Yea, strife and ignominy will cease.

Send away the man of pride, and argument will go out; truly fighting and shame will come to an end.


simplify: And they laid the ark of the Lord upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods.

And they put the ark of the Lord on the cart and the chest with the gold images.


simplify: that they feared greatly, because Gibeon was a great city, as one of the royal cities, and because it was greater than Ai, and all the men thereof were mighty.

He was in great fear, because Gibeon was a great town, like one of the king's towns, greater than Ai, and all the men in it were men of war.


simplify: And this continued for the space of two years; so that all they that dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord, both Jews and Greeks.

And this went on for two years, so that all those who were living in Asia had knowledge of the word of the Lord, Greeks as well as Jews.


rate difficulty: And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

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


rate difficulty: And the man said unto me, Son of man, behold with thine eyes, and hear with thine ears, and set thy heart upon all that I shall shew thee; for in order that it might be shewn unto thee art thou brought hither. Declare to the house of Israel all that thou seest.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 14 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: and David had upon him an ephod of linen.

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


simplify: Howbeit the king of the children of Ammon hearkened not unto the words of Jephthah which he sent him.

The king of the children of Ammon, however, did not give ear to the words which Jephthah sent to him.


simplify: the horseman mounting, and the flashing sword, and the glittering spear, and a multitude of slain, and a great heap of corpses, and there is no end of the bodies; they stumble upon their bodies;—

Horsemen driving forward, and the shining sword and the bright spear: and a great number of wounded, and masses of dead bodies; they are falling over the bodies of the dead:


rate difficulty: And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and the priests, and the Levites, and all the people, great and small: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant that was found in the house of the Lord.

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


simplify: And they shall fight against thee; but they shall not prevail against thee: for I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to deliver thee.

They will be fighting against you, but they will not overcome you: for I am with you, says the Lord, to give you salvation.


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

And, if it is by Beelzebul’s help that I drive out demons, by whose help is it that your own sons drive them out? Therefore they will themselves be your judges.


rate difficulty: that thou shalt take up this parable against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

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


rate difficulty: The young lions have roared upon him, and yelled; and they have made his land waste: his cities are burned up, without inhabitant.

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


simplify: Then Asa the king took all Judah; and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and he built therewith Geba and Mizpah.

Then King Asa, with all Judah, took away the stones and wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and he made use of them for building Geba and Mizpah.


simplify: And he said, Why, what evil hath he done? But they cried out exceedingly, saying, Let him be crucified.

And he said, Why, what evil has he done? But they gave loud cries, saying, To the cross with him!


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And he measured the court, a hundred cubits long, and a hundred cubits broad, foursquare; and the altar was before the house.


rate difficulty: For we have found this man a pestilent fellow, and a mover of sedition among all the Jews throughout the world, and a ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes:

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


simplify: Shall I cause it to return into his sheath? I will judge thee in the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy nativity.

Go back into your cover. In the place where you were made, in the land from which you were taken, I will be your judge.


rate difficulty: Should not the multitude of words be answered? And should a man full of talk be justified?


rate difficulty: and he taketh the robe of Elijah that fell from off him, and smiteth the waters, and saith, `Where <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah, God of Elijah--even He?' and he smiteth the waters, and they are halved, hither and thither, and Elisha passeth over.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: No foot of man shall pass through it, nor foot of beast shall pass through it, neither shall it be inhabited forty years.

No foot of man will go through it and no foot of beast, and it will be unpeopled for forty years.


simplify: Rejoice not, O Israel, for joy, like the peoples; for thou hast played the harlot, departing from thy God; thou hast loved hire upon every grain-floor.

Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.


rate difficulty: On the first day there will be a holy meeting: do no field-work.

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


rate difficulty: to transfer the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer-sheba.

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


simplify: He said therefore to the multitudes that went out to be baptized of him, Ye offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

So he said to the people who went out to him for baptism: You offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?


rate difficulty: His own hands shall bring Jehovah's offerings by fire, the fat with the breast shall he bring: the breast, that it may be waved as a wave-offering before Jehovah.

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


simplify: And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

And it will be clear to all the people of Egypt that I am the Lord, because you have been a false support to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Alas for you who are sated now, for you will hunger. Alas for you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.


simplify: For we are unto God a sweet savour of Christ, in them that are saved, and in them that perish:

For we are the fragrance of Christ ascending to God — both among those who are in the path of salvation and among those who are in the path to ruin.


simplify: I will be his father, and he shall be my son: and I will not take my lovingkindness away from him, as I took it from him that was before thee;

I will be to him a father and he will be to me a son; and I will not take my mercy away from him as I took it from him who was before you;


rate difficulty: And He calleth unto the man who is clothed with linen, who hath the scribe's inkhorn at his loins, and Jehovah saith unto him, `Pass on into the midst of the city, into the midst of Jerusalem, and thou hast made a mark on the foreheads of the men who are sighing and who are groaning for all the abominations that are done in its midst.'

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


rate difficulty: He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him.

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


simplify: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:


rate difficulty: And for the gate of the court shall be a screen of twenty cubits, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer; their pillars four, and their sockets four.

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


rate difficulty: taking not notice until the flood came and swept them one and all away; and so will it be at the coming of the Son of Man.


rate difficulty: A gin shall take him by the heel, Anda snare shall lay hold on him.

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


simplify: While he is speaking these things to them, lo, a ruler having come, was bowing to him, saying that `My daughter just now died, but, having come, lay thy hand upon her, and she shall live.'

While Jesus was saying this, a synagogue leader came up and bowed to the ground before him. “My daughter,” he said, “Has just died; but come and place your hand on her, and she will be restored to life.”


simplify: I give thanks to my God upon all the remembrance of you,

Every recollection that I have of you is a cause of thankfulness to God,


simplify: He shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field; and he shall make forts against thee, and cast up a mound against thee, and raise up the buckler against thee.

He will put to the sword your daughters in the open country: he will make strong walls against you and put up an earthwork against you, arming himself for war against you.


rate difficulty: I marvel that ye are so soon removed from him that called you into the grace of Christ unto another gospel:

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


rate difficulty: And he remained two whole years in his own hired lodging, and received all who came to him,


rate difficulty: And they came to Capernaum: and when he was in the house, he put the question to them, What were you talking about on the way?


simplify: `And take ye heed to yourselves, for they shall deliver you up to sanhedrims, and to synagogues, ye shall be beaten, and before governors and kings ye shall be set for my sake, for a testimony to them;

“See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, so that you can bear witness before them.


simplify: And the king of Assyria hearkened unto him: for the king of Assyria went up against Damascus, and took it, and carried the people of it captive to Kir, and slew Rezin.

