rate difficulty: For the time of having the judgment begin from the house ofGod [is come]; but if first from us, what [shall be] the end of those who obey not the glad tidings ofGod?

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


rate difficulty: Therefore have I poured out mine indignation upon them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord God.

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


simplify: and the possessions and the goods they were selling, and were parting them to all, according as any one had need.

they sold their property and their goods, and shared the proceeds among them all, according to their individual needs.


rate difficulty: But the groom answered ‘I tell you, I do not know you.’

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


simplify: Yet ye say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Hear now, O house of Israel; Is not my way equal? are not your ways unequal?

But you say, The way of the Lord is not equal. Give ear, now, O children of Israel; is my way not equal? are not your ways unequal?


rate difficulty: `Lo, a son is born to thee; he is a man of rest, and I have given rest to him from all his enemies round about, for Solomon is his name, and peace and quietness I give unto Israel in his days;

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


simplify: And three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

And three of the thirty went down to David, to the rock, into the strong place of Adullam; and the army of the Philistines had taken up their position in the valley of Rephaim.


simplify: let no one beguile you of your prize, delighting in humble-mindedness and <FI>in<Fi> worship of the messengers, intruding into the things he hath not seen, being vainly puffed up by the mind of his flesh,

Do not let anyone defraud you of the reality by affecting delight in so-called ‘humility’ and angel-worship. Such a person busies themselves with their visions, and without reason are rendered conceited by their merely human intellect.


simplify: And in Gibeon there dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife’s name was Maacah;

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;


simplify: And enquired not of the Lord: therefore he slew him, and turned the kingdom unto David the son of Jesse.

And not to the Lord: for this reason, he put him to death and gave the kingdom to David, the son of Jesse.


simplify: and if we have not rather out of carefulness done this, and of purpose, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with Jehovah, the God of Israel?

And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: That the aged men be sober, grave, temperate, sound in faith, in charity, in patience.

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.


simplify: And I brought you into the land of the Amorites, which dwelt on the other side Jordan; and they fought with you: and I gave them into your hand, that ye might possess their land; and I destroyed them from before you.

And I took you into the lands of the Amorites on the other side of Jordan; and they made war on you, and I gave them into your hands and you took their land; and I sent destruction on them before you.


rate difficulty: We don't want you to be ignorant, friends, about those who have passed to their rest. We don't want you to grieve like other people who have no hope.


rate difficulty: and they fall on their faces, and say, `God, God of the spirits of all flesh--the one man sinneth, and against all the company Thou art wroth!'

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


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

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


simplify: For the day of Jehovah is near upon all the nations: as thou hast done, it shall be done unto thee; thy dealing shall return upon thine own head.

For the day of the Lord is coming quickly on all nations: as you have done it will be done to you; the reward of your acts will come on your head.


rate difficulty: and he hath made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand hath he hid me: and he hath made me a polished shaft; in his quiver hath he kept me close:

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


simplify: and they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, that they may ensnare him in discourse,

Afterwards they sent to Jesus some of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to set a trap for him in the course of conversation.


rate difficulty: Ben-Dekar in Makaz, and Shaalbim, and Beth-Shemesh, and Elon-Beth-Hanan.

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


simplify: Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

Am I to take my bread and my wine and the meat I have got ready for my wool-cutters and give it to men coming from I have no idea where?


simplify: I write to you, little children, because the sins have been forgiven you through his name;

I am writing, God's children, to you, because your sins have been forgiven you for Christ’s sake.


simplify: And the morrow after they entered into Cesarea. And Cornelius waited for them, and had called together his kinsmen and near friends.

And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.


rate difficulty: Phinehas, the son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, hath turned my wrath away from the children of Israel, in that he was jealous with my jealousy among them, so that I consumed not the children of Israel in my jealousy.

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


simplify: That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness,

That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and sorrow, a day of wasting and destruction, a day of dark night and deep shade, a day of cloud and thick dark.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `One prince a day--one prince a day--do they bring near their offering for the dedication of the altar.'

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.

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


rate difficulty: And when the burning began to rise up out of the city as a pillar of smoke, Benjamin looked behind, and behold, the whole city ascended [in smoke] to the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: Righteous lips are the delight of kings; and they love him that speaketh right.

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


rate difficulty: They can but crouch under the prisoners, and they shall fall under the slain. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

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


simplify: Ye shall offer up a cake of the first of your dough for an heave offering: as ye do the heave offering of the threshingfloor, so shall ye heave it.

Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.


rate difficulty: Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow. My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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


simplify: Of the men therefore that have companied with us all the time that the Lord Jesus went in and went out among us,

For this reason, of the men who have been with us all the time, while the Lord Jesus went in and out among us,


simplify: My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.

I do not want many of you, my friends, to become teachers, knowing, as you do, that we who teach will be judged by a more severe standard than others.


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, from the going in of the king to the house of Jehovah, the runners bear them, and have brought them back unto the chamber of the runners.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the disciples went, and did as Jesus commanded them,

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: And Gideon said, Therefore when the Lord hath delivered Zebah and Zalmunna into mine hand, then I will tear your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers.

Then Gideon said, Because of this, when the Lord has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hands, I will have you stretched on a bed of thorns of the waste land and on sharp stems, and have you crushed as grain is crushed on a grain-floor.


rate difficulty: I will scatter them as with an east wind before the enemy; I will show them the back, and not the face, in the day of their calamity.


simplify: And the proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all that are round about him.

And pride will go with uncertain steps and have a fall, and there will be no one to come to his help: and I will put a fire in his towns, burning up everything round about him.


rate difficulty: No man, when the light has been lighted, puts it in a secret place, or under a vessel, but on its table, so that those who come in may see the light.

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


simplify: And in the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, the ninth day of the month, the city was broken up.

In the eleventh year of Zedekiah, in the fourth month, on the ninth day of the month, the town was broken into:)


rate difficulty: Lo, the voice of a cry of the daughter of my people from a land afar off, Is Jehovah not in Zion? is her king not in her? Wherefore have they provoked Me with their graven images, With the vanities of a foreigner?


rate difficulty: Son of man, cause Jerusalem to know her abominations,


rate difficulty: And I answer a second time, and say unto him, `What <FI>are<Fi> the two branches of the olive trees that, by means of the two golden pipes, are emptying out of themselves the oil?'

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


rate difficulty: And Eli heard the noise of the crying, and said, What is the noise of this tumult? And the man came hastily, and told Eli.


rate difficulty: But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth–haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

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


simplify: The vine is withered, and the fig-tree languisheth; the pomegranate-tree, the palm-tree also, and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field are withered: for joy is withered away from the sons of men.

The vine has become dry and the fig-tree is feeble; the pomegranate and the palm-tree and the apple-tree, even all the trees of the field, are dry: because joy has gone from the sons of men.


rate difficulty: The Jews gathered themselves together in their cities throughout all the provinces of the king Ahasuerus, to lay hand on such as sought their hurt: and no man could withstand them; for the fear of them fell upon all people.


rate difficulty: And changed the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.

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


rate difficulty: and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, <FI>and<Fi> the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib the high priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: therefore I chased him from me.

And one of the sons of Joiada, the son of Eliashib, the chief priest, was son-in-law to Sanballat the Horonite: so I sent him away from me.


simplify: and when they had withdrawn, they spake one to another, saying, This man doeth nothing worthy of death or of bonds.

And when they had gone away they said to one another, This man has done nothing which might give cause for death or prison.


simplify: See ye what love the Father hath given to us, that children of God we may be called; because of this the world doth not know us, because it did not know Him;

Think what love the Father has shown us in allowing us to be called ‘children of God’; as indeed we are. The reason why the world does not know us is that it has not learned to know him.


simplify: But they that will be rich fall into temptation and a snare, and into many foolish and hurtful lusts, which drown men in destruction and perdition.

But those who have a desire for wealth are falling into danger, and are taken as in a net by a number of foolish and damaging desires, through which men are overtaken by death and destruction.


simplify: Being justified freely by his grace through the redemption that is in Christ Jesus:

but, in his loving kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.


simplify: And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.


simplify: And I have consumed them, and wounded them, that they could not arise: yea, they are fallen under my feet.

I have sent destruction on them and given them wounds, so that they are not able to get up: they are stretched under my feet.


simplify: What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

Or do not you know that a man who unites himself with a prostitute is one with her in body (for ‘the two,’ it is said, ‘will become one’);


simplify: And see the land, what it is; and the people that dwelleth therein, whether they be strong or weak, few or many;

And see what the land is like; and if the people living in it are strong or feeble, small or great in number;


rate difficulty: The best of them is as a brier: the most upright is sharper than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen and thy visitation cometh; now shall be their perplexity.

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


simplify: And these are the sons of Aaron; Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,

And these are the sons of Aaron: Eleazar his son, Phinehas his son, Abishua his son,


simplify: The fourth lot came out for Issachar, even for the children of Issachar according to their families.

For Issachar the fourth heritage came out, for the children of Issachar by their families;


simplify: And immediately--while he is yet speaking--cometh near Judas, one of the twelve, and with him a great multitude, with swords and sticks, from the chief priests, and the scribes, and the elders;

And just then, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came up; and with him a crowd of people, with swords and clubs, sent by the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the councillors.


rate difficulty: The rich man had exceeding many flocks and herds;

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


rate difficulty: `This <FI>is<Fi> the service of the families of the sons of Merari, for all their service, in the tent of meeting, by the hand of Ithamar son of Aaron the priest.'

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


simplify: And Peter having come to himself, said, `Now I have known of a truth that the Lord did sent forth His messenger, and did deliver me out of the hand of Herod, and all the expectation of the people of the Jews;'

Then Peter came to himself and said: “Now I know beyond all doubt that the Lord has sent his angel, and has rescued me from Herod’s hands and from all that the Jewish people have been expecting.”


rate difficulty: In famine he will redeem thee from death, and in war from the power of the sword.

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


simplify: Shouldest not thou also have had compassion on thy fellowservant, even as I had pity on thee?

Ought not you, also, to have shown mercy to your fellow servant, just as I showed mercy to you?’


rate difficulty: The Mighty! we have not found Him out, High in power and judgment, He doth not answer! And abundant in righteousness,

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


simplify: And David said unto Saul, Thy servant was keeping his father’s sheep; and when there came a lion, or a bear, and took a lamb out of the flock,

And David said to Saul, Your servant has been keeper of his father's sheep; and if a lion or a bear came and took a lamb from the flock,


rate difficulty: At all times is the friend loving, And a brother for adversity is born.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after ten days, that the word of the Lord came unto Jeremiah.


simplify: And they departed, and went through the towns, preaching the gospel, and healing every where.

And they went away, journeying through all the towns, preaching the good news and making people free from diseases in all places.


rate difficulty: Now the chief priests and those in authority got the people to make request for Barabbas, and for Jesus to be put to death.

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


simplify: Then cometh the end, when he shall deliver up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have abolished all rule and all authority and power.

Then comes the end, when he will give up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he will have put an end to all rule and to all authority and power.


rate difficulty: Now he hath not directed [his] words against me; and I will not answer him with your speeches. ...


simplify: So Job died, being old and full of days.

And Job came to his end, old and full of days.


rate difficulty: from thirty years old and upward even unto fifty years old, every one that entered upon the service, for work in the tent of meeting,

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


rate difficulty: But the Pharisees said, By the prince of the demons casteth he out demons.

reading_level: 2 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | 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 Jacob went down into Egypt; and he died, himself and our fathers;

And Jacob went down to Egypt, and came to his end there, and so did our fathers;


rate difficulty: They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.


simplify: Thou shalt therefore keep the commandments, and the statutes, and the judgments, which I command thee this day, to do them.

So keep the orders and the laws and the decisions which I give you today and do them.


rate difficulty: The Lord of hosts hath purposed it, to stain the pride of all glory, and to bring into contempt all the honourable of the earth.


rate difficulty: And there was a great outcry: and some of the scribes on the side of the Pharisees got up and took part in the discussion, saying, We see no evil in this man: what if he has had a revelation from an angel or a spirit?

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


simplify: whom God raised up, having loosed the pangs of death: because it was not possible that he should be holden of it.

But God gave him back to life, having made him free from the pains of death because it was not possible for him to be overcome by it.


simplify: And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.

And he said, If the Aramaeans are stronger and get the better of me, then come to my help; and if the children of Ammon get the better of you, I will come to your help.


rate difficulty: And when he came, lo, Eli sat upon a seat by the wayside watching: for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.


simplify: And all the women that were wise-hearted did spin with their hands, and brought that which they had spun, the blue, and the purple, the scarlet, and the fine linen.

And all the women who were expert with their hands, made cloth, and gave the work of their hands, blue and purple and red and the best linen.


simplify: And Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him.

And Sarah became with child, and gave Abraham a son when he was old, at the time named by God.


simplify: If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity.

That, if I did wrong, you would take note of it, and would not make me clear from sin:


rate difficulty: And Moses said unto Aaron, Take thy censer, and put fire therein from off the altar, and lay incense thereon, and carry it quickly unto the congregation, and make atonement for them: for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah; the plague is begun.

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


simplify: Then came also publicans to be baptized, and said unto him, Master, what shall we do?

Then tax-farmers came to him for baptism and said to him, Master, what have we to do?


simplify: And he departed thence, and entered into a certain man’s house, named Justus, one that worshipped God, whose house joined hard to the synagogue.

And moving from there, he went into the house of a man named Titus Justus, a God-fearing man, whose house was very near the Synagogue.


simplify: and they said unto them, Jehovah look upon you, and judge: because ye have made our savor to be abhorred in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of his servants, to put a sword in their hand to slay us.

And they said to them, May the Lord take note of you and be your judge; for you have given Pharaoh and his servants a bad opinion of us, putting a sword in their hands for our destruction.


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

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


simplify: And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of Jehovah, saying, Jehovah shall be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed, for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for we two have taken an oath, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed for ever. Then David went away, and Jonathan went into the town.


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

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


simplify: And he was with them, coming in and going out in Jerusalem,

After that, Saul remained in Jerusalem, in close intercourse with the apostles; and he spoke fearlessly in the name of the Lord,


rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto me, saying,

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


simplify: Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.

Be on the watch at all times, and pray that you may have strength to escape all that is destined to happen, and to stand in the presence of the Son of Man.”


rate difficulty: And I will cast thee out, and thy mother that bare thee, into another country, where ye were not born; and there shall ye die.

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


simplify: And Joshua said unto the people, Sanctify yourselves; for to-morrow Jehovah will do wonders among you.

And Joshua said to the people, Make yourselves holy, for tomorrow the Lord will do works of wonder among you.


rate difficulty: I say to you, In that night there will be two men sleeping in one bed, and one will be taken away and the other let go.

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


simplify: whose fan <FI>is<Fi> in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather his wheat to the storehouse, but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

His winnowing-fan is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing-floor, and store his grain in the barn, but the chaff he will burn with a fire that cannot be put out.”


simplify: Thou therefore endure hardness, as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.

Be ready to do without the comforts of life, as one of the army of Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: and trodden was the wine-press outside of the city, and blood did come forth out of the wine-press--unto the bridles of the horses, a thousand, six hundred furlongs.

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


rate difficulty: Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh.

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


simplify: Behold now, I have opened my mouth; My tongue hath spoken in my mouth.

See, now my mouth is open, my tongue gives out words.


simplify: For they have committed adultery, and blood is in their hands; and with their idols have they committed adultery; and they have also caused their sons, whom they bare unto me, to pass through the fire unto them to be devoured.

For she has been false to me, and blood is on her hands, and with her images she has been untrue; and more than this, she made her sons, whom she had by me, go through the fire to them to be burned up.


simplify: And if Timotheus may come, see that he may become without fear with you, for the work of the Lord he doth work, even as I,

If Timothy comes, take care that he has no cause for feeling anxious while he is with you. He is doing the Master’s work no less than I am.


simplify: And when the king came in to see the guests, he saw there a man which had not on a wedding garment:

But, when the king went in to see his guests, he noticed there a man who had not put on a wedding-robe.


rate difficulty: I rejoiced greatly that I found of thy children walking in truth, as we have received a commandment from the Father.

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


simplify: And I have used none of these things; neither did I write these things that it may be so done in my case, for <FI>it is<Fi> good for me rather to die, than that any one may make my glorying void;

I, however, have not availed myself of any of these rights. I am not saying this to secure such an arrangement for myself; indeed, I would far rather die — Nobody will make my boast a vain one!


simplify: And Jehovah God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.


simplify: When thou comest into thy neighbor’s standing grain, then thou mayest pluck the ears with thy hand; but thou shalt not move a sickle unto thy neighbor’s standing grain.

When you go into your neighbour's field, you may take the heads of grain with your hand; but you may not put your blade to his grain.


simplify: 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.

If you are turned away from the Lord and become the servants of strange gods, then turning against you he will do you evil, cutting you off, after he has done you good.


rate difficulty: The Lord, the King of Israel, even the Lord of armies who has taken up his cause, says, I am the first and the last, and there is no God but me.

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


rate difficulty: He put up the pillars in front of the Temple, one on the right side and one on the left, naming the one on the right Jachin and that on the left Boaz.

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


simplify: And if it bear fruit, well: and if not, then after that thou shalt cut it down.

And if, after that, it has fruit, it is well; if not, let it be cut down.


simplify: And they left their images there; and David and his men took them away.

And the Philistines, when they went in flight, did not take their images with them, and David and his men took them away.


rate difficulty: And I will put a separation between my people and thy people; to-morrow shall this sign be.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall not profane my holy name; but I will be hallowed among the children of Israel: I am Jehovah who halloweth you,

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


rate difficulty: A girt one of the loins, or a he-goat, And a king--no rising up with him.

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


simplify: Then Eliphaz the Temanite answered and said,

Then Eliphaz the Temanite made answer and said,


simplify: A certain lender had two debtors: the one owed five hundred shillings, and the other fifty.

And he said, Two men were in debt to a certain man of business: one had a debt of five hundred pence, and the other of fifty.


rate difficulty: For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;


simplify: And having taken the twelve aside, he said unto them, `Lo, we go up to Jerusalem, and all things shall be completed--that have been written through the prophets--to the Son of Man,

Gathering the Twelve around him, Jesus said to them: “Listen! We are going up to Jerusalem; and there everything that is written in the prophets will be done to the Son of Man.


simplify: And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

Then let the priest take cedar-wood and hyssop and red thread, and put them into the fire where the cow is burning.


simplify: and the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves, for the wind was contrary.

The boat was by this time some miles from shore, laboring in the waves, for the wind was against her.


simplify: And they were coupled beneath, and coupled together at the head thereof, to one ring: thus he did to both of them in both the corners.

These were joined together at the base and at the top to one ring, so forming the two angles.


simplify: And he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them.

And he said in answer, Have no fear; those who are with us are more than those who are with them.


simplify: If he rise again, and walk abroad upon his staff, then shall he that smote him be quit: only he shall pay for the loss of his time, and shall cause him to be thoroughly healed.

If he is able to get up again and go about with a stick, the other will be let off; only he will have to give him payment for the loss of his time, and see that he is cared for till he is well.


simplify: And ye shall dwell in the land that I gave to your fathers; and ye shall be my people, and I will be your God.

So that you may go on living in the land which I gave to your fathers; and you will be to me a people, and I will be to you a God.


rate difficulty: Why is light givento a man whose way is hid, And whom God hath hedged in?


rate difficulty: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ be with you.


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

So the king and Haman came to take wine with Esther the queen.


simplify: And he went up thence against the inhabitants of Debir: now the name of Debir beforetime was Kiriath-sepher.

From there he went up against the people of Debir: (now the name of Debir before that was Kiriath-sepher.)


simplify: And when the multitude heard this, they were astonished at his doctrine.

The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching.


rate difficulty: So be not like them; because your Father has knowledge of your needs even before you make your requests to him.


rate difficulty: Teaching us more than the beasts of the earth, Yea, than the fowl of the heavens He maketh us wiser.'

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rate difficulty: As the nations which Jehovah is causing to perish before you, so shall ye perish; because ye would not hearken unto the voice of Jehovah yourGod.

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simplify: and thou shalt put the whole upon the hands of Aaron, and upon the hands of his sons, and shalt wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah.

And put them all on the hands of Aaron and of his sons, to be waved for a wave offering before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jael wife of Heber taketh the pin of the tent, and taketh the hammer in her hand, and goeth unto him gently, and striketh the pin into his temples, and it fasteneth in the earth--and he hath been fast asleep, and is weary--and he dieth.

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


rate difficulty: for they understood not concerning the loaves, for their heart hath been hard.

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


rate difficulty: And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the time of the going in of the sun, Joshua hath commanded, and they take them down from off the trees, and cast them unto the cave where they had been hid, and put great stones on the mouth of the cave till this very day.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the cloak of the ephod all of blue.

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


simplify: and he saith to them, `Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men,'

“Come and follow me,” Jesus said, “and I will teach you to fish for people.”


simplify: Their horses, seven hundred thirty and six: their mules, two hundred forty and five:

They had seven hundred and thirty-six horses, two hundred and forty-five transport beasts;


simplify: Then they also which are fallen asleep in Christ are perished.

Yes, and they, who have passed to their rest in union with Christ, perished!


rate difficulty: and they came up into Judah, and broke into it, and carried away all the substance that was found in the king's house, and his sons also, and his wives; so that there was no son left him, except Jehoahaz the youngest of his sons.

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


simplify: for the poor always ye have with you, and me ye have not always;

You always have the poor with you, but you will not always have me.


simplify: The word of the Lord came again to me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And I say, `Ah, Lord Jehovah, Lo, the prophets are saying to them: Ye do not see a sword, yea, famine is not to you, For true peace I give to you in this place.'

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


rate difficulty: And I will give him the morning star.

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rate difficulty: but we ourselves will go with diligence armed before the children of Israel, until we have brought them to their place; and our little ones shall dwell in the strong cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

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simplify: Then Asa went out to meet him, and they set the battle in array in the valley of Zephathah at Mareshah.

And Asa went out against him, and they put their forces in position in the valley north of Mareshah.


rate difficulty: The sons of Gershom: Shebuel the first.

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


simplify: For he that hath, to him shall be given: and he that hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he hath.

He who has, to him will be given: and he who has not, from him will be taken even that which he has.


simplify: And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform.

On the contrary, his faith gave him strength; and he praised God, in the firm conviction that what God has promised he is also able to carry out.


simplify: And he turned him unto his disciples, and said privately, Blessed are the eyes which see the things that ye see:

And, turning to the disciples, he said privately, Happy are the eyes which see the things you see:


rate difficulty: That there is no remembrance to the wise--with the fool--to the age, for that which <FI>is<Fi> already, <FI>in<Fi> the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

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


simplify: And there were ninety and six pomegranates on the sides; all the pomegranates were a hundred upon the network round about.

There were ninety-six apples on the outside; the number of apples all round the network was a hundred.


simplify: Then certain philosophers of the Epicureans, and of the Stoicks, encountered him. And some said, What will this babbler say? other some, He seemeth to be a setter forth of strange gods: because he preached unto them Jesus, and the resurrection.

Among others, some Epicurean and Stoic Philosophers joined issue with him. Some asked “What is this prater wanting to make out?”, while others said “He seems to be a preacher of foreign Deities.” (This was because he was telling the good news about Jesus and the resurrection).


simplify: Faithful is he that calleth you, who will also do it.

God, by whom you have been marked out in his purpose, is unchanging and will make it complete.


simplify: Thus Edom refused to give Israel passage through his border: wherefore Israel turned away from him.

So Edom would not let Israel go through his land; and Israel went in another direction.


simplify: And gathering together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, he inquired of them where the Christ should be born.

And he got together all the chief priests and scribes of the people, questioning them as to where the birth-place of the Christ would be.


simplify: And when Athaliah heard the noise of the guard and of the people, she came to the people into the temple of the Lord.

Now Athaliah, hearing the noise made by the people, came to the people in the house of the Lord;


rate difficulty: there shall be with you grace, kindness, peace, from God the Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ, the Son of the Father, in truth and love.

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


simplify: The word which came unto Jeremiah from the Lord in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, saying,

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, in the days of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,


rate difficulty: And with the stones he built an altar in the name of Jehovah; and he made a trench about the altar, as great as would contain two measures of seed.

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


simplify: so then the faith <FI>is<Fi> by a report, and the report through a saying of God,

And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the message of Christ.


simplify: The Lord said also unto me in the days of Josiah the king, Hast thou seen that which backsliding Israel hath done? she is gone up upon every high mountain and under every green tree, and there hath played the harlot.

And the Lord said to me in the days of Josiah the king, Have you seen what Israel, turning away from me, has done? She has gone up on every high mountain and under every branching tree, acting like a loose woman there.


simplify: The robbery of the wicked shall destroy them; because they refuse to do judgment.

By their violent acts the evil-doers will be pulled away, because they have no desire to do what is right.


simplify: For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing, either tree or herb of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

For all the face of the earth was covered with them, so that the land was black; and every green plant and all the fruit of the trees which was untouched by the ice-storm they took for food: not one green thing, no plant or tree, was to be seen in all the land of Egypt.


simplify: David therefore himself calleth him Lord; and whence is he then his son? And the common people heard him gladly.

David himself gives him the name of Lord; and how then is he his son? And the common people gave ear to him gladly.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not have in thy bag divers weights, a great and a small.

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simplify: and out of the tribe of Benjamin, Geba with its suburbs, and Allemeth with its suburbs, and Anathoth with its suburbs. All their cities throughout their families were thirteen cities.

And from the tribe of Benjamin: Geba with its outskirts, and Alemeth with its outskirts, and Anathoth with its outskirts. All their towns among their families were thirteen towns.


rate difficulty: And the waters came back, covering the war-carriages and the horsemen and all the army of Pharaoh which went after them into the middle of the sea; not one of them was to be seen.


rate difficulty: There is no fear of God before their eyes.

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


rate difficulty: ‘Claudius Lysias sends his compliments to His Excellency Felix the Governor.

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


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

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


simplify: Then spake Haggai Jehovah’s messenger in Jehovah’s message unto the people, saying, I am with you, saith Jehovah.

Then Haggai, whom the Lord had sent to give his words to the people, said, I am with you, says the Lord.


simplify: of the tribe of Asher twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Naphtali twelve thousand were sealed; of the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand were sealed;

from the tribe of Asher twelve thousand, from the tribe of Napthali twelve thousand, from the tribe of Manasseh twelve thousand,


simplify: for your obedience did reach to all; I rejoice, therefore, as regards you, and I wish you to be wise, indeed, as to the good, and harmless as to the evil;

Everyone has heard of your ready obedience. It is true that I am very happy about you, but I want you to be well versed in all that is good, and innocent of all that is bad.


simplify: Let all things be done decently and in order.

Let all things be done in the right and ordered way.


simplify: It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.

It is good to go on hoping and quietly waiting for the salvation of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Jesus in answer said to them, Truly I say to you, If you have faith, without doubting, not only may you do what has been done to the fig-tree, but even if you say to this mountain, Be taken up and put into the sea, it will be done.

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


rate difficulty: I have no greater joy than these things that I hear of my children walking in the truth.


rate difficulty: And the king said to him, Where is he? And Ziba said to the king, Behold, he is in the house of Machir the son of Ammiel, in Lodebar.

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


simplify: Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.

You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.


simplify: Who was there among all the gods of those nations which my fathers utterly destroyed, that could deliver his people out of my hand, that your God should be able to deliver you out of my hand?

Who was there among all the gods of those nations, which my fathers put to destruction, who was able to keep his people safe from my hands? and is it possible that your God will keep you safe from my hands?


simplify: Ye have heard that it was said, Thou shalt not commit adultery:

You have knowledge that it was said, You may not have connection with another man's wife:


rate difficulty: What mean ye that ye crush my people, and grind the faces of the afflicted? saith the Lord, Jehovah of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: Charge them that are rich in this present world, that they be not highminded, nor have their hope set on the uncertainty of riches, but on God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

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


rate difficulty: Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

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


simplify: Because of this I say to you, all sin and evil speaking shall be forgiven to men, but the evil speaking of the Spirit shall not be forgiven to men.

Therefore, I tell you, people will be forgiven every sin and slander; but slander against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven.


rate difficulty: And no blood shall ye eat in any of your dwellings, whether it be of fowl or of cattle.


rate difficulty: love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.

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


rate difficulty: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth, for the breath of Jehovah bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

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


rate difficulty: And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

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


simplify: And between the chambers was the wideness of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.


simplify: And not only <FI>so<Fi> , but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting--the redemption of our body;

And not Nature only; but we ourselves also, though we have already a first gift of the Spirit — we ourselves are inwardly groaning, while we eagerly await our full adoption as sons — the redemption of our bodies.


simplify: And I will gather the remnant of my flock out of all the countries whither I have driven them, and will bring them again to their folds; and they shall be fruitful and multiply.

And I will get the rest of my flock together from all the countries where I have sent them, and will make them come back again to their resting-place; and they will have offspring and be increased.


rate difficulty: Truth buy, and sell not, Wisdom, and instruction, and understanding,


simplify: All things are delivered to me of my Father: and no man knoweth who the Son is, but the Father; and who the Father is, but the Son, and he to whom the Son will reveal him.

All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.


rate difficulty: Dan, and Naphtali, Gad, and Asher.

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


simplify: And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:

Then Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, the God of my father Isaac, the Lord who said to me, Go back to your country and your family and I will be good to you:


rate difficulty: His children shall seek to please the poor, and his hands shall restore their goods.

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


rate difficulty: lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel;

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


rate difficulty: one young bullock, one ram, one yearling lamb, for a burnt-offering;

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


simplify: These were in the days of Joiakim the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the governor, and of Ezra the priest the scribe.

These were in the days of Joiakim, the son of Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and in the days of Nehemiah the ruler and of Ezra the priest, the scribe.


rate difficulty: Therefore, I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Surely for blood I do appoint thee, And blood doth pursue thee, If blood thou hast not hated, Blood also doth pursue thee.

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


rate difficulty: having heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have toward all the saints,

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


simplify: But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Arise, go up to meet the messengers of the king of Samaria, and say unto them, Is it not because there is not a God in Israel, that ye go to enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron?

But the angel of the Lord said to Elijah the Tishbite, Go now, and, meeting the men sent by the king of Samaria, say to them, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you are going to get directions from Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron?


simplify: For the Son of man shall come in the glory of his Father with his angels; and then he shall reward every man according to his works.

For the Son of Man is to come in his Father’s glory, with his angels, and then he ‘will give to everyone what his actions deserve.’


simplify: When they had heard these words, they marvelled, and left him, and went their way.

And hearing it, they were full of wonder, and went away from him.


simplify: Therefore they turned their backs before the men of Israel unto the way of the wilderness; but the battle followed hard after them; and they that came out of the cities destroyed them in the midst thereof.

So turning their backs on the men of Israel, they went in the direction of the waste land; but the fight overtook them; and those who came out of the town were heading them off and putting them to the sword.


rate difficulty: The Lord has taken an oath, saying, My design will certainly come about, and my purpose will be effected:

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass that he who remaineth in Zion, and he that is left in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, — every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem;

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


simplify: For I will not see you now by the way; but I trust to tarry a while with you, if the Lord permit.

For it is not my desire to see you now, on my way; because it is my hope to be with you for some time, if that is the Lord's pleasure.


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

And all the brothers who are with me, to the churches of Galatia:


simplify: For Christ did not send me to baptize, but--to proclaim good news; not in wisdom of discourse, that the cross of the Christ may not be made of none effect;

My mission from Christ was not to baptize, but to tell the good news; not, however, in the language of philosophy, in case the cross of the Christ should be robbed of its meaning.


simplify: But Jesus said unto her, Let the children first be filled: for it is not meet to take the children’s bread, and to cast it unto the dogs.

“Let the children be satisfied first,”answered Jesus. “For it is not fair to take the children’s food, and throw it to dogs.”


rate difficulty: For from day to day men came to David to help him, until there was a great host, like the host of God.


simplify: And whosoever toucheth her bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And anyone touching her bed will have to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings.


simplify: These are the families of the Simeonites, twenty and two thousand and two hundred.

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


simplify: Thus shall it be done for each bullock, or for each ram, or for each of the he-lambs, or of the kids.

This is to be done for every young ox and for every male sheep or he-lamb or young goat.


simplify: And Aaron shall offer the Levites before the Lord for an offering of the children of Israel, that they may execute the service of the Lord.

And Aaron is to give the Levites to the Lord as a wave offering from the children of Israel, so that they may do the Lord's work.


rate difficulty: And Alammelech, and Amad, and Misheal; and reacheth to Carmel westward, and to Shihor–libnath;

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rate difficulty: And Joseph returned into Egypt, he, and his brethren, and all that went up with him to bury his father, after he had buried his father.

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


simplify: And the masters! the same things do ye unto them, letting threatening alone, having known that also your Master is in the heavens, and acceptance of persons is not with him.

And masters, treat your slaves in the same spirit. Give up threatening them; for you know that he who is both their Master and yours is in heaven, and that before him there is no distinction of rank.


rate difficulty: And Pilate said in answer to them, Is it your desire that I let the King of the Jews go free?

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


simplify: The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.


simplify: And he came down with them, and stood in the plain, and the company of his disciples, and a great multitude of people out of all Judea and Jerusalem, and from the sea coast of Tyre and Sidon, which came to hear him, and to be healed of their diseases;

And he came down with them to a level place, and a great band of his disciples, and a very great number of people from all Judaea and Jerusalem and from the parts of Tyre and Sidon by the sea, came to give hearing to him, and to be made well from their diseases;


rate difficulty: And of cattle he had seven thousand sheep and goats, and three thousand camels, and a thousand oxen, and five hundred she-asses, and a very great number of servants. And the man was greater than any of the sons of the east.


rate difficulty: and the families of the scribes the inhabitants of Jabez: Tirathites, Shimeathites, Suchathites. They <FI>are<Fi> the Kenites, those coming of Hammath father of the house of Rechab.

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


simplify: Little children, let no man deceive you: he that doeth righteousness is righteous, even as he is righteous.

My little children, let no man take you out of the true way: he who does righteousness is upright, even as he is upright;


rate difficulty: But to the land whereunto they desire to return, thither shall they not return.

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


rate difficulty: Then asked we those elders, and said unto them thus, Who gave you a decree to build this house, and to finish this wall?

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


simplify: Wherefore shew ye to them, and before the churches, the proof of your love, and of our boasting on your behalf.

Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.


rate difficulty: For your sorrow will go from your memory, like waters flowing away:

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


simplify: because that, knowing God, they glorified him not as God, neither gave thanks; but became vain in their reasonings, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Because, having the knowledge of God, they did not give glory to God as God, and did not give praise, but their minds were full of foolish things, and their hearts, being without sense, were made dark.


rate difficulty: saying--`It behoveth the Son of Man to suffer many things, and to be rejected by the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be killed, and the third day to be raised.'

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


rate difficulty: As a woman with child, that draweth near her delivery, is in travail, [and] crieth out in her pangs; so have we been before thee, Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Blessing, mercy, and peace will be ours — the gift of God, the Father, and of Jesus Christ, the Father’s Son — in a life of truth and love.

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simplify: And all the princes of the king of Babylon came in, and sat in the middle gate, even Nergal–sharezer, Samgar–nebo, Sarsechim, Rab–saris, Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, with all the residue of the princes of the king of Babylon.

All the captains of the king of Babylon came in and took their places in the middle doorway of the town, Nergal-shar-ezer, ruler of Sin-magir, the Rabmag, and Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and all the captains of the king of Babylon.


rate difficulty: and he sent forth his servants to call those having been called to the marriage-feasts, and they were not willing to come.

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


rate difficulty: But if you are turned away from me, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods, giving them worship:

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


simplify: But ten men were found among them that said unto Ishmael, Slay us not: for we have treasures in the field, of wheat, and of barley, and of oil, and of honey. So he forbare, and slew them not among their brethren.

But there were ten men among them who said to Ishmael, Do not put us to death, for we have secret stores, in the country, of grain and oil and honey. So he did not put them to death with their countrymen.


simplify: And if Christ be not raised, your faith is vain; ye are yet in your sins.

and, if Christ has not been raised, your faith is folly — your sins are on you still!


rate difficulty: It is no good for the land or for the place of waste; no one has a use for it. He who has ears, let him give ear.

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


simplify: And they journeyed from Libnah, and encamped in Rissah.

And they went on from Libnah, and put up their tents in Rissah.


rate difficulty: Then take some of the blood of the ox, and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, draining out all the rest of the blood at the base of the altar.

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


rate difficulty: And the giver of punishment, meeting him outside the walls of the town, puts him to death, he will not be responsible for his blood:

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


rate difficulty: And the likeness of their faces was the same faces which I saw by the river of Chebar, their appearances and themselves: they went every one straight forward.

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


rate difficulty: He giveth to his smiter the cheek, He is filled with reproach.

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


simplify: O Jehovah, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, unto thee shall the nations come from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Our fathers have inherited nought but lies, even vanity and things wherein there is no profit.

O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.


rate difficulty: And any clothing of wool or of linen in which is the mark of the disease;

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


rate difficulty: If you have not knowledge, O most beautiful among women, go on your way in the footsteps of the flock, and give your young goats food by the tents of the keepers.

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


simplify: Jehovah will fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

The Lord will make war for you, you have only to keep quiet.


rate difficulty: And having called to him his twelve disciples, he gave to them power over unclean spirits, so as to be casting them out, and to be healing every sickness, and every malady.


simplify: And he answereth them, and saith, Who is my mother and my brethren?

And he said in answer, Who are my mother and my brothers?


rate difficulty: So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down and put Solomon on King David's beast and took him to Gihon.

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


rate difficulty: Woe to them that go down to Egypt for help; and stay on horses, and trust in chariots, because they are many; and in horsemen, because they are very strong; but they look not unto the Holy One of Israel, neither seek the Lord!


rate difficulty: In Gilead there is evil. They are quite without value; in Gilgal they make offerings of oxen; truly their altars are like masses of stones in the hollows of a ploughed field.


rate difficulty: If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and the violent taking away of justice and righteousness in a province, marvel not at the matter: for one higher than the high regardeth; and there are higher than they.

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


rate difficulty: And having said these words, he went down on his knees in prayer with them all.


simplify: In that time shall a present be brought unto Jehovah of hosts from a people tall and smooth, even from a people terrible from their beginning onward, a nation that meteth out and treadeth down, whose land the rivers divide, to the place of the name of Jehovah of hosts, the mount Zion.

In that time an offering will be made to the Lord of armies from a people tall and smooth, causing fear through all their history; a strong nation, crushing down its haters, whose land is cut through by rivers, an offering taken to the place of the name of the Lord of armies, even Mount Zion.


simplify: Let as many as are servants under the yoke count their own masters worthy of all honor, that the name of God and the doctrine be not blasphemed.

Let all who are servants under the yoke give all honour to their masters, so that no evil may be said against the name of God and his teaching.


rate difficulty: And the other cherub was ten cubits: both the cherubims were of one measure and one size.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And Judah spake unto him, saying, The man did solemnly protest unto us, saying, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

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


simplify: And the sons of Judah after their families were; of Shelah, the family of the Shelanites: of Pharez, the family of the Pharzites: of Zerah, the family of the Zarhites.

And the sons of Judah by their families were: of Shelah, the family of the Shelahites: of Perez, the family of the Perezites: of Zerah, the family of the Zerahites.


rate difficulty: Then opened he up their understanding to understand the Writings,


rate difficulty: And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for joy, but ran in, and told that Peter stood before the gate.

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


rate difficulty: If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;

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


rate difficulty: And unto you I attend, And lo, there is no reasoner for Job, <FI>Or<Fi> answerer of his sayings among you.

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


simplify: And they spake the word of the Lord unto him, with all that were in his house.

And they gave the word of the Lord to him and to all who were in his house.


rate difficulty: And with this I have given you what you made no request for: wealth and honour, so that no king was ever your equal.

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


rate difficulty: And thou, thou dost not pray for this people, Nor dost thou lift up for them cry and prayer, For I do not hearken in the time of their calling unto Me for their vexation.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And another angel came out from the temple, crying with a great voice to him that sat on the cloud, Send forth thy sickle, and reap: for the hour to reap is come; for the harvest of the earth is ripe.

And another angel came out from the house of God, crying with a loud voice to him who was seated on the cloud, Put in your blade, and let the grain be cut: because the hour for cutting it is come; for the grain of the earth is over-ready.


simplify: And Abiathar shewed David that Saul had slain the Lord’s priests.

And gave him the news of how Saul had put to death the Lord's priests.


rate difficulty: For if the readiness be there, [a man is] accepted according to what he may have, not according to what he has not.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!


rate difficulty: There is the sound of crying from Horonaim, wasting and great destruction;

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


simplify: let them alone, guides they are--blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

Let them be; they are but blind guides; and, if one blind person guides another, both of them will fall into a ditch.”


simplify: And it came to pass on the seventh day, that they rose early at the dawning of the day, and compassed the city after the same manner seven times: only on that day they compassed the city seven times.

Then on the seventh day they got up early, at the dawn of the day, and went round the town in the same way, but that day they went round it seven times.


rate difficulty: And he looked, and behold, there was a well in the fields, and behold there, three flocks of sheep were lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks, and a great stone was at the mouth of the well.

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


rate difficulty: And Abram moved onward, going on still toward the south.

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


simplify: And they sent the coat of many colours, and they brought it to their father; and said, This have we found: know now whether it be thy son’s coat or no.

And they took the coat to their father, and said, We came across this; is it your son's coat or not?


rate difficulty: Today I put before you a blessing and a curse:


simplify: Then said he unto me, Son of man, hast thou seen what the ancients of the house of Israel do in the dark, every man in the chambers of his imagery? for they say, The Lord seeth us not; the Lord hath forsaken the earth.

And he said to me, Son of man, have you seen what the responsible men of the children of Israel do in the dark, every man in his room of pictured images? for they say, The Lord does not see us; the Lord has gone away from the land.


simplify: These uncovered her nakedness; they took her sons and her daughters; and her they slew with the sword: and she became a byword among women; for they executed judgments upon her.

By these her shame was uncovered: they took her sons and daughters and put her to death with the sword: and she became a cause of wonder to women; for they gave her the punishment which was right.


simplify: the lord of that servant shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour when he knoweth not,

The lord of that servant will come in a day when he is not looking for him, and in an hour of which he has no knowledge,


rate difficulty: But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.

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


rate difficulty: there came, therefore, a sharp contention, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas having taken Mark, did sail to Cyprus,

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


simplify: Moreover this they have done unto me: they have defiled my sanctuary in the same day, and have profaned my sabbaths.

Further, this is what she has done to me: she has made my holy place unclean and has made my Sabbaths unclean.


rate difficulty: And David heareth afterwards and saith, `Acquitted <FI>am<Fi> I, and my kingdom, by Jehovah, unto the age, from the blood of Abner son of Ner;

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


simplify: The one lamb thou shalt offer in the morning; and the other lamb thou shalt offer at even:

One lamb is to be offered in the morning and the other in the evening:


rate difficulty: The Lord will rescue me from all evil, and bring me safe into his Heavenly kingdom. All glory to him for ever and ever! Amen.


simplify: And lest your heart faint, and ye fear for the rumour that shall be heard in the land; a rumour shall both come one year, and after that in another year shall come a rumour, and violence in the land, ruler against ruler.

So that your hearts may not become feeble and full of fear because of the news which will go about in the land; for a story will go about one year, and after that in another year another story, and violent acts in the land, ruler against ruler.


simplify: Cry aloud and shout, thou inhabitant of Zion; for great in the midst of thee is the Holy One of Israel.

Let your voice be sounding in a cry of joy, O daughter of Zion, for great is the Holy One of Israel among you.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will raise up against Babylon, and against them that dwell in the midst of them that rise up against me, a destroying wind;

The Lord has said: See, I will make a wind of destruction come up against Babylon and against those who are living in Chaldaea;


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

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


simplify: Go ye, enquire of the Lord for me, and for the people, and for all Judah, concerning the words of this book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is kindled against us, because our fathers have not hearkened unto the words of this book, to do according unto all that which is written concerning us.

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for the people and for all Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which is burning against us, because our fathers have not given ear to the words of this book, to do all the things which are recorded in it.


rate difficulty: The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Jehovah, was taken in their pits; of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.


simplify: So the armed men left the captives and the spoil before the princes and all the congregation.

So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.


simplify: And on the morrow they entered into Cæsarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kinsmen and his near friends.

And the day after that, they came to Caesarea. And Cornelius was waiting for them, having got together his relations and his near friends.


simplify: The mouth of the righteous bringeth forth wisdom; But the perverse tongue shall be cut off.

The mouth of the upright man is budding with wisdom, but the twisted tongue will be cut off.


simplify: And they, when they heard it, were glad, and promised to give him money. And he sought how he might conveniently deliver him unto them.

And hearing what he said, they were glad, and gave him their word to make him a payment of money. And he took thought how he might best give him up to them.


simplify: He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him; whereas if he had taken warning, he would have delivered his soul.

On hearing the sound of the horn, he did not take note; his blood will be on him; for if he had taken note his life would have been safe.


simplify: This shall they have for their pride, because they have reproached and magnified themselves against the people of Jehovah of hosts.

This will be their fate because of their pride, because they have said evil, lifting themselves up against the people of the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of its sheath, and killed him completely, and cut off his head with it. And when the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they fled.

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


simplify: Seeing that many glory after the flesh, I will glory also.

Seeing that there are those who take credit to themselves after the flesh, I will do the same.


simplify: Show ye therefore unto them in the face of the churches the proof of your love, and of our glorying on your behalf.

Make clear then to them, as representatives of the churches, the quality of your love, and that the things which we have said about you are true.


simplify: If any man teacheth a different doctrine, and consenteth not to sound words, even the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness;

If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,


rate difficulty: And having risen, the chief priest, and all those with him--being the sect of the Sadducees--were filled with zeal,

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


rate difficulty: Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.

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


simplify: In this manifest are the children of God, and the children of the devil; every one who is not doing righteousness, is not of God, and he who is not loving his brother,

By this the children of God are distinguished from the children of the devil — No one who lives unrighteously comes from God, and especially the person who does not love others.


rate difficulty: He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.


simplify: And they shall come thither, and they shall take away all the detestable things thereof and all the abominations thereof from thence.

And they will come there, and take away all the hated and disgusting things from it.


rate difficulty: and that they should keep the charge of the tent of meeting, and the charge of the holy place, and the charge of the sons of Aaron their brethren, for the service of the house of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken; for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth an adder, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.

Be not glad, O Philistia, all of you, because the rod which was on you is broken: for out of the snake's root will come a poison-snake, and its fruit will be a winged poison-snake.


simplify: knowing this first, that no prophecy of scripture is of private interpretation.

Being conscious in the first place that no man by himself may give a special sense to the words of the prophets.


simplify: And Jesus rebuked him, saying, Hold thy peace, and come out of him. And when the demon had thrown him down in the midst, he came out of him, having done him no hurt.

And Jesus said to him, Be quiet, and come out of him. And when the evil spirit had put him down on the earth in the middle of them, he came out of him, having done him no damage.


rate difficulty: And all the elders of Israel came; and the priests took up the ark.


simplify: Ask thee a sign of Jehovah thy God; ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.

Make a request to the Lord your God for a sign, a sign in the deep places of the underworld, or in the high heavens.


rate difficulty: And there were four leprous men at the entrance of the gate, and they said one to another, Why do we abide here until we die?

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


simplify: And all the peoples of the earth shall see that thou art called by the name of Jehovah; and they shall be afraid of thee.

And all the peoples of the earth will see that the name of the Lord is on you, and they will go in fear of you.


simplify: Men and brethren, children of the stock of Abraham, and whosoever among you feareth God, to you is the word of this salvation sent.

My brothers, children of the family of Abraham, and those among you who have the fear of God, to us the word of this salvation is sent.


rate difficulty: For every sort of beast and bird and every living thing on earth and in the sea has been controlled by man and is under his authority;

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


simplify: For ye have the poor always with you, and whensoever ye will ye can do them good: but me ye have not always.

The poor you have ever with you, and whenever you have the desire you may do them good: but me you have not for ever.


simplify: So Michal let David down through a window: and he went, and fled, and escaped.

So Michal let David down through the window, and he went in flight and got away.


simplify: Howbeit every nation made gods of their own, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in their cities wherein they dwelt.

And every nation made gods for themselves, and put them in the houses of the high places which the Samaritans had made, every nation in the towns where they were living.


rate difficulty: For their heart studieth destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

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


rate difficulty: And I saw, and behold, the Lamb standing on the mount Zion, and with him a hundred and forty and four thousand, having his name, and the name of his Father, written on their foreheads.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover, my father, see, yea, see the skirt of thy robe in my hand: for in that I cut off the skirt of thy robe, and killed thee not, know thou and see that there is neither evil nor transgression in mine hand, and I have not sinned against thee; yet thou huntest my soul to take it.

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


simplify: The wrath of a king is as messengers of death: but a wise man will pacify it.

The wrath of the king is like those who give news of death, but a wise man will put peace in place of it.


rate difficulty: And she conceived, and bare a son: and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.


simplify: And unto Caleb the son of Jephunneh he gave a portion among the children of Judah, according to the commandment of Jehovah to Joshua, even Kiriath-arba, which Arba was the father of Anak (the same is Hebron).

And to Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, he gave a part among the children of Judah, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua, that is, Kiriath-arba, named after Arba, the father of Anak which is Hebron.


rate difficulty: For he has said, It is no profit to a man to take delight in God.

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


rate difficulty: So Moses went down to the people, and told them.


rate difficulty: Hearken unto this, O Job: stand still, and consider the wondrous works of God.

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


simplify: and be going rather unto the lost sheep of the house of Israel.

but make your way rather to the lost sheep of Israel.


rate difficulty: Whoever does the will of God is my brother and sister and mother.”


simplify: And Jacob sent messengers before him to Esau his brother unto the land of Seir, the country of Edom.

Now Jacob sent servants before him to Esau, his brother, in the land of Seir, the country of Edom;


simplify: Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.

Now when they saw that Peter and John were without fear, though they were men of no education or learning, they were greatly surprised; and they took note of them that they had been with Jesus.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household.

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


simplify: And the children of Shobal were these; Alvan, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.

And these are the children of Shobal: Alvan, Manahath, Ebal, Shepho, and Onam.


simplify: O that ye were bearing with me a little of the folly, but ye also do bear with me:

I could wish that you would tolerate a little folly in me! But indeed you do tolerate me.


simplify: Doth the wild ass bray when he hath grass? Or loweth the ox over his fodder?

Does the ass of the fields give out his voice when he has grass? or does the ox make sounds over his food?


simplify: Now Manasseh had the land of Tappuah: but Tappuah on the border of Manasseh belonged to the children of Ephraim;

The land of Tappuah was the property of Manasseh; but Tappuah on the edge of Manasseh was the property of the children of Ephraim.


simplify: lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, and they play the harlot after their gods, and sacrifice unto their gods, and one call thee and thou eat of his sacrifice;

So see that you make no agreement with the people of the land, and do not go after their gods, or take part in their offerings, or be guests at their feasts,


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

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


simplify: And he took all the gold and silver, and all the vessels that were found in the house of the Lord, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and hostages, and returned to Samaria.

And he took all the gold and silver and all the vessels which were in the house of the Lord and in the store-house of the king, together with those whose lives would be the price of broken faith, and went back to Samaria.


simplify: but after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up for thyself wrath in the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah God said, It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him a help meet for him.


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, Lo, I am sending among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, and I have given them up as figs that <FI>are<Fi> vile, that are not eaten for badness.

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


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

This went on for two years, so that all who lived in Roman Asia, Jews and Greeks alike, heard the Lord’s message.


rate difficulty: [men] who as to the truth have gone astray, saying that the resurrection has taken place already; and overthrow the faith of some.

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


simplify: and desire earnestly the better gifts; and yet a far excelling way do I shew to you:


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel did eat the manna forty years, until they came to a land inhabited; they did eat the manna, until they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: And when the Philistines came, they went in every direction in the valley of Rephaim.

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


simplify: His countenance was like lightning, and his raiment white as snow:

His form was shining like the light, and his clothing was white as snow:


simplify: And Jehovah said unto me, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A plumb-line. Then said the Lord, Behold, I will set a plumb-line in the midst of my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more;

And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:


rate difficulty: But we believe that through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ we shall be saved, even as they.


rate difficulty: And David the king cometh in and sitteth before Jehovah, and saith, `Who <FI>am<Fi> I, O Jehovah God, and what my house, that Thou hast brought me hitherto?

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they of Ephraim shall be like a mighty man, and their heart shall rejoice as through wine; yea, their children shall see it, and rejoice; their heart shall be glad in Jehovah.

And Ephraim will be like a man of war, and their hearts will be glad as with wine; and their children will see it with joy; their hearts will be glad in the Lord.


simplify: And David said to Saul, Let no man’s heart fail because of him; thy servant will go and fight with this Philistine.

And David said to Saul, Let no man's heart become feeble because of him; I, your servant, will go out and have a fight with this Philistine.


simplify: But let your speech be, Yea, yea; Nay, nay: and whatsoever is more than these is of the evil one.

But let your words be simply, Yes or No: and whatever is more than these is of the Evil One.


simplify: And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.


simplify: but he shall let go the living bird out of the city into the open field: so shall he make atonement for the house; and it shall be clean.

But he will let the living bird go out of the town into the open country; so he will take away sin from the house and it will be clean.


simplify: He that is unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still.

Let the evil man go on in his evil: and let the unclean be still unclean: and let the upright go on in his righteousness: and let the holy be holy still.


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


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was baptized of John in the Jordan.

And it came about in those days, that Jesus came from Nazareth of Galilee, and was given baptism by John in the Jordan.


rate difficulty: Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.


rate difficulty: And when she was risen up to glean, Boaz commanded his young men, saying, Let her glean even among the sheaves, and reproach her not.

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


simplify: Of whom is Hymeneus and Alexander; whom I have delivered unto Satan, that they may learn not to blaspheme.

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


simplify: And the sons of Eshek his brother were, Ulam his firstborn, Jehush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his oldest son, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.


simplify: Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are counted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.


rate difficulty: Do not let anyone deceive you with specious arguments. Those are the sins that bring down the wrath of God on the disobedient.

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


rate difficulty: And he built altars to all the host of heaven in both courts of the house of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: to confirm these days of Purim in their fixed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and queen Esther had enjoined them, and as they had decreed for themselves and for their seed, as to the matters of the fastings and their cry.

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


rate difficulty: But Jacob said, My lord may see that the children are only small, and there are young ones in my flocks and herds: one day's over-driving will be the destruction of all the flock.

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


rate difficulty: thou shalt surely restore to him the pledge when the sun goeth down, that he may sleep in his garment, and bless thee: and it shall be righteousness unto thee before Jehovah thy God.

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


rate difficulty: and the loving kindness of our Lord was boundless, and filled me with that faith and love which come from union with Christ Jesus.


simplify: And Pilate wondered if he were already dead, and having called near the centurion, did question him if he were long dead,

But Pilate was surprised to hear that he had already died. So he sent for the officer, and asked if he were already dead;


rate difficulty: Only we were to remember the poor — the thing I was myself anxious to do.


simplify: And this is my covenant unto them, When I shall take away their sins.

And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.


simplify: And he brought out the Asherah from the house of Jehovah, without Jerusalem, unto the brook Kidron, and burned it at the brook Kidron, and beat it to dust, and cast the dust thereof upon the graves of the common people.

And he took the Asherah from the house of the Lord, outside Jerusalem to the stream Kidron, burning it by the stream and crushing it to dust, and he put the dust on the place where the bodies of the common people were put to rest.


rate difficulty: When thou comest into thy neighbour's vineyard, thou mayest eat grapes thy fill, according to thy desire, but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they that were sent, returning to the house, found the servant whole that had been sick.

And, when the messengers returned to the house, they found the slave recovered.


simplify: And they journeyed from mount Hor by the way of the Red sea, to compass the land of Edom: and the soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way.

Then they went on from Mount Hor by the way to the Red Sea, going round the land of Edom: and the spirit of the people was overcome with weariness on the way.