rate difficulty: and the Pharisees having gone forth, immediately, with the Herodians, were taking counsel against him how they might destroy him.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Bring Aaron’s rod again before the testimony, to be kept for a token against the rebels; and thou shalt quite take away their murmurings from me, that they die not.

And the Lord said to Moses, Put Aaron's rod back in front of the ark of witness, to be kept for a sign against this false-hearted people, so that you may put a stop to their outcries against me, and death may not overtake them.


simplify: Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.

But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.


rate difficulty: For this is the love ofGod, that we keep his commandments; and his commandments are not grievous.

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


simplify: Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

And the Lord said, Take off the shoes from your feet, for the place where you are is holy.


rate difficulty: The whole of the people that is left of the Amorite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, who <FI>are<Fi> not of the sons of Israel--


simplify: The fierce anger of Jehovah shall not return, until he have executed, and till he have performed the intents of his heart: in the latter days ye shall understand it.

The wrath of the Lord will not be turned back till he has done, till he has put into effect, the purposes of his heart: in days to come you will have full knowledge of this.


simplify: According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

He will give them the right reward of their doings, wrath to his attackers, punishment to his haters, and even on the sea-lands he will send punishment.


rate difficulty: Go up to the mountain, and bring wood, and build the house; and I will take pleasure in it, and I will be glorified, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: Thou sayest, (but they are but vain words,) I have counsel and strength for the war. Now on whom dost thou trust, that thou rebellest against me?

You say you have a design, and strength for war, but these are only words. Now to whom are you looking for support, that you have gone against my authority?


rate difficulty: Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

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


simplify: For if the firstfruit be holy, the lump is also holy: and if the root be holy, so are the branches.

If the first handful of dough in holy, so is the whole mass; and if the root is holy, so are the branches.


rate difficulty: And Moses speaketh unto the sons of Israel, and all their princes give unto him one rod for a prince, one rod for a prince, for their fathers' house, twelve rods, and the rod of Aaron <FI>is<Fi> in the midst of their rods;

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


simplify: For there stood by me this night the angel of God, whose I am, and whom I serve,

For this night there came to my side an angel of the God who is my Master and whose servant I am,


rate difficulty: For I will gather all nations against Jerusalem to battle; and the city shall be taken, and the houses rifled, and the women ravished; and half of the city shall go forth into captivity, and the residue of the people shall not be cut off from the city.


rate difficulty: And he was teaching in their Synagogues and all men gave him praise.


simplify: Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? cause them to know the abominations of their fathers:

Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,


simplify: And a certain centurion’s servant, who was dear unto him, was sick, and ready to die.

And a certain captain had a servant who was very dear to him; this servant was ill and near to death.


simplify: While he yet spake, there came from the ruler of the synagogue’s house certain which said, Thy daughter is dead: why troublest thou the Master any further?

And while he was still talking, they came from the ruler of the Synagogue's house, saying, Your daughter is dead: why are you still troubling the Master?


rate difficulty: And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham:


rate difficulty: And over the flocks was Jaziz the Hagerite. All these were the rulers of the substance which was king David’s.


rate difficulty: Look not every man on his own things, but every man also on the things of others.

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


simplify: And Judah went against the Canaanites that dwelt in Hebron (now the name of Hebron beforetime was Kiriath-arba); and they smote Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai.

And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.


rate difficulty: And give no man the name of father on earth: because one is your Father, who is in heaven.


simplify: And when they saw it, they all murmured, saying, That he was gone to be guest with a man that is a sinner.

On seeing this, everyone began to complain: “He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast.”


simplify: and he shall look on the plague on the seventh day: if the plague be spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in the skin, whatever service skin is used for; the plague is a fretting leprosy; it is unclean.

And he is to see the mark on the seventh day; if the mark is increased in the clothing, or in the threads of the material, or in the leather, whatever the leather is used for, it is the disease biting into it: it is unclean.


simplify: And Pilate, when he had called together the chief priests and the rulers and the people,

And Pilate sent for the chief priests and the rulers and the people, and said to them,


rate difficulty: Jehovah also shall save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem be not magnified above Judah.

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


simplify: But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them.


simplify: The Lord shall establish thee an holy people unto himself, as he hath sworn unto thee, if thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, and walk in his ways.

The Lord will keep you as a people holy to himself, as he has said to you in his oath, if you keep the orders of the Lord your God and go on walking in his ways.


simplify: For I am full of matter, the spirit within me constraineth me.

For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:


simplify: To whom then will ye liken me, that I should be equal to him? saith the Holy One.

Who then seems to you to be my equal? says the Holy One.


rate difficulty: To serve Him, in holiness and righteousness Before Him, all the days of our life.

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


rate difficulty: He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from passing away by the sword.

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


simplify: And he shall not profane his seed among his people: for I am Jehovah who sanctifieth him.

And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.


rate difficulty: And I have put judgment for a line, And righteousness for a plummet, And sweep away doth hail the refuge of lies, And the secret hiding-place do waters overflow.

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


simplify: for I am with thee, and no man shall set on thee to harm thee: for I have much people in this city.

For I am with you, and no one will make an attack on you to do you damage: for I have a number of people in this town.


rate difficulty: Heshbon and Jazer with their grass-lands, four towns.

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


simplify: Gather thee together, go to the right, set thyself in array, go to the left, whithersoever thy face is set.

Be pointed to the right, to the left, wherever your edge is ordered.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass in Iconium that they entered together into the synagogue of the Jews, and so spake that a great multitude of both Jews and Greeks believed.

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


rate difficulty: An ox, or a sheep, or a goat, when it is brought forth, shall be seven days under its dam; and from the eighth day and thenceforth it shall be accepted for an offering by fire to Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Saul said unto Samuel, I have sinned: for I have transgressed the commandment of the Lord, and thy words: because I feared the people, and obeyed their voice.

And Saul said to Samuel, Great is my sin: for I have gone against the orders of the Lord and against your words: because, fearing the people, I did what they said.


rate difficulty: His offering was one silver charger, the weight whereof was an hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

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


simplify: Therefore shall ye keep my commandments, and do them: I am the Lord.

So then, keep my orders and do them: I am the Lord.


simplify: Then departed Barnabas to Tarsus, for to seek Saul:

Afterwards Barnabas left for Tarsus to look for Saul;


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Thou dost not smite; those whom thou hast taken captive with thy sword and with thy bow art thou smiting? set bread and water before them, and they eat, and drink, and go unto their lord.'

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


rate difficulty: To Timothy, my dearly beloved son: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


simplify: O house of David, thus saith Jehovah, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.

O family of David, this is what the Lord has said: Do what is right in the morning, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away, or my wrath will go out like fire, burning so that no one may put it out, because of the evil of your doings.


rate difficulty: A poor man who oppresseth the helpless is a sweeping rain which leaveth no food.

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


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

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


simplify: and I think right, so long as I am in this tabernacle, to stir you up in reminding <FI>you<Fi> ,

But I think it my duty, as long as I live in this ‘tent,’ to rouse you by awakening memories of the past;


rate difficulty: And I will make thy lewdness to cease from thee, and thy whoredom [brought] from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt not lift up thine eyes unto them, nor remember Egypt any more.

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


simplify: And for the house he made windows of narrow lights.

And for the house he made windows, with network across.


rate difficulty: And one of his servants said in answer, Send men and let them take five of the horses which we still have in the town; if they keep their lives they will be the same as those of Israel who are still living here; if they come to their death they will be the same as all those of Israel who have gone to destruction: let us send and see.

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


simplify: This people have I formed for myself; they shall shew forth my praise.

Even the people whom I made to be the witnesses of my praise.


simplify: not looking each of you to his own things, but each of you also to the things of others.

Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.


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


simplify: For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.

What credit can you claim when, after doing wrong, you take your punishment for it patiently? But, on the other hand, if, after doing right, you take your sufferings patiently, that does win the approval of God.


simplify: Greet ye one another with a kiss of charity. Peace be with you all that are in Christ Jesus. Amen.

Greet one another with the kiss of love.


rate difficulty: I enjoin thee beforeGod who preserves all things in life, and Christ Jesus who witnessed before Pontius Pilate the good confession,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her whelps, and will rend the caul of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.

I will come face to face with them like a bear whose young ones have been taken from her, and their inmost hearts will be broken; there the dogs will make a meal of them; they will be wounded by the beasts of the field.


simplify: I have shewed you all things, how that so labouring ye ought to support the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said, It is more blessed to give than to receive.

In all things I was an example to you of how, in your lives, you are to give help to the feeble, and keep in memory the words of the Lord Jesus, how he himself said, There is a greater blessing in giving than in getting.


simplify: The messenger also said to him, `Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals;' and he did so; and he saith to him, `Put thy garment round and be following me;'

The chains dropped from his wrists, and then the angel said: “Put on your girdle and sandals.” When Peter had done so, the angel added: “Throw your cloak around you and follow me.”


rate difficulty: But of the children of Israel did Solomon make no servants for his work; but they were men of war, and chief of his captains, and rulers of his chariots and of his horsemen.

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


rate difficulty: As for thy terribleness, the pride of thy heart hath deceived thee, O thou that dwellest in the clefts of the rock, that holdest the height of the hill: though thou shouldest make thy nest as high as the eagle, I will bring thee down from thence, saith Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.

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


simplify: These are the sons of Shem, after their families, after their tongues, in their lands, after their nations.

These, with their families and their languages and their lands and their nations, are the offspring of Shem.


simplify: And the children of Dan set up the graven image: and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh, he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of the captivity of the land.

(And the children of Dan put up the pictured image for themselves; and Jonathan, the son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of the Danites till the day when the ark was taken prisoner.)


rate difficulty: And the holy place had two doors, and the doors had two turning leaves, two for one and two for the other.

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


rate difficulty: And the boys grew, and Esau became a man skilled in hunting, a man of the field; and Jacob was a homely man, dwelling in tents.

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


simplify: And every oblation of thy meat offering shalt thou season with salt; neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the covenant of thy God to be lacking from thy meat offering: with all thine offerings thou shalt offer salt.

And every meal offering is to be salted with salt; your meal offering is not to be without the salt of the agreement of your God: with all your offerings give salt.


simplify: So they laid hands on her; and when she was come to the entering of the horse gate by the king’s house, they slew her there.

So they put their hands on her, and she went to the king's house by the doorway of the king's horses; and there she was put to death.


simplify: Thou that art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and that canst not look on perverseness, wherefore lookest thou upon them that deal treacherously, and holdest thy peace when the wicked swalloweth up the man that is more righteous than he;

Before your holy eyes sin may not be seen, and you are unable to put up with wrong; why, then, are your eyes on the false? why do you say nothing when the evil-doer puts an end to one who is more upright than himself?


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?


simplify: and to love Him out of all the heart, and out of all the understanding, and out of all the soul, and out of all the strength, and to love one's neighbour as one's self, is more than all the whole burnt-offerings and the sacrifices.'

and to ‘love him with all one’s heart, and with all one’s understanding, and with all one’s strength,’ and to ‘love one’s neighbor as one loves oneself’ is far beyond all ‘burnt offerings and sacrifices.’”


simplify: As hath been done this day, so Jehovah hath commanded to do, to make atonement for you.

What has been done this day, has been ordered by the Lord to take away your sin.


rate difficulty: These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of the children of Ammon, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because in Gilead they had women with child cut open, so that they might make wider the limits of their land.


rate difficulty: The people went about taking it up from the earth, crushing it between stones or hammering it to powder, and boiling it in pots, and they made cakes of it: its taste was like the taste of cakes cooked with oil.


simplify: Therefore shall a strong people glorify thee; a city of terrible nations shall fear thee.

For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.


rate difficulty: And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And all the messengers stood around the throne, and the elders and the four living creatures, and they fell upon their face, and bowed before God,

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


simplify: And when he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel.

When he was in his fortieth year, he resolved to visit his fellow Israelites;


simplify: Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

Even the beasts of the waste land have full breasts, they give milk to their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel like the ostriches in the waste land.


rate difficulty: the heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

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


rate difficulty: This is to be a law for them for ever: he who puts the water on the unclean person is to have his clothing washed; and anyone touching the water will be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: and have taken a bullock, a son of the herd, and its present, flour mixed with oil, --and a second bullock a son of the herd thou dost take for a sin-offering,

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


simplify: Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens.

Lifting up our hearts with our hands to God in the heavens.


simplify: My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, That I may answer him that reproacheth me.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.


rate difficulty: And if ye salute your brethren only, what do ye more than others? do not even the Gentiles the same?

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


rate difficulty: So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass that when all our enemies heard [of it], all the nations that were about us were afraid and were much cast down in their own eyes, and they perceived that this work was wrought by ourGod.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take them from their hands, and burn them on the altar upon the burnt-offering, for a sweet savor before Jehovah: it is an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom is outside the power of the foolish: he keeps his mouth shut in the public place.


rate difficulty: and Rachel saith, `God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.

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


rate difficulty: When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the birds of the heavens; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.

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


rate difficulty: Asaph the chief, and second to him Zechariah, Uzziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel and Mattithiah and Eliab and Benaiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel, with corded instruments of music; and Asaph, with brass instruments sounding loudly;

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


simplify: For the house of Israel and the house of Judah have dealt very treacherously against me, saith Jehovah.

For the people of Israel and the people of Judah have been very false to me, says the Lord.


simplify: And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

And he said, Who are you, Lord? And he said, I am Jesus, whom you are attacking:


simplify: and the chief captain having come near, said to him, `Tell me, art thou a Roman?' and he said, `Yes;'

So the commanding officer went up to Paul and said: “Tell me, are you a Roman citizen?”   “Yes,” replied Paul.


simplify: no, nor yet Herod, for I sent you back unto him, and lo, nothing worthy of death is having been done by him;

nor did Herod either; for he has sent him back to us. And, as a fact, he has not done anything deserving death;


simplify: Thou shalt not make unto thee a graven image, nor any likeness of anything that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:

You may not make for yourselves an image in the form of anything in heaven or on earth or in the waters under the earth:


rate difficulty: And they call unto the king, and go out unto them doth Eliakim son of Hilkiah, who <FI>is<Fi> over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah son of Asaph the remembrancer.

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


rate difficulty: But what I tell you is this: love your enemies, and pray for those who persecute you,

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


rate difficulty: And when it became day there was gathered together the eldership of the people, chief priests also, and scribes, and they led him up to their own sanhedrim,

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


simplify: For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.


simplify: These are the commandments and the ordinances which Jehovah commanded by Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.


simplify: Their young ones are in good liking, they grow up with corn; they go forth, and return not unto them.

Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.


simplify: But let him ask in faith, nothing wavering. For he that wavereth is like a wave of the sea driven with the wind and tossed.

Let him make his request in faith, doubting nothing; for he who has doubt in his heart is like the waves of the sea, which are troubled by the driving of the wind.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends: and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it: and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive into Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: If the prince give a gift unto any of his sons, it shall be that one's inheritance, for his sons: it shall be their possession by inheritance.

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


simplify: (For as yet he was fallen upon none of them: only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.)

For up to that time he had not come on any of them; only baptism had been given to them in the name of the Lord Jesus.


rate difficulty: With my soul have I desired thee in the night; yea, with my spirit within me I seek thee early: for when thy judgments are in the earth, the inhabitants of the world learn righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: Knowing therefore the fear of the Lord, we persuade men, but we are made manifest unto God; and I hope that we are made manifest also in your consciences.

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


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass at Ahab's seeing Elijah, that Ahab saith unto him, `Art thou he--the troubler of Israel?'

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


simplify: And Noah lived after the flood three hundred and fifty years.

And Noah went on living three hundred and fifty years after the great flow of waters;


rate difficulty: and when <FI>any<Fi> of their carcase falleth on any sown seed which is sown--it <FI>is<Fi> clean;

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


rate difficulty: And he answered and said, I tell you that, if these shall hold their peace, the stones will cry out.


rate difficulty: For they themselves give the news of how we came among you; and how you were turned from images to God, to the worship of a true and living God,

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


rate difficulty: Then said I unto her that was old in adulteries, Will they now commit whoredoms with her, and she with them?

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


simplify: For thou bringest certain strange things to our ears: we would know therefore what these things mean.

For you seem to us to say strange things, and we have a desire to get the sense of them.


simplify: Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

Again, when the evil-doer, turning away from the evil he has done, does what is ordered and right, he will have life for his soul.


simplify: Can a man take fire in his bosom, And his clothes not be burned?

May a man take fire to his breast without burning his clothing?


rate difficulty: Since he knoweth their actions; and he overthroweth [them] in the night, and they are crushed.

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


rate difficulty: And the king said, Let the living child be cut in two and one half given to one woman and one to the other.

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


simplify: Brethren, if a man also may be overtaken in any trespass, ye who <FI>are<Fi> spiritual restore such a one in a spirit of meekness, considering thyself--lest thou also may be tempted;

My friends, even if someone should be caught committing a sin, you who are spiritually minded should, in a gentle spirit, help them to recover themselves, taking care that you yourselves are not tempted.


rate difficulty: for I long to see you, that I may impart to you some spiritual gift, that ye may be established;

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? but the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken from them, and then shall they fast.

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of the newly-married man be sad as long as he is with them? But the days will come when he will be taken away from them, and then will they go without food.


simplify: And he also that received the two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: lo, I have gained other two talents.

And he who had the two talents came and said, Lord, you gave into my care two talents: see, I have got two more.


simplify: Come now, ye that say, To-day or to-morrow we will go into this city, and spend a year there, and trade, and get gain:

How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:


simplify: Then they hasted, and took every man his garment, and put it under him on the top of the stairs, and blew the trumpet, saying, Jehu is king.

Then straight away everyone took his robe and put it under him on the top of the steps, and, sounding the horn, they said, Jehu is king.


simplify: And Obal, and Abimael, and Sheba,


simplify: `For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, no more burden to lay upon you, except these necessary things:

We have, therefore, decided, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, to lay no further burden on you beyond these necessary conditions —


rate difficulty: For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

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


simplify: There came unto him a woman having an alabaster box of very precious ointment, and poured it on his head, as he sat at meat.

a woman came up to him with an alabaster jar of very costly perfume, and poured the perfume on his head as he sat at the table.


simplify: and he said unto Aaron, Take thee a calf of the herd for a sin-offering, and a ram for a burnt-offering, without blemish, and offer them before Jehovah.

And he said to Aaron, Take a young ox for a sin-offering and a male sheep for a burned offering, without a mark, and make an offering of them before the Lord.


rate difficulty: Therefore will I save my flock, and they shall no more be a prey; and I will judge between cattle and cattle.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Baasha heard of it, that he left off building Ramah, and dwelt in Tirzah.

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


simplify: Take heed, regard not iniquity: for this hast thou chosen rather than affliction.

Take care not to be turned to sin, for you have taken evil for your part in place of sorrow.


rate difficulty: And Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, were the priests; and Seraiah was the scribe;

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


simplify: Right <FI>it is<Fi> not to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor to <FI>do anything<Fi> in which thy brother doth stumble, or is made to fall, or is weak.

The right course is to abstain from meat or wine or, indeed, anything that is a stumbling-block to your fellow follower of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was priest of God Most High.

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


rate difficulty: Do not reprimand an older man, but plead with him as if he were your father. Treat the young men as brothers,

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


simplify: Though thy beginning was small, yet thy latter end should greatly increase.

And though your start was small, your end will be very great.


rate difficulty: And he said, Ah Lord! send, I pray thee, by the hand [of him whom] thou wilt send.

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


simplify: But if thou wilt not send him, we will not go down: for the man said unto us, Ye shall not see my face, except your brother be with you.

But if you will not send him, we will not go down: for the man said to us, You are not to come before me if your brother is not with you.


rate difficulty: A fool uttereth all his anger; But a wise man keepeth it back and stilleth it.


simplify: For if the woman be not covered, let her also be shorn: but if it be a shame for a woman to be shorn or shaven, let her be covered.

For if a woman is not veiled, let her hair be cut off; but if it is a shame to a woman to have her hair cut off, let her be veiled.


simplify: And Samson went down to Timnath, and saw a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines.

Now Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah, of the daughters of the Philistines;


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall in no wise enter therein.

Truly I say to you, Whoever does not put himself under the kingdom of God like a little child, will not come into it at all.


rate difficulty: And he saith, `Bring to me a new dish, and place there salt;' and they bring <FI>it<Fi> unto him,

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


rate difficulty: And thine elder sister is Samaria that dwelleth at thy left hand, she and her daughters; and thy younger sister, that dwelleth at thy right hand, is Sodom and her daughters.

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


rate difficulty: Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;


simplify: And he answered them, saying, `Who is my mother, or my brethren?'

“Who is my mother? And my brothers?”was his reply.


simplify: So then death worketh in us, but life in you.

And so, while death is at work within us, life is at work within you.


rate difficulty: Since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus, and of the love which ye have to all the saints,

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


simplify: The daughters of Zelophehad speak right: thou shalt surely give them a possession of an inheritance among their father’s brethren; and thou shalt cause the inheritance of their father to pass unto them.

What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.


simplify: Thou shalt sell me meat for money, that I may eat; and give me water for money, that I may drink: only I will pass through on my feet;

Let me have food, at a price, for my needs, and water for drinking: only let me go through on foot;


rate difficulty: and the stars of the heaven shall be falling, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

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


simplify: And at Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon; whose wife’s name was Maachah:

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


rate difficulty: But he that looketh into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and so continueth, being not a hearer that forgetteth but a doer that worketh, this man shall be blessed in his doing.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Then the handmaidens came near, they and their children, and they bowed themselves.

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


simplify: Elijah was a man of like passions with us, and he prayed fervently that it might not rain; and it rained not on the earth for three years and six months.

Elijah was a man of flesh and blood as we are, and he made a strong prayer that there might be no rain; and there was no rain on the earth for three years and six months.


rate difficulty: Have a care for these things; give yourself to them with all your heart, so that all may see how you go forward.

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


simplify: And he questioned him in many words; but he answered him nothing.

And he put a great number of questions to him, but he said nothing.


rate difficulty: And after saying all this to the people,

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


rate difficulty: It may be Jehovah thyGod will hear the words of Rab-shakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to reproach the livingGod, and will rebuke the words which Jehovah thyGod hath heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.

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


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

For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came out, for the children of Naphtali by their families;


simplify: And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.

And another voice from heaven came to my ears, saying, Come out of her, my people, so that you may have no part in her sins and in her punishments.


rate difficulty: That it might take hold of the ends of the earth, that the wicked might be shaken out of it?


rate difficulty: And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.


simplify: And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

And all the children of Israel went away from Moses.


rate difficulty: But love your enemies, and do good, and lend, hoping for nothing in return, and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of [the] Highest; for he is good to the unthankful and wicked.

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


simplify: Haste ye, and go up to my father, and say unto him, Thus saith thy son Joseph, God hath made me lord of all Egypt: come down unto me, tarry not;

Now go quickly to my father, and say to him, Your son Joseph says, God has made me ruler over all the land of Egypt: come down to me straight away:


simplify: And they said, It is false; tell us now. And he said, Thus and thus spake he to me, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, I have anointed thee king over Israel.

And they said, That is not true; now give us his story. Then he said, This is what he said to me: The Lord says, I have made you king over Israel.


rate difficulty: And they said unto him, Sit down now, and read it in our ears. So Baruch read it in their ears.

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


rate difficulty: For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

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


simplify: And Judas begat Phares and Zara of Thamar; and Phares begat Esrom; and Esrom begat Aram;

Judah of Perez and Zerah, whose mother was Tamar, Perez of Hezron, Hezron of Ram,


rate difficulty: And if the ear shall say, Because I am not the eye, I am not of the body; is it therefore not of the body?


simplify: Buy the truth, and sell it not; Yea, wisdom, and instruction, and understanding.

Get for yourself that which is true, and do not let it go for money; get wisdom and teaching and good sense.


rate difficulty: And Elijah went to show himself unto Ahab. And the famine was sore in Samaria.

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


simplify: Their young ones become strong, they grow up in the open field; They go forth, and return not again.

Their young ones are strong, living in the open country; they go out and do not come back again.


rate difficulty: And they roused the people, and the elders, and the scribes. And coming upon [him] they seized him and brought [him] to the council.


simplify: And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: Then what prayer or what supplication soever shall be made of any man, or of all thy people Israel, when every one shall know his own sore and his own grief, and shall spread forth his hands in this house:

Whatever prayer or request for your grace is made by any man, or by all your people Israel, whatever his trouble may be, whose hands are stretched out to this house:


rate difficulty: And he sprinkled thereof upon the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the laver and its base, to sanctify them.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to him, Go back on your way through the waste land to Damascus; and when you come there, put the holy oil on Hazael to make him king over Aram;

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


rate difficulty: to this one do all the prophets testify, that through his name every one that is believing in him doth receive remission of sins.'

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


simplify: for above forty years of age was the man upon whom had been done this sign of the healing.

for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.


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


simplify: unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

They were undiscerning, untrustworthy, without natural affection or pity.


simplify: And those about him, having seen what was about to be, said to him, `Sir, shall we smite with a sword?'

But when those who were around Jesus saw what was going to happen, they exclaimed: “Master, should we use our swords?”


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

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


simplify: Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the Lord hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.


rate difficulty: If, then, you who are evil are able to give good things to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give the Holy Spirit to those who make request to him?

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


rate difficulty: until I come and take you away to a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards.

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


rate difficulty: And hallow my sabbaths; and they shall be a sign between me and you, that ye may know that I am the Lord your God.

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


rate difficulty: And they pitched one over against the other seven days. And so it was, that in the seventh day the battle was joined: and the children of Israel slew of the Syrians an hundred thousand footmen in one day.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Isaac had become old, and his eyes were dim so that he could not see, that he called Esau his elder son, and said to him, My son! And he said to him, Here am I.


simplify: Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and shew John again those things which ye do hear and see:

The answer of Jesus to the question was — “Go and report to John what you hear and see —


simplify: And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.

As for you, you will go to your fathers in peace; at the end of a long life you will be put in your last resting-place.


simplify: but my servant Caleb, because he had another spirit with him, and hath followed me fully, him will I bring into the land whereinto he went; and his seed shall possess it.

But my servant Caleb, because he had a different spirit in him, and has been true to me with all his heart, him I will take into that land into which he went, and his seed will have it for their heritage.


rate difficulty: And <FI>one<Fi> declareth to Jacob, and saith, `Lo, thy son Joseph is coming unto thee;' and Israel doth strengthen himself, and sit upon the bed.

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


rate difficulty: Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.

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


simplify: These are the things that ye shall do; Speak ye every man the truth to his neighbour; execute the judgment of truth and peace in your gates:

These are the things which you are to do: Let every man say what is true to his neighbour; and let your judging give peace in your towns.


simplify: I am afraid of you, lest I have bestowed upon you labour in vain.

You make me fear that the labor which I have spent on you may have been wasted.


rate difficulty: As for you, it was in your mind to do me evil, but God has given a happy outcome, the salvation of numbers of people, as you see today.

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


simplify: And he commanded them, saying, This is the thing that ye shall do; A third part of you that enter in on the sabbath shall even be keepers of the watch of the king’s house;

And he gave them orders, saying, This is what you are to do: the third part of you, who come in on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the king's house,


rate difficulty: Therefore he doth give them out till the time She who bringeth forth hath brought forth, And the remnant of his brethren return to the sons of Israel.

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


simplify: And Amnon was so vexed that he fell sick because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin; and it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything unto her.

And he was so deeply in love that he became ill because of his sister Tamar; for she was a virgin, and so it seemed hard to Amnon to do anything to her.


simplify: Mine eye runneth down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Rivers of water are running down from my eyes, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


simplify: and them that worship the host of heaven upon the housetops; and them that worship, that swear to Jehovah and swear by Malcam;

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said to David, Here is my oldest daughter Merab, whom I will give you for your wife: only be strong for me, fighting in the Lord's wars. For Saul said, Let it not be through me that his fate comes to him, but through the Philistines.


simplify: And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews!

And, as if honouring him, they said, Long life to the King of the Jews!


rate difficulty: Wherefore the children of Israel shall keep the sabbath, to observe the sabbath throughout their generations, for a perpetual covenant.

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


simplify: All the pillars of the court round about shall be filleted with silver; their hooks of silver, and their sockets of brass.

All the pillars round the open space are to have silver bands, with hooks of silver and bases of brass.


rate difficulty: And now, Jehovah Elohim, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant and concerning his house, fulfil it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

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


simplify: And having passed over, they came to the land of Gennesaret,

When they had crossed over, they landed at Gennesaret.


simplify: So Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard sent, and Nebushasban, Rab–saris, and Nergal–sharezer, Rab–mag, and all the king of Babylon’s princes;

So Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, sent Nebushazban, the Rab-saris, and Nergal-shar-ezer, the Rabmag, and all the chief captains of the king of Babylon,


simplify: Did ever a people hear the voice of God speaking out of the midst of the fire, as thou hast heard, and live?

Has any people ever gone on living after hearing the voice of God out of the heart of the fire as you did?


rate difficulty: And in the turning back of the wicked From his wickedness that he hath done, And he doth judgment and righteousness, He his soul doth keep alive.

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


rate difficulty: But Peter and the apostles answered and said, We must obey God rather than men.

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


rate difficulty: And if prisoners in fetters They are captured with cords of affliction,

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


simplify: Then the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: Go unto the house of the Rechabites, and speak unto them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

Go into the house of the Rechabites, and have talk with them, and take them into the house of the Lord, into one of the rooms, and give them wine.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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


simplify: And if the priest look, and, behold, the plague be somewhat dark after the washing of it; then he shall rend it out of the garment, or out of the skin, or out of the warp, or out of the woof:

And if the priest sees that the mark is less bright after the washing, then let him have it cut out of the clothing or the leather or from the threads of the material:


rate difficulty: `And I say unto you, Be not terrified, nor be afraid of them;

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


simplify: And by the border of Simeon, from the east side unto the west side, Issachar, one portion.

And on the limit of Simeon, from the east side to the west side: Issachar, one part.


simplify: He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

His answer was: “It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words — ‘This is a people who honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far removed from me;


simplify: A man shall be satisfied with good by the fruit of his mouth: and the recompence of a man’s hands shall be rendered unto him.

From the fruit of his mouth will a man have good food in full measure, and the work of a man's hands will be rewarded.


simplify: And ye went over Jordan, and came unto Jericho: and the men of Jericho fought against you, the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Girgashites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites; and I delivered them into your hand.

Then you went over Jordan and came to Jericho: and the men of Jericho made war on you, the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Hivites and the Jebusites: and I gave them up into your hands.


simplify: But if, while we seek to be justified by Christ, we ourselves also are found sinners, is therefore Christ the minister of sin? God forbid.

If, while seeking to be pronounced righteous through union with Christ, we were ourselves seen to be outcasts, would that make Christ an agent of sin? Heaven forbid!


simplify: And Arphaxad lived after he begat Salah four hundred and three years, and begat sons and daughters.

And after the birth of Shelah, Arpachshad went on living for four hundred and three years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.


rate difficulty: All who, when they sin, are without law will also perish without law; while all who, when they sin, are under law, will be judged as being under law.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the heaven have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.


rate difficulty: For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

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


simplify: The lot is cast into the lap; but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord.

A thing may be put to the decision of chance, but it comes about through the Lord.


rate difficulty: A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish man has no respect for his mother.

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


rate difficulty: Happy are those who have forgiveness for their wrongdoing, and whose sins are covered.

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


simplify: By pride cometh only contention; But with the well-advised is wisdom.

The only effect of pride is fighting; but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.


simplify: And all the prophets prophesied so, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and prosper; for Jehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king.

And all the prophets said the same thing, saying, Go up to Ramoth-gilead, and it will go well for you, for the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.


rate difficulty: also them did king David sanctify to Jehovah, with the silver and the gold which he sanctified of all the nations which he subdued:

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


rate difficulty: Now I praise you that ye remember me in all things, and hold fast the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

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


rate difficulty: Do not do your ploughing with an ox and an ass yoked together.


simplify: And he put the golden altar in the tent of the congregation before the vail:

And he put the gold altar in the Tent of meeting, in front of the veil:


simplify: And at the season he sent to the husbandmen a servant, that he might receive from the husbandmen of the fruit of the vineyard.

At the proper time he sent a servant to the tenants, to receive from them a share of the produce of the grape harvest;


simplify: When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have received their reward.

When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.


rate difficulty: And he did obeisance, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

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


simplify: And they were more than forty which had made this conspiracy.


rate difficulty: And he cried, saying, Jesus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

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


rate difficulty: So now, the Lord, the God of armies, the God of Israel, has said, Why are you doing this great evil against yourselves, causing every man and woman, little child and baby at the breast among you in Judah to be cut off till not one is still living;

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


simplify: And while they are hearing these things, having added he spake a simile, because of his being nigh to Jerusalem, and of their thinking that the reign of God is about presently to be made manifest.

As the people were listening to this, Jesus went on to tell them a parable. He did so because he was near Jerusalem, and because they thought that the kingdom of God was going to be proclaimed at once.


simplify: For kings, and for all that are in authority; that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty.

For kings and all those in authority; so that we may have a calm and quiet life in all fear of God and serious behaviour.


rate difficulty: `And it hath been, when Jehovah thy God doth bring thee in unto the land whither thou art going in to possess it, that thou hast given the blessing on mount Gerizim, and the reviling on mount Ebal;

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


simplify: These are the names of the men which shall divide the land unto you: 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.


simplify: If thou shalt hear say in one of thy cities, which the Lord thy God hath given thee to dwell there, saying,

And if word comes to you, in one of the towns which the Lord your God is giving you for your resting-place,


rate difficulty: And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: For the Levites gave up their living-places and their property, and came to Judah and Jerusalem; for Jeroboam and his sons had sent them away, not letting them be priests to the Lord;

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


simplify: But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: because thy supplication is heard, and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.

But the angel said, Have no fear, Zacharias, for your prayer has come to the ears of God, and your wife Elisabeth will have a son, and his name will be John.


rate difficulty: And the king of Assyria carried Israel away unto Assyria, and put them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes,

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


rate difficulty: And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron and his sons did all the things which Jehovah commanded by Moses.

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


simplify: And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

And I will let the fate of Judah and of Israel be changed, building them up as at first.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah, In an acceptable time have I answered thee, and in a day of salvation have I helped thee; and I will preserve thee, and give thee for a covenant of the people, to raise up the land, to make them inherit the desolate heritages;

This is the word of the Lord: I have given ear to you at a good time, and I have been your helper in a day of salvation: and I will keep you safe, and will make you a glory for the people, putting the land in order, and giving them the heritages which now are waste;


simplify: Either a bullock or a lamb that hath anything superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

An ox or a lamb which has more or less than its natural parts, may be given as a free offering; but it will not be taken in payment of an oath.


rate difficulty: Or have eaten my morsel alone, And the fatherless hath not eaten thereof

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


rate difficulty: Then David said to the man, Go and say to Joab, Do not let this be a grief to you; for one man may come to his death by the sword like another: put up an even stronger fight against the town, and take it: and do you put heart into him.


rate difficulty: desolation remaineth in the city, and the gate is smitten, — a ruin.

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


simplify: and I came to Jerusalem, and understood the evil that Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in preparing him a chamber in the courts of the house of God.

And I came to Jerusalem; and it was clear to me what evil Eliashib had done for Tobiah, in making ready for him a room in the buildings of the house of God.


simplify: I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

I come quickly: keep that which you have, so that no one may take your crown.


simplify: And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock:

And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:


simplify: And the ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.

And on the seventeenth day of the seventh month the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.


simplify: King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.


simplify: And when I would have known the cause wherefore they accused him, I brought him forth into their council:

And, desiring to get at the reason for their attack on him, I took him down to their Sanhedrin:


rate difficulty: Only in Jehovah, said hath one, Have I righteousness and strength, Unto Him he cometh in, And ashamed are all those displeased with Him.

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


simplify: And the word of the Lord was published throughout all the region.

and the Lord’s message was carried throughout that district.


simplify: Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

Their face is blacker than night; in the streets no one has knowledge of them: their skin is hanging on their bones, they are dry, they have become like wood.


rate difficulty: The burden of the desert of the sea. As whirlwinds in the south pass through; so it cometh from the desert, from a terrible land.

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


simplify: And he withdrew himself into the wilderness, and prayed.

but Jesus used to withdraw to lonely places and pray.


simplify: In all labor there is profit; But the talk of the lipstendethonly to penury.

In all hard work there is profit, but talk only makes a man poor.


rate difficulty: and out of the basket of unleavened things, which <FI>is<Fi> before Jehovah, he hath taken one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one thin cake, and putteth <FI>them<Fi> on the fat, and on the right leg;

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


simplify: And said, I cried by reason of mine affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me; out of the belly of hell cried I, and thou heardest my voice.

In my trouble I was crying to the Lord, and he gave me an answer; out of the deepest underworld I sent up a cry, and you gave ear to my voice.


rate difficulty: And the Levites, of the sons of the Kohathites, and of the sons of the Korahites, stood up to praise Jehovah theGod of Israel with an exceeding loud voice.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore he taketh knowledge of their works; And he overturneth them in the night, so that they are destroyed.

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


rate difficulty: Happy are the poor in spirit: for the kingdom of heaven is theirs.

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


simplify: And he set judges in the land throughout all the fortified cities of Judah, city by city,

And he put judges through all the land, in every walled town of Judah,


simplify: He found him in a desert land, and in the waste howling wilderness; he led him about, he instructed him, he kept him as the apple of his eye.

He came to him in the waste land, in the unpeopled waste of sand: putting his arms round him and caring for him, he kept him as the light of his eye.


simplify: And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;

Then the responsible men of the town are to give the man his punishment;


rate difficulty: and take ye each his censer, and ye have put on them perfume, and brought near before Jehovah, each his censer, two hundred and fifty censers; and thou and Aaron, each his censer.'

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


rate difficulty: For I say unto you, that this that is written must yet be accomplished in me, And he was reckoned among the transgressors: for the things concerning me have an end.

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


rate difficulty: Then he said unto them, Go your way, eat the fat, and drink the sweet, and send portions unto him for whom nothing is prepared; for this day is holy unto our Lord: neither be ye grieved; for the joy of Jehovah is your strength.

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


rate difficulty: why do we die before thine eyes, both we and our ground? buy us and our ground for bread, and we and our ground are servants to Pharaoh; and give seed, and we live, and die not, and the ground is not desolate.'


rate difficulty: and thou hast warned them <FI>concerning<Fi> the statutes and the laws, and hast made known to them the way in which they go, and the work which they do.

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


rate difficulty: And his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah, in the field of Ephron the son of Zohar the Hittite, which was opposite to Mamre —

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


simplify: The thirteenth to Huppah, the fourteenth to Jeshebeab,

The thirteenth Huppah, the fourteenth Jeshebeab,


rate difficulty: And Moses tended the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian. And he led the flock behind the wilderness, and came to the mountain ofGod — to Horeb.

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


rate difficulty: So David’s young men turned on their way, and went back, and came and told him according to all these words.

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


rate difficulty: and the father of circumcision to them who not only are of the circumcision, but who also walk in the steps of that faith of our father Abraham which he had in uncircumcision.

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


rate difficulty: And Shimei said unto the king, The saying is good: as my lord the king hath said, so will thy servant do. And Shimei dwelt in Jerusalem many days.

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


rate difficulty: Also thou--by the blood of thy covenant, I have sent thy prisoners out of the pit, There is no water in it.

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


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


simplify: And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father knoweth well that I have found favor in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as Jehovah liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.


simplify: Therefore Absalom sent for Joab, to have sent him to the king; but he would not come to him: and when he sent again the second time, he would not come.

Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.


rate difficulty: Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength.

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


simplify: So he went back with him, and did eat bread in his house, and drank water.

So he went back with him, and had a meal in his house and a drink of water.


simplify: Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and will gather the wheat into his garner; but the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehud, and Bene-berak, and Gath-rimmon,

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


simplify: The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Phaseah,

The children of Gazzam, the children of Uzza, the children of Paseah,


simplify: And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

And the glory of the Lord came into the house by the way of the doorway looking to the east.


rate difficulty: and the gold <FI>by<Fi> weight for tables of the arrangement, for table and table, and silver for the tables of silver;

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


simplify: having the same conflict which ye saw in me, and now hear to be in me.

Fighting the same fight which you saw in me, and now have word of in me.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the priest will take away his sin from before the Lord, and he will have forgiveness for whatever crime he has done


simplify: But if ye shall at all turn from following me, ye or your children, and will not keep my commandments and my statutes which I have set before you, but go and serve other gods, and worship them:

But if you are turned from my ways, you or your children, and do not keep my orders and my laws which I have put before you, but go and make yourselves servants to other gods and give them worship:


simplify: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy brother’s wife: it is thy brother’s nakedness.

You may not have sex relations with your brother's wife, for she is your brother's.


rate difficulty: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

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


rate difficulty: And Topheth, in the valley of the sons of Hinnom, he made unclean, so that no man might make his son or his daughter go through the fire to Molech.

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


rate difficulty: And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your sun-images, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul shall abhor you.


simplify: Say not, I will do so to him as he hath done to me: I will render to the man according to his work.

Say not, I will do to him as he has done to me; I will give the man the reward of his work.


rate difficulty: And Ahab told Jezebel all that Elijah had done, and in detail how he had slain all the prophets with the sword.


rate difficulty: And the men rose up from thence, and looked toward Sodom: and Abraham went with them to bring them on the way.


simplify: And ye shall bear no sin by reason of it, when ye have heaved from it the best thereof: and ye shall not profane the holy things of the children of Israel, that ye die not.

And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.


rate difficulty: and a several tenth deal of flour, a present, mixed with oil, for the one lamb; a burnt-offering, a sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to Jehovah;

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And threescore and one thousand asses,

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


simplify: If the wicked restore the pledge, give again that he had robbed, walk in the statutes of life, without committing iniquity; he shall surely live, he shall not die.

If the evil-doer lets one who is in his debt have back what is his, and gives back what he had taken by force, and is guided by the rules of life, doing no evil; life will certainly be his, death will not overtake him.


simplify: But Hazael king of Syria oppressed Israel all the days of Jehoahaz.

And Israel was crushed under the power of Hazael, king of Aram, all the days of Jehoahaz.


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> waters of Meribah, because the sons of Israel have `striven' with Jehovah, and He is sanctified upon them.

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


rate difficulty: Hearing that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he began to call out: “Jesus, Son of David, take pity on me.”

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


simplify: for ye do it also to all the brethren who <FI>are<Fi> in all Macedonia; and we call upon you, brethren, to abound still more,

and indeed you do act in this spirit towards all his people throughout Macedonia.   Yet, friends, we beg you to do even more.


simplify: Out of whose womb came the ice? And the hoary frost of heaven, who hath gendered it?

Out of whose body came the ice? and who gave birth to the cold mist of heaven?


rate difficulty: (for thou shalt worship no other god: for Jehovah, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God);

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


simplify: And all the congregation of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and all the congregation that came out of Israel, and the strangers that came out of the land of Israel, and that dwelt in Judah, rejoiced.

And all the people of Judah, with the priests and the Levites, and those who had come from Israel, and men from other lands who had come from Israel or who were living in Judah, were glad with great joy.


rate difficulty: For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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


simplify: but camest back, and hast eaten bread and drunk water in the place of which he said to thee, Eat no bread, and drink no water; thy body shall not come unto the sepulchre of thy fathers.

But have come back, and have taken food and water in this place where he said you were to take no food or water; your dead body will not be put to rest with your fathers.


simplify: For Christ also pleased not himself; but, as it is written, The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell upon me.

For Christ did not give pleasure to himself, but, as it is said, The bitter words of those who were angry with you came on me.


simplify: I have seen an horrible thing in the house of Israel: there is the whoredom of Ephraim, Israel is defiled.

In Israel I have seen a very evil thing; there false ways are seen in Ephraim, Israel is unclean;


simplify: And satest upon a stately bed, and a table prepared before it, whereupon thou hast set mine incense and mine oil.

And she took her seat on a great bed, with a table put ready before it on which she put my perfume and my oil.


rate difficulty: And after I had given the writing of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Nerijah, I prayed unto Jehovah saying,

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


simplify: Egypt, and Judah, and Edom, and the children of Ammon, and Moab, and all that have the corners of their hair cut off, that dwell in the wilderness; for all the nations are uncircumcised, and all the house of Israel are uncircumcised in heart.

On Egypt and on Judah and on Edom and on the children of Ammon and on Moab and on all who have the ends of their hair cut, who are living in the waste land: for all these nations and all the people of Israel are without circumcision in their hearts.


simplify: And now, I pray you, consider from this day and backward, before a stone was laid upon a stone in the temple of Jehovah.

And now, give thought, looking back from this day to the time before one stone was put on another in the Temple of the Lord:


simplify: Now these are the children of the province, that went up out of the captivity of those that had been carried away, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away unto Babylon, and that returned unto Jerusalem and Judah, every one unto his city;

Now these are the people of the divisions of the kingdom, among those who had been made prisoners by Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, and taken away to Babylon, who went back to Jerusalem and Judah, everyone to his town;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Stand in the court of the Lord’s house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the Lord’s house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word:

This is what the Lord has said: Take your place in the open square of the Lord's house and say to all the towns of Judah, who come into the Lord's house for worship, everything I give you orders to say to them: keep back not a word;


simplify: Give a portion to seven, yea, even unto eight; for thou knowest not what evil shall be upon the earth.

Give a part to seven or even to eight, because you have no knowledge of the evil which will be on the earth.


simplify: At the commandment of Aaron and his sons shall be all the service of the sons of the Gershonites, in all their burden, and in all their service; and ye shall appoint unto them in charge all their burden.

From the mouth of Aaron and his sons the Gershonites will have word about all the things they are to do and take up; you are to give them their orders.


simplify: Then Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shade, till he might see what would become of the city.

Then Jonah went out of the town, and took his seat on the east side of the town and made himself a roof of branches and took his seat under its shade till he saw what would become of the town.


simplify: and he shall make atonement for the holy sanctuary; and he shall make atonement for the tent of meeting and for the altar; and he shall make atonement for the priests and for all the people of the assembly.

And he will make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin; he will take away sin from the priests and from all the people.


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

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


simplify: A man that beareth false witness against his neighbor Is a maul, and a sword, and a sharp arrow.

One who gives false witness against his neighbour is a hammer and a sword and a sharp arrow.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom, and they made a circuit of seven days' journey. And there was no water for the army, and for the cattle that followed them.

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


simplify: The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He covereth the faces of the judges thereof: Ifit benothe, who then is it?

The land is given into the power of the evil-doer; the faces of its judges are covered; if not by him, then who has done it?


rate difficulty: for always are we who are living delivered up to death because of Jesus, that the life also of Jesus may be manifested in our dying flesh,

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


simplify: And it came to pass about this time, that he went into the house to do his work; and there was none of the men of the house there within.

Now one day he went into the house to do his work; and not one of the men of the house was inside.


rate difficulty: Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.

