simplify: and honey, and butter, and sheep, and cheese of the herd, for David, and for the people that were with him, to eat: for they said, The people are hungry, and weary, and thirsty, in the wilderness.

And honey and butter and sheep and milk-cheeses, for David and his people: for they said, This people is in the waste land, needing food and drink and rest.


simplify: and having in his right hand seven stars, and out of his mouth a sharp two-edged sword is proceeding, and his countenance <FI>is<Fi> as the sun shining in its might.

in his right hand he held seven stars, from his mouth came a sharp two-edged sword, and his face was like ‘the sun in the fulness of its power.’


simplify: Behold, ye despisers, and wonder, and perish: for I work a work in your days, a work which ye shall in no wise believe, though a man declare it unto you.

‘Look, you despisers, and wonder, and perish; For I am doing a deed in your days — A deed which, though told you in full, you will never believe’.”


simplify: While he was yet speaking, behold, a bright cloud overshadowed them: and behold, a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased; hear ye him.

While he was still talking, a bright cloud came over them: and a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased; give ear to him.


rate difficulty: And the king of Asshur findeth in Hoshea a conspiracy, in that he hath sent messengers unto So king of Egypt, and hath not caused a present to go up to the king of Asshur, as year by year, and the king of Asshur restraineth him, and bindeth him in a house of restraint.

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


simplify: and immediately the king having sent a guardsman, did command his head to be brought,

He immediately dispatched one of his bodyguard, with orders to bring John’s head. The man went and beheaded John in the prison,


simplify: And when Paul had gathered a bundle of sticks, and laid them on the fire, there came a viper out of the heat, and fastened on his hand.

Paul had gathered a quantity of dry sticks and laid them on the fire, when a poisonous snake, driven out by the heat, fastened on his hand.


simplify: Wilt thou break a leaf driven to and fro? and wilt thou pursue the dry stubble?

Will you be hard on a leaf in flight before the wind? will you make a dry stem go more quickly on its way?


rate difficulty: But these words seemed foolish to them, and they had no belief in them.

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


simplify: Turn ye not unto idols, nor make to yourselves molten gods: I am Jehovah your God.

Do not go after false gods, and do not make metal images of gods for yourselves: I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And, behold, the Lord stood above it, and said, I am the Lord God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed;

And he saw the Lord by his side, saying, I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father, and the God of Isaac: I will give to you and to your seed this land on which you are sleeping.


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.

And wherever he went, into small towns, or great towns, or into the country, they took those who were ill into the market-places, requesting him that they might put their hands even on the edge of his robe: and all those who did so were made well.


simplify: And it came to pass, when they were come into Samaria, that Elisha said, Jehovah, open the eyes of these men, that they may see. And Jehovah opened their eyes, and they saw; and, behold, they were in the midst of Samaria.

And when they had come into Samaria, Elisha said, Lord, let the eyes of these men be open so that they may see. And the Lord made their eyes open, and they saw that they were in the middle of Samaria.


simplify: There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

No outside person may take of the holy food, or one living as a guest in the priest's house, or a servant working for payment.


simplify: I say then, Have they stumbled that they should fall? God forbid: but rather through their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, for to provoke them to jealousy.

I ask then — ‘Was their stumbling to result in their fall?’ Heaven forbid! On the contrary, through their falling away salvation has reached the Gentiles, to stir the rivalry of Israel.


rate difficulty: And in those days shall men seek death, and shall in no way find it; and shall desire to die, and death flees from them.


rate difficulty: And some went on the rock, and when it came up it became dry and dead because it had no water.

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


simplify: The eighteenth to Hanani, he, his sons, and his brethren, were twelve:

The eighteenth Hanani, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


rate difficulty: Go with wise men and be wise: but he who keeps company with the foolish will be broken.


rate difficulty: Then the word of the Lord came to Gad, David's seer, saying,


simplify: And they gathered together to Mizpeh, and drew water, and poured it out before the Lord, and fasted on that day, and said there, We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Mizpeh.

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


simplify: and the kings of the earth, and the great men, and the rich, and the chiefs of thousands, and the mighty, and every servant, and every freeman, hid themselves in the dens, and in the rocks of the mountains,

Then all the kings of the earth, and the princes, and the generals, and the rich, and the powerful, and every slave and free person, ‘hid themselves in the caves and under the rocks’ of the mountains;


simplify: Whilst it is yet in his greenness, and not cut down, it withereth before any other herb.

When it is still green, without being cut down, it becomes dry and dead before any other plant.


simplify: But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.


simplify: and the people flew upon the spoil, and took sheep, and oxen, and calves, and slew them on the ground; and the people did eat them with the blood.

And rushing at the goods taken in the fight, the people took oxen and sheep and young oxen, and put them to death there on the earth, and had a meal, taking the flesh with the blood in it.


simplify: Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

But still we have wisdom for those who are complete in knowledge, though not the wisdom of this world, and not of the rulers of this world, who are coming to nothing:


rate difficulty: the king of Tirzah, one: all the kings thirty and one.


simplify: And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the Lord thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.

And Saul said, They have taken them from the Amalekites: for the people have kept the best of the sheep and of the oxen as an offering to the Lord your God; all the rest we have given up to destruction.


simplify: I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

You will not, I tell you, come out until you have paid the very last cent.”


simplify: And on the fourth day the silver and the gold and the vessels were weighed in the house of our God into the hand of Meremoth the son of Uriah the priest (and with him was Eleazar the son of Phinehas; and with them was Jozabad the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah the son of Binnui, the Levites)—

And on the fourth day, the silver and the gold and the vessels were measured out by weight in the house of our God into the hands of Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the priest; and with him was Eleazar, the son of Phinehas; and with them were Jozabad, the son of Jeshua, and Noadiah, the son of Binnui, the Levites;


simplify: Thy heart shall muse on the terror: Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed the tribute? where is he that counted the towers?

Your heart will give thought to the cause of your fear: where is the scribe, where is he who made a record of the payments, where is he by whom the towers were numbered?


simplify: Wherein was written, It is reported among the heathen, and Gashmu saith it, that thou and the Jews think to rebel: for which cause thou buildest the wall, that thou mayest be their king, according to these words.

And in it these words were recorded: It is said among the nations, and Geshem says so, that you and the Jews are hoping to make yourselves free from the king's authority; and that this is why you are building the wall: and they say that it is your purpose to be their king;


rate difficulty: Henoch, Methuselah, Lamech,

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


rate difficulty: `And ye are holy men to Me, and flesh torn in the field ye do not eat, to a dog ye do cast it.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: `Jehovah giveth thine enemies, who are rising up against thee--smitten before thy face; in one way they come out unto thee, and in seven ways they flee before thee.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass that, when the Jews that dwelt by them came, they said unto us ten times from all places, Ye must return unto us.

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


rate difficulty: The worker in wood stretcheth out a line; he marketh it out with red chalk; he formeth it with sharp tools, and he marketh it out with the compass, and maketh it after the figure of a man, according to the beauty of man: that it may remain in the house.

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


rate difficulty: Envy, uncontrolled drinking and feasting, and such things: of which I give you word clearly, even as I did in the past, that they who do such things will have no part in the kingdom of God.

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


simplify: The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,

The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,


rate difficulty: I say unto you, Though he will not rise and give him, because he is his friend, yet because of his importunity he will rise and give him as many as he needeth.

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


simplify: And Israel and the Philistines put the battle in array, army against army.

And Israel and the Philistines had put their forces in position, army against army.


rate difficulty: The son of Maath, the son of Mattathias, the son of Semein, the son of Josech, the son of Joda,


rate difficulty: even as ye learned from Epaphras our beloved fellow-bondman, who is a faithful minister of Christ for you,

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


rate difficulty: And the gospel must first be published among all nations.

