simplify: And David gathered all the people together, and went to Rabbah, and fought against it, and took it.

Then David got all the people together and went to Rabbah and made war on it and took it.


rate difficulty: All the pillars of the court round about shall be fastened together with [rods of] silver; their hooks of silver, and their bases of copper.

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rate difficulty: And by the hands of the apostles were many signs and wonders wrought among the people; (and they were all with one accord in Solomon’s porch.

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rate difficulty: And Rehoboam established Abijah the son of Maachah at the head, to be ruler among his brethren; for [he thought] to make him king.

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


simplify: And he took the mantle of Elijah that fell from him, and smote the waters, and said, Where is the Lord God of Elijah? and when he also had smitten the waters, they parted hither and thither: and Elisha went over.

And he took Elijah's robe, which had been dropped from him, and giving the water a blow with it, said, Where is the Lord, the God of Elijah? and at his blow the waters were parted this way and that; and Elisha went over.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall take up from the meal-offering the memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: And the Lord had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the Egyptians.


simplify: Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal;

Having the glory of God: and her light was like a stone of great price, a jasper stone, clear as glass:


rate difficulty: And one day Jacob was cooking some soup when Esau came in from the fields in great need of food;

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rate difficulty: God thundereth marvellously with his voice; Great things doeth he, which we cannot comprehend.

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


rate difficulty: And I will surely hide my face in that day for all the evil which they shall have wrought, in that they are turned unto other gods.

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rate difficulty: A son of twelve years <FI>is<Fi> Manasseh in his reigning, and fifty and five years he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Hephzi-Bah;

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


simplify: For by the last words of David the Levites were numbered from twenty years old and above:

So among the last acts of David was the numbering of the sons of Levi, from twenty years old and over.


rate difficulty: And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

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rate difficulty: And they brought the head of Ish–bosheth unto David to Hebron, and said to the king, Behold the head of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul thine enemy, which sought thy life; and the Lord hath avenged my lord the king this day of Saul, and of his seed.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And his disciples having heard [it], came and took up his body, and laid it in a tomb.


simplify: Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.

Who gave himself for us, so that he might make us free from all wrongdoing, and make for himself a people clean in heart and on fire with good works.


simplify: So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:

That man among you who is soft and used to comfort will be hard and cruel to his brother, and to his dear wife, and to of those his children who are still living;


simplify: Woe to thee, O land, when thy king is a child, and thy princes eat in the morning!

Unhappy is the land whose king is a boy, and whose rulers are feasting in the morning.


rate difficulty: “At Bethlehem in Judea,” was their answer; “for it is said in the prophet —

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


rate difficulty: Then, if it bears in future, well and good; but if not, you can have it cut down.’”


simplify: And when he was come into his house, he took a knife, and laid hold on his concubine, and divided her, together with her bones, into twelve pieces, and sent her into all the coasts of Israel.

And when he had come to his house, he got his knife, and took the woman, cutting her up bone by bone into twelve parts, which he sent through all Israel.


simplify: And sent forth his servants to call them that were bidden to the wedding: and they would not come.

And sent out his servants to get in the guests to the feast: and they would not come.


simplify: And also the burnt offerings were in abundance, with the fat of the peace offerings, and the drink offerings for every burnt offering. So the service of the house of the Lord was set in order.

And there was a great amount of burned offerings, with the fat of the peace-offerings and the drink offerings for every burned offering. So the work of the Lord's house was put in order.


rate difficulty: Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.

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


simplify: A gin shall take him by the heel, Anda snare shall lay hold on him.

His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.


simplify: Who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his lord hath made ruler over his household, to give them meat in due season?

Who is the true and wise servant, whom his lord has put over those in his house, to give them their food at the right time?


simplify: And the wild asses stand on the bare heights, they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail, because there is no herbage.

And the asses of the field on the open hilltops are opening their mouths wide like jackals to get air; their eyes are hollow because there is no grass.


simplify: And they were seeking to lay hold on him, and they feared the multitude, for they knew that against them he spake the simile, and having left him, they went away;

After this his enemies were eager to arrest him, but they were afraid of the crowd; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed the parable. So they let him alone, and went away.


simplify: For there is hope of a tree, If it be cut down, that it will sprout again, And that the tender branch thereof will not cease.

For there is hope of a tree; if it is cut down, it will come to life again, and its branches will not come to an end.


rate difficulty: Let it be used for food on the same day on which it is offered, or on the day after; and whatever is over on the third day is to be burned with fire.


simplify: And the battle increased that day: and the king was stayed up in his chariot against the Syrians, and died at even: and the blood ran out of the wound into the midst of the chariot.

But the fight became more violent while the day went on; and the king was supported in his war-carriage facing the Aramaeans, and the floor of the carriage was covered with the blood from his wound, and by evening he was dead.


rate difficulty: Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah called yet again, Samuel. And Samuel arose and went to Eli, and said, Here am I; for thou calledst me. And he answered, I called not, my son; lie down again.

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


rate difficulty: He who keeps the day, keeps it to the Lord; and he who takes food, takes it as to the Lord, for he gives praise to God; and he who does not take food, to the Lord he takes it not, and gives praise to God.


rate difficulty: and Uzzi begat Zerahiah, and Zerahiah begat Meraioth,

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


rate difficulty: If, indeed, royal law ye complete, according to the Writing, `Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself,' --ye do well;

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


simplify: Having abolished in his flesh the enmity, even the law of commandments contained in ordinances; for to make in himself of twain 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;


simplify: And knew her not till she had brought forth her firstborn son: and he called his name JESUS.

He made Mary his wife, but they did not sleep together until after the birth of her son; and to this son he gave the name Jesus.


simplify: The foot shall tread it down, even the feet of the poor, and the steps of the needy.

It will be crushed under the feet of the poor and the steps of those who are in need.


simplify: Behold, I will gather thee to thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered to thy grave in peace, neither shall thine eyes see all the evil that I will bring upon this place, and upon the inhabitants of the same. So they brought the king word again.

See, I will let you go to your fathers, and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place and on its people. So they took this news back to the king.


rate difficulty: Call, I pray thee! Is there any that answereth thee? and to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

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


rate difficulty: But the sons of Belial shall be all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

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


simplify: and many did spread their garments in the way, and others were cutting down branches from the trees, and were strewing in the way.

Many of the people spread their cloaks on the road, while some strewed boughs which they had cut from the fields;


simplify: For this cause shall a man leave his father and mother, and shall be joined unto his wife, and they two shall be one flesh.

‘For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and be united to his wife; and the man and his wife will become one.’


rate difficulty: And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, the king of Heshbon, and Israel said to him, Let us pass, we pray thee, through thy land unto my place.

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


rate difficulty: Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?

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


simplify: But of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye strip the robe from off the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.

As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.


simplify: therefore thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Behold, I will punish them: the young men shall die by the sword; their sons and their daughters shall die by famine;

So the Lord of armies has said, See, I will send punishment on them: the young men will be put to the sword; their sons and their daughters will come to death through need of food:


simplify: The lips of the wise disperse knowledge; But the heart of the foolishdoethnot so.

The lips of the wise keep knowledge, but the heart of the foolish man is not right.


rate difficulty: For the Lord has said of David, By the hand of my servant David I will make my people Israel safe from the Philistines, and from all who are against them.

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


simplify: Some also there were that said, We are mortgaging our fields, and our vineyards, and our houses: let us get grain, because of the dearth.

