simplify: There was not a word of all that Moses commanded, which Joshua read not before all the assembly of Israel, and the women, and the little ones, and the sojourners that were among them.

Reading to all the meeting of Israel, with the women and the children and the men from other lands who were living among them, every word of the orders which Moses had given.


rate difficulty: And, therefore, a woman ought to wear on her head a symbol of her subjection, because of the presence of the angels.

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


rate difficulty: And fifty men of the sons of the prophets went and stood opposite afar off; and they two stood by the Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: And the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, and the priests of the second order, and the keepers of the threshold, to bring forth out of the temple of Jehovah all the vessels that were made for Baal, and for the Asherah, and for all the host of heaven, and he burned them without Jerusalem in the fields of the Kidron, and carried the ashes of them unto Beth-el.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spoke to the children of Israel, that they should hold the passover.


rate difficulty: If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

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


rate difficulty: Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

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


simplify: Come, my beloved, let us go forth into the field; Let us lodge in the villages.

Come, my loved one, let us go out into the field; let us take rest among the cypress-trees.


simplify: who smote Abimelech the son of Jerubbesheth? did not a woman cast an upper millstone upon him from the wall, so that he died at Thebez? why went ye so nigh the wall? then shalt thou say, Thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.


simplify: and before all these, they shall lay on you their hands, and persecute, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, being brought before kings and governors for my name's sake;

Before all this, they will lay hands on you and persecute you, and they will betray you to Synagogues and put you in prison, when you will be brought before kings and governors for the sake of my name.


simplify: Jehovah your God who goeth before you, he will fight for you, according to all that he did for you in Egypt before your eyes,

The Lord your God who goes before you will be fighting for you, and will do such wonders as he did for you in Egypt before your eyes;


rate difficulty: Where then are thygods that thou hast made for thyself? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for as the number of thy cities, are thygods, O Judah.

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


simplify: But Peter and John answered and said unto them, Whether it be right in the sight of God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye.

But Peter and John in answer said to them, It is for you to say if it is right in the eyes of God to give attention to you more than to God:


simplify: On the eleventh day Pagiel the son of Ocran, prince of the children of Asher, offered:

On the eleventh day Pagiel, the son of Ochran, chief of the children of Asher:


simplify: But a certain man named Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession,

There was, however, a man named Ananias, who, with his wife Sapphira, sold some property,


simplify: And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them; there was none left that breathed: and he burnt Hazor with fire.

And they put every person in it to death without mercy, giving every living thing up to the curse, and burning Hazor.


rate difficulty: Enough to you--is the going round of this mount; turn for yourselves northward.


rate difficulty: For he taught his disciples, and said unto them, The Son of man is delivered into the hands of men, and they shall kill him; and after that he is killed, he shall rise the third day.

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


simplify: Neither shalt thou bear false witness against thy neighbor.

Do not give false witness against your neighbour;


rate difficulty: And Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Moses, one of his young men, answered and said, My lord Moses, forbid them.


simplify: A wife is bound for so long time as her husband liveth; but if the husband be dead, she is free to be married to whom she will; only in the Lord.

It is right for a wife to be with her husband as long as he is living; but when her husband is dead, she is free to be married to another; but only to a Christian.


simplify: And it came to pass, as if it had been a light thing for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam the son of Nebat, that he took to wife Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and went and served Baal, and worshipped him.

And as if copying the evil ways of Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, was a small thing for him, he took as his wife Jezebel, daughter of Ethbaal, king of Zidon, and became a servant and worshipper of Baal.


simplify: And Moses spake so unto the children of Israel: but they hearkened not unto Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, but they gave no attention to him, because of the grief of their spirit and the cruel weight of their work.


simplify: Forasmuch then as Christ suffered in the flesh, arm ye yourselves also with the same mind; for he that hath suffered in the flesh hath ceased from sin;

So that as Jesus was put to death in the flesh, do you yourselves be of the same mind; for the death of the flesh puts an end to sin;


rate difficulty: And Hiram sent to Solomon, saying, I have heard the things which thou sentest to me for: I will do all thy desire concerning timber of cedar, and concerning timber of cypress.

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


simplify: His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

And his eyes are a flame of fire, and crowns are on his head; and he has a name in writing, of which no man has knowledge but himself.


rate difficulty: There is nothing hidden that will not come to light and nothing is concealed that will not be brought into the open.