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


simplify: And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent; for he is not a man, that he should repent.

And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.


rate difficulty: And sons of Zerah: Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara; all of them five.

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


simplify: Who is weak, and I am not weak? who is caused to stumble, and I burn not?

Who is feeble and I am not feeble? who is in danger of falling, and I am not angry?


rate difficulty: When the wicked are multiplied, transgression increaseth: but the righteous shall see their fall.

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


simplify: Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.

With these promises, dear friends, let us purify ourselves from everything that pollutes either body or spirit, and, in deepest respect for God, aim at perfect holiness.


simplify: And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and shewed them the fruit of the land.

And they came back to Moses and Aaron and all the children of Israel, to Kadesh in the waste land of Paran; and gave an account to them and to all the people and let them see the produce of the land.


rate difficulty: And you are to take your food by weight, twenty shekels a day: you are to take it at regular times.


simplify: And when they were come unto a place called Golgotha, that is to say, a place of a skull,

And when they came to the place named Golgotha, that is to say, Dead Man's Head,


rate difficulty: And Jehovah went before their face by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them [in] the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; so that they could go day and night.

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


simplify: Show me the tribute money. And they brought unto him a denarius.

Let me see the tax money. And they gave him a penny.


rate difficulty: And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the adder, and the weaned child shall put forth its hand to the viper's den.

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


simplify: that seeing they may see, and not perceive; and hearing they may hear, and not understand; lest haply they should turn again, and it should be forgiven them.

So that seeing they may see, and it will not be clear to them; and hearing it, they will not get the sense; for fear that they may be turned again to me and have forgiveness.


simplify: And the porters: Shallum, and Akkub, and Talmon, and Ahiman, and their brethren (Shallum was the chief),

And the door-keepers: Shallum and Akkub and Talmon and Ahiman and their brothers: Shallum was the chief.


simplify: And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

Then I saw another angel, flying in mid-heaven. He had the good news, decreed from eternity, to announce to those who live on the earth — to men of every nation, and tribe, and language, and people;


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

And he said to them, What would you have me do for you?


simplify: And when the days of their purification according to the law of Moses were fulfilled, they brought him up to Jerusalem, to present him to the Lord

And when the necessary days for making them clean by the law of Moses had come to an end, they took him to Jerusalem to give him to the Lord


rate difficulty: And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, be merry.

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


simplify: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works, which God afore prepared that we should walk in them.

For by his act we were given existence in Christ Jesus to do those good works which God before made ready for us so that we might do them.


rate difficulty: And all the people came early in the morning to him in the temple, to hear him.


rate difficulty: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Because of thy brass being poured forth, And thy nakedness is revealed in thy whoredoms near thy lovers, And near all the idols of thy abominations, And according to the blood of thy sons, Whom thou hast given to them;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Rebekah heard when Isaac spake to Esau his son. And Esau went to the field to hunt for venison, and to bring it.

Now Isaac's words to his son were said in Rebekah's hearing. Then Esau went out to get the meat.


simplify: and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof:

And that captain said to the man of God, Even if the Lord made windows in heaven, would such a thing be possible? And he said to him, Your eyes will see it, but you will not have a taste of the food.


simplify: And this shall be the priest’s due from the people, from them that offer a sacrifice, whether it be ox or sheep; and they shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the two cheeks, and the maw.

And this is to be the priests' right: those who make an offering of a sheep or an ox are to give to the priest the top part of the leg and the two sides of the head and the stomach.


rate difficulty: And also the name of the city shall be Hamonah. Thus shall they cleanse the land.

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


rate difficulty: And has made us to be a kingdom and priests to his God and Father; to him let glory and power be given for ever and ever. So be it.


simplify: And Isaac spake unto Abraham his father, and said, My father: and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, Behold the fire and the wood: but where is the lamb for a burnt offering?

Then Isaac said to Abraham, My father; and he said, Here am I, my son. And he said, We have wood and fire here, but where is the lamb for the burned offering?


rate difficulty: This day I begin to put thy dread and thy fear on the face of the peoples under the whole heavens, who hear thy fame, and have trembled and been pained because of thee.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, thou heardest not, yea, thou knewest not, yea, from of old thine ear was not opened; for I knew that thou wouldest ever deal treacherously, and thou wast called a transgressor from the womb.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 12 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he walked in all the ways of Asa his father; he turned not aside from it, doing that which was right in the eyes of the Lord: nevertheless the high places were not taken away; for the people offered and burnt incense yet in the high places.


rate difficulty: And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:

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


rate difficulty: And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat feareth, and setteth his face to seek to Jehovah, and proclaimeth a fast over all Judah;

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Nadab: Seled, and Appaim; but Seled died without children.

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


rate difficulty: And the man, the lord of the land, said to us, Hereby shall I know that ye are honest: leave one of your brethren with me, and take [for] the hunger of your households, and go,

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Lotan: Hori and Homam; and Timna was Lotan's sister.


simplify: And beside all this, between us and you there is a great gulf fixed: so that they which would pass from hence to you cannot; neither can they pass to us, that would come from thence.

And not only that, but between you and us there lies a great chasm, so that those who wish to pass from here to you cannot, nor can they cross from there to us.’


simplify: And I will sell your sons and your daughters into the hand of the children of Judah, and they shall sell them to the Sabeans, to a people far off: for the Lord hath spoken it.

I will give your sons and your daughters into the hands of the children of Judah for a price, and they will give them for a price to the men of Sheba, a nation far off: for the Lord has said it.


simplify: And Naomi took the child, and laid it in her bosom, and became nurse unto it.

And Naomi took the child and put her arms round it, and she took care of it.


simplify: And Joab said, As God liveth, if thou hadst not spoken, surely then in the morning the people had gone away, nor followed every one his brother.

And Joab said, By the living God, if you had not given the word, the people would have gone on attacking their countrymen till the morning.


rate difficulty: And the gold of that land is good; bdellium and the onyx stone are there.

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


rate difficulty: The integrity of the upright guideth them; but the crookedness of the unfaithful destroyeth them.

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


rate difficulty: but even the hairs of your head have been all numbered; therefore fear ye not, than many sparrows ye are of more value.

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


simplify: lading of gold, and silver, and precious stone, and pearl, and fine linen, and purple, and silk, and scarlet, and all thyine wood, and every vessel of ivory, and every vessel of most precious wood, and brass, and iron, and marble,

their cargoes of gold, or silver, or precious stones, or pearls, or fine linen, or purple robes, or silk, or scarlet cloth; nor their many scented woods; nor their many articles of ivory; nor their many articles of choicest wood, or brass, or iron, or marble;


simplify: Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

So then, my brothers, we are in debt, not to the flesh to be living in the way of the flesh:


rate difficulty: And with all thine abominations and thy whoredoms, Thou hast not remembered the days of thy youth, When thou wast naked and bare, Trodden down in thy blood thou wast!

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus at these words said to him, Have no fear, only have faith, and she will be made well.


simplify: The paths of their way are turned aside; they go to nothing, and perish.

The camel-trains go out of their way; they go up into the waste and come to destruction.


simplify: And he begat of Hodesh his wife, Jobab, and Zibia, and Mesha, and Malcam,

And by Hodesh his wife he became the father of Jobab and Zibia and Mesha and Malcam.


simplify: When Jehovah thy God shall cut off the nations, whose land Jehovah thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;

When the nations, whose land the Lord your God is giving you, have been cut off by him, and you have taken their place and are living in their towns and in their houses;


simplify: (Now Hiram the king of Tyre had furnished Solomon with cedar trees and fir trees, and with gold, according to all his desire,) that then king Solomon gave Hiram twenty cities in the land of Galilee.