And there were some who said, We are giving our fields and our vine-gardens and our houses for debt: let us get grain because we are in need.


simplify: My beloved is white and ruddy, The chiefest among ten thousand.

My loved one is white and red, the chief among ten thousand.


rate difficulty: Now Pashur the son of Immer the priest, who was also chief governor in the house of the Lord, heard that Jeremiah prophesied these things.


simplify: And Jonathan said unto David, Come, and let us go out into the field. And they went out both of them into the field.

And Jonathan said to David, Come, let us go out into the country. And the two of them went out together into the open country.


rate difficulty: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

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


rate difficulty: But the Jews in Shushan came together on the thirteenth and on the fourteenth day of the month; and on the fifteenth day they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.


simplify: Then the king said to the wise men, which knew the times, (for so was the king’s manner toward all that knew law and judgment:

And the king said to the wise men, who had knowledge of the times, (for this was the king's way with all who were expert in law and in the giving of decisions:


simplify: knowing that whatsoever good thing each one doeth, the same shall he receive again from the Lord, whether he be bond or free.

In the knowledge that for every good thing anyone does, he will have his reward from the Lord, If he is a servant or if he is free.


simplify: And if the way be too long for thee, so that thou art not able to carry it, because the place is too far from thee, which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to set his name there, when Jehovah thy God shall bless thee;

And if the way is so long that you are not able to take these things to the place marked out by the Lord your God for his name, when he has given you his blessing, because it is far away from you;


rate difficulty: And the man said, The woman whom you gave to be with me, she gave me the fruit of the tree and I took it.

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


simplify: In those days was Hezekiah sick unto death. And Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz came to him, and said unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Set thy house in order; for thou shalt die, and not live.

In those days Hezekiah was ill and near death. And Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz, came to him, and said to him, The Lord says, Put your house in order; for your death is near.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of forty days and forty nights, that Jehovah gave me the two tables of stone, the tables of the covenant.

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


rate difficulty: Job--not with knowledge doth he speak, And his words <FI>are<Fi> not with wisdom.

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


simplify: And he saw also a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.

He saw, too, a widow in poor circumstances putting two small coins into them.


simplify: But if the servant shall plainly say, I love my master, my wife, and my children; I will not go out free:

But if the servant says clearly, My master and my wife and children are dear to me; I have no desire to be free:


rate difficulty: He sent his son Hadoram to David, with words of peace and blessing, because he had overcome Hadadezer in the fight, for Hadadezer had wars with Tou; and Hadoram took with him vessels of silver and gold and brass:

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


simplify: And seeing the multitudes, he went up into the mountain: and when he had sat down, his disciples came unto him:

And seeing great masses of people he went up into the mountain; and when he was seated his disciples came to him.


rate difficulty: But when raw flesh appeareth in him, he shall be unclean.

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


simplify: And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God; and am sent to speak unto thee, and to shew thee these glad tidings.

And the angel, answering, said, I am Gabriel, whose place is before God; I have been sent to say these words to you and to give you this good news.


rate difficulty: And the men of Gibeah rose against me, and beset the house round about me by night; me they thought to have slain, and my concubine they forced, and she is dead.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye would say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou rooted up, and be thou planted in the sea; and it would obey you.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


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

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


simplify: Now his parents went to Jerusalem every year at the feast of the passover.

And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.


simplify: Let us walk becomingly, as in the day; not in revelling and drunkenness, not in chambering and wantonness, not in strife and jealousy.

With right behaviour as in the day; not in pleasure-making and drinking, not in bad company and unclean behaviour, not in fighting and envy.


simplify: The disciple is not above his master, nor the servant above his lord.

A scholar is not above his teacher, nor a servant above his master.


rate difficulty: And may you, while I am still living, O may you be kind to me, as the Lord is kind, and keep me from death!


simplify: Now when Mordecai knew all that was done, Mordecai rent his clothes, and put on sackcloth with ashes, and went out into the midst of the city, and cried with a loud and a bitter cry;

Now when Mordecai saw what was done, pulling off his robe, he put on haircloth, with dust on his head, and went out into the middle of the town, crying out with a loud and bitter cry.


simplify: Asshur is there and all her company: his graves are about him: all of them slain, fallen by the sword:

There is Asshur and all her army, round about her last resting-place: all of them put to death by the sword:


simplify: and all the house of Joseph, and his brethren, and his father’s house: only their little ones, and their flocks, and their herds, they left in the land of Goshen.

And all the family of Joseph, and his brothers and his father's people: only their little ones and their flocks and herds they did not take with them from the land of Goshen.


rate difficulty: The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.

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


rate difficulty: And whosoever toucheth those things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, Among them that are born of women there hath not arisen a greater than John the Baptist: yet he that is but little in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.

Truly I say to you, Among the sons of women there has not been a greater than John the Baptist: but he who is least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.


rate difficulty: be considering what things I say, for the Lord give to thee understanding in all things.

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


simplify: and if there may be no interpreter, let him be silent in an assembly, and to himself let him speak, and to God.

If there is no one able to interpret what is said, they should remain silent at the meeting of the church, and speak to themselves and to God.


simplify: And God helped him against the Philistines, and against the Arabians that dwelt in Gur–baal, and the Mehunims.

And God gave him help against the Philistines, and against the Arabians living in Gur-baal, and against the Meunim.


simplify: When they told it unto David, he sent to meet them, because the men were greatly ashamed: and the king said, Tarry at Jericho until your beards be grown, and then return.

When David had news of it, he sent men out with the purpose of meeting them on their way, for the men were greatly shamed: and the king said, Go to Jericho till your hair is long again, and then come back.


simplify: And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you: for the Lord is a God of judgment: blessed are all they that wait for him.

For this cause the Lord will be waiting, so that he may be kind to you; and he will be lifted up, so that he may have mercy on you; for the Lord is a God of righteousness: there is a blessing on all whose hope is in him.


simplify: he is not here, but was raised; remember how he spake to you, being yet in Galilee,

Remember how he spoke to you before he left Galilee —


simplify: The young men of Aven and of Pi-beseth shall fall by the sword; and these cities shall go into captivity.

The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.


rate difficulty: Who hast kept with thy servant David my father that thou promisedst him: thou spakest also with thy mouth, and hast fulfilled it with thine hand, as it is this day.

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


simplify: Then Bath-sheba bowed with her face to the earth, and did obeisance to the king, and said, Let my lord king David live for ever.

Then Bath-sheba went down on her face on the earth before the king giving him honour, and said, May my lord King David go on living for ever.


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

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


simplify: Then said he unto him, A certain man made a great supper, and bade many:

But Jesus said to him: “A man was once giving a great dinner. He invited many people,


rate difficulty: But when the crowd was put forth, he entered in, and took her by the hand; and the damsel arose.

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


rate difficulty: For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen?

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


simplify: There salute thee Epaphras, my fellowprisoner in Christ Jesus;

Epaphras, who is my fellow prisoner for Christ Jesus, sends you his greeting;


simplify: If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

If my land has made an outcry against me, or the ploughed earth has been in sorrow;


rate difficulty: And he said unto me, Son of man, cause thy belly to eat, and fill thy bowels with this roll that I give thee. Then did I eat it; and it was in my mouth as honey for sweetness.

