rate difficulty: then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have hallowed to my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it a proverb and a byword among all peoples.

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


simplify: Then Jesse made Shammah to pass by. And he said, Neither hath the Lord chosen this.

Then Jesse made Shammah come before him. And he said, The Lord has not taken this one.


rate difficulty: And it is declared to Saul that David hath come in to Keilah, and Saul saith, `God hath made him known for my hand, for he hath been shut in, to enter into a city of doors and bar.'

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


rate difficulty: and already also the axe unto the root of the trees is laid, every tree, therefore, not making good fruit is cut down, and to fire it is cast.'

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


simplify: And it came to pass after this, that David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go up into any of the cities of Judah? And the Lord said unto him, Go up. And David said, Whither shall I go up? And he said, Unto Hebron.

Now after this, David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go up into any of the towns of Judah? And the Lord said to him, Go up. And David said, Where am I to go? And he said, To Hebron.


rate difficulty: They will take dust as their food like a snake, like the things which go flat on the earth; they will come shaking with fear out of their secret places: they will come with fear to the Lord our God, full of fear because of you.

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


rate difficulty: And she had a sister called Mary, which also sat at Jesus’ feet, and heard his word.


rate difficulty: Now therefore, my son, obey my voice according to that which I command thee.

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


simplify: Seest thou how Ahab humbleth himself before me? because he humbleth himself before me, I will not bring the evil in his days: but in his son’s days will I bring the evil upon his house.

Do you see how Ahab has made himself low before me? because he has made himself low before me, I will not send the evil in his life-time, but in his son's time I will send the evil on his family.


rate difficulty: Now when he was gone out, his servants came; and they saw, and, behold, the doors of the upper room were locked; and they said, Surely he is covering his feet in the upper chamber.

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


rate difficulty: O death, where is thy victory? O death, where is thy sting?

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


rate difficulty: And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them: and it had palm trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

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


rate difficulty: They put the kings of Midian to death with the rest, Evi and Reken and Zur and Hur and Reba, the five kings of Midian: and Balaam, the son of Beor, they put to death with the sword.

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


simplify: Then Abraham fell upon his face, and laughed, and said in his heart, Shall a child be born unto him that is an hundred years old? and shall Sarah, that is ninety years old, bear?

Then Abraham went down on his face, and laughing, said in his heart, May a man a hundred years old have a child? will Sarah, at ninety years old, give birth?


rate difficulty: And who is to say if that man will be wise or foolish? But he will have power over all my work which I have done and in which I have been wise under the sun. This again is to no purpose.

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


rate difficulty: each one, according as he doth purpose in heart, not out of sorrow or out of necessity, for a cheerful giver doth God love,

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


rate difficulty: and I will cast thee into the wilderness, thee and all the fish of thy rivers: thou shalt fall upon the open field; thou shalt not be brought together nor gathered: I will give thee for meat to the beasts of the earth and to the fowl of the heavens.

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


simplify: Thou hast a few names even in Sardis which have not defiled their garments; and they shall walk with me in white: for they are worthy.

But you have some names in Sardis who have kept clean their robes; and as a reward they will go in white with me.


rate difficulty: And when thou art come in, thou shalt shut the door upon thee and upon thy sons, and shalt pour out into all those vessels, and thou shalt set aside that which is full.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Neither, because they are the seed of Abraham, are they all children: but, In Isaac shall thy seed be called.

nor, because they are Abraham’s descendants, are they all his children; but — ‘It is Isaac’s children who will be called your descendants.’


simplify: Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.

Say openly in Judah, give it out in Jerusalem, and say, Let the horn be sounded in the land: crying out in a loud voice, Come together, and let us go into the walled towns.


simplify: For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.


simplify: And many nations shall pass by this city, and they shall say every man to his neighbor, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this great city?

And nations from all sides will go past this town, and every man will say to his neighbour, Why has the Lord done such things to this great town?


simplify: Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may be seen of men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

And when you go without food, be not sad-faced as the false-hearted are. For they go about with changed looks, so that men may see that they are going without food. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.


simplify: And the battle was very sore that day; and Abner was beaten, and the men of Israel, before the servants of David.

And there was hard fighting that day; and Abner and the men of Israel gave way before the servants of David.


simplify: And afterward he read all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, according to all that is written in the book of the law.

And after, he gave them all the words of the law, the blessing and the curse, as it is all recorded in the book of the law;


rate difficulty: And the Levites: by name, Jeshua, the son of Azaniah, Binnui, of the sons of Henadad, Kadmiel,

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


rate difficulty: And David went forth; whithersoever Saul sent him he prospered; and Saul set him over the men of war, and he was accepted in the sight of all the people, and also in the sight of Saul's servants.

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


simplify: And upon Kiriathaim, and upon Beth–gamul, and upon Beth–meon,

And on Kiriathaim, and on Beth-gamul, and on Beth-meon,


rate difficulty: And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a nation far off: for Jehovah hath spoken.

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


simplify: Of his own will he brought us forth by the word of truth, that we should be a kind of firstfruits of his creatures.

Of his purpose he gave us being, by his true word, so that we might be, in a sense, the first-fruits of all the things which he had made.


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: Holding faith, and a good conscience; which some having put away concerning faith have made shipwreck:

with faith, and with a clear conscience; and it is because they have thrust this aside, that, as regards the faith, some have wrecked their lives.


rate difficulty: And in the cloud prolonging itself over the tabernacle many days, then have the sons of Israel kept the charge of Jehovah, and journey not,

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


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

But he, answering, said to them, See you not all these things? truly I say to you that here there will not be one stone resting on another, which will not be pulled down.


simplify: that drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the chief oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.

Drinking wine in basins, rubbing themselves with the best oils; but they have no grief for the destruction of Joseph.


rate difficulty: The crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim shall be trodden under feet;


simplify: Then certain of the scribes and of the Pharisees answered, saying, Master, we would see a sign from thee.

At this point, some teachers of the law and Pharisees spoke up. “Teacher,” they said, “we want to see some sign from you.”


simplify: Then the fire of Jehovah fell, and consumed the burnt-offering, and the wood, and the stones, and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.

Then the fire of the Lord came down, burning up the offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and drinking up the water in the drain.


simplify: And many shall stumble thereon, and fall, and be broken, and be snared, and be taken.

And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.


rate difficulty: Ye have ploughed wickedness, Perversity ye have reaped, Ye have eaten the fruit of lying, For thou hast trusted in thy way, In the abundance of thy might.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Jehovah hath made even both of them.

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


rate difficulty: of whom also do thou beware, for greatly hath he stood against our words;

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


simplify: But I trust in the Lord that I also myself shall come shortly.

But I have faith in the Lord that I myself will come before long.


simplify: And seek not ye what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink, neither be ye of doubtful mind.

And do not give overmuch thought to your food and drink, and let not your mind be full of doubts.


simplify: And they that labor in the city, out of all the tribes of Israel, shall till it.

It will be farmed by workers of the town from all the tribes of Israel.


rate difficulty: Now when the captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these words, they were much perplexed concerning them whereunto this would grow.