(Hiram, king of Tyre, had given Solomon cedar-trees and cypress-trees and gold, as much as he had need of,) King Solomon gave Hiram twenty towns in the land of Galilee.


simplify: From henceforth let no man trouble me: for I bear in my body the marks of the Lord Jesus.

For the future let no one trouble me; for I bear the marks of Jesus branded on my body.


rate difficulty: So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of the Lord God of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not make thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the waters beneath the earth:

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


rate difficulty: As I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, surely with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with wrath poured out, will I be king over you.

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


simplify: And he had forty sons and thirty nephews, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

He had forty sons and thirty sons' sons who went on seventy young asses; and he was judge of Israel for eight years.


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


simplify: And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.


simplify: And Saul and his men went to seek him. And they told David: wherefore he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. And when Saul heardthat, he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.

And Saul and his men went in search of him. And David had word of it, so he came down to the rock in the waste land of Maon. And Saul, hearing of this, went after David into the waste land of Maon.


rate difficulty: And it came to the ears of the Canaanite, the king of Arad, living in the South, that Israel was coming by the way of Atharim, and he came out against them and took some of them prisoners.

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


rate difficulty: And the blood shall be for you as a sign on the houses in which ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be among you for destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And they told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam had gone up to mount Tabor.

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


simplify: For I have five brethren; that he may testify unto them, lest they also come into this place of torment.

For I have five brothers to warn them, so that they may not come to this place of torture also.’


simplify: But he that doeth wrong shall receive for the wrong which he hath done: and there is no respect of persons.

Those who do wrong will reap the wrong they have done; and there will be no partiality.


simplify: Thy mother was like a vine, in thy blood, planted by the waters: it was fruitful and full of branches by reason of many waters.

Your mother was in comparison like a vine, planted by the waters: she was fertile and full of branches because of the great waters.


rate difficulty: Wilt thou not from this time cry unto me, My Father, thou art the guide of my youth?

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


simplify: And a tenth part of an ephah of flour for a meat offering, mingled with the fourth part of an hin of beaten oil.

And the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering mixed with the fourth part of a hin of clear oil.


rate difficulty: At my cry my servant gives me no answer, and I have to make a prayer to him.

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


rate difficulty: And if the righteous is scarcely saved, where shall the ungodly and sinner appear?

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


rate difficulty: I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

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


simplify: that I may be delivered from them that are disobedient in Judæa, and that my ministration which I have for Jerusalem may be acceptable to the saints;

So that I may be kept safe from those in Judaea who have not put themselves under the rule of God, and that the help which I am taking for Jerusalem may be pleasing to the saints;


simplify: And to offer all burnt sacrifices unto the Lord in the sabbaths, in the new moons, and on the set feasts, by number, according to the order commanded unto them, continually before the Lord:

At every offering of burned offerings to the Lord, on Sabbaths, and at the new moons, and on the regular feasts, in the number ordered by the law, at all times before the Lord;


simplify: and Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam,

And Zanoah, and En-gannim, Tappuah, and Enam;


simplify: One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;

they should provide for own household well, and their children should kept under control and be well-behaved.


rate difficulty: and, wherever it seizes him, it dashes him down; he foams at the mouth and grinds his teeth, and he is pining away. I asked your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they failed.”

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


simplify: But the Lord said unto him, Go thy way: for he is a chosen vessel unto me, to bear my name before the Gentiles and kings, and the children of Israel:

But the Lord said, Go without fear: for he is a special vessel for me, to give to the Gentiles and kings and to the children of Israel the knowledge of my name:


simplify: For thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God, and Jehovah hath chosen thee to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples that are upon the face of the earth.

For you are a holy people to the Lord your God, and the Lord has taken you to be his special people out of all the nations on the face of the earth.


simplify: And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.

If anyone seems to himself to have knowledge, so far he has not the right sort of knowledge about anything;


rate difficulty: For all the first sons are mine; on the day when I put to death all the first sons in the land of Egypt, I took for myself every first male birth of man and beast. They are mine; I am the Lord.


simplify: An Ammonite or a Moabite shall not enter into the assembly of Jehovah; even to the tenth generation shall none belonging to them enter into the assembly of Jehovah for ever:

No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their people to the tenth generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people:


rate difficulty: And Paul having earnestly beheld the sanhedrim, said, `Men, brethren, I in all good conscience have lived to God unto this day;'

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simplify: and I heard a voice saying to me, Having risen, Peter, slay and eat;

and I also heard a voice saying to me — ‘Stand up, Peter, kill something and eat.’


simplify: I say unto thee, Arise, and take up thy bed, and go thy way into thine house.

I say to you, Get up, take up your bed, and go to your house.


simplify: And the woman said unto the serpent, We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden:

And the woman said, We may take of the fruit of the trees in the garden:


rate difficulty: For as the girdle cleaveth to the loins of a man, so have I caused to cleave unto me the whole house of Israel and the whole house of Judah, saith Jehovah; that they may be unto me for a people, and for a name, and for a praise, and for a glory: but they would not hear.

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rate difficulty: And they will take your countrymen out of all the nations for an offering to the Lord, on horses, and in carriages, and in carts, and on asses, and on camels, to my holy mountain Jerusalem, says the Lord, as the children of Israel take their offering in a clean vessel into the house of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: and the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion ofthy substance that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.

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simplify: Duke Korah, duke Gatam, and duke Amalek: these are the dukes that came of Eliphaz in the land of Edom; these were the sons of Adah.

Korah, Gatam, Amalek: all these were chiefs in the land of Edom, the offspring of Eliphaz, the seed of Adah.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou unto me? speak unto the children of Israel, that they go forward.

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simplify: But Samson’s wife was given to his companion, whom he had used as his friend.

But Samson's wife was given to the friend who had been his best man.


rate difficulty: For this town has been to me a cause of wrath and of burning passion from the day of its building till this day, so that I put it away from before my face:

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simplify: And when the voice of the trumpet sounded long, and waxed louder and louder, Moses spake, and God answered him by a voice.

And when the sound of the horn became louder and louder, Moses' words were answered by the voice of God.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests that bear the ark of Jehovah, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.

And when the feet of the priests who take up the ark of the Lord, the Lord of all the earth, come to rest in the waters of Jordan, the waters of Jordan will be cut off, all the waters flowing down from higher up, and will come together in a mass.


rate difficulty: Better is a poor [man] that walketh in his integrity, than he that is perverse in his lips, and is a fool.

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simplify: And they will deceive every one his neighbour, and will not speak the truth: they have taught their tongue to speak lies, and weary themselves to commit iniquity.

Everyone will make sport of his neighbour with deceit, not saying what is true: their tongues have been trained to say false words; they are twisted, hating to come back.


rate difficulty: And he said, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all;


simplify: Of the tribe of Gad, Geuel the son of Machi.

Of the tribe of Gad, Gevel, the son of Machi.


rate difficulty: and a tenth of the ephah of flour for a present, mixed with beaten oil, a fourth of the hin;

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


rate difficulty: Jesus is ‘the stone which, scorned by you the builders, has yet become the corner stone.’

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


simplify: even all the nations shall say, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus unto this land? what meaneth the heat of this great anger?

Truly all the nations will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land? what is the reason for this great and burning wrath?


simplify: which Jeremiah the prophet spake unto all the people of Judah, and to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying:

This word Jeremiah gave out to all the people of Judah and to those living in Jerusalem, saying,


simplify: and the neighbours and her kindred heard that the Lord was making His kindness great with her, and they were rejoicing with her.

and her neighbors and relations, hearing of the great goodness of the Lord to her, came to share her joy.


rate difficulty: Remove not the ancient landmark; and enter not into the fields of the fatherless:

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rate difficulty: And of the sons of Benjamin: Sallu the son of Meshullam, the son of Hodaviah, the son of Hassenuah,

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


simplify: And passing along by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon and Andrew the brother of Simon casting a net in the sea; for they were fishers.

And going by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, the brother of Simon, putting a net into the sea: for they were fishermen.


rate difficulty: Where no oxen are, the crib is clean; but much increase is by the strength of the ox.

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


simplify: And also the Strength of Israel will not lie nor repent: for he is not a man, that he should repent.

And further, the Glory of Israel will not say what is false, and his purpose may not be changed: for he is not a man, whose purpose may be changed.


simplify: And the Lord visited Sarah as he had said, and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

And the Lord came to Sarah as he had said and did to her as he had undertaken.


rate difficulty: And Elisha hath turned back to Gilgal, and the famine <FI>is<Fi> in the land, and the sons of the prophets are sitting before him, and he saith to his young man, `Set on the great pot, and boil pottage for the sons of the prophets.'

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


simplify: And Isaiah the prophet cried unto Jehovah; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.

Then Isaiah the prophet made prayer to the Lord, and he made the shade go back ten degrees from its position on the steps of Ahaz.


simplify: Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:

Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:


rate difficulty: I am Jehovah, that is my name; and my glory will I not give to another, neither my praise unto graven images.

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


simplify: And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.

And in this, I do my best at all times to have no reason for shame before God or men.


rate difficulty: Naphtali is a hind let loose: He giveth goodly words.

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


rate difficulty: When Jesus had finished these parables, he withdrew from that place.

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


simplify: But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Now in a large house there are not only things of gold and silver, but also others of wood and earthenware, some for better and some for common use.


simplify: Now it came to pass, while he executed the priest’s office before God in the order of his course,

Now it came about that in his turn he was acting as priest before God,


simplify: And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

Then Ehud came in to him while he was seated by himself in his summer-house. And Ehud said, I have a word from God for you. And he got up from his seat.


rate difficulty: Do you assert that I took advantage of you through any of those whom I have sent to you?


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

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rate difficulty: but when the matter came before the king, he commanded by letters that his wicked device, which he had devised against the Jews, should return upon his own head, and that he and his sons should be hanged on the gallows.

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rate difficulty: And I sent messengers unto them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I cannot come down: why should the work cease, whilst I leave it, and come down to you?


rate difficulty: Thy daughters in the field by sword he slayeth, And he hath made against thee a fort, And hath poured out against thee a mount, And hath raised against thee a buckler.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will plead thy cause, and take vengeance for thee; and I will dry up her sea, and make her fountain dry.

For this reason the Lord has said: See, I will give support to your cause, and take payment for what you have undergone; I will make her sea dry, and her fountain without water.


simplify: Whosoever is born of God doth not commit sin; for his seed remaineth in him: and he cannot sin, because he is born of God.

Anyone who is a child of God does no sin, because he still has God's seed in him; he is not able to be a sinner, because God is his Father.


rate difficulty: and thou hast dwelt in the land of Goshen, and been near unto me, thou and thy sons, and thy son's sons, and thy flock, and thy herd, and all that thou hast,

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


rate difficulty: I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God.

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


simplify: Defile not ye yourselves in any of these things: for in all these the nations are defiled which I cast out from before you;

Do not make yourself unclean in any of these ways; for so have those nations whom I am driving out from before you made themselves unclean:


simplify: But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

But you, like a birth before its time, are stretched out with no resting-place in the earth; clothed with the bodies of the dead who have been put to the sword, who go down to the lowest parts of the underworld; a dead body, crushed under foot.


rate difficulty: but if he say thus, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

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


simplify: Withhold not correction from the child; Forif thou beat him with the rod, he will not die.

Do not keep back training from the child: for even if you give him blows with the rod, it will not be death to him.


rate difficulty: And you are to say to Pharaoh, The Lord says, Israel is the first of my sons:

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


rate difficulty: Where <FI>is<Fi> this, the way light is apportioned? It scattereth an east wind over the earth.

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


simplify: And the sons of Ethan: Azariah.


simplify: There is no peace, saith the Lord, unto the wicked.

There is no peace, says the Lord, for the evil-doers.


simplify: Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, cast out demons: freely ye received, freely give.

Make well those who are ill, give life to the dead, make lepers clean, send evil spirits out of men; freely it has been given to you, freely give.


rate difficulty: A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?

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


rate difficulty: Remember ye the law of Moses my servant, which I commanded unto him in Horeb for all Israel, with the statutes and judgments.

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


simplify: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that rejecteth you rejecteth me; and he that rejecteth me rejecteth him that sent me.

Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.


simplify: To Shuppim and Hosah westward, by the gate of Shallecheth, at the causeway that goeth up, watch against watch.

To Hosah, the door on the west, by the door of Shallecheth, at the footway which goes up, watch by watch.


rate difficulty: the torn I have not brought in unto thee--I, I repay it--from my hand thou dost seek it; I have been deceived by day, and I have been deceived by night;

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


simplify: The word that Jeremiah the prophet spake unto Baruch the son of Neriah, when he wrote these words in a book at the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, king of Judah, saying,

The words which Jeremiah the prophet said to Baruch, the son of Neriah, when he put these words down in a book from the mouth of Jeremiah, in the fourth year of Jehoiakim, the son of Josiah, king of Judah; he said,


rate difficulty: And by the border of Asher, from the east side even unto the west side, Naphtali, one portion.

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


simplify: Those that were numbered of them, even of the tribe of Benjamin, were thirty and five thousand and four hundred.

Thirty-five thousand, four hundred of the tribe of Benjamin were numbered.


simplify: And Laban said, This heap is witness between me and thee this day. Therefore was the name of it called Galeed:

And Laban said, These stones are a witness between you and me today. For this reason its name was Galeed,


simplify: and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed,

A person is in every case tempted by their own passions — allured and enticed by them.


simplify: saying to them, `Go on to the village over-against you, and immediately ye shall find an ass bound, and a colt with her--having loosed, bring ye to me;

“Go to the village facing you,” he said, “and you will immediately find an ass tethered, with a foal by her side; untie her, and lead her here for me.


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

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


rate difficulty: And he gave orders to the first, saying, When my brother Esau comes to you and says, Whose servant are you, and where are you going, and whose are these herds?

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simplify: the one do it of love, knowing that I am set for the defence of the gospel;

These do it from love, conscious that I am responsible for the cause of the good news:


rate difficulty: And when the angel stretched out his hand upon Jerusalem to destroy it, the Lord repented him of the evil, and said to the angel that destroyed the people, It is enough: stay now thine hand. And the angel of the Lord was by the threshingplace of Araunah the Jebusite.

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


rate difficulty: For I will not give punishment for ever, or be angry without end: for from me breath goes out; and I it was who made the souls.

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


rate difficulty: And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

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


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

I have been “playing the fool!” It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent apostles.


simplify: And they shall be gathered together, as prisoners are gathered in the pit, and shall be shut up in the prison, and after many days shall they be visited.

And they will be got together, like prisoners in the prison-house; and after a long time they will have their punishment.


simplify: The ships of Tarshish were thy caravans for thy merchandise: and thou wast replenished, and made very glorious in the heart of the seas.

Tarshish ships did business for you in your goods: and you were made full, and great was your glory in the heart of the seas.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah's anger was kindled the same time, and he swore, saying,

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


simplify: And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.

And Jonah first of all went a day's journey into the town, and crying out said, In forty days destruction will overtake Nineveh.


simplify: And the charge of Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest shall be the oil for the light, and the sweet incense, and the continual meal-offering, and the anointing oil, the charge of all the tabernacle, and of all that therein is, the sanctuary, and the furniture thereof.

And Eleazar, the son of Aaron the priest, is to be responsible for the oil for the light, and the sweet perfumes for burning, and the regular meal offering, and the holy oil; the House and the holy place and everything in it will be in his care.


rate difficulty: Being certain of this, that no man who gives way to the passions of the flesh, no unclean person, or one who has desire for the property of others, or who gives worship to images, has any heritage in the kingdom of Christ and God.

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rate difficulty: but let each prove his own work, and then he will have his boast in what belongs to himself alone, and not in what belongs to another.

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rate difficulty: And Pilate marvelled if he were already dead: and calling unto him the centurion, he asked him whether he had been any while dead.

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


rate difficulty: and the border hath gone down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east of Ain, and the border hath gone down, and hath smitten against the shoulder of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;

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


rate difficulty: And their numbered ones, in number, all the males from a son of a month and upward, <FI>are<Fi> six thousand and two hundred.

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


simplify: Insomuch that the multitude wondered, when they saw the dumb to speak, the maimed to be whole, the lame to walk, and the blind to see: and they glorified the God of Israel.

So that the people were full of wonder when they saw that those who had no voice were talking, the feeble were made strong, those whose bodies were broken had the power of walking, and the blind were able to see: and they gave glory to the God of Israel.


simplify: What, have ye not houses to eat and to drink in? or despise ye the church of God, and put them to shame that have not? What shall I say to you? shall I praise you? In this I praise you not.

What? have you not houses to take your meals in? or have you no respect for the church of God, putting the poor to shame? What am I to say to you? am I to give you praise? certainly not.


simplify: In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign.

In the twenty-seventh year of the rule of Jeroboam, king of Israel, Azariah, son of Amaziah, became king of Judah.


simplify: and that from a babe thou hast known the sacred writings which are able to make thee wise unto salvation through faith which is in Christ Jesus.

And that from the time when you were a child, you have had knowledge of the holy Writings, which are able to make you wise to salvation, through faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: and Shaalabbin, and Aijalon, and Ithlah,


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah will punish the host of the high ones on high, and the kings of the earth upon the earth.


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

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


rate difficulty: They drive away the ass of the fatherless, they take the widow's ox for a pledge;


simplify: Honour thy father and mother; (which is the first commandment with promise;)

Give honour to your father and mother (which is the first rule having a reward),


rate difficulty: For we have been saved in hope; but hope seen is not hope; for what any one sees, why does he also hope?

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


simplify: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof.

For the earth is the Lord's and all things in it.


simplify: And it came to pass that, as soon as he had made an end of offering the burnt-offering, behold, Samuel came; and Saul went out to meet him, that he might salute him.

And when the burned offering was ended, Samuel came; and Saul went out to see him and to give him a blessing.


simplify: And king Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked, beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned, and went away to her own land, she and her servants.

And King Solomon gave the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatever she made request for, in addition to what she had taken to the king. So she went back to her country with her servants.


simplify: And so it was, that, while they were there, the days were accomplished that she should be delivered.

And while they were there, the time came for her to give birth.


simplify: And he said, What have I sinned, that thou wouldest deliver thy servant into the hand of Ahab, to slay me?

And he said, What sin have I done, that you would give up your servant into the hand of Ahab, and be the cause of my death?


rate difficulty: Coal to burning coals, and wood to fire, And a man of contentions to kindle strife.

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


rate difficulty: Came together with one purpose, to make war against Joshua and Israel.

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


simplify: Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,

If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders


simplify: And Abraham stood up from before his dead, and spake unto the sons of Heth, saying,

And Abraham came from his dead and said to the children of Heth,


simplify: Then answered Zophar the Naamathite, and said,

Then Zophar the Naamathite made answer and said,


rate difficulty: And he said, `All these I did keep from my youth;'


simplify: And in the uppermost basket there was of all manner of bakemeats for Pharaoh; and the birds did eat them out of the basket upon my head.

And in the top basket were all sorts of cooked meats for Pharaoh; and the birds were taking them out of the baskets on my head.


simplify: Also from the house of Gilgal, and out of the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the singers had builded them villages round about Jerusalem.

And from Beth-gilgal and from the fields of Geba and Azmaveth: for the music-makers had made daughter-towns for themselves round about Jerusalem.


simplify: The children of Ezer are these; Bilhan, and Zaavan, and Akan.

These are the children of Ezer: Bilhan, Zaavan, and Akan.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, I will drink no more of the fruit of the vine, until that day that I drink it new in the kingdom of God.

I tell you that I will never again drink of the juice of the grape, until that day when I will drink it new in the kingdom of God.”


simplify: And not a hair of your head shall perish.

But not a hair of your head will come to destruction.


rate difficulty: And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in to her, into the tent, and she covered him with the quilt.


simplify: and ye shall be hated by all because of my name, but he who hath endured to the end--he shall be saved.

and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.


simplify: and the men wondered, saying, `What kind--is this, that even the wind and the sea do obey him?'

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


simplify: I will surely assemble, O Jacob, all of thee; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the midst of their pasture; they shall make great noise by reason of the multitude of men.

I will certainly make all of you, O Jacob, come together; I will get together the rest of Israel; I will put them together like the sheep in their circle: like a flock in their green field; they will be full of the noise of men.


rate difficulty: In like manner also he that [had received] the two, [he also] gained two others.


simplify: They that are of a froward heart are abomination to the Lord: but such as are upright in their way are his delight.

The uncontrolled are hated by the Lord, but those whose ways are without error are his delight


simplify: And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.

The ten horns that you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received their kingdoms, but for an hour they receive the authority of kings, together with the Beast.


simplify: and here he hath authority from the chief priests to bind all that call upon thy name.

And here he has authority from the chief priests to make prisoners all who give worship to your name.


simplify: `And the lord commended the unrighteous steward that he did prudently, because the sons of this age are more prudent than the sons of the light, in respect to their generation.

His master complimented this dishonest steward on the shrewdness of his action. And indeed men of the world are shrewder in dealing with their fellow men than those who have the light.


simplify: As one that taketh off a garment in cold weather, and as vinegar upon soda, So is he that singeth songs to a heavy heart.

Like one who takes off clothing in cold weather and like acid on a wound, is he who makes melody to a sad heart.


simplify: Even as it is meet for me to think this of you all, because I have you in my heart; inasmuch as both in my bonds, and in the defence and confirmation of the gospel, ye all are partakers of my grace.

And, indeed, I am justified in feeling like this about you all; because you have a warm place in my heart — you who all, both in my imprisonment and in the work of defending and establishing the good news, shared my privilege with me.


simplify: Whatsoever is sold in the shambles, that eat, asking no question for conscience sake:

Whatever meat may be had at the public market, take as food without question of right or wrong;


rate difficulty: Now three of the thirty captains went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

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simplify: but, according as it hath been written, `What eye did not see, and ear did not hear, and upon the heart of man came not up, what God did prepare for those loving Him--'

It is what scripture speaks of as —  ‘What eye never saw, nor ear ever heard, what never entered people's minds — even all that God has prepared for those who love him.’


simplify: The priest that offereth it for sin shall eat it: in a holy place shall it be eaten, in the court of the tent of meeting.

The priest by whom it is offered for sin, is to take it for his food in a holy place, in the open space of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: The disciple is not above his master: but every one that is perfect shall be as his master.

The disciple is not greater than his master, but everyone whose learning is complete will be like his master.


simplify: And into whatsoever city or town ye shall enter, enquire who in it is worthy; and there abide till ye go thence.