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


simplify: And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.


simplify: And let ours also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.


rate difficulty: breach for breach, eye for eye, tooth for tooth: as he hath caused a blemish in a man, so shall it be done to him.


simplify: And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)

Maacah, the daughter of Absalom, was dearer to Rehoboam than all his wives and his servant-wives: (for he had eighteen wives and sixty servant-wives, and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)


rate difficulty: But if a man hate his neighbour, and lie in wait for him, and rise up against him, and smite him mortally that he die, and he flee into one of these cities,

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


simplify: And running under the lee of a small island called Cauda, we were able, with difficulty, to secure the boat:

And, sailing near the side of a small island named Cauda, we were able, though it was hard work, to make the ship's boat safe:


rate difficulty: And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee [as] my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, [but] their heart goeth after their dishonest gain.

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


rate difficulty: And he turned back, and looked on them, and cursed them in the name of Jehovah. And there came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and tore forty-two children of them.

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


rate difficulty: And he did that which was evil in the sight of the Lord, but not as the kings of Israel that were before him.

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


rate difficulty: If the thief be found breaking in, and be smitten so that he dieth, there shall be no bloodguiltiness for him.

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


simplify: And Jehoiada was the leader of the house of Aaron; and with him were three thousand and seven hundred,

And Jehoiada, chief of the family of Aaron, and with him three thousand, seven hundred men;


simplify: and men were scorched with great heat, and they did speak evil of the name of God, who hath authority over these plagues, and they did not reform--to give to Him glory.

and men were scorched by the intense heat. They blasphemed the name of God who controlled these curses, yet they did not repent and give him praise.


simplify: Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.


rate difficulty: any prayer, any supplication that is for any man, and for all Thy people Israel, when they know each his own plague, and his own pain, and he hath spread out his hands towards this house:

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


simplify: For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above <FI>our<Fi> power, so that we despaired even of life;

We want you, friends, to know that, in the troubles which befell us in Roman Asia, we were burdened altogether beyond our strength, so much so that we even despaired of life.


simplify: And he is arrayed in a garment sprinkled with blood: and his name is called The Word of God.

And he is clothed in a robe washed with blood: and his name is The Word of God.


rate difficulty: as ye know how we dealt with each one of you, as a father with his own children, exhorting you, and encouraging you, and testifying,

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


simplify: And they come to Jesus, and behold him that was possessed with demons sitting, clothed and in his right mind, even him that had the legion: and they were afraid.

And they came to Jesus, and saw the man in whom had been the evil spirits seated, clothed and with full use of his senses, and they were full of fear.


simplify: which is present to you, as also in all the world, and is bearing fruit, as also in you, from the day in which ye heard, and knew the grace of God in truth;

Bearing fruit and growing, as it does, through all the world, just as it did among you, from the very day that you heard of God’s loving kindness, and understood what that loving kindness really is.


simplify: Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven: for so persecuted they the prophets which were before you.

Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.


simplify: And thou shalt put pure frankincense upon each row, that it may be on the bread for a memorial, even an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

And on the lines of cakes put clean sweet-smelling spices, for a sign on the bread, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: And the court which is without the temple leave without, and measure it not; for it hath been given unto the nations: and the holy city shall they tread under foot forty and two months.

But do not take the measure of the space outside the house; because it has been given to the nations: and the holy town will be under their feet for forty-two months.


simplify: And he said unto the elders, Tarry ye here for us, until we come again unto you: and, behold, Aaron and Hur are with you: whosoever hath a cause, let him come near unto them.

And he said to the chiefs, Keep your places here till we come back to you: Aaron and Hur are with you; if anyone has any cause let him go to them.


simplify: But now having no more place in these parts, and having a great desire these many years to come unto you;

But now there are no further openings for me in these parts, and I have for several years been longing to come to you whenever I may be going to Spain.


simplify: and Peter remembered the saying of Jesus, he having said to him--`Before cock-crowing, thrice thou wilt deny me;' and having gone without, he did weep bitterly.

and Peter remembered the words which Jesus had said — ‘Before a cock has crowed, you will disown me three times’;and he went outside, and wept bitterly.


rate difficulty: Surely a spirit is in man, And the breath of the Mighty One Doth cause them to understand.

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simplify: And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father his child; and children shall rise up against parents, and cause them to be put to death.

And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.


rate difficulty: their flock and their herd, and their asses, and that which <FI>is<Fi> in the city, and that which <FI>is<Fi> in the field, have they taken;

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


rate difficulty: And Ner begot Kish; and Kish begot Saul; and Saul begot Jonathan, and Malchishua, and Abinadab, and Esh-baal.

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


simplify: Well; by their unbelief they were broken off, and thou standest by thy faith. Be not highminded, but fear:

Truly, because they had no faith they were broken off, and you have your place by reason of your faith. Do not be lifted up in pride, but have fear;


simplify: Now it came to pass, when the kingdom was established unto him, that he slew his servants that had killed the king his father.

Now when he became strong in the kingdom, he put to death those men who had taken the life of the king his father.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If any one shall sin unwittingly, in any of the things which Jehovah hath commanded not to be done, and shall do any one of them:

Say to the children of Israel: These are the offerings of anyone who does wrong through error, doing any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done:


rate difficulty: Take his garment when a stranger hath been surety, And for strangers pledge it.

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


simplify: Hebron therefore became the inheritance of Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite unto this day, because that he wholly followed the Lord God of Israel.

So Hebron became the heritage of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh the Kenizzite, to this day, because with all his heart he was true to the Lord, the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: All fowls that creep, going upon all four, shall be an abomination unto you.


simplify: What is it then, brethren? When ye come together, each one hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a revelation, hath a tongue, hath an interpretation. Let all things be done unto edifying.

What is it then, my brothers? when you come together everyone has a holy song, or a revelation, or a tongue, or is giving the sense of it. Let everything be done for the common good.


simplify: And when I saw him, I fell at his feet as dead. And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last:

And when I saw him, I went down on my face at his feet as one dead. And he put his right hand on me, saying, Have no fear; I am the first and the last and the Living one;


simplify: and he was teaching, saying to them, `Hath it not been written--My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

Then he began to teach. “Does not scripture say,”he asked, “‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all the nations’? But you have made it a den of robbers.’”


simplify: How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

How then may you put to shame the least of my master's servants? and you have put your hope in Egypt for war-carriages and horsemen:


rate difficulty: When, then, the lord of the vine-garden comes, what will he do to those workmen?

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


rate difficulty: In you there are men who say evil of others, causing death; in you they have taken the flesh with the blood for food; in your streets they have put evil designs into effect.


simplify: Jehovah grant you that ye may find rest, each of you in the house of her husband. Then she kissed them, and they lifted up their voice, and wept.

May the Lord give you rest in the houses of your husbands. Then she gave them a kiss; and they were weeping bitterly.


simplify: They shall cut down her forest, saith the Lord, though it cannot be searched; because they are more than the grasshoppers, and are innumerable.

They will be cutting down her woods, for they may not be searched out; because they are like locusts, more than may be numbered.


simplify: And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.

“I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will not enter the kingdom of heaven at all.


simplify: Yet he restored the money unto his mother; and his mother took two hundred shekels of silver, and gave them to the founder, who made thereof a graven image and a molten image: and they were in the house of Micah.

So he gave the silver back to his mother. Then his mother took two hundred shekels of silver and gave them to a metal-worker who made a pictured image and a metal image from them: and it was in the house of Micah.


simplify: As many as I love, I reprove and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

To all those who are dear to me, I give sharp words and punishment: then with all your heart have sorrow for your evil ways.


simplify: Then called he them in, and lodged them. And on the morrow Peter went away with them, and certain brethren from Joppa accompanied him.

So Peter invited them in and entertained them.   The next day he lost no time in setting out with them, accompanied by some of the Lord's followers from Jaffa;


simplify: Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;

But the Spirit distinctly says that in later times there will be some who will fall away from the faith, and devote their attention to misleading spirits, and to the teaching of demons,


rate difficulty: Now in the twenty-seventh year, in the first month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And as they were gazing into heaven, as he was going, behold, also two men stood by them in white clothing,

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


simplify: Therefore say, Thus saith the Lord God; I will even gather you from the people, and assemble you out of the countries where ye have been scattered, and I will give you the land of Israel.

Then say, This is what the Lord has said: I will get you together from the peoples, and make you come out of the countries where you have been sent in flight, and I will give you the land of Israel.


simplify: even he, whose coming is according to the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,


rate difficulty: He was a servant and worshipper of Baal, moving the Lord, the God of Israel, to wrath, as his father had done.

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


simplify: When Michaiah the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, had heard out of the book all the words of the Lord,

And Micaiah, the son of Gemariah, the son of Shaphan, after hearing all the words of the Lord from the book,


rate difficulty: And Iron, and Migdal–el, Horem, and Beth–anath, and Beth–shemesh; nineteen cities with their villages.

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


simplify: And four wagons and eight oxen he gave unto the sons of Merari, according unto their service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

And four carts and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari for their work, under the direction of Ithamar, the son of Aaron the priest.


simplify: And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see in that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

And Micaiah said, Truly, you will see on that day when you go into an inner room to keep yourself safe.


simplify: And the demons came out from the man, and entered into the swine: and the herd rushed down the steep into the lake, and were drowned.

And the evil spirits came out of the man and went into the pigs: and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the water and came to destruction.


rate difficulty: We have known that every one who hath been begotten of God doth not sin, but he who was begotten of God doth keep himself, and the evil one doth not touch him;

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


simplify: and the flesh-hooks, and the basins, and the cups, of pure gold; and for the golden bowls by weight for every bowl; and for the silver bowls by weight for every bowl;

Clear gold for the meat-hooks and the basins and the cups; for the gold basins, gold enough by weight for every basin; and silver by weight for every silver basin;


simplify: and one of the elders saith unto me, Weep not; behold, the Lion that is of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, hath overcome to open the book and the seven seals thereof.

And one of the rulers said to me, Do not be sad: see, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has overcome, and has power to undo the book and its seven stamps.


simplify: Then I told them of the hand of my God which was good upon me; as also the king’s words that he had spoken unto me. And they said, Let us rise up and build. So they strengthened their hands for this good work.

Then I gave them an account of how the hand of my God was on me, helping me; and of the king's words which he had said to me. And they said, Let us get to work on the building. So they made their hands strong for the good work.


simplify: and I saw, and lo, a white horse, and he who is sitting upon it is having a bow, and there was given to him a crown, and he went forth overcoming, and that he may overcome.

And in my vision I saw ‘a white horse.’ Its rider held a bow, and he was given a crown, and he went out conquering and to conquer.


simplify: and did send Timotheus--our brother, and a ministrant of God, and our fellow-workman in the good news of the Christ--to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith,

and sent Timothy, our dear friend and God’s minister of the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,


simplify: My net also will I spread upon him, and he shall be taken in my snare: and I will bring him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldeans; yet shall he not see it, though he shall die there.

And my net will be stretched out on him, and he will be taken in my cords: and I will take him to Babylon to the land of the Chaldaeans; but he will not see it, and there death will come to him.


simplify: So on the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and they were entered into the place of hearing with the chief captains and the principal men of the city, at the command of Festus Paul was brought in.

So on the day after, when Agrippa and Bernice in great glory had come into the public place of hearing, with the chief of the army and the chief men of the town, at the order of Festus, Paul was sent for.


rate difficulty: And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Moses therefore wrote this song the same day, and taught it the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And there came a writing to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, Because thou hast not walked in the ways of Jehoshaphat thy father, nor in the ways of Asa king of Judah,

And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,


simplify: and that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.

And that every tongue may give witness that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father.


simplify: I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

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


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

And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.


rate difficulty: and Joshua maketh for him knives of flint, and circumciseth the sons of Israel at the height of the foreskins.

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast seen a man wise in his own eyes, More hope of a fool than of him!

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


rate difficulty: And the swine, because he parteth the hoof, and is clovenfooted, but cheweth not the cud, he is unclean unto you.

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


rate difficulty: One by one he called up his master’s debtors. ‘How much do you owe my master?’ he asked of the first.

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


simplify: And the standard of the camp of the children of Dan, which was the rearward of all the camps, set forward according to their hosts: and over his host was Ahiezer the son of Ammishaddai.

And the flag of the children of Dan, whose tents were moved last of all, went forward with their armies: and at the head of his army was Ahiezer, the son of Ammishaddai.


rate difficulty: And the fifth messenger did sound, and I saw a star out of the heaven having fallen to the earth, and there was given to it the key of the pit of the abyss,

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


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

And they said to one another, Who has done this thing? And after searching with care, they said, Gideon, the son of Joash, has done this thing.


simplify: And he shall lead Zedekiah to Babylon, and there shall he be until I visit him, saith the Lord: though ye fight with the Chaldeans, ye shall not prosper.

And he will take Zedekiah away to Babylon, where he will be till I have pity on him, says the Lord: though you are fighting with the Chaldaeans, things will not go well for you?


rate difficulty: Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.

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


simplify: And Balak brought Balaam unto the top of Peor, that looketh toward Jeshimon.

So Balak took Balaam to the top of Peor, looking down over the waste land.


simplify: And she said, `Yes, sir, for even the little dogs do eat of the crumbs that are falling from their lords' table;'

“Yes, Master,” she said, “for even dogs do feed on the scraps that fall from their owners’ table.”


simplify: in pureness, in knowledge, in longsuffering, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love unfeigned,

In a clean heart, in knowledge, in long waiting, in being kind, in the Holy Spirit, in true love,


rate difficulty: For I am more brutish than any one, And have not the understanding of a man.


rate difficulty: he on the house-top--let him not come down to take up any thing out of his house;


rate difficulty: But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.

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


rate difficulty: So they came together to Mizpah, and got water, draining it out before the Lord, and they took no food that day, and they said, We have done evil against the Lord. And Samuel was judge of the children of Israel in Mizpah.

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


rate difficulty: And the four hundred apples for the network, two lines of apples for the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the pillars.

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


simplify: Rooted and built up in him, and stablished in the faith, as ye have been taught, abounding therein with thanksgiving.

Rooted and based together in him, strong in the faith which the teaching gave you, giving praise to God at all times.


rate difficulty: A voice of one crying, Make ready in the waste land the way of the Lord, make level in the lowland a highway for our God.

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


simplify: Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart: for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hosts.

But to me your word is a joy, making my heart glad; for I am named by your name, O Lord God of armies.


rate difficulty: and ye have come up after him, and he hath come in and hath sat on my throne, and he doth reign in my stead, and him I have appointed to be leader over Israel, and over Judah.'

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


simplify: And the man that committeth adultery with another man’s wife, even he that committeth adultery with his neighbor’s wife, the adulterer and the adulteress shall surely be put to death.

And if a man has sex relations with another man's wife, even the wife of his neighbour, he and she are certainly to be put to death.


simplify: Confess therefore your sins one to another, and pray one for another, that ye may be healed. The supplication of a righteous man availeth much in its working.

So then, make a statement of your sins to one another, and say prayers for one another so that you may be made well. The prayer of a good man is full of power in its working.


rate difficulty: Gird up now thy loins like a man; for I will demand of thee, and answer thou me.

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


simplify: And I will for this afflict the seed of David, but not for ever.

(So that I may send trouble for this on the seed of David, but not for ever.)


rate difficulty: And this again is a great evil, that in all points as he came so will he go; and what profit has he in working for the wind?


simplify: And the king said unto me (the queen also sitting by him), For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time.

And the king said to me (the queen being seated by his side), How long will your journey take, and when will you come back? So the king was pleased to send me, and I gave him a fixed time.


simplify: And there appeared in the cherubims the form of a man’s hand under their wings.

And I saw the form of a man's hands among the winged ones under their wings.


rate difficulty: And their words pleased Hamor, and Shechem Hamor’s son.

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


simplify: If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.


simplify: Brethren and fathers, hear ye the defence which I now make unto you.

My brothers and fathers, give ear to the story of my life which I now put before you.


simplify: At that time the Lord said unto me, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first, and come up unto me into the mount, and make thee an ark of wood.

At that time the Lord said to me, Make two other stones, cut like the first two, and come up to me on the mountain, and make an ark of wood.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt have no other gods before me.

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


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

Son of man, say to the ruler of Tyre, This is what the Lord has said: Because your heart has been lifted up, and you have said, I am a god, I am seated on the seat of God in the heart of the seas; but you are man and not God, though you have made your heart as the heart of God:


simplify: And Joab blew the trumpet, and the people returned from pursuing after Israel: for Joab held back the people.

And Joab had the horn sounded, and the people came back from going after Israel, for Joab kept them back.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.

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


rate difficulty: look out the best and worthiest of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for your master's house.

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


simplify: Doth God pervert judgment? or doth the Almighty pervert justice?

Does God give wrong decisions? or is the Ruler of all not upright in his judging?


simplify: And she said unto him, My father, thou hast opened thy mouth unto Jehovah; do unto me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth, forasmuch as Jehovah hath taken vengeance for thee on thine enemies, even on the children of Ammon.

And she said to him, My father, you have made an oath to the Lord; do then to me whatever you have said; for the Lord has sent a full reward on your haters, on the children of Ammon.


simplify: Better is the poor that walketh in his uprightness, than he that is perverse in his ways, though he be rich.

Better is the poor man whose ways are upright, than the man of wealth whose ways are not straight.


simplify: So and more also do God unto the enemies of David, if I leave of all that pertain to him by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.

May God's punishment be on David, if when morning comes there is so much as one male of his people still living.


simplify: To the end that none of all the trees by the waters exalt themselves for their height, neither shoot up their top among the thick boughs, neither their trees stand up in their height, all that drink water: for they are all delivered unto death, to the nether parts of the earth, in the midst of the children of men, with them that go down to the pit.

In order that no trees by the waters may be lifted up in their growth, putting their tops among the clouds; and that no trees which are watered may take their place on high: for they are all given up to death, to the lowest parts of the earth among the children of men, with those who go down to the underworld.


rate difficulty: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate: and I say unto you, Ye shall not see me, until ye shall say, Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, and increasest thine indignation upon me; changes and war are against me.

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


rate difficulty: And I will give the key of the family of David into his care; and what he keeps open will be shut by no one, and what he keeps shut no one will make open.


simplify: Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.

Of these were the divisions of the door-keepers, men of authority, having responsible positions like their brothers to be servants in the house of the Lord.


simplify: And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

And on your account I will keep back the locusts from wasting the fruits of your land; and the fruit of your vine will not be dropped on the field before its time, says the Lord of armies


simplify: He frustrateth the devices of the crafty, So that their hands cannot perform their enterprise.

Who makes the designs of the wise go wrong, so that they are unable to give effect to their purposes.


simplify: And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

I will have the towns of your land cut off and all your strong places pulled down:


simplify: And he caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom: also he observed times, and used enchantments, and used witchcraft, and dealt with a familiar spirit, and with wizards: he wrought much evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

More than this, he made his children go through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom; and he made use of secret arts, and signs for reading the future, and unnatural powers, and gave positions to those who had control of spirits and to wonder-workers: he did much evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath.


rate difficulty: What will the owner of the vineyard do? He will come and put the tenants to death, and he will let the vineyard to others.


simplify: From thence they removed, and pitched on the other side of Arnon, which is in the wilderness that cometh out of the coasts of the Amorites: for Arnon is the border of Moab, between Moab and the Amorites.

From there they went on and put up their tents on the other side of the Arnon, which is on the waste land at the edge of the land of the Amorites; for the Arnon is the line of division between Moab and the Amorites:


rate difficulty: And that if there was cause for pride, you would go after me like a lion; and again put out your wonders against me:


simplify: and the dragon was angry against the woman, and went away to make war with the rest of her seed, those keeping the commands of God, and having the testimony of Jesus Christ.

The Dragon was enraged at the woman, and went to fight with the rest of her offspring — those who lay to heart the commands of God and bear their testimony to Jesus; and he took his stand on the sea-shore.


simplify: And let the brother who is low rejoice in his exaltation,

Let a follower in humble circumstances be proud of their exalted position, but a rich follower of their humiliation;


rate difficulty: whom the heaven must receive until the times of restoration of all things, whereof God spake by the mouth of his holy prophets that have been from of old.

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


simplify: And the chapiters upon the two pillars had pomegranates also above, over against the belly which was by the network: and the pomegranates were two hundred in rows round about upon the other chapiter.

And there were crowns on the two pillars near the round part by the network, and there were two hundred apples in lines round every crown.


simplify: The ear that hearkeneth to the reproof of life Shall abide among the wise.

The man whose ear is open to the teaching of life will have his place among the wise.


rate difficulty: Then the king sent an answer to Rehum, the chief ruler, and Shimshai the scribe, and their friends living in Samaria, and to the rest of those across the river, saying, Peace to you:

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


rate difficulty: And all that Samuel the seer, and Saul the son of Kish, and Abner the son of Ner, and Joab the son of Zeruiah, had dedicated, whosoever had dedicated anything, it was under the hand of Shelomoth, and of his brethren.

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


simplify: Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.

Keep in mind, then, the teaching which was given to you, and be ruled by it and have a change of heart. If then you do not keep watch, I will come like a thief, and you will have no knowledge of the hour when I will come on you.


simplify: But we are sure that the judgment of God is according to truth against them which commit such things.

And we know that God’s judgment falls unerringly on those who do them.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not be afraid of them; for Jehovah thyGod is in thy midst, aGod great and terrible.

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


rate difficulty: But, if we judged ourselves rightly, we should not be judged.

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


rate difficulty: In the twenty-third year of Nebuchadrezzar, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away as prisoners seven hundred and forty-five of the Jews: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.

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


rate difficulty: And I have seen folly in the prophets of Samaria: they prophesied by Baal, and caused my people Israel to err.


simplify: Having confidence in thy obedience I wrote unto thee, knowing that thou wilt also do more than I say.

Being certain that you will do my desire, I am writing to you, in the knowledge that you will do even more than I say.


rate difficulty: and the border turned westward to Aznoth-tabor, and went out from thence to Hukkok; and it reached to Zebulun on the south, and reached to Asher on the west, and to Judah at the Jordan toward the sunrising.

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


simplify: and the girdle of fine twined linen, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, the work of the embroiderer; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And a linen band worked with a design of blue and purple and red, as the Lord had said to Moses.


simplify: The Lord render to every man his righteousness and his faithfulness: for the Lord delivered thee into my hand to day, but I would not stretch forth mine hand against the Lord’s anointed.

And the Lord will give to every man the reward of his righteousness and his faith: because the Lord gave you into my hands today, and I would not put out my hand against the man who has been marked with the holy oil.


rate difficulty: So they established a decree to make proclamation throughout all Israel, from Beer–sheba even to Dan, that they should come to keep the passover unto the Lord God of Israel at Jerusalem: for they had not done it of a long time in such sort as it was written.

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


simplify: Yea, my heart will rejoice, When thy lips speak right things.

And my thoughts in me will be full of joy when your lips say right things.


rate difficulty: And the man, the master of the house, went out unto them, and said unto them, Nay, my brethren, I pray you, do not so wickedly; seeing that this man is come into my house, do not this folly.

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


simplify: Then said the Lord unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs, very good; and the evil, very evil, that cannot be eaten, they are so evil.

Then the Lord said to me, What do you see, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs; the good figs are very good, and the bad very bad, and of no use for food, they are so bad.


rate difficulty: `And the one ram thou dost take, and Aaron and his sons have laid their hands on the head of the ram,

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


rate difficulty: The plans of the heart belong to man; But the answer of the tongue is from Jehovah.

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


simplify: Only the cattle and the spoil of that city Israel took for a prey unto themselves, according unto the word of the Lord which he commanded Joshua.

But the cattle and the goods from that town, Israel took for themselves, as the Lord had given orders to Joshua.


rate difficulty: Impart to a wise [man], and he will become yet wiser; teach a righteous [man], and he will increase learning.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Go and buy a potter's earthen flagon, and [take] of the elders of the people, and of the elders of the priests;

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


rate difficulty: and I will dwell among the children of Israel, and will not forsake my people Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah doth appear for them, And gone forth as lightning hath His arrow, And the Lord Jehovah with a trumpet bloweth, And He hath gone with whirlwinds of the south.

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


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

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


rate difficulty: And Saul sent messengers unto David’s house, to watch him, and to slay him in the morning: and Michal, David’s wife, told him, saying, If thou save not thy life to-night, to-morrow thou wilt be slain.

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


simplify: and that he might make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy, which he afore prepared unto glory,

And to make clear the wealth of his glory to vessels of mercy, which he had before made ready for glory,


simplify: `And again he sent unto them another servant, and at that one having cast stones, they wounded <FI>him<Fi> in the head, and sent away--dishonoured.

A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.


rate difficulty: Even so reckon ye also yourselves to be dead unto sin, but alive unto God in Christ Jesus.

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


simplify: Stand in the gate of the Lord’s house, and proclaim there this word, and say, Hear the word of the Lord, all ye of Judah, that enter in at these gates to worship the Lord.

Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.


simplify: and they were being beyond measure astonished, saying, `Well hath he done all things; both the deaf he doth make to hear, and the dumb to speak.'

and a profound impression was made on the people. “He has done everything well!” they exclaimed. “He makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak!”


rate difficulty: thou dost believe, king Agrippa, the prophets? I have known that thou dost believe!'

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


rate difficulty: And he carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valour, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and smiths: none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.

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


simplify: And when they came again to him, (for he tarried at Jericho,) he said unto them, Did I not say unto you, Go not?

And they came back to him, while he was still at Jericho; and he said to them, Did I not say to you, Go not?


simplify: And after him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.

And after him came Shamgar, the son of Anath, who put to death six hundred Philistines with an ox-stick; and he was another saviour of Israel.


simplify: And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.

And Ahab made an image of Asherah and did more than all the kings of Israel before him to make the Lord, the God of Israel, angry.


rate difficulty: but ye will receive power, the Holy Spirit having come upon you, and ye shall be my witnesses both in Jerusalem, and in all Judaea and Samaria, and to the end of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh; for I have hardened his heart, and the heart of his bondmen, that I might do these my signs in their midst,

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


simplify: And Manoah said unto the angel of Jehovah, What is thy name, that, when thy words come to pass, we may do thee honor?

Then Manoah said to the angel of the Lord, What is your name, so that when your words come true we may give you honour?


simplify: But the men marvelled, saying, What manner of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!

The men were amazed, and exclaimed: “What kind of man is this, that even the winds and the sea obey him!”


rate difficulty: And the captain of the guard took Jeremiah, and said unto him, Jehovah thy God pronounced this evil upon this place;

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


simplify: And Peter said unto her, `How was it agreed by you, to tempt the Spirit of the Lord? lo, the feet of those who did bury thy husband <FI>are<Fi> at the door, and they shall carry thee forth;'

Then Peter said: “How did you come to agree to provoke the Spirit of the Lord? Listen! The footsteps of those who have buried your husband are at the door; and they will carry you out too.”


simplify: For there is one God, one mediator also between God and men, himself man, Christ Jesus,

For there is one God and one peacemaker between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,


simplify: And rams’ skins dyed red, and badgers’ skins, and shittim wood,

And sheepskins coloured red, and leather, and hard wood;


rate difficulty: And of Joseph he said: --Blessed of Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> his land, By precious things of the heavens, By dew, and by the deep crouching beneath,

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


simplify: There is no straw given unto thy servants, and they say to us, Make brick: and, behold, thy servants are beaten; but the fault is in thine own people.

They give us no dry stems and they say to us, Make bricks: and they give your servants blows; but it is your people who are in the wrong.


simplify: Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

Proclaim the message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance.


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> the numbers of the head, of the armed men of the host; they have come in unto David to Hebron to turn round the kingdom of Saul unto him, according to the mouth of Jehovah.

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


simplify: Render to her as also she did render to you, and double to her doubles according to her works; in the cup that she did mingle mingle to her double.

Pay her back the treatment with which she has treated you; yes, repay twice over what her actions deserve; in the cup which she mixed for you, mix for her as much again;


simplify: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which have been done in you, they had a great while ago repented, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For, if the Miracles which have been done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have sat in sackcloth and ashes and repented long ago.


rate difficulty: Wherefore the wrath of Jehovah was upon Judah and Jerusalem, and he hath delivered them to be tossed to and fro, to be an astonishment, and a hissing, as ye see with your eyes.

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


simplify: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

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.


rate difficulty: Is not this the carpenter, the son of Mary, the brother of James, and Joses, and of Juda, and Simon? and are not his sisters here with us? And they were offended at him.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; This is Jerusalem: I have set it in the midst of the nations and countries that are round about her.

This is what the Lord has said: This is Jerusalem: I have put her among the nations, and countries are round her on every side;


simplify: And they came to him, and awoke him, saying, Save, Lord; we perish.

And they came to him, and, awaking him, said, Help, Lord; destruction is near.


simplify: So his father went down unto the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.

Then Samson went down to the woman, and made a feast there, as was the way among young men.


rate difficulty: But thou shalt have a perfect and just weight, a perfect and just measure shalt thou have: that thy days may be lengthened in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

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


simplify: And Ben–hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel; and they smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel–maim, and all the store cities of Naphtali.

And Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-maim, and all the store-towns of Naphtali.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: So David took the spear and the cruse of water from Saul’s head; and they gat them away: and no man saw it, nor knew it, neither did any awake; for they were all asleep, because a deep sleep from Jehovah was fallen upon them.

So David took the spear and the vessel of water from Saul's head; and they got away without any man seeing them, or being conscious of their coming, or awaking; for they were all sleeping because a deep sleep from the Lord had come on them.


simplify: Behold, I will do a new thing; now it shall spring forth; shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, and rivers in the desert.

See, I am doing a new thing; now it is starting; will you not take note of it? I will even make a way in the waste land, and rivers in the dry country.


simplify: Neither shall the priests the Levites want a man before me to offer burnt offerings, and to kindle meat offerings, and to do sacrifice continually.

And the priests and the Levites will never be without a man to come before me, offering burned offerings and perfumes and meal offerings and offerings of beasts at all times.


rate difficulty: `And when he who hath the issue spitteth on him who is clean, then he hath washed his garments, and hath bathed with water, and been unclean till the evening.

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


simplify: Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day.

And, further, I have taken Ruth, the Moabitess, who was the wife of Mahlon, to be my wife, to keep the name of the dead man living in his heritage, so that his name may not be cut off from among his countrymen, and from the memory of his town: you are witnesses this day.


simplify: This is he, of whom it is written, Behold, I send my messenger before thy face, which shall prepare thy way before thee.

This is he of whom it has been said, See, I send my servant before your face, who will make ready your way before you.


rate difficulty: And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

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


rate difficulty: And the entry of the side-chambers was toward what was left free, one entry toward the north, and one entry toward the south; and the width of the space left free was five cubits round about.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the Chaldeans, and into the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, and he shall take it:

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


simplify: And there set forth from thence of the family of the Danites, out of Zorah and out of Eshtaol, six hundred men girt with weapons of war.

So six hundred men of the Danites from Zorah and Eshtaol went out armed with instruments of war.


simplify: And, behold, seven ears, thin and blasted with the east wind, sprung up after them.

And after them came up seven other heads, thin and wasted by the east wind.


rate difficulty: And Joash did that which was right in the sight of the Lord all the days of Jehoiada the priest.

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


simplify: But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

But no one has said, Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night;


simplify: And Saul smote the Amalekites from Havilah until thou comest to Shur, that is over against Egypt.

And Saul made an attack on the Amalekites from Havilah on the road to Shur, which is before Egypt.


simplify: The pillars of heaven tremble  And are astonished at his rebuke.

The pillars of heaven are shaking, and are overcome by his sharp words.


rate difficulty: But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of some serious sexual sin, leads to her committing adultery; while anyone who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery.

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


simplify: in the word of truth, in the power of God, through the armour of the righteousness, on the right and on the left,

by the message of truth, and by the power of God; by the weapons of righteousness in the right hand and in the left;


simplify: Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am the Lord your God.

And on days of joy and on your regular feasts and on the first day of every month, let the horns be sounded over your burned offerings and your peace-offerings; and they will put the Lord in mind of you: I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: the son of a woman of the daughters of Dan; and his father was a man of Tyre, skilful to work in gold, and in silver, in brass, in iron, in stone, and in timber, in purple, in blue, and in fine linen, and in crimson, also to grave any manner of graving, and to devise any device; that there may be a place appointed unto him with thy skilful men, and with the skilful men of my lord David thy father.

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


rate difficulty: And [with them shall be] the tribe of Gad; and the prince of the sons of Gad shall be Eliasaph the son of Reuel;


rate difficulty: And not with you only do I make this agreement and this oath;


simplify: Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

Hypocrites! You know how to judge of the earth and the sky; how is it, then, that you cannot judge of this time?


rate difficulty: And the Satan went out from before the Lord, and sent on Job an evil disease covering his skin from his feet to the top of his head.

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


simplify: They saw not one another, neither rose any from his place for three days: but all the children of Israel had light in their dwellings.

They were not able to see one another, and no one got up from his place for three days: but where the children of Israel were living it was light.


simplify: And Poratha, and Adalia, and Aridatha,


rate difficulty: Joshua therefore came unto them suddenly, and went up from Gilgal all night.

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


simplify: And say, Thus saith the king, Put this fellow in the prison, and feed him with bread of affliction and with water of affliction, until I come in peace.

And say, It is the king's order that this man is to be put in prison and given prison food till I come again in peace.


simplify: And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the king.

And the two divisions of you, who go out on the Sabbath and keep the watch of the house of the Lord,


simplify: This is the land that yet remaineth: all the borders of the Philistines, and all Geshuri,

This is the land which is still to be taken: all the country of the Philistines, and all the Geshurites;


rate difficulty: And Isaac said, Come near so that I may put my hand on you, my son, and see if you are truly my son Esau or not.

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


rate difficulty: `lo, I do come as a thief; happy <FI>is<Fi> he who is watching, and keeping his garments, that he may not walk naked, and they may see his unseemliness,' --

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


simplify: and the Lord said, `If ye had faith as a grain of mustard, ye would have said to this sycamine, Be uprooted, and be planted in the sea, and it would have obeyed you.

but the Master said: “If your faith were only like a mustard seed, you could say to this mulberry tree ‘Be uprooted and planted in the sea,’ and it would obey you.


simplify: Then the men of the city said unto Joash, Bring out thy son, that he may die: because he hath cast down the altar of Baal, and because he hath cut down the grove that was by it.

Then the men of the town said to Joash, Make your son come out to be put to death, for pulling down the altar of Baal and cutting down the holy tree which was by it.


rate difficulty: And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.

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


simplify: Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.


rate difficulty: But to the married I give orders, though not I but the Lord, that the wife may not go away from her husband

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


rate difficulty: and an uncircumcised one, a male, the flesh of whose foreskin is not circumcised, even that person hath been cut off from his people; My covenant he hath broken.'

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


rate difficulty: Hadar, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

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


simplify: And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations:

And God said, This is the sign of the agreement which I make between me and you and every living thing with you, for all future generations:


simplify: with all his reign and his might, and the times that went over him, and over Israel, and over all the kingdoms of the countries.

Together with all his rule and his power, and the events which took place in his time, in Israel and in all the kingdoms of other lands.


simplify: and I heard the messenger of the waters, saying, `righteous, O Lord, art Thou, who art, and who wast, and who shalt be, because these things Thou didst judge,

And I heard the angel of the Waters saying — ‘Righteous are you, you who is and who is, the Holy One, in inflicting this judgment;


simplify: As for me, this is my covenant with them, saith the Lord; My spirit that is upon thee, and my words which I have put in thy mouth, shall not depart out of thy mouth, nor out of the mouth of thy seed, nor out of the mouth of thy seed’s seed, saith the Lord, from henceforth and for ever.

And as for me, this is my agreement with them, says the Lord: my spirit which is on you, and my words which I have put in your mouth, will not go away from your mouth, or from the mouth of your seed, or from the mouth of your seed's seed, says the Lord, from now and for ever.


simplify: And Ittai answered the king, and said, As the Lord liveth, and as my lord the king liveth, surely in what place my lord the king shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy servant be.

And Ittai the Gittite in answer said, By the living Lord, and by the life of my lord the king, in whatever place my lord the king may be, for life or death, there will your servant be.


simplify: But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

But see that you are on your guard! I have told you all this beforehand.


simplify: And he had many works in the cities of Judah; and men of war, mighty men of valor, in Jerusalem.