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


rate difficulty: Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land, concerning which thou hadst promised to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

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


simplify: Wherefore my sentence is, that we trouble not them, which from among the Gentiles are turned to God:

In my judgment, therefore, we should not add to the difficulties of those Gentiles who are turning to God,


simplify: Insomuch that they brought forth the sick into the streets, and laid them on beds and couches, that at the least the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.

The consequence was that people would bring out their sick even into the streets, and lay them on mattresses and mats, in the hope that, as Peter came by, at least his shadow might fall on some one of them.


rate difficulty: and he lifteth up his eyes and looketh, and lo, three men standing by him, and he seeth, and runneth to meet them from the opening of the tent, and boweth himself towards the earth,

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


rate difficulty: Lo, I am bringing in upon thee a fear, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah of Hosts, From all round about thee, And ye have been driven out each before it, And there is no gatherer of the wandering.

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


rate difficulty: And there were present certain at that time, telling him about the Galileans, whose blood Pilate did mingle with their sacrifices;

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


simplify: And one of the elders answered, saying unto me, What are these which are arrayed in white robes? and whence came they?

And one of the rulers made answer, saying to me, These who have on white robes, who are they, and where did they come from?


rate difficulty: and he captureth the cities of the bulwarks that <FI>are<Fi> to Judah, and cometh in unto Jerusalem.

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


simplify: The sons of Judah; Pharez, Hezron, and Carmi, and Hur, and Shobal.

The sons of Judah: Perez, Hezron and Carmi and Hur and Shobal.


rate difficulty: In that day shall there be upon the bells of the horses, HOLINESS UNTO JEHOVAH; and the pots in Jehovah's house shall be like the bowls before the altar.

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


rate difficulty: the son of Mahli, the son of Mushi, the son of Merari, the son of Levi.

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


rate difficulty: And his armourbearer said unto him, Do all that is in thine heart: turn thee; behold, I am with thee according to thy heart.

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


simplify: who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

In the past you were not a people, but now you are the people of God; then there was no mercy for you, but now mercy has been given to you.


rate difficulty: Then said God, Call his name Lo–ammi: for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God.

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


simplify: So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; It taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

Such is the fate of everyone who goes in search of profit; it takes away the life of its owners.


simplify: For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;

For all have done wrong and are far from the glory of God;


rate difficulty: To say no evil of any man, not to be fighters, to give way to others, to be gentle in behaviour to all men.

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


simplify: Therefore sent he thither horses, and chariots, and a great host: and they came by night, and compassed the city about.

So he sent there horses and carriages and a great army; and they came by night, circling the town.


rate difficulty: For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.

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


simplify: Then God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech:

And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the townsmen of Shechem; and the townsmen of Shechem were false to Abimelech;


simplify: Is not thy wickedness great? Neither is there any end to thine iniquities.

Is not your evil-doing great? and there is no end to your sins.


rate difficulty: And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.

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


rate difficulty: But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.


rate difficulty: And they washed the chariot by the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked up his blood (now the harlots washed themselves there); according unto the word of Jehovah which he spake.

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


simplify: Then shall the man bring his wife unto the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal; he shall pour no oil upon it, nor put frankincense thereon; for it is an offering of jealousy, an offering of memorial, bringing iniquity to remembrance.

Then let him take her to the priest, offering for her the tenth part of an ephah of barley meal, without oil or perfume; for it is a meal offering of a bitter spirit, a meal offering keeping wrongdoing in mind.


simplify: And when we had sailed across the sea which is off Cilicia and Pamphylia, we came to Myra, a city of Lycia.

And having gone across the sea off Cilicia and Pamphylia we came to Myra, in Lycia.


simplify: He putteth my feet in the stocks, He marketh all my paths.

He puts chains on my feet; he is watching all my ways.


rate difficulty: Blessed [are] they that wash their robes, that they may have right to the tree of life, and that they should go in by the gates into the city.

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


rate difficulty: and the border went up toward Beth-hoglah, and passed north of Beth-Arabah; and the border went up to the stone of Bohan, the son of Reuben;

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


simplify: but when the fulness of the time came, God sent forth his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

But when the time had come, God sent out his Son, made of a woman, made under the law,


simplify: And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armour of the house of the forest.

He took away the cover of Judah; and in that day you were looking with care at the store of arms in the house of the woods.


simplify: At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes.

At that time Jesus made answer and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children.


rate difficulty: And the whole assembly of the children of Israel murmured on the morrow against Moses and against Aaron, saying, Ye have killed the people of Jehovah.

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


simplify: So Amasa went to assemble the men of Judah: but he tarried longer than the set time which he had appointed him.

So Amasa went to get all the men of Judah together, but he took longer than the time David had given him.


rate difficulty: and I say to them, Whoso hath gold, let them break <FI>it<Fi> off, and they give to me, and I cast it into the fire, and this calf cometh out.'

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


rate difficulty: And he called it Shebah; therefore the name of the city is Beer-sheba to this day.

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


simplify: Jehovah judge between me and thee, and Jehovah avenge me of thee; but my hand shall not be upon thee.

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


rate difficulty: And they said one to another, Behold, there comes that dreamer!

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


simplify: And the Lord took me as I followed the flock, and the Lord said unto me, Go, prophesy unto my people Israel.

And the Lord took me from the flock, and the Lord said to me, Go, be a prophet to my people Israel.


simplify: And the children of Israel set forward, and pitched in the plains of Moab on this side Jordan by Jericho.

Then the children of Israel, journeying on, put up their tents in the lowlands of Moab, on the other side of Jordan at Jericho.


simplify: This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.

How true that saying is and worthy of the fullest acceptance!


simplify: All things therefore whatsoever ye would that men should do unto you, even so do ye also unto them: for this is the law and the prophets.

All those things, then, which you would have men do to you, even so do you to them: because this is the law and the prophets.


simplify: Thus the slain shall fall in the land of the Chaldeans, and they that are thrust through in her streets.

And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.


simplify: Arise, let us be going: behold, he is at hand that betrayeth me.

Up, let us be going: see, he who gives me up is near.


simplify: And if a priest’s daughter be married unto a stranger, she shall not eat of the heave-offering of the holy things.

And if the daughter of a priest is married to an outside person she may not take of the holy things which are lifted up as offerings.


simplify: And the man looked stedfastly on her, holding his peace, to know whether Jehovah had made his journey prosperous or not.

And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.


simplify: but he was rebuked for his own transgression: a dumb ass spake with man’s voice and stayed the madness of the prophet.

But his wrongdoing was pointed out to him: an ass, talking with a man's voice, put a stop to the error of the prophet.


simplify: and four thousand were doorkeepers; and four thousand praised Jehovah with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.


simplify: We lie down in our shame, and our confusion covereth us: for we have sinned against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day, and have not obeyed the voice of the Lord our God.

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.


simplify: Enter into the rock, and hide thee in the dust, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty.

Go into a hole in the rock, covering yourselves with dust, in fear of the Lord, before the glory of his power.


simplify: The cloak that I left at Troas with Carpus, bring when thou comest, and the books, especially the parchments.

The coat which I did not take from Troas and which is with Carpus, get when you come, and the books, specially the papers.


rate difficulty: And he set the laver between the tent of meeting and the altar, and put water therein, wherewith to wash.