Whatever town or village you visit, find out who is worthy in that place, and remain there until you leave.


rate difficulty: And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:

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simplify: And presently having risen before them, having taken up <FI>that<Fi> on which he was lying, he went away to his house, glorifying God,

Instantly the man stood up before their eyes, took up what he had been lying on, and went to his home, praising God.


simplify: But they were terrified and affrighted, and supposed that they beheld a spirit.

But they were full of fear, being of the opinion that they were seeing a spirit.


simplify: Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, Yet lackest thou one thing: sell all that thou hast, and distribute unto the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven: and come, follow me.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to him, One thing you still have need of; get money for your goods, and give it away to the poor, and you will have wealth in heaven; and come after me.


simplify: From Kibroth-hattaavah the people journeyed unto Hazeroth; and they abode at Hazeroth.

From Kibroth-hattaavah the people went on to Hazeroth; and there they put up their tents.


simplify: And the third angel poured out his vial upon the rivers and fountains of waters; and they became blood.

Then the third angel emptied his bowl on the rivers and springs of water; and it turned to blood.


simplify: And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

My soul is sent far away from peace, I have no more memory of good.


simplify: And, behold, one came and said unto him, Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life?

And one came to him and said, Master, what good thing have I to do, so that I may have eternal life?


simplify: and Ziklag, and Beth-marcaboth, and Hazar-susah,

And Ziklag and Beth-marcaboth and Hazar-susah


rate difficulty: Verily I say to you, there are certain of those standing here who shall not taste of death till they may see the Son of Man coming in his reign.'

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


rate difficulty: And in those days cometh John the Baptist, preaching in the wilderness of Judæa, saying,

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


simplify: And thou hast filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.


simplify: At this also my heart trembleth, and is moved out of his place.

At this my heart is shaking; it is moved out of its place.


simplify: And they sung as it were a new song before the throne, and before the four beasts, and the elders: and no man could learn that song but the hundred and forty and four thousand, which were redeemed from the earth.

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


simplify: So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the transgression of thy brethren, and their sin, for that they did unto thee evil. And now, we pray thee, forgive the transgression of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.

You are to say to Joseph, Let the wrongdoing of your brothers be overlooked, and the evil they did to you: now, if it is your pleasure, let the sin of the servants of your father's God have forgiveness. And at these words, Joseph was overcome with weeping.


rate difficulty: I entreated Titus, and did send with <FI>him<Fi> the brother; did Titus take advantage of you? in the same spirit did we not walk? --did we not in the same steps?

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


simplify: So there was hail, and fire mingled with the hail, very grievous, such as had not been in all the land of Egypt since it became a nation.

So there was an ice-storm with fire running through it, coming down with great force, such as never was in all the land of Egypt from the time when it became a nation.


simplify: For Mordecai was great in the king’s house, and his fame went forth throughout all the provinces; for the man Mordecai waxed greater and greater.

For Mordecai was great in the king's house, and word of him went out through every part of the kingdom: for the man Mordecai became greater and greater.


simplify: This is he that was in the church in the wilderness with the angel that spake to him in the mount Sinai, and with our fathers: who received living oracles to give unto us:

This is the man who was in the church in the waste land with the angel who was talking to him in Sinai, and with our fathers; and to him were given the living words of God, so that he might give them to you.


rate difficulty: But if we have food and a roof over us, let that be enough.

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


simplify: In that day shall five cities in the land of Egypt speak the language of Canaan, and swear to the Lord of hosts; one shall be called, The city of destruction.

In that day there will be five towns in the land of Egypt using the language of Canaan, and making oaths to the Lord of armies; and one of them will be named, The Town of the Sun.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when Moab presenteth himself, when he wearieth himself upon the high place, and shall come to his sanctuary to pray, that he shall not prevail.

And when Moab goes up to the high place, and makes prayer in the house of his god, it will have no effect.


simplify: But when they believed Philip preaching good tidings concerning the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, they were baptized, both men and women.

But when they had faith in the good news given by Philip about the kingdom of God and the name of Jesus Christ, a number of men and women had baptism.


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

Have no fear, little flock, for it is your Father's good pleasure to give you the kingdom.


rate difficulty: I want you to know in how great a struggle I am engaged for you and for Christ’s people at Laodicea, and for all who have not yet seen me;

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


simplify: And in the day that he goeth into the sanctuary, into the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he shall offer his sin-offering, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And on the day when he goes into the inner square, to do the work of the holy place, he is to make his sin-offering, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Truly, he keeps back the waters and they are dry; he sends them out and the earth is overturned.


rate difficulty: Who is saying, `I build for myself a large house, And airy upper chambers,' And he hath cut out for himself its windows, Ceiled with cedar, and painted with vermilion.

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


simplify: But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

But with loud cries, and stopping their ears, they made an attack on him all together,


simplify: Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

Truly I say to you, It will be better for the land of Sodom and Gomorrah in the day of God's judging than for that town.


rate difficulty: Then David the king went in and took his seat before the Lord, and said, Who am I, O Lord God, and what is my family, that you have been my guide till now?

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


rate difficulty: And he said to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, I took Israel out of Egypt, and made you free from the hands of the Egyptians and from all the kingdoms which kept you down:

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; For three transgressions of Damascus, and for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have threshed Gilead with threshing instruments of iron:

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Damascus, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have been crushing Gilead with iron grain-crushing instruments.


simplify: And the incense which thou shalt make, according to the composition thereof ye shall not make for yourselves: it shall be unto thee holy for Jehovah.

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


simplify: Train up a child in the way he should go, And even when he is old he will not depart from it.

If a child is trained up in the right way, even when he is old he will not be turned away from it.


rate difficulty: For as the lightning, that lighteneth out of the one part under heaven, shineth unto the other part under heaven; so shall also the Son of man be in his day.

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


rate difficulty: The heavens make clear his sin, and the earth gives witness against him.

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


simplify: And the chief seats in the synagogues, and the uppermost rooms at feasts:

and to have the best seats in the Synagogues, and places of honor at dinner.


rate difficulty: And he did evil, for he applied not his heart to seek Jehovah.


simplify: The workman melteth a graven image, and the goldsmith spreadeth it over with gold, and casteth silver chains.

The workman makes an image, and the gold-worker puts gold plates over it, and makes silver bands for it.


simplify: And the sons of Kohath: Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel; and the years of the life of Kohath were a hundred thirty and three years.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram and Izhar and Hebron and Uzziel: and the years of Kohath's life were a hundred and thirty-three.


rate difficulty: On these two rules all the law and the prophets are based.


rate difficulty: and a woman who is married to a man, who is an unbeliever but willing to live with her, should not divorce her husband.

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


simplify: but I say unto you, Resist not him that is evil: but whosoever smiteth thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also.

But I say to you, Do not make use of force against an evil man; but to him who gives you a blow on the right side of your face let the left be turned.


rate difficulty: Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

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


rate difficulty: And he took the five loaves and the two fishes, and looking up to heaven, he blessed, and brake the loaves; and he gave to the disciples to set before them; and the two fishes divided he among them all.


simplify: The ancients of Gebal and the wise men thereof were in thee thy calkers: all the ships of the sea with their mariners were in thee to occupy thy merchandise.

The responsible men of Gebal and its wise men were in you, making your boards watertight: all the ships of the sea with their seamen were in you trading in your goods.


rate difficulty: Thou dost not turn aside judgment; thou dost not discern faces, nor take a bribe, for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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


rate difficulty: And on the west was ... opposite Joppa.

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


rate difficulty: yet they hearkened not unto me, nor inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff: they did worse than their fathers.

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


simplify: And when Abigail saw David, she hasted, and alighted from her ass, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.

And when Abigail saw David, she quickly got off her ass, falling down on her face before him.


rate difficulty: Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:


simplify: and he cried unto the man of God that came from Judah, saying, Thus saith Jehovah, Forasmuch as thou hast been disobedient unto the mouth of Jehovah, and hast not kept the commandment which Jehovah thy God commanded thee,

And crying out to the man of God who came from Judah, he said, The Lord says, Because you have gone against the voice of the Lord, and have not done as you were ordered by the Lord,


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

And when they were going out from Jericho, a great number went after him.


simplify: He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

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


rate difficulty: Three cities shall ye give on this side of the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

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


simplify: And his feet shall stand in that day upon the mount of Olives, which is before Jerusalem on the east, and the mount of Olives shall cleave in the midst thereof toward the east and toward the west, and there shall be a very great valley; and half of the mountain shall remove toward the north, and half of it toward the south.

And in that day his feet will be on the Mount of Olives, which is opposite Jerusalem on the east, and the Mount of Olives will be parted in the middle to the east and to the west, forming a very great valley; and half the mountain will be moved to the north and half of it to the south.


rate difficulty: Flee, turn, go deep to dwell, ye inhabitants of Dedan, For the calamity of Esau I brought in upon him, The time I inspected him.

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


rate difficulty: and endurest, and hast borne for my name's sake, and hast not wearied:

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


simplify: nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of his feet; nor by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.


simplify: YetGod preserveth the mighty by his power: He riseth up that hath no assurance of life.

But God by his power gives long life to the strong; he gets up again, though he has no hope of life.


simplify: and he said to her, `What wilt thou?' She saith to him, `Say, that they may sit--these my two sons--one on thy right hand, and one on the left, in thy reign.'

“What is it that you want?” he asked. “I want you to say,” she replied, “that in your kingdom these two sons of mine may sit, one on your right, and the other on your left.”


rate difficulty: And Jeshua standeth, <FI>and<Fi> his sons, and his brethren, Kadmiel and his sons, sons of Judah together, to overlook those doing the work in the house of God; the sons of Henadad, <FI>and<Fi> their sons and their brethren the Levites.

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


simplify: The cities of the South are shut up, and there is none to open them: Judah is carried away captive, all of it; it is wholly carried away captive.

The towns of the south are shut up, and there is no one to make them open: Judah is taken away as prisoners; all Judah is taken away as prisoners.


rate difficulty: Then let those who are in Judaea flee to the mountains, and those who are in the midst of it depart out, and those who are in the country not enter into it;

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


simplify: God is faithful, through whom ye were called into the fellowship of his Son Jesus Christ our Lord.

God is true, through whom you have been given a part with his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.


rate difficulty: Be not deceived: Evil companionships corrupt good morals.

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


rate difficulty: The God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, the God of our fathers, has given glory to his servant Jesus; whom you gave up, turning your backs on him, when Pilate had made the decision to let him go free.

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


rate difficulty: And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.

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


simplify: And make ye marriages with us, and give your daughters unto us, and take our daughters unto you.

And let our two peoples be joined together; give your daughters to us, and take our daughters for yourselves.


rate difficulty: My heritage is become unto me as a lion in the forest: she hath uttered her voice against me; therefore I have hated her.


rate difficulty: Then said David to the Philistine, Thou comest to me with a sword, and with a spear, and with a javelin: but I come to thee in the name of Jehovah of hosts, the God of the armies of Israel, whom thou hast defied.

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


simplify: And of Israel: Of the sons of Parosh: Ramiah, and Izziah, and Malchijah, and Mijamin, and Eleazar, and Malchijah, and Benaiah.

And of Israel, the sons of Parosh, Ramiah and Izziah and Malchijah and Mijamin and Eleazar and Malchijah and Benaiah.


rate difficulty: Moreover he built cities in the hill-country of Judah, and in the forests he built castles and towers.

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


rate difficulty: A wise son makes a glad father, but a foolish son is a sorrow to his mother.

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


simplify: and he rose immediately, and having taken up the couch, he went forth before all, so that all were astonished, and do glorify God, saying--`Never thus did we see.'

The man got up, and immediately took up his mat, and went out before them all; at which they were amazed, and, as they praised God, they said: “We have never seen anything like this!”


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel, those returning from the captivity, and every one who is separated from the uncleanness of the nations of the land unto them, to seek to Jehovah, God of Israel, do eat,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then came he out of the land of the Chaldæans, and dwelt in Haran: and from thence, when his father was dead, God removed him into this land, wherein ye now dwell:

Then he came out of the land of the Chaldaeans, and went into Haran; and from there, when his father was dead, he was guided by God into this land, where you are living now:


simplify: Then three thousand men of Judah went to the top of the rock Etam, and said to Samson, Knowest thou not that the Philistines are rulers over us? what is this that thou hast done unto us? And he said unto them, As they did unto me, so have I done unto them.

Then three thousand of the men of Judah went down to the crack of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, Is it not clear to you that the Philistines are our rulers? What is this you have done to us? And he said to them, I only did to them as they did to me.


simplify: And he touched her hand, and the fever left her: and she arose, and ministered unto them.

And he put his hand on hers and the disease went from her, and she got up and took care of his needs.


simplify: and Jehovah delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he left none remaining in it; and he did unto the king thereof as he had done unto the king of Jericho.

And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands of Israel; and he put it and every person in it to the sword, till their destruction was complete; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


rate difficulty: and if also the Adversary against himself was divided, how shall his kingdom be made to stand? for ye say, by Beelzeboul is my casting forth the demons.

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


rate difficulty: And put it at the feet of the Apostles for distribution to everyone as he had need.


rate difficulty: And Ezra openeth the book before the eyes of all the people--for above all the people he hath been--and at his opening <FI>it<Fi> all the people have stood up,

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


simplify: And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.

and ‘will throw them into the blazing furnace,’ where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.


rate difficulty: But Jehovah said to Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him; for it is not as man seeth; for man looketh upon the outward appearance, but Jehovah looketh upon the heart.


simplify: And he hasted, and took the ashes away from his face; and the king of Israel discerned him that he was of the prophets.

Then he quickly took the head-band from his eyes; and the king of Israel saw that he was one of the prophets.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, What is your opinion? What answer are we to give to this people who have said to me, Make less the weight of the yoke which your father put on us?

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


rate difficulty: And the city shall be accursed, even it, and all that are therein, to the Lord: only Rahab the harlot shall live, she and all that are with her in the house, because she hid the messengers that we sent.

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


simplify: and out of the basket of unleavened bread, that was before Jehovah, he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, and placed them on the fat, and upon the right thigh:

And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil on it, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right leg:


rate difficulty: And when she had done giving him drink, she said, I will draw for thy camels also, until they have done drinking.

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


simplify: And the man from whom the demons had gone forth was beseeching of him to be with him, and Jesus sent him away, saying,

The man from whom the demons had gone out begged Jesus to let him be with him; but Jesus sent him away.


simplify: If any man’s work shall be burned, he shall suffer loss: but he himself shall be saved; yet so as by fire.

If anyone’s work is burnt up, they will suffer loss; though they themselves will escape, but only as one who has passed through fire.


simplify: But the Lord is faithful, who shall stablish you, and keep you from evil.

But the Lord will not fail you; he will give you strength, and guard you from evil.


rate difficulty: Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me;

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


simplify: That I may make it manifest, as I ought to speak.

Then I will make them known, as I ought to do.


rate difficulty: Command the children of Israel, that of the inheritance of their possession they give unto the Levites cities to dwell in; and a suburb for the cities round about them shall ye give unto the Levites.