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


simplify: And I subscribed the evidence, and sealed it, and took witnesses, and weighed him the money in the balances.

And I put it in writing, stamping it with my stamp, and I took witnesses and put the money into the scales.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Art thou he of whom I spake in old time by my servants the prophets of Israel, that prophesied in those days for many years that I would bring thee against them?

This is what the Lord has said: You are he of whom I gave them word in earlier times by my servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those days went on saying, year after year, that I would make you come up against them.


simplify: And Moses’ father-in-law said unto him, The thing that thou doest is not good.

And Moses' father-in-law said to him, What you are doing is not good.


simplify: `Men, brethren, and fathers, hear my defence now unto you;' --

“Brothers and fathers, listen to the defense which I am about to make.”


rate difficulty: And he said to his disciples, The time will come when you will have a great desire to see one of the days of the Son of man, but you will not see it.

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


simplify: and he had in his hand a little book open: and he set his right foot upon the sea, and his left upon the earth;

And he had in his hand a little open book: and he put his right foot on the sea, and his left on the earth;


simplify: The bows of the mighty men are broken, and they that stumbled are girded with strength.

The bows of the men of war are broken, and the feeble are clothed with strength.


rate difficulty: And I will smite the inhabitants of this city, both man and beast: they shall die of a great pestilence.

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


simplify: And the west side shall be the great sea, from the south border as far as over against the entrance of Hamath. This is the west side.

And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.


rate difficulty: And he hath carved cherubs, and palms, and openings of flowers, and overlaid with straightened gold the graved work.

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


rate difficulty: Cause it to return into its sheath. In the place where thou wast created, in the land of thy birth, will I judge thee.

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


simplify: The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred twenty and one.

The children of Lod, Hadid, and Ono, seven hundred and twenty-one.


rate difficulty: Then Hezekiah answered and said, Now ye have consecrated yourselves unto Jehovah; come near and bring sacrifices and thank-offerings into the house of Jehovah. And the assembly brought in sacrifices and thank-offerings; and as many as were of a willing heart brought burnt-offerings.

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


simplify: And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:

And whoever is responsible for any such sin, let him make a statement openly of his wrongdoing;


simplify: Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members are as a shadow.

My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.


rate difficulty: Is it any pleasure to the Almighty, that thou art righteous? Or is it gainto him, that thou makest thy ways perfect?

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


rate difficulty: And when his stories came to the ears of the chief priests and the Pharisees, they saw that he was talking of them.

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


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

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


simplify: These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi, and Judah, Issachar, and Zebulun,

These are the sons of Israel: Reuben, Simeon, Levi and Judah, Issachar and Zebulun;


rate difficulty: and ye--ye fill up the measure of your fathers.


simplify: Know ye not that your bodies are the members of Christ? shall I then take the members of Christ, and make them the members of an harlot? God forbid.

Do not you know that your bodies are Christ’s members? Am I, then, to take the members that belong to the Christ and make them the members of a prostitute? Heaven forbid!


simplify: I spake also to Zedekiah king of Judah according to all these words, saying, Bring your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon, and serve him and his people, and live.

And I said all this to Zedekiah, king of Judah, saying, Put your necks under the yoke of the king of Babylon and become his servants and his people, so that you may keep your lives.


simplify: Moab is confounded; for it is broken down: howl and cry; tell ye it in Arnon, that Moab is spoiled,

Moab has been put to shame, she is broken: make loud sounds of grief, crying out for help; give the news in Arnon, that Moab has been made waste.


simplify: They are amazed, they answer no more: They have not a word to say.

Fear has overcome them, they have no more answers to give; they have come to an end of words.


simplify: And he carried me away in the spirit to a great and high mountain, and shewed me that great city, the holy Jerusalem, descending out of heaven from God,

And he took me away in the Spirit to a great and high mountain, and let me see the holy town Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God,


simplify: When Jesus understood it, he said unto them, Why trouble ye the woman? for she hath wrought a good work upon me.

But Jesus, seeing it, said to them, Why are you troubling the woman? she has done a kind act to me.


simplify: Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee; I have appointed thee a prophet unto the nations.