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


rate difficulty: And at the south side four thousand and five hundred measures: and three gates; one gate of Simeon, one gate of Issachar, one gate of Zebulun.

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


simplify: and I wish you to know that of every man the head is the Christ, and the head of a woman is the husband, and the head of Christ is God.

But I am anxious that you should understand that the Christ is the head of every man, that man is the head of woman, and that God is the head of the Christ.


rate difficulty: and call unto the sons of Dan, and they turn round their faces, and say to Micah, `What--to thee that thou hast been called together?'

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


rate difficulty: but, on the contrary, seeing that the glad tidings of the uncircumcision were confided to me, even as to Peter that of the circumcision,

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


simplify: And what cause soever shall come to you of your brethren that dwell in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and judgments, ye shall even warn them that they trespass not against the Lord, and so wrath come upon you, and upon your brethren: this do, and ye shall not trespass.

And if any cause comes before you from your brothers living in their towns, where the death punishment is in question, or where there are questions of law or order, or rules or decisions, make them take care that they are not in the wrong before the Lord, so that wrath may not come on you and on your brothers; do this and you yourselves will not be in the wrong.


simplify: And the house, when it was in building, was built of stone made ready at the quarry; and there was neither hammer nor axe nor any tool of iron heard in the house, while it was in building.

(And the stones used in the building of the house were squared at the place where they were cut out; there was no sound of hammer or axe or any iron instrument while they were building the house.)


rate difficulty: But Jehovah ourGod gave him up before us; and we smote him, and his sons, and his whole people.

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


rate difficulty: and set up for them standing-pillars and shrines on every high height, and under every green tree,

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


simplify: Then Abimelech went to him from Gerar, and Ahuzzath his friend, and Phicol the captain of his host.

And Abimelech had come to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the captain of his army.


rate difficulty: There hath no temptation taken you but such as man can bear: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation make also the way of escape, that ye may be able to endure it.

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


rate difficulty: See, the eyes of the Lord are on the evil kingdom, and I will put an end to it in all the earth; but I will not send complete destruction on Jacob, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: and God saith unto Balaam, `Thou dost not go with them; thou dost not curse the people; for it <FI>is<Fi> blessed.'

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


simplify: And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.

And to my eyes he was like a jasper and a sardius stone: and there was an arch of light round the high seat, like an emerald.


rate difficulty: And all the people of the land rejoiced, and the city was quiet; and they had slain Athaliah with the sword.


simplify: And I will raise up unto them a plantation for renown, and they shall be no more consumed with famine in the land, neither bear the shame of the nations any more.

And I will give them planting-places of peace, and they will no longer be wasted from need of food or put to shame by the nations.


simplify: And Zilpah Leah’s maid bare Jacob a second son.

And Zilpah, Leah's servant, gave birth to a second son.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having cried with a loud voice, said, Father, into thy hands I commit my spirit. And having said this, he expired.


simplify: And the God of all grace, who did call you to His age-during glory in Christ Jesus, having suffered a little, Himself make you perfect, establish, strengthen, settle <FI>you<Fi> ;

God, from whom all help comes, and who called you, by your union with Christ, into his eternal glory, will, when you have suffered for a little while, himself perfect, establish, strengthen you.


simplify: In that day will the Lord shave with a razor that is hired in the parts beyond the River, even with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet; and it shall also consume the beard.

In that day will the Lord take away the hair of the head and of the feet, as well as the hair of the face, with a blade got for a price from the other side of the River; even with the king of Assyria.


simplify: there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

There is nothing external to a person, which by going into them can ‘defile’ them; but the things that come out of a person are the things that defile them.”


simplify: `And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

But, when he came to himself, he said ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have more bread than they can eat, while here am I starving to death!


rate difficulty: and Israel saith, `Enough! Joseph my son <FI>is<Fi> yet alive; I go and see him before I die.'


rate difficulty: and saith unto them, `Ye--ye have kept the whole of that which Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded you, and ye hearken to my voice, to all that I have commanded you;

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


simplify: And having gone forward a little, he fell on his face, praying, and saying, `My Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me; nevertheless, not as I will, but as Thou.'

Going on a little further, he threw himself on his face in prayer. “My Father,” he said, “if it is possible, let me be spared this cup; only, not as I will, but as you will.”


rate difficulty: So Jesus turned and said to them: “Women of Jerusalem, do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves and for your children.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Put every man his sword by his side, and go in and out from gate to gate throughout the camp, and slay every man his brother, and every man his companion, and every man his neighbour.

And he said to them, This is the word of the Lord, the God of Israel: Let every man take his sword at his side, and go from one end of the tents to the other, putting to death his brother and his friend and his neighbour.


simplify: Now Elihu had waited till Job had spoken, because they were elder than he.

Now Elihu had kept quiet while Job was talking, because they were older than he;


rate difficulty: But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.


rate difficulty: His lord said unto him, Well done, thou good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

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


rate difficulty: and his brethren are zealous against him, and his father hath watched the matter.

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


simplify: And Jehoshaphat waxed great exceedingly; and he built in Judah castles, and cities of store.

Jehoshaphat became greater and greater, and made strong towers and store-towns in Judah.


simplify: I myself will be the shepherd of my sheep, and I will cause them to lie down, saith the Lord Jehovah.

I myself will give food to my flock, and I will give them rest, says the Lord.


simplify: After him repaired Malchiah the goldsmith’s son unto the place of the Nethinims, and of the merchants, over against the gate Miphkad, and to the going up of the corner.

After him Malchijah, one of the gold-workers to the Nethinim and the traders, made good the wall opposite the doorway of Hammiphkad and as far as the way up to the angle.


rate difficulty: And as they are coming down from the mount, Jesus charged them, saying, `Say to no one the vision, till the Son of Man out of the dead may rise.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Make for thee a burning <FI>serpent<Fi> , and set it on an ensign; and it hath been, every one who is bitten and hath seen it--he hath lived.

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


simplify: Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Do not deprive each other of what is due — unless it is only for a time and by mutual consent, so that your minds may be free for prayer until you again live as man and wife — otherwise Satan might take advantage of your want of self-control and tempt you.


simplify: But speak thou the things which become sound doctrine:

But let your words be in agreement with true and right teaching:


simplify: For he had healed many; insomuch that they pressed upon him for to touch him, as many as had plagues.

For he had cured many of them, and so people kept crowding around him, so all who were sick might touch him.


simplify: and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David’s sons were chief ministers.

And Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, was over the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and David's sons were priests.


simplify: Then David arose, and all the people that were with him, and they passed over Jordan: by the morning light there lacked not one of them that was not gone over Jordan.

So David and all the people who were with him went up over Jordan: when dawn came, every one of them had gone over Jordan.


simplify: And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

Then the priest's heart was glad, and he took the ephod and the family gods and the pictured image and went with the people.


simplify: and with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest that were chosen, who were mentioned by name, to give thanks to Jehovah, because his lovingkindness endureth for ever;

And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest who were marked out by name to give praise to the Lord, for his mercy is unchanging for ever;


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, I tell you that, if these should hold their peace, the stones would immediately cry out.

And he said in answer, I say to you, if these men keep quiet, the very stones will be crying out.


simplify: And there was an hole in the midst of the robe, as the hole of an habergeon, with a band round about the hole, that it should not rend.

With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.


rate difficulty: For an event <FI>is to<Fi> the sons of man, and an event <FI>is to<Fi> the beasts, even one event <FI>is<Fi> to them; as the death of this, so <FI>is<Fi> the death of that; and one spirit <FI>is<Fi> to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

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


rate difficulty: My back I have given to those smiting, And my cheeks to those plucking out, My face I hid not from shame and spitting.

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


simplify: And they sang together by course in praising and giving thanks unto the Lord; because he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever toward Israel. And all the people shouted with a great shout, when they praised the Lord, because the foundation of the house of the Lord was laid.

And they gave praise to the Lord, answering one another in their songs and saying, For he is good, for his mercy to Israel is eternal. And all the people gave a great cry of joy, when they gave praise to the Lord, because the base of the Lord's house was put in place.


rate difficulty: The rich man’s wealth is his strong city, And as a high wall in his own imagination.

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


simplify: And the chief priests and the scribes stood vehemently accusing him,

Meanwhile the chief priests and the teachers of the law stood by and vehemently accused him.


simplify: `A queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon, and lo, a greater than Solomon here!

At the judgment the Queen of the South will rise up with the present generation, and will condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to listen to the wisdom of Solomon; and here is more than a Solomon!


rate difficulty: And while he was living in Jerusalem, David took more wives and became the father of more sons and daughters.


rate difficulty: And he spake unto Korah and unto all his company, saying, Even to morrow the Lord will shew who are his, and who is holy; and will cause him to come near unto him: even him whom he hath chosen will he cause to come near unto him.

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


simplify: Fury is not in me: who would set the briers and thorns against me in battle? I would go through them, I would burn them together.

My passion is over: if the thorns were fighting against me, I would make an attack on them, and they would be burned up together.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and behold, it is a stiff-necked people.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoiada took two wives for him, and he became the father of sons and daughters.


simplify: Notwithstanding, that I be not further tedious unto thee, I pray thee that thou wouldest hear us of thy clemency a few words.

But, so that I may not make you tired, I make a request to you of your mercy, to give hearing to a short statement.


simplify: She bare also Shaaph the father of Madmannah, Sheva the father of Machbenah, and the father of Gibea: and the daughter of Caleb was Achsah.

And Shaaph, the father of Madmannah, Sheva, the father of Machbena and the father of Gibea; and Caleb's daughter was Achsah. These were the sons of Caleb.


rate difficulty: It was planted in a good field by many waters, that it might bring forth branches and bear fruit, that it might be a noble vine.

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


simplify: And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay wood in order upon the fire;

And Aaron's sons, the priests, are to put fire on the altar and put the wood in order on the fire:


rate difficulty: And there was again a battle at Gob with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jaare-oregim, a Bethlehemite, smote Goliath the Gittite; now the shaft of his spear was like a weaver's beam.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore, my brethren, ye also were made dead to the law through the body of Christ; that ye should be joined to another, even to him who was raised from the dead, that we might bring forth fruit unto God.

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


rate difficulty: Then men shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of the Lord God of their fathers, which he made with them when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt:

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


simplify: Then said he unto me, Son of man, lift up thine eyes now the way toward the north. So I lifted up mine eyes the way toward the north, and behold northward at the gate of the altar this image of jealousy in the entry.

Then he said to me, Son of man, now let your eyes be lifted up in the direction of the north; and on looking in the direction of the north, to the north of the doorway of the altar, I saw this image of envy by the way in.


simplify: And when they saw him afar off, even before he came near unto them, they conspired against him to slay him.

But they saw him when he was a long way off, and before he came near them they made a secret design against him to put him to death;


simplify: strengthened with all power, according to the might of his glory, unto all patience and longsuffering with joy;

Full of strength in the measure of the great power of his glory, so that you may undergo all troubles with joy;


rate difficulty: And Jacob saith unto Simeon and unto Levi, `Ye have troubled me, by causing me to stink among the inhabitants of the land, among the Canaanite, and among the Perizzite: and I <FI>am<Fi> few in number, and they have been gathered against me, and have smitten me, and I have been destroyed, I and my house.'

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


rate difficulty: Then came the day of unleavened bread, when the passover must be killed.

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


rate difficulty: And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that had befallen them, saying,


rate difficulty: Like as a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O Lord.

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


simplify: My son, if thou wilt receive my words, and hide my commandments with thee;

My son, if you will take my words to your heart, storing up my laws in your mind;


rate difficulty: hath not My hand made all these things?

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


simplify: For we write none other things unto you, than what ye read or acknowledge; and I trust ye shall acknowledge even to the end;

We never write anything to you other than what you will acknowledge to the very end —


simplify: As for these things which ye behold, the days will come, in the which there shall not be left one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

As for these things which you see, the days will come when not one stone will be resting on another, but all will be broken down.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah giveth a pestilence on Israel from the morning even unto the time appointed, and there die of the people, from Dan even unto Beer-Sheba, seventy thousand men,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the appearance of the glory of Jehovah was like a consuming fire on the top of the mountain, before the eyes of the children of Israel.

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


simplify: For whoremongers, for them that defile themselves with mankind, for menstealers, for liars, for perjured persons, and if there be any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine;

For those who go after loose women, for those with unnatural desires, for those who take men prisoners, who make false statements and false oaths, and those who do any other things against the right teaching,


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if ye hearken diligently unto my commandments which I command you this day, to love Jehovah yourGod, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul,

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


simplify: Nevertheless he that standeth stedfast in his heart, having no necessity, but hath power over his own will, and hath so decreed in his heart that he will keep his virgin, doeth well.

But the man who is strong in mind and purpose, who is not forced but has control over his desires, does well if he comes to the decision to keep her a virgin.


rate difficulty: Sending for a bird of strong flight from the east, the man of my purpose from a far country; I have said it, and I will give effect to it; the thing designed by me will certainly be done.


rate difficulty: And David said to all the congregation, Bless now Jehovah yourGod. And all the congregation blessed Jehovah theGod of their fathers, and bowed down their heads, and did homage to Jehovah and the king.

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


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


rate difficulty: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

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


simplify: And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the dedicated things that is brought into the house of the Lord, even the money of every one that passeth the account, the money that every man is set at, and all the money that cometh into any man’s heart to bring into the house of the Lord,

And Jehoash said to the priests, All the money of the holy things, which comes into the house of the Lord, (the amount fixed for every man's payment,) and all the money given by any man freely from the impulse of his heart,


simplify: Of the three, he was more honorable than the two, and was made their captain: howbeit he attained not to the first three.

Of the thirty, he was the noblest, and was made their captain, but he was not equal to the first three.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah: he departed not all his days from the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, wherewith he made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord; he did not keep himself from the sin which Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, did and made Israel do.


rate difficulty: And Jephthah came to Mizpah to his house, and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with tambours and with dances; and she was an only child: besides her he had neither son nor daughter.


simplify: And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.

Now the betrayer had arranged a signal with them. “The man whom I kiss,” he had said, “will be the one; arrest him and take him away safely.”


simplify: and to all the nations it behoveth first that the good news be proclaimed.

But the good news must first be proclaimed to every nation.


rate difficulty: Let it be far from me! I will certainly not say that you are right! I will come to death before I give up my righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: And the bases of the door-pillars were shaking at the sound of his cry, and the house was full of smoke.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.

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


simplify: And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing.

And when they saw him they were surprised, and his mother said to him, Son, why have you done this to us? see, your father and I have been looking for you with sorrow.


rate difficulty: Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto Jehovah, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

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


rate difficulty: lest thou eat, and hast been satisfied, and good houses dost build, and hast inhabited;

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


rate difficulty: and He gave some <FI>as<Fi> apostles, and some <FI>as<Fi> prophets, and some <FI>as<Fi> proclaimers of good news, and some <FI>as<Fi> shepherds and teachers,

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


rate difficulty: And I will bring you into the wilderness of the people, and there will I plead with you face to face.

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


simplify: Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the Lord hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.

You said, Sorrow is mine! for the Lord has given me sorrow in addition to my pain; I am tired with the sound of my sorrow, and I get no rest.


rate difficulty: Sheba, and Dedan, and the merchants of Tarshish, with all the young lions thereof, shall say unto thee, Art thou come to seize a spoil? hast thou gathered thine assemblage to take a prey? to carry away silver and gold, to take cattle and goods, to seize a great spoil?

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


simplify: But I will come to you shortly, if the Lord will; and I will know, not the word of them that are puffed up, but the power.

But I will come to you in a short time, if it is pleasing to the Lord, and I will take note, not of the word of those who are full of pride, but of the power.


simplify: And a certain man saw it, and told Joab, and said, Behold, I saw Absalom hanging in an oak.

And a certain man saw it and said to Joab, I saw Absalom hanging in a tree.


simplify: And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell not: for it was founded upon a rock.

And the rain came down and there was a rush of waters and the winds were driving against that house, but it was not moved; because it was based on the rock.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when their hearts were merry, that they said, Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. And they called for Samson out of the prison-house, and he played before them; and they set him between the pillars.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto them, For the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

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


rate difficulty: And Elijah said unto Elisha, Tarry here, I pray thee; for Jehovah hath sent me as far as Beth-el. And Elisha said, As Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, I will not leave thee. So they went down to Beth-el.

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


simplify: since <FI>it is<Fi> a righteous thing with God to give back to those troubling you--trouble,

since God deems it just to inflict suffering on those who are now inflicting suffering on you,


rate difficulty: And he forsaketh the counsel of the aged men that they counselled him, and consulteth with the lads who have grown up with him, those standing before him,

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


simplify: Now Jeremiah came in and went out among the people; for they had not put him into prison.

(Now Jeremiah was going about among the people, for they had not put him in prison.


simplify: These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and he was a lad with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought the evil report of them unto their father.

These are the generations of Jacob: Joseph, a boy seventeen years old, was looking after the flock, together with his brothers, the sons of Bilhah and Zilpah, his father's wives; and Joseph gave their father a bad account of them.


simplify: Then Peter arose and went with them. When he was come, they brought him into the upper chamber: and all the widows stood by him weeping, and shewing the coats and garments which Dorcas made, while she was with them.

And Peter went with them. And when he had come, they took him into the room: and all the widows were there, weeping and putting before him the coats and clothing which Dorcas had made while she was with them.


simplify: And lo, one of those with Jesus, having stretched forth the hand, drew his sword, and having struck the servant of the chief priest, he took off his ear.

Suddenly one of those who were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and striking the high priest’s servant, cut off his ear.


simplify: And they departed from Rithmah, and pitched at Rimmon–parez.

And they went on from Rithmah, and put up their tents in Rimmon-perez.


rate difficulty: And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

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


simplify: Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Jerusha the daughter of Zadok.

He was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he was ruling for sixteen years in Jerusalem; and his mother's name was Jerusha, the daughter of Zadok.


simplify: And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.


rate difficulty: And Noah goeth out, and his sons, and his wife, and his sons' wives with him;

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


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from before Hahiroth, and passed through the midst of the sea into the wilderness: and they went three days’ journey in the wilderness of Etham, and encamped in Marah.

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


simplify: Wherefore kick ye at my sacrifice and at mine offering, which I have commanded in my habitation, and honorest thy sons above me, to make yourselves fat with the chiefest of all the offerings of Israel my people?

Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?


rate difficulty: Thinkest thou this to be right, that thou saidst, My righteousness is more than God’s?

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


simplify: And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a shilling.

And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny.


simplify: And he said, They were my brethren, even the sons of my mother: as the Lord liveth, if ye had saved them alive, I would not slay you.

And he said, They were my brothers, my mother's sons: by the life of the Lord, if you had kept them safe, I would not put you to death.


rate difficulty: idolatry, sorcery, quarrels, strife, jealousy, outbursts of passion, rivalries, dissensions, divisions,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and on the morrow they did enter into Caesarea; and Cornelius was waiting for them, having called together his kindred and near friends,

and the day following he entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them, and had invited his relations and intimate friends to meet them.


simplify: Nevertheless a fountain or pit, wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcase shall be unclean.

But at the same time a fountain or a place where water is stored for use will be clean; but anyone touching their dead bodies will be unclean.


simplify: And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent.

And there were given to the woman two wings of a great eagle, so that she might go in flight into the waste land, to her place, where she is given food for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the snake.


simplify: And the king of Jericho sent unto Rahab, saying, Bring forth the men that are come to thee, that are entered into thy house; for they are come to search out all the land.

Then the king of Jericho sent to Rahab, saying, Send out the men who have come to you and are in your house; for they have come with the purpose of searching out all the land.


rate difficulty: No, my sons, for it is no good report that I hear: ye make Jehovah's people transgress.

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


rate difficulty: and oppress not the widow and the fatherless, the stranger and the afflicted; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

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


rate difficulty: And he hath smitten the man, the Egyptian--a man of measure, five by the cubit--and in the hand of the Egyptian <FI>is<Fi> a spear like a beam of weavers, and he goeth down unto him with a rod, and taketh violently away the spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, and slayeth him with his own spear.

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


rate difficulty: And they offered at the dedication of this house of God a hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and according to the custom of Paul, he went in unto them, and for three sabbaths he was reasoning with them from the Writings,

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


rate difficulty: For this is acceptable, if for conscience toward God a man endureth griefs, suffering wrongfully.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: — that they may know from the rising of the sun, and from the going down, that there is none beside me. I [am] Jehovah, and there is none else;


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead which sought thy life.

And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.


rate difficulty: It is as when a man, sojourning in another country, having left his house, and given authority to his servants, to each one his work, commanded also the porter to watch.

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


rate difficulty: They make the king glad with their wickedness, and the princes with their lies.

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


simplify: But the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that is in the city, even all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take unto thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

But the women and the children and the cattle and everything in the town and all its wealth, you may take for yourselves: the wealth of your haters, which the Lord your God has given you, will be your food.


rate difficulty: As an eagle, teaching her young to make their flight, with her wings outstretched over them, takes them up on her strong feathers:

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall take no satisfaction for him that hath fled to the city of his refuge, that he should come again to dwell in the land, until the death of the priest.

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


rate difficulty: When it grew late, his disciples came up to him, and said: “This is a lonely spot, and it is already late.

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


simplify: and He who is confirming you with us into Christ, and did anoint us, <FI>is<Fi> God,

God who brings us, with you, into close union with Christ, and who consecrated us,


rate difficulty: But Benjamin, Joseph’s brother, Jacob sent not with his brethren; for he said, Lest peradventure mischief befall him.

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


simplify: The desire of the righteous is only good; Butthe expectation of the wicked is wrath.

The desire of the upright man is only for good, but wrath is waiting for the evil-doer.


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

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


rate difficulty: Whereas angels, which are greater in power and might, bring not railing accusation against them before the Lord.


rate difficulty: But now he hath made me weary; ...thou hast made desolate all my family;

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


simplify: And the liers in wait hasted, and rushed upon Gibeah; and the liers in wait drew themselves along, and smote all the city with the edge of the sword.

And the watchers, rushing on Gibeah and overrunning it, put all the town to the sword without mercy.


rate difficulty: And [as for] thee, if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and mine ordinances;

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


rate difficulty: And the border of the children of Ephraim according to their families was thus: the border of their inheritance eastward was Ataroth-addar, unto Beth-horon the upper;

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


rate difficulty: and Baalath, and Tadmor in the wilderness, in the land;

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


rate difficulty: Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.


simplify: Ye are our epistle, written in our hearts, known and read of all men;

You yourselves are our letter, whose writing is in our heart, open for every man's reading and knowledge;


simplify: Thy teeth are like a flockof ewesthat arenewlyshorn, Which are come up from the washing, Whereof every one hath twins, And none is bereaved among them.

Your teeth are like a flock of sheep whose wool is newly cut, which come up from the washing; every one has two lambs, and there is not one without young.


simplify: And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

A week later they met to circumcise the child, and were about to call him ‘Zechariah’ after his father,


simplify: Arise and thresh, O daughter of Zion: for I will make thine horn iron, and I will make thy hoofs brass: and thou shalt beat in pieces many people: and I will consecrate their gain unto the Lord, and their substance unto the Lord of the whole earth.

Up! and let the grain be crushed, O daughter of Zion, for I will make your horn iron and your feet brass, and a number of peoples will be broken by you, and you will give up their increase to the Lord and their wealth to the Lord of all the earth.


simplify: So then, my brethren, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand ye in the Lord, beloved.

So then, my dear friends, whom I am longing to see — you who are my joy and my crown, stand fast in union with the Lord, dear friends.


simplify: And take heed that ye be not slack herein: why should damage grow to the hurt of the kings?

Be certain to do this with all care: do not let trouble be increased to the king's damage.


rate difficulty: Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.

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


rate difficulty: Paul, apostle of Jesus Christ byGod's will, and the brother Timotheus, to the assembly ofGod which is in Corinth, with all the saints who are in the whole of Achaia.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and the Philistine saith unto David, `Come unto me, and I give thy flesh to the fowl of the heavens, and to the beast of the field.'

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


simplify: Now the sons of Caleb the brother of Jerahmeel were, Mesha his firstborn, which was the father of Ziph; and the sons of Mareshah the father of Hebron.

And the sons of Caleb, the brother of Jerahmeel, were Mareshah, his oldest son, who was the father of Ziph and Hebron.


simplify: And the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El–paran, which is by the wilderness.

And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.


rate difficulty: who <FI>is<Fi> among you of all His people? His God is with him, and he doth go up to Jerusalem, that <FI>is<Fi> in Judah, and build the house of Jehovah, God of Israel--He <FI>is<Fi> God--that <FI>is<Fi> in Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden; he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.

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


rate difficulty: For they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; The Lord of hosts is his name.


rate difficulty: Love suffereth long, and is kind; love envieth not; love vaunteth not itself, is not puffed up,

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


simplify: watch ye, then, in every season, praying that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that are about to 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: But the man who, not being unclean or on a journey, does not keep the Passover, will be cut off from his people: because he did not make the offering of the Lord at the regular time, his sin will be on him.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto me, The backsliding Israel hath justified herself more than treacherous Judah.

And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.


simplify: Give not thy strength unto women, nor thy ways to that which destroyeth kings.

Do not give your strength to women, or your ways to that which is the destruction of kings.


rate difficulty: and he saw also a certain poor widow casting there two mites,

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


simplify: And not only so, but we glory in tribulations also: knowing that tribulation worketh patience;

And not only that, but let us also exult in our troubles;


rate difficulty: And all the sons of Israel go up, even all the people, and come in to Beth-El, and weep, and sit there before Jehovah, and fast on that day till the evening, and cause to ascend burnt-offerings and peace-offerings before Jehovah.

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


simplify: And sounded, and found it twenty fathoms: and when they had gone a little further, they sounded again, and found it fifteen fathoms.

So they took soundings, and found twenty fathoms of water. After waiting a little, they took soundings again, and found fifteen fathoms.


simplify: Having land, sold it, and brought the money, and laid it at the apostles’ feet.

Sold a farm that belonged to him, and brought the money and laid it at the apostles’ feet.


rate difficulty: O Lord, I am conscious that a man's way is not in himself: man has no power of guiding his steps.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Thus and thus dealeth Micah with me, and hath hired me, and I am his priest.

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


simplify: And he took it, and did eat before them.


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

Now after two years had gone by, Pharaoh had a dream; and in his dream he was by the side of the Nile;


rate difficulty: Ye are of God, my little children, and have overcome them: because greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world.

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


simplify: Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing or else excusing one another;)

for they show the demands of the law written on their hearts; their consciences corroborating it, while in their thoughts they argue either in self-accusation or, it may be, in self-defense —


simplify: And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not tell thee that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil?

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good to me, but of evil?


simplify: Thou shalt not pervert the judgment of the stranger, nor of the fatherless; nor take a widow’s raiment to pledge:

Be upright in judging the cause of the man from a strange country and of him who has no father; do not take a widow's clothing on account of a debt:


rate difficulty: And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How hast thou perished, that wast inhabited from the seas, O renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, — she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all them that dwell therein!

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


rate difficulty: Is it not to deal thy bread to the hungry, and that thou bring the poor that are cast out to thy house? when thou seest the naked, that thou cover him; and that thou hide not thyself from thine own flesh?

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


simplify: They shall not make baldness upon their head, neither shall they shave off the corner of their beard, nor make any cuttings in their flesh.

They are not to have their hair cut off for the dead, or the hair on their chins cut short, or make cuts in their flesh.


rate difficulty: And they rose up early in the morning and worshipped before Jehovah, and returned and came to their house at Ramah. And Elkanah knew Hannah his wife; and Jehovah remembered her.


rate difficulty: For my thoughts are not your thoughts, or your ways my ways, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: “He saved others, but he cannot save himself! Let the Christ, the ‘king of Israel,’ come down from the cross now so that we can see it and believe.” Even the men who had been crucified with Jesus insulted him.


simplify: Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.

(Here there is need for endurance on the part of Christ’s people — those who lay to heart the commands of God and the faith of Jesus.)


simplify: So he brought down the people unto the water: and the Lord said unto Gideon, Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; likewise every one that boweth down upon his knees to drink.

So he took the people down to the water; and the Lord said to Gideon, Put on one side by themselves all those drinking up the water with their tongues like a dog; and in the same way, all those who go down on their knees to the water while drinking.


simplify: And the sons of Eliezer were: Rehabiah the chief; and Eliezer had no other sons; but the sons of Rehabiah were very many.

And the sons of Eliezer: Rehabiah the first; and Eliezer had no other sons, but Rehabiah had a great number.


simplify: Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

“I suppose,” answered Simon, “it will be the man to whom he forgave the greater debt.”   “You are right,”said Jesus,


simplify: And he answereth them and saith, O faithless generation, how long shall I be with you? how long shall I bear with you? bring him unto me.

And he said to them in answer, O generation without faith, how long will I have to be with you? how long will I put up with you? let him come to me.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt neither vex a stranger, nor oppress him; for ye have been strangers in the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And thy sitting down, and thy going out, And thy coming in, I have known, And thy anger towards Me.

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


simplify: And came out of the graves after his resurrection, and went into the holy city, and appeared unto many.

And coming out of their resting-places, after he had come again from the dead, they went into the holy town and were seen by a number of people.


simplify: There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear: because fear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in love.

There is no fear in love: true love has no room for fear, because where fear is, there is pain; and he who is not free from fear is not complete in love.


simplify: and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah rent her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!

And looking, she saw the king in his regular place by the pillar, and the captains and the horns near him; and all the people of the land giving signs of joy and sounding the horns. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, gave a cry, saying, Broken faith, broken faith!


rate difficulty: And when he came to the hill, he took them from their hand, and stowed them in the house; and he let the men go, and they departed.

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


simplify: and upon Kerioth, and upon Bozrah, and upon all the cities of the land of Moab, far or near.

And on Kerioth, and on Bozrah, and on all the towns of the land of Moab, far and near.


simplify: And the children of Israel cried unto Jehovah, saying, We have sinned against thee, even because we have forsaken our God, and have served the Baalim.

Then the children of Israel, crying out to the Lord, said, Great is our sin against you, for we have given up our God and have been servants to the Baals.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: But the wicked are like the troubled sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.

But the evil-doers are like the troubled sea, for which there is no rest, and its waters send up earth and waste.


rate difficulty: Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou rulest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

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


rate difficulty: Thy servant smote both the lion and the bear; and this uncircumcised Philistine shall be as one of them, because he has defied the armies of the livingGod.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to them, Do not ye therefore err, not knowing the scriptures, nor the power ofGod?

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


rate difficulty: And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.

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


rate difficulty: And as they cried out, and threw off their garments, and cast dust into the air,


simplify: And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified.

But the angel, addressing the women, said; “You need not be afraid. I now that it is Jesus, who was crucified, for whom you are looking.


simplify: And moreover in time past, even when Saul was king, thou wast he that leddest out and broughtest in Israel: and the Lord thy God said unto thee, Thou shalt feed my people Israel, and thou shalt be ruler over my people Israel.

In the past, when Saul was king, it was you who went at the head of Israel when they went out or came in; and the Lord your God said to you, You are to be the keeper of my people Israel, and their ruler.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; Because thy filthiness was poured out, and thy nakedness discovered through thy whoredoms with thy lovers, and with all the idols of thy abominations, and by the blood of thy children, which thou didst give unto them;

This is what the Lord has said: Because your unclean behaviour was let loose and your body uncovered in your loose ways with your lovers and with your disgusting images, and for the blood of your children which you gave to them;


simplify: And he built twenty cubits on the sides of the house, both the floor and the walls with boards of cedar: he even built them for it within, even for the oracle, even for the most holy place.

And at the back of the house a further space of twenty cubits was shut in with boards of cedar-wood, for the inmost room.


simplify: To give knowledge of salvation unto his people by the remission of their sins,

to give his people the knowledge of salvation In the forgiveness of their sins,


rate difficulty: And Isaac loved Esau, because venison was to his taste; and Rebecca loved Jacob.

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


simplify: To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.

To give eyes to the blind, to make free the prisoners from the prison, to let out those who are shut up in the dark.


simplify: And I knew such a man, (whether in the body, or out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;)

And I have knowledge of such a man (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only),


rate difficulty: And David did as God commanded him: and they smote the host of the Philistines from Gibeon even to Gezer.

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


rate difficulty: And having sent into Macedonia two of those ministering to him, Timotheus and Erastus, he remained himself awhile in Asia.

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


simplify: Thou gavest me no kiss: but this woman since the time I came in hath not ceased to kiss my feet.

You did not give me one kiss, but she, from the moment I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.


rate difficulty: and having in his right hand seven stars; and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword going forth; and his countenance as the sun shines in its power.


simplify: Now hear me therefore, and deliver the captives again, which ye have taken captive of your brethren: for the fierce wrath of the Lord is upon you.

And now give ear to me, and send back the prisoners whom you have taken from your brothers: for the wrath of the Lord is burning against you.


simplify: And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the dagger from his right thigh, and thrust it into his belly:

And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;


rate difficulty: The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.

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


rate difficulty: unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the angel of Jehovah said unto Elijah, Go down with him: be not afraid of him. And he arose, and went down with him unto the king.

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


simplify: The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is hid.

The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.


simplify: Awake, awake, Deborah: awake, awake, utter a song: arise, Barak, and lead thy captivity captive, thou son of Abinoam.

Awake! awake! Deborah: awake! awake! give a song: Up! Barak, and take prisoner those who took you prisoner, O son of Abinoam.


rate difficulty: and he sent forth a raven, and it went forth to and fro, until the waters were dried up from off the earth.

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


simplify: And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all things that God had done with them, and that he had opened a door of faith unto the Gentiles.

And when they came there, and had got the church together, they gave them an account of all the things which God had done through them, and how he had made open a door of faith to the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: For whose coming John made ready the way by preaching to all the people of Israel the baptism which goes with a change of heart.

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


simplify: A wicked man taketh a gift out of the bosom to pervert the ways of judgment.

A sinner takes an offering out of his robe, to get a decision for himself in a cause.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, David hath come unto the top, where he boweth himself to God, and lo, to meet him <FI>is<Fi> Hushai the Archite, his coat rent, and earth on his head;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him.

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


rate difficulty: In its out-places they girded on sackcloth, On its pinnacles, and in its broad places, Every one howleth--going down with weeping.

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


rate difficulty: And they made protests to Uzziah the king, and said to him, The burning of perfumes, Uzziah, is not your business but that of the priests, the sons of Aaron, who have been made holy for this work: go out of the holy place, for you have done wrong, and it will not be to your honour before God.

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


rate difficulty: Will I by whom the birth was started, not make it complete? says the Lord. Will I who make children come to birth, let them be kept back? says your God.

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


simplify: We will pass over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, that the possession of our inheritance on this side Jordan may be ours.

We will go over armed before the Lord into the land of Canaan, and you will give us our heritage on this side of Jordan.


simplify: Then shall the trees of the wood sing out at the presence of the Lord, because he cometh to judge the earth.

Then let all the trees of the wood be sounding with joy before the Lord, for he is come to be the judge of the earth.


simplify: I give thanks to God that no one of you did I baptize, except Crispus and Gaius--

I am thankful that I did not baptize any of you except Crispus and Gaius,


simplify: He hath caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

He has let loose his arrows into the inmost parts of my body.


simplify: as free, and not using your freedom for a cloak of wickedness, but as bondservants of God.

As those who are free, not using your free position as a cover for wrongdoing, but living as the servants of God;


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh spake unto Joseph, saying, Thy father and thy brethren are come unto thee:

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


rate difficulty: Paul, bondman of Jesus Christ, [a] called apostle, separated toGod's glad tidings,

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


rate difficulty: Surely the palace hath been left, The multitude of the city forsaken, Fort and watch-tower hath been for dens unto the age, A joy of wild asses--a pasture of herds;

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then Job answered and said,

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


rate difficulty: For I have told him that I will judge his house for ever for the iniquity which he knoweth; because his sons made themselves vile, and he restrained them not.

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


rate difficulty: And the fruit of your soul's desire has gone from you, and all things delicate and shining have come to an end and will never again be seen.

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


rate difficulty: And having come to Troas for the good news of the Christ, and a door to me having been opened in the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall cry out in that day because of your king which ye shall have chosen you; and the Lord will not hear you in that day.

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


rate difficulty: And he sent a letter in these words:


rate difficulty: Yea, truth faileth; and he that departeth from evil maketh himself a prey: and the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that there was no judgment.

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


rate difficulty: And the posts thereof were toward the outer court; and palm-trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the ascent to it had eight steps.

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


rate difficulty: He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

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


rate difficulty: and he strippeth off--he also--his garments, and prophesieth--he also--before Samuel, and falleth down naked all that day and all the night; therefore they say, `Is Saul also among the prophets?'

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


simplify: Then answered one of the people, and said, Thy father straitly charged the people with an oath, saying, Cursed be the man that eateth any food this day. And the people were faint.

Then one of the people said to him, Your father put the people under an oath, saying, Let that man be cursed who takes any food this day. And the people were feeble, needing food.


rate difficulty: But God turned, and gave them up to serve the host of heaven; as it is written in the book of the prophets,  Did ye offer unto me slain beasts and sacrifices Forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel?

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


simplify: salute ye those in Laodicea--brethren, and Nymphas, and the assembly in his house;

Give my greeting to the followers at Laodicea, and to Nymphe, and to the church that meets at her house.


rate difficulty: Yet thus saith the Lord Jehovah: At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the peoples whither they were scattered;

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


simplify: and there came out from the temple the seven angels that had the seven plagues, arrayed withprecious stone, pure and bright, and girt about their breasts with golden girdles.

And the seven angels who had the seven punishments came out from the house of God, clothed with linen, clean and bright and with bands of gold about their breasts.


simplify: And Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David: and Abijah his son reigned in his stead.

And Rehoboam went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in the town of David; and Abijah his son became king in his place.


rate difficulty: And the lord said to the servant, Go out into the roads and the fields, and make them come in, so that my house may be full.

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


rate difficulty: that each of you know how to possess his own vessel in sanctification and honour,

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


rate difficulty: And, moreover, we have learned to know, and have accepted as a fact, the love which God has for us.   God is love; and whoever lives in love lives in God, and God in them.

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


simplify: Therefore deliver up their children to the famine, and pour out their blood by the force of the sword; and let their wives be bereaved of their children, and be widows; and let their men be put to death; let their young men be slain by the sword in battle.

For this cause, let their children be without food, and give them over to the power of the sword; and let their wives be without children and become widows; let their men be overtaken by death, and their young men be put to the sword in the fight.


simplify: In the first day shall be an holy convocation; ye shall do no manner of servile work therein:

On the first day there is to be a holy meeting: you may do no sort of field-work:


simplify: The Lord hath made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth shall see the salvation of our God.

The Lord has let his holy arm be seen by the eyes of all nations; and all the ends of the earth will see the salvation of our God.


simplify: And he gave her his hand, and raised her up; and calling the saints and widows, he presented her alive.

And he took her hand, lifting her up; and, sending for the saints and widows, he gave her to them, living.


rate difficulty: And he said, The Lord will roar from Zion, and utter his voice from Jerusalem; and the habitations of the shepherds shall mourn, and the top of Carmel shall wither.


rate difficulty: Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.

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simplify: Then Moses and Aaron fell on their faces before all the assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel.

Then Moses and Aaron went down on their faces before the meeting of the people.


simplify: even those that were numbered of them, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.


rate difficulty: A stream hath broken out from a sojourner, Those forgotten of the foot, They were low, from man they wandered.

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rate difficulty: `Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon--

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


rate difficulty: and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.'

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simplify: The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave unto him, to shew unto his servants things which must shortly come to pass; and he sent and signified it by his angel unto his servant John:

The Revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave to him to make known to his servants, concerning what must shortly take place, and which he sent and revealed by his angel to his servant John,


simplify: But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (then saith he to the sick of the palsy,) Arise, take up thy bed, and go unto thine house.

But so that you may see that on earth the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins, (then said he to the man who was ill,) Get up, and take up your bed, and go to your house.


simplify: And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

Those meant by the seed sown among the brambles are different; they are the people who hear the message,


simplify: But Esaias is very bold, and saith, I was found of them that sought me not; I was made manifest unto them that asked not after me.

And Isaiah says boldly — ‘I was found by those who were not seeking me; I made myself known to those who were not inquiring of me.


simplify: the sun’s light failing: and the veil of the temple was rent in the midst.

The light of the sun went out, and the curtain in the Temple was parted in two.


simplify: Or are ye ignorant that all we who were baptized into Christ Jesus were baptized into his death?

Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?


simplify: To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it in the person of Christ;

But if you give forgiveness to anyone, I do the same: for if I have given forgiveness for anything, I have done it because of you, in the person of Christ;


simplify: and Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who had the oversight of the outward business of the house of God;

And Shabbethai and Jozabad, of the chiefs of the Levites, who were responsible for the outside business of the house of God;


rate difficulty: And the ambush arose quickly from their place, and they ran when he stretched out his hand, and came into the city, and took it, and hasted and set the city on fire.

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rate difficulty: And, while he was still speaking, Judas, who was one of the Twelve, came in sight; and with him was a great crowd of people, with swords and clubs, sent from the chief priests and councillors of the nation.

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simplify: but not so shall it be among you; but whoever may will to become great among you, he shall be your minister,

But among you it is not so. No, whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,


rate difficulty: For at the window of my house, I looked forth through my lattice,

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rate difficulty: Be not afraid of their faces: for I am with thee to deliver thee, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And there was evening and there was morning, the fifth day.

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simplify: Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Then they understood that he had told them to be on their guard, not against the leaven of bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.


rate difficulty: The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.


simplify: Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

Being conscious that you have been made free from that foolish way of life which was your heritage from your fathers, not through a payment of things like silver or gold which come to destruction,


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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Micah: Pithon, and Melech, and Tahrea.

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rate difficulty: for every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

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