simplify: Whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent, their horses’ hoofs shall be counted like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind:

Their arrows are sharp, and every bow is bent: the feet of their horses are like rock, and their wheels are like a rushing storm.


rate difficulty: Whilst it is yet in its greenness, and not cut down, It withereth before any other herb.

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


rate difficulty: and also the servants of the king have come into bless our lord king David, saying, Thy God doth make the name of Solomon better than thy name, and his throne greater than thy throne; and the king boweth himself on the bed,

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


simplify: My beloved is unto me as a bundle of myrrh, That lieth betwixt my breasts.

As a bag of myrrh is my well-loved one to me, when he is at rest all night between my breasts.


simplify: and he saith to me, `See--not; for fellow-servant of thee am I, and of thy brethren the prophets, and of those keeping the words of this scroll; before God bow.'

But he said to me — ‘Forbear; I am your fellow servant, and the fellow servant of your fellow prophets, and of all who lay to heart the words in this book. Worship God.’


rate difficulty: And the watchman, when he seeth the sword coming in, And he hath not blown with a trumpet, And the people hath not been warned, And come in doth a sword, And taketh away of them--a soul, He in his iniquity is taken away, And his blood from the hand of the watchman I require.


rate difficulty: and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

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


simplify: And they impress a certain one passing by--Simon, a Cyrenian, coming from the field, the father of Alexander and Rufus--that he may bear his cross,

They led Jesus out to crucify him; and they compelled a passer-by, Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, the father of Alexander and Rufus, to go with them to carry his cross.


rate difficulty: For this reason say, This is what the Lord has said: Though I have had them moved far off among the nations, and though I have sent them wandering among the countries, still I have been a safe place for them for a little time in the countries where they have come.

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


rate difficulty: and a tenth part of fine flour mingled with oil as an oblation for each lamb: [it is] a burnt-offering of a sweet odour, an offering by fire to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And [the] second is like it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

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


rate difficulty: Ministers, in like manner, grave, not double-tongued, not given to much wine, not seeking gain by base means,

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


simplify: And the king lamented for Abner, and said,  Should Abner die as a fool dieth?

And the king made a song of grief for Abner and said, Was the death of Abner to be like the death of a foolish man?


simplify: Behold now, I have set my cause in order; I know that I am righteous.

See now, I have put my cause in order, and I am certain that I will be seen to be right.


simplify: For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.


simplify: Howbeit the firm foundation of God standeth, having this seal, The Lord knoweth them that are his: and, Let every one that nameth the name of the Lord depart from unrighteousness.

But God's strong base is unchanging, having this sign, The Lord has knowledge of those who are his: and, Let everyone by whom the name of the Lord is named be turned away from evil.


rate difficulty: And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

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


simplify: And they sing the song of Moses the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God, the Almighty; righteous and true are thy ways, thou King of the ages.

And they give the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying, Great and full of wonder are your works, O Lord God, Ruler of all; true and full of righteousness are your ways, eternal King.


rate difficulty: And there were closed windows to the lodges, and to their posts within the gate round about, and likewise to the arches; and windows were round about inward; and upon each post were palm-trees.


rate difficulty: And at that time Hanani the seer came to Asa king of Judah, and said unto him, Because thou hast relied on the king of Syria, and hast not relied on Jehovah thy God, therefore is the host of the king of Syria escaped out of thy hand.

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


simplify: That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and that he may be unto thee a God, as he hath said unto thee, and as he hath sworn unto thy fathers, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

And so that he may make you his people today, and be your God, as he has said to you, and as he made an oath to your fathers, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.


rate difficulty: Now on the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his three sons dead on the earth in Mount Gilboa.

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


rate difficulty: Be confessing to one another the trespasses, and be praying for one another, that ye may be healed; very strong is a working supplication of a righteous man;

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


rate difficulty: Woe to the rebellious children, saith Jehovah, who take counsel, but not of me, and who make leagues, but not by my Spirit, that they may heap sin upon sin;

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


simplify: and shall deliver him unto the Gentiles to mock, and to scourge, and to crucify: and the third day he shall be raised up.

And will give him up to the Gentiles to be made sport of and to be whipped and to be put to death on the cross: and the third day he will come back again from the dead.


rate difficulty: `For they <FI>are<Fi> My servants, whom I have brought out from the land of Egypt: they are not sold <FI>with<Fi> the sale of a servant;


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

And took them out and said, Sirs, what have I to do to get salvation?


rate difficulty: And having remained among them not more than eight or ten days, he went down to Caesarea; and on the next day, having sat down on the judgment-seat, commanded Paul to be brought.

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


rate difficulty: And from Betah, and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

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


rate difficulty: Let us never tire of doing right, for at the proper season we will reap our harvest, if we do not grow weary.

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


rate difficulty: And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

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


simplify: And his disciples came, and took up the body, and buried it, and went and told Jesus.

And his disciples came, and took up his body and put it in the earth; and they went and gave Jesus news of what had taken place.


simplify: And as for the prophet, and the priest, and the people, that shall say, The burden of Jehovah, I will even punish that man and his house.

And as for the prophet and the priest and the people who say, A word of weight from the Lord! I will send punishment on that man and on his house.


rate difficulty: Greet all the brethren with an holy kiss.

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


simplify: For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

For he had authority over all the country on this side of the River, from Tiphsah to Gaza, over all the kings on this side of the River; and he had peace round him on every side.


rate difficulty: And now that I am come to speak of this thing to my lord the king, it is because the people have made me afraid; and thy bondmaid said, I will now speak to the king; perhaps the king will perform the request of his handmaid.

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


rate difficulty: And He saith, `Lo, I am making a covenant: before all thy people I do wonders, which have not been done in all the earth, or in any nation, and all the people in whose midst thou <FI>art<Fi>  have seen the work of Jehovah, for it <FI> is<Fi> fearful that which I am doing with thee.

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


rate difficulty: And David arose and came to the place where Saul had encamped; and David beheld the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the captain of his host; and Saul lay within the wagon-defence, and the people were encamped round about him.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ish–bosheth, who lay on a bed at noon.


rate difficulty: `And Jehovah hath shewed himself wroth with me because of your words, and sweareth to my not passing over the Jordan, and to my not going in unto the good land which Jehovah thy God is giving to thee--an inheritance;

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


rate difficulty: Son of man, say unto the prince of Tyre, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thy heart is lifted up, and thou hast said, I am a god, I sit in the seat of God, in the midst of the seas; yet thou art man, and not God, though thou didst set thy heart as the heart of God;—

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


rate difficulty: And the redeemer saith, `I am not able to redeem <FI>it<Fi> for myself, lest I destroy mine inheritance; redeem for thyself--thou--my right of redemption, for I am not able to redeem.'

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


rate difficulty: And I will show wonders in the heavens above, And signs on the earth below — Blood and fire and mist of smoke;

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


simplify: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last.

I am the Alpha and the Omega, the First and the Last, the beginning and the End.’)


simplify: And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a several house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of the Lord: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.


simplify: God hath delivered me to the ungodly, and turned me over into the hands of the wicked.