And the king of Assyria, in answer to his request, went up against Damascus and took it, and took its people away as prisoners to Kir, and put Rezin to death.


simplify: And the people went out, and spoiled the tents of the Syrians. So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, according to the word of the Lord.

Then the people went out and took the goods from the tents of the Aramaeans. So a measure of good meal was to be had for the price of a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of Christ’s people and with the blood of the martyrs for Jesus. When I saw her, I was amazed beyond measure;


simplify: And they cried with a loud voice in the Jews’ language unto the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to affright them, and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

These things they said, crying out with a loud voice in the Jews' language, to the people of Jerusalem who were on the wall, with the purpose of troubling them and putting fear into them, so that they might take the town;


simplify: And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all their substance that they had gathered, and the souls that they had gotten in Haran; and they went forth to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

And Abram took Sarai, his wife, and Lot, his brother's son, and all their goods and the servants which they had got in Haran, and they went out to go to the land of Canaan.


simplify: And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:

And Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his sons who were still living, Take the rest of the meal offering from the offerings of the Lord made by fire, and take it for your food, without leaven, at the side of the altar, for it is most holy.


simplify: And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Uzzah; and God smote him there for his error; and there he died by the ark of God.

And the wrath of the Lord, burning against Uzzah, sent destruction on him because he had put his hand on the ark, and death came to him there by the ark of God.


simplify: And the Pharisees and their scribes murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with the publicans and sinners?

And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?


simplify: And when there arose a great dissension, the chief captain, fearing lest Paul should be torn in pieces by them, commanded the soldiers to go down and take him by force from among them, and bring him into the castle.

And when the argument became very violent, the chief captain, fearing that Paul would be pulled in two by them, gave orders to the armed men to take him by force from among them, and take him into the army building.


simplify: And Jesus answering said to them, `Take heed that no one may lead you astray,

Jesus replied to them: “See that no one leads you astray;


rate difficulty: The wicked flee when no man pursueth; But the righteous are bold as a lion.

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


rate difficulty: And after these days, having taken <FI>our<Fi> vessels, we were going up to Jerusalem,

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


simplify: and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

And he will make them captains of thousands and of fifties; some he will put to work ploughing and cutting his grain and making his instruments of war and building his war-carriages.


simplify: but to what we have come--by the same rule walk, the same thing think;

Only we are bound to order our lives by what we have already attained.


simplify: Also he made thereunto a border of an handbreadth round about; and made a crown of gold for the border thereof round about.

And he made a frame all round it about as wide as a man's hand, edged with gold all round.


simplify: The Lord our God be with us, as he was with our fathers: let him not leave us, nor forsake us:

Now may the Lord our God be with us as he was with our fathers; let him never go away from us or give us up;


simplify: Provide neither gold, nor silver, nor brass in your purses,

Do not provide yourselves with gold, or silver, or coins in your purses;


simplify: And every one that hath this hope set on him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

And everyone who has this hope in him makes himself holy, even as he is holy.


rate difficulty: And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

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


rate difficulty: Send forth thy bread on the face of the waters, For in the multitude of the days thou dost find it.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest will put out some of the oil in the hollow of his left hand,

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


simplify: and to him who is not working, and is believing upon Him who is declaring righteous the impious, his faith is reckoned--to righteousness:

while, as for the person who does not rely on their obedience, but has faith in him who can pronounce the godless righteous, their faith is regarded by God as righteousness.


simplify: But if I cast out devils by the Spirit of God, then the kingdom of God is come unto you.

But if I by the Spirit of God send out evil spirits, then is the kingdom of God come on you.


simplify: And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot.

And having put to destruction seven nations in the land of Canaan, he gave them the land for their heritage for about four hundred and fifty years.


rate difficulty: In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

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


simplify: and he saw two boats standing beside the lake, and the fishers, having gone away from them, were washing the nets,

The fishermen had gone away from them and were washing the nets.


rate difficulty: Not that God’s Word has failed. For it is not all who are descended from Israel who are true Israelites;

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall not pollute the land wherein ye are; for blood, it polluteth the land; and there can be no atonement made for the land, for the blood that hath been shed therein, but by the blood of him that shed it.

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


rate difficulty: And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord

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


simplify: besides their men-servants and their maid-servants, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred thirty and seven: and they had two hundred forty and five singing men and singing women.

As well as their men-servants and their women-servants, of whom there were seven thousand, three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five men and women to make music.


simplify: Who, having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

And he, having such orders, put them into the inner prison with chains on their feet.


rate difficulty: But there mighty <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah for us, A place of rivers--streams broad of sides, No ship with oars doth go into it, And a mighty ship doth not pass over it.

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


simplify: and the sun having risen, it was scorched, and because of not having root it did wither;

but, when the sun rose, it was scorched, and, because their roots were not deep enough, withered away.


simplify: These are they that were not defiled with women; for they are virgins. These are they that follow the Lamb whithersoever he goeth. These were purchased from among men, to be the firstfruits unto God and unto the Lamb.

These are they who have not made themselves unclean with women; for they are virgins. These are they who go after the Lamb wherever he goes. These were taken from among men to be the first fruits to God and to the Lamb.


simplify: And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

Then a second angel followed, crying — ‘She has fallen! She has fallen — Babylon the Great, who has made all the nations drink the maddening wine of her licentiousness!’


rate difficulty: And upon Azariah son of Oded hath been the Spirit of God,

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


simplify: And he led him up, and showed him all the kingdoms of the world in a moment of time.

And he took him up and let him see all the kingdoms of the earth in a minute of time.


simplify: And the prophet came near to the king of Israel, and said unto him, Go, strengthen thyself, and mark, and see what thou doest; for at the return of the year the king of Syria will come up against thee.

Then the prophet came up to the king of Israel, and said to him, Now make yourself strong, and take care what you do, or a year from now the king of Aram will come up against you again.


rate difficulty: and Isaac is a son of forty years in his taking Rebekah, daughter of Bethuel the Aramaean, from Padan-Aram, sister of Laban the Aramaean, to him for a wife.

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


simplify: and to Him who is able above all things to do exceeding abundantly what we ask or think, according to the power that is working in us,

To him who, through his power which is at work within us, is able to do far more than anything that we can ask or conceive —


simplify: Yea, his soul draweth near unto the pit, And his life to the destroyers.

And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.


simplify: And they journeyed from Punon, and encamped in Oboth.

And they went on from Punon, and put up their tents in Oboth.


rate difficulty: `And thou hast said unto them, In your lifting up its fat out of it, then it hath been reckoned to the Levites, as increase of a threshing-floor, and as increase of a wine-vat;

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


simplify: and the covenant that I have made with you ye shall not forget; neither shall ye fear other gods:

And you are to keep in memory the agreement which I have made with you; and you are to have no other gods.


rate difficulty: And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, to the villages of Caesarea Philippi, and in the way he was questioning his disciples, saying to them, `Who do men say me to be?'

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


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said to me: Go and take your place in the doorway of Benjamin, where the kings of Judah come in and by which they go out, and in all the doorways of Jerusalem;

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


simplify: For in the multitude of dreams there are vanities, and in many words: but fear thou God.

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.


simplify: And Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt-offering and sacrifices for God: and Aaron came, and all the elders of Israel, to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law before God.

Then Jethro, Moses' father-in-law, made a burned offering to God: and Aaron came, with the chiefs of Israel, and had a meal with Moses' father-in-law, before God.


rate difficulty: but whoever may speak evil in regard to the Holy Spirit hath not forgiveness--to the age, but is in danger of age-during judgment;'

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


rate difficulty: Which are they among all thegods of the countries, who have delivered their country out of my hand, that Jehovah should deliver Jerusalem out of my hand?


simplify: And Jesus came to them and spake unto them, saying, All authority hath been given unto me in heaven and on earth.

And Jesus came to them and said, All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth.


simplify: But the former governors that had been before me were chargeable unto the people, and had taken of them bread and wine, beside forty shekels of silver; yea, even their servants bare rule over the people: but so did not I, because of the fear of God.

But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.


rate difficulty: Israel shall cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

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


simplify: Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

And may God, the giver of this patience and this encouragement, grant you to be united in sympathy in Christ,


rate difficulty: but he that shall have denied me before men shall be denied before the angels ofGod;

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


rate difficulty: They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.


simplify: And take thou unto thee an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between thee and the city: and set thy face toward it, and it shall be besieged, and thou shalt lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.

And take a flat iron plate, and put it for a wall of iron between you and the town: and let your face be turned to it, and it will be shut in and you will make an attack on it. This will be a sign to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: “Do not be dismayed; you are looking for Jesus, the Nazarene, who has been crucified; he has risen, he is not here! Look! Here is the place where they laid him.


simplify: I am not worthy of the least of all the mercies, and of all the truth, which thou hast shewed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two bands.

I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.


simplify: and said to his servants, `This is John the Baptist, he did rise from the dead, and because of this the mighty energies are working in him.'

and said to his attendants: “This must be John the Baptist; he must be risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him.”


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: They ravished the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.

They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah.


rate difficulty: Hymenaeus and Alexander are instances — the men whom I delivered over to Satan so that they might be taught not to blaspheme.

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


simplify: Look on every one that is proud, and bring him low; and tread down the wicked in their place.

Send destruction on all who are lifted up, pulling down the sinners from their places.


simplify: And he spake to them a parable: Behold the fig tree, and all the trees:

And he made a story for them: See the fig-tree, and all the trees;


simplify: This is the law of jealousy, when a wife, being under her husband, goeth aside, and is defiled;

This is the law for testing a wife who goes with another in place of her husband and becomes unclean;


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

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


simplify: the pins of the tabernacle, and the pins of the court, and their cords;

The nails for the House, and the nails for the open space and their cords;


rate difficulty: but whosoever shall blaspheme against the Holy Spirit hath never forgiveness, but is guilty of an eternal sin:

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


simplify: And the sons of Kohath were, Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

And the sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.


simplify: And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron’s and his sons’.

And the fat is to be burned by the priest on the altar, but the breast is for Aaron and his sons.


simplify: And these are the names of the sons of Aaron; Nadab the firstborn, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.

These are the names of the sons of Aaron: Nadab the oldest, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar.


rate difficulty: Proclaim ye this among the nations; prepare war; stir up the mighty men; let all the men of war draw near, let them come up.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, O my people that dwellest in Zion, be not afraid of the Assyrian: he shall smite thee with a rod, and shall lift up his staff against thee, after the manner of Egypt.

For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt slaughter the bullock before Jehovah, at the entrance of the tent of meeting;

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


simplify: And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.


simplify: And he commanded the multitude to sit down on the grass, and took the five loaves, and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake, and gave the loaves to his disciples, and the disciples to the multitude.

And he gave orders for the people to be seated on the grass; and he took the five cakes of bread and the two fishes and, looking up to heaven, he said words of blessing, and made division of the food, and gave it to the disciples, and the disciples gave it to the people.


simplify: But I say unto you, That Elias is come already, and they knew him not, but have done unto him whatsoever they listed. Likewise shall also the Son of man suffer of them.

and I tell you that Elijah has already come, and people have not recognized him, but have treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, too, the Son of Man is destined to undergo suffering at people’s hands.”


simplify: for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.


rate difficulty: then were they laying hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: Even as I sware unto thee by the Lord God of Israel, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne in my stead; even so will I certainly do this day.

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


rate difficulty: For I know that in me, that is, in my flesh, dwelleth no good thing: for to will is present with me, but to do that which is good is not.

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


simplify: The earth shall reel to and fro like a drunkard, and shall be removed like a cottage; and the transgression thereof shall be heavy upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again.

The earth will be moving uncertainly, like a man overcome by drink; it will be shaking like a tent; and the weight of its sin will be on it, crushing it down so that it will not get up again.


simplify: Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.

Again, say to the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or any other man living in Israel, gives his offspring to Molech, he is certainly to be put to death: he is to be stoned by the people of the land;


simplify: Know therefore that Jehovah thy God, he is God, the faithful God, who keepeth covenant and lovingkindness with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations,

Be certain, then, that the Lord your God is God; whose faith and mercy are unchanging, who keeps his word through a thousand generations to those who have love for him and keep his laws;


rate difficulty: For, behold, the day cometh, it burneth as a furnace; and all the proud, and all that work wickedness, shall be stubble; and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith Jehovah of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch.

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


rate difficulty: And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

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


simplify: Then cometh he to the disciples, and saith unto them, Sleep on now, and take your rest: behold, the hour is at hand, and the Son of man is betrayed into the hands of sinners.

Then he comes to the disciples; and says to them, Go on sleeping now, and take your rest: for the hour is come, and the Son of man is given into the hands of evil men.


simplify: And when they came down to him, Elisha prayed unto Jehovah, and said, Smite this people, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

Now when the Aramaeans came down to Elisha, he made a prayer to the Lord saying, Lord, make this people blind. And he made them blind at Elisha's request.


rate difficulty: Some days later King Agrippa and Bernice came down to Caesarea, and paid a visit of congratulation to Festus;

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


simplify: And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Master, master, we perish. Then he arose, and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water: and they ceased, and there was a calm.

