rate difficulty: If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Put thy hand into thy bosom again. (And he put his hand into his bosom again; and when he took it out of his bosom, behold, it was turned again as his other flesh.)

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


rate difficulty: And the company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

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


simplify: For whosoever shall do the will of God, the same is my brother, and my sister, and mother.

Whoever does God's pleasure, the same is my brother, and sister, and mother.


simplify: Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

A talent of the best gold was used for the making of it and its vessels.


simplify: for the two and twentieth to Giddalti, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The twenty-second Giddalti, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: And it came to pass, before he had done speaking, that, behold, Rebekah came out, who was born to Bethuel the son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her pitcher upon her shoulder.

And even before his words were ended, Rebekah, the daughter of Bethuel, the son of Milcah, who was the wife of Nahor, Abraham's brother, came out with her water-vessel on her arm.


rate difficulty: And ye have magnified yourselves against me with your mouth, and have multiplied your words against me: I have heard it.

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


simplify: A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.

A good person, from his good stores, produces good things; while an evil person, from his evil stores, produces evil things.


simplify: And Jehovah hearkened unto the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.

And the Lord gave ear to the voice of Elijah, and the child's spirit came into him again, and he came back to life.


simplify: And finally, being all of one mind, having fellow-feeling, loving as brethren, compassionate, courteous,

Lastly, you should all be united, sympathetic, full of love for each other, kind-hearted, humble-minded;


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

And after him was Eleazar, the son of Dodo the Ahohite, who was one of the three great fighters.


simplify: But the eye of their God was upon the elders of the Jews, and they did not make them cease, till the matter should come to Darius, and then answer should be returned by letter concerning it.

But the eye of their God was on the chiefs of the Jews, and they did not make them give up working till the question had been put before Darius and an answer had come by letter about it.


rate difficulty: And ye shall call upon me, and ye shall go and pray unto me, and I will hearken unto you;

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


simplify: being defamed, we entreat: we are made as the filth of the world, the offscouring of all things, even until now.

When evil things are said about us we give gentle answers: we are made as the unclean things of the world, as that for which no one has any use, even till now.


simplify: The same heard Paul speak: who stedfastly beholding him, and perceiving that he had faith to be healed,

This man was listening to Paul speaking, when Paul, looking intently at him, and seeing that he had the faith to be healed,


simplify: And now thou sayest, Go, tell thy lord, Behold, Elijah is here.

And now you say, Go, say to your lord, Elijah is here.


simplify: And when Herod the king heard it, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.

And when it came to the ears of Herod the king, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.


simplify: Therefore shall ye keep all the commandments which I command you this day, that ye may be strong, and go in and possess the land, whither ye go to possess it;

So keep all the orders which I give you today, so that you may be strong, and go in and take the land which is to be your heritage;


simplify: And the priest that offereth any man’s burnt-offering, even the priest shall have to himself the skin of the burnt-offering which he hath offered.

And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him.


rate difficulty: “Be careful not to say anything to anyone; but go and show yourself to the priest, and make the offerings for your cleansing directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure.”

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


rate difficulty: Levi left everything and got up and followed him.

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


simplify: And the manna ceased on the morrow, after they had eaten of the produce of the land; neither had the children of Israel manna any more; but they did eat of the fruit of the land of Canaan that year.

And there was no more manna from the day after they had for their food the produce of the land; the children of Israel had manna no longer, but that year the produce of the land of Canaan was their food.


rate difficulty: Let your speech be alway with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.

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


rate difficulty: And they made as it seemed a new song before the high seat, and before the four beasts and the rulers: and no man might have knowledge of the song but the hundred and forty-four thousand, even those from the earth whom God has made his for a price.

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


simplify: Now there was an appointed sign between the men of Israel and the liers in wait, that they should make a great flame with smoke rise up out of the city.

Now the sign fixed between the men of Israel and those making the surprise attack was that when they made a pillar of smoke go up from the town,


rate difficulty: These lambs Jacob kept separate; and he put his flock in a place by themselves and not with Laban's flock.

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


rate difficulty: And he will take his place and give food to his flock in the strength of the Lord, in the glory of the name of the Lord his God; and their resting-place will be safe: for now he will be great to the ends of the earth.

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


simplify: Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said unto him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.

Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Here I am, Lord.


simplify: And the men of Israel, besides Benjamin, were numbered four hundred thousand men that drew sword: all these were men of war.

And the men of Israel, other than Benjamin, were four hundred thousand in number, all armed with swords; they were all men of war.


rate difficulty: So do God to Abner, and more also, except, as the Lord hath sworn to David, even so I do to him;

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


simplify: From which some having swerved have turned aside unto vain jangling;

From which some have been turned away, giving themselves to foolish talking;


simplify: And strangers shall stand and feed your flocks, and foreigners shall be your plowmen and your vine-dressers.

And men from strange countries will be your herdsmen, and those who are not Israelites will be your ploughmen and vine-keepers.


simplify: And Jephthah sent messengers again unto the king of the children of Ammon:

And Jephthah sent again to the king of the children of Ammon,


simplify: So these nations feared Jehovah, and served their graven images; their children likewise, and their children’s children, as did their fathers, so do they unto this day.

So these nations, worshipping the Lord, still were servants to the images they had made; their children and their children's children did the same; as their fathers did, so do they, to this day.


rate difficulty: Go forth from the ark, thou, and thy wife, and thy sons, and thy sons’ wives with thee.

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


rate difficulty: At destruction and dearth thou shalt laugh; Neither shalt thou be afraid of the beasts of the earth.

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


simplify: For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

Because I myself am a man under authority, having under me fighting men; and I say to this one, Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my servant, Do this, and he does it.


simplify: For to one is given by the Spirit the word of wisdom; to another the word of knowledge by the same Spirit;

To one is given the power to speak with wisdom through the Spirit; to another the power to speak with knowledge, due to the same Spirit;


simplify: I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

I have run the great race; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.


rate difficulty: And I went out by night by the valley-gate, even toward the jackal-fountain, and to the dung-gate; and I viewed the walls of Jerusalem, which were in ruins, and its gates were consumed with fire.

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


rate difficulty: So he left them, and went away again, and prayed a third time, again saying the same words.


rate difficulty: Also when a woman voweth a vow unto Jehovah, and bindeth herself by a bond, being in her father’s house, in her youth,

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


simplify: All flesh shall perish together, And man shall turn again unto dust.

All flesh would come to an end together, and man would go back to the dust.


rate difficulty: So the house of Israel shall know that I am Jehovah their God, from that day and forward.

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


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith to the churches. To him that overcometh, to him will I give of the hidden manna, and I will give him a white stone, and upon the stone a new name written, which no one knoweth but he that receiveth it.

He who has ears, let him give ear to what the Spirit says to the churches. To him who overcomes I will give of the secret manna, and I will give him a white stone, and on the stone a new name, of which no one has knowledge but he to whom it is given.


simplify: Whithersoever the spirit was to go, they went; thither was the spirit to go: and the wheels were lifted up beside them; for the spirit of the living creature was in the wheels.

Wherever the spirit was to go they went; and the wheels were lifted up by their side: for the spirit of the living beings was in the wheels.


simplify: For the Lord giveth wisdom: out of his mouth cometh knowledge and understanding.