Before you were formed in the body of your mother I had knowledge of you, and before your birth I made you holy; I have given you the work of being a prophet to the nations.


rate difficulty: And if the wrongdoer is to undergo punishment by whipping, the judge will give orders for him to go down on his face and be whipped before him, the number of the blows being in relation to his crime.

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


simplify: Them did Moses the servant of the Lord and the children of Israel smite: and Moses the servant of the Lord gave it for a possession unto the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasseh.

Moses, the servant of the Lord, and the children of Israel overcame them; and Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave their land for a heritage to the Reubenites, and the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh.


simplify: Wherefore I beseech you, be ye followers of me.

Therefore I entreat you — Follow my example.


rate difficulty: Take heed therefore how ye hear: for whosoever hath, to him shall be given; and whosoever hath not, from him shall be taken away even that which he thinketh he hath.

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


rate difficulty: From the blood of the slain, from the fat of the mighty, The bow of Jonathan turned not back, And the sword of Saul returned not empty.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, a man will say, Thou hast faith, and I have works: show me thy faith apart from thy works, and I by my works will show thee my faith.

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


rate difficulty: And unto Joseph were born two sons before the years of famine came, which Asenath the daughter of Poti–pherah priest of On bare unto him.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Pilate asked him again, saying, Answerest thou nothing? behold how many things they witness against thee.

And Pilate again put a question, Do you say nothing in answer? see how much evil they say you have done.


simplify: He restored the coast of Israel from the entering of Hamath unto the sea of the plain, according to the word of the Lord God of Israel, which he spake by the hand of his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet, which was of Gath–hepher.

He got back the old limits of Israel from the way into Hamath to the sea of the Arabah, as the Lord had said by his servant Jonah, the son of Amittai, the prophet of Gath-hepher.


simplify: because if our heart may condemn--because greater is God than our heart, and He doth know all things.

that if our conscience condemns us, yet God is greater than our conscience and knows everything.


rate difficulty: And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

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


rate difficulty: The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.


rate difficulty: but some of them said: “He drives out demons by the help of Beelzebul, the chief of the demons”;

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


simplify: A fool’s vexation is presently known; But a prudent man concealeth shame.

A foolish man lets his trouble be openly seen, but a sharp man keeps shame secret.


rate difficulty: And now, friends, goodbye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.


rate difficulty: Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.

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


simplify: It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: for in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he rested, and was refreshed.

It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever; because in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, and on the seventh day he took his rest and had pleasure in it.


rate difficulty: And I will put over them keepers who will take care of them: never again will they be overcome with fear or be troubled, and there will not be the loss of one of them, says the Lord.


simplify: So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption:

So is it with the coming back from the dead. It is planted in death; it comes again in life:


simplify: But this thou hast, that thou hatest the deeds of the Nicolaitans, which I also hate.

But this is in your favor — You hate the life lived by the Nikolaitans, and I also hate it.


simplify: Because thine heart was tender, and thou hast humbled thyself before the Lord, when thou heardest what I spake against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, that they should become a desolation and a curse, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith the Lord.

Because your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before me, when you had word of what I said against this place and its people, that they would become a waste and a curse, and you gave signs of grief, weeping before me: truly, I have given ear to you, says the Lord.


simplify: Now therefore, take unto you seven bullocks and seven rams, and go to my servant Job, and offer up for yourselves a burnt-offering; and my servant Job shall pray for you; for him will I accept, that I deal not with you after your folly; for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

And now, take seven oxen and seven sheep, and go to my servant Job, and give a burned offering for yourselves, and my servant Job will make prayer for you, that I may not send punishment on you; because you have not said what is right about me, as my servant Job has.


simplify: And Moab was sore afraid of the people, because they were many: and Moab was distressed because of the children of Israel.

And in Moab there was great fear of the people, because their numbers were so great: and the feeling of Moab was bitter against the children of Israel.


simplify: And God blessed Noah and his sons, and said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth.

And God gave his blessing to Noah and his sons, and said, Be fertile, and have increase, and make the earth full.


simplify: And the kings of the earth, who committed fornication and lived wantonly with her, shall weep and wail over her, when they look upon the smoke of her burning,

And the kings of the earth, who made themselves unclean with her, and in her company gave themselves up to evil, will be weeping and crying over her, when they see the smoke of her burning,


simplify: All hands shall be feeble, and all knees shall be weak as water.

