rate difficulty: are we right in paying tribute to the Emperor or not?”

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


simplify: When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many peoples; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.


rate difficulty: When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.

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


rate difficulty: Them also king David dedicated to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold that he had brought from all the nations: from the Edomites, and from the Moabites, and from the children of Ammon, and from the Philistines, and from the Amalekites.

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


simplify: And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places; yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

But in all your towns I have kept food from your teeth, and in all your places there has been need of bread: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Judah according to their families.

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


simplify: But thou, O Jehovah, knowest me; thou seest me, and triest my heart toward thee: pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

But you, O Lord, have knowledge of me; you see me, searching and testing how my heart is with you: let them be pulled out like sheep to be put to death, make them ready for the day of death.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in Apollos' being in Corinth, Paul having gone through the upper parts, came to Ephesus, and having found certain disciples,


simplify: For a good tree bringeth not forth corrupt fruit; neither doth a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

For no good tree gives bad fruit, and no bad tree gives good fruit.


rate difficulty: 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.


rate difficulty: Now those things which were put down in writing before our time were for our learning, so that through quiet waiting and through the comfort of the holy Writings we might have hope.

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


simplify: And I said unto the nobles, and to the rulers, and to the rest of the people, The work is great and large, and we are separated upon the wall, one far from another.

And I said to the great ones and the chiefs and the rest of the people, The work is great and widely spaced and we are far away from one another on the wall:


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

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


rate difficulty: and make their lives bitter in hard service, in clay, and in brick, and in every <FI>kind<Fi> of service in the field; all their service in which they have served <FI>is<Fi> with rigour.

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


simplify: And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together, gold, and silver, and apparel, in great abundance.

And even Judah will be fighting against Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about will be massed together, a great store of gold and silver and clothing.


rate difficulty: For, behold, the Lord commandeth, and he will smite the great house with breaches, and the little house with clefts.

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


simplify: The height of the one cherub was ten cubits, and so was it of the other cherub.


simplify: But Jesus answering said to him, `Suffer now, for thus it is becoming to us to fulfil all righteousness,' then he doth suffer him.

“This is the way it should be for now,” Jesus answered, “because we should do everything that God requires.” So John agreed.


rate difficulty: And his daughter was Sheerah, who built Beth-horon the nether and the upper, and Uzzen-sheerah.


simplify: And all the multitude sought to touch him; for power came forth from him, and healed them all.

And all the people were desiring to be touched by him, for power came from him and made them all well.


rate difficulty: Who, with all his heart, is turned to God the Lord, the God of his fathers, even if he has not been made clean after the rules of the holy place.

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


rate difficulty: `Go, and thou hast called in the ears of Jerusalem, saying, Thus said Jehovah: I have remembered for thee The kindness of thy youth, the love of thine espousals, Thy going after Me in a wilderness, in a land not sown.

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


rate difficulty: (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

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


rate difficulty: But thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt, and the Lord thy God redeemed thee thence: therefore I command thee to do this thing.

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


simplify: For I say unto you, Among those that are born of women there is not a greater prophet than John the Baptist: but he that is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.

I say to you, Among all the sons of women, not one is greater than John: but he who is least in the kingdom of God is greater than he.


simplify: Here is the mind that hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth:

Here is the mind which has wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman is seated:


rate difficulty: According to their uncleanness and according to their transgressions did I unto them; and I hid my face from them.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus said to him, What is your name? And he said, Legion; for a number of spirits had gone into him.

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


simplify: And I say unto you my friends, Be not afraid of them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

And I say to you, my friends, Have no fear of those who may put the body to death, and are able to do no more than that.


simplify: And their brethren, heads of the house of their fathers, a thousand and seven hundred and threescore; very able men for the work of the service of the house of God.

And their brothers, heads of their families, a thousand and seven hundred and sixty: able men, doing the work of the house of God.


rate difficulty: And he drove them from the judgment-seat.

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


rate difficulty: So Asa went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth in the town of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son became king in his place.


simplify: and devout men carried away Stephen, and made great lamentation over him;

Some religious men buried Stephen, with loud lamentations for him.


rate difficulty: And ye shall offer with the bread seven lambs without blemish of the first year, and one young bullock, and two rams: they shall be for a burnt offering unto the Lord, with their meat offering, and their drink offerings, even an offering made by fire, of sweet savour unto the Lord.

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


simplify: for he was teaching them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

For he taught them like one who had authority, and not like their teachers of the law.


simplify: And Saul saw and knew that Jehovah was with David; and Michal, Saul’s daughter, loved him.

And it was clear to Saul that the Lord was with David; and he was loved by all Israel.


simplify: And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, a portion for Reuben.

And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part.


simplify: And I will rise up against them, saith Jehovah of hosts, and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son, saith Jehovah.

For I will come up against them, says the Lord of armies, cutting off from Babylon name and offspring, son and son's son, says the Lord.


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

See, they have made earthworks against the town to take it; and the town is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans who are fighting against it, because of the sword and need of food and disease: and what you have said has taken place, and truly you see it.


rate difficulty: `Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,

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


simplify: For the administration of this service not only supplieth the want of the saints, but is abundant also by many thanksgivings unto God;

For this work of giving not only takes care of the needs of the saints, but is the cause of much praise to God;


rate difficulty: being begotten again, not out of seed corruptible, but incorruptible, through a word of God--living and remaining--to the age;

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


simplify: For wisdom is a defence, and money is a defence: but the excellency of knowledge is, that wisdom giveth life to them that have it.

Wisdom keeps a man from danger even as money does; but the value of knowledge is that wisdom gives life to its owner.


simplify: And there came unto him Pharisees, and asked him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? trying him.

And Pharisees came to him, testing him with the question, Is it right for a man to put away his wife?


rate difficulty: And Elisha sent a messenger unto him, saying, Go and wash in the Jordan seven times, and thy flesh shall come again to thee, and thou shalt be clean.

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


rate difficulty: And Achish saith unto his servants, `Lo, ye see a man acting as a madman; why do ye bring him in unto me?

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


simplify: and shall not God execute the justice to His choice ones, who are crying unto Him day and night--bearing long in regard to them?

And God — will not he see that his own people, who cry to him night and day, have justice done them — though he holds his hand?


simplify: And when Zebah and Zalmunna fled, he pursued after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and discomfited all the host.

And Zebah and Zalmunna went in flight; and he went after them, and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and put all the army to the curse.


simplify: And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh’s.

Then Joseph made a law which is in force to this day, that Pharaoh was to have the fifth part; only the land of the priests did not become his.


rate difficulty: And the men took of their victuals, and asked not counsel at the mouth of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And no pity on thee hath Mine eye, nor do I spare, For thy ways against thee I do set, And thine abominations are in thy midst, And ye have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.


simplify: But shun profane and vain babblings: for they will increase unto more ungodliness.

Avoid profane prattle. Those who indulge in it only get deeper into irreligious ways,


simplify: They shall be turned back, they shall be utterly put to shame, that trust in graven images, that say unto molten images, Ye are our gods.