So the disciples came and roused him. “Sir, Sir,” they cried, “we are lost!” Jesus rose and rebuked the wind and the rushing waves, and they fell, and a calm followed.


simplify: The former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of all that Jesus began both to do and teach,

The first account which I drew up, Theophilus, dealt with all that Jesus did and taught from the very first,


simplify: But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.

But Barak went after the war-carriages and the army as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all Sisera's army was put to the sword; not a man got away.


rate difficulty: AndGod said, Let there be light. And there was light.

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


simplify: and Jesus saith to them--`All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

presently Jesus said to them: “All of you will fall away; for scripture says — ‘I will strike down the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’


rate difficulty: they see not the land which I have sworn to their fathers, yea, none of those despising Me see it;

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


simplify: And Reaiah the son of Shobal begat Jahath; and Jahath begat Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.

And Reaiah, the son of Shobal, was the father of Jahath; and Jahath was the father of Ahumai and Lahad. These are the families of the Zorathites.


rate difficulty: Then I saw, rising out of the earth, another wild Beast. It had two horns like those of a lamb, and its voice was like a dragon’s.

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


rate difficulty: meekness, self-control: against such things there is no law.


simplify: But the chief priests moved the people, that he should rather release Barabbas unto them.

But the chief priests incited the crowd to get Barabbas released instead.


simplify: Son of man, take up a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou wast likened unto a young lion of the nations: yet art thou as a monster in the seas; and thou didst break forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.


simplify: and they were a grief of mind unto Isaac and to Rebekah.

And Isaac and Rebekah had grief of mind because of them.


rate difficulty: For they were haters of knowledge, and did not give their hearts to the fear of the Lord:


simplify: He will surely reprove you, If ye do secretly show partiality.

He will certainly put you right, if you have respect for persons in secret.


simplify: and whenever I may come, whomsoever ye may approve, through letters, these I will send to carry your favour to Jerusalem;

On my arrival, I will send any persons, whom you may authorize by letter, to carry your gift to Jerusalem;


simplify: For ye remember, brethren, our labour and travail: for labouring night and day, because we would not be chargeable unto any of you, we preached unto you the gospel of God.

You will not have forgotten, friends, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God’s good news.


simplify: But when they believed Philip preaching the things concerning the kingdom of God, and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

However, when they came to believe Philip, as he told them the good news about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.


rate difficulty: And for the other side of the tabernacle on the north side there shall be twenty boards.

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


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Asher was Pagiel the son of Ocran.

At the head of the army of the children of Asher was Pagiel, the son of Ochran.


rate difficulty: I wrote for him the ten thousand things of my law; but they are counted as a strange thing.


rate difficulty: Blessed is the man that heareth me, Watching daily at my gates, Waiting at the posts of my doors.


rate difficulty: And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.


simplify: but for our sake also, unto whom it shall be reckoned, who believe on him that raised Jesus our Lord from the dead,

But for us in addition, to whose account it will be put, if we have faith in him who made Jesus our Lord come back again from the dead,


simplify: Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes,

And Matthew and Thomas and James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon, who was named the Zealot,


simplify: For your shame ye shall have double; and for confusion they shall rejoice in their portion: therefore in their land they shall possess the double: everlasting joy shall be unto them.

As they had twice as much grief, and marks of shame were their heritage, so in their land they will be rewarded twice over, and will have eternal joy.


rate difficulty: The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.


simplify: And the king answered the people roughly, and forsook the old men’s counsel that they gave him;

And the king gave them a rough answer, giving no attention to the suggestion of the old men;


simplify: In the eighteenth year of the reign of Josiah was this passover kept.

In the eighteenth year of the rule of Josiah this Passover was kept.


simplify: They sent a letter unto him, wherein was written thus; Unto Darius the king, all peace.

They sent him a letter saying, To Darius the king, all peace:


rate difficulty: And thou art different from other women in thy whoredoms, in that none followeth thee to play the harlot; and whereas thou givest hire, and no hire is given unto thee, therefore thou art different.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And though they found no cause of death in him, yet desired they Pilate that he should be slain.

They found no ground at all for putting him to death, and yet demanded his execution from Pilate;


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

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


simplify: And Aaron’s sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

That it may be burned by Aaron's sons on the altar, on the burned offering which is on the wood on the fire: it is an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now these things happened as warnings to us, to teach us not to long for evil things as our forefathers longed.


simplify: The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican.

The Pharisee stood forward and began praying to himself in this way — ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men — thieves, rogues, adulterers — or even like this tax-gatherer.


simplify: And thou hast also appointed prophets to preach of thee at Jerusalem, saying, There is a king in Judah: and now shall it be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let us take counsel together.

And that you have prophets preaching about you in Jerusalem, and saying, There is a king in Judah: now an account of these things will be sent to the king. So come now, and let us have a discussion.


simplify: And the men of the place asked him of his wife; and he said, She is my sister: for he feared to say, She is my wife; lest, said he, the men of the place should kill me for Rebekah; because she was fair to look upon.

And when he was questioned by the men of the place about his wife, he said, She is my sister; fearing to say, She is my wife; for, he said, the men of the place may put me to death on account of Rebekah; because she is very beautiful.


simplify: Which was the son of Matthat, which was the son of Levi, which was the son of Melchi, which was the son of Janna, which was the son of Joseph,


rate difficulty: But as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted himthat was bornafter the Spirit, so also it is now.

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


simplify: They lavish gold out of the bag, and weigh silver in the balance, and hire a goldsmith; and he maketh it a god: they fall down, yea, they worship.

As for those who take gold out of a bag, and put silver in the scales, they give payment to a gold-worker, to make it into a god; they go down on their faces and give it worship.


simplify: Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft.

Are they ‘Servants of Christ’? Though it is madness to talk like this, I am more so than they! I have had more of toil, more of imprisonment! I have been flogged times without number. I have been often at death’s door.


simplify: so hast thou, even thou, those holding the teaching of the Nicolaitans--which thing I hate.

Again you have among you those who hold in the same way to the teaching of the Nikolaitans.


simplify: Be not rash with thy mouth, and let not thy heart be hasty to utter anything before God; for God is in heaven, and thou upon earth: therefore let thy words be few.

Be not unwise with your mouth, and let not your heart be quick to say anything before God, because God is in heaven and you are on the earth--so let not the number of your words be great.


rate difficulty: Now some are puffed up, as though I would not come to you.


simplify: And his sons walked not in his ways, but turned aside after lucre, and took bribes, and perverted justice.

And his sons did not go in his ways, but moved by the love of money took rewards, and were not upright in judging.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? yea, declare unto them their abominations.

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


rate difficulty: And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

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


simplify: Then thou shalt cut off her hand, thine eye shall not pity her.

Her hand is to be cut off; have no pity on her.


rate difficulty: To give punishment to the upright is not good, or to give blows to the noble for their righteousness.


rate difficulty: The Lord, therefore, knows how to deliver the pious from temptation, and to keep the wicked, who are even now suffering punishment, in readiness for ‘the day of judgment’ —

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


simplify: And Moses made an end of speaking all these words to all Israel;

And after saying all this to the people,


simplify: The men of Kirjath–jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.


rate difficulty: for I was ashamed to ask from the king a force and horsemen to help us because of the enemy in the way, for we spake to the king, saying, `The hand of our God <FI>is<Fi> upon all seeking Him for good, and His strength and His wrath <FI> is<Fi> upon all forsaking Him.'

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


simplify: all things, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast <FI>is<Fi> nothing pure, but of them defiled <FI>are<Fi> even the mind and the conscience;

Everything is pure to the pure-minded, but to those whose minds are polluted and who are unbelievers nothing is pure. Their minds and consciences are alike polluted.


rate difficulty: they will trample you down and your children within you, and they will not leave in you one stone on another, because you did not know ‘the time of your visitation.’”

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


rate difficulty: The burden of Babylon, which Isaiah the son of Amoz did see.

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


simplify: So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.


simplify: That upon you may come all the righteous blood shed upon the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the temple and the altar.

So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.


simplify: Doth the hawk fly by thy wisdom, and stretch her wings toward the south?

Is it through your knowledge that the hawk takes his flight, stretching out his wings to the south?


rate difficulty: Tell it not in Gath, publish it not in the streets of Askelon; lest the daughters of the Philistines rejoice, lest the daughters of the uncircumcised triumph.

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


rate difficulty: Did not he that made me in the womb make him? and did not One fashion us in the womb?


simplify: And the word of Jehovah of hosts cameto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord of armies came to me, saying,


simplify: In whom also ye are circumcised with the circumcision made without hands, in putting off the body of the sins of the flesh by the circumcision of Christ:

In whom you had a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the flesh, in the circumcision of Christ;


rate difficulty: be going, then, on to the cross-ways, and as many as ye may find, call ye to the marriage-feasts.

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


simplify: Yet a man is risen to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul: but the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with the Lord thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as out of the middle of a sling.

And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.


simplify: And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.

Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices were heard in heaven saying —  ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.’


rate difficulty: `A statute age-during to your generations in all your dwellings: any fat or any blood ye do not eat.'

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


simplify: Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place.


rate difficulty: And they gave worship to the dragon, because he gave authority to the beast; and worshipping the beast, they said, Who is like the beast? and who is able to go to war with him?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah answered and said unto his people, Behold, I will send you grain, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations;

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


rate difficulty: So it was alway: the cloud covered it by day, and the appearance of fire by night.


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


simplify: and the breasts and the right thigh Aaron waved for a wave-offering before Jehovah; as Moses commanded.

And Aaron took the breasts and the right leg, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord, as Moses gave orders.


simplify: Therefore will I discover thy skirts upon thy face, that thy shame may appear.

So I will have your skirts uncovered before your face, in order that your shame may be seen.


rate difficulty: And I do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning those who have fallen asleep, that ye may not sorrow, as also the rest who have not hope,

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


simplify: (Also he bade them teach the children of Judah the use of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jasher.)

(It is recorded in the book of Jashar for teaching to the sons of Judah) and he said:


simplify: for that they exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.

Because by them the true word of God was changed into that which is false, and they gave worship and honour to the thing which is made, and not to him who made it, to whom be blessing for ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass as they were burying a man, that behold, they saw the band, and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha; and the man went [down], and touched the bones of Elisha, and he revived, and stood upon his feet.

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


simplify: As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.

Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.


simplify: But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him in all things, which is the head, even Christ:

But saying true words in love, may come to full growth in him, who is the head, even Christ;


rate difficulty: For the husband is not at home, he is gone a long journey;

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


rate difficulty: and that doeth not any of those duties, but even hath eaten upon the mountains, and defiled his neighbor’s wife,

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


rate difficulty: and Jesus answered him--`The first of all the commands <FI>is<Fi> , Hear, O Israel, the Lord is our God, the Lord is one;

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


rate difficulty: Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Cæsar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judæa, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of the region of Ituræa and Trachonitis, and Lysanias tetrarch of Abilene,

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


rate difficulty: he shall dwell with thee, even in thy midst, in the place that he shall choose in one of thy gates, where it seemeth good to him; thou shalt not oppress him.

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


rate difficulty: And he went back, and took the oxen and put them to death, and cooking their flesh with the yokes of the oxen, he gave the people a feast. Then he got up and went after Elijah and became his servant.

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


simplify: They that are perverse in heart are an abomination to Jehovah; But such as are perfect in their way are his delight.

The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight


rate difficulty: And Chelub brother of Shuah begat Mehir; he <FI>is<Fi> father of Eshton.

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


rate difficulty: And it came about that after saying these words, Jesus went away from Galilee, and came into the parts of Judaea on the other side of Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: All the days of his separation he is holy unto Jehovah.


rate difficulty: Thus were the journeyings of the children of Israel according to their hosts; and they set forward.

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


simplify: So then, let no one glory in men, for all things are yours,

Therefore let no one boast about people; for all things are yours —


simplify: If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.

And if a man has sex relations with a man, the two of them have done a disgusting thing: let them be put to death; their blood will be on them.


rate difficulty: For by them He doth judge peoples, He giveth food in abundance.

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


simplify: Awake to righteousness, and sin not; for some have not the knowledge of God: I speak this to your shame.

Wake up to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.


simplify: Who leave the paths of uprightness, to walk in the ways of darkness;

Who give up the way of righteousness, to go by dark roads;


rate difficulty: The report of this spread through all that part of the country.


rate difficulty: Because of the number of his horses you will be covered with their dust: your walls will be shaking at the noise of the horsemen and of the wheels and of the war-carriages, when he comes through your doorways, as into a town which has been broken open.

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


simplify: Likewise also was not Rahab the harlot justified by works, when she had received the messengers, and had sent them out another way?

And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?


rate difficulty: for the daughters of Manasseh have inherited an inheritance in the midst of his sons, and the land of Gilead hath been to the sons of Manasseh who are left.

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


rate difficulty: And every one had four faces, and every one of them had four wings.

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


rate difficulty: and how shall they preach, if they may not be sent? according as it hath been written, `How beautiful the feet of those proclaiming good tidings of peace, of those proclaiming good tidings of the good things!'

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


rate difficulty: Only let your behaviour do credit to the good news of Christ, so that if I come and see you or if I am away from you, I may have news of you that you are strong in one spirit, working together with one soul for the faith of the good news;

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


rate difficulty: If her father utterly refuse to give her unto him, he shall pay money according to the dowry of virgins.


simplify: Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.

This was said in reply to the charge that he had a foul spirit in him.


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

And it will be clear to the nations that the children of Israel were taken away prisoners for their evil-doing; because they did wrong against me, and my face was covered from them: so I gave them up into the hands of their attackers, and they all came to their end by the sword.


simplify: Therefore was the name of it called Babel; because Jehovah did there confound the language of all the earth: and from thence did Jehovah scatter them abroad upon the face of all the earth.

So it was named Babel, because there the Lord took away the sense of all languages and from there the Lord sent them away over all the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: Through Phinehas, and because of his passion for my honour, my wrath has been turned away from the children of Israel, so that I have not sent destruction on them all in my wrath.

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


simplify: And lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it: and the children of Israel shall go into the midst of the sea on dry ground.

And let your rod be lifted up and your hand stretched out over the sea, and it will be parted in two; and the children of Israel will go through on dry land.


rate difficulty: And the vessels also of gold and silver of the house ofGod, which Nebuchadnezzar took out of the temple that was at Jerusalem and brought into the temple of Babylon, those did king Cyrus take out of the temple of Babylon, and they were delivered to one Sheshbazzar by name, whom he had appointed governor.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king Ahasuerus said unto Esther the queen and to Mordecai the Jew, Behold, I have given Esther the house of Haman, and him they have hanged upon the gallows, because he laid his hand upon the Jews.

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


rate difficulty: Lift up thine eyes round about, and see: they all gather themselves together, they come to thee; thy sons shall come from far, and thy daughters shall be carried in the arms.

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


rate difficulty: For the prophets who gave the news of the grace which would come to you, made search with all care for knowledge of this salvation;


rate difficulty: (for he that wrought in Peter for [the] apostleship of the circumcision wrought also in me towards the Gentiles,)

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


simplify: The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

Let the fire be kept burning on the altar at all times; it is never to go out.


rate difficulty: “Anyone who, for the sake of my name, welcomes even a little child like this is welcoming me, and anyone who welcomes me is welcoming not me, but him who sent me as his messenger.”

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


simplify: And the woman conceived, and bare a son: and when she saw him that he was a goodly child, she hid him three months.

And she became with child and gave birth to a Son; and when she saw that he was a beautiful child, she kept him secretly for three months.


rate difficulty: And the ark of the Lord continued in the house of Obed–edom the Gittite three months: and the Lord blessed Obed–edom, and all his household.

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


simplify: For I have satiated the weary soul, and every sorrowful soul have I replenished.

For I have given new strength to the tired soul and to every sorrowing soul in full measure.


rate difficulty: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

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


rate difficulty: Hadad died also. And the dukes of Edom were; duke Timnah, duke Aliah, duke Jetheth,

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, that he who is taken with the accursed thing shall be burned with fire, he and all that he hath, because he hath transgressed the covenant of Jehovah, and because he hath wrought wickedness in Israel.

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


simplify: If after the manner of men I fought with beasts at Ephesus, what doth it profit me? If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink, for to-morrow we die.

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.


rate difficulty: And the old man saith, `Peace to thee; only, all thy lack <FI>is<Fi> on me, only in the broad place lodge not.'

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


simplify: Then the priest shall command that they wash the thing wherein the plague is, and he shall shut it up seven days more:

Then the priest will give orders for the thing on which the mark is, to be washed, and to be shut up for seven days more:


simplify: And they that did eat were about five thousand men, besides women and children.

And those who had food were about five thousand men, in addition to women and children.


rate difficulty: This very day he is stopping at Nob; he is shaking his hand against the mountain of the daughter of Zion, the hill of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt cut the ram into its pieces, and wash its inwards, and its legs, and put them with its pieces, and with its head.

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


rate difficulty: And no one in heaven, or on the earth, or under the earth, was able to get the book open, or to see what was in it.

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


rate difficulty: People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.

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


rate difficulty: The king of Aphek, one; the king of Lasharon, one;


simplify: And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.

And the ferret and the land crocodile and the lizard and the sand-lizard and the chameleon.


simplify: And they answered, that they could not tell whence it was.

So they answered that they did not know its origin.


rate difficulty: There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;

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


simplify: And she went down unto the threshing-floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.

So she went down to the grain-floor and did all her mother-in-law had said to her.


simplify: And she coming in that instant gave thanks likewise unto the Lord, and spake of him to all them that looked for redemption in Jerusalem.

And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: `And ye have divided this land to you, according to the tribes of Israel;

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


simplify: This is it that belongeth unto the Levites: from twenty and five years old and upward they shall go in to wait upon the service of the tabernacle of the congregation:

This is the rule for the Levites: those of twenty-five years old and over are to go in and do the work of the Tent of meeting;


simplify: And he spake unto them this simile, saying,


simplify: But know ye for certain, that if ye put me to death, ye shall surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon the inhabitants thereof: for of a truth the Lord hath sent me unto you to speak all these words in your ears.

Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.


rate difficulty: I have indeed found great joy and encouragement in your love, knowing, as I do, how the hearts of Christ’s People have been cheered, friend, by you.

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


rate difficulty: And he sent Eliakim, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, to Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, It is one of the twelve, he that dippeth with me in the dish.

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


rate difficulty: Let me pass through thy land: we will not turn aside into field, or into vineyard; we will not drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s highway, until we have passed thy border.


simplify: Sufficient to such a man is this punishment, which was inflicted of many.

Let it be enough for such a man to have undergone the punishment which the church put on him;


rate difficulty: And they understood not the thing that he said to them.

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


simplify: A man that flattereth his neighbor Spreadeth a net for his steps.

A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.


simplify: Whoso findeth a wife findeth a good thing, And obtaineth favor of Jehovah.

Whoever gets a wife gets a good thing, and has the approval of the Lord.


rate difficulty: What profit has the worker in the work which he does?


simplify: that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

So that you may give the rest of your lives in the flesh, not to the desires of men, but to the purpose of God.


rate difficulty: And the waters prevailed exceedingly on the earth; and all the high mountains that are under all the heavens were covered.


rate difficulty: That thou mayest remember, and be confounded, and never open thy mouth any more because of thy shame, when I am pacified toward thee for all that thou hast done, saith the Lord God.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land:

For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:


rate difficulty: And you see, for it has come to your ears, that not only at Ephesus, but almost all through Asia, this Paul has been teaching numbers of people and turning them away, saying that those are not gods who are made by men's hands:

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


rate difficulty: The word of the Lord that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.


rate difficulty: And all that dwell on the earth shall worship him, every one whose name hath not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb that hath been slain.

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


simplify: The Lord judge between me and thee, and the Lord avenge me of thee: but mine hand shall not be upon thee.

May the Lord be judge between me and you, and may the Lord give me my rights against you, but my hand will never be lifted up against you.


simplify: And the whole multitude of them arose, and led him unto Pilate.

And they all went and took him before Pilate.


rate difficulty: and that they all ate the same supernatural food,

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


rate difficulty: Why do you make use of this saying about the land of Israel, The fathers have been tasting bitter grapes and the children's teeth are on edge?

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


simplify: There the upright might reason with him; So should I be delivered for ever from my judge.

There an upright man might put his cause before him; and I would be free for ever from my judge.


rate difficulty: who didst set signs and wonders in the land of Egypt, even unto this day, both in Israel and among other men; and madest thee a name, as at this day;

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


rate difficulty: And Saul saith, `Thus doth God do, and thus doth He add, for thou dost certainly die, Jonathan.'

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


simplify: And all Israel that were round about them fled at the cry of them; for they said, Lest the earth swallow us up.

And all Israel round about them went in flight at their cry, For fear, said they, that we go down into the heart of the earth.


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

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


rate difficulty: A rod and reproof give wisdom, And a youth let away is shaming his mother.

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


simplify: And the patriarchs, moved with jealousy against Joseph, sold him into Egypt: and God was with him,

And the brothers, moved with envy against Joseph, gave him to the Egyptians for money: but God was with him,


rate difficulty: For I, saith the Lord, will be unto her a wall of fire round about, and will be the glory in the midst of her.

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


rate difficulty: I will send my fear before thee, and confound every people to which thou comest, and will make all thine enemies turn their back to thee.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For, behold, in those days, and in that time, when I shall bring back the captivity of Judah and Jerusalem,

For in those days and in that time, when I let the fate of Judah and Jerusalem be changed,


rate difficulty: For thou shalt be in league with the stones of the field: and the beasts of the field shall be at peace with thee.

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


simplify: But he began to curse and to swear, saying, I know not this man of whom ye speak.

But, with curses and oaths, he said, I have no knowledge of the man about whom you are talking.


simplify: And Shaul died, and Baal-hanan the son of Achbor reigned in his stead.

And at the death of Shaul, Baal-hanan, the son of Achbor, became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And Joseph cometh, and declareth to Pharaoh, and saith, `My father, and my brethren, and their flock, and their herd, and all they have, have come from the land of Canaan, and lo, they <FI>are<Fi> in the land of Goshen.'

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


simplify: and a woman, having an issue of blood for twelve years, who, having spent on physicians all her living, was not able to be healed by any,

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


simplify: And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast.

So they took some dust from the fire, and placing themselves before Pharaoh, Moses sent it out in a shower up to heaven; and it became a skin-disease bursting out on man and on beast.


rate difficulty: In the third year of his rule he gave a feast to all his captains and his servants; and the captains of the army of Persia and Media, the great men and the rulers of the divisions of his kingdom, were present before him;

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as the camels had done drinking, that the man took a golden earring of half a shekel weight, and two bracelets for her hands of ten shekels weight of gold;

And when the camels had had enough, the man took a gold nose-ring, half a shekel in weight, and two ornaments for her arms of ten shekels weight of gold;


rate difficulty: Moreover he provided him cities, and possessions of flocks and herds in abundance: for God had given him substance very much.

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


simplify: so also did the Lord direct to those proclaiming the good news: of the good news to live.

So, too, the Master has appointed that those who tell the good news should get their living from the good news.


rate difficulty: And if thou warn the righteous [man], that the righteous sin not, and he doth not sin, he shall certainly live, for he hath taken warning; and thou hast delivered thy soul.

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


rate difficulty: And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.


rate difficulty: And I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem: and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

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


rate difficulty: But king Solomon shall be blessed, and the throne of David shall be established before Jehovah for ever.


simplify: Doth he thank the servant because he did the things that were commanded?

Does he give praise to the servant because he did what was ordered?


rate difficulty: These are the sons of Dan by their families: of Shuham, the family of the Shuhamites. These are the families of Dan by their families.

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


simplify: for the great day of their wrath is come; and who is able to stand?

For the great day of their wrath is come, and who may keep his place?


rate difficulty: Then did he see it, and declare it; he prepared it, yea, and searched it out.

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


rate difficulty: for very greatly I honour thee, and all that thou sayest unto me I do; and come, I pray thee, pierce for me this people.'

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


simplify: And they said unto him, We can. And Jesus said unto them, Ye shall indeed drink of the cup that I drink of; and with the baptism that I am baptized withal shall ye be baptized:

And they said to him, We are able. And Jesus said to them, You will take of the cup from which I take; and the baptism which I am about to undergo you will undergo:


simplify: For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

For the name of God is shamed among the Gentiles because of you, as it is said in the holy Writings.


rate difficulty: And he brought the letter to the king of Israel, saying, And now when this letter is come unto thee, behold, I have sent Naaman my servant to thee, that thou mayest recover him of his leprosy.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I thank my God upon every remembrance of you,


simplify: Strangers shall fade away, and they shall be afraid out of their close places.

They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.


simplify: And when it was evening, his disciples came to him, saying, This is a desert place, and the time is now past; send the multitude away, that they may go into the villages, and buy themselves victuals.

And when evening had come, the disciples came to him, saying, This place is waste land, and the time is now past; send the people away so that they may go into the towns and get themselves food.


rate difficulty: `Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, Give for you cities of refuge, as I have spoken unto you by the hand of Moses,

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.


rate difficulty: — And moreover in Jerusalem did Jehoshaphat set some of the Levites and priests, and of the chief fathers of Israel, for the judgment of Jehovah and for causes. — And they returned to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the people removed from their tents, to pass over Jordan, and the priests bearing the ark of the covenant before the people;

So when the people went out from their tents to go over Jordan, the priests who took up the ark of the agreement were in front of the people;


simplify: And I saw an angel standing in the sun; and he cried with a loud voice, saying to all the birds that fly in mid heaven, Come and be gathered together unto the great supper of God;

And I saw an angel taking his place in the sun; and he was crying with a loud voice, saying to all the birds in flight in the heavens, Come together to the great feast of God;


rate difficulty: Even if my cause was good, I would not be able to give an answer; I would make request for grace from him who was against me.

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


simplify: But the miry places thereof, and the marshes thereof, shall not be healed; they shall be given up to salt.

The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.


rate difficulty: How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?

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


simplify: from the time the master of the house may have risen up, and may have shut the door, and ye may begin without to stand, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, lord, open to us, and he answering shall say to you, I have not known you whence ye are,

when once the master of the house has got up and shut the door, while you begin to say, as you stand outside and knock, ‘Sir, open the door for us.’ His answer will be — ‘I do not know where you come from.’


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Hiram heard the words of Solomon, that he rejoiced greatly, and said, Blessed be Jehovah this day, who has given to David a wise son over this great people.

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


rate difficulty: So he took as his wife Gomer, the daughter of Diblaim, and she gave birth to a son.

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


simplify: How much more, when wicked men have slain a righteous person in his own house upon his bed? shall I not therefore now require his blood of your hand, and take you away from the earth?

How much more, when evil men have put an upright person to death, in his house, sleeping on his bed, will I take payment from you for his blood, and have you cut off from the earth?


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


simplify: Go thy way, eat thy bread with joy, and drink thy wine with a merry heart; for God now accepteth thy works.

Come, take your bread with joy, and your wine with a glad heart. God has taken pleasure in your works.


simplify: my little children, of whom again I travail in birth, till Christ may be formed in you,

You for whom I am again enduring a mother’s pains, until a likeness to Christ will have been formed in you.


simplify: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to his abundant mercy hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who through his great mercy has given us a new birth and a living hope by the coming again of Jesus Christ from the dead,


simplify: he cropped off the topmost of the young twigs thereof, and carried it unto a land of traffic; he set it in a city of merchants.

Biting off the highest of its young branches, he took it to the land of Canaan, and put it in a town of traders.


simplify: Praising God, and having favour with all the people. And the Lord added to the church daily such as should be saved.

Giving praise to God, and having the approval of all the people; and every day the number of those who had salvation was increased by the Lord.


simplify: And Moza begat Binea; and Rephaiah his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.

And Moza was the father of Binea; and Rephaiah was his son, Eleasah his son, Azel his son.


simplify: And it came to pass, as he was alone praying, his disciples were with him: and he asked them, saying, Whom say the people that I am?

And it came about that when he was in prayer, by himself, and the disciples were with him, he put a question to them, saying, Who do the people say I am?


simplify: Since ye seek a proof of Christ speaking in me, which to you-ward is not weak, but is mighty in you.

And that will be the proof, which you are looking for, that the Christ speaks through me. There is no weakness in his dealings with you. No, he shows his power among you.


rate difficulty: Wrath is not in me: would that the briers and thorns were against me in battle! I would march upon them, I would burn them together.


rate difficulty: and they shall bring the glory and the honor of the nations into it:


simplify: and Jehovah’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.


rate difficulty: and Zadok the priest, and his brethren the priests, before the tabernacle of Jehovah, in a high place that <FI>is<Fi> in Gibeon,

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


simplify: Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obed–edom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly;


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.


simplify: Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith Jehovah.

Let your voice be loud in song, O woman without children; make melody and sounds of joy, you who did not give birth: for the children of her who had no husband are more than those of the married wife, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt sacrifice peace-offerings, and shalt eat there, and rejoice before Jehovah thyGod.

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


rate difficulty: of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites; of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

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


simplify: Now this is the commandment, the statutes, and the ordinances, which Jehovah your God commanded to teach you, that ye might do them in the land whither ye go over to possess it;

Now these are the orders and the laws and the decisions which the Lord your God gave me for your teaching, so that you might do them in the land of your heritage to which you are going:


rate difficulty: Leaving that place, Jesus and his disciples went on their way through Galilee; but he did not wish anyone to know it,

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


simplify: And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

And the angel said to her, Go back, and put yourself under her authority.


rate difficulty: Thus also it is written, The first man Adam became a living soul; the last Adam a quickening spirit.

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


simplify: And from thence they went to Beer: that is the well whereof the Lord spake unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.

From there they went on to Beer, the water-spring of which the Lord said to Moses, Make the people come together and I will give them water.


simplify: I also will not henceforth drive out any from before them of the nations which Joshua left when he died:

From now on I will not go on driving out from before them any of the nations which at the death of Joshua were still living in this land;


rate difficulty: Then Moses put all this law in writing, and gave it to the priests, the sons of Levi, who take up the ark of the Lord's agreement, and to all the responsible men of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: If that ordering of the grace of God has come to your knowledge, which was given to me for you,

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


simplify: far above all principality, and authority, and might, and lordship, and every name named, not only in this age, but also in the coming one;

and above every name that can be named, whether in the present age, or in the age to come.


rate difficulty: And when Joseph saw that his father laid his right hand upon the head of Ephraim, it displeased him: and he held up his father’s hand, to remove it from Ephraim’s head unto Manasseh’s head.

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


simplify: Blessed is he that readeth, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things that are written therein: for the time is at hand.

A blessing be on the reader, and on those who give ear to the prophet's words, and keep the things which he has put in the book: for the time is near.


rate difficulty: Turn away thine eyes from me, for they have overcome me: thy hair is as a flock of goats that appear from Gilead.

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


simplify: And the priest shall take an handful of the offering, even the memorial thereof, and burn it upon the altar, and afterward shall cause the woman to drink the water.

And he will take some of it in his hand, burning it on the altar as a sign, and then he will give the woman the bitter water.


simplify: And she went forth out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return unto the land of Judah.

And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.


simplify: But when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which is not lawful to do upon the sabbath day.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, See, your disciples do that which it is not right to do on the Sabbath.


simplify: And when she came to her mother-in-law, she said, Who art thou, my daughter? And she told her all that the man had done to her.

And when she came back her mother-in-law said to her, How did it go with you, my daughter? And she gave her an account of all the man had done to her.


rate difficulty: And, behold, a woman, which was diseased with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment:

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


rate difficulty: And, behold, there came an old man from his work out of the field at even: now the man was of the hill-country of Ephraim, and he sojourned in Gibeah; but the men of the place were Benjamites.

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


rate difficulty: The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.

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


simplify: And when Rehoboam was come to Jerusalem, he assembled all the house of Judah, and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and fourscore thousand chosen men, that were warriors, to fight against the house of Israel, to bring the kingdom again to Rehoboam the son of Solomon.

When Rehoboam came to Jerusalem, he got together all the men of Judah and the tribe of Benjamin, a hundred and eighty thousand of his best fighting-men, to make war against Israel and get the kingdom back for Rehoboam, the son of Solomon.


simplify: And five of you shall chase an hundred, and an hundred of you shall put ten thousand to flight: and your enemies shall fall before you by the sword.

Then five of you will put to flight a hundred, and a hundred of you will put to flight ten thousand, and all who are against you will be put to death by your swords.


rate difficulty: and shalt take the anointing oil, and pour [it] on his head, and anoint him.