All hands will be feeble and all knees without strength, like water.


simplify: And he brought me thither; and, behold, there was a man, whose appearance was like the appearance of brass, with a line of flax in his hand, and a measuring reed; and he stood in the gate.

He took me there, and I saw a man, looking like brass, with a linen cord in his hand and a measuring rod: and he was stationed in the doorway.


rate difficulty: And take for yourself wheat and barley and different sorts of grain, and put them in one vessel and make bread for yourself from them; all the days when you are stretched on your side it will be your food.


rate difficulty: for Simeon, Shelumiel the son of Zurishaddai;

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


rate difficulty: And the word of God was increasing in power; and the number of the disciples in Jerusalem became very great, and a great number of priests were in agreement with the faith.


rate difficulty: When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.

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


simplify: And they answered and said unto him, Where, Lord? And he said unto them, Wheresoever the body is, thither will the eagles be gathered together.

And they, answering him, said, Where, Lord? And he said to them, Where the body is, there will the eagles come together.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to him, Peace be unto thee: fear not; thou shalt not die.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king's servants who were in the king's house said to Mordecai, Why do you go against the king's order?

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


simplify: But go ye and learn what this meaneth, I desire mercy, and not sacrifice: for I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

But go and take to heart the sense of these words, My desire is for mercy, not offerings: for I have come not to get the upright, but sinners.


simplify: The father of the righteous shall greatly rejoice: and he that begetteth a wise child shall have joy of him.

The father of the upright man will be glad, and he who has a wise child will have joy because of him.


simplify: and I will multiply upon you man and beast; and they shall increase and be fruitful; and I will cause you to be inhabited after your former estate, and will do better unto you than at your beginnings: and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

Man and beast will be increased in you, and they will have offspring and be fertile: I will make you thickly peopled as you were before, and will do more for you than at the first: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And Moses took them from off their hands, and burnt them on the altar upon the burnt-offering: they were a consecration for a sweet savor: it was an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

And Moses took them from their hands, and they were burned on the altar on the burned offering, as a priest's offering for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


simplify: Then king David answered and said, Call me Bath–sheba. And she came into the king’s presence, and stood before the king.

Then King David in answer said, Send for Bath-sheba to come to me. And she came in and took her place before the king.


rate difficulty: send one of you, and let him bring your brother, and ye, remain ye bound, and let your words be proved, whether truth be with you: and if not--Pharaoh liveth! surely ye <FI>are<Fi> spies;'

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


simplify: And hath taken of the king’s seed, and made a covenant with him, and hath taken an oath of him: he hath also taken the mighty of the land:

And he took one of the sons of the king and made an agreement with him; and he put him under an oath, and took away the great men of the land:


simplify: Though he spare it, and will not let it go, But keep it still within his mouth;

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


simplify: And when Baal–hanan was dead, Hadad reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Pai; and his wife’s name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Mezahab.

And at the death of Baal-hanan, Hadad became king in his place; his town was named Pai, and his wife's name was Mehetabel, the daughter of Matred, the daughter of Me-zahab.


rate difficulty: For if some one should see you who possess this knowledge, feasting in an idol’s temple, will not their conscience, if they are weak, become so hardened that they, too, will eat food offered to idols?

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


simplify: Therefore night shall be unto you, that ye shall not have a vision; and it shall be dark unto you, that ye shall not divine; and the sun shall go down over the prophets, and the day shall be dark over them.

For this cause it will be night for you, without a vision; and it will be dark for you, without knowledge of the future; the sun will go down over the prophets, and the day will be black over them.


rate difficulty: that Jehovah called to Samuel. And he said, Here am I.

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


simplify: Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city.

A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.


simplify: As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:

like newly born infants, crave pure spiritual milk, so that you may be enabled by it to grow until you attain salvation —


rate difficulty: So the king of Israel got together all the prophets, four hundred men, and said to them, Am I to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And they said, Go up: for God will give it into the hands of the king.

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


simplify: But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.


simplify: and I will execute judgments upon Moab; and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

And I will be the judge of Moab; and they will see that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Manoah riseth, and goeth after his wife, and cometh unto the man, and saith to him, `Art thou the man who spake unto the woman?' and he saith, `I <FI>am<Fi> .'

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


rate difficulty: many, indeed, therefore, of them did believe, and of the honourable Greek women and men not a few.