He had much property in the towns of Judah; he had forces of armed men, great and strong, in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And Joshua saith unto the sons of Israel, `Come nigh hither, and hear the words of Jehovah your God;

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah was angry with me on your account, and swore that I should not go over the Jordan, and that I should not enter in to that good land which Jehovah thyGod giveth thee [for] an inheritance;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: I have therefore whereof I may glory through Jesus Christ in those things which pertain to God.

So I have pride in Christ Jesus in the things which are God's.


simplify: And his parents went every year to Jerusalem at the feast of the passover.

And every year his father and mother went to Jerusalem at the feast of the Passover.


rate difficulty: And I will rebuke the devourer for your sakes, and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground; neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field, saith the Lord of hosts.

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


simplify: that Jehovah appeared to Solomon the second time, as he had appeared unto him at Gibeon.

The Lord came to him again in a vision, as he had done at Gibeon;


simplify: For every one that asketh receiveth; and he that seeketh findeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.

Because to everyone who makes a request, it will be given; and he who is searching will get his desire, and to him who gives the sign, the door will be open.


rate difficulty: Let us make a little chamber, I pray thee, on the wall; and let us set for him there a bed, and a table, and a stool, and a candlestick: and it shall be, when he cometh to us, that he shall turn in thither.

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


rate difficulty: And if ye say, What shall we eat in the seventh year? behold, we may not sow, nor gather in our produce;

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


simplify: And thou shalt take the other ram; and Aaron and his sons shall put their hands upon the head of the ram.

Then take the other sheep; and after Aaron and his sons have put their hands on its head,


rate difficulty: Thus shall ye speak to Hezekiah king of Judah, saying, Let not thy God in whom thou trustest deceive thee, saying, Jerusalem shall not be given into the hand of the king of Assyria.

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


simplify: And the time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.

And the time Solomon was king in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years.


simplify: And they were offended in him. But Jesus said unto them, A prophet is not without honour, save in his own country, and in his own house.

These things proved a hindrance to their believing in him. But Jesus said: “A prophet is not without honor, except in his own country and in his own house.”


simplify: for ye did hear of my behaviour once in Judaism, that exceedingly I was persecuting the assembly of God, and wasting it,

You heard, no doubt, of my conduct when I was devoted to Judaism — how I persecuted the church of God to an extent beyond belief, and made havoc of it,


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, besides children.

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


simplify: And I will make Rabbah a stable for camels, and the children of Ammon a couching-place for flocks: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

And I will make Rabbah a place for housing camels, and the children of Ammon a resting-place for flocks: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying,

And with these words he gave them teaching, saying,


simplify: but being in Rome, very diligently he sought me, and found;

On the contrary, when he arrived in Rome, he sought eagerly for me until he found me.


rate difficulty: And after the death of Gideon, the children of Israel again went after the gods of Canaan and were false to the Lord, and made Baal-berith their god.


simplify: Now concerning Moses the man of God, his sons were named of the tribe of Levi.

And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi.


rate difficulty: Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

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


rate difficulty: For [it is] precept upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, there a little. ...


simplify: and he said, Naked came I out of my mother’s womb, and naked shall I return thither: Jehovah gave, and Jehovah hath taken away; blessed be the name of Jehovah.

With nothing I came out of my mother's body, and with nothing I will go back there; the Lord gave and the Lord has taken away; let the Lord's name be praised.


simplify: For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.

For it is made holy by the word of God and by prayer.


rate difficulty: That thy trust may be in the Lord, I have made known to thee this day, even to thee.

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


simplify: `Men of Nineveh shall stand up in the judgment with this generation, and shall condemn it, because they reformed at the proclamation of Jonah; and lo, greater than Jonah here!

At the judgment the men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation, and will condemn it, because they repented at Jonah’s proclamation; and here is more than a Jonah!


rate difficulty: and Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.

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


simplify: and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath that were born in the land slew, because they came down to take away their cattle.

And Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer and Elead, whom the men of Gath, who had been living in the land from their birth, put to death, because they came down to take away their cattle.


rate difficulty: Also of the Levites; Jozabad, and Shimei, and Kelaiah, (the same is Kelita,) Pethahiah, Judah, and Eliezer.

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


simplify: And when forty years were expired, there appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sina an angel of the Lord in a flame of fire in a bush.

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.


rate difficulty: Worthy art thou, our Lord and our God, to receive the glory and the honor and the power: for thou didst create all things, and because of thy will they were, and were created.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: The chief was Ahiezer, then Joash, the sons of Shemaah the Gibeathite; and Jeziel, and Pelet, the sons of Azmaveth; and Berachah, and Jehu the Antothite,

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


simplify: Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He made me not? or shall the thing framed say of him that framed it, He had no understanding?

You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?


simplify: And he built altars for all the host of heaven in the two courts of the house of Jehovah.

And he put up altars for all the stars of heaven in the two outer squares of the house of the Lord.


simplify: Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment: thou shalt not respect the person of the poor, nor honour the person of the mighty: but in righteousness shalt thou judge thy neighbour.

Do no wrong in your judging: do not give thought to the position of the poor, or honour to the position of the great; but be a judge to your neighbour in righteousness.


rate difficulty: But you, son of man, give ear to what I say to you, and do not be uncontrolled like that uncontrolled people: let your mouth be open and take what I give you.


rate difficulty: And Hadad came to his end. Now the chiefs of Edom were: the chief of Timna, the chief of Aliah, the chief of Jetheth,

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


rate difficulty: This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Issachar by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.

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


rate difficulty: So the children of Benjamin saw that they were smitten: for the men of Israel gave place to the Benjamites, because they trusted unto the liers in wait which they had set beside Gibeah.

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


simplify: And I will pour out mine indignation upon thee, I will blow against thee in the fire of my wrath, and deliver thee into the hand of brutish men, and skilful to destroy.

And I will let loose my burning passion on you, breathing out on you the fire of my wrath: and I will give you up into the hands of men like beasts, trained to destruction.


simplify: Gilead is a city of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood.

Gilead is a town of evil-doers, marked with blood.


rate difficulty: Straitened are the steps of his strength, And cast him down doth his own counsel.

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


simplify: And they stripped him, and put on him a scarlet robe.

And they took off his clothing, and put on him a red robe.


simplify: And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

And Joshua overcame Amalek and his people with the sword.


simplify: And say unto them, Thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will put the seat of his kingdom on these stones which have been put in a safe place here by you; and his tent will be stretched over them.


rate difficulty: Heleb the son of Baanah, a Netophathite, Ittai the son of Ribai out of Gibeah of the children of Benjamin,

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


simplify: It has happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog turning to his own vomit again, and the sow that had washed to wallowing in the mire.

They are an example of that true saying, The dog has gone back to the food it had put out, and the pig which had been washed to its rolling in the dirty earth.


simplify: Thus Joash the king remembered not the kindness which Jehoiada his father had done to him, but slew his son. And when he died, he said, Jehovah look upon it, and require it.

So King Joash did not keep in mind how good Jehoiada his father had been to him, but put his son to death. And in the hour of his death he said, May the Lord see it and take payment!


simplify: And the men of Israel were gathered together out of Naphtali, and out of Asher, and out of all Manasseh, and pursued after Midian.

And the men of Israel came together from Naphtali and from Asher and all Manasseh, and went after Midian.


simplify: Though he spare it, and forsake it not; but keep it still within his mouth:

Though he takes care of it, and does not let it go, but keeps it still in his mouth;


simplify: Hold your peace, let me alone, that I may speak, and let come on me what will.

Keep quiet, and let me say what is in my mind, whatever may come to me.