For the Lord gives wisdom; out of his mouth come knowledge and reason:


rate difficulty: Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

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


simplify: Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;

Dear friends, I beg you, as pilgrims and strangers on earth, to refrain from indulging the cravings of your earthly nature, for they make war on the soul.


simplify: That ye may walk honestly toward them that are without, and that ye may have lack of nothing.

so that your conduct may win respect from those outside the church, and that you may not want for anything.


rate difficulty: And say to the people, Make yourselves clean before tomorrow and you will have flesh for your food: for in the ears of the Lord you have been weeping and saying, Who will give us flesh for food? for we were well off in Egypt: and so the Lord will give you flesh, and it will be your food;

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


simplify: How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his hidden things sought up!

How are the things of Esau searched out! how are his secret stores looked for!


rate difficulty: Wherefore against Him hast thou striven, When <FI>for<Fi> all His matters He answereth not?

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


simplify: And it came to pass after three days, that the officers went through the host;

And at the end of three days, the men in authority over the people went through the tents,


rate difficulty: They have overcome me, you will say, and I have no pain; they gave me blows without my feeling them: when will I be awake from my wine? I will go after it again.


simplify: And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.

and what you learnt from me, in the presence of many listeners, entrust to reliable people, who will be able in their turn to teach others.


simplify: And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.


rate difficulty: And thou Bethlehem, land of Judah, Art in no wise least among the princes of Judah: For out of thee shall come forth a governor, Who shall be shepherd of my people Israel.

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


rate difficulty: `And I harden the heart of Pharaoh, and have multiplied My signs and My wonders in the land of Egypt,

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


simplify: And the Midianites sold him into Egypt unto Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh’s, and captain of the guard.

And in Egypt the men of Midian gave him for a price to Potiphar, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house.


rate difficulty: But Jesus turning and seeing her said, Daughter, be of good cheer; thy faith hath made thee whole. And the woman was made whole from that hour.

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


rate difficulty: And she said to her father, Let not my lord be angry that I cannot rise up before thee; for the manner of women is upon me. And he searched, but found not the teraphim.

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


rate difficulty: And I am confident, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, that before long I myself will follow.

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


simplify: And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

And when the days of weeping for him were past, Joseph said to the servants of Pharaoh, If now you have love for me, say these words to Pharaoh:


simplify: And I hope, in the Lord Jesus, Timotheus to send quickly to you, that I also may be of good spirit, having known the things concerning you,

I hope, however, as one who trusts in the Lord Jesus, to send Timothy to you before long, so that I may myself be cheered by receiving news of you.


rate difficulty: When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

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


simplify: And the scribe said to him, `Well, Teacher, in truth thou hast spoken that there is one God, and there is none other but He;

“Wisely answered, teacher!” exclaimed the teacher of the law. “It is true, as you say, that ‘there is one God,’ and that ‘there is no other besides him’;


simplify: For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.


simplify: that the violence done to the threescore and ten sons of Jerubbaal might come, and that their blood might be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brethren.

So that punishment for the violent attack made on the seventy sons of Jerubbaal, and for their blood, might come on Abimelech, their brother, who put them to death, and on the townsmen of Shechem who gave him their help in putting his brothers to death.


simplify: And I came to Jerusalem, and understood of the evil that Eliashib did 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.


rate difficulty: He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


simplify: for there is born to you this day in the city of David a Saviour, who is Christ the Lord.

For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.


simplify: that justify the wicked for a bribe, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from him!

Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.


rate difficulty: and Aaron hath brought near the goat on which the lot for Jehovah hath gone up, and hath made it a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: So Achish said, Have ye not made a raid to-day? And David said, Against the south of Judah, and against the south of the Jerahmeelites, and against the south of the Kenites.

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


rate difficulty: All the families that remain, every family apart, and their wives apart.

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


rate difficulty: Its gates will never be shut by day,’ and there will be no night there.

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


simplify: And they stood up in their place, and read in the book of the law of Jehovah their God a fourth part of the day; andanotherfourth part they confessed, and worshipped Jehovah their God.

And for a fourth part of the day, upright in their places, they were reading from the book of the law of their God; and for a fourth part of the day they were requesting forgiveness and worshipping the Lord their God.


simplify: Saying, These last have wrought but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.

Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat.


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

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


simplify: And the word of Jehovah came unto Jonah the second time, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time, saying,


simplify: the <FI>son<Fi> of Levi, the <FI>son<Fi> of Simeon, the <FI>son<Fi> of Juda, the <FI>son<Fi> of Joseph, the <FI>son<Fi> of Jonan, the <FI>son<Fi> of Eliakim,


rate difficulty: But it came to pass at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, that she was given unto Adriel the Meholathite to wife.

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


simplify: Now therefore know and consider what thou wilt do; for evil is determined against our master, and against all his household: for he is such a son of Belial, that a man cannot speak to him.

So now, give thought to what you are going to do; for evil is in store for our master and all his house: for he is such a good-for-nothing person that it is not possible to say anything to him.


simplify: And it came to pass, when God destroyed the cities of the plain, that God remembered Abraham, and sent Lot out of the midst of the overthrow, when he overthrew the cities in the which Lot dwelt.

So it came about that when God sent destruction on the towns of the lowland, he kept his word to Abraham, and sent Lot safely away when he put an end to the towns where he was living.


simplify: Now therefore let your hands be strong, and be ye valiant; for Saul your lord is dead, and also the house of Judah have anointed me king over them.

Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.


rate difficulty: And Eshton begat Beth–rapha, and Paseah, and Tehinnah the father of Ir–nahash. These are the men of Rechah.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Jacob, `Turn back unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred, and I am with thee.'

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


simplify: And there was cedar on the house within, carved with knops and open flowers: all was cedar; there was no stone seen.

(All the inside of the house was cedar-wood, ornamented with designs of buds and flowers; no stonework was to be seen inside.)


rate difficulty: And they took their bones, and buried them under a tree at Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

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


simplify: When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done upon the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night seeth sleep with his eyes),

When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),


simplify: and ye, brethren, may ye not be weary doing well,

You, friends, must not grow weary of doing what is right.


rate difficulty: — I, I [am] He that blotteth out thy transgressions for mine own sake, and I will not remember thy sins.

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


rate difficulty: So I got her for myself for fifteen shekels of silver and a homer and a half of barley;


rate difficulty: And there was a certain man there, named Aeneas, who for eight years had been in bed, without power of moving.

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


simplify: whereunto he called you through our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: and by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Reuben one,

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.

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


simplify: If we assay to commune with thee, wilt thou be grieved? but who can withhold himself from speaking?

If one says a word, will it be a weariness to you? but who is able to keep from saying what is in his mind?


rate difficulty: and so all Israel shall be saved: even as it is written,  There shall come out of Zion the Deliverer; He shall turn away ungodliness from Jacob:

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


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

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


rate difficulty: For the earnest expectation of the creature waiteth for the manifestation of the sons of God.

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


simplify: O house of Jacob, come ye, and let us walk in the light of Jehovah.

O family of Jacob, come, and let us go in the light of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And these are the names of the sons of Gershom: Libni and Shimei.

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


simplify: O Lord, by these things men live, and in all these things is the life of my spirit: so wilt thou recover me, and make me to live.

O Lord, for this cause I am waiting for you, give rest to my spirit: make me well again, and let me come back to life.


simplify: The chains, and the bracelets, and the mufflers,

The ear-rings, and the chains, and the delicate clothing,


simplify: The rich and the poor meet together: Jehovah is the maker of them all.

The man of wealth and the poor man come face to face: the Lord is the maker of them all.


rate difficulty: And the king Jehoiakim sendeth men to Egypt--Elnathan son of Achbor, and men with him unto Egypt--


simplify: and lest thou lift up thine eyes unto heaven, and when thou seest the sun and the moon and the stars, even all the host of heaven, thou be drawn away and worship them, and serve them, which Jehovah thy God hath allotted unto all the peoples under the whole heaven.

And when your eyes are lifted up to heaven, and you see the sun and the moon and the stars, all the army of heaven, do not let yourselves be moved to give them worship, or become the servants of what the Lord has given equally to all peoples under heaven.


rate difficulty: Then shall ye remember your evil ways, and your doings that were not good; and ye shall loathe yourselves in your own sight for your iniquities and for your abominations.

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


rate difficulty: Truly, such a Passover had not been kept in all the days of the judges of Israel or of the kings of Israel or the kings of Judah;

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


simplify: And if the priest shall look, and, behold, the plague be not spread in the garment, either in the warp, or in the woof, or in anything of skin;

And if the priest sees that the mark is not increased in the clothing or in any part of the material or in the leather,


simplify: Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?

Again, what will they do who are given baptism for the dead? if the dead do not come back at all, why are people given baptism for them?


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

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


simplify: (not by works that <FI>are<Fi> in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

not as the result of any righteous actions that we had done, but in fulfillment of his merciful purposes. He saved us by that washing which was a new birth to us, and by the renewing power of the Holy Spirit,


rate difficulty: and the border reached to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh; and their border ended at the Jordan: sixteen cities and their hamlets.


simplify: I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

I have knowledge of your works, that you are not cold or warm: it would be better if you were cold or warm.


rate difficulty: And they put fifty twists of cord on the edge of the outside curtain of the first group, and fifty twists on the edge of the outside curtain of the second group,

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


simplify: And afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.

And, when they demanded a king, God gave them Saul the son of Kish, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, who reigned for forty years.


simplify: Nevertheless, if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

But if you make clear to the evil-doer the danger of his way for the purpose of turning him from it, and he is not turned from his way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing, but your life will be safe.


simplify: And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

And in the time of Artaxerxes, Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his friends, sent a letter to Artaxerxes, king of Persia, writing it in the Aramaean writing and language.


rate difficulty: Seen have isles and fear, ends of the earth tremble, They have drawn near, yea, they come.

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


simplify: If then ye have to judge things pertaining to this life, do ye set them to judge who are of no account in the church?

If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?


simplify: And having folded the roll, having given <FI>it<Fi> back to the officer, he sat down, and the eyes of all in the synagogue were gazing on him.

Then, closing the book and returning it to the attendant, he sat down. The eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on him,


simplify: and how do we hear, each in our proper dialect, in which we were born?

Then how is it that we each of us hear them in our own language?


simplify: For I reckon that I am not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.


simplify: and shall cast them into the furnace of fire: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

And will put them into the fire: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


simplify: And be it indeed that I have erred, Mine error remaineth with myself.

And, truly, if I have been in error, the effect of my error is only on myself.


rate difficulty: And David smiteth them from the twilight even unto the evening of the morrow, and there hath not escaped of them a man, except four hundred young men who have ridden on the camels, and are fled.

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simplify: And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben–ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.

Now at that time the Philistines came together to make war against Israel, and the men of Israel went out to war against the Philistines and took up their position at the side of Eben-ezer: and the Philistines put their forces in position in Aphek.


rate difficulty: I saw the tents of Cushan in affliction; The curtains of the land of Midian did tremble.

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


rate difficulty: and out of the basket of unleavened bread that was before Jehovah he took one unleavened cake, and a cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and put them on the fat and upon the right shoulder;

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


simplify: The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they keep silence; They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

The responsible men of the daughter of Zion are seated on the earth without a word; they have put dust on their heads, they are clothed in haircloth: the heads of the virgins of Jerusalem are bent down to the earth.


simplify: `Verily I say to you, Whatever things ye may bind upon the earth shall be having been bound in the heavens, and whatever things ye may loose on the earth shall be having been loosed in the heavens.

I tell you, all that you forbid on earth will be held in heaven to be forbidden, and all that you allow on earth will be held in heaven to be allowed.


rate difficulty: A law hath Moses commanded us, A possession of the assembly of Jacob.

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


simplify: Let the royal apparel be brought which the king useth to wear, and the horse that the king rideth upon, and the crown royal which is set upon his head:

Let them take the robes which the king generally puts on, and the horse on which the king goes, and the crown which is on his head:


rate difficulty: And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.

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


simplify: Delivering thee from the people, and from the Gentiles, unto whom now I send thee,

since I am choosing you out from your own people and from the Gentiles, to whom I now send you,


simplify: There was also another great eagle with great wings and many feathers: and, behold, this vine did bend her roots toward him, and shot forth her branches toward him, that he might water it by the furrows of her plantation.

And there was another eagle with great wings and thick feathers: and now this vine, pushing out its roots to him, sent out its branches in his direction from the bed where it was planted, so that he might give it water.


simplify: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

For, with a loud summons, with the shout of an archangel, and with the trumpet-call of God, the Lord himself will come down from heaven.


simplify: She hath wearied herself with toil; yet her great rust goeth not forth out of her; her rust goeth not forth by fire.

I have made myself tired to no purpose: still all the waste which is in her has not come out, it has an evil smell.


rate difficulty: And all the trees of the field shall know that I Jehovah have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and made the dry tree to flourish: I Jehovah have spoken, and will do [it].

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


simplify: And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.

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


simplify: And again he came, and found them sleeping, for their eyes were very heavy; and they knew not what to answer him.

And again he came and saw them sleeping, because their eyes were very tired; and they had nothing to say in answer.


simplify: And he ordained him priests for the high places, and for the devils, and for the calves which he had made.

And he himself made priests for the high places, and for the images of he-goats and oxen which he had made.


simplify: The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

The children of Jericho, three hundred and forty-five.


rate difficulty: Lift up thy voice, daughter of Gallim! Hearken, O Laish! — Poor Anathoth!

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


simplify: And he answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit from thee henceforward for ever. And his disciples heard it.

And he said to it, Let no man take fruit from you for ever. And his disciples took note of his words.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the end of days, that the brook drieth up, for there hath been no rain in the land,

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


simplify: And he commanded them, saying, Thus shall ye speak unto my lord Esau; Thy servant Jacob saith thus, I have sojourned with Laban, and stayed there until now:

And he gave them orders to say these words to Esau: Your servant Jacob says, Till now I have been living with Laban:


rate difficulty: But if they have not self-control let them get married; for married life is better than the burning of desire.

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


simplify: And when he had called unto him his twelve disciples, he gave them power against unclean spirits, to cast them out, and to heal all manner of sickness and all manner of disease.

Calling his twelve Disciples to him, Jesus gave them authority over foul spirits, so that they could drive them out, as well as the power of curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.


simplify: And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from those of every people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them.

And Haman said to King Ahasuerus, There is a certain nation living here and there in small groups among the people in all the divisions of your kingdom; their laws are different from those of any other nation, and they do not keep the king's laws: for this reason it is not right for the king to let them be.


rate difficulty: And after this Job lived a hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, saying, This is the law of the sin-offering: in the place where the burnt-offering is killed shall the sin-offering be killed before Jehovah: it is most holy.

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


simplify: And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,

So they and the councillors met and, after holding a consultation, gave a large sum of money to the soldiers,


rate difficulty: And they stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah saved them by a great victory.


simplify: Now Peter and John were going up into the temple at the hour of prayer, beingthe ninth hour.

Now Peter and John were going up to the Temple at the ninth hour, the hour of prayer;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as she spake to Joseph day by day, that he hearkened not unto her, to lie by her, or to be with her.

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


rate difficulty: Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.

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


simplify: A bruised reed shall he not break, and smoking flax shall he not quench, till he send forth judgment unto victory.

The crushed stem will not be broken by him; and the feebly burning light will he not put out, till he has made righteousness overcome all.


rate difficulty: And when the ark of the agreement of the Lord came into the town of David, Michal, the daughter of Saul, looking out of the window, saw King David dancing and playing; and to her mind he seemed foolish.


simplify: Then said they unto him, Say now Shibboleth: and he said Sibboleth: for he could not frame to pronounce it right. Then they took him, and slew him at the passages of Jordan: and there fell at that time of the Ephraimites forty and two thousand.

Then they said to him, Now say Shibboleth; and he said Sibboleth, and was not able to say it in the right way; then they took him and put him to death at the crossing-places of Jordan; and at that time forty-two thousand Ephraimites were put to death.


rate difficulty: Come ye in to her from the extremity, Open ye her storehouses, Raise her up as heaps, and devote her, Let her have no remnant.


simplify: And thou shalt anoint the laver and his foot, and sanctify it.

And put oil on the washing-vessel and its base, and make them holy.


simplify: Turn again, and tell Hezekiah the captain of my people, Thus saith the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee: on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of the Lord.

Go back and say to Hezekiah, the ruler of my people, The Lord, the God of David your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping; see, I will make you well: on the third day you will go up to the house of the Lord.


simplify: And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

He will not be looking to the altars, the work of his hands, or to the wood pillars or to the sun-images which his fingers have made.


simplify: He becometh poor that worketh with a slack hand; But the hand of the diligent maketh rich.

He who is slow in his work becomes poor, but the hand of the ready worker gets in wealth.


simplify: For I have sworn by myself, saith Jehovah, that Bozrah shall become an astonishment, a reproach, a waste, and a curse; and all the cities thereof shall be perpetual wastes.

For I have taken an oath by myself, says the Lord, that Bozrah will become a cause of wonder, a name of shame, a waste and a curse; and all its towns will be waste places for ever.


rate difficulty: Your boasting [is] not good. Do ye not know that a little leaven leavens the whole lump?


simplify: sojourn in this land, and I will be with thee, and will bless thee; for unto thee, and unto thy seed, I will give all these lands, and I will establish the oath which I sware unto Abraham thy father;

Keep in this land, and I will be with you and give you my blessing; for to you and to your seed will I give all these lands, giving effect to the oath which I made to your father Abraham;


simplify: and if I send them away fasting to their home, they will faint on the way; and some of them are come from far.

If I send them away to their houses with no food, they will be overcome by weariness on the way; and some of them have come from far.


simplify: Let the wilderness and the cities thereof lift up their voice, the villages that Kedar doth inhabit; let the inhabitants of Sela sing, let them shout from the top of the mountains.

Let the waste land and its flocks be glad, the tent-circles of Kedar; let the people of the rock give a glad cry, from the top of the mountains let them make a sound of joy.


simplify: `And no one doth put new wine into old skins, and if otherwise, the new wine will burst the skins, and itself will be poured out, and the skins will be destroyed;

And no one puts new wine into old wine-skins; for, if they do, the new wine will burst the skins, and the wine itself will run out, and the skins be lost.


rate difficulty: and his host, and its numbered ones, <FI>are<Fi> six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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


simplify: and the earth shall answer the grain, and the new wine, and the oil; and they shall answer Jezreel.

And the earth will give its answer to the grain and the wine and the oil, and they will give an answer to Jezreel;


simplify: And if the prophet be deceived when he hath spoken a thing, I the Lord have deceived that prophet, and I will stretch out my hand upon him, and will destroy him from the midst of my people Israel.

And if the prophet, tricked by deceit, says anything, it is I the Lord by whom he has been tricked, and I will put out my hand against him, and he will be cut off from among my people Israel.


rate difficulty: Jesus went out again to the Sea; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.

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


simplify: Also Jehoiada appointed the offices of the house of the Lord by the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of the Lord, to offer the burnt offerings of the Lord, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, as it was ordained by David.

And Jehoiada put the work and the care of the house of the Lord into the hands of the priests and the Levites, who had been grouped in divisions by David to make burned offerings to the Lord, as it is recorded in the law of Moses, with joy and song as David had said.


simplify: Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

Do not give false witness against your neighbour.


rate difficulty: And Joshua riseth early in the morning, and the priests bear the ark of Jehovah,

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


rate difficulty: And from Tibhath, and from Chun, cities of Hadarezer, David took very much brass, of which Solomon made the brazen sea, and the pillars, and the vessels of brass.

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


simplify: Then said one unto him, Lord, are there few that be saved? And he said unto them,

And someone said to him, Lord, will only a small number have salvation? And he said to them,


simplify: remembering without ceasing your work of faith and labor of love and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;

Having ever in mind your work of faith and acts of love and the strength of your hope in our Lord Jesus Christ, before our God and Father;


simplify: that they may fear thee all the days that they live in the land which thou gavest unto our fathers.

So that they may give you worship all the days of their life in the land which you gave to our fathers.


simplify: I beseech Euodias, and beseech Syntyche, that they be of the same mind in the Lord.

I make request to Euodias and Syntyche to be of the same mind in the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Elijah took twelve stones, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Jacob, to whom the word of Jehovah came saying, Israel shall be thy name;

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


simplify: Now the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the fugitives that fell away to the king of Babylon, with the remnant of the multitude, did Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard carry away.

And the rest of the people who were still in the town, and all those who had given themselves up to the king of Babylon, and all the rest of the workmen, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners;


simplify: Take the millstones, and grind meal; remove thy veil, strip off the train, uncover the leg, pass through the rivers.

Take the crushing-stones and get the meal crushed: take off your veil, put away your robe, let your legs be uncovered, go through the rivers.


simplify: And the way of peace have they not known:

And of the way of peace they have no knowledge:


simplify: For as many as have sinned without the law shall also perish without the law: and as many as have sinned under the law shall be judged by the law;

All those who have done wrong without the law will get destruction without the law: and those who have done wrong under the law will have their punishment by the law;


simplify: How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

How is it that you do not see that I was not talking to you about bread, but about keeping away from the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?


rate difficulty: And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

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


simplify: And the soldiers’ counsel was to kill the prisoners, lest any of them should swim out, and escape.

The advice of the soldiers was that the prisoners should be killed, so that none of them could swim away and make their escape.


simplify: And he charged them that they may tell no one, but the more he was charging them, the more abundantly they were proclaiming <FI>it<Fi> ,

Jesus insisted on their not telling anyone; but the more he insisted, the more perseveringly they made it known,


simplify: There is a generation, whose teeth are as swords, and their jaw teeth as knives, to devour the poor from off the earth, and the needy from among men.

There is a generation whose teeth are like swords, their strong teeth like knives, for the destruction of the poor from the earth, and of those who are in need from among men.


simplify: And out of the throne proceeded lightnings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.

Out from the throne ‘come flashes of lightning, cries, and peals of thunder’! There are seven torches burning in front of the throne, which are the seven spirits of God;


simplify: Will ye accept his person? will ye contend for God?

Will you have respect for God's person in this cause, and put yourselves forward as his supporters?


rate difficulty: He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.

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simplify: And he smote them from Aroer until thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto Abel-cheramim, with a very great slaughter. So the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: so we, the many, one body are in Christ, and members each one of one another.

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


simplify: Beware that there be not a base thought in thy heart, saying, The seventh year, the year of release, is at hand; and thine eye be evil against thy poor brother, and thou give him nought; and he cry unto Jehovah against thee, and it be sin unto thee.

And see that there is no evil thought in your heart, moving you to say to yourself, The seventh year, the year of forgiveness is near; and so looking coldly on your poor countryman you give him nothing; and he will make an outcry to the Lord against you, and it will be judged as sin in you.


simplify: Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.

Then I sent to him, saying, No such things as you say are being done, they are only a fiction you have made up yourself.


simplify: And these are they that were numbered of the Levites after their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites; of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites; of Merari, the family of the Merarites.

These were those of the Levites who were numbered by their families: of Gershon, the family of the Gershonites: of Kohath, the family of the Kohathites: of Merari, the family of the Merarites.


rate difficulty: Thou <FI>art<Fi> an anointed cherub who is covering, And I have set thee in the holy mount, God thou hast been, In the midst of stones of fire thou hast walked up and down.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel served Jehovah all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders that outlived Joshua, and had known all the work of Jehovah, that he had wrought for Israel.

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


simplify: and lo, thou shalt conceive in the womb, and shalt bring forth a son, and call his name Jesus;

And now, you will conceive and give birth to a son, and you will give him the name Jesus.


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


rate difficulty: and if children, also heirs, heirs, indeed, of God, and heirs together of Christ--if, indeed, we suffer together, that we may also be glorified together.

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


rate difficulty: and thou shalt come unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto Jehovah thyGod, that I am come unto the land that Jehovah swore unto our fathers to give us.

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


simplify: Jehovah will cut off, to the man that doeth this, him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto Jehovah of hosts.

The Lord will have the man who does this cut off root and branch out of the tents of Jacob, and him who makes an offering to the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: and the wrath of Jehovah is on Judah and Jerusalem, and He giveth them for a trembling, for an astonishment, and for a hissing, as ye are seeing with your eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And bows dash young men to pieces, And the fruit of the womb they pity not, On sons their eye hath no pity.

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


simplify: He that hateth dissembleth with his lips; But he layeth up deceit within him:

With his lips the hater makes things seem what they are not, but deceit is stored up inside him;


rate difficulty: They were to go with common shoes on their feet, and not to take two coats.


simplify: I suppose therefore that this is good for the present distress, I say, that it is good for a man so to be.

In my opinion then, because of the present trouble, it is good for a man to keep as he is.


rate difficulty: to whom he said, This is the rest, give ye rest to him that is weary; and this is the refreshing: yet they would not hear.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to it.

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


simplify: And Abigail hasted, and arose, and rode upon an ass, with five damsels of hers that followed her; and she went after the messengers of David, and became his wife.

Then Abigail got up quickly and went on her ass, with five of her young women, after the men whom David had sent; and she became David's wife.


rate difficulty: For, though I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Even if I were inclined to regret it — for I see that my letter did cause you sorrow though only for a time —

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


rate difficulty: and with him ten princes, one prince of a fathers’ house for each of the tribes of Israel; and they were every one of them head of their fathers’ houses among the thousands of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob rose early in the morning, and took the stone that he had made his pillow, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.

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


simplify: Even the youths shall faint and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall:

Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;


simplify: And it came to pass after many days, that the Lord said unto me, Arise, go to Euphrates, and take the girdle from thence, which I commanded thee to hide there.

Then after a long time, the Lord said to me, Up! go to Parah and get the band which I gave you orders to put there.


simplify: And Samson said, With the jawbone of an ass, heaps upon heaps, with the jaw of an ass have I slain a thousand men.

And Samson said, With a red ass's mouth-bone I have made them red with blood, with a red ass's mouth-bone I have sent destruction on a thousand men.


simplify: Now the king of Syria was warring against Israel; and he took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.

At that time the king of Aram was making war against Israel; and he had a meeting with the chiefs of his army and said, I will be waiting in secret in some named place.


simplify: So that thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.

So that the things which your eyes have to see will send you out of your minds.


rate difficulty: therefore let us keep our festival, not with the leaven of former days, nor with the leaven of vice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.


rate difficulty: So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And as they went out from Jericho, a great multitude followed him.

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


rate difficulty: I, indeed, through law became dead to law, in order to live for God.

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


simplify: Yet not altogether with the fornicators of this world, or with the covetous, or extortioners, or with idolaters; for then must ye needs go out of the world.

But I had not in mind the sinners who are outside the church, or those who have a desire for and take the property of others, or those who give worship to images; for it is not possible to keep away from such people without going out of the world completely:


rate difficulty: I indeed have baptized you with water: but he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost.


rate difficulty: Then Moses and Aaron came in again before Pharaoh: and he said to them, Go and give worship to the Lord your God: but which of you are going?


rate difficulty: If in any way I may have the reward of life from the dead.


rate difficulty: The king’s heart is in the hand of the Lord, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.

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


simplify: And she yet again conceived, and bare a son; and called his name Shelah: and he was at Chezib, when she bare him.

Then she had another son, to whom she gave the name Shelah; she was at Chezib when the birth took place.


rate difficulty: And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

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


simplify: And it came to pass, on the next day, when they were come down from the mountain, a great multitude met him.

And on the day after, when they came down from the mountain, a great band of people came to him.


simplify: So Saul returned from pursuing after David, and went against the Philistines: therefore they called that place Sela-hammahlekoth.

So turning back from going after David, Saul went against the Philistines: so that place was named Sela-hammah-lekoth.


rate difficulty: But do not allow yourselves to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have only one teacher, and you yourselves are all brothers and sisters.

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


rate difficulty: So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: and saith to them, `Ye <FI>are<Fi> heads of the fathers of the Levites; sanctify yourselves, ye and your brethren, and ye have brought up the ark of Jehovah, God of Israel, unto <FI>the place<Fi> I have prepared for it;

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


rate difficulty: Amalek is dwelling in the land of the south, and the Hittite, and the Jebusite, and the Amorite is dwelling in the hill country, and the Canaanite is dwelling by the sea, and by the side of the Jordan.'

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


simplify: Persia, Cush, and Put with them, all of them with shield and helmet;

Persia, Cush, and Put with them; all of them with body-cover and metal head-dress:


simplify: having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; that he might create in himself of the two one new man, so making peace;

Having in his flesh put an end to that which made the division between us, even the law with its rules and orders, so that he might make in himself, of the two, one new man, so making peace;


rate difficulty: As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will also give Israel with thee into the hand of the Philistines; and to-morrow shalt thou and thy sons be with me; the army of Israel also will Jehovah give into the hand of the Philistines.

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


simplify: Thus hath the Lord dealt with me in the days wherein he looked on me, to take away my reproach among men.

“The Lord has done this for me,” she said, “he has shown me kindness and taken away the public disgrace of childlessness under which I have been living.”


rate difficulty: To whom then will ye likenGod? and what likeness will ye compare unto him?

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


rate difficulty: But Hezekiah rendered not again according to the benefit done unto him; for his heart was lifted up: therefore there was wrath upon him, and upon Judah and Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah delivered unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God; and on them was written according to all the words, which Jehovah spake with you in the mount out of the midst of the fire in the day of the assembly.

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


rate difficulty: In the first year of Cyrus the king, Cyrus the king made an order: In connection with the house of God at Jerusalem, let the house be put up, the place where they make offerings, and let the earth for the bases be put in place; let it be sixty cubits high and sixty cubits wide;

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


simplify: And they that passed by railed on him, wagging their heads,

And those who went by said bitter words to him, shaking their heads and saying,


simplify: And the clean person shall sprinkle upon the unclean on the third day, and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he shall purify himself, and wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and shall be clean at even.

Let the clean person do this to the unclean on the third day and on the seventh day: and on the seventh day he is to make him clean; and after washing his clothing and bathing himself in water, he will be clean in the evening.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said unto them, `They who are well have no need of a physician, but they that are ill:

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


simplify: And Jesus answering said to them, `Having gone on, report to John what ye saw and heard, that blind men do see again, lame do walk, lepers are cleansed, deaf do hear, dead are raised, poor have good news proclaimed;

So his answer to the question was: “Go and report to John what you have witnessed and heard — the blind recover their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are made clean, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, the good news is told to the poor.


rate difficulty: Whoso is keeping his mouth, is keeping his soul, Whoso is opening wide his lips--ruin to him!


simplify: Go to now, ye rich men, weep and howl for your miseries that shall come upon you.

Listen to me, you rich people, weep and wail for the miseries that are coming upon you!


rate difficulty: But after they had rest, they did evil again before thee: therefore leftest thou them in the hand of their enemies, so that they had the dominion over them: yet when they returned, and cried unto thee, thou heardest them from heaven; and many times didst thou deliver them according to thy mercies;

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


simplify: To offer burnt offerings unto the Lord upon the altar of the burnt offering continually morning and evening, and to do according to all that is written in the law of the Lord, which he commanded Israel;

To give burned offerings to the Lord on the altar of burned offerings morning and evening, every day, as it is ordered in the law of the Lord which he gave to Israel;


simplify: And he said unto them, Doubtless ye will say unto me this parable, Physician, heal thyself: whatsoever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in thine own country.

And he said to them, Without doubt you will say to me, Let the medical man make himself well: the things which to our knowledge were done at Capernaum, do them here in your country.


simplify: And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin-offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the sons of Aaron that were left, saying,

And Moses was looking for the goat of the sin-offering, but it was burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron, who were still living, saying,


simplify: And there ran a man of Benjamin out of the army, and came to Shiloh the same day, with his clothes rent, and with earth upon his head.

And a man of Benjamin went running from the fight and came to Shiloh the same day with his clothing out of order and earth on his head.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When the whole earth rejoiceth, I will make thee desolate.

This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:


simplify: And now, Israel, what doth Jehovah thy God require of thee, but to fear Jehovah thy God, to walk in all his ways, and to love him, and to serve Jehovah thy God with all thy heart and with all thy soul,

And now, Israel, what would the Lord your God have you do, but to go in the fear of the Lord your God, walking in all his ways and loving him and doing his pleasure with all your heart and all your soul,


simplify: The arrow cannot make him flee: Sling-stones are turned with him into stubble.

The arrow is not able to put him to flight: stones are no more to him than dry stems.


rate difficulty: Harvest hath passed, summer hath ended, And we--we have not been saved.

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


simplify: Their drink is become sour; they play the harlot continually; her rulers dearly love shame.

Their drink has become bitter; they are completely false; her rulers take pleasure in shame.


simplify: Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Never lie to one another. Get rid of your old self and its habits,


simplify: So that his life abhorreth bread, And his soul dainty food.

He has no desire for food, and his soul is turned away from delicate meat;


simplify: And it was so, when midday was past, that they prophesied until the time of the offering of the evening oblation; but there was neither voice, nor any to answer, nor any that regarded.

And from the middle of the day they went on with their prayers till the time of the offering; but there was no voice, or any answer, or any who gave attention to them.


rate difficulty: A man’s heart deviseth his way; But Jehovah directeth his steps.

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


rate difficulty: And Johanan begat Azariah, (he it is that executed the priest’s office in the temple that Solomon built in Jerusalem:)

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


simplify: the good strife I have striven, the course I have finished, the faith I have kept,

I have run the great race; I have finished the course; I have kept the faith.


rate difficulty: When the strong [man] armed keeps his own house, his goods are in peace;

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


simplify: In those days, when there was again a great multitude, and they had nothing to eat, he called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,

In those days again, when there was a great mass of people and they had no food, he made his disciples come to him and said to them,


simplify: They send forth their little ones like a flock, and their children dance.

They send out their young ones like a flock, and their children have pleasure in the dance,


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their bread unclean, among the nations whither I will drive them.

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


simplify: There is none to plead thy cause, that thou mayest be bound up: thou hast no healing medicines.

There is no help for your wound, there is nothing to make you well.


rate difficulty: Yea, many peoples and strong nations shall come to seek Jehovah of hosts in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And the king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Joab and the captains of the people, Now let all Israel, from Beer-sheba to Dan, be numbered; and give me word so that I may be certain of their number.


simplify: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


rate difficulty: So king Solomon sent, and they brought him down from the altar. And he came and did obeisance to king Solomon; and Solomon said unto him, Go to thy house.

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


rate difficulty: In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

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


simplify: Concerning the eating then of the things sacrificed to idols, we have known that an idol <FI>is<Fi> nothing in the world, and that there is no other God except one;

With reference, then, to eating food that has been offered to idols — we are aware that an idol is nothing in the world, and that there is no God but one.


simplify: May be able to comprehend with all saints what is the breadth, and length, and depth, and height;

May have strength to see with all the saints how wide and long and high and deep it is,


rate difficulty: Let [the] ministers be husbands of one wife, conducting [their] children and their own houses well:

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


simplify: But the Lord was wroth with me for your sakes, and would not hear me: and the Lord said unto me, Let it suffice thee; speak no more unto me of this matter.

But the Lord was angry with me because of you and would not give ear to my prayer; and the Lord said to me, Let it be enough, say no more about this thing.


rate difficulty: And of the children of the priests: the children of Habaiah, the children of Hakkoz, the children of Barzillai, who took a wife of the daughters of Barzillai the Gileadite, and was called after their name.


rate difficulty: and Hilkiah answereth and saith unto Shaphan the scribe, `A book of the law I have found in the house of Jehovah;' and Hilkiah giveth the book unto Shaphan,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the sixth messenger did pour out his vial upon the great river, the Euphrates, and dried up was its water, that the way of the kings who are from the rising of the sun may be made ready;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

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


simplify: And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother’s eye, but perceivest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

And why do you look at the speck of sawdust in someone’s eye, while you pay no attention at all to the plank of wood in your own?


simplify: And Ahab said to Elijah, Hast thou found me, O mine enemy? And he answered, I have found thee, because thou hast sold thyself to do that which is evil in the sight of Jehovah.

And Ahab said to Elijah, Have you come face to face with me, O my hater? And he said, I have come to you because you have given yourself up to do evil in the eyes of the Lord.


rate difficulty: At that time news of Jesus came to Herod the king;

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


rate difficulty: because by him were created all things, the things in the heavens and the things upon the earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones, or lordships, or principalities, or authorities: all things have been created by him and for him.

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


rate difficulty: And Gideon said toGod, Let not thine anger be hot against me, and I will speak but this once! Let me prove, I pray thee, but this once with the fleece; let it, I pray thee, be dry upon the fleece only, and upon all the ground let there be dew.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto her, `Give me to drink, I pray thee, a little water, for I am thirsty;' and she openeth the bottle of milk, and giveth him to drink, and covereth him.

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


simplify: and now, why tarriest thou? having risen, baptize thyself, and wash away thy sins, calling upon the name of the Lord.

And now why wait any longer: Be baptized at once, wash away your sins, and invoke his name.


rate difficulty: Now the Aramaeans had gone out in bands, and taken prisoner from Israel a little girl, who became servant to Naaman's wife.


simplify: for this <FI>is<Fi> gracious, if because of conscience toward God any one doth endure sorrows, suffering unrighteously;

For this wins God’s approval when, because conscious of God’s presence, a person who is suffering unjustly bears their troubles patiently.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make two cherubim of gold; of beaten work shalt thou make them, at the two ends of the mercy-seat.

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


rate difficulty: who so opposes himself to everyone that is spoken of as a God or as an object of worship, and so exalts himself above them, that he seats himself in the Temple of God, and displays himself as God!

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


rate difficulty: in your patience possess ye your souls.

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


rate difficulty: And Sarah died in Kirjath-Arba: that is Hebron, in the land of Canaan. And Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.


simplify: But rather seek ye the kingdom of God; and all these things shall be added unto you.

No, seek his kingdom, and these things will be added for you.


simplify: And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

So I took her, cutting her into parts which I sent through all the country of the heritage of Israel: for they have done an act of shame in Israel.


rate difficulty: and thou hast made fifty hooks of gold, and hast joined the curtains one to another by the hooks, and the tabernacle hath been one.

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


rate difficulty: And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.


rate difficulty: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

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


simplify: and this know, that if the master of the house had known in what watch the thief doth come, he had watched, and not suffered his house to be broken through;

But this you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time of night the thief was coming, they would have been on the watch, and would not have allowed their house to be broken into.


simplify: and he answering said, `I was not sent except to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'

“I was not sent,” replied Jesus, “to anyone except the lost sheep of Israel.”


rate difficulty: And so I saw the horses in the vision, and those who were seated on them, having breastplates of fire and glass and of burning stone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths came fire and smoke and a smell of burning.


rate difficulty: And whatever more is needed for the house of your God, and which you may have to give, take it from the king's store-house.

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


rate difficulty: So Jehovah blessed the latter end of Job more than his beginning: and he had fourteen thousand sheep, and six thousand camels, and a thousand yoke of oxen, and a thousand she-asses.

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


simplify: The tongue of the wise useth knowledge aright: but the mouth of fools poureth out foolishness.

Knowledge is dropping from the tongue of the wise; but from the mouth of the foolish comes a stream of foolish words.


simplify: One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

One God and Father of all, who is over all, and through all, and in all.


rate difficulty: And he carved on them cherubim, and palm-trees, and half-open flowers; and overlaid them with gold fitted on the carved work.

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


rate difficulty: Better is open protest than love kept secret.

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


simplify: And he made bars of acacia wood; five for the boards of the one side of the tabernacle,

And they made rods of hard wood; five for the boards on one side of the House,


simplify: And Israel abode in Shittim, and the people began to commit whoredom with the daughters of Moab.

Now when Israel was living in Shittim the people became false to the Lord, doing evil with the daughters of Moab:


simplify: But found none: yea, though many false witnesses came, yet found they none. At the last came two false witnesses,

And they were not able to get it, though a number of false witnesses came.


rate difficulty: If any one [leads] into captivity, he goes into captivity. If any one shall kill with [the] sword, he must with [the] sword be killed. Here is the endurance and the faith of the saints.

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


simplify: The foolishness of man subverteth his way; And his heart fretteth against Jehovah.

By his foolish behaviour a man's ways are turned upside down, and his heart is bitter against the Lord.


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as soon as the days of his ministration were accomplished, he departed to his own house.

And when the days of his work in the Temple were ended, he went back to his house.


simplify: For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our king; he will save us.

For the Lord is our judge, the Lord is our law-giver, the Lord is our king; he will be our saviour.


simplify: For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.


simplify: Go now to the flock, and fetch me from thence two good kids of the goats; and I will make them savory food for thy father, such as he loveth:

Go to the flock and get me two fat young goats; and I will make of them a meal to your father's taste:


simplify: Behold, the princes of Israel, every one according to his power, have been in thee to shed blood.

See, the rulers of Israel, every one in his family, have been causing death in you.


simplify: And if ye are willing to receive it, this is Elijah, that is to come.

And if you are able to see it, this is Elijah who was to come.


simplify: Wherefore, sirs, be of good cheer: for I believe God, that it shall be even as it was told me.

And so, O men, be of good heart, for I have faith in God that it will be as he said to me.


rate difficulty: The heart of the wise instructeth his mouth, And addeth learning to his lips.

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


rate difficulty: and the hope doth not make ashamed, because the love of God hath been poured forth in our hearts through the Holy Spirit that hath been given to us.

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


simplify: O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!

Jerusalem! Jerusalem! She who slays the prophets and stones the messengers sent to her — Oh, how often have I wished to gather your children around me, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, and you would not come!


simplify: And having seized him by the right hand, he raised <FI>him<Fi> up, and presently his feet and ankles were strengthened,

Grasping the lame man by the right hand, Peter lifted him up. Instantly the man’s feet and ankles became strong,


simplify: And be not fashioned according to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is the good and acceptable and perfect will of God.

And let not your behaviour be like that of this world, but be changed and made new in mind, so that by experience you may have knowledge of the good and pleasing and complete purpose of God.


simplify: And when they came unto the region about the Jordan, that is in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh built there an altar by the Jordan, a great altar to look upon.

Now when they came to the country by Jordan in the land of Canaan, the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the half-tribe of Manasseh put up there, by Jordan, a great altar, seen from far.


simplify: And in process of time it came to pass, that Cain brought of the fruit of the ground an offering unto the Lord.

And after a time, Cain gave to the Lord an offering of the fruits of the earth.


rate difficulty: For this cause have I sent unto you Timotheus, who is my beloved son, and faithful in the Lord, who shall bring you into remembrance of my ways which be in Christ, as I teach every where in every church.

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


simplify: and the kite, and the falcon after its kind,

And the kite and the falcon, and birds of that sort;


rate difficulty: In the day when God will be a judge of the secrets of men, as it says in the good news of which I am a preacher, through Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

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


rate difficulty: And Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, Behold, this child is set for the fall and rising again of many in Israel; and for a sign which shall be spoken against;

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


rate difficulty: And see doth Ephraim his sickness, and Judah his wound, And Ephraim goeth unto Asshur, And sendeth unto a warlike king, And he is not able to give healing to you, Nor doth he remove from you a scar.

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


rate difficulty: And embarking in a ship of Adramyttium, which was about to sail unto the places on the coast of Asia, we put to sea, Aristarchus, a Macedonian of Thessalonica, being with us.

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


rate difficulty: For his eyes are upon the ways of a man, And he seeth all his goings.

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


simplify: And they watched him, and sent forth spies, which should feign themselves just men, that they might take hold of his words, that so they might deliver him unto the power and authority of the governor.

Having watched their opportunity, they afterwards sent some spies, who pretended to be good men, to catch Jesus in the course of conversation, and so enable them to give him up to the Governor’s jurisdiction and authority.


rate difficulty: Only rebel not ye against the Lord, neither fear ye the people of the land; for they are bread for us: their defence is departed from them, and the Lord is with us: fear them not.

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


rate difficulty: But I say, Did Israel not know? First Moses saith,  I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation, With a nation void of understanding will I anger you.

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


rate difficulty: and if it bear fruit thenceforth, well; but if not, thou shalt cut it down.

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


simplify: And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the Lord brought us forth out of Egypt.

And this will be for a sign on your hand and for a mark on your brow: for by the strength of his hand the Lord took us out of Egypt.


simplify: And Jesus answered and said, Verily I say unto you, There is no man that hath left house, or brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or lands, for my sake, and the gospel’s,

Jesus said, Truly I say to you, There is no man who has given up house, or brothers, or sisters, or mother, or father, or children, or land, because of me and the good news,


simplify: And Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua: and Moses went up into the mount of God.

Then Moses and Joshua his servant got up; and Moses went up into the mountain of God.


simplify: Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

Be angry without doing wrong; let not the sun go down on your wrath;


simplify: And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity, whereby they have sinned against me; and I will pardon all their iniquities, whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me.

And I will make them clean from all their sin, with which they have been sinning against me; I will have forgiveness for all their sins, with which they have been sinning against me, and with which they have done evil against me.


simplify: And David said unto Gad, I am in a great strait: let us fall now into the hand of Jehovah; for his mercies are great; and let me not fall into the hand of man.

And David said to Gad, This is a hard decision for me to make: let us come into the hands of the Lord, for great are his mercies: let me not come into the hands of men.


simplify: but when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be done away.

But when that which is complete is come, then that which is in part will be no longer necessary.


rate difficulty: An ungodly man diggeth up evil: and in his lips there is as a burning fire.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts which Omri did, and his great power, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,

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


simplify: But the other answering rebuked him, saying, Dost not thou fear God, seeing thou art in the same condemnation?

But the other, protesting, said, Have you no fear of God? for you have a part in the same punishment,


rate difficulty: But he said to them, What man shall there be of you who has one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath, will not lay hold of it and raise [it] up?

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


rate difficulty: But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.

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simplify: The keeper of the prison looked not to any thing that was under his hand; because the Lord was with him, and that which he did, the Lord made it to prosper.

And the keeper of the prison gave no attention to anything which was under his care, because the Lord was with him; and the Lord made everything he did go well.


simplify: And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.

And a second angel came after, saying, Destruction has come to Babylon the great, which gave to all the nations the wine of the wrath of her evil ways.


rate difficulty: And hearing these things, they were cut to the hearts, and did gnash the teeth at him;


simplify: When Jesus heard of it, he departed thence by ship into a desert place apart: and when the people had heard thereof, they followed him on foot out of the cities.

Now when it came to the ears of Jesus, he went away from there in a boat, to a waste place by himself: and the people hearing of it, went after him on foot from the towns.


rate difficulty: And I will cause you to pass under the rod, and I will bring you into the bond of the covenant;

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rate difficulty: And he said to them, When the light comes in, do people put it under a vessel, or under the bed, and not on its table?

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simplify: His left hand should be under my head, and his right hand should embrace me.

His left hand would be under my head, and his right hand about me.


rate difficulty: And behold, as thy life was highly esteemed this day in mine eyes, so let my life be highly esteemed in the eyes of Jehovah, that he may deliver me out of all distress.

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rate difficulty: and if on the Father ye do call, who without acceptance of persons is judging according to the work of each, in fear the time of your sojourn pass ye,

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simplify: There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and no kind is without signification.

There are, it may be, a number of different voices in the world, and no voice is without sense.


simplify: Who is wise, and he shall understand these things? prudent, and he shall know them? for the ways of the Lord are right, and the just shall walk in them: but the transgressors shall fall therein.

He who is wise will see these things; he who has good sense will have knowledge of them. For the ways of the Lord are straight, and the upright will go in them, but sinners will be falling in them.


simplify: Or in enmity smite him with his hand, that he die: he that smote him shall surely be put to death; for he is a murderer: the revenger of blood shall slay the murderer, when he meeteth him.

Or in hate gave him blows with his hand, causing death; he who gave the death-blow is to be put to death; he is a taker of life: he whose right it is to give punishment for blood may put to death the taker of life when he comes face to face with him.


simplify: And they held their peace. And he took him, and healed him, and let him go;

They remained silent. Jesus took hold of the man and cured him, and sent him away.


simplify: And I will execute judgment upon Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up; and the nations shall not flow any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

And I will send punishment on Bel in Babylon, and take out of his mouth what went into it; no longer will the nations be flowing together to him: truly, the wall of Babylon will come down.


simplify: And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean among the ears of grain after him in whose sight I shall find favor. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.


rate difficulty: Then he went on with his story and said, But who may keep his life when God does this?


rate difficulty: and exceedingly abound did the grace of our Lord, with faith and love that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus:


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

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


simplify: And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

And he got up, and went into the country of Judaea on the other side of Jordan: and great numbers of people came together to him again; and, as was his way, he gave them teaching.


rate difficulty: And in praying use not vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do: for they think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

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simplify: have ye not known that the saints shall judge the world? and if by you the world is judged, are ye unworthy of the smaller judgments?

Do not you know that Christ’s people will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases?


simplify: And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth, and gathered the vine of the earth, and cast it into the great winepress of the wrath of God.

And the angel sent his blade into the earth, and the vine of the earth was cut, and he put it into the great wine-crusher of the wrath of God.


rate difficulty: Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

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simplify: that the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give unto you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;

That the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, may give to you a spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him;