God gives me over to the power of sinners, sending me violently into the hands of evil-doers.


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, In the day of Jehovah's giving rest to thee, From thy grief, and from thy trouble, And from the sharp bondage, That hath been served upon thee,

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


simplify: and others fell upon the rocky places, where they had not much earth, and immediately they sprang forth, through not having depth of earth,

Some fell on rocky places, where it had not much soil, and, because the soil wasn't deep, sprang up at once.


simplify: testifying fully both to Jews and Greeks, toward God reformation, and faith toward our Lord Jesus Christ.

I earnestly pointed both Jews and Greeks to the repentance that leads to God, and to faith in Jesus, our Lord.


rate difficulty: For the kingdom of God does not consist of eating and drinking, but of righteousness and peace and gladness through the presence of the Holy Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.


rate difficulty: a copy of the writing to be made law in every province and province is revealed to all the peoples, and for the Jews being ready at this day to be avenged of their enemies.

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


rate difficulty: And whenever Israel became strong, they put the Canaanites to forced work, without driving them out completely.

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


simplify: An unjust man is an abomination to the just: and he that is upright in the way is abomination to the wicked.

An evil man is disgusting to the upright, and he who is upright is disgusting to evil-doers.


rate difficulty: For the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses are flesh, and not spirit: and when the Lord's hand is stretched out, the helper and he who is helped will come down together.

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


rate difficulty: That same day Moses said to the people,

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore put away the strangegods that are among you, and incline your heart unto Jehovah theGod of Israel.

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


simplify: Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning;

Make yourselves ready, with your lamps alight;


rate difficulty: For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.

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


simplify: And Cain talked with Abel his brother: and it came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.

And Cain said to his brother, Let us go into the field: and when they were in the field, Cain made an attack on his brother Abel and put him to death.


rate difficulty: Baal-hanan the Gederite was responsible for the olive-trees and the sycamore-trees in the lowlands; and Joash for the stores of oil;

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


simplify: (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.

All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.


rate difficulty: But if thou forbear to vow, it shall be no sin in thee.

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


simplify: And have ye not read this scripture; The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner:

‘Have you never read this passage of scripture? — ‘The stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner-stone;


rate difficulty: And every one had four faces: the first face was the face of a cherub, and the second face the face of a man, and the third the face of a lion, and the fourth the face of an eagle.


simplify: I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren, like unto thee, and will put my words in his mouth; and he shall speak unto them all that I shall command him.

I will give them a prophet from among themselves, like you, and I will put my words in his mouth, and he will say to them whatever I give him orders to say.


rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord Jehovah is upon me, because Jehovah hath anointed me to announce glad tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the broken-hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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


simplify: And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

And lifting up his eyes, Abraham saw a sheep fixed by its horns in the brushwood: and Abraham took the sheep and made a burned offering of it in place of his son.


simplify: Then said he, These are the two anointed ones, that stand by the Lord of the whole earth.

And he said, These are the two sons of oil, whose place is by the Lord of all the earth.


rate difficulty: therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

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


simplify: And when all the men of the tower of Shechem heard that, they entered into an hold of the house of the god Berith.

Then all the townsmen of the tower of Shechem, hearing of it, went into the inner room of the house of El-berith.


simplify: And straightway the fountain of her blood was dried up; and she felt in her body that she was healed of that plague.

And straight away the fountain of her blood was stopped, and she had a feeling in her body that her disease had gone and she was well.


simplify: I was well-nigh in all evil In the midst of the assembly and congregation.

I was in almost all evil in the company of the people.


rate difficulty: And if Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And they say, `Give help, let us build for ourselves a city and tower, and its head in the heavens, and make for ourselves a name, lest we be scattered over the face of all the earth.'

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


simplify: Thou shalt also take the bullock of the sin-offering, and it shall be burnt in the appointed place of the house, without the sanctuary.

And you are to take the ox of the sin-offering, and have it burned in the special place ordered for it in the house, outside the holy place.


simplify: Then the soldiers, as it was commanded them, took Paul, and brought him by night to Antipatris.

So the armed men, as they were ordered, took Paul and came by night to Antipatris.


rate difficulty: yea, Jehovah giveth also Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines, and tomorrow thou and thy sons <FI>are<Fi> with me; also the camp of Israel doth Jehovah give into the hand of the Philistines.'

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


simplify: And be ready by the morning, and come up in the morning unto mount Sinai, and present thyself there to me on the top of the mount.

And be ready by the morning, and come up on Mount Sinai, and come before me there in the morning, on the top of the mountain.


rate difficulty: Let us take care for fear that their numbers may become even greater, and if there is a war, they may be joined with those who are against us, and make an attack on us, and go up out of the land.

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


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

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell the vision to no man, until the Son of man be risen again from the dead.

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


simplify: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise:

Go to the ant, you hater of work; give thought to her ways and be wise:


simplify: Therefore neither the priests of Dagon, nor any that come into Dagon’s house, tread on the threshold of Dagon in Ashdod, unto this day.

So to this day no priest of Dagon, or any who come into Dagon's house, will put his foot on the doorstep of the house of Dagon in Ashdod.


simplify: For as many of you as were baptized into Christ did put on Christ.

For all those of you who were given baptism into Christ did put on Christ.


simplify: Keep my commandments, and live; and my law as the apple of thine eye.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;


simplify: that if thou mayest confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and mayest believe in thy heart that God did raise him out of the dead, thou shalt be saved,

For, if with your lips you acknowledge the truth of the message that JESUS IS LORD, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, When ye pray, say, Father, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come.

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


simplify: who out of so great a death did deliver us, and doth deliver, in whom we have hoped that even yet He will deliver;

And from so imminent a death God delivered us, and will deliver us again; for in him we have placed our hopes of future deliverance, while you, also, help us by your prayers.


simplify: Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came and drew water, and filled the troughs to water their father’s flock.

Now the priest of Midian had seven daughters: and they came to get water for their father's flock.


rate difficulty: And the eye may not say to the hand, I have no need of you: or again the head to the feet, I have no need of you.

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


rate difficulty: O Israel, return unto the Lord thy God; for thou hast fallen by thine iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: Do not they blaspheme that worthy name by the which ye are called?

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


simplify: Are all apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? are all workers of miracles?

Are all Apostles? are all prophets? are all teachers? have all the power of working wonders?


simplify: If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be blood shed for him; for he should make full restitution; if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.


rate difficulty: Now at that time, Abimelech and Phicol, the captain of his army, said to Abraham, I see that God is with you in all you do.

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


simplify: But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred among themselves,

But when they had given them orders to go out of the Sanhedrin, they had a discussion among themselves,


rate difficulty: Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours; from the wilderness and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall your border be.

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


rate difficulty: Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Hezron who were born to him; Jerahmeel, and Ram, and Chelubai.

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


rate difficulty: and the fat, and the kidneys, and the redundance of the liver, of the sin-offering, he hath made a perfume on the altar, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses;

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


simplify: And shall say, Cast ye up, cast ye up, prepare the way, take up the stumblingblock out of the way of my people.