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


simplify: not to all the people, but to witnesses, to those having been chosen before by God--to us who did eat with <FI>him<Fi> , and did drink with him, after his rising out of the dead;

not indeed to everyone, but to witnesses chosen beforehand by God — to us, who ate and drank with him after his resurrection from the dead.


simplify: Paul said to the centurion and to the soldiers, `If these do not remain in the ship--ye are not able to be saved;'

when Paul said to the Roman officer and his men: “Unless the sailors remain on board, you cannot be saved.”


simplify: Then certain of the scribes answering said, Master, thou hast well said.

And some of the scribes, in answer to this, said, Master, you have said well.


simplify: And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these are the sons of Esau, which were born unto him in the land of Canaan.

Oholibamah was the mother of Jeush, Jalam, and Korah; these are the sons of Esau, whose birth took place in the land of Canaan.


simplify: And David said to Achish, Therefore thou shalt know what thy servant will do. And Achish said to David, Therefore will I make thee keeper of my head for ever.

And David said to Achish, You will see now what your servant will do. And Achish said to David, Then I will make you keeper of my head for ever.


simplify: If thou be wise, thou shalt be wise for thyself: but if thou scornest, thou alone shalt bear it.

If you are wise, you are wise for yourself; if your heart is full of pride, you only will have the pain of it.


simplify: The nineteenth to Pethahiah, the twentieth to Jehezekel,

The nineteenth Pethahiah, the twentieth Jehezkel,


simplify: And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.

And the first came out red from head to foot like a robe of hair, and they gave him the name of Esau.


simplify: and he having come, there stood round about the Jews who have come down from Jerusalem--many and weighty charges they are bringing against Paul, which they were not able to prove,

On Paul’s appearance, the Jewish leaders who had come down from Jerusalem surrounded him, and made many serious charges, which they failed to establish.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


simplify: But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

But you, Timothy, must always be temperate. Face hardships; do the work of a missionary; discharge all the duties of your office.


rate difficulty: And it hath been, in the day of battle, that there hath not been found sword and spear in the hand of any of the people who <FI>are<Fi> with Saul and with Jonathan--and there is found to Saul and to Jonathan his son.

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


simplify: And these are the kings of the country which Joshua and the children of Israel smote on this side Jordan on the west, from Baal–gad in the valley of Lebanon even unto the mount Halak, that goeth up to Seir; which Joshua gave unto the tribes of Israel for a possession according to their divisions;

And these are the kings of the land whom Joshua and the children of Israel overcame on the west side of Jordan, from Baal-gad in the valley of Lebanon to Mount Halak, which goes up to Seir; and Joshua gave the land to the tribes of Israel for a heritage, in keeping with their divisions;


rate difficulty: His flesh shall be fresher than a child’s; He returneth to the days of his youth.

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


rate difficulty: And the elders of Gilead said unto Jephthah, Therefore we turn again to thee now, that thou mayest go with us, and fight against the children of Ammon, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

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


simplify: Thus God hath taken away the cattle of your father, and given them to me.

So God has taken away your father's cattle and has given them to me.


simplify: He delivered me from my strong enemy, and from them that hated me: for they were too strong for me.

He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.


rate difficulty: and he calleth the name of that place Bethel, <FI>house of God,<Fi> and yet, Luz <FI>is<Fi> the name of the city at the first.

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


rate difficulty: There is a crying in the streets because of the wine; there is an end of all delight, the joy of the land is gone.

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


rate difficulty: So that she findeth not the level path of life: Her ways are unstable, andshe knoweth it not.

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


simplify: And that he died for all, that they which live should not henceforth live unto themselves, but unto him which died for them, and rose again.

and that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.


simplify: for the word of promise <FI>is<Fi> this; `According to this time I will come, and there shall be to Sarah a son.'

For these words are the words of a promise — ‘About this time I will come, and Sarah will have a son.’


rate difficulty: and they sounded, and found twenty fathoms; and after a little space, they sounded again, and found fifteen fathoms.

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


simplify: Then were the king’s scribes called at that time in the third month, that is, the month Sivan, on the three and twentieth day thereof; and it was written according to all that Mordecai commanded unto the Jews, and to the lieutenants, and the deputies and rulers of the provinces which are from India unto Ethiopia, an hundred twenty and seven provinces, unto every province according to the writing thereof, and unto every people after their language, and to the Jews according to their writing, and according to their language.

Then at that time, on the twenty-third day of the third month, which is the month Sivan, the king's scribes were sent for; and everything ordered by Mordecai was put in writing and sent to the Jews and the captains and the rulers and the chiefs of all the divisions of the kingdom from India to Ethiopia, a hundred and twenty-seven divisions, to every division in the writing commonly used there, and to every people in their language, and to the Jews in their writing and their language.


simplify: They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.

All of them are turned away, going about with false stories; they are brass and iron: they are all workers of deceit.


simplify: And I cut off the three shepherds in one month; for my soul was weary of them, and their soul also loathed me.

And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.


rate difficulty: And I saw when he opened the sixth seal, and lo, a great earthquake came, and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair, and the moon became as blood,

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


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.

My loved one, do not be copying what is evil, but what is good. He who does good is of God: he who does evil has not seen God.


rate difficulty: Turn back, and say to Hezekiah the prince of my people, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will heal thee; on the third day thou shalt go up unto the house of Jehovah.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they did all eat, and were filled: and they took up of the fragments that remained twelve baskets full.

Everyone had sufficient to eat, and they picked up enough of the broken pieces that were left to fill twelve baskets.


simplify: Upon the land of my people shall come up thorns and briers; yea, upon all the houses of joy in the joyous city:

And for the land of my people, where thorns will come up; even for all the houses of joy in the glad town.


simplify: Then the Lord said unto me, Proclaim all these words in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Hear ye the words of this covenant, and do them.

And the Lord said to me, Give out these words in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, saying, Give ear to the words of this agreement and do them.


simplify: And he went into the synagogue, and spake boldly for the space of three months, disputing and persuading the things concerning the kingdom of God.

Paul went to the synagogue there, and for three months spoke out fearlessly, giving addresses and trying to convince his hearers, about the kingdom of God.


simplify: Ye shall give three cities beyond the Jordan, and three cities shall ye give in the land of Canaan; they shall be cities of refuge.

Three on the other side of Jordan and three in the land of Canaan, to be safe places for flight.


simplify: He indeed, then, having taken him, brought him unto the chief captain, and saith, `The prisoner Paul, having called me near, asked <FI>me<Fi> this young man to bring unto thee, having something to say to thee.'

The captain went with the lad to the commanding officer, and said: “The prisoner Paul called me and asked me to bring this lad to you, as he has something to tell you.”


simplify: Though thou shouldest bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.

Even if a foolish man is crushed with a hammer in a vessel among crushed grain, still his foolish ways will not go from him.


rate difficulty: And the Lord gave us orders to keep all these laws, in the fear of the Lord our God, so that it might be well for us for ever, and that he might keep us from death, as he has done to this day.

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


simplify: They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

Those who were used to feasting on delicate food are wasted in the streets: those who as children were dressed in purple are stretched out on the dust.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

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


simplify: And two golden rings shalt thou make for it under the crown thereof; upon the two ribs thereof, upon the two sides of it shalt thou make them; and they shall be for places for staves wherewith to bear it.

Under the edge on the two opposite sides, you are to make two gold rings, to take the rods for lifting it.


simplify: It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, than with a brawling woman and in a wide house.

It is better to be living in an angle of the house-top, than with a bitter-tongued woman in a wide house.


simplify: He found him in a desert land, And in the waste howling wilderness; He compassed him about, he cared for him, He kept him as the apple of his eye.

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


simplify: But I would ye should understand, brethren, that the things which happened unto me have fallen out rather unto the furtherance of the gospel;

Now it is my purpose to make clear to you, brothers, that the cause of the good news has been helped by my experiences;