They will be turned back and be greatly shamed who put their hope in pictured images, who say to metal images, You are our gods.


rate difficulty: And Saul answered and said, Am not I a Benjaminite, of the smallest of the tribes of Israel, and my family the least of all the families of the tribe of Benjamin? and why dost thou speak such words to me?

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


simplify: Moreover the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, which was over the thanksgiving, he and his brethren.

And the Levites: Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who was over the music-makers, he and his brothers.


rate difficulty: And all the people went away, every man to his house; and David went back to give a blessing to his family.

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


simplify: And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather every grape of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and stranger: I am the Lord your God.

And do not take all the grapes from your vine-garden, or the fruit dropped on the earth; let the poor man, and the man from another country, have these: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

and in front of the throne is what seemed to be a sea of glass, ‘resembling crystal, while within the space before the throne and around the throne are four Creatures full of eyes’ in front and behind.


simplify: they, indeed, then, departed from the presence of the sanhedrim, rejoicing that for his name they were counted worthy to suffer dishonour,

But the apostles left the Council, rejoicing that they had been thought worthy to suffer disgrace for that name;


rate difficulty: And I did turn to see the voice that did speak with me, and having turned, I saw seven golden lamp-stands,

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the seventh year, in the fifth [month], the tenth of the month, [that] certain of the elders of Israel came to inquire of Jehovah, and they sat before me.

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


rate difficulty: I will take payment from Edom because of my people Israel; and I will take Edom in hand in my wrath and in my passion: and they will have experience of my reward, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: But Jehovah said to David my father, Whereas it was in thy heart to build a house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thy heart;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: `And in Taberah, and in Massah, and in Kibroth-Hattaavah, ye have been making Jehovah wroth:

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


rate difficulty: And Joram went to rest with his fathers and was put into the earth with his fathers in the town of David: and Ahaziah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And king David said, Call me Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada. And they came before the king.


simplify: And he made the robe of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;

The robe which went with the ephod was made all of blue;


rate difficulty: The copy of the writing for a commandment to be given in every province was published unto all people, and that the Jews should be ready against that day to avenge themselves on their enemies.

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


simplify: Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem:

Manasseh was twelve years old when he became king, and he was ruling for fifty-five years in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Then Israel said to Joseph, Now my death is near; but God will be with you, guiding you back to the land of your fathers.


rate difficulty: rooted in him, building up your characters through union with him, growing stronger through your faith, as you were taught, overflowing with faith and thanksgiving.


simplify: Then said Jeremiah unto Zedekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If thou wilt go forth unto the king of Babylon’s princes, then thy soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and thou shalt live, and thy house.

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, These are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel: If you go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then you will have life, and the town will not be burned with fire, and you and your family will be kept from death:


simplify: And I will encamp against thee round about, and will lay siege against thee with posted troops, and I will raise siege works against thee.

And I will make war on you like David, and you will be shut in by earthworks, and I will make towers round you.


simplify: At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge.

At my first trial no one stood by me. They all deserted me. May it never be counted against them!


simplify: The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life; And he that is wise winneth souls.

The fruit of righteousness is a tree of life, but violent behaviour takes away souls.


simplify: that ye may be in strength to comprehend, with all the saints, what <FI>is<Fi> the breadth, and length, and depth, and height,

have the power to comprehend in all its width and length and height and depth,


simplify: Become, then, followers of God, as children beloved,

Therefore imitate God, as his dear children,


simplify: And of cassia five hundred shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary, and of oil olive an hin:

And of cassia, five hundred shekels' weight measured by the scale of the holy place, and of olive oil a hin:


simplify: And there were windows in three rows, and light was against light in three ranks.

There were three lines of window-frames, window facing window in every line.


simplify: then the proconsul having seen what hath come to pass, did believe, being astonished at the teaching of the Lord.

When the Governor saw what had happened, he became a believer in Christ, being greatly impressed by the teaching about the Lord.


simplify: Also unto Shemaiah his son were sons born, that ruled throughout the house of their father: for they were mighty men of valour.

And Shemaiah his son had sons, rulers over the family of their father, for they were able men.


rate difficulty: Therefore, O Oholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy soul is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side:

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


simplify: Stand, therefore, having your loins girt about in truth, and having put on the breastplate of the righteousness,

Stand your ground, then, ‘with truth for your belt,’ and ‘with righteousness for your breast-plate,’


simplify: According to the word that I covenanted with you when ye came out of Egypt, so my spirit remaineth among you: fear ye not.

The agreement which I made with you when you came out of Egypt, and my spirit, are with you still; have no fear.


simplify: Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?


rate difficulty: I have heard, and my belly trembleth, At the noise have my lips quivered, Rottenness doth come into my bones, And in my place I do tremble, That I rest for a day of distress, At the coming up of the people, he overcometh it.

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


simplify: that ye must turn away this day from following Jehovah? and it will be, seeing ye rebel to-day against Jehovah, that to-morrow he will be wroth with the whole congregation of Israel.

That now you are turned back from the Lord? and, because you are false to him today, tomorrow his wrath will be let loose on all the people of Israel.


simplify: But God forbid that I should glory, save in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom the world is crucified unto me, and I unto the world.

But far be it from me to have glory in anything, but only in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, through which this world has come to an end on the cross for me, and I for it.


simplify: The purchase of the field and of the cave that is therein was from the children of Heth.

In the rock in the field which was got for a price from the people of Heth.


rate difficulty: And he answering said to him, Teacher, all these things have I kept from my youth.

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


rate difficulty: and ye have brought near a fire-offering, a burnt-offering to Jehovah: two bullocks, sons of the herd, and one ram, and seven lambs, sons of a year, perfect ones they are for you;

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


simplify: And if he espouse her unto his son, he shall deal with her after the manner of daughters.

And if he gives her to his son, he is to do everything for her as if she was his daughter.


rate difficulty: No one sets light to a lamp, and then puts it in the cellar or under a basket, but he puts it on the lamp-stand, so that anyone who comes in may see the light.

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


simplify: but Israel, following after a law of righteousness, did not arrive at that law.

But Israel, going after a law of righteousness, did not get it.


rate difficulty: and the border passed on from thence toward Luz, to the south side of Luz, which is Bethel: and the border went down to Ataroth-Addar, near the hill that is on the south of the lower Beth-horon.

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


simplify: and the border went up by the valley of the son of Hinnom unto the side of the Jebusite southward (the same is Jerusalem); and the border went up to the top of the mountain that lieth before the valley of Hinnom westward, which is at the uttermost part of the vale of Rephaim northward;

Then the line goes up by the valley of the son of Hinnom to the south side of the Jebusite (which is Jerusalem): then up to the top of the mountain in front of the valley of Hinnom to the west, which is at the farthest point of the valley of Rephaim on the north:


simplify: And Moses laid up the rods before the Lord in the tabernacle of witness.

And Moses put the rods before the Lord in the Tent of witness.


rate difficulty: So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.

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


simplify: 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.

And Saul and his men went on one side of the mountain, and David and his men went on the other: and David's purpose was to get away as quickly as possible, for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men were making a circle round David and his men in order to take them.


simplify: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, unto the camp to Gilgal.

Then Joshua and all Israel with him went back to their tents at Gilgal.


rate difficulty: And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

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


simplify: And there was war between Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

And there was war between Asa and Baasha, king of Israel, all their days.


simplify: And it was the day of the Preparation, and the sabbath drew on.

Now it was the day of making ready and the Sabbath was coming on.


simplify: Dost thou know how God layeth his charge upon them, And causeth the lightning of his cloud to shine?

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


simplify: But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

But the inside parts and the legs are to be washed with water; and the priest will make an offering of all of it, burning it on the altar: it is a burned offering, an offering made by fire, for a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: And God saw the children of Israel, and God took knowledge of them.

And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the knowledge of himself.


rate difficulty: and all the earth hath come to Egypt, to buy, unto Joseph, for the famine was severe in all the earth.

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


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

And the book of the prophet Isaiah was given to him and, opening the book, he came on the place where it is said,


simplify: He asked water, and she gave him milk; she brought forth butter in a lordly dish.

His request was for water, she gave him milk; she put butter before him on a fair plate.


simplify: And Judah and his brethren came to Joseph’s house; and he was yet there: and they fell before him on the ground.

So Judah and his brothers came to Joseph's house; and he was still there: and they went down on their faces before him.


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, yet not as the kings of Israel that were before him.


rate difficulty: And then will I say to them, I never had knowledge of you: go from me, you workers of evil.

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


simplify: In thoughts from the visions of the night, when deep sleep falleth on men,

In troubled thoughts from visions of the night, when deep sleep comes on men,


simplify: I would they were even cut off which trouble you.

I could even wish that the people who are unsettling you would go further still and mutilate themselves.


rate difficulty: Yet the number of the children of Israel shall be as the sand of the sea, which cannot be measured nor numbered; and it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, there it shall be said unto them, Ye are the sons of the living God.

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


simplify: But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm.

But when all the people are to come together, the horn is to be sounded but not loudly.


simplify: Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water thee with my tears, O Heshbon, and Elealeh: for upon thy summer fruits and upon thy harvest the battle shout is fallen.

For this cause my sorrow for the vine of Sibmah will be like the weeping for Jazer: my eyes are dropping water on you, O Heshbon and Elealeh! For they are sounding the war-cry over your summer fruits and the getting in of your grain;


rate difficulty: And having looked round on them all, he said to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other;


rate difficulty: They--they lift up their voice, They sing of the excellency of Jehovah, They have cried aloud from the sea.

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


simplify: wherefore also it was reckoned to him to righteousness.

And therefore his faith ‘was regarded as righteousness.’


simplify: for if I may wish to boast, I shall not be a fool, for truth I will say; but I forebear, lest any one in regard to me may think anything above what he doth see me, or doth hear anything of me;

Yet if I choose to boast, I will not be a fool; for I will be speaking no more than the truth. But I refrain, in case anyone should credit me with more than he can see in me or hear from me, and because of the marvelous character of the revelations.


rate difficulty: for also in one Spirit we all to one body were baptized, whether Jews or Greeks, whether servants or freemen, and all into one Spirit were made to drink,

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


rate difficulty: yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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


rate difficulty: Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field, they go forth, and return not unto them.

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


rate difficulty: Asshur is there and all her company; her graves are round about her; all of them slain, fallen by the sword;

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


simplify: Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.

Until I come, apply yourself to public reading, preaching, and teaching.


simplify: Of the children of Joseph, namely, of the children of Ephraim, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Joseph were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


simplify: He had also seven sons and three daughters.

And he had seven sons and three daughters.


simplify: And one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, named Abiathar, escaped, and fled after David.

And Abiathar, one of the sons of Ahimelech, the son of Ahitub, got away and went in flight after David;


rate difficulty: Do not go down on your faces and give worship to their gods, or do as they do; but overcome them completely, and let their pillars be broken down.


simplify: And he that keepeth his commandments dwelleth in him, and he in him. And hereby we know that he abideth in us, by the Spirit which he hath given us.

And the person who lays his commands to heart maintains union with Christ, and Christ with them. And by this we know that Christ maintains union with us — by our possession of the Spirit which he gave us.


rate difficulty: It is not good to accept the person of the wicked, to wrong the righteous in judgment.

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


simplify: and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

And Salmon became the father of Boaz, and Boaz became the father of Obed;


simplify: Hast thou faith? have it to thyself before God. Happy is he that condemneth not himself in that thing which he alloweth.

The faith which you have, have it to yourself before God. Happy is the man who is not judged by that to which he gives approval.


simplify: The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

The cords of hell were round me: the nets of death came on me.


rate difficulty: and the anxieties of this age, and the deceitfulness of the riches, and the desires concerning the other things, entering in, choke the word, and it becometh unfruitful.

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


rate difficulty: And they came down to him; and Elisha prayed to Jehovah and said, Smite this nation, I pray thee, with blindness. And he smote them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.

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


simplify: No man hath seen God at any time. If we love one another, God dwelleth in us, and his love is perfected in us.

No man has ever seen God: if we have love for one another, God is in us and his love is made complete in us:


rate difficulty: And they tarried no little time with the disciples.


rate difficulty: All the people of the land shall be [held] to this heave-offering for the prince in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Still I will not take all the kingdom from him; but I will give one tribe to your son, because of my servant David, and because of Jerusalem, the town of my selection.


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah said, The word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: And with great power gave the apostles their witness of the resurrection of the Lord Jesus: and great grace was upon them all.

And with great power the Apostles gave witness of the coming back of the Lord Jesus from the dead; and grace was on them all.


rate difficulty: `This is the stone that was set at nought by you--the builders, that became head of a corner;


simplify: `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

But alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You turn the key of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you do not go in yourselves, and do not allow those who try to go in to do so.


simplify: And they were astonished at his teaching: for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

And they were full of wonder at his teaching, because he gave it as one having authority, and not like the scribes.


rate difficulty: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

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


rate difficulty: And now, my children, keep your hearts in him; so that at his revelation, we may have no fear or shame before him at his coming.


simplify: Of the children of Judah, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Judah were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;


simplify: and the beast that was, and is not, he also is eighth, and out of the seven he is, and to destruction he doth go away.

So must the Beast that was, but is not. He counts as an eighth king , although he is one of the seven, and is on his way to destruction.


rate difficulty: So I stood beside him, and slew him, because I was sure that he could not live after that he was fallen: and I took the crown that was upon his head, and the bracelet that was on his arm, and have brought them hither unto my lord.

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


simplify: And I gave them my statutes, and showed them mine ordinances, which if a man do, he shall live in them.

And I gave them my rules and made clear to them my orders, which, if a man keeps them, will be life to him.


simplify: Do not wonder, my brethren, if the world doth hate you;

Do not wonder, friends, if the world hates you.


simplify: And again he went out from the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis.

And again he went out from Tyre, and came through Sidon to the sea of Galilee, through the country of Decapolis.


rate difficulty: these are the testimonies, and the statutes, and the ordinances, which Moses spake unto the children of Israel, when they came forth out of Egypt,

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


simplify: And when the wife of Uriah heard that Uriah her husband was dead, she made lamentation for her husband.

And when the wife of Uriah had news that her husband was dead, she gave herself up to weeping for him.


rate difficulty: That it might be fulfilled which was spoken by Esaias the prophet, saying, Himself took our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses.