And I will say, Make it high, make it high, get ready the way, take the stones out of the way of my people.


simplify: The appearance of the wheels and their work was like unto the colour of a beryl: and they four had one likeness: and their appearance and their work was as it were a wheel in the middle of a wheel.

The form of the wheels and their work was like a beryl; the four of them had the same form and design, and they were like a wheel inside a wheel.


simplify: To give knowledge of salvation to His people In remission of their sins,

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


simplify: so that, on the contrary, <FI>it is<Fi> rather for you to forgive and to comfort, lest by over abundant sorrow such a one may be swallowed up;

so that now you must take the opposite course, and forgive and encourage him, or else he may be overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain.


simplify: Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Beth–lehem,

And these were the great men of war: Asahel, the brother of Joab, Elhanan, the son of Dodo of Beth-lehem,


simplify: Thou knowest the commandments, Do not kill, Do not commit adultery, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor thy father and mother.

You have knowledge of what is said in the law, Do not put any one to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness, Do not get money by deceit, Give honour to your father and mother.


simplify: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, the building of the house was complete in every detail, as it had been designed. So he was seven years building it.


rate difficulty: So he went away with all he had, and went across the River in the direction of the hill-country of Gilead.

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


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

And they said to Joshua, Truly, the Lord has given all the land into our hands; and all the people of the land have become like water because of us.


simplify: If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honour, sanctified, and meet for the master’s use, and prepared unto every good work.

If, then, a person has escaped from the pollution of such errors as I have mentioned, they will be like a thing kept for better use, set apart, serviceable to its owner, ready for any good purpose.


rate difficulty: Now when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

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


simplify: speaking one to another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody with your heart to the Lord;

Joining with one another in holy songs of praise and of the Spirit, using your voice in songs and making melody in your heart to the Lord;


simplify: And he brought me thither, and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.


simplify: These are the names of the men that shall divide the land unto you for inheritance: Eleazar the priest, and Joshua the son of Nun.

These are the names of the men who are to make the distribution of the land among you: Eleazar the priest and Joshua, the son of Nun.


rate difficulty: And ye shall keep my statutes, and do them: I am Jehovah who sanctifieth you.

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


rate difficulty: It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations throughout all your dwellings, that ye eat neither fat nor blood.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when he sowed, some seeds fell by the way side, and the fowls came and devoured them up:

as they were sowing, some seed fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up.


rate difficulty: `And there shall be signs in sun, and moon, and stars, and on the land <FI>is<Fi> distress of nations with perplexity, sea and billow roaring;

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


rate difficulty: And [do not] they blaspheme the excellent name which has been called upon you?

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


simplify: For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.


simplify: Now while Peter doubted in himself what this vision which he had seen should mean, behold, the men which were sent from Cornelius had made enquiry for Simon’s house, and stood before the gate,

Now while Peter was in doubt as to the purpose of this vision, the men who were sent by Cornelius, having made search for Simon's house, came to the door,


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

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


rate difficulty: How long dost Thou not look from me? Thou dost not desist till I swallow my spittle.

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


rate difficulty: and Michael, and Ishpah, and Joha, the sons of Beriah,

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


rate difficulty: For when I had brought them into the land, which I sware to give unto them, then they saw every high hill, and every thick tree, and they offered there their sacrifices, and there they presented the provocation of their offering; there also they made their sweet savor, and they poured out there their drink-offerings.

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


simplify: Fear not, little flock; for it is your Father’s good pleasure to give you the kingdom.

So do not be afraid, my little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.


simplify: Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

This is what you are to say to him: The Lord has said, Truly, the building which I put up will be broken down, and that which was planted by me will be uprooted, and this through all the land;


simplify: I am become foolish: ye compelled me; for I ought to have been commended of you: for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles, though I am nothing.

I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.


rate difficulty: this testimony is true; for which cause convict them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,

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


simplify: Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

until a new king, who knew nothing of Joseph, came to the throne.


simplify: And furthermore, my son, be admonished: of making many books there is no end; and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

And further, my son, take note of this: of the making of books there is no end, and much learning is a weariness to the flesh.


rate difficulty: But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

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


rate difficulty: For he and all who were with him were lost in amazement at the haul of fish which they had made;


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


simplify: And when Zacharias saw him, he was troubled, and fear fell upon him.

Zechariah was startled at the sight and was awe-struck.


rate difficulty: Pass ye away, thou inhabitant of Saphir, having thy shame naked: the inhabitant of Zaanan came not forth in the mourning of Beth–ezel; he shall receive of you his standing.

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


rate difficulty: In the rising of the wicked a man is hidden, And in their destruction the righteous multiply!

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


simplify: The wise shall inherit glory; But shame shall be the promotion of fools.

The wise will have glory for their heritage, but shame will be the reward of the foolish.


rate difficulty: — there is none to guide her among all the children that she hath brought forth; neither is there any to take her by the hand of all the children that she hath brought up.


simplify: Moreover his mother made him a little robe, and brought it to him from year to year, when she came up with her husband to offer the yearly sacrifice.

And his mother made him a little robe and took it to him every year when she came with her husband for the year's offering.


simplify: Or thinkest thou that I cannot beseech my Father, and he shall even now send me more than twelve legions of angels?

Does it not seem possible to you that if I make request to my Father he will even now send me an army of angels?


rate difficulty: And Saul was afraid of David, because Jehovah was with him, and had departed from Saul.

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


simplify: Therefore now, O Jehovah, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.

So now, O Lord, give ear to my prayer and take my life from me; for death is better for me than life.


simplify: And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons are come: as thy servant said, so it is.

And Jonadab said to the king, See, the king's sons are coming; as your servant said, so it is.


simplify: And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and there shall not be any remaining of the house of Esau; for the Lord hath spoken it.

And the children of Jacob will be a fire and those of Joseph a flame, and the children of Esau dry stems of grass, burned up by them till all is gone: and there will be no people living in Esau; for the Lord has said it.


rate difficulty: And there had been war between Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.

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


simplify: But, O Lord of hosts, that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart, let me see thy vengeance on them: for unto thee have I revealed my cause.

But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.


simplify: But Amnon had a friend, whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah David’s brother: and Jonadab was a very subtil man.

But Amnon had a friend whose name was Jonadab, the son of Shimeah, David's brother: and Jonadab was a very wise man.


simplify: For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;


rate difficulty: And my soul chooseth strangling, Death rather than my bones.

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


rate difficulty: And the men of David said unto him, Behold the day of which the Lord said unto thee, Behold, I will deliver thine enemy into thine hand, that thou mayest do to him as it shall seem good unto thee. Then David arose, and cut off the skirt of Saul’s robe privily.

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


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Come again to me after three days. And the people departed.

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


simplify: And it came to pass upon the morrow, there were gathered together of them the rulers, and elders, and scribes, to Jerusalem,

The next day, a meeting of the leaders of the people, the councillors, and the teachers of the law was held in Jerusalem.


simplify: And them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship and that swear by the Lord, and that swear by Malcham;

And the worshippers of the army of heaven on the house-tops, and the Lord's worshippers who take oaths by Milcom,


rate difficulty: As for our redeemer, the Lord of hosts is his name, the Holy One of Israel.


simplify: So the Lord our God delivered into our hands Og also, the king of Bashan, and all his people: and we smote him until none was left to him remaining.

So the Lord our God gave up Og, king of Bashan, and all his people into our hands; and we overcame him so completely that all his people came to their end in the fight.


simplify: Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?

What is the cause of wars and fighting among you? is it not in your desires which are at war in your bodies?


simplify: Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

What reason, then, is there for pride? It is shut out. By what sort of law? of works? No, but by a law of faith.


simplify: They were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh the son of Joseph; and their inheritance remained in the tribe of the family of their father.

And were married into the families of the sons of Manasseh, the son of Joseph, and their property was kept in the tribe of their father's family


simplify: And Moses went up unto God, and the Lord called unto him out of the mountain, saying, Thus shalt thou say to the house of Jacob, and tell the children of Israel;

And Moses went up to God, and the voice of the Lord came to him from the mountain, saying, Say to the family of Jacob, and give word to the children of Israel:


simplify: For if I build up again those things which I destroyed, I prove myself a transgressor.

For if I put up again those things which I gave to destruction, I am seen to be a wrongdoer.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto him, `Who appointed a mouth for man? or who appointeth the dumb, or deaf, or open, or blind? is it not I, Jehovah?

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


rate difficulty: For among my people are found wicked men: they watch, as fowlers lie in wait; they set a trap, they catch men.


simplify: And all the spoil of these cities, and the cattle, the children of Israel took for a prey unto themselves; but every man they smote with the edge of the sword, until they had destroyed them, neither left they any that breathed.

And all the goods taken from these towns, and their cattle, the children of Israel kept for themselves; but every man they put to death without mercy, till their destruction was complete, and there was no one living.


simplify: For verily I say unto you, That whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou removed, and be thou cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that those things which he saith shall come to pass; he shall have whatsoever he saith.

Truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be put into the sea; and has no doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says will come about, he will have his desire.


rate difficulty: For any person, whoever he may be, who takes his pleasure on that day will be cut off from his people.

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


rate difficulty: Salute you do Timotheus, my fellow-workman, and Lucius, and Jason, and Sosipater, my kindred;

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


rate difficulty: And the king turneth round his face, and blesseth the whole assembly of Israel; and all the assembly of Israel is standing.

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


simplify: And when Jesus was come into Peter’s house, he saw his wife’s mother laid, and sick of a fever.

And when Jesus had come into Peter's house, he saw his wife's mother in bed, very ill.


simplify: and great fear came upon all the assembly, and upon all who heard these things.

The whole church and all who heard of these events were appalled.


rate difficulty: and all the walls of the house round about he hath carved with openings of carvings, cherubs, and palm trees, and openings of flowers, within and without.

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


rate difficulty: And when David had made an end of offering the burnt-offering and the peace-offerings, he blessed the people in the name of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Behold, I and the children whom the Lord hath given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of hosts, which dwelleth in mount Zion.

See, I and the children whom the Lord has given me, are for signs and for wonders in Israel from the Lord of armies, whose resting-place is in Mount Zion.


simplify: And he asked them of their welfare, and said, Is your father well, the old man of whom ye spake? Is he yet alive?

And he said, How are you? is your father well, the old man of whom you were talking to me? is he still living?


rate difficulty: A beka, that is, half a shekel by the holy scale, for everyone who was numbered; there were six hundred and three thousand, five hundred and fifty men of twenty years old and over.


rate difficulty: A people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakims; but the Lord destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead:

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


simplify: Put on therefore, as God’s elect, holy and beloved, a heart of compassion, kindness, lowliness, meekness, longsuffering;

As saints of God, then, holy and dearly loved, let your behaviour be marked by pity and mercy, kind feeling, a low opinion of yourselves, gentle ways, and a power of undergoing all things;


rate difficulty: Then the woman, when she saw that she was discovered, came forward trembling, and threw herself down before him; and, in the presence of all the people, she told him her reason for touching him, and that she had been cured instantly.

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


simplify: And there sat in the window a certain young man named Eutychus, borne down with deep sleep; and as Paul discoursed yet longer, being borne down by his sleep he fell down from the third story, and was taken up dead.

And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.


simplify: I did write to you in the epistle, not to keep company with whoremongers--

I told you, in my letter, not to associate with immoral people —


rate difficulty: And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:


simplify: And now, brethren, I wot that through ignorance ye did it, as did also your rulers.

And now, my brothers, I am conscious that you did this, as did your rulers, without knowledge.


rate difficulty: And in great fear Isaac said, Who then is he who got meat and put it before me, and I took it all before you came, and gave him a blessing, and his it will be?

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


simplify: Therefore many of them believed; also of honourable women which were Greeks, and of men, not a few.

And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.


simplify: I will send him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I give him a charge, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

I will send him against a nation of wrongdoers, and against the people of my wrath I will give him orders, to take their wealth in war, crushing them down like the dust in the streets.


rate difficulty: and through him to reconcile the all things to himself--having made peace through the blood of his cross--through him, whether the things upon the earth, whether the things in the heavens.

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


simplify: And I will bring Israel again to his pasture, and he shall feed on Carmel and Bashan, and his soul shall be satisfied upon the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.

And I will make Israel come back to his resting-place, and he will get his food on Carmel and Bashan, and have his desire in full measure on the hills of Ephraim and in Gilead.


rate difficulty: when they go into the tent of meeting, they shall wash with water, that they die not; or when they come near to the altar to minister, to burn an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

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


simplify: the lodges thereof, the posts thereof, and the arches thereof: and there were windows therein round about; the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


simplify: He poureth contempt upon princes, and weakeneth the strength of the mighty.

He puts shame on chiefs, and takes away the power of the strong;


rate difficulty: So that I may give my lovers wealth for their heritage, making their store-houses full.

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


rate difficulty: Which thou hast commanded by thy servants the prophets, saying, The land, unto which ye go to possess it, is an unclean land with the filthiness of the people of the lands, with their abominations, which have filled it from one end to another with their uncleanness.

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


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: And he made a network of brass for the altar, under the frame round it, stretching half-way up;

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


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah the king prayeth, and Isaiah son of Amoz the prophet, concerning this, and they cry to the heavens,

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


rate difficulty: And the voice of a multitude being at ease was with her: and with men of the common sort were brought drunkards from the wilderness; and they put bracelets upon the hands of them twain, and beautiful crowns upon their heads.

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


rate difficulty: For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not anything, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.


rate difficulty: and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand; and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah.

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


simplify: If ye forsake the Lord, and serve strange gods, then he will turn and do you hurt, and consume you, after that he hath done you good.

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


rate difficulty: And they said one to another, Who hath done this thing? And when they inquired and asked, they said, Gideon the son of Joash hath done this thing.

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


rate difficulty: for it is sanctified byGod's word and freely addressing [him].

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


rate difficulty: And they will make sport of him, and put shame on him, and give him cruel blows, and will put him to death; and after three days he will come back from the dead.

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


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

And he took the letter to the king of Israel, in which the king of Aram had said, See, I have sent my servant Naaman to you to be made well, for he is a leper.


simplify: And again he denied with an oath, I do not know the man.

Again he denied it with an oath: “I do not know the man!”


rate difficulty: The border went out from Tappuah westward unto the river Kanah; and the goings out thereof were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Ephraim by their families.

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


simplify: When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

Joseph woke up, and taking the child and his mother by night, went into Egypt,


simplify: six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the six that remain on the other stone, according to their birth.

Six names on the one stone and six on the other, in the order of their birth.


simplify: They made shoulderpieces for it, to couple it together: by the two edges was it coupled together.

And they made two bands for joining its edges together at the top of the arms.


rate difficulty: and at the same time pray for us, so that God may give us an opening for our message, so that we may speak of the truths hidden in the Christ — the truths for which I am in chains!

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


simplify: And I will give this people favour in the sight of the Egyptians: and it shall come to pass, that, when ye go, ye shall not go empty:

And I will give this people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians, so that when you go out you will go out with your hands full.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak and hold not thy peace:

And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:


simplify: and in all deceitfulness of the unrighteousness in those perishing, because the love of the truth they did not receive for their being saved,

to the ruin of those who are on the path to destruction, because they have never received and loved the truth to their own salvation.


rate difficulty: The children of Bigvai, two thousand fifty and six.


rate difficulty: And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel: for, said he, I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved.


simplify: If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

If his master gives him a wife, and he gets sons or daughters by her, the wife and her children will be the property of the master, and the servant is to go away by himself.


rate difficulty: And Canaan hath begotten Sidon his first-born, and Heth,

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


simplify: And Solomon determined to build an house for the name of the Lord, and an house for his kingdom.

Now it was Solomon's purpose to put up a house for the name of the Lord and a house for himself as king.


simplify: And when they were come to the multitude, there came to him a certain man, kneeling down to him, and saying,

And when they came to the people, a man went down on his knees to him, saying,


rate difficulty: And the altars that were on the roof of the upper chamber of Ahaz, which the kings of Judah had made, and the altars which Manasseh had made in the two courts of the house of Jehovah, did the king break down, and beat them down from thence, and cast the dust of them into the brook Kidron.

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


simplify: Remember Jesus Christ, risen from the dead, of the seed of David, according to my gospel:

Keep in mind Jesus Christ, of the seed of David, who came back from the dead, as my good news gives witness:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and Adoni-Bezek saith, `Seventy kings--their thumbs and their great toes cut off--have been gathering under my table; as I have done so hath God repaid to me;' and they bring him in to Jerusalem, and he dieth there.

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


simplify: and their word will eat as doth a gangrene: of whom is Hymenæus and Philetus;

And their words will be like poisoned wounds in the flesh: such are Hymenaeus and Philetus;


simplify: And after three months we set sail in a ship of Alexandria which had wintered in the island, whose sign was The Twin Brothers.

And after three months we went to sea in a ship of Alexandria sailing under the sign of the Dioscuri, which had been at the island for the winter.


rate difficulty: and I will cast you out of my sight, as I have cast out all your brethren, all the seed of Ephraim.

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


rate difficulty: And they said, With your approval, let this land be given to your servants as their heritage: do not take us over Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: Preaching in the name of the Lord without fear; and he had discussions with the Greek Jews; but they were working for his death.


simplify: Truth I say in Christ, I lie not, my conscience bearing testimony with me in the Holy Spirit,

I am speaking the truth as one in union with Christ; it is no lie; and my conscience, enlightened by the Holy Spirit,


simplify: And now she is planted in the wilderness, in a dry and thirsty ground.

And now she is planted in the waste land, in a dry and unwatered country.


rate difficulty: Thus shalt thou say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, that which I have built will I break down, and that which I have planted I will pluck up; and this in the whole land.

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


rate difficulty: But charge Joshua, and encourage him and strengthen him; for he shall go over before this people, and he shall put them in possession of the land which thou shalt see.

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


simplify: Folly is joy to him that is void of wisdom; But a man of understanding maketh straight his going.

Foolish behaviour is joy to the unwise; but a man of good sense makes his way straight.


simplify: But it shall come to pass in the latter days, that I will bring again the captivity of Elam, saith the Lord.

But it will come about that, in the last days, I will let the fate of Elam be changed, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions’ whelps.

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


simplify: And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee;

And the chance came when Herod on his birthday gave a feast to his lords, and the high captains, and the chief men of Galilee;


rate difficulty: And she came and told the man ofGod; and he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou [and] thy sons on the rest.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the sixth year, in the sixthmonth, in the fifthdayof the month, as I sat in my house, and the elders of Judah sat before me, that the hand of the Lord Jehovah fell there upon me.

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


simplify: Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation: the spirit indeed is willing, but the flesh is weak.

Keep watch with prayer, so that you may not be put to the test; the spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is feeble.


simplify: And the hand of the children of Israel prevailed more and more against Jabin the king of Canaan, until they had destroyed Jabin king of Canaan.

And the power of the children of Israel went on increasing against Jabin, king of Canaan, till he was cut off.


simplify: Wherefore the king hearkened not unto the people; for the cause was from the Lord, that he might perform his saying, which the Lord spake by Ahijah the Shilonite unto Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.


simplify: and Jezreel, and Jokdeam, and Zanoah,


rate difficulty: So the prophet went away, and pulling his head-band over his eyes to keep his face covered, took his place by the road waiting for the king.

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


simplify: They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.


rate difficulty: Who shall lay anything to the charge of God’s elect? It is God that justifieth;

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


rate difficulty: For this reason, see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on her images; and through all her land the wounded will be crying out in pain.

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


simplify: And there stood before them seventy men of the ancients of the house of Israel, and in the midst of them stood Jaazaniah the son of Shaphan, with every man his censer in his hand; and a thick cloud of incense went up.

And before them seventy of the responsible men of the children of Israel had taken their places, every man with a vessel for burning perfumes in his hand, and in the middle of them was Jaazaniah, the son of Shaphan; and a cloud of smoke went up from the burning perfume.


rate difficulty: Behold, here is my daughter a maiden, and his concubine; them I will bring out now, and humble ye them, and do with them what seemeth good unto you: but unto this man do not so vile a thing.


rate difficulty: He hired also an hundred thousand mighty men of valour out of Israel for an hundred talents of silver.

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rate difficulty: If thou therefore wilt worship before me, it shall all be thine.

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simplify: and I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.

yet I tell you that even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.


simplify: For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.

For I tell you that I will not eat it again, until it has had its fulfillment in the kingdom of God.”


simplify: traitors, headstrong, puffed up, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God;

False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;


rate difficulty: Then he will go out from you, he and his children with him, and go back to his family and to the property of his fathers.

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rate difficulty: for if indeed he has been crucified in weakness, yet he lives byGod's power; for indeed we are weak in him, but we shall live with him byGod's power towards you,)

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rate difficulty: And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.

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simplify: And when the ten heard it, they began to be much displeased with James and John.

And hearing this, the ten became very angry with James and John.


simplify: For though ye had smitten the whole army of the Chaldeans that fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yet should they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.

For even if you had overcome all the army of the Chaldaeans fighting against you, and there were only wounded men among them, still they would get up, every man in his tent, and put this town on fire.


simplify: and Moses alone shall come near unto Jehovah; but they shall not come near; neither shall the people go up with him.

And Moses only may come near to the Lord; but the others are not to come near, and the people may not come up with them.


rate difficulty: And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, they that tempt God are even delivered.

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


rate difficulty: By his wind the heavens become bright: by his hand the quickly moving snake was cut through.


simplify: And that ye may prolong your days in the land, which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give unto them and to their seed, a land that floweth with milk and honey.

And that your days may be long in the land which the Lord gave by an oath to your fathers and to their seed after them, a land flowing with milk and honey.


rate difficulty: And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.

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


rate difficulty: And Husham died; and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the fields of Moab, reigned in his stead. And the name of his city was Avith.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in the twelfth year of our captivity, in the tenth month, in the fifth day of the month, that one that had escaped out of Jerusalem came unto me, saying, The city is smitten.

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simplify: Therefore they did set over them taskmasters to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh treasure cities, Pithom and Raamses.

So they put overseers of forced work over them, in order to make their strength less by the weight of their work. And they made store-towns for Pharaoh, Pithom and Raamses.


rate difficulty: Then the woman in her wisdom had talk with all the town. And they had Sheba's head cut off and sent out to Joab. And he had the horn sounded, and sent them all away from the town, every man to his tent. And Joab went back to Jerusalem to the king.

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


rate difficulty: Render to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honor to whom honor.


simplify: And David said unto Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, or my father’s family in Israel, that I should be son in law to the king?

And David said to Saul, Who am I, and what is my father's family in Israel, that I am to be son-in-law to the king?


rate difficulty: And, behold, all the men of Israel came to the king, and said unto the king, Why have our brethren the men of Judah stolen thee away, and brought the king, and his household, over the Jordan, and all David’s men with him?

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


simplify: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Elishama the son of Ammihud.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Elishama, the son of Ammihud.


rate difficulty: And the whole house he overlaid with gold, until all the house was finished: also the whole altar that belonged to the oracle he overlaid with gold.


rate difficulty: And I saw: and behold, a pale horse, and he that sat upon it, his name [was] Death, and hades followed with him; and authority was given to him over the fourth of the earth to slay with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and by the beasts of the earth.


rate difficulty: And Laban rose early in the morning, and kissed his sons and his daughters, and blessed them; and Laban went and returned to his place.


rate difficulty: And if he be not redeemed by these means, then he shall go out in the year of jubilee, he, and his children with him.


rate difficulty: A sharp man keeps back his knowledge; but the heart of foolish men makes clear their foolish thoughts.


simplify: Even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ, (by grace ye are saved;)

Even when we were dead through our sins, gave us life together with Christ (by grace you have salvation),


simplify: first, indeed, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is proclaimed in the whole world;

First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ about you all, because the report of your faith is spreading throughout the world.


rate difficulty: And the number of the bricks, which they did make heretofore, ye shall lay upon them; ye shall not diminish aught thereof: for they are idle; therefore they cry, saying, Let us go and sacrifice to our God.

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


simplify: and those in the boat having come, did bow to him, saying, `Truly--God's Son art thou.'

But the men in the boat threw themselves on their faces before him, and said: “You are indeed God’s Son.”


simplify: And Moses commanded the children of Israel, saying, This is the land which ye shall inherit by lot, which the Lord commanded to give unto the nine tribes, and to the half tribe:

And Moses gave orders to the children of Israel saying, This is the land which is to be your heritage, by the decision of the Lord, which by the Lord's order is to be given to the nine tribes and the half-tribe:


rate difficulty: For Paul had determined to sail by Ephesus, because he would not spend the time in Asia: for he hasted, if it were possible for him, to be at Jerusalem the day of Pentecost.

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


simplify: And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.

And whatever is over Aaron and his sons may have for their food, taking it without leaven in a holy place; in the open space of the Tent of meeting they may take a meal of it.


rate difficulty: Instantly an angel of the Lord struck him, because he did not give God the glory; and he was attacked with worms, and died.


rate difficulty: but in everything commending ourselves, as ministers of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in necessities, in distresses,

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


rate difficulty: Hast thou eyes of flesh? or seest thou as man seeth?

reading_level: 1 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But I hope that ye shall know that we are not reprobate.

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


simplify: Likewise, ye wives, be in subjection to your own husbands; that, if any obey not the word, they also may without the word be won by the conversation of the wives;

Again, you married women should submit to your husbands, so that if any of them reject the message, they may, apart from the message, be won over, by the conduct of their wives,


rate difficulty: And Saul put up his tents on the hill of Hachilah, which is in front of the waste land on the road. But David was in the waste land, and he saw that Saul was coming after him.


simplify: and their eyes were holden so as not to know him,

but their eyes were blinded so that they could not recognize him.


rate difficulty: Why should we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? Buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be bondmen to Pharaoh; and give seed, that we may live, and not die, and that the land be not desolate.


simplify: When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved?

On hearing this, the disciples exclaimed in great astonishment: “Who then can possibly be saved?”


simplify: And I appoint unto you a kingdom, as my Father hath appointed unto me;

and, just as my Father has assigned me a kingdom, I assign you places,


rate difficulty: And Ahaz begot Jehoaddah; and Jehoaddah begot Alemeth, and Azmaveth, and Zimri; and Zimri begot Moza;

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


rate difficulty: What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, but I will pray also with the understanding; I will sing with the spirit, but I will sing also with the understanding.

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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.

He who was seated on it was in appearance like a jasper and a sardius; and ‘around the throne there was a rainbow’ of the color of an emerald.


simplify: And their brethren that did the work of the house were eight hundred twenty and two: and Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchiah,

And their brothers who did the work of the house, eight hundred and twenty-two; and Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pelaliah, the son of Amzi, the son of Zechariah, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah,


simplify: And he set a carved image, the idol which he had made, in the house of God, of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, which I have chosen before all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:

And he put the image he had made in the house of God, the house of which God had said to David and to Solomon his son, In this house, and in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine out of all the tribes of Israel, will I put my name for ever:


rate difficulty: The whole of this occurred in fulfillment of the Prophetic scriptures. Then the disciples all forsook him and fled.

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


rate difficulty: If he said thus; The speckled shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore speckled; and if he said thus: The ringstraked shall be thy hire, then all the flocks bore ringstraked.

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


simplify: For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality.

For this body which comes to destruction will be made free from the power of death, and the man who is under the power of death will put on eternal life.


rate difficulty: and he who is doing injustice to the neighbour, did thrust him away, saying, Who set thee a ruler and a judge over us?

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the morrow, that he took the coverlet, and dipped it in water, and spread it on his face, so that he died: and Hazael reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: If I cause evil beasts to pass through the land, and they ravage it, and it be made desolate, so that no man may pass through because of the beasts;

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simplify: Now ye Philippians know also, that in the beginning of the gospel, when I departed from Macedonia, no church communicated with me as concerning giving and receiving, but ye only.

And you have knowledge, Philippians, that when the good news first came to you, when I went away from Macedonia, no church took part with me in the business of giving to the saints, but you only;


rate difficulty: As for you, let that abide in you which ye heard from the beginning. If that which ye heard from the beginning abide in you, ye also shall abide in the Son, and in the Father.

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


simplify: If fire break out, and catch in thorns, so that the stacks of corn, or the standing corn, or the field, be consumed therewith; he that kindled the fire shall surely make restitution.

If there is a fire and the flames get to the thorns at the edge of the field, causing destruction of the cut grain or of the living grain, or of the field, he who made the fire will have to make up for the damage.


simplify: Take heed to thyself that thou be not snared by following them, after that they be destroyed from before thee; and that thou enquire not after their gods, saying, How did these nations serve their gods? even so will I do likewise.

After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.


rate difficulty: And Moses taketh them from off their hands, and maketh perfume on the altar, on the burnt-offering, they <FI>are<Fi> consecrations for sweet fragrance; it <FI>is<Fi> a fire-offering to Jehovah;

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


simplify: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Judah, were threescore and fourteen thousand and six hundred.

Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.


rate difficulty: So he built the house, and finished it; and he covered the house with beams and planks of cedar.


rate difficulty: And Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the captains of the forces that were with him, heard of all the evil that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah had done;


simplify: Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord. To write the same things to you, to me indeed is not grievous, but for you it is safe.

For the rest, my brothers, be glad in the Lord. Writing the same things to you is no trouble to me, and for you it is safe.


simplify: Which is easier, to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins are forgiven; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

Which is the simpler, to say to a man who is ill, You have forgiveness for your sins, or, Get up, take up your bed, and go?


rate difficulty: And now, thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: I took thee from the pasture-grounds, from following the sheep, to be prince over my people Israel;

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


rate difficulty: Joshua overcame them from Kadesh-barnea to Gaza, and all the land of Goshen as far as Gibeon.

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


rate difficulty: A king that sitteth on the throne of judgment Scattereth away all evil with his eyes.

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


rate difficulty: Will God hear his cry when trouble cometh upon him?

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


simplify: Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.


rate difficulty: And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

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


simplify: And Aaron returned unto Moses unto the door of the tent of meeting: and the plague was stayed.

Then Aaron went back to Moses to the door of the Tent of meeting: and the disease came to a stop.


rate difficulty: Then all the congregation answered and said with a loud voice, As thou hast said, so must we do.


rate difficulty: The increase of his house shall depart, flowing away in the day of his anger.

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


simplify: And they dreamed a dream both of them, each man his dream, in one night, each man according to the interpretation of his dream, the butler and the baker of the king of Egypt, who were bound in the prison.

And these two had a dream on the same night; the chief wine-servant and the chief bread-maker of the king of Egypt, who were in prison, the two of them had dreams with a special sense.


simplify: And saw two ships standing by the lake: but the fishermen were gone out of them, and were washing their nets.

And he saw two boats by the edge of the water, but the fishermen had gone out of them and were washing their nets.


rate difficulty: For Gaza will be given up and Ashkelon will become waste: they will send Ashdod out in the middle of the day, and Ekron will be uprooted.


rate difficulty: And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

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


simplify: And he came and found them asleep again: for their eyes were heavy.

And he came again and saw them sleeping, for their eyes were tired.


rate difficulty: but walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even caused his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that Jehovah had dispossessed from before the children of Israel.

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simplify: It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

It is like leaven, which a woman put into three measures of meal, and it was all leavened.


simplify: But seek not Beth–el, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer–sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Beth–el shall come to nought.

Do not be looking for help to Beth-el, and do not go to Gilgal, or make your way to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal will certainly be taken prisoner, and Beth-el will come to nothing.


simplify: and when certain were hardened and were disbelieving, speaking evil of the way before the multitude, having departed from them, he did separate the disciples, every day reasoning in the school of a certain Tyrannus.

Some of them, however, hardened their hears and refused to believe, denouncing the cause before the people. So Paul left them and withdrew his disciples, and gave daily addresses in the lecture-hall of Tyrannus.


simplify: that no one be moved in these tribulations, for yourselves have known that for this we are set,

so that none of you should be shaken by the troubles through which you are passing. You yourselves know that we are destined to meet with such things.


rate difficulty: and were carried over to Sychem and placed in the sepulchre which Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the [father] of Sychem.

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simplify: For they eat the bread of wickedness, And drink the wine of violence.

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.


rate difficulty: Go up to Hilkiah the high priest, that he may sum the silver which is brought into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have gathered of the people:

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


simplify: And he saith to them, `Why are ye fearful, O ye of little faith?' Then having risen, he rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was a great calm;

“Why are you so timid?” he said. “You of little faith!” Then Jesus rose and rebuked the winds and the sea, and a great calm followed.


rate difficulty: and hath changed the garments of his restraint, and he hath eaten bread continually before him all days of his life,

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord God; I will bring up a company upon them, and will give them to be removed and spoiled.

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


rate difficulty: No, when you entertain, invite the poor, the crippled, the lame, the blind;

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


simplify: And he abode two whole years in his own hired dwelling, and received all that went in unto him,

And for the space of two years, Paul was living in the house of which he had the use, and had talk with all those who went in to see him,


rate difficulty: But as Peter continued pondering over the vision, the Spirit said to him, Behold, three men seek thee;

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


simplify: Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

But take care that your hearts are not turned to false ways so that you become servants and worshippers of other gods;


rate difficulty: And the king, and all Israel with him, offered sacrifices before Jehovah.

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


simplify: Wisdom is better than weapons of war; but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.


rate difficulty: Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched grain, and a hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

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


simplify: Are there not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

Truly, those who make sport of me are round about me, and my eyes become dark because of their bitter laughing.


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

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


simplify: And she put the skins of the kids of the goats upon his hands, and upon the smooth of his neck:

And she put the skins of the young goats on his hands and on the smooth part of his neck:


simplify: and there may not at all enter into it any thing defiling and doing abomination, and a lie, but--those written in the scroll of the life of the Lamb.

‘Never will any unhallowed thing enter it,’ nor they whose life is shameful and false, but only ‘those whose names have been written in the Lamb’s book of life.’


rate difficulty: And they are to take away the burned waste from the altar, and put a purple cloth on it;

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


simplify: And yet for all this her treacherous sister Judah hath not returned unto me with her whole heart, but feignedly, saith Jehovah.

But for all this, her false sister Judah has not come back to me with all her heart, but with deceit, says the Lord.


simplify: And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the oblation which ye shall offer, five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the portions, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it.


simplify: But the goat, on which the lot fell for Azazel, shall be set alive before Jehovah, to make atonement for him, to send him away for Azazel into the wilderness.