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


simplify: Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; And the years of thy life shall be many.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.


rate difficulty: Thou hast ravished my heart, my sister, mybride; Thou hast ravished my heart with one of thine eyes, With one chain of thy neck.

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


simplify: If Cain shall be avenged sevenfold, Truly Lamech seventy and sevenfold.

If seven lives are to be taken as punishment for Cain's death, seventy-seven will be taken for Lamech's.


simplify: And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.

And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.


rate difficulty: With him I will have talk mouth to mouth, openly and not in dark sayings; and with his eyes he will see the form of the Lord: why then had you no fear of saying evil against my servant Moses?


rate difficulty: until Jehovah give your brethren rest as to you, and they also take possession of the land which Jehovah yourGod giveth them; then shall ye return into the land of your possession and possess it, which Moses the servant of Jehovah gave you on this side of the Jordan toward the sun-rising.

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


simplify: Hear therefore, O Israel, and observe to do it; that it may be well with thee, and that ye may increase mightily, as Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath promised unto thee, in a land flowing with milk and honey.

So give ear, O Israel, and take care to do this; so that it may be well for you, and you may be greatly increased, as the Lord the God of your fathers has given you his word, in a land flowing with milk and honey.


simplify: So Joshua took all that land, the hills, and all the south country, and all the land of Goshen, and the valley, and the plain, and the mountain of Israel, and the valley of the same;

So Joshua took all that land, the hill-country and all the South, and all the land of Goshen, and the lowland and the Arabah, the hill-country of Israel and its lowland;


simplify: and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

In the belief that you are a guide to the blind, a light to those in the dark,


simplify: Say thou, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Shall it prosper? shall he not pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it may wither; that all its fresh springing leaves may wither? and not by a strong arm or much people can it be raised from the roots thereof.

Say, This is what the Lord has said: Will it do well? will he not have its roots pulled up and its branches cut off, so that all its young leaves may become dry and it may be pulled up by its roots?


rate difficulty: and because from a babe the Holy Writings thou hast known, which are able to make thee wise--to salvation, through faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus;

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


simplify: And killed the Prince of life, whom God hath raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.

The guide to life you put to death! But God raised him from the dead — and of that we are ourselves witnesses.


rate difficulty: And his servant Zimri, captain of half his chariots, conspired against him, as he was in Tirzah, drinking himself drunk in the house of Arza steward of his house in Tirzah.

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


simplify: And God sent an angel unto Jerusalem to destroy it: and as he was destroying, the Lord beheld, and he repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed, It is enough, stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord stood by the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

And God sent an angel to Jerusalem for its destruction: and when he was about to do so, the Lord saw, and had regret for the evil, and said to the angel of destruction, It is enough; do no more. Now the angel of the Lord was by the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: In fulfillment of the charge which God had entrusted to me, I laid the foundation like a skillful master; but someone else is now building on it. Let everyone take care how they build;

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


simplify: Now when I came to Troas for the gospel of Christ, and when a door was opened unto me in the Lord,

Now when I came to Troas for the good news of Christ, and there was an open door for me in the Lord,


rate difficulty: Go your ways; behold, I send you forth as lambs in the midst of wolves.

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


simplify: But the Asherites dwelt among the Canaanites, the inhabitants of the land: for they did not drive them out.

But the Asherites went on living among the Canaanites, the people of the land, without driving them out.


rate difficulty: Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the devoted thing, and wrath fell upon all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

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


rate difficulty: The soul of the sluggard desireth, and hath nothing: but the soul of the diligent shall be made fat.

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


simplify: So that all which fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valour.

So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.


simplify: And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?

And he said to them, What are you talking about together while you go?


simplify: And one sea, and twelve oxen under the sea;

And the great water-vessel, with the twelve oxen under it;


simplify: There is difference also between a wife and a virgin. The unmarried woman careth for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit: but she that is married careth for the things of the world, how she may please her husband.

and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.


simplify: And there abode three months. And when the Jews laid wait for him, as he was about to sail into Syria, he purposed to return through Macedonia.

He was about to sail to Syria, when he learned that a plot had been laid against him by several of the Jewish leaders; so he decided to return by way of Macedonia.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said to him, What then dost thou lack with me, that behold, thou desirest to go to thine own country? And he said, Nothing; but in any case let me depart.

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


simplify: Setthe trumpet to thy mouth. As an eagle he cometh against the house of Jehovah, because they have transgressed my covenant, and trespassed against my law.

Put the horn to your mouth. He comes like an eagle against the house of the Lord; because they have gone against my agreement, they have not kept my law.


simplify: If we receive the witness of men, the witness of God is greater: for this is the witness of God which he hath testified of his Son.

If we take the witness of men to be true, the witness of God is greater: because this is the witness which God has given about his Son.


simplify: And the five pillars of it with their hooks: and he overlaid their chapiters and their fillets with gold: but their five sockets were of brass.

And five pillars for the curtain, with their hooks; the heads of the pillars were of gold and they were circled with bands of gold; and their five bases were of brass.


rate difficulty: Are you so foolish? having made a start in the Spirit, will you now be made complete in the flesh?


simplify: For wheresoever the carcase is, there will the eagles be gathered together.

Wherever the dead body is, there will the eagles come together.


simplify: And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

‘Who are you, Lord?’ I replied. Then the voice said ‘I am Jesus of Nazareth whom you are persecuting.’


simplify: and give thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee, and to thy seed with thee; that thou mayest inherit the land of thy sojournings, which God gave unto Abraham.

And may God give you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your seed, so that the land of your wanderings, which God gave to Abraham, may be your heritage.


simplify: In flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God, and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ:

Then he will ‘inflict punishment on those who refuse to know God, and on those who turn a deaf ear’ to the good news of Jesus, our Lord.


simplify: The soul that sinneth, it shall die. The son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son: the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.


simplify: Whose end is destruction, whose God is their belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who mind earthly things.)

Whose end is destruction, whose god is the stomach, and whose glory is in their shame, whose minds are fixed on the things of the earth.


simplify: And they brought their cattle unto Joseph; and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for the horses, and for the flocks, and for the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread in exchange for all their cattle for that year.

So they took their cattle to Joseph and he gave them bread in exchange for their horses and flocks and herds and asses, so all that year he gave them food in exchange for their cattle.


simplify: And there came a leper to him, beseeching him, and kneeling down to him, and saying unto him, If thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And a leper came to him and, going down on his knees before him, made a request, saying, If it is your pleasure, you have the power to make me clean.


simplify: And he called unto him the multitude with his disciples, and said unto them, If any man would come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

And turning to the mass of people with his disciples, he said to them, If any man has the desire to come after me, let him give up all other desires, and take up his cross and come after me.


simplify: and they lifted up their voices, saying, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.


rate difficulty: and having heard, his disciples came and took up his corpse, and laid it in the tomb.

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