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


simplify: The cities of Aroer are forsaken; they shall be for flocks, which shall lie down, and none shall make them afraid.

Her towns are unpeopled for ever; there the flocks take their rest in peace, without fear.


rate difficulty: The great God that formed all things both rewardeth the fool, and rewardeth transgressors.

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


simplify: They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.


simplify: and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.


simplify: (for when Gentiles that have not the law do by nature the things of the law, these, not having the law, are the law unto themselves;

For when the Gentiles without the law have a natural desire to do the things in the law, they are a law to themselves;


rate difficulty: They shall invite [the] peoples to the mountain; There they shall offer sacrifices of righteousness; For they will suck the abundance of the seas, And the hidden treasures of the sand.


rate difficulty: Not one of the sins which he has done will be kept in mind against him: he has done what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his.


simplify: And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them,

And he took a little child, and put him in the middle of them,


rate difficulty: And Jesus stood before the governor: and the governor asked him, saying, Art thou the King of the Jews? And Jesus said unto him, Thou sayest.

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


simplify: how he went into the house of God, (at `Abiathar the chief priest,') and the loaves of the presentation did eat, which it is not lawful to eat, except to the priests, and he gave also to those who were with him?'

How he went into the house of God, in the time of Abiathar the high priest, and ate the consecrated bread, which only the priests are allowed to eat, and gave some to his comrades as well?”


rate difficulty: Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

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


simplify: Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he poured out his soul unto death, and was numbered with the transgressors: yet he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.

For this cause he will have a heritage with the great, and he will have a part in the goods of war with the strong, because he gave up his life, and was numbered with the evil-doers; taking on himself the sins of the people, and making prayer for the wrongdoers.


rate difficulty: He feedeth on ashes; a deceived heart hath turned him aside; and he cannot deliver his soul, nor say, Is there not a lie in my right hand?

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


rate difficulty: For, Thou shalt not commit adultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal, Thou shalt not lust; and if there be any other commandment, it is summed up in this word, namely, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Who will give to every man his right reward:

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


rate difficulty: And both of them disclosed themselves unto the garrison of the Philistines: and the Philistines said, Behold, the Hebrews come forth out of the holes where they had hid themselves.

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


simplify: These are the statutes, which Jehovah commanded Moses, between a man and his wife, between a father and his daughter, being in her youth, in her father’s house.

These are the laws which the Lord gave Moses in relation to a man and his wife, or a father and a young daughter who is under his authority.


rate difficulty: O Ephraim, what to Me any more with idols? I--I afflicted, and I cause him to sing: `I <FI>am<Fi> as a green fir-tree,' From Me is thy fruit found.

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


simplify: Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide thyself for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.

Come, my people, into your secret places, and let your doors be shut: keep yourself safe for a short time, till his wrath is over.


simplify: And Joram turned his hands, and fled, and said to Ahaziah, There is treachery, O Ahaziah.

Then Joram, turning his horses in flight, said to Ahaziah, Broken faith, O Ahaziah!


simplify: And the priest answered David, and said, There is no common bread under mine hand, but there is hallowed bread; if the young men have kept themselves at least from women.

And the priest, answering David, said, I have no common bread here but there is holy bread; if only the young men have kept themselves from women.


rate difficulty: Scatter abroad the wrath of thine anger, And see every proud one, and make him low.

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


rate difficulty: and God turneth back the evil of Abimelech which he did to his father to slay his seventy brethren;

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


rate difficulty: And he offered the tribute unto Eglon king of Moab: now Eglon was a very fat man.

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


simplify: And the apostles and elders came together for to consider of this matter.

And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.


rate difficulty: And Samuel said to Saul, The Lord sent me to put the holy oil on you and to make you king over his people, over Israel: so give ear now to the words of the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And when she hath found it, she calleth her friends and her neighbours together, saying, Rejoice with me; for I have found the piece which I had lost.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel went to his house heavy and displeased, and came to Samaria.


rate difficulty: And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after he had returned from smiting Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, into the valley of Shaveh, which is the king's valley.

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


rate difficulty: For if ye forgive men their offences, your heavenly Father also will forgive you [yours],

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


simplify: Of the sons of Pahath–moab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.

Of the sons of Pahath-moab, Eliehoenai, the son of Zerahiