rate difficulty: Now there was no iron-worker in all the land of Israel: for the Philistines said, For fear the Hebrews make themselves swords or spears:


simplify: For thus hath the Lord spoken unto me, Like as the lion and the young lion roaring on his prey, when a multitude of shepherds is called forth against him, he will not be afraid of their voice, nor abase himself for the noise of them: so shall the Lord of hosts come down to fight for mount Zion, and for the hill thereof.

For the Lord has said to me, As a lion, or a young lion, makes an angry noise over his food, and if a band of herdsmen come out against him, he will not be in fear of their voices, or give up his food for their noise: so the Lord of armies will come down to make war against Mount Zion and its hill.


simplify: and to speak unto the priests of the house of Jehovah of hosts, and to the prophets, saying, Should I weep in the fifth month, separating myself, as I have done these so many years?

And to say to the priests of the house of the Lord of armies and to the prophets, Am I to go on weeping in the fifth month, separating myself as I have done in past years?


rate difficulty: And Saul called all the people together to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

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


simplify: And the Lord delivered them into the hand of Israel, who smote them, and chased them unto great Zidon, and unto Misrephoth–maim, and unto the valley of Mizpeh eastward; and they smote them, until they left them none remaining.

And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Israel, and they overcame them driving them back to great Zidon and to Misrephoth-maim and into the valley of Mizpeh to the east; and they put them all to death, no man got away safely.


rate difficulty: Truly, you have a secret God, the God of Israel is a Saviour!

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


rate difficulty: then I have walked with you in the fury of opposition, and have chastised you, even I, seven times for your sins.

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


simplify: My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations;

Let it be all joy to you, my brothers, when you undergo tests of every sort;


rate difficulty: But he answered and said, Verily I say unto you, I know you not.

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


simplify: And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

When Jesus left the house, the teachers of the law and the Pharisees began to press him hard and question him closely on many subjects,


rate difficulty: Sanctify unto me all the first-born, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

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


simplify: Paul, and Silvanus, and Timothy, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.

Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God the Father and the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace.


simplify: Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:

Look! this I have seen, said the Preacher, taking one thing after another to get the true account,


rate difficulty: And he said, A certain man had two sons:


simplify: that each one of you know how to possess himself of his own vessel in sanctification and honor,

So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;


simplify: But Jeshurun waxed fat, and kicked: Thou art waxed fat, thou art grown thick, thou art become sleek; Then he forsook God who made him, And lightly esteemed the Rock of his salvation.

But Jeshurun became fat and would not be controlled: you have become fat, you are thick and full of food: then he was untrue to the God who made him, giving no honour to the Rock of his salvation.


simplify: And they also, if they continue not in their unbelief, shall be grafted in: for God is able to graft them in again.

And they, if they do not go on without faith, will be united to the tree again, because God is able to put them in again.


rate difficulty: And as Obadiah was in the way, behold, Elijah met him: and he knew him, and fell on his face, and said, Art thou that my lord Elijah?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder, and will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?

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


rate difficulty: But if what I would not, that I do, I consent unto the law that it is good.

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


rate difficulty: And Jonah goeth forth from the city, and sitteth on the east of the city, and maketh to himself there a booth, and sitteth under it in the shade, till that he seeth what is in the city.

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


simplify: What then shall I do when God riseth up? And when he visiteth, what shall I answer him?

What then will I do when God comes as my judge? and what answer may I give to his questions?


simplify: Then drew near unto him all the publicans and sinners for to hear him.

Now all the tax-farmers and sinners came near to give ear to him.


rate difficulty: Get up from your seats before the white-haired, and give honour to the old, and let the fear of your God be before you: I am the Lord.

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


simplify: Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.


simplify: Then Johanan the son of Kareah spake to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, saying, Let me go, I pray thee, and I will slay Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and no man shall know it: wherefore should he slay thee, that all the Jews which are gathered unto thee should be scattered, and the remnant in Judah perish?

Then Johanan, the son of Kareah, said to Gedaliah in Mizpah secretly, Let me now go and put Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, to death without anyone's knowledge: why let him take your life so that all the Jews who have come together to you may be sent in flight, and the rest of the men of Judah come to an end?


simplify: And he said unto him that was over the vestry, Bring forth vestments for all the worshippers of Baal. And he brought them forth vestments.

And Jehu said to him who kept the robes, Get out robes for all the servants of Baal. So he got out robes for them.


rate difficulty: And out of the city he took a eunuch that was set over the men of war, and seven men of them that were in the king's presence, who were found in the city, and the scribe of the captain of the host, who enrolled the people of the land. And sixty men of the people of the land that were found in the midst of the city.

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


simplify: but the things coming forth from the mouth from the heart do come forth, and these defile the man;

But the things that come out of the mouth proceed from the heart, and it is these that defile a person;


rate difficulty: may their eyes be darkened, so that they cannot see; and do you always make their backs to bend.’

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


rate difficulty: and they put on it a ribbon of blue, to put <FI>it<Fi> on the mitre above, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.

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


rate difficulty: Of the Gershonite: Laadan and Shimei.

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


rate difficulty: Now the Philistines fought against Israel: and the men of Israel fled from before the Philistines, and fell down slain in mount Gilboa.

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


simplify: And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart;

And the land will give itself to weeping, every family separately; the family of David by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Nathan by themselves, and their wives by themselves;


simplify: For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, That the man which doeth those things shall live by them.

For Moses writes that, as for the righteousness which results from law, ‘those who practice it will find life through it.’


simplify: And when they were come in, they went up into an upper room, where abode both Peter, and James, and John, and Andrew, Philip, and Thomas, Bartholomew, and Matthew, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon Zelotes, and Judas the brother of James.

When they reached Jerusalem, they went to the upstairs room, where they were staying. There were there Peter, John, James, and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.


rate difficulty: The ancient and honourable, he is the head; and the prophet that teacheth lies, he is the tail.

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


simplify: But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and bored a hole in the lid of it, and set it beside the altar, on the right side as one cometh into the house of Jehovah: and the priests that kept the threshold put therein all the money that was brought into the house of Jehovah.

But Jehoiada the priest took a chest, and making a hole in the cover of it, put it by the altar, on the right side when one comes into the house of the Lord; and the priests who kept the door put in it regularly all the money which was taken into the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and removeth the whoremongers out of the land, and turneth aside all the idols that his fathers made;

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


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah, Thy hurt is incurable, and thy wound grievous.

For the Lord has said, Your disease may not be made well and your wound is bitter.


simplify: And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah,

And Ziklag, and Madmannah, and Sansannah;


simplify: And ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they are no gods, that are made with hands:

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


rate difficulty: On leaving the synagogue, Jesus went into Simon’s house. Now Simon’s mother-in-law was suffering from a severe attack of fever, and they asked Jesus to cure her.

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


simplify: Behold, every one that useth proverbs shall use this proverb against thee, saying, As is the mother, so is her daughter.

See, in every common saying about you it will be said, As the mother is, so is her daughter.


simplify: Shall wood be taken thereof to make any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

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


simplify: And he spake a parable unto those that were bidden, when he marked how they chose out the chief seats; saying unto them,

And he gave teaching in the form of a story to the guests who came to the feast, when he saw how they took the best seats; saying to them,


rate difficulty: and all the plain on this side the Jordan, eastward, and as far as the sea of the plain, under the slopes of Pisgah.

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


simplify: And David was displeased, because Jehovah had broken forth upon Uzza: and he called that place Perez-uzza, unto this day.

And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzza, and he gave that place the name Perez-uzza, to this day.


simplify: And, behold, there was a woman which had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in no wise lift up herself.

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


rate difficulty: And unto Hamor, and unto Shechem his son, hearken do all those going out of the gate of his city, and every male is circumcised, all those going out of the gate of his city.

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


simplify: But if thou shalt indeed obey his voice, and do all that I speak; then I will be an enemy unto thine enemies, and an adversary unto thine adversaries.

But if you truly give ear to his voice, and do whatever I say, then I will be against those who are against you, fighting those who are fighting you.


rate difficulty: What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

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


simplify: A wise man feareth, and departeth from evil: but the fool rageth, and is confident.

The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.


rate difficulty: And the pots, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

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


rate difficulty: And after him <FI>is<Fi> Eleazar son of Dodo the Ahohite, he <FI>is<Fi> among the three mighty;

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


rate difficulty: and Hashubah, and Ohel, and Berechiah, and Hasadiah, Jushab-Hesed, five.

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


simplify: Ye are witnesses, and God also, how holily and justly and unblameably we behaved ourselves among you that believe:

You will bear witness, and God also, that our relations with you who believed in Christ were pure, and upright, and beyond reproach.


rate difficulty: And Absalom, whom we anointed over us, is dead in battle. Now therefore why speak ye not a word of bringing the king back?

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


simplify: Shimei the son of Elah, in Benjamin:


rate difficulty: AndGod blessed them, saying, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply on the earth.

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


simplify: And Peter answered, and said unto Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if thou wilt, I will make here three tabernacles; one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.

And Peter made answer and said to Jesus, Lord, it is good for us to be here: if you will let me, I will make here three tents, one for you, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah.


rate difficulty: And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.

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


rate difficulty: “Believe in Jesus, our Lord,” they replied, “and you will be saved, you and your household too.”


rate difficulty: And they said unto Joshua, Truly the Lord hath delivered into our hands all the land; for even all the inhabitants of the country do faint because of us.

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


rate difficulty: Jesus, however, strictly charged them not to say this to anyone;

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


rate difficulty: If ye forsake Jehovah, and serve foreign gods, then he will turn and do you evil, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

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


simplify: and having taken, he did eat before them,

and he took it and ate it before their eyes.


rate difficulty: And the victory that day was turned into mourning unto all the people: for the people heard say that day how the king was grieved for his son.


simplify: Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.

Let them give thought to it, who go on white asses, and those who are walking on the road.


simplify: and he burnt thereon incense of sweet spices; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

Burning sweet perfumes on it, as the Lord had given him orders.


rate difficulty: And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.


rate difficulty: Better <FI>is<Fi> the poor walking in his integrity, Than the perverse of ways who is rich.


rate difficulty: ForGod hath deprived her of wisdom, and hath not furnished her with understanding.

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


rate difficulty: “Teacher, what is the great commandment in the law?”

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


rate difficulty: And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.


rate difficulty: Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? Yet among the many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of hisGod, andGod made him king over all Israel; but even him did foreign wives cause to sin.

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


rate difficulty: But I say, Did not Israel know? first Moses saith, `I will provoke you to jealousy by <FI>that which is<Fi> not a nation; by an unintelligent nation I will anger you,'

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


rate difficulty: He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land: and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with the slain.


simplify: And he said, Blessed be the Lord God of Shem; and Canaan shall be his servant.

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


simplify: Which bare him children; Jeush, and Shamariah, and Zaham.

And she had sons by him, Jeush, Shemariah, and Zaham.


simplify: And some of the Pharisees from among the multitude said unto him, Master, rebuke thy disciples.

Some of the Pharisees in the crowd said to him: “Teacher, restrain your disciples.”


simplify: And when Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled.

Now Zebul, the ruler of the town, hearing what Gaal, the son of Ebed, had said, was moved to wrath.


rate difficulty: Thou didst march through the land in indignation, thou didst thresh the heathen in anger.

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


simplify: But she is happier if she abide as she is, after my judgment: and I think that I also have the Spirit of God.

But it will be better for her to keep as she is, in my opinion: and it seems to me that I have the Spirit of God.


rate difficulty: In the spaces of the flat sides and on the frames of them, he made designs of winged ones, lions, and palm-trees, with ornamented edges all round.

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


simplify: But brother goeth to law with brother, and that before the unbelievers.

But a brother who has a cause at law against another takes it before Gentile judges.


simplify: Therefore if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire on his head.

But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.


rate difficulty: Thus was finished all the work of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting: and the children of Israel did according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses; so did they.


simplify: and saw him saying unto me, Make haste, and get thee quickly out of Jerusalem; because they will not receive of thee testimony concerning me.

And I saw him saying to me, Go out of Jerusalem straight away because they will not give hearing to your witness about me.


rate difficulty: And Moses said, It is not meet so to do; for we shall sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians to Jehovah our God: lo, shall we sacrifice the abomination of the Egyptians before their eyes, and will they not stone us?

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


simplify: And when he had spoken these things, while they beheld, he was taken up; and a cloud received him out of their sight.

No sooner had Jesus said this than he was caught up before their eyes, and a cloud received him from their sight.


simplify: And as they were going on through the cities, they were delivering to them the decrees to keep, that have been judged by the apostles and the elders who <FI>are<Fi> in Jerusalem,

As they traveled from town to town, they gave the followers the decisions which had been reached by the apostles and officers of the church at Jerusalem, for them to observe.


simplify: And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;

By these you will be made unclean; anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean till evening:


simplify: For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.

When they say, There is peace and no danger, then sudden destruction will come on them, as birth-pains on a woman with child; and they will not be able to get away from it.


rate difficulty: We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

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


simplify: And Saul also went home to Gibeah; and there went with him a band of men, whose hearts God had touched.

And Saul went to Gibeah, to his house; and with him went the men of war whose hearts had been touched by God.


rate difficulty: Plates of gold were put all through the house till it was covered completely (and the altar in the inmost room was all covered with gold).

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


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: Instantly the leprosy left the man, and he became clean;

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


rate difficulty: So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.

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


simplify: Why trimmest thou thy way to seek love? therefore hast thou also taught the wicked ones thy ways.

With what care are your ways ordered when you are looking for love! so ... your ways.


simplify: And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.

And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.


rate difficulty: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;


simplify: Of the sons of Gershom; Joel the chief, and his brethren an hundred and thirty:

Of the sons of Gershom: Joel the chief, and his brothers, a hundred and thirty;


rate difficulty: The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.


rate difficulty: There is Elam and all her people, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword, who have gone down without circumcision into the lowest parts of the earth, who were a cause of fear in the land of the living, and are put to shame with those who go down to the underworld:

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


simplify: So king Rehoboam strengthened himself in Jerusalem, and reigned: for Rehoboam was one and forty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the Lord had chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother’s name was Naamah an Ammonitess.

So King Rehoboam made himself strong in Jerusalem and was ruling there. Rehoboam was forty-one years old when he became king, and he was ruling for seventeen years in Jerusalem, the town which the Lord had made his out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there; and his mother's name was Naamah, an Ammonite woman.


simplify: The flowers appear on the earth; The time of the singing of birds is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;

The flowers are come on the earth; the time of cutting the vines is come, and the voice of the dove is sounding in our land;


rate difficulty: Wise men lay up knowledge: but the mouth of the foolish is near destruction.

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


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

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


simplify: He shall not cry, nor lift up, nor cause his voice to be heard in the street.

He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.


rate difficulty: The Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites gave their children to be burned in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim.

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


rate difficulty: But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for thee.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up out of the land: for great is the day of Jizreel.

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


simplify: All the nations are as nothing before him; they are accounted by him as less than nothing, and vanity.

All the nations are as nothing before him; even less than nothing, a thing of no value.


rate difficulty: Gomer, and all his bands; the house of Togarmah from the uttermost north, and all his bands; — many peoples with thee.

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


simplify: all the inhabitants of the hill-country from Lebanon unto Misrephoth-maim, even all the Sidonians; them will I drive out from before the children of Israel: only allot thou it unto Israel for an inheritance, as I have commanded thee.

All the people of the hill-country from Lebanon to Misrephoth-maim, all the Zidonians; them will I send out from before the children of Israel: only make division of it to Israel for a heritage, as I have given you orders to do.


simplify: Why doth this man thus speak? he blasphemeth: who can forgive sins but one, even God?

Why does this man say such things? he has no respect for God: from whom does forgiveness come but from God only?


rate difficulty: And the son of Jonathan was Merib-Baal; and Merib-Baal begot Micah.


rate difficulty: But of a truth I say to you, There were many widows in Israel in the days of Elias, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months, so that a great famine came upon all the land,

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


rate difficulty: and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.

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


simplify: Terrors shall make him afraid on every side, And shall chase him at his heels.

He is overcome by fears on every side, they go after him at every step.


rate difficulty: As the keepers of a field They have been against her round about, For with Me she hath been rebellious, An affirmation of Jehovah.'


rate difficulty: After three days and a half ‘the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up on their feet,’ and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.

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


rate difficulty: All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to the camp, to Gilgal.


rate difficulty: And as they are eating, Jesus having taken bread, having blessed, brake, and gave to them, and said, `Take, eat; this is my body.'

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


simplify: for of nothing to myself have I been conscious, but not in this have I been declared right--and he who is discerning me is the Lord:

for, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.


rate difficulty: Baana, the son of Ahilud, in Taanach and Megiddo, and all Beth-shean which is by the side of Zarethan, under Jezreel, from Beth-shean to Abel-meholah, as far as the far side of Jokmeam;

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


simplify: And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with them.

And those of you who are still living will be wasting away in their sins in the land of your haters; in the sins of their fathers they will be wasting away.


simplify: The thought of foolishness is sin; And the scoffer is an abomination to men.

The purpose of the foolish is sin: and the hater of authority is disgusting to others.


rate difficulty: and brought them out and said, Sirs, what must I do to be saved?


simplify: Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses in the day that Jehovah spake with Moses in mount Sinai.

Now these are the generations of Aaron and Moses, in the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses on Mount Sinai.


rate difficulty: At Jaffa there lived a disciple whose name was Tabitha, which is in Greek ‘Dorcas’ — a Gazelle. Her life was spent in doing kind and charitable actions.


simplify: If so be that ye have heard him, and have been taught by him, as the truth is in Jesus:

If in fact you gave ear to him, and were given teaching in him, even as what is true is made clear in Jesus:


rate difficulty: therefore thou dost speedily buy with this money, bullocks, rams, lambs, and their presents, and their libations, and dost bring them near to the altar of the house of your God that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem,

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


simplify: and of Him ye--ye are in Christ Jesus, who became to us from God wisdom, righteousness also, and sanctification, and redemption,

But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God’s will, became not only our wisdom, but also our righteousness, holiness, and deliverance,


rate difficulty: Nay, but ye yourselves do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

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


rate difficulty: that he may give me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the end of his field; for the full price let him give it to me in the midst of you for a possession of a burying-place.

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


simplify: He that blesseth his friend with a loud voice, rising early in the morning, it shall be counted a curse to him.

He who gives a blessing to his friend with a loud voice, getting up early in the morning, will have it put to his account as a curse.


rate difficulty: I have made the earth, and created man upon it: I, even my hands, have stretched out the heavens, and all their host have I commanded.


rate difficulty: So Jephthah went with the responsible men of Gilead, and the people made him head and chief over them; and Jephthah said all these things before the Lord in Mizpah.

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


simplify: But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

And it will be hard for women who are with child and for her who has a baby at the breast in those days.


rate difficulty: Not for your righteousness or because your hearts are upright are you going in to take their land; but because of the evil-doing of these nations the Lord your God is driving them out from before you, and to give effect to his oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.

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


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

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


simplify: This only would I learn of you, Received ye the Spirit by the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?

Give me an answer to this one question, Did the Spirit come to you through the works of the law, or by the hearing of faith?


rate difficulty: The cup of blessing which we bless, is it not the communion of the blood of Christ? The bread which we break, is it not the communion of the body of Christ?

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


rate difficulty: And they took his land in possession, and the land of Og king of Bashan, the two kings of the Amorites, who were beyond the Jordan toward the sunrising;

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


rate difficulty: In Gath tell ye not--in Acco weep not, In Beth-Aphrah, in dust roll thyself.

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


simplify: And Jesus answering said unto him, Seest thou these great buildings? there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

And Jesus said to him, Do you see these great buildings? there is not one stone here resting on another which will not be overturned.


simplify: And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

And if he is not made free in this way, he will go out in the year of Jubilee, he and his children with him.


rate difficulty: Then again she became with child and gave birth to Abel, his brother. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a farmer.


rate difficulty: And if he do not these three unto her, then shall she go out free without money.

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


simplify: And now come, let us make a covenant, I and thou; and let it be for a witness between me and thee.

Come, let us make an agreement, you and I; and let it be for a witness between us.


rate difficulty: And when the children of your people say to you, Will you not make clear to us what these things have to do with us?

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


simplify: Some remove the landmarks; they violently take away flocks, and feed thereof.

The landmarks are changed by evil men, they violently take away flocks, together with their keepers.


simplify: For Joshua drew not back his hand, wherewith he stretched out the javelin, until he had utterly destroyed all the inhabitants of Ai.

For Joshua did not take back his hand with the outstretched spear till the destruction of the people of Ai was complete.


rate difficulty: and God saith unto him, `Because that thou hast asked this thing, and hast not asked for thee many days, nor asked for thee riches, nor asked the life of thine enemies, and hast asked for thee discernment to understand judgment,

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


rate difficulty: And Joshua saith unto them, `Fear not, nor be affrighted; be strong and courageous; for thus doth Jehovah do to all your enemies with whom ye are fighting;'

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


simplify: Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

Come up against her one and all, let her store-houses be broken open: make her into a mass of stones, give her to the curse, till there is nothing of her to be seen.


simplify: And Elishama, and Eliada, and Eliphelet, nine.

And Elishama and Eliada and Eliphelet, nine.


simplify: but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lights.


rate difficulty: But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.

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


rate difficulty: Which also they did, and sent it to the elders by the hands of Barnabas and Saul.


simplify: Then came he to Derbe and Lystra: and, behold, a certain disciple was there, named Timotheus, the son of a certain woman, which was a Jewess, and believed; but his father was a Greek:

And he came to Derbe and Lystra: and there was a certain disciple there named Timothy, whose mother was one of the Jews of the faith, but his father was a Greek;


rate difficulty: And he made the incense altar of shittim wood: the length of it was a cubit, and the breadth of it a cubit; it was foursquare; and two cubits was the height of it; the horns thereof were of the same.

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


rate difficulty: And he sent them away from the judge's seat.

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


simplify: Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan, to John, to be baptized by him.


simplify: And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

And the edges of the four wheels were full of eyes round about.


simplify: Then said he unto me, Hast thou seen this, O son of man? turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations than these.

Then he said to me, Have you seen this, O son of man? you will see even more disgusting things than these.


simplify: `And that the dead are raised, even Moses shewed at the Bush, since he doth call the Lord, the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

As to the fact that the dead rise, even Moses indicated that, in the passage about the Bush, when he calls the Lord —  ‘The God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’


rate difficulty: And he said to him, Thou hast answered right: this do and thou shalt live.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said unto him, How many times shall I adjure thee that thou speak unto me nothing but the truth in the name of Jehovah?

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


rate difficulty: And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What mean these seven ewe lambs which thou hast set by themselves?

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


rate difficulty: And under every two branches a bud, made with the branch, for all six branches of it.


simplify: And when the chief Shepherd shall be manifested, ye shall receive the crown of glory that fadeth not away.

And at the coming of the chief Keeper of the sheep, you will be given the eternal crown of glory.


simplify: And Jesus began to say unto them, Take heed that no man lead you astray.

And Jesus said to them, Take care that you are not tricked by anyone.


simplify: All that openeth the matrix is mine; and every firstling among thy cattle, whether ox or sheep, that is male.

Every first male child is mine; the first male birth of your cattle, the first male of every ox and sheep.


simplify: For God called us not for uncleanness, but in sanctification.

Because it is God's purpose that our way of life may be not unclean but holy.


simplify: And David came to Saul, and stood before him: and he loved him greatly; and he became his armorbearer.

And David came to Saul, waiting before him: and he became very dear to Saul, who made him his servant, giving him the care of his arms.


rate difficulty: She that is in Babylon, elect together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Mark my son.

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


simplify: For if ye love them that love you, what reward have ye? do not even the publicans the same?

For if you have love for those who have love for you, what credit is it to you? do not the tax-farmers the same?


rate difficulty: and Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab,

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


rate difficulty: and Solomon declareth to her all her matters, and there hath not been hid a thing from Solomon that he hath not declared to her.

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


simplify: Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel, and thy garments like him that treadeth in the winefat?

Why is your clothing red, and why are your robes like those of one who is crushing the grapes?


rate difficulty: And the king goeth out, and all his household at his feet, and the king leaveth ten women--concubines--to keep the house.

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


simplify: Nevertheless that which ye have, hold fast till I come.

But what you have, keep safe till I come.


simplify: meekness, temperance: against such there is no law;


rate difficulty: They shall eat the oblation and the sin-offering and the trespass-offering; and every devoted thing in Israel shall be theirs.

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


simplify: What is my strength, that I should hope? and what is mine end, that I should prolong my life?

Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?


simplify: and thy life shall hang in doubt before thee; and thou shalt fear night and day, and shalt have no assurance of thy life.

Your very life will be hanging in doubt before you, and day and night will be dark with fears, and nothing in life will be certain:


rate difficulty: But let him that glorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth me, that I am the Lord which exercise lovingkindness, judgment, and righteousness, in the earth: for in these things I delight, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: How long shall this be in the heart of the prophets that prophesy lies? yea, they are prophets of the deceit of their own heart;

Is (my word) in the hearts of the prophets who give out false words, even the prophets of the deceit of their hearts?


simplify: Ye shall not go after other gods, of the gods of the peoples that are round about you;

Do not go after other gods, the gods of the peoples round about you;


simplify: but in all these we more than conquer, through him who loved us;

Yet amidst all these things we more than conquer through him who loved us!


simplify: Can a bird fall in a snare upon the earth, where no gin is set for him? shall a snare spring up from the ground, and have taken nothing at all?

Is it possible for a bird to be taken in a net on the earth where no net has been put for him? will the net come up from the earth if it has taken nothing at all?


rate difficulty: And I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd putteth on his garment; and he shall go forth from thence in peace.

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


simplify: Then I cut asunder mine other staff, even Bands, that I might break the brotherhood between Judah and Israel.

Then I took my other rod, the one named Bands, cutting it in two, so that the relation of brothers between Judah and Israel might be broken.


rate difficulty: And there went out to him all the people of Judaea, and all those of Jerusalem, and they were given baptism by him in the river Jordan, saying that they were sinners.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: that in a great trial of affliction the abundance of their joy and their deep poverty has abounded to the riches of their [free-hearted] liberality.


rate difficulty: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And--I have destroyed idols, And caused vain things to cease from Noph, And a prince of the land of Egypt there is no more, And I give fear in the land of Egypt.


simplify: And Jehoahaz slept with his fathers; and they buried him in Samaria: and Joash his son reigned in his stead.

And Jehoahaz went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Joash his son became king in his place.


simplify: Behold, they shall surely gather together, but not by me: whosoever shall gather together against thee shall fall for thy sake.

See, they may be moved to war, but not by my authority: all those who come together to make an attack on you, will be broken against you.


rate difficulty: that the proof of your faith, being more precious than gold that perisheth though it is proved by fire, may be found unto praise and glory and honor at the revelation of Jesus Christ:

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


rate difficulty: And I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who hath enabled me, for that he counted me faithful, putting me into the ministry;

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


rate difficulty: then there shall be a place which Jehovah yourGod will choose to cause his name to dwell there; thither shall ye bring all that I command you: your burnt-offerings, and your sacrifices, your tithes, and the heave-offering of your hand, and all your choice vows which ye shall vow to Jehovah.

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


simplify: Whereupon the king took counsel, and made two calves of gold; and he said unto them, It is too much for you to go up to Jerusalem: behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

So after taking thought the king made two oxen of gold; and he said to the people, You have been going up to Jerusalem long enough; see! these are your gods, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: But I counsel that all Israel be gathered together unto thee, from Dan even to Beer-sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.


rate difficulty: And they went on from Mithkah, and put up their tents in Hashmonah.

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


simplify: Now Laban was gone to shear his sheep: and Rachel stole the teraphim that were her father’s.

Now Laban had gone to see to the cutting of the wool of his sheep; so Rachel secretly took the images of the gods of her father's house.


simplify: Pilate saith to them, `What then shall I do with Jesus who is called Christ?' They all say to him, `Let be crucified!'

“What then,” Pilate asked, “should I do with Jesus who is called ‘Christ?’ “Let him be crucified,” they all replied.


simplify: and I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.


rate difficulty: For, to those who have, more will be given; while, from those who have nothing, even what they have will be taken away.”

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


rate difficulty: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Do not I, with a strong hand, And with a stretched-out arm, And with fury poured out--rule over you?

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


simplify: And Balaam said unto the angel of the Lord, I have sinned; for I knew not that thou stoodest in the way against me: now therefore, if it displease thee, I will get me back again.

And Balaam said to the angel of the Lord, I have done wrong, for I did not see that you were in the way against me: but now, if it is evil in your eyes, I will go back again.


simplify: And she said, Who would have said unto Abraham, that Sarah should have given children suck? for I have born him a son in his old age.

And she said, Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would have a child at her breast? for see, I have given him a son now when he is old.


rate difficulty: It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.


rate difficulty: And I saw a great white throne, and him that sat upon it, from whose face the earth and the heaven fled away; and there was found no place for them.


simplify: that I may take the house of Israel in their own heart, because they are all estranged from me through their idols.

So as to take the children of Israel in the thoughts of their hearts, because they have become strange to me through their false gods.


simplify: And her spirit came again, and she arose straightway: and he commanded to give her meat.

And her spirit came back to her and she got up straight away: and he gave orders that food was to be given to her.


rate difficulty: Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

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


rate difficulty: My breath is corrupt, my days are extinct, the graves are ready for me.

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


rate difficulty: They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them: “What were you discussing on the way?”


simplify: and having recognized him, the men of that place sent forth to all that region round about, and they brought to him all who were ill,

But the people of that place, recognizing Jesus, sent out to the whole country around, and brought to him all who were ill,


simplify: But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

But what you have, keep safe till I come.


rate difficulty: Therefore, thou hast no caster of a line by lot In the assembly of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Have I any pleasure in the death of the wicked? saith the Lord Jehovah; and not rather that he should return from his way, and live?

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


rate difficulty: Behold, all his fellows shall be put to shame; and the workmen, they are of men: let them all be gathered together, let them stand up; they shall fear, they shall be put to shame together.


simplify: there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.


rate difficulty: Behold, my servant shall deal prudently, he shall be exalted and extolled, and be very high.

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


rate difficulty: After he had slain Sihon the king of the Amorites, which dwelt in Heshbon, and Og the king of Bashan, which dwelt at Astaroth in Edrei:


simplify: And Joab the son of Zeruiah was over the host; and Jehoshaphat the son of Ahilud was recorder;

And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, was chief of the army; and Jehoshaphat, the son of Ahilud, was keeper of the records;


simplify: and lo, there came a man, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Jairus, and he was a chief of the synagogue, and having fallen at the feet of Jesus, was calling on him to come to his house;

And a man named Jaeirus, who was a synagogue leader, came to Jesus, and threw himself at Jesus’ feet, with entreaties that he would come to his house,


rate difficulty: And he put garrisons in Edom; and all they of Edom became servants to David. And Jehovah preserved David whithersoever he went.


rate difficulty: The Lord your God is among you, as a strong saviour: he will be glad over you with joy, he will make his love new again, he will make a song of joy over you as in the time of a holy feast.

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


rate difficulty: And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt-offering unto Jehovah: two young bullocks, and one ram, seven he-lambs a year old without blemish;

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


rate difficulty: Then I said to them, What is this high place where you go to no purpose? And it is named Bamah to this day.


rate difficulty: And when all the kings that were servants to Hadarezer saw that they were smitten before Israel, they made peace with Israel, and served them. So the Syrians feared to help the children of Ammon any more.

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


simplify: And the king of Assyria sent Rabshakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem unto king Hezekiah with a great army. And he stood by the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field.

And the king of Assyria sent the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem to King Hezekiah with a strong force, and he took up his position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's


rate difficulty: So, too, those meant by the seed sown on the rocky places are the people who, when they have heard the message, at once accept it joyfully;

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


rate difficulty: Am I a God at hand, saith the Lord, and not a God afar off?

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


simplify: who only is having immortality, dwelling in light unapproachable, whom no one of men did see, nor is able to see, to whom <FI>is<Fi> honour and might age-during! Amen.

who alone is possessed of immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or ever can see — to whom be ascribed honor and power for ever. Amen.


simplify: But he said unto him, Man, who made me a judge or a divider over you?

But he said, Man, who made me a judge or a maker of decisions for you?


simplify: for I have known this, that there shall enter in, after my departing, grievous wolves unto you, not sparing the flock,

I know that, after my departure, merciless wolves will get in among you, who will not spare the flock;


rate difficulty: Now all [the] Athenians and the strangers sojourning there spent their time in nothing else than to tell and to hear the news.


rate difficulty: Thou hast clothed me with skin and flesh, And knit me together with bones and sinews.

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


rate difficulty: You are the Lord, the God, who took Abram and made him yours, guiding him from Ur of the Chaldees, and gave him the name of Abraham;

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


rate difficulty: And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel, and saith unto them, `Draw out and take for yourselves <FI>from<Fi> the flock, for your families, and slaughter the passover-sacrifice;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Fifty-three thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Naphtali were numbered.

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


rate difficulty: Even as Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: A light shalt thou make to the ark; and to a cubit high shalt thou finish it above. And the door of the ark shalt thou set in its side: [with] a lower, second, and third [story] shalt thou make it.

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


simplify: for we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxed great before Jehovah; and Jehovah hath sent us to destroy it.

For we are about to send destruction on this place, because a great outcry against them has come to the ears of the Lord; and the Lord has sent us to put an end to the town.


rate difficulty: If they say, Come with us; let us make designs against the good, waiting secretly for the upright, without cause;

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistines came up again, and went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.


rate difficulty: For those who take delight in drink and feasting will come to be in need; and through love of sleep a man will be poorly clothed.


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will set my face against you for evil, even to cut off all Judah.

So this is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my face will be turned against you for evil, for the cutting off of all Judah;


rate difficulty: And their brethren, mighty men of valour, an hundred twenty and eight: and their overseer was Zabdiel, the son of one of the great men.

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


rate difficulty: And there were beams in three rows, and window was over against window in three ranks.


simplify: (As it is written, I have made thee a father of many nations,) before him whom he believed, even God, who quickeneth the dead, and calleth those things which be not as though they were.

as scripture says — ‘I have made you the Father of many nations.’) And this they do in the sight of that God in whom Abraham had faith, and who gives life to the dead, and speaks of what does not yet exist as if it did.


simplify: and saying, Sirs, why do ye these things? We also are men of like passions with you, and bring you good tidings, that ye should turn from these vain things unto a living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea, and all that in them is:

Good people, why are you doing these things? We are men with the same feelings as you, and we give you the good news so that you may be turned away from these foolish things to the living God, who made the heaven and the earth and the sea and all things in them:


simplify: and he shall wave the sheaf before Jehovah, to be accepted for you: on the morrow after the sabbath the priest shall wave it.

And let the grain be waved before the Lord, so that you may be pleasing to him; on the day after the Sabbath let it be waved by the priest.


simplify: As valleys are they spread forth, As gardens by the river-side, As lign-aloes which Jehovah hath planted, As cedar-trees beside the waters.

They are stretched out like valleys, like gardens by the riverside, like flowering trees planted by the Lord, like cedar-trees by the waters.


simplify: That ye may approve things that are excellent; that ye may be sincere and without offence till the day of Christ;

So that you may give your approval to the best things; that you may be true and without wrongdoing till the day of Christ;


simplify: But had certain questions against him of their own superstition, and of one Jesus, which was dead, whom Paul affirmed to be alive.

But had certain questions against him in connection with their religion, and about one Jesus, now dead, who, Paul said, was living.


simplify: And Gedor, and Ahio, and Zacher.

And Gedor and Ahio and Zechariah and Mikloth.


simplify: And the rest, some on boards, and some on broken pieces of the ship. And so it came to pass, that they escaped all safe to land.

And the rest, some on boards and some on things from the ship. And so it came about that they all got safe to land.


rate difficulty: For I, through law, have died to law, that I may live toGod.

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


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

And Paul went down and, falling on him, took him in his arms and said, Do not be troubled, for his life is in him.


rate difficulty: and I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he went forth overcoming, and that he may overcome.

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


simplify: For I say unto you, I will not drink of the fruit of the vine, until the kingdom of God shall come.

“Take this and share it among you. For I tell you that I will not, after today, drink of the juice of the grape, until the kingdom of God has come.”


rate difficulty: And Elisha said unto the king of Israel, What have I to do with thee? get thee to the prophets of thy father, and to the prophets of thy mother. And the king of Israel said unto him, Nay; for Jehovah hath called these three kings together to deliver them into the hand of Moab.

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


rate difficulty: And thou saidst, I will certainly deal well with thee, and make thy seed as the sand of the sea, which cannot be numbered for multitude.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake again unto Ahaz, saying,


rate difficulty: He that is unrighteous, let him do unrighteousness still: and he that is filthy, let him be made filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him do righteousness still: and he that is holy, let him be made holy still.


rate difficulty: Thy tacklings are loosed; they could not strengthen the foot of their mast, they could not spread the sail: then was the prey of a great spoil divided; the lame took the prey.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest:

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


simplify: If I go forth into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, then, behold, they that are sick with famine! for both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.

If I go out into the open country, there are those put to death by the sword! and if I go into the town, there are those who are diseased from need of food! for the prophet and the priest go about in the land and have no knowledge.


rate difficulty: In those days shall Judah be saved, and Jerusalem shall dwell safely; and this is the name whereby she shall be called: Jehovah our righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: For I give you good doctrine; Forsake ye not my law.

For I give you good teaching; do not give up the knowledge you are getting from me.


simplify: And Isaac answered and said unto Esau, Behold, I have made him thy lord, and all his brethren have I given to him for servants; and with corn and wine have I sustained him: and what shall I do now unto thee, my son?

And Isaac answering said, But I have made him your master, and have given him all his brothers for servants; I have made him strong with grain and wine: what then am I to do for you, my son?


rate difficulty: Boast not thyself of to-morrow, For thou knowest not what a day bringeth forth.

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


rate difficulty: But from the days of John the baptist until now, the kingdom of the heavens is taken by violence, and [the] violent seize on it.

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


simplify: Now ye are full, now ye are rich, ye have reigned as kings without us: and I would to God ye did reign, that we also might reign with you.

Are you all so soon satisfied? Are you so soon rich? Have you begun to reign without us? Would indeed that you had, so that we also might reign with you!


simplify: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering; not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?


simplify: For mine own sake, even for mine own sake, will I do it: for how should my name be polluted? and I will not give my glory unto another.

For myself, even because of my name, I will do it; for I will not let my name be shamed; and my glory I will not give to another.


simplify: Therefore Herodias had a quarrel against him, and would have killed him; but she could not:

And Herodias was bitter against him, desiring to put him to death; but she was not able;


rate difficulty: They will be taken away to Babylon, and there they will be till the day when I send their punishment on them, says the Lord. Then I will take them up and put them back in their place.

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


simplify: And now send men to Joppa, and call for one Simon, whose surname is Peter:

Now send men to Joppa, and get one Simon, named Peter,


rate difficulty: His heart is as strong as a stone, hard as the lower crushing-stone.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said unto all the people, Behold, this stone shall be a witness unto us, for it hath heard all the words of Jehovah which he spoke unto us; and it shall be a witness against you, lest ye deny yourGod.

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


simplify: Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast ye your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rend you.

Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.


simplify: And I will set fire in Egypt: Sin shall have great pain, and No shall be rent asunder, and Noph shall have distresses daily.

And I will put a fire in Egypt; Syene will be twisting in pain, and No will be broken into, as by the onrush of waters.


rate difficulty: And the king in his wrath rose up from the banquet of wine, [and went] into the palace garden; but Haman stayed to make request for his life to Esther the queen, for he saw that there was evil determined against him by the king.

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


rate difficulty: See, he is looking for something against me; in his eyes I am as one of his haters;


rate difficulty: They are singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb —  ‘Great and marvelous are your deeds, Lord, our God, the Almighty. Righteous and true are your ways, eternal King.

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


rate difficulty: Pray in spirit at all times. Be intent on this, with unwearying perseverance and supplication for all Christ’s people —


rate difficulty: And the king went out, and all his servants went after him, and made a stop at the Far House.


simplify: Then they that gladly received his word were baptized: and the same day there were added unto them about three thousand souls.

So those who accepted his teaching were baptized, and about three thousand people joined the disciples on that day alone.


rate difficulty: And if a man shall lie with a woman having her sickness, and shall uncover her nakedness; he hath discovered her fountain, and she hath uncovered the fountain of her blood: and both of them shall be cut off from among their people.

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


rate difficulty: the son of Melea, the son of Menna, the son of Mattatha, the son of Nathan, the son of David,

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


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

And it would have been better if they had come here to make a statement, if they have anything against me.


simplify: And if it appear still in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in any thing of skin; it is a spreading plague: thou shalt burn that wherein the plague is with fire.

And if the mark is still seen in the clothing or in the threads of the material or in the leather, it is the disease coming out: the thing in which the disease is will have to be burned with fire.


rate difficulty: And yet, I pray thee, O Job, Hear my speech and <FI>to<Fi> all my words give ear.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said, Let him go to his house, but let him not see my face. So Absalom went back to his house and did not see the face of the king.


simplify: He trusted in the Lord God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor any that were before him.

He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.


simplify: And the Canaanite, the king of Arad, who dwelt in the South in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

And news of the coming of the children of Israel came to the king of Arad, the Canaanite, who was living in the South in the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: but the sons of the reign shall be cast forth to the outer darkness--there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.'

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


simplify: And the king said to Absalom, Nay, my son, let us not all go, lest we be burdensome unto thee. And he pressed him: howbeit he would not go, but blessed him.

And the king said to Absalom, No, my son, let us not all go, or the number will be over-great for you. And he made his request again, but he would not go, but he gave him his blessing.


rate difficulty: And Joash slept with his fathers, and Jeroboam sat upon his throne; and Joash was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And another angel came and stood over the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should add it unto the prayers of all the saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

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


simplify: Though he be fruitful among his brethren, an east wind shall come, the breath of Jehovah coming up from the wilderness; and his spring shall become dry, and his fountain shall be dried up: he shall make spoil of the treasure of all goodly vessels.

Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.


rate difficulty: In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah came this word unto Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

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


rate difficulty: For their feet run to evil, And they make haste to shed blood.


rate difficulty: And it maketh all, the small, and the great, and the rich, and the poor, and the freemen, and the servants, that it may give to them a mark upon their right hand or upon their foreheads,

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


rate difficulty: then ye come and stand before me, in this house which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered, — in order to do all these abominations!

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


rate difficulty: ... For all this his wrath is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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


simplify: Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day long: and there shall be no might in thine hand.

Your sons and your daughters will be given to another people, and your eyes will be wasted away with looking and weeping for them all the day: and you will have no power to do anything.


simplify: Now therefore beware, I pray thee, and drink not wine nor strong drink, and eat not any unclean thing:

Now then take care to have no wine or strong drink and to take no unclean thing for food;


rate difficulty: In the seventh [month], on the one and twentieth [day] of the month, came the word of Jehovah by the prophet Haggai, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Little children, it is the last hour: and as ye heard that antichrist cometh, even now have there arisen many antichrists; whereby we know that it is the last hour.

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


simplify: And it shall be unto them an oblation from the oblation of the land, a thing most holy, by the border of the Levites.

Even for them will be the offering from the offering of the land, a thing most holy, on the limit of the land given to the Levites.


rate difficulty: Give me teaching and I will be quiet; and make me see my error.

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


rate difficulty: And I called for a drought upon the land, and upon the mountains, and upon the corn, and upon the new wine, and upon the oil, and upon that which the ground bringeth forth, and upon man, and upon cattle, and upon all the labour of the hands.

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


rate difficulty: And six years thou shalt sow thy land, and shalt gather in the increase thereof:

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not plow with an ox and an ass together.

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


rate difficulty: And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.

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


simplify: For, behold, I will send serpents, adders, among you, which will not be charmed; and they shall bite you, saith Jehovah.

See, I will send snakes and poison-snakes among you, against which the wonder-worker has no power; and they will give you wounds which may not be made well, says the Lord.


simplify: Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the kingdom of God.


simplify: Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up, and taken Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city, and given it for a portion unto his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

Pharaoh, king of Egypt, came and took Gezer, burning it down and putting to death the Canaanites living in the town, and he gave it for a bride-offering to his daughter, Solomon's wife. ...


simplify: And if a man sell his daughter to be a maid-servant, she shall not go out as the men-servants do.

And if a man gives his daughter for a price to be a servant, she is not to go away free as the men-servants do.


simplify: But ye have despised the poor. Do not rich men oppress you, and draw you before the judgment seats?

But you — you insult the poor man! Is not it the rich who oppress you? Is not it they who drag you into law courts?


rate difficulty: He that walketh in integrity walketh securely; but he that perverteth his ways shall be known.

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


rate difficulty: See, I am against you, says the Lord of armies, and I will have your skirts pulled over your face, and let the nations see you unclothed, and the kingdoms your shame.

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


simplify: And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued after the children of Israel: and the children of Israel went out with an high hand.

And the Lord made the heart of Pharaoh hard, and he went after the children of Israel: for the children of Israel had gone out without fear.


rate difficulty: And Joseph cometh in unto them in the morning, and seeth them, and lo, they <FI>are<Fi> morose;

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


simplify: And to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come.

Waiting for his Son from heaven, who came back from the dead, even Jesus, our Saviour from the wrath to come.


rate difficulty: Though you go up on high like an eagle, though your house is placed among the stars, I will make you come down from there, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.

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


simplify: Oh that I knew where I might find him! That I might come even to his seat!

If only I had knowledge of where he might be seen, so that I might come even to his seat!


simplify: For God hath concluded them all in unbelief, that he might have mercy upon all.

For God has let them all go against his orders, so that he might have mercy on them all.


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

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


simplify: And that the Gentiles might glorify God for his mercy; as it is written, For this cause I will confess to thee among the Gentiles, and sing unto thy name.

And so that the Gentiles might give glory to God for his mercy; as it is said, For this reason I will give praise to you among the Gentiles, and I will make a song to your name.


simplify: For therein is revealed a righteousness of God from faith unto faith: as it is written, But the righteous shall live by faith.

For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.


rate difficulty: and the third <FI>are<Fi> at the house of the king, and the third at the gate of the foundation, and all the people <FI>are<Fi> in the courts of the house of Jehovah.


simplify: They say unto him, Cesar’s. Then saith he unto them, Render therefore unto Cesar the things which are Cesar’s; and unto God the things that are God’s.

“The Emperor’s,” they answered: on which he said to them: “Then pay to the Emperor what belongs to the Emperor, and to God what belongs to God.”


rate difficulty: Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.

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


simplify: for I did hunger, and ye gave me not to eat; I did thirst, and ye gave me not to drink;

For, when I was hungry, you gave me no food; when I was thirsty, you gave me no drink;


simplify: And he said unto his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver that were taken from thee, about which thou cursedst, and spakest of also in mine ears, behold, the silver is with me; I took it. And his mother said, Blessed be thou of the Lord, my son.

And he said to his mother, The eleven hundred shekels of silver which were taken from you, about which you took an oath and said in my hearing, I have given this silver to the Lord from my hand for myself, to make a pictured image and a metal image: see, I have the silver, for I took it: so now I will give it back to you. And his mother said, May the blessing of the Lord be on my son.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when the messenger of Jehovah speaketh these words unto all the sons of Israel, that the people lift up their voice and weep,

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


simplify: Then king Asa made a proclamation unto all Judah; none was exempted: and they carried away the stones of Ramah, and the timber thereof, wherewith Baasha had builded; and king Asa built therewith Geba of Benjamin, and Mizpah.

Then King Asa got all Judah together, making every man come; and they took away the stones and the wood with which Baasha was building Ramah, and King Asa made use of them for building Geba in the land of Benjamin, and Mizpah.


rate difficulty: And he washed the inwards and the legs, and burned [them] upon the burnt-offering, on the altar.

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


rate difficulty: But the Lord said to him, Now do ye Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inward [parts] are full of plunder and wickedness.

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


rate difficulty: And the youths grew, and Esau is a man acquainted <FI>with<Fi> hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob <FI>is<Fi> a plain man, inhabiting tents;


rate difficulty: That they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the west, that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and there is none else.

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


rate difficulty: You who would give the Temple to destruction and put it up again in three days, get yourself free: if you are the Son of God, come down from the cross.

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


rate difficulty: a prophet, therefore, being, and knowing that with an oath God did swear to him, out of the fruit of his loins, according to the flesh, to raise up the Christ, to sit upon his throne,

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


rate difficulty: And it was [so that] in the twenty-third year of king Jehoash, the priests had not repaired the breaches of the house.

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


simplify: no brawler, no striker; but gentle, not contentious, no lover of money;

Not quickly moved to wrath or blows, but gentle; no fighter, no lover of money;


simplify: All the men of thy confederacy have brought thee even to the border: the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, and prevailed against thee; they that eat thy bread have laid a wound under thee: there is none understanding in him.

All the men who were united with you have been false to you, driving you out to the edge of the land: the men who were at peace with you have overcome you; they have taken their heritage in your place.


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, Go in peace. So he departed from him a little way.

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


rate difficulty: Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

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


rate difficulty: nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!

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


simplify: And they set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

And they put up over his head the statement of his crime in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


simplify: And Moses gave unto the tribe of Gad, unto the children of Gad, according to their families.

And Moses gave their heritage to the tribe of Gad by their families.


simplify: Ye cannot drink the cup of the Lord, and the cup of devils: ye cannot be partakers of the Lord’s table, and of the table of devils.

You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.


rate difficulty: And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.


simplify: And he hardened Pharaoh’s heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the Lord had said.

But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.


simplify: Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts,

First be assured of this, that, as the age draws to an end, scoffers, led by their own passions,


rate difficulty: Ointment and perfume rejoice the heart; and the sweetness of one's friend is [the fruit] of hearty counsel.

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


rate difficulty: As well as the Arabah, with the river Jordan as their limit, from Chinnereth to the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah to the east.

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


simplify: And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

Then I saw the seven angels who stand before God, and seven trumpets were given to them.


simplify: and having asked for a tablet, he wrote, saying, `John is his name;' and they did all wonder;

Asking for a writing-tablet, he wrote the words — ‘His name is John.’ Everyone was surprised;


rate difficulty: And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me; and if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will come and help thee.

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


simplify: And when the people were gathered thick together, he began to say, This is an evil generation: they seek a sign; and there shall no sign be given it, but the sign of Jonas the prophet.

As the crowds increased, Jesus began to speak: “This generation is a wicked generation. It is asking a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah.


rate difficulty: and he took away the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.

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


simplify: Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?


rate difficulty: For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

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


rate difficulty: And God looked upon the children of Israel, and God had respect unto them.

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


simplify: Six days shalt thou labor, and do all thy work;


simplify: And Paul after this tarried there yet a good while, and then took his leave of the brethren, and sailed thence into Syria, and with him Priscilla and Aquila; having shorn his head in Cenchrea: for he had a vow.

Paul remained there some time after this, and then took leave of the followers, and sailed to Syria with Priscilla and Aquila, but not before his head had been shaved at Cenchreae, because he was under a vow.


simplify: The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson; also to grave any manner of graving, and to find out every device which shall be put to him, with thy cunning men, and with the cunning men of my lord David thy father.

The son of a woman of the daughters of Dan, whose father was a man of Tyre, an expert worker in gold and silver and brass and iron, in stone and wood, in purple and blue and fair linen and red, trained in the cutting of every sort of ornament and the invention of every sort of design; let him be given a place among your expert workmen and those of my lord, your father David.


simplify: I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: the multitude of your gardens and your vineyards and your fig-trees and your olive-trees hath the palmer-worm devoured: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

I have sent destruction on your fields by burning and disease: the increase of your gardens and your vine-gardens, your fig-trees and your olive-trees, has been food for worms: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


simplify: Wealth maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbour.

Wealth makes a great number of friends; but the poor man is parted from his friend.


rate difficulty: and your young brother ye bring unto me, and your words are established, and ye die not;' and they do so.

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


rate difficulty: For we conclude that a person is pronounced righteous on the ground of faith, quite apart from obedience to law.

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


simplify: Surely the serpent will bite without enchantment; and a babbler is no better.

If a snake gives a bite before the word of power is said, then there is no longer any use in the word of power.


rate difficulty: And the angel of the Lord said unto him, Why askest thou thus after my name, seeing it is secret?

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


simplify: But if they say thus, Come up unto us; then we will go up; for Jehovah hath delivered them into our hand: and this shall be the sign unto us.

But if they say, Come up to us; then we will go up, for the Lord has given them into our hands: and this will be the sign to us.


simplify: Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

Under him are sharp edges of broken pots: as if he was pulling a grain-crushing instrument over the wet earth.


simplify: Hearken unto me, O house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, that have been borneby mefrom their birth, that have been carried from the womb;

Give ear to me, O family of Jacob, and all the rest of the people of Israel, who have been supported by me from their birth, and have been my care from their earliest days:


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

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


simplify: and they found the stone having been rolled away from the tomb,

They found that the stone had been rolled away from the tomb;


simplify: And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith to them, `Be not amazed, ye seek Jesus the Nazarene, the crucified: he did rise--he is not here; lo, the place where they laid him!


rate difficulty: for then shall there be great tribulation, such as has not been from [the] beginning of [the] world until now, nor ever shall be;

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


simplify: Behold, the hope of him is in vain: Will not one be cast down even at the sight of him?

Truly, the hope of his attacker is false; he is overcome even on seeing him!


rate difficulty: And he said to them, But ye, who do ye say that I am? And Peter answering said, The Christ ofGod.

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


simplify: And when ye did eat, and when ye did drink, did not ye eat for yourselves, and drink for yourselves?

And when you are feasting and drinking, are you not doing it only for yourselves?


simplify: There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

And there were others who said, We have given up our fields and our vine-gardens to get money for the king's taxes.


simplify: Then brought all Judah the tithe of the corn and the new wine and the oil unto the treasuries.

Then all Judah came with the tenth part of the grain and wine and oil and put it into the store-houses.


simplify: For the prophecy came not in old time by the will of man: but holy men of God spake as they were moved by the Holy Ghost.

for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of people, but people, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.


simplify: their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel were not able utterly to destroy, of them did Solomon raise a levy of bondservants unto this day.

Their children who were still in the land, and whom the children of Israel had not been able to put to complete destruction, them did Solomon put to forced work, to this day.


rate difficulty: Now Jericho was shut up and was barred, because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

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


rate difficulty: all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned at Ashtaroth and at Edrei, who remained of the residue of the giants; and Moses smote them and dispossessed them.

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


rate difficulty: and in the wilderness, where thou hast seen that Jehovah thy God hath borne thee as a man beareth his son, in all the way which ye have gone, till your coming in unto this place.

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


simplify: And he heard the words of Laban’s sons, saying, Jacob hath taken away all that was our father’s; and of that which was our father’s hath he gotten all this glory.

Now it came to the ears of Jacob that Laban's sons were saying, Jacob has taken away all our father's property, and in this way he has got all this wealth.


simplify: When they which were about him saw what would follow, they said unto him, Lord, shall we smite with the sword?

And when those who were with him saw what was coming, they said, Lord, may we not make use of our swords?


rate difficulty: And the men that held Jesus mocked him, and smote him.

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


rate difficulty: So, also, will my heavenly Father do to you, unless each one of you forgives his brother or sister from your heart.”

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