rate difficulty: Hath walked in my statutes, and hath kept my judgments, to deal truly; he is just, he shall surely live, saith the Lord God.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham came to his death, an old man, full of years; and he was put to rest with his people.

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


simplify: For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.


simplify: and immediately, one of them having run, and having taken a spunge, having filled <FI>it<Fi> with vinegar, and having put <FI>it<Fi> on a reed, was giving him to drink,

One of them immediately ran and took a sponge, and, filling it with common wine, put it on the end of a rod, and offered it to him to drink.


simplify: The rest said, Let be, let us see whether Elias will come to save him.

And the rest said, Let him be; let us see if Elijah will come to his help.


simplify: And ye became imitators of us, and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction, with joy of the Holy Spirit;

And you took us and the Lord as your example, after the word had come to you in much trouble, with joy in the Holy Spirit;


simplify: Epaphras, my fellow-prisoner in Christ Jesus, saluteth thee;

Epaphras, my brother-prisoner in Christ Jesus, sends you his love;


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Jehoshaphat, the first and the last, lo, they are written among the matters of Jehu son of Hanani, who hath been mentioned on the book of the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: and Azariah begot Seraiah, and Seraiah begot Jehozadak,

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


rate difficulty: knowing this first, that in the last days mockers shall come with mockery, walking after their own lusts,

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


rate difficulty: And the frogs will be gone from you and from your houses and from your servants and from your people and will be only in the Nile.

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


rate difficulty: And I planted thee a choice vine, wholly a true seed, And how hast thou been turned to Me, To the degenerate shoots of a strange vine?

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


simplify: because true and righteous <FI>are<Fi> His judgments, because He did judge the great whore who did corrupt the earth in her whoredom, and He did avenge the blood of His servants at her hand;'

for true and righteous are his judgments. For he has passed judgment on the Great Harlot who was corrupting the earth by her licentiousness, and he has taken vengeance on her for the blood of his servants.’


simplify: One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.

One is so near to the other that no air may come between them.


simplify: The nakedness of thy father’s wife’s daughter, begotten of thy father, she is thy sister, thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

Or your father's wife's daughter, the child of your father, for she is your sister.


rate difficulty: Your builders are coming quickly; your haters and those who made you waste will go out of you.

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


simplify: Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less shall it be meet yet for any work, when the fire hath devoured it, and it is burned?

Truly, before it was cut down, it was not used for any purpose: how much less, when the fire has made a meal of it and it is burned, will it be made into anything?


simplify: And as they led him away, having taken hold on Simon, a certain Cyrenian, coming from the field, they put on him the cross, to bear <FI>it<Fi> behind Jesus.

And, as they were leading Jesus away, they laid hold of Simon from Cyrene, who was on his way in from the country, and they put the cross on his shoulders, for him to carry it behind Jesus.


simplify: Shall wood be taken thereof to do any work? or will men take a pin of it to hang any vessel thereon?

Will its wood be used for any work? do men make of it a pin for hanging any vessel on?


rate difficulty: Seek Jehovah, all ye humble of the land, Who His judgment have done, Seek ye righteousness, seek humility, It may be ye are hidden in a day of the anger of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And they turned and went up by the way to Bashan; and Og the king of Bashan went out against them, he and all his people, for battle to Edrei.

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


rate difficulty: After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.


simplify: Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

Have no fear, for I am with you; do not be looking about in trouble, for I am your God; I will give you strength, yes, I will be your helper; yes, my true right hand will be your support.


simplify: also the breadth of the face of the house, and of the separate place toward the east, a hundred cubits.

And the east front of the house and of the separate place was a hundred cubits wide.


simplify: And it came to pass after the seven days, that the waters of the flood were upon the earth.

And after the seven days, the waters came over all the earth.


rate difficulty: And he shall take of the congregation of the children of Israel two kids of the goats for a sin offering, and one ram for a burnt offering.

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


simplify: And they bring the colt unto Jesus, and cast on him their garments; and he sat upon him.

And they took the young ass to Jesus, and put their clothing on him, and he got on his back.


rate difficulty: Who is able to overcome the world but the man who has faith that Jesus is the Son of God?


rate difficulty: And the Philistines overtook Saul and his sons; and they put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

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


rate difficulty: And the vessel of earth, that he toucheth which hath the issue, shall be broken: and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

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


simplify: And he said, All these things have I observed from my youth up.

And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.


rate difficulty: Are not two sparrows sold for a farthing? and one of them shall not fall to the ground without your Father;


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

Go up to Hilkiah, the chief priest, and let him give out the money which is taken into the house of the Lord, which the keepers of the door have got together from the people;


simplify: The burden of Tyre. Howl, ye ships of Tarshish; for it is laid waste, so that there is no house, no entering in: from the land of Kittim it is revealed to them.

The word about Tyre. Let a cry of sorrow go up, O ships of Tarshish, because your strong place is made waste; on the way back from the land of Kittim the news is given to them.


simplify: He looseth the bond of kings, And he bindeth their loins with a girdle.

He undoes the chains of kings, and puts his band on them;


rate difficulty: The disciple is not above his teacher: but every one when he is perfected shall be as his teacher.


simplify: And also Solomon sitteth on the throne of the kingdom.

And now Solomon is seated on the seat of the kingdom.


simplify: And they having come to Capernaum, those receiving the didrachms came near to Peter, and said, `Your teacher--doth he not pay the didrachms?' He saith, `Yes.'

After they had reached Capernaum, the collectors of the Temple-rate came up to Peter, and said: “Does not your Master pay the Temple-rate?”


simplify: And while the flesh was yet between their teeth, ere it was chewed, the wrath of the Lord was kindled against the people, and the Lord smote the people with a very great plague.

But while the meat was still between their teeth, before it was tasted, the wrath of the Lord was moved against the people and he sent a great outburst of disease on them.


simplify: And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this freedom. And Paul said, But I was free born.

And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth.


simplify: For Christ is an end of law for righteousness to every one who is believing,

For Christ has brought law to an end, so that righteousness may be obtained by everyone who believes in him.


simplify: Receiving the end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.

For so you have the true end of your faith, even the salvation of your souls.


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

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


simplify: And Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, Go. And the maid went and called the child’s mother.

And Pharaoh's daughter said to her, Go. And the girl went and got the child's mother.


rate difficulty: and Abraham circumciseth Isaac his son, <FI>being<Fi> a son of eight days, as God hath commanded him.

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying,God will certainly visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones hence.

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


rate difficulty: Now these are the judgments which thou shalt set before them.

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


rate difficulty: Many court the favour of a noble; and every one is friend to a man that giveth.


rate difficulty: besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred and forty-five singing-men and singing-women.

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


rate difficulty: And if a man shall take his sister, his father’s daughter, or his mother’s daughter, and see her nakedness, and she see his nakedness; it is a wicked thing; and they shall be cut off in the sight of their people: he hath uncovered his sister’s nakedness; he shall bear his iniquity.


simplify: And now, behold, the children of Ammon and Moab and mount Seir, whom thou wouldest not let Israel invade, when they came out of the land of Egypt, but they turned from them, and destroyed them not;

And now, see, the children of Ammon and Moab and the people of Mount Seir, whom you kept Israel from attacking when they came out of Egypt, so that turning to one side they did not send destruction on them:


rate difficulty: Now, behold, thou trustest upon the staff of this bruised reed, even upon Egypt, on which if a man lean, it will go into his hand, and pierce it: so is Pharaoh king of Egypt unto all that trust on him.

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


rate difficulty: And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy:

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


rate difficulty: When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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


simplify: Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judæa in the days of Herod the king, behold, Wise-men from the east came to Jerusalem, saying,

Now when the birth of Jesus took place in Beth-lehem of Judaea, in the days of Herod the king, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: And before the throne there was a sea of glass like unto crystal: and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne, were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.

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


rate difficulty: Then the children of Judah made an attack on Jerusalem, and took it, burning down the town after they had put its people to the sword without mercy.

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


rate difficulty: Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.

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


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of Jeroboam, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of Jeroboam and the sin which he made Israel do.


rate difficulty: And his host, and those that were numbered of them, were threescore and two thousand and seven hundred.


rate difficulty: We will not return unto our houses, until the children of Israel have inherited every man his inheritance.

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


rate difficulty: But as the days of Noe were, so shall also the coming of the Son of man be.


rate difficulty: And when they shall blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves unto thee at the door of the tent of meeting.

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


rate difficulty: I was in the Spirit on the Lord's-day, and I heard behind me a great voice, as of a trumpet, saying,


simplify: And it came to pass when Jesus had finished commanding his twelve disciples, he departed thence to teach and preach in their cities.

And it came about that when Jesus had come to the end of giving these orders to his twelve disciples, he went away from there, teaching and preaching in their towns.


rate difficulty: And there come of the sons of Benjamin and Judah unto the stronghold to David,

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


simplify: And it shall be, that whoso of all the families of the earth goeth not up unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.

And it will be that if any one of all the families of the earth does not go up to Jerusalem to give worship to the King, the Lord of armies, on them there will be no rain.


rate difficulty: and ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan--the figures that ye made to bow before them, and I will remove your dwelling beyond Babylon.

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


simplify: And even he that is valiant, whose heart is as the heart of a lion, will utterly melt; for all Israel knoweth that thy father is a mighty man, and they that are with him are valiant men.

Then even the strongest, whose heart is like the heart of a lion, will become like water; for all Israel is conscious that your father is a man of war, and those who are with him are strong and without fear.


rate difficulty: In the evening he went there with the Twelve,

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


rate difficulty: And her adversary provoked her much also, to make her fret, because Jehovah had shut up her womb.

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


simplify: Which also our fathers, in their turn, brought in with Joshua when they entered on the possession of the nations, that God thrust out before the face of our fathers, unto the days of David;

Which our fathers, in their turn, took with them when, with Joshua, they came into the heritage of the nations whom God was driving out before the face of our fathers, till the time of David,


simplify: and sixteen thousand persons),


simplify: and thou shalt not escape out of his hand, but shalt surely be taken, and delivered into his hand; and thine eyes shall behold the eyes of the king of Babylon, and he shall speak with thee mouth to mouth, and thou shalt go to Babylon.

And you will not get away from him, but will certainly be taken and given up into his hands; and you will see the king of Babylon, eye to eye, and he will have talk with you, mouth to mouth, and you will go to Babylon.


simplify: The ants are a people not strong, yet they prepare their meat in the summer;

The ants are a people not strong, but they put by a store of food in the summer;


simplify: Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;

Cursed are those who make evil decisions, and the writers who make the records of their cruel acts:


rate difficulty: Also, thou son of man, appoint thee two ways, that the sword of the king of Babylon may come; they twain shall come forth out of one land: and mark out a place, mark it out at the head of the way to the city.

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


rate difficulty: And he made in Jerusalem machines invented by skilful men, to be upon the towers and upon the bulwarks, wherewith to shoot arrows and great stones. And his name spread far abroad; for he was marvellously helped, till he became strong.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Ahijah, Behold, the wife of Jeroboam cometh to ask a thing of thee for her son; for he is sick: thus and thus shalt thou say unto her: for it shall be, when she cometh in, that she shall feign herself to be another woman.

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


rate difficulty: And as he lay and slept under a juniper tree, behold, then an angel touched him, and said unto him, Arise and eat.

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


rate difficulty: For the middle of the night is as morning to them, they are not troubled by the fear of the dark.


rate difficulty: Christ, then, having suffered for us in the flesh, ye also with the same mind arm yourselves, because he who did suffer in the flesh hath done with sin,

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


rate difficulty: And he was an adversary to Israel all the days of Solomon, beside the mischief that Hadad did: and he abhorred Israel, and reigned over Syria.

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


rate difficulty: The thickness of the wall, which was for the side chamber without, was five cubits: and that which was left was the place of the side chambers that were within.


rate difficulty: Truly, God does all these things to man, twice and three times,

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


rate difficulty: great in counsel and mighty in work, whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the children of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings:

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


simplify: And he smote Moab; and the Moabites became servants to David, and brought tribute.

And he overcame Moab, and the Moabites became his servants and gave him offerings.


simplify: Haughty eyes, a lying tongue, And hands that shed innocent blood;

Eyes of pride, a false tongue, hands which take life without cause;


simplify: He therefore that despiseth, despiseth not man, but God, who hath also given unto us his holy Spirit.

Therefore the person who disregards this warning disregards, not people, but God who gives you his Holy Spirit.


simplify: Howbeit if ye fulfil the royal law, according to the scripture, Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself, ye do well:

But if you keep the greatest law of all, as it is given in the holy Writings, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself, you do well:


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: And the number of the days that David dwelt in the country of the Philistines was a full year and four months.

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


rate difficulty: After I had said what was in my mind, they were quiet and let my words go deep into their hearts;

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


simplify: Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.

And you are to give one male goat for a sin-offering and two male lambs of the first year for peace-offerings.


simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake.

and you will be hated by everyone because of me my name.


rate difficulty: Have pity upon me, have pity upon me, O ye my friends; For the hand of God hath touched me.


simplify: And he said unto them, What would ye that I should do for you?

“What do you want me to do for you?”he asked.


simplify: Therefore doth Job open his mouth in vanity; He multiplieth words without knowledge.

And Job's mouth is open wide to give out what is of no profit, increasing words without knowledge.


rate difficulty: And Saul's son had two men, captains of bands: the name of the one was Baanah, and the name of the other Rechab, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the children of Benjamin; for Beeroth also was reckoned to Benjamin.


simplify: And the sons of the prophets that were at Beth-el came forth to Elisha, and said unto him, Knowest thou that Jehovah will take away thy master from thy head to-day? And he said, Yea, I know it; hold ye your peace.

And at Beth-el the sons of the prophets came out to Elisha and said, Has it been made clear to you that the Lord is going to take away your master from over you today? And he said, Yes, I have knowledge of it: say no more.


rate difficulty: And moved by the spirit, he said, These are the words of Balaam, son of Beor, the words of the man whose eyes are open:

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


rate difficulty: And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.


rate difficulty: and Jacob saith to his brethren, `Gather stones,' and they take stones, and make a heap; and they eat there on the heap;

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


simplify: While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word.

Before Peter had finished saying these words, the Holy Spirit fell on all who were listening to the message.


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

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


rate difficulty: We gave you very clear orders not to give teaching in this name: and now Jerusalem is full of your teaching, and you are attempting to make us responsible for this man's death.


rate difficulty: And Ahaziah fell down through a lattice in his upper chamber that was in Samaria, and was sick: and he sent messengers, and said unto them, Go, enquire of Baal–zebub the god of Ekron whether I shall recover of this disease.

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


simplify: And there shall be no man in the tent of meeting when he goeth in to make atonement in the holy place, until he come out, and have made atonement for himself, and for his household, and for all the assembly of Israel.

And no man may be in the Tent of meeting from the time when Aaron goes in to take away sin in the holy place till he comes out, having made himself and his house and all the people of Israel free from sin.


rate difficulty: And he brought the burnt offering, and offered it according to the manner.


rate difficulty: in accordance with that purpose which runs through all the ages and which he has now accomplished in Jesus, the Christ, our Master.

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


rate difficulty: Remember, I have told you beforehand.

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


simplify: For he maketh small the drops of water: they pour down rain according to the vapour thereof:

For he takes up the drops from the sea; he sends them through his mist as rain,


simplify: For there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; neither hid, that shall not be known.

There is nothing, however covered up, which will not be uncovered, nor anything kept secret which will not become known.


simplify: And he made a porch of pillars; the length thereof was fifty cubits, and the breadth thereof thirty cubits: and the porch was before them: and the other pillars and the thick beam were before them.

And he made a covered room of pillars, fifty cubits long and thirty cubits wide, and ... with steps before it.


rate difficulty: added also this to all, that he shut up John in the prison.


simplify: And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

Then the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it down on the earth; and there followed ‘peals of thunder, cries, flashes of lightning,’ and an earthquake.


simplify: But I say, Did they not hear? Yea, verily,  Their sound went out into all the earth, And their words unto the ends of the world.

But I say, Did not the word come to their ears? Yes, certainly: Their sound has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world.


simplify: To-morrow go ye down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and ye shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.

Go down against them tomorrow: see, they are coming up by the slope of Ziz; at the end of the valley, before the waste land of Jeruel, you will come face to face with them.


simplify: So neither I, nor my brethren, nor my servants, nor the men of the guard that followed me, none of us put off our clothes, every one went with his weapon to the water.

So not one of us, I or my brothers or my servants or the watchmen who were with me, took off his clothing, everyone went armed to the water.


simplify: And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad called the altar Ed: For, said they, it is a witness between us that Jehovah is God.

And the children of Reuben and the children of Gad gave to that altar the name of Ed. For, they said, It is a witness between us that the Lord is God.


rate difficulty: An evil and false generation is searching after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah. And he went away from them.

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


rate difficulty: and having bowed the knees, he cried with a loud voice, `Lord, mayest thou not lay to them this sin;' and this having said, he fell asleep.


rate difficulty: `Also with me hath Jehovah been angry for your sake, saying, Also, thou dost not go in thither;

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


simplify: Which I have reserved against the time of trouble, Against the day of battle and war?

Which I have kept for the time of trouble, for the day of war and fighting?


rate difficulty: And when the cry of the children of Israel, because of Midian, came before the Lord,


simplify: And the Lord said unto me, Fear him not: for I will deliver him, and all his people, and his land, into thy hand; and thou shalt do unto him as thou didst unto Sihon king of the Amorites, which dwelt at Heshbon.

And the Lord said to me, Have no fear of him: for I have given him and all his people and his land into your hands; do to him as you did to Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon.


rate difficulty: and ye have known that through infirmity of the flesh I did proclaim good news to you at the first,

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


rate difficulty: An evil man seeketh only rebellion; Therefore a cruel messenger shall be sent against him.

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


simplify: For as the body apart from the spirit is dead, even so faith apart from works is dead.

For as the body without the spirit is dead even so faith without works is dead.


simplify: He will not cry, nor lift up his voice, nor cause it to be heard in the street.

He will make no cry, his voice will not be loud: his words will not come to men's ears in the streets.


simplify: It shall dwell in his tabernacle, because it is none of his: brimstone shall be scattered upon his habitation.

In his tent will be seen that which is not his, burning stone is dropped on his house.


simplify: And the Lord sent thee on a journey, and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.

And the Lord sent you on a journey and said, Go and put to the curse those sinners, the Amalekites, fighting against them till every one is dead.


simplify: and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah his God; he humbled not himself before Jeremiah the prophet speaking from the mouth of Jehovah.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, and did not make himself low before Jeremiah the prophet who gave him the word of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And they take the soot of the furnace, and stand before Pharaoh, and Moses sprinkleth it towards the heavens, and it is a boil <FI>with<Fi> blains, breaking forth, on man and on beast;

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


rate difficulty: And the people will be crushed, every one by his neighbour; the young will be full of pride against the old, and those of low position will be lifted up against the noble.

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


rate difficulty: Suddenly the Temple curtain was torn in two from top to bottom, the earth shook, the rocks were torn asunder,

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


simplify: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Asher according to their families, these cities with their villages.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Asher by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: Which was the son of Mattathias, which was the son of Amos, which was the son of Naum, which was the son of Esli, which was the son of Nagge,

Mattithiah, Amos, Nahum, Azaliah, Nogah,


rate difficulty: and her husband hath heard, and in the day of his hearing, he hath kept silent at her, then have her vows been established, and her bonds which she hath bound on her soul are established.

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


simplify: Grace be to you, and peace, from God our Father, and from the Lord Jesus Christ.

Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: And they took Absalom, and cast him into the great pit in the forest, and raised over him a very great heap of stones: and all Israel fled every one to his tent.

And they took Absalom's body and put it into a great hole in the wood, and put a great mass of stones over it: and every man of Israel went in flight to his tent.


simplify: And Jezebel his wife said unto him, Dost thou now govern the kingdom of Israel? arise, and eat bread, and let thine heart be merry: I will give thee the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite.

Then Jezebel, his wife, said, Are you now the ruler of Israel? Get up, take food, and let your heart be glad; I will give you the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite.


rate difficulty: Then I said, O my lord, what are these? And the angel who was talking to me said to me, I will make clear to you what they are.

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


simplify: And whithersoever he entered, into villages, or cities, or country, they laid the sick in the streets, and besought him that they might touch if it were but the border of his garment: and as many as touched him were made whole.

So wherever he went — to villages, or towns, or farms — they would lay their sick in the market-places, begging him to let them touch only the tassel of his cloak; and all who touched were made well.


simplify: And David said to Abishai, Destroy him not; for who can put forth his hand against Jehovah’s anointed, and be guiltless?

And David said to Abishai Do not put him to death; for who, without sin, may put out his hand against the man on whom the Lord has put the holy oil?


rate difficulty: But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: But the high places were not taken away out of Israel: nevertheless the heart of Asa was perfect all his days.


simplify: And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is like Tyrus, like the destroyed in the midst of the sea?

And in their weeping they will make a song of grief for you, sorrowing over you and saying, Who is like Tyre, who has come to an end in the deep sea?


rate difficulty: For, brethren, ye have been called unto liberty; only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by love serve one another.

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


simplify: And the servants of Absalom did unto Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and every man gat him up upon his mule, and fled.

So Absalom's servants did to Amnon as Absalom had given them orders. Then all the king's sons got up, and every man got on his beast and went in flight.


simplify: And thou, Solomon my son, know thou the God of thy father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind: for the Lord searcheth all hearts, and understandeth all the imaginations of the thoughts: if thou seek him, he will be found of thee; but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever.

And you, Solomon my son, get knowledge of the God of your father, and be his servant with a true heart and with a strong desire, for the Lord is the searcher of all hearts, and has knowledge of all the designs of men's thoughts; if you make search for him, he will be near you; but if you are turned away from him, he will give you up for ever.


rate difficulty: Cursed be the man that maketh any graven or molten image, an abomination unto the Lord, the work of the hands of the craftsman, and putteth it in a secret place. And all the people shall answer and say, Amen.

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


simplify: and they have tails like to scorpions, and stings were in their tails; and their authority <FI>is<Fi> to injure men five months;

They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails lies their power to harm people for five months.


rate difficulty: For this cause the Lord, the Lord of armies, says, O my people living in Zion, have no fear of the Assyrian, even if his rod comes on your back, and his stick is lifted up as in Egypt.

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


simplify: They then that were about to examine him straightway departed from him: and the chief captain also was afraid when he knew that he was a Roman, and because he had bound him.

Then those who were about to put him to the test went away: and the chief captain was in fear, seeing that he was a Roman, and that he had put chains on him.


rate difficulty: `The nakedness of thy daughter-in-law thou dost not uncover; she <FI>is<Fi> thy son's wife; thou dost not uncover her nakedness.

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


simplify: from the first-born of the children of Israel took he the money, a thousand three hundred and threescore and five shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary:

From the first sons of Israel he took it, a thousand, three hundred and sixty-five shekels, by the scale of the holy place;


rate difficulty: But you, by your union with Christ Jesus, belong to God; and Christ, by God’s will, became not only our wisdom, but also our righteousness, holiness, and deliverance,

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


rate difficulty: The eighth for the eighth month was Sibbechai the Hushathite, of the Zarhites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

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


simplify: Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God be with thee: be thou for the people to God-ward, and bring thou the causes unto God:

Give ear now to my suggestion, and may God be with you: you are to be the people's representative before God, taking their causes to him:


simplify: This is the third time I am coming to you. In the mouth of two or three witnesses shall every word be established.

For the third time I am coming to see you. ‘By the word of two or three witnesses each statement will be established.’


simplify: and he laid hold on the dragon, the old serpent, who is Devil and Adversary, and did bind him a thousand years,

He seized the Dragon, the primeval snake (who is the ‘devil’ or ‘Satan’), and bound him in chains for a thousand years.


rate difficulty: On the mountains he hath not eaten, And his eyes he hath not lifted up Unto idols of the house of Israel, And the wife of his neighbour defiled not, And to a separated woman cometh not near,

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


rate difficulty: Give my love to Ampliatus, who is dear to me in the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: And the children struggled together within her; and she said, If it be so, wherefore do I live? And she went to inquire of Jehovah.

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


simplify: and Crispus, the ruler of the synagogue did believe in the Lord with all his house, and many of the Corinthians hearing were believing, and they were being baptized.

Crispus, the synagogue leader, came to believe in the Lord, and so did all his household; and many of the Corinthians, as they listened to Paul, became believers in Christ and were baptized.


simplify: But I have built thee a house of habitation, and a place for thee to dwell in for ever.

So I have made for you a living-place, a house in which you may be for ever present.


rate difficulty: Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.


simplify: And Joshua smote them from Kadesh-barnea even unto Gaza, and all the country of Goshen, even unto Gibeon.

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


simplify: but now put off, even ye, the whole--anger, wrath, malice, evil-speaking, filthy talking--out of your mouth.

You, however, must now lay aside all such things — anger, passion, malice, slander, abuse.


simplify: Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life.

Consequently, through sharing his death in our baptism, we were buried with him; that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by a manifestation of the Father’s power, so we also may live a new life.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: Ye shall observe to do therefore as Jehovah your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.

Take care, then, to do whatever the Lord your God has given you orders to do; let there be no turning away to the right hand or to the left.


simplify: And they brought up the ark of the Lord, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up.

They took up the ark of the Lord, and the Tent of meeting, and all the holy vessels which were in the Tent; all these the priests and the Levites took up.


simplify: Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that getteth understanding.

Happy is the man who makes discovery of wisdom, and he who gets knowledge.


simplify: And Leah said, God hath endowed me with a good dowry; now will my husband dwell with me, because I have borne him six sons: and she called his name Zebulun.

And she said, God has given me a good bride-price; now at last will I have my husband living with me, for I have given him six sons: and she gave him the name Zebulun.


rate difficulty: And a certain man of the sons of the prophets said to his neighbour by the word of the Lord, Give me a wound. But the man would not.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass that night, that an angel of Jehovah went forth, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians a hundred and eighty-five thousand. And when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead bodies.

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


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

Even as I write, I have such confidence in your compliance with my wishes, that I am sure that you will do even more than I am asking.


simplify: And if he be not able to bring a lamb, then he shall bring for his trespass, which he hath committed, two turtledoves, or two young pigeons, unto the Lord; one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering.

And if he has not money enough for a lamb, then let him give, for his offering to the Lord, two doves or two young pigeons; one for a sin-offering and one for a burned offering.


rate difficulty: from Aroer, that is on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the city that is in the middle of the valley, and all the plain of Medeba unto Dibon;

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


simplify: So he let him go: then she said, A bloody husband thou art, because of the circumcision.

So he let him go. Then she said, You are a husband of blood because of the circumcision.


simplify: He was despised, and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and as one from whom men hide their face he was despised; and we esteemed him not.

Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him.


rate difficulty: You are not to make any perfume like it for yourselves: it is to be kept holy to the Lord.

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


simplify: for he was not knowing what he might say, for they were greatly afraid.

For he did not know what to say, because they were much afraid.


rate difficulty: but whoever keeps his word, in him verily the love ofGod is perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him.

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


rate difficulty: AndGod said, Let there be an expanse in the midst of the waters, and let it be a division between waters and waters.

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


simplify: And he put the wood in order, and cut the bullock in pieces, and laid him on the wood, and said, Fill four barrels with water, and pour it on the burnt sacrifice, and on the wood.

And he put the wood in order, and, cutting up the ox, put it on the wood. Then he said, Get four vessels full of water and put it on the burned offering and on the wood. And he said, Do it a second time, and they did it a second time;


simplify: Four tables were on this side, and four tables on that side, by the side of the gate; eight tables, whereupon they slew their sacrifices.

There were four tables on one side and four tables on the other, by the side of the doorway; eight tables, on which they put to death the beasts for the offerings.


simplify: What then? are we better than they? No, in no wise: for we have before proved both Jews and Gentiles, that they are all under sin;

What then? are we worse off than they? In no way: because we have before made it clear that Jews as well as Greeks are all under the power of sin;


simplify: Above the horse gate repaired the priests, every one over against his own house.

Further on, past the horse doorway, the priests were at work, every one opposite his house.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for they were his counsellors after the death of his father, to his destruction.

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.


rate difficulty: Therefore I think it necessary to beg the friends to go to you in advance, and to complete the arrangements for the gift, which you have already promised, so that it may be ready, as a gift, before I come, and not look as if it were being given under pressure.

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


simplify: Because he hath appointed a day, in the which he will judge the world in righteousness by that man whom he hath ordained; whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.

Because a day has been fixed in which all the world will be judged in righteousness by the man who has been marked out by him for this work; of which he has given a sign to all men by giving him back from the dead.


simplify: even as they delivered them unto us, who from the beginning were eyewitnesses and ministers of the word,

As they were handed down to us by those who saw them from the first and were preachers of the word,


simplify: If thou hast done foolishly in lifting up thyself, or if thou hast thought evil, lay thine hand upon thy mouth.

If you have done foolishly in lifting yourself up, or if you have had evil designs, put your hand over your mouth.


rate difficulty: We certify the king that, if this city be builded again, and the walls thereof set up, by this means thou shalt have no portion on this side the river.

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


simplify: Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

Two carts and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gershon for their work;


simplify: Then will I cause to cease from the cities of Judah, and from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride; for the land shall become a waste.

And in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, I will put an end to the laughing voices, the voice of joy and the voice of the newly-married man and the voice of the bride: for the land will become a waste.


rate difficulty: This is the number of them, listed by their families, the captains of thousands of Judah: Adnah, the captain, and with him three hundred thousand men of war;


simplify: Wherefore if thy hand or thy foot offend thee, cut them off, and cast them from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life halt or maimed, rather than having two hands or two feet to be cast into everlasting fire.

And if your hand or your foot is a cause of trouble, let it be cut off and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with the loss of a hand or a foot than, having two hands or two feet, to go into the eternal fire.


simplify: neither hath wronged any, hath not taken aught to pledge, neither hath taken by robbery, but hath given his bread to the hungry, and hath covered the naked with a garment;

Or done wrong to any, or taken anything from one in his debt, or taken goods by force, but has given food to him who was in need of it, and clothing to him who was without it;


simplify: Then said Jesus unto them, Be not afraid: go tell my brethren that they go into Galilee, and there shall they see me.

“Do not be afraid; go and tell my brothers and sisters to set out for Galilee, and they will see me there.”


simplify: And the desolate land shall be tilled, whereas it lay desolate in the sight of all that passed by.

And the land which was waste will be farmed, in place of being a waste in the eyes of everyone who went by.


rate difficulty: And when David had come to an end of making the burned offerings and peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Oppressed is Ephraim, broken in judgment, When he pleased he went after the command.

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


simplify: And the woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, I am with child.

And the woman became with child; and she sent word to David that she was with child.


simplify: And the king loved Esther above all the women, and she obtained grace and favour in his sight more than all the virgins; so that he set the royal crown upon her head, and made her queen instead of Vashti.

And Esther was more pleasing to the king than all the women, and to his eyes she was fairer and more full of grace than all the other virgins: so he put his crown on her head and made her queen in place of Vashti.


rate difficulty: Who shaketh the earth out of its place, and the pillars thereof tremble;

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


simplify: it is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power:

It is planted in shame; it comes again in glory: feeble when it is planted, it comes again in power:


simplify: And shall make him of quick understanding in the fear of the Lord: and he shall not judge after the sight of his eyes, neither reprove after the hearing of his ears:

And he will not be guided in his judging by what he sees, or give decisions by the hearing of his ears:


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when David had come to the summit, where he worshippedGod, that behold, Hushai the Archite came to meet him with his coat rent, and earth upon his head.

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


rate difficulty: And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

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


simplify: And furthermore, that ye have sent for men to come from far, unto whom a messenger was sent; and, lo, they came: for whom thou didst wash thyself, paintedst thy eyes, and deckedst thyself with ornaments,

And she even sent for men to come from far away, to whom a servant was sent, and they came: for whom she was washing her body and painting her eyes and making herself fair with ornaments.


rate difficulty: and Ebron, and Rehob, and Hammon, and Kanah, even unto great Sidon;

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


rate difficulty: Why should we not say — as some people slanderously assert that we do say — ‘Let us do evil that good may come’? The condemnation of such people is indeed just!

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


simplify: But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

But the wisdom which is from heaven is first holy, then gentle, readily giving way in argument, full of peace and mercy and good works, not doubting, not seeming other than it is.


simplify: And while Peter thought on the vision, the Spirit said unto him, Behold, three men seek thee.

And, while Peter was turning the vision over in his mind, the Spirit said to him, See, three men are looking for you.


rate difficulty: The son of Hashabiah, the son of Amaziah, the son of Hilkiah,

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


rate difficulty: So that a hard death seems better to my soul than my pains.


simplify: And Solomon had threescore and ten thousand that bare burdens, and fourscore thousand that were hewers in the mountains;

Then he had seventy thousand for the work of transport, and eighty thousand stone-cutters in the mountains;


simplify: And he shall bring a ram without blemish out of the flock, according to thy estimation, for a trespass-offering, unto the priest; and the priest shall make atonement for him concerning the thing wherein he erred unwittingly and knew it not, and he shall be forgiven.

Let him come to the priest with a sheep, a male without any mark out of the flock, of the value fixed by you, as an offering for his error; and the priest will take away the sin which he did in error, and he will have forgiveness.


rate difficulty: And they shall be broken in the purposes thereof, all that make sluices and ponds for fish.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: I have caused to testify against you this day the heavens and the earth, that ye do perish utterly hastily from off the land whither ye are passing over the Jordan to possess it; ye do not prolong days upon it, but are utterly destroyed;

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


simplify: And there were gathered together the apostles and the elders, to see about this matter,

The apostles and the officers of the church held a meeting to consider this question.


simplify: Was then that which is good made death unto me? God forbid. But sin, that it might appear sin, working death in me by that which is good; that sin by the commandment might become exceeding sinful.

Was then that which is good, death to me? In no way. But the purpose was that sin might be seen to be sin by working death to me through that which is good; so that through the orders of the law sin might seem much more evil.


simplify: These are their generations: the first-born of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar, and Adbeel, and Mibsam,

These are their generations: the oldest son of Ishmael, Nebaioth; then Kedar and Adbeel and Mibsam,


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at the revolution of the year--at the time of the going out of the messengers--that David sendeth Joab, and his servants with him, and all Israel, and they destroy the Bene-Ammon, and lay siege against Rabbah. And David is dwelling in Jerusalem,


simplify: knowing that the proving of your faith worketh patience.

Because you have the knowledge that the testing of your faith gives you the power of going on in hope;


rate difficulty: and Thou, in Thine abundant mercies, hast not forsaken them in the wilderness--the pillar of the cloud hath not turned aside from off them by day, to lead them in the way, and the pillar of the fire by night, to give light to them and the way in which they go.

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


rate difficulty: If you do well, will you not have honour? and if you do wrong, sin is waiting at the door, desiring to have you, but do not let it be your master.


simplify: the lord of that servant will come in a day in which he doth not look for <FI>him<Fi> , and in an hour that he doth not know, and will cut him off, and his portion with the unfaithful he will appoint.

that servant’s master will come on a day when he does not expect him, and at an hour of which he is unaware, and will flog him severely and assign him his place among the untrustworthy.


simplify: and they gave to him part of a broiled fish, and of an honeycomb,

They handed him a piece of broiled fish,


rate difficulty: For in that day every man shall cast away his idols of silver, and his idols of gold, which your own hands have made unto you for a sin.

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


simplify: Of Heman; the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth.

Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;


rate difficulty: For the Lord your God is an all-burning fire, and he will not let the honour which is his be given to any other.

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


rate difficulty: But the Nethinim dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gishpa were over the Nethinim.

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


simplify: And I say, so long time as the heir is a babe, he differeth nothing from a servant--being lord of all,

My point is this — As long as the heir is under age, there is no difference between him and a slave, though he is master of the whole estate.


simplify: and, before all things, to one another having the earnest love, because the love shall cover a multitude of sins;

Above all things, let your love for one another be earnest, for ‘love throws a veil over countless sins.’


rate difficulty: And I discerned, and, lo, God had not sent him; but he pronounced this prophecy against me: and Tobiah and Sanballat had hired him.

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


simplify: And Bezalel and Oholiab shall work, and every wise-hearted man, in whom Jehovah hath put wisdom and understanding to know how to work all the work for the service of the sanctuary, according to all that Jehovah hath commanded.

So let Bezalel and Oholiab get to work, with every wise-hearted man to whom the Lord has given wisdom and knowledge, to do whatever is necessary for the ordering of the holy place, as the Lord has given orders.


rate difficulty: Joy <FI>is<Fi> to a man in the answer of his mouth, And a word in its season--how good!

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


rate difficulty: I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

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


rate difficulty: Praying always with all prayer and supplication in the Spirit, and watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication for all saints;

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simplify: And they stirred up the people, and the elders, and the scribes, and came upon him, and caught him, and brought him to the council,

And the people, with the rulers and the scribes, were moved against him, and they came and took him before the Sanhedrin,


simplify: But he said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they said, We have no more but five loaves and two fishes; except we should go and buy meat for all this people.

But he said, Give them food yourselves. And they said, We have only five cakes of bread and two fishes, if we do not go and get food for all these people.


rate difficulty: That which he laboured for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down: according to his substance shall the restitution be, and he shall not rejoice therein.

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


simplify: And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.


simplify: Who had his dwelling among the tombs; and no man could bind him, no, not with chains:

He was living in the place of the dead: and no man was able to keep him down, no, not with a chain;


simplify: Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel.

Give cries of grief, you keepers of sheep; give cries for help, rolling yourselves in the dust, you chiefs of the flock: for the days of your destruction have fully come, and I will send you in all directions, and your fall will be like that of the males of the flock.


simplify: And she conceived, and bare a son; and said, God hath taken away my reproach:

And she was with child, and gave birth to a son: and she said, God has taken away my shame.


rate difficulty: And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus saith Balak the son of Zippor, Let nothing, I pray thee, hinder thee from coming unto me:

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


simplify: so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

And so may you, as soon as you see these things happening, know that the kingdom of God is near.


simplify: holding a form of godliness, but having denied the power thereof: from these also turn away.

Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.


rate difficulty: And straightway in the synagogues he preached Jesus that he is the Son ofGod.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding, if he continue a day or two, he shall not be punished: for he is his money.

But, at the same time, if the servant goes on living for a day or two, the master is not to get punishment, for the servant is his property.


simplify: And, behold, one of the children of Israel came and brought unto his brethren a Midianitish woman in the sight of Moses, and in the sight of all the congregation of the children of Israel, who were weeping before the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Then one of the children of Israel came to his brothers, taking with him a woman of Midian, before the eyes of Moses and all the meeting of the people, while they were weeping at the door of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: And if the family of Egypt go not up, and come not, neither shall it be upon them; there shall be the plague wherewith Jehovah will smite the nations that go not up to keep the feast of tabernacles.

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


rate difficulty: Then Saul said to his servant, You have said well; come, let us go. So they went to the town where the man of God was.

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


simplify: He that hath a bountiful eye shall be blessed; For he giveth of his bread to the poor.

He who is kind will have a blessing, for he gives of his bread to the poor.


rate difficulty: As for me, behold, I will dwell at Mizpah to serve the Chaldeans, which will come unto us: but ye, gather ye wine, and summer fruits, and oil, and put them in your vessels, and dwell in your cities that ye have taken.

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


rate difficulty: But I [that am] Jehovah thyGod from the land of Egypt will again make thee to dwell in tents, as in the days of the solemn feast.

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


rate difficulty: For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?

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


simplify: and indeed, from the truth the hearing they shall turn away, and to the fables they shall be turned aside.

They will turn a deaf ear to the truth, and give their attention to legends instead.


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

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


simplify: and he had possessions of flocks, and possessions of herds, and a great household: and the Philistines envied him.

For he had great wealth of flocks and herds and great numbers of servants; so that the Philistines were full of envy.


rate difficulty: And ye shall divide the land by lot for an inheritance among your families: and to the more ye shall give the more inheritance, and to the fewer ye shall give the less inheritance: every man’s inheritance shall be in the place where his lot falleth; according to the tribes of your fathers ye shall inherit.

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


simplify: For he hath regarded the low estate of his handmaiden: for, behold, from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed.

for he has remembered his humble servant girl; And from this hour all ages will count me happy!


rate difficulty: And the watchmen of Saul, looking out from Geba in the land of Benjamin, saw all the army flowing away and running here and there.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: We realize, too, that the Son of God has come among us, and has given us the discernment to know the true God; and we are in union with the true God by our union with his Son, Jesus Christ. He is the true God and he is eternal life.


simplify: Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.

You may not have sex relations with men, as you do with women: it is a disgusting thing.


rate difficulty: But all Israel and Judah loved David, because he went out and came in before them.

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


rate difficulty: And he charged them straitly, in order that they should tell no man about him.


simplify: And unto his son will I give one tribe, that David my servant may have a light alway before me in Jerusalem, the city which I have chosen me to put my name there.

And one tribe I will give to his son, so that David my servant may have a light for ever burning before me in Jerusalem, the town which I have made mine to put my name there.


rate difficulty: While our minds are not on the things which are seen, but on the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are for a time; but the things which are not seen are eternal.


simplify: Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness:

Whose mouth is full of curses and bitter words:


rate difficulty: and charged the messenger, saying, When thou hast ended telling the matters of the war to the king,

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


simplify: And if it will make no peace with thee, but will make war against thee, then thou shalt besiege it:

If however it will not make peace with you, but war, then let it be shut in on all sides:


simplify: But when I speak with thee, I will open thy mouth, and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: He that heareth, let him hear; and he that forbeareth, let him forbear: for they are a rebellious house.

But when I have talk with you I will make your mouth open, and you are to say to them, This is what the Lord has said: Let the hearer give ear; and as for him who will not, let him keep his ears shut: for they are an uncontrolled people.


simplify: And thou shalt make the dishes thereof, and the spoons thereof, and the flagons thereof, and the bowls thereof, wherewith to pour out: of pure gold shalt thou make them.

And make the table-vessels, the spoons and the cups and the basins for liquids, all of the best gold.


rate difficulty: And Abraham bowed down before the people of the land;


simplify: Now Jericho was straitly shut up because of the children of Israel: none went out, and none came in.

(Now Jericho was all shut up because of the children of Israel: there was no going out or coming in.)


rate difficulty: `Distress the Midianites, and ye have smitten them,

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


simplify: Every one that did offer an offering of silver and brass brought Jehovah’s offering; and every man, with whom was found acacia wood for any work of the service, brought it.

Everyone who had silver and brass gave an offering of them to the Lord; and everyone who had hard wood, such as was needed for the work, gave it.


rate difficulty: that in that day he that escapeth shall come unto thee, to cause [thine] ears to hear [it]?

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be the prince's part [to supply] the burnt-offerings, and the oblation, and the drink-offering, at the feasts, and at the new moons, and on the sabbaths, in all the solemnities of the house of Israel: it is he that shall prepare the sin-offering, and the oblation, and the burnt-offering, and the peace-offerings, to make atonement for the house of Israel.


simplify: And Mary arose in those days, and went into the hill country with haste, into a city of Juda;

Soon after this Mary set out, and made her way quickly into the hill-country, to a town in Judah;


simplify: As Jehovah hath been with my lord the king, even so be he with Solomon, and make his throne greater than the throne of my lord king David.

As the Lord has been with my lord the king, even so may he be with Solomon and make the seat of his authority greater than that of my lord King David.


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

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;


simplify: And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Cease not to cry unto Jehovah our God for us, that he will save us out of the hand of the Philistines.

And the children of Israel said to Samuel, Go on crying to the Lord our God for us to make us safe from the hands of the Philistines.


rate difficulty: Hear this, O ye priests, and hearken, O house of Israel, and give ear, O house of the king; for unto you pertaineth the judgment; for ye have been a snare at Mizpah, and a net spread upon Tabor.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover he made high places on the mountains of Judah, and caused the inhabitants of Jerusalem to commit fornication, and compelled Judah [thereto].

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


rate difficulty: But fear not thou, O my servant Jacob, and be not dismayed, O Israel: for, behold, I will save thee from afar off, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and be in rest and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

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


simplify: and all Athenians, and the strangers sojourning, for nothing else were at leisure but to say something, and to hear some newer thing.

(All Athenians and the foreigners staying in the city found no time for anything else but telling, or listening to, the last new thing.)


rate difficulty: For those wounded and made low by her are great in number; and all those who have come to their death through her are a great army.

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


rate difficulty: Then the fifth angel emptied his bowl on the throne of the Beast; and darkness fell on its kingdom. Men gnawed their tongues for pain,

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


simplify: Who was before a blasphemer, and a persecutor, and injurious: but I obtained mercy, because I did it ignorantly in unbelief.

Though I had said violent words against God, and done cruel acts, causing great trouble: but I was given mercy, because I did it without knowledge, not having faith;


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, Can the children of the bridechamber fast, while the bridegroom is with them? as long as they have the bridegroom with them, they cannot fast.

And Jesus said to them, Will the friends of a newly-married man go without food while he is with them? as long as they have him with them they will not go without food.


simplify: Two hundred she goats, and twenty he goats, two hundred ewes, and twenty rams,

Two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred females and twenty males from the sheep,


simplify: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

And he is to give of the peace-offering, as an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,


simplify: Upon man’s flesh shall it not be poured, neither shall ye make any other like it, after the composition of it: it is holy, and it shall be holy unto you.

It is not to be used for man's flesh, and no other is to be made like it: holy it is, and you are to keep it holy.


simplify: And the Lord thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, which persecuted thee.

And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you.


rate difficulty: And God came to Balaam, and Balaam said to him, I have made ready seven altars, offering an ox and a male sheep on every altar.

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


simplify: And he said unto me, To build it an house in the land of Shinar: and it shall be established, and set there upon her own base.

And he said to me, To make a house for her in the land of Shinar: and they will make a place ready, and put her there in the place which is hers.


simplify: and the commandment, which was unto life, this I found to be unto death:

And I made the discovery that the law whose purpose was to give life had become a cause of death:


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that a great tumult from Jehovah shall be among them; and they shall lay hold every one on the hand of his neighbor, and his hand shall rise up against the hand of his neighbor.

And it will be on that day that a great fear will be sent among them from the Lord; and everyone will take his neighbour's hand, and every man's hand will be lifted against his neighbour's.


rate difficulty: who has also made us competent, [as] ministers of [the] new covenant; not of letter, but of spirit. For the letter kills, but the Spirit quickens.


rate difficulty: that ye may be sons of your Father in the heavens, because His sun He doth cause to rise on evil and good, and He doth send rain on righteous and unrighteous.

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


rate difficulty: And He saith, `What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother's blood is crying unto Me from the ground;

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


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

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.


simplify: And Jesus, walking by the sea of Galilee, saw two brethren, Simon called Peter, and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea: for they were fishers.

As Jesus was walking along the shore of the Sea of Galilee, he saw two brothers — Simon, also known as Peter, and his brother Andrew — casting a net into the Sea; for they were fishermen.


simplify: And when Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold, there came a voice of the Lord,

And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,


simplify: Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded;

So, too, in the days of Lot. People were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building;


rate difficulty: And from the sons of Bigvai, Uthai and Zabbud, and with them seventy who are males.

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


rate difficulty: And upon the golden altar they shall spread a cloth of blue, and cover it with a covering of badgers’ skins, and shall put to the staves thereof:

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


rate difficulty: who told them that the Master had really risen, and had appeared to Simon.

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


rate difficulty: Turn away thine eyes from me, For they overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats On the slopes of Gilead.

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


rate difficulty: But it came to pass, when Ahab was dead, that the king of Moab rebelled against the king of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: I will not keep silence concerning his limbs, Nor his mighty strength, nor his goodly frame.

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


simplify: It is not in heaven, that thou shouldest say, Who shall go up for us to heaven, and bring it unto us, that we may hear it, and do it?

They are not in heaven, for you to say, Who will go up to heaven for us and give us knowledge of them so that we may do them?


rate difficulty: And he said to the servants of Pharaoh who were in prison with him, Why are you looking so sad?


simplify: And they passed thence unto mount Ephraim, and came unto the house of Micah.

From there they went on to the hill-country of Ephraim and came to the house of Micah.


rate difficulty: Doth not He see my ways, And all my steps number?

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


rate difficulty: And they having heard [it] glorifiedGod, and said to him, Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of the Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law.


rate difficulty: He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.

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


simplify: Wisdom is as good as an inheritance; yea, more excellent is it for them that see the sun.

Wisdom together with a heritage is good, and a profit to those who see the sun.


rate difficulty: Lo, I am increasing to it health and cure, And have healed them, and revealed to them The abundance of peace and truth.

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


simplify: But he answering said, `It hath been written, Not upon bread alone doth man live, but upon every word coming forth from the mouth of God.'

But Jesus answered: “Scripture says —  ‘It is not on bread alone that a person is to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”


simplify: He made also ten lavers, and put five on the right hand, and five on the left, to wash in them: such things as they offered for the burnt offering they washed in them; but the sea was for the priests to wash in.

And he made ten washing-vessels, putting five on the right side and five on the left; such things as were used in making the burned offering were washed in them; but the great water-vessel was to be used by the priests for washing themselves.


rate difficulty: Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land flowing with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, that thou must make thyself altogether a ruler over us?

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Go up upon her walls, and destroy; but make not a full end; take away her battlements, for they are not Jehovah's.


rate difficulty: And they eat of the fruit of their way, And from their own counsels they are filled.


simplify: Beloved, follow not that which is evil, but that which is good. He that doeth good is of God: but he that doeth evil hath not seen God.

Dear friend, take what is good for your example, not what is bad. The person who does what is good is from God; the person who does what is bad has never seen God.


rate difficulty: Your father put a hard yoke on us: if you will make the conditions under which your father kept us down less cruel, and the weight of the yoke he put on us less hard, then we will be your servants.


simplify: he having written a letter after this description:

He also wrote a letter along these lines:


rate difficulty: `I am the Alpha and the Omega, beginning and end, saith the Lord, who is, and who was, and who is coming--the Almighty.'


simplify: Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, that were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

Because Manasseh, king of Judah, has done these disgusting things, doing more evil than all the Amorites before him, and making Judah do evil with his false gods,


rate difficulty: `And if this thing hath been truth--tokens of virginity have not been found for the damsel--


simplify: The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners.


simplify: For Christ sent me not to baptize, but to preach the gospel: not in wisdom of words, lest the cross of Christ should be made void.

For Christ sent me, not to give baptism, but to be a preacher of the good news: not with wise words, for fear that the cross of Christ might be made of no value.


simplify: And they all with one consent began to make excuse. The first said unto him, I have bought a field, and I must needs go out and see it; I pray thee have me excused.

And they all gave reasons why they were not able to come. The first said to him, I have got a new field, and it is necessary for me to go and see it: I am full of regret that I am unable to come.


simplify: Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

For six days do your work, and on the seventh day keep the Sabbath; so that your ox and your ass may have rest, together with the son of your servant and the man from a strange land living among you.


simplify: And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;

why, then you do not allow them to do anything further for their father or mother!


simplify: Now therefore, I pray thee, if I have found favor in thy sight, show me now thy ways, that I may know thee, to the end that I may find favor in thy sight: and consider that this nation is thy people.

If then I have grace in your eyes, let me see your ways, so that I may have knowledge of you and be certain of your grace; and my prayer is that you will keep in mind that this nation is your people.


simplify: Neither went I up to Jerusalem to them which were apostles before me; but I went into Arabia, and returned again unto Damascus.

And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.


simplify: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.


simplify: And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?

And, covering his eyes, they said to him, Are you prophet enough to say who gave you that blow?


simplify: Now therefore give pledges, I pray thee, to my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

And now, take a chance with my master, the king of Assyria, and I will give you two thousand horses, if you are able to put horsemen on them.


simplify: And it came to pass as they emptied their sacks, that, behold, every man’s bundle of money was in his sack: and when both they and their father saw the bundles of money, they were afraid.

And when they took the grain out of their bags, it was seen that every man's parcel of money was in his bag; and when they and their father saw the money, they were full of fear.


rate difficulty: But thou shalt open thine hand wide unto him, and shalt surely lend him sufficient for his need, in that which he wanteth.

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


simplify: Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man-child.

Before her pains came, she gave birth; before her pains, she gave birth to a man-child.


simplify: that thou mightest fear Jehovah thy God, to keep all his statutes and his commandments, which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son’s son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

So that living in the fear of the Lord your God, you may keep all his laws and his orders, which I give you: you and your son and your son's son, all the days of your life; and so that your life may be long.


simplify: Charge them that are rich in this world, that they be not highminded, nor trust in uncertain riches, but in the living God, who giveth us richly all things to enjoy;

Teach those who are wealthy in this life not to pride themselves, or fix their hopes, on so uncertain a thing as wealth, but on God, who gives us a wealth of enjoyment on every side.


simplify: Thou son of man, shew the house to the house of Israel, that they may be ashamed of their iniquities: and let them measure the pattern.

You, son of man, give the children of Israel an account of this house, so that they may be shamed because of their evil-doing: and let them see the vision of it and its image.


simplify: After them repaired Zadok the son of Immer over against his house. After him repaired also Shemaiah the son of Shechaniah, the keeper of the east gate.

After them Zadok, the son of Immer, was working opposite his house. And after him Shemaiah, the son of Shecaniah, the keeper of the east door.


rate difficulty: and last of all died also the woman:

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


rate difficulty: And Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old: these were the years of the life of Sarah.

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


simplify: Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Anyone who goes on and does not keep to the teaching of Christ, has not God: he who keeps to the teaching has the Father and the Son.


simplify: Abide thou with me, fear not: for he that seeketh my life seeketh thy life: but with me thou shalt be in safeguard.

Keep here with me and have no fear; for he who has designs on my life has designs on yours: but with me you will be safe.


simplify: And Solomon made all the vessels that were for the house of God, the golden altar also, and the tables whereon the shewbread was set;

And Solomon made all the vessels used in the house of God, the gold altar and the tables on which the holy bread was placed,


simplify: Are not five sparrows sold for two pence? and not one of them is forgotten in the sight of God.

Are not five sparrows given in exchange for two farthings? and God has every one of them in mind.


rate difficulty: And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and entreated Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the disciples did as Jesus appointed them; and they made ready the passover.


rate difficulty: And when Elisha was come into the house, behold, the child was dead, and laid upon his bed.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, You saw how the kingdom was mine, and all Israel had the idea that I would be their king; but now the kingdom is turned about, and has become my brother's, for it was given to him by the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: `And those upon the rock: They who, when they may hear, with joy do receive the word, and these have no root, who for a time believe, and in time of temptation fall away.


simplify: Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Shebam, and Nebo, and Beon,

Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,


rate difficulty: After that, the Governor’s soldiers took Jesus with them into the Government house, and gathered the whole garrison around him.

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


rate difficulty: If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great, And because my hand had gotten much;

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I have given her into the hand of her lovers, Into the hand of sons of Asshur on whom she doted.

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


rate difficulty: Iddo, Ginnethoi, Abijah,

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


rate difficulty: For thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head, and the Lord shall reward thee.

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


simplify: but that we write unto them, that they abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.

But that we give them orders to keep themselves from things offered to false gods, and from the evil desires of the body, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from blood.


rate difficulty: to make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that is to be eaten and the beast that is not to be eaten.

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


rate difficulty: The voice of one crying in the waste land, Make ready the way of the Lord, make his roads straight;


rate difficulty: The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the stout lion’s whelps are scattered abroad.

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


rate difficulty: He taketh up all of them with the angle, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them in his drag: therefore he rejoiceth and is glad.

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


simplify: That which we have seen and heard declare we unto you, that ye also may have fellowship with us: and truly our fellowship is with the Father, and with his Son Jesus Christ.

We give you word of all we have seen and everything which has come to our ears, so that you may be united with us; and we are united with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ:


simplify: Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto Jehovah, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto Jehovah.

Anything blind or broken or damaged or having any disease or any mark on it may not be offered to the Lord; you may not make an offering of it by fire on the altar to the Lord.


rate difficulty: but also on ours, to whom it is about to be reckoned--to us believing on Him who did raise up Jesus our Lord out of the dead,

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


rate difficulty: And these <FI>are<Fi> those coming in unto David to Ziklag, while shut up because of Saul son of Kish, and they <FI>are<Fi> among the mighty ones, helping the battle,

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when the king heard the saying of the man of God, which he cried against the altar in Beth-el, that Jeroboam put forth his hand from the altar, saying, Lay hold on him. And his hand, which he put forth against him, dried up, so that he could not draw it back again to him.

Then the king, hearing the man of God crying out against the altar at Beth-el, put out his hand from the altar, saying, Take him prisoner. And his hand, stretched out against him, became dead, and he had no power of pulling it back.


simplify: And the one woman said, Oh, my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

And one of them said, O my lord, I and this woman are living in the same house; and I gave birth to a child by her side in the house.


rate difficulty: Then came forth unto him Eliakim, Hilkiah’s son, which was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, Asaph’s son, the recorder.

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


simplify: And all the men of might, even seven thousand, and craftsmen and smiths a thousand, all that were strong and apt for war, even them the king of Babylon brought captive to Babylon.

And all the men of war, seven thousand of them, and a thousand expert workmen and metal-workers, all of them strong and able to take up arms, the king of Babylon took away as prisoners into Babylon.


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing torrent; and ye shall suck, ye shall be carried upon the side, and be dandled upon the knees.

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


simplify: And Ahithophel said unto Absalom, Go in unto thy father’s concubines, which he hath left to keep the house; and all Israel shall hear that thou art abhorred of thy father: then shall the hands of all that are with thee be strong.

And Ahithophel said to Absalom, Go in to your father's women who are here looking after his house; then all Israel will have the news that you are hated by your father, and the hands of your supporters will be strong.


rate difficulty: In great grief they began to say to him, one by one: “Can it be I, Master?”

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


rate difficulty: He who has no love has no knowledge of God, because God is love.


rate difficulty: And he longed to fill his belly with the husks which the swine were eating; and no one gave to him.

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


rate difficulty: And saved hath Jehovah the tents of Judah first, So that become not great against Judah Doth the beauty of the house of David, And the beauty of the inhabitant of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And upon whatsoever any of them, when they are dead, doth fall, it shall be unclean; whether it be any vessel of wood, or raiment, or skin, or sack, whatsoever vessel it be, wherewith any work is done, it must be put into water, and it shall be unclean until the even; then shall it be clean.

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


simplify: Do ye not yet understand, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

Do not you yet see, nor remember the five loaves for the five thousand, and how many baskets you took away?


simplify: Blessedbethe God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and God of all comfort;

Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort;


simplify: Therefore do my thoughts cause me to answer, and for this I make haste.

For this cause my thoughts are troubling me and driving me on.


rate difficulty: And his bow abideth in strength, And strengthened are the arms of his hands By the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, Whence is a shepherd, a son of Israel.