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


rate difficulty: and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,

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


simplify: hath not the potter authority over the clay, out of the same lump to make the one vessel to honour, and the one to dishonour?

Has not the potter absolute power over their clay, so that out of the same lump they make one thing for better, and another for common, use?


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jacob came in from the field when they heard it: and the men were grieved, and they were very wroth, because he had wrought folly in Israel in lying with Jacob’s daughter; which thing ought not to be done.


simplify: then the priest shall look on him; and, behold, if the scall be spread in the skin, the priest shall not seek for the yellow hair; he is unclean.

Then the priest is to see him: and if the mark is increased, the priest, without looking for the yellow hair, will say that he is unclean.


simplify: Why shouldest thou be as a man astonied, as a mighty man that cannot save? yet thou, O Lord, art in the midst of us, and we are called by thy name; leave us not.

Why are you like a man surprised, like a man of war who is not able to give help? but you, O Lord, are with us, and we are named by your name; do not go away from us.


simplify: And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.


simplify: and bring the fatted calf, and kill it, and let us eat, and make merry:

And get the fat young ox and put it to death, and let us have a feast, and be glad.


simplify: Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

Blessed are the mourners,  for they will be comforted.


simplify: And every spirit that confesseth not that Jesus Christ is come in the flesh is not of God: and this is that spirit of antichrist, whereof ye have heard that it should come; and even now already is it in the world.

And every spirit which does not say this is not from God: this is the spirit of Antichrist, of which you have had word; and it is in the world even now.


simplify: The sons of Abraham: Isaac, and Ishmael.


rate difficulty: Teach us what we shall say unto him! We cannot order [our words] by reason of darkness.

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


rate difficulty: and the crowds with one accord gave heed to the things spoken by Philip, when they heard [him] and saw the signs which he wrought.

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


rate difficulty: To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

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


simplify: Wherefore their way shall be unto them as slippery places in the darkness: they shall be driven on, and fall therein; for I will bring evil upon them, even the year of their visitation, saith Jehovah.

For this cause their steps will be slipping on their way: they will be forced on into the dark and have a fall there: for I will send evil on them in the year of their punishment, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: But the Lord is faithful, who shall establish you, and guard you from the evil one.

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


simplify: So shall no inheritance of the children of Israel remove from tribe to tribe; for the children of Israel shall cleave every one to the inheritance of the tribe of his fathers.

And so no property will be handed from tribe to tribe among the children of Israel; but every one of the children of Israel will keep the heritage of his father's tribe.


simplify: And the captains over the hundreds did according to all things that Jehoiada the priest commanded: and they took every man his men that were to come in on the sabbath, with them that should go out on the sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.

And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest.


simplify: Therefore their inhabitants were of small power, they were dismayed and confounded: they were as the grass of the field, and as the green herb, as the grass on the housetops, and as corn blasted before it be grown up.

This is why their townsmen had no power, they were broken and put to shame; they were like the grass of the field, or a green plant; like the grass on the house-tops, which a cold wind makes waste.


simplify: When thou vowest a vow unto God, defer not to pay it; for he hath no pleasure in fools: pay that which thou vowest.

When you take an oath before God, put it quickly into effect, because he has no pleasure in the foolish; keep the oath you have taken.


rate difficulty: And the king saith, `And where <FI>is<Fi> the son of thy lord?' and Ziba saith unto the king, `Lo, he is abiding in Jerusalem, for he said, To-day do the house of Israel give back to me the kingdom of my father.'

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


simplify: He that delicately bringeth up his servant from a child Shall have him become a son at the last.

If a servant is gently cared for from his early years, he will become a cause of sorrow in the end.


rate difficulty: to hearken to the words of my servants the prophets, whom I send unto you, even rising up early and sending them, but ye have not hearkened;

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


simplify: And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,

And of the priests: Jedaiah and Jehoiarib and Jachin


rate difficulty: Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite;

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


simplify: This is the portion of a wicked man with God, And the heritage of oppressors, which they receive from the Almighty:

This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: then shalt thou delight thyself in Jehovah; and I will make thee to ride upon the high places of the earth; and I will feed thee with the heritage of Jacob thy father: for the mouth of Jehovah hath spoken it.

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


rate difficulty: for now men do I persuade, or God? or do I seek to please men? for if yet men I did please--Christ's servant I should not be.

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


simplify: What then shall we say that Abraham, our forefather, hath found according to the flesh?

What, then, may we say that Abraham, our father after the flesh, has got?


simplify: Son of man, they that inhabit those wastes of the land of Israel speak, saying, Abraham was one, and he inherited the land: but we are many; the land is given us for inheritance.

Son of man, those who are living in these waste places in the land of Israel say, Abraham was but one, and he had land for his heritage: but we are a great number; the land is given to us for our heritage.


simplify: and did deliver him out of all his tribulations, and gave him favour and wisdom before Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he did set him--governor over Egypt and all his house.

and delivered him out of all his troubles, and enabled him to win favor and show wisdom before Pharaoh, king of Egypt, who appointed him Governor of Egypt and of his whole household.


simplify: For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are sons of God.

And all those who are guided by the Spirit of God are sons of God.


rate difficulty: Will you make sport with him, as with a bird? or put him in chains for your young women?


rate difficulty: Bezer, and Hod, and Shamma, and Shilshah, and Ithran, and Beera.

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


simplify: And if thy brother be waxed poor with thee, and sell himself unto thee; thou shalt not make him to serve as a bondservant.

And if your brother becomes poor and gives himself to you for money, do not make use of him like a servant who is your property;


simplify: Thou shalt also take one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

Then take one of the sheep, and let Aaron and his sons put their hands on its head.


rate difficulty: They bend, they are bowed down together; they could not deliver the burden, and themselves are gone into captivity.


simplify: And Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel:

And Kenan was seventy years old when he became the father of Mahalalel:


simplify: But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that that day should overtake you as a thief.

But you, my brothers, are not in the dark, for that day to overtake you like a thief:


rate difficulty: And that which they have need of, both young bullocks and rams and lambs, for the burnt-offerings to theGod of the heavens, wheat, salt, wine, and oil, according to the appointment of the priests that are at Jerusalem, let it be given them day by day without fail;

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


simplify: Matthew and Thomas, James of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes,

Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon known as the Zealot,


rate difficulty: See, a people is coming from the north; a great nation and a number of kings will be put in motion from the inmost parts of the earth.


simplify: and pray ye that your flight may not be in winter,

Pray, too, that this may not occur in winter.


rate difficulty: When Jacob had come into Egypt, and your fathers cried to Jehovah, then Jehovah sent Moses and Aaron, and they brought your fathers forth out of Egypt, and made them dwell in this place.

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


simplify: As when the melting fire burneth, the fire causeth the waters to boil, to make thy name known to thine adversaries, that the nations may tremble at thy presence!

As when fire puts the brushwood in flames, or as when water is boiling from the heat of the fire: to make your name feared by your haters, so that the nations may be shaking before you;


rate difficulty: `And I say unto you, Ye have come in unto the hill-country of the Amorite, which Jehovah our God is giving to us;

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


rate difficulty: but Peter added: “I have no gold or silver, but I give you what I have. In the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, get up and walk.”

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


simplify: who concerning the truth did swerve, saying the rising again to have already been, and do overthrow the faith of some;

They have gone completely astray as regards the truth; they say that a resurrection has already taken place, and so upset some people’s faith.


rate difficulty: And the Arvadite, and the Zemarite, and the Hamathite.

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


rate difficulty: And this city shall be to me for a name of joy, for a praise and for a glory, before all the nations of the earth, which shall hear all the good that I do unto them, and shall fear and tremble for all the good and for all the peace that I procure unto it.

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


simplify: And he brought also the brasen altar, which was before the Lord, from the forefront of the house, from between the altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of the altar.

And the brass altar, which was before the Lord, he took from the front of the house, from between his altar and the house of the Lord, and put it on the north side of his altar.


rate difficulty: And a third angel came after them, saying with a loud voice, If any man gives worship to the beast and his image, and has his mark on his brow or on his hand,

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


simplify: And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.

Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.


simplify: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have taken no bread.

And they were reasoning among themselves, saying, We took no bread.


rate difficulty: `And the residue <FI>is<Fi> for the prince, on this side and on that side of the heave-offering of the holy <FI>portion<Fi> , and of the possession of the city, on the front of the five and twenty thousand of the heave-offering unto the east border, and westward, on the front of the five and twenty thousand on the west border, over-against the portions of the prince; and the heave-offering of the holy <FI>portion<Fi> , and the sanctuary of the house, hath been in its midst.

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


rate difficulty: But some men joining themselves to him believed; among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman by name Damaris, and others with them.


rate difficulty: and we indeed righteously, for things worthy of what we did we receive back, but this one did nothing out of place;'

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


rate difficulty: And God said moreover unto Moses, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob, hath sent me unto you: this is my name for ever, and this is my memorial unto all generations.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: If ye will still abide in this land, then will I build you, and not overthrow [you], and I will plant you, and not pluck [you] up; for I repent me of the evil that I have done unto you.

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


rate difficulty: And I heard every created thing in the air, and on the earth, and under the earth, and on the sea, and all that is in them crying —  ‘To him who is seated on the throne and to the Lamb be ascribed all blessing, and honor, and praise, and dominion for ever and ever.’

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


simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that David his father had done.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father David had done.


simplify: And I commanded you at that time all the things which ye should do.

And at that time I gave you all the orders which you were to do.


rate difficulty: But Simon Peter, when he saw it, fell down at Jesus’ knees, saying, Depart from me; for I am a sinful man, O Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jacob saith, `Nay, I pray thee, if, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, then thou hast received my present from my hand, because that I have seen thy face, as the seeing of the face of God, and thou art pleased with me;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they have said: This land, that was desolated, Hath been as the garden of Eden, And the cities--the wasted, And the desolated, and the broken down, Fenced places have remained.

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


rate difficulty: And there was war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all [their] days.


simplify: From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned not back, And the sword of Saul returned not empty.

From the blood of the dead, from the fat of the strong, the bow of Jonathan was not turned back, the sword of Saul did not come back unused.


simplify: Moreover I will make a covenant of peace with them; it shall be an everlasting covenant with them; and I will place them, and multiply them, and will set my sanctuary in the midst of them for evermore.

And I will make an agreement of peace with them: it will be an eternal agreement with them: and I will have mercy on them and make their numbers great, and will put my holy place among them for ever.


rate difficulty: For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.

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


simplify: And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.

and he has seen, in a vision, a man named Ananias coming in and placing his hands on him, so that he may recover his sight.”


rate difficulty: How has the town of praise been wasted, the place of joy!


simplify: And when it came to pass that Peter entered, Cornelius met him, and fell down at his feet, and worshipped him.

And when Peter came in, Cornelius came to him and, falling down at his feet, gave him worship.


rate difficulty: So Eliphaz the Temanite and Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite went, and did according as Jehovah commanded them: and Jehovah accepted Job.

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


simplify: `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness--because they shall be filled.

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,  for they will be satisfied.


simplify: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

You are not to make an image or picture of anything in heaven or on the earth or in the waters under the earth:


simplify: We reckon therefore that a man is justified by faith apart from the works of the law.

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


rate difficulty: And Gehazi followed after Naaman. And when Naaman saw him running after him, he sprang down from the chariot to meet him, and said, Is all well?

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


simplify: Not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to his mercy he saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost;

Not by works of righteousness which we did ourselves, but in the measure of his mercy, he gave us salvation, through the washing of the new birth and the giving of new life in the Holy Spirit,


simplify: then Israel sent messengers unto the king of Edom, saying, Let me, I pray thee, pass through thy land; but the king of Edom hearkened not. And in like manner he sent unto the king of Moab; but he would not: and Israel abode in Kadesh.

Then Israel sent men to the king of Edom saying, Let me now go through your land; but the king of Edom did not give ear to them. And in the same way he sent to the king of Moab, but he would not; so Israel went on living in Kadesh.


simplify: Your mother shall be sore confounded; she that bare you shall be ashamed: behold, the hindermost of the nations shall be a wilderness, a dry land, and a desert.

Your mother will be put to shame; she who gave you birth will be looked down on: see, she will be the last of the nations, a waste place, a dry and unwatered land.


rate difficulty: Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;


rate difficulty: And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man unto his place.


rate difficulty: And Baasha king of Israel came up against Judah, and built Ramah, in order to let none go out or come in to Asa king of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Hebron: Eliel the chief, and his brothers, eighty;

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


rate difficulty: He laugheth at fear, and is not affrighted; neither turneth he back from before the sword.

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


rate difficulty: and a man of God hath come in unto him, saying, `O king, the host of Israel doth not go with thee; for Jehovah is not with Israel--all the sons of Ephraim;

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


rate difficulty: Where no counsel is, the people fall: but in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.


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

For this man, in our opinion, is a cause of trouble, a maker of attacks on the government among Jews through all the empire, and a chief mover in the society of the Nazarenes:


simplify: Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel: Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,


simplify: For I would that all men were even as I myself. But every man hath his proper gift of God, one after this manner, and another after that.

I should wish everyone to be just what I am myself. But everyone has his own gift from God — one in one way, and one in another.


rate difficulty: And Eliakim the son of Hilkijah, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph, the chronicler, came to Hezekiah with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rab-shakeh.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: So he brought him into his house, and gave the asses fodder; and they washed their feet, and did eat and drink.

So he took them into his house and gave the asses food; and after washing their feet they took food and drink.


simplify: Then saith Jesus unto him, Get thee hence, Satan: for it is written, Thou shalt worship the Lord thy God, and him only shalt thou serve.

Then said Jesus to him, Away, Satan: for it is in the Writings, Give worship to the Lord your God and be his servant only.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and vexed, and came to Samaria.

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


simplify: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

If there is no food in the land, or if there is disease, or if the fruits of the earth are damaged through heat or water, locust or worm; if their towns are shut in by their attackers; whatever trouble, whatever disease there may be:


simplify: The fifth to Malchijah, the sixth to Mijamin,


simplify: If this people go up to do sacrifice in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, then shall the heart of this people turn again unto their lord, even unto Rehoboam king of Judah, and they shall kill me, and go again to Rehoboam king of Judah.

If the people go up to make offerings in the house of the Lord at Jerusalem, their heart will be turned again to their lord, to Rehoboam, king of Judah; and they will put me to death and go back to Rehoboam, king of Judah.


simplify: Then David went over to the other side, and stood on the top of the mountain afar off; a great space being between them;

Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;


rate difficulty: And Joab said unto the king, Now the Lord thy God add unto the people, how many soever they be, an hundredfold, and that the eyes of my lord the king may see it: but why doth my lord the king delight in this thing?

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


simplify: They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

They are nothing, a work of error: in the time of their punishment, destruction will overtake them.


rate difficulty: And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

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


simplify: And having taken a child, he set him in the midst of them, and having taken him in his arms, said to them,

Then Jesus took a little child, and placed it in the middle of them. Folding it in his arms, he said to them:


rate difficulty: 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.

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


rate difficulty: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the cold; therefore shall he beg in harvest, and have nothing.

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


simplify: And the Lord said, I have surely seen the affliction of my people which are in Egypt, and have heard their cry by reason of their taskmasters; for I know their sorrows;

And God said, Truly, I have seen the grief of my people in Egypt, and their cry because of their cruel masters has come to my ears; for I have knowledge of their sorrows;


simplify: Beloved, thou doest faithfully whatsoever thou doest to the brethren, and to strangers;

Dear friend, whatever you do for other followers is done in a Christian spirit — even when they are strangers to you.


simplify: O my people, remember now what Balak king of Moab consulted, and what Balaam the son of Beor answered him from Shittim unto Gilgal; that ye may know the righteousness of the Lord.

O my people, keep in mind now what was designed by Balak, king of Moab, and the answer which Balaam, son of Beor, gave him; the events, from Shittim to Gilgal, so that you may be certain of the upright acts of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the king said to me — the queen also sitting by him, — For how long shall thy journey be, and when wilt thou return? And it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

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


rate difficulty: `Ask for thee a sign from Jehovah thy God, Make deep the request, or make <FI>it<Fi> high upwards.'

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


rate difficulty: rejoice in that day, and leap, for lo, your reward <FI>is<Fi> great in the heaven, for according to these things were their fathers doing to the prophets.

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


simplify: And David saith,  Let their table be made a snare, and a trap, And a stumblingblock, and a recompense unto them:

And David says, Let their table be made a net for taking them, and a stone in their way, and a punishment:


rate difficulty: Rebuke not an elder, but exhort him as a father; the younger men as brethren:

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


simplify: Also can any understand the spreadings of the clouds, or the noise of his tabernacle?

And who has knowledge of how the clouds are stretched out, or of the thunders of his tent?


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

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


rate difficulty: and laid their hands upon the apostles, and did put them in a public prison;

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


rate difficulty: Hath the rain a father? Or who hath begotten the drops of dew?

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


rate difficulty: [The] Lord does not delay his promise, as some account of delay, but is longsuffering towards you, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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


simplify: For she said within herself, If I may but touch his garment, I shall be whole.

“If I only touch his cloak,” she said to herself, “I will get well.”


rate difficulty: And Joseph dwelt in Egypt, he, and his father’s house: and Joseph lived an hundred and ten years.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Joshua and the children of Israel had made an end of slaying them with a very great slaughter, till they were consumed, and the remnant which remained of them had entered into the fortified cities,

Now when Joshua and the children of Israel had come to the end of their war of complete destruction, and had put to death all but a small band who had got safely into the walled towns,


simplify: The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and three.

The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-three.


simplify: Ye see how large a letter I have written unto you with mine own hand.

See in what large letters I am writing with my own hand.


simplify: And Joseph dreamed a dream, and he told it to his brethren: and they hated him yet the more.

Now Joseph had a dream, and he gave his brothers an account of it, which made their hate greater than ever.


rate difficulty: And again, Praise the Lord, all [ye] nations, and let all the peoples laud him.

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


simplify: when they have a matter, they come unto me; and I judge between a man and his neighbor, and I make them know the statutes of God, and his laws.

And if they have any question between themselves, they come to me, and I am judge between a man and his neighbour, and I give them the orders and laws of God.


rate difficulty: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?


simplify: And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death, because he hath spoken rebellion against Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed thee out of the house of bondage, to draw thee aside out of the way which Jehovah thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put away the evil from the midst of thee.

And that prophet or that dreamer of dreams is to be put to death; for his words were said with the purpose of turning you away from the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt and made you free from the prison-house; and of forcing you out of the way in which the Lord your God has given you orders to go. So you are to put away the evil from among you.


rate difficulty: And Absalom's servants came to the woman at the house and said, Where are Ahimaaz and Jonathan? And the woman said to them, They have gone from here to the stream. And after searching for them, and seeing nothing of them, they went back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Balaam answered and said unto the servants of Balak, If Balak would give me his house full of silver and gold, I cannot go beyond the word of the Lord my God, to do less or more.

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


rate difficulty: And so Israel was living among the Egyptians in the land of Goshen; and they got property there, and became very great in numbers and in wealth.


simplify: And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

while some of the chief religious officials of the province, who were friendly to him, sent repeated entreaties to him not to trust himself inside.


simplify: We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

We have become as those who were never ruled by you, on whom your name was not named.


rate difficulty: And they cause their father to drink wine on that night also, and the younger riseth and lieth with him, and he hath not known in her lying down, or in her rising up.

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


simplify: Then he brought me to the porch of the house, and measured each post of the porch, five cubits on this side, and five cubits on that side: and the breadth of the gate was three cubits on this side, and three cubits on that side.

Then he took me to the covered way before the house, and took the measure of its uprights, five cubits on one side and five cubits on the other: and the doorway was fourteen cubits wide; and the side-walls of the doorway were three cubits on one side and three cubits on the other.


rate difficulty: And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.


simplify: or a man that is broken-footed, or broken-handed,


rate difficulty: And I say, Perished hath my strength and my hope from Jehovah.


simplify: And this was done three times: and all were drawn up again into heaven.

And this was done three times, and they were all taken up again into heaven.


simplify: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

And the Lord your God is to be loved with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh seeth that there hath been a respite, and he hath hardened his heart, and hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken.

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


simplify: Then came Jeremiah from Topheth, whither Jehovah had sent him to prophesy; and he stood in the court of Jehovah’s house, and said to all the people:

Then Jeremiah came from Topheth, where the Lord had sent him to give the prophet's word; and he took his place in the open square of the Lord's house, and said to all the people,


simplify: But know this, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief was coming, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through.

But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.


simplify: For a nation is come up upon my land, strong, and without number, whose teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a great lion.

For a nation has come up over my land, strong and without number; his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he has the back teeth of a great lion.


simplify: He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.

He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.


rate difficulty: And those living by the sea will say in that day, See the fate of our hope to whom we went for help and salvation from the king of Assyria: what hope have we then of salvation?

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


simplify: And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.

And stretching out his hand to the fire which was between the winged ones, he took some of it and went out.


rate difficulty: Like the bow in the cloud on a day of rain, so was the light shining round him. And this is what the glory of the Lord was like. And when I saw it I went down on my face, and the voice of one talking came to my ears.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord Jehovah hath given me the tongue of them that are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him that is weary: he wakeneth morning by morning, he wakeneth mine ear to hear as they that are taught.

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


rate difficulty: And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my hire; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my hire thirty pieces of silver.

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


rate difficulty: Say to the children of Israel, When you come into the land where I am guiding you,


rate difficulty: But the Lord hath taken you, and brought you forth out of the iron furnace, even out of Egypt, to be unto him a people of inheritance, as ye are this day.

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


simplify: So David, and the elders of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went to bring up the ark of the covenant of the Lord out of the house of Obed–edom with joy.

So David, and the responsible men of Israel, and the captains over thousands, went with joy to get the ark of the agreement of the Lord out of the house of Obed-edom.


simplify: And Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

Then Peter said, Truly, I see clearly that God is no respecter of persons:


simplify: Remember them, O my God, because they have defiled the priesthood, and the covenant of the priesthood, and of the Levites.

Keep them in mind, O my God, because they have put shame on the priests' name and on the agreement of the priests and the Levites.


simplify: And Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and dealt wickedly above all that were before him.

And Omri did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all those before him,


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah the king saith, and the princes, to the Levites to give praise to Jehovah in the words of David, and of Asaph the seer, and they praise--unto joy, and they bow, and do obeisance.

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


rate difficulty: And let it be given to the overseers of the work of the Lord's house, to give to the workmen who are making good what was damaged in the house of the Lord;

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


simplify: Righteousness keepeth him that is upright in the way: but wickedness overthroweth the sinner.

Righteousness keeps safe him whose way is without error, but evil-doers are overturned by sin.


simplify: And they laid hands on him, and took him.

And they put their hands on him, and took him.


simplify: While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

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


simplify: And there they preached the gospel.

And went on preaching the good news there.


simplify: Thus did Noah; according to all that God commanded him, so did he.

And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.


simplify: And the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the children of the east lay along in the valley like locusts for multitude; and their camels were without number, as the sand which is upon the sea-shore for multitude.

Now the Midianites and the Amalekites and all the people of the east were covering the valley like locusts; and their camels were like the sand by the seaside, without number.


simplify: The whole number of the heads of fathers’ houses, even the mighty men of valor, was two thousand and six hundred.

The heads of families, the strong men of war, were two thousand, six hundred.


simplify: Then Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, arose and fought against Israel: and he sent and called Balaam the son of Beor to curse you;

Then Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, went up to war against Israel; and he sent for Balaam, the son of Beor, to put a curse on you:


rate difficulty: Come quickly, all you nations round about, and get yourselves together there: make your strong ones come down, O Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Dost thou bring out Mazzaroth in its season? And Aysh for her sons dost thou comfort?

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


rate difficulty: But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you;


simplify: then hear thou in heaven, and do, and judge thy servants, condemning the wicked, to bring his way upon his own head, and justifying the righteous, to give him according to his righteousness.

Then let your ear be open in heaven, and be the judge of your servants, giving your decision against the wrongdoer, so that punishment for his sins may come on his head; and, by your decision, keeping from evil him who has done no wrong.


simplify: Thus shalt thou say to the prophet, What hath Jehovah answered thee? and, What hath Jehovah spoken?

This is what you are to say to the prophet, What answer has the Lord given to you? and, What has the Lord said?


simplify: The money for the trespass-offerings, and the money for the sin-offerings, was not brought into the house of Jehovah: it was the priests’.

The money of the offerings for error and the sin-offerings was not taken into the house of the Lord; it was the priests'.


rate difficulty: And of all things the end hath come nigh; be sober-minded, then, and watch unto the prayers,

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


simplify: The prophet which prophesieth of peace, when the word of the prophet shall come to pass, then shall the prophet be known, that the Lord hath truly sent him.

The prophet whose words are of peace, when his words come true, will be seen to be a prophet whom the Lord has sent.


rate difficulty: The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.


rate difficulty: To go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the tops of the ragged rocks, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

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


simplify: for other foundation no one is able to lay except that which is laid, which is Jesus the Christ;

for no one can lay any other foundation than the one already laid — Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Thou art become guilty in thy blood that thou hast shed, and art defiled in thine idols which thou hast made; and thou hast caused thy days to draw near, and art come even unto thy years: therefore have I made thee a reproach unto the nations, and a mocking to all the countries.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 17 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Whoso keepeth the commandment shall know no evil thing; and a wise man’s heart discerneth time and judgment:

Whoever keeps the law will come to no evil: and a wise man's heart has knowledge of time and of decision.


simplify: and Moses was taught in all wisdom of the Egyptians, and he was powerful in words and in works.

So Moses was educated in all the learning of the Egyptians, and proved his ability both by his words and actions.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when the king of Ai saw it, that they hasted and rose up early, and the men of the city went out against Israel to battle, he and all his people, at a time appointed, before the plain; but he wist not that there were liers in ambush against him behind the city.

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


rate difficulty: When Judah saw her, he thought her to be an harlot; because she had covered her face.

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


simplify: And Arphaxad begat Salah; and Salah begat Eber.

And Arpachshad became the father of Shelah; and Shelah became the father of Eber.


rate difficulty: Time after time, in every synagogue, I tried by punishments to force them to blaspheme. So frantic was I against them, that I pursued them even to towns beyond our borders.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the first [month], on the seventh of the month, the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: having set sail, therefore, from Troas, we came with a straight course to Samothracia, on the morrow also to Neapolis,

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


simplify: For I mean not that other men be eased, and ye burdened:

And I am not saying this so that others may get off free, while the weight comes on you:


simplify: Who is there among you that will give ear to this? that will hearken and hear for the time to come?

Who is there among you who will give ear to this? who will give attention to it for the time to come?


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that it was told Abraham, saying, Behold, Milcah, she also hath borne children unto thy brother Nahor:

After these things, Abraham had news that Milcah, the wife of his brother Nahor, had given birth to children;


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, hath given you?

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


simplify: And Hilkiah answered and said to Shaphan the scribe, I have found the book of the law in the house of Jehovah. And Hilkiah delivered the book to Shaphan.

Then Hilkiah said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. And Hilkiah gave the book to Shaphan.


rate difficulty: Therefore, lo, days are coming, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have sent to him wanderers, And they have caused him to wander, And his vessels they empty out, And his bottles they dash in pieces.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And he cried with a strong voice, saying, Great Babylon has fallen, has fallen, and has become the habitation of demons, and a hold of every unclean spirit, and a hold of every unclean and hated bird;

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


rate difficulty: And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be; and what [is] the sign when these things are going to take place?


simplify: and Chesed, and Hazo, and Pildash, and Jidlaph, and Bethuel.

And Chesed and Hazo and Pildash and Jidlaph and Bethuel.


simplify: All the firstling males that are born of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto Jehovah thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy herd, nor shear the firstling of thy flock.

All the first males to come to birth in your herd and your flock are to be holy to the Lord your God: the first birth of your ox is not to be used for work, the wool of your first lamb is not to be cut.


simplify: Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valour, and he was the son of an harlot: and Gilead begat Jephthah.

Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a great man of war; he was the son of a loose woman, and Gilead was his father.


simplify: saying, Sir, we remember that that deceiver said while he was yet alive, After three days I rise again.

Saying, Sir, we have in mind how that false man said, while he was still living, After three days I will come again from the dead.


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that Absalom prepared him a chariot and horses, and fifty men to run before him.

Now after this, Absalom got for himself a carriage and horses, and fifty runners to go before him.


rate difficulty: Then did the horsehoofs stamp By reason of the prancings, the prancings of their strong ones.

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


rate difficulty: `This Jesus did God raise up, of which we are all witnesses;

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


simplify: the word of Jehovah came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of Jehovah was there upon him.

The word of the Lord came to me, Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldaeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the Lord was on me there.


simplify: Confess your faults one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous man availeth much.

Therefore, confess your sins to one another and pray for one another, so that you may be cured. Great is the power of a good person’s fervent prayer.


rate difficulty: And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the sepulchre of Joash his father, in Ophrah of the Abi-ezrites.

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


rate difficulty: Halhul, Beth-Zur, and Gedor,

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


simplify: hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time--how do ye not make proof of <FI>it<Fi> ?

Hypocrites! You know how to judge of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you cannot judge of this time?


rate difficulty: And from among his brethren he took five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

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


simplify: Destruction and Death say, We have heard a rumor thereof with our ears.

Destruction and Death say, We have only had word of it with our ears.


simplify: O give thanks unto the Lord; for he is good; for his mercy endureth for ever.

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.


rate difficulty: And further, from these, my son, be warned; the making of many books hath no end, and much study <FI>is<Fi> a weariness of the flesh.

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


rate difficulty: for the word of the cross to those indeed perishing is foolishness, and to us--those being saved--it is the power of God,

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


simplify: And God spake on this wise, that his seed should sojourn in a strange land, and that they should bring them into bondage, and treat them ill, four hundred years.

And God said that his seed would be living in a strange land, and that they would make them servants, and be cruel to them for four hundred years.


rate difficulty: And he set me up for a proverb of the peoples, And a wonder before them I am.

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


rate difficulty: So she went on getting together the heads of grain till evening; and after crushing out the seed it came to about an ephah of grain.


simplify: And when the Lord thy God shall deliver them before thee; thou shalt smite them, and utterly destroy them; thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor shew mercy unto them:

And when the Lord has given them up into your hands and you have overcome them, give them up to complete destruction: make no agreement with them, and have no mercy on them:


simplify: For the fields of Heshbon languish, and the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches thereof, which reached even unto Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.

For the fields of Heshbon are waste, the vine of Sibmah is dead; the lords of nations were overcome by the produce of her vines; her vine-plants went as far as Jazer, and came even to the waste land; her branches were stretched out to the sea.


simplify: And Phinehas the son of Eleazar the priest said unto the children of Reuben, and to the children of Gad, and to the children of Manasseh, This day we perceive that the Lord is among us, because ye have not committed this trespass against the Lord: now ye have delivered the children of Israel out of the hand of the Lord.

And Phinehas, the son of Eleazar the priest, said to the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh, Now we are certain that the Lord is among us, because you have not done this wrong against the Lord: and you have kept us from falling into the hands of the Lord.


simplify: The sons of Simeon after their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:

The sons of Simeon by their families: of Nemuel, the family of the Nemuelites: of Jamin, the family of the Jaminites: of Jachin, the family of the Jachinites:


simplify: But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the men of Shechem, and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men of Shechem, and from the house of Millo, and devour Abimelech.

But if not, may fire come out from Abimelech, burning up the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo; and may fire come out from the townsmen of Shechem and Beth-millo, for the destruction of Abimelech.


rate difficulty: His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

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


simplify: And the priest shall wave them for a wave offering before the Lord: this is holy for the priest, with the wave breast and heave shoulder: and after that the Nazarite may drink wine.

Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.


simplify: And as these went their way, Jesus began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?


simplify: Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here.

Away! unclean! they were crying out to them, Away! away! let there be no touching: when they went away in flight and wandering, men said among the nations, There is no further resting-place for them.


rate difficulty: For they shall eat, and not have enough: they shall commit whoredom, and shall not increase: because they have left off to take heed to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Art not thou that Egyptian, which before these days madest an uproar, and leddest out into the wilderness four thousand men that were murderers?

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


simplify: Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the trespass of them of the captivity; and I sat confounded until the evening oblation.

Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.


rate difficulty: and that which thou sowest, thou sowest not the body that shall be, but a bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other kind;

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


simplify: A noise shall come even to the ends of the earth; for the Lord hath a controversy with the nations, he will plead with all flesh; he will give them that are wicked to the sword, saith the Lord.

A noise will come, even to the end of the earth; for the Lord has a cause against the nations, he will give his decision against all flesh; as for the evil-doers, he will give them to the sword, says the Lord.


simplify: O Lord, I have heard thy speech, and was afraid: O Lord, revive thy work in the midst of the years, in the midst of the years make known; in wrath remember mercy.

O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.


rate difficulty: Take ye heed, watch and pray: for ye know not when the time is.

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


rate difficulty: And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.

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


rate difficulty: I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man;

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


simplify: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost its savor, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out and trodden under foot of men.

You are the salt of the earth; but if its taste goes from the salt, how will you make it salt again? it is then good for nothing but to be put out and crushed under foot by men.


simplify: And we being exceedingly tossed with a tempest, the next day they lightened the ship;

So violently were we tossed about by the storm, that the next day they began throwing the cargo overboard,


rate difficulty: one golden spoon of ten <FI>shekels<Fi> , full of perfume;

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


simplify: And he said unto them, What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

And he said to them, Which of you, having a sheep, if it gets into a hole on the Sabbath day, will not put out a helping hand and get it back?


rate difficulty: If there be in the land famine, if there be pestilence, blasting, mildew, locust, or if there be caterpiller; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their cities; whatsoever plague, whatsoever sickness there be;

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


simplify: And Kirjathaim, and Sibmah, and Zareth–shahar in the mount of the valley,

And Kiriathaim, and Sibmah, and Zereth-shahar in the mountain of the valley;


rate difficulty: And he shall do with the bullock as he did with the bullock for a sin offering, so shall he do with this: and the priest shall make an atonement for them, and it shall be forgiven them.

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


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews that dwelt in the land of Egypt, that dwelt at Migdol, and at Tahpanhes, and at Memphis, and in the country of Pathros, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah about all the Jews who were living in the land of Egypt, in Migdol and at Tahpanhes and at Noph and in the country of Pathros, saying,


simplify: And Peter being in the hall beneath, there doth come one of the maids of the chief priest,

While Peter was in the courtyard down below, one of the high priest’s maidservants came up;


rate difficulty: For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.

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


simplify: As many as desire to make a fair show in the flesh, they compel you to be circumcised; only that they may not be persecuted 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: Again, if two lie together, then they have warmth; but how can one be warm alone?

So again, if two are sleeping together they are warm, but how may one be warm by himself?