But the goat for Azazel is to be placed living before the Lord, for the taking away of sin, that it may be sent away for Azazel into the waste land.


rate difficulty: A righteous man is concerned for the life of his beast; but the tender mercies of the wicked are cruel.


simplify: And why have ye brought up the congregation of the Lord into this wilderness, that we and our cattle should die there?

Why have you taken the Lord's people into this waste, for death to come to us and to our cattle there?


simplify: When the men of Israel saw that they were in a strait, (for the people were distressed,) then the people did hide themselves in caves, and in thickets, and in rocks, and in high places, and in pits.

When the men of Israel saw the danger they were in, (for the people were troubled,) they took cover in cracks in the hillsides and in the woods and in rocks and holes and hollows.


rate difficulty: Only in the Lord will Jacob overcome and be strong: together all those who were angry with him will be put to shame and come to destruction.


simplify: And gladness and joy is taken away from the fruitful field and from the land of Moab; and I have caused wine to cease from the winepresses: none shall tread with shouting; the shouting shall be no shouting.

All joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field and for the land of Moab; I have made the wine come to an end from the crushing vessels: no longer will the grapes be crushed with the sound of glad voices.


rate difficulty: And after him was Eleazar the son of Dodo, the Ahohite, who was one of the three mighties.


rate difficulty: But now without the law there is a revelation of the righteousness of God, to which witness is given by the law and the prophets;

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rate difficulty: Who, by the power of God are kept, through faith, for that salvation, which will be seen at the last day.


rate difficulty: And the three mighty men broke through the camp of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, which is in the gate, and took it, and brought it to David; however he would not drink of it, but poured it out to Jehovah.

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


simplify: Forasmuch as we have heard, that certain which went out from us have troubled you with words, subverting your souls, saying, Ye must be circumcised, and keep the law: to whom we gave no such commandment:

Because we have knowledge that some who went from us have been troubling you with their words, putting your souls in doubt; to whom we gave no such order;


rate difficulty: All things to me are lawful, but all things are not profitable; all things to me are lawful, but all things do not build up;


rate difficulty: And as for the rest of the tribes: from the east side to the west side: Benjamin, one part.


simplify: And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering to take away your sin.


simplify: and ye shall make no covenant with the inhabitants of this land; ye shall break down their altars. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice: why have ye done this?

And you are to make no agreement with the people of this land; you are to see that their altars are broken down: but you have not given ear to my voice: what have you done?


rate difficulty: Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?


simplify: And he dealt among all the people, even among the whole multitude of Israel, both to men and women, to every one a cake of bread, and a portion of flesh, and a cake of raisins. So all the people departed every one to his house.

And he gave to every man and woman among all the people, among all the masses of Israel, a cake of bread and a measure of wine and a cake of dry grapes. Then all the people went away, every man to his house.


rate difficulty: and Rebekah hath spoken unto Jacob her son, saying, `Lo, I have heard thy father speaking unto Esau thy brother, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And they had edges all round as wide as a man's hand: and on the tables was the flesh of the offerings.


simplify: For every head is bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands are cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.

For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.


rate difficulty: But the man out of whom the demons had gone besought him that he might be with him. But he sent him away, saying,


rate difficulty: Then the righteous will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? Or thirsty, and give you a drink?

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


simplify: Then the Pharisees went out, and held a council against him, how they might destroy him.

On coming out, the Pharisees plotted against Jesus, to put him to death.


simplify: Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another.

My loved ones, if God had such love for us, it is right for us to have love for one another.


simplify: and, being assembled together with them, he charged them not to depart from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father, which, said he, ye heard from me:

And when they were all together, with him, he gave them orders not to go away from Jerusalem, but to keep there, waiting till the word of the Father was put into effect, of which, he said, I have given you knowledge:


simplify: Hear me now therefore, O ye children, and depart not from the words of my mouth.

Give ear to me then, my sons, and do not put away my words from you.


simplify: Now these are the generations of Terah: Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.


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


rate difficulty: and they were expecting him to be about to be inflamed, or to fall down suddenly dead, and they, expecting <FI>it<Fi> a long time, and seeing nothing uncommon happening to him, changing <FI>their<Fi> minds, said he was a god.

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


simplify: Therefore as I live, saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, Surely Moab shall be as Sodom, and the children of Ammon as Gomorrah, even the breeding of nettles, and saltpits, and a perpetual desolation: the residue of my people shall spoil them, and the remnant of my people shall possess them.

For this cause, by my life, says the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, truly Moab will become like Sodom and the children of Ammon like Gomorrah, given up to waste plants and salt pools and unpeopled for ever: the rest of my people will take their property, the overflow of my nation will take their heritage.


rate difficulty: And now, ye sons, hearken to me, And turn not from sayings of my mouth.

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


simplify: And he closed the book, and gave it back to the attendant, and sat down: and the eyes of all in the synagogue were fastened on him.

And shutting the book he gave it back to the servant and took his seat: and the eyes of all in the Synagogue were fixed on him.


simplify: Then will I make their waters deep, and cause their rivers to run like oil, saith the Lord God.

Then I will make their waters clear and their rivers will be flowing like oil, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I felt as a child, I reasoned as a child; when I became a man, I had done with what belonged to the child.


simplify: if so be ye did hear him, and in him were taught, as truth is in Jesus;

and through union with him were taught the truth, as it is to be found in Jesus.


simplify: And he said, Lord God, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?

And he said, O Lord God, how may I be certain that it will be mine?


simplify: If thy people go out to battle against their enemy, by whatsoever way thou shalt send them, and they pray unto Jehovah toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name;

If your people go out to war against their attackers, by whatever way you may send them, if they make their prayer to the Lord, turning their faces to this town of yours and to this house which I have made for your name:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Aaron, Thou shalt have no inheritance in their land, neither shalt thou have any portion among them: I am thy portion and thine inheritance among the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And to pass by you into Macedonia, and to come again out of Macedonia unto you, and of you to be brought on my way toward Judea.

To visit you both on my way to Macedonia, and to come to you again on my return from Macedonia, and then to get you to send me on my way into Judea.


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

And I saw a great white seat, and him who was seated on it, before whose face the earth and the heaven went in flight; and there was no place for them.


simplify: The mouth of a righteous man is a well of life: but violence covereth the mouth of the wicked.

The mouth of the upright man is a fountain of life, but the mouth of the evil-doer is a bitter cup.


rate difficulty: And David took more wives at Jerusalem: and David begot more sons and daughters.

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


rate difficulty: And if ye lend to those from whom ye hope to receive, what thank is it to you? [for] even sinners lend to sinners that they may receive the like.

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


rate difficulty: and God <FI>is<Fi> able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,

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


rate difficulty: And the Arvadite and the Zemarite and the Hamathite; after that the families of the Canaanites went far and wide in all directions;

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


rate difficulty: She hath done what she could: she is come aforehand to anoint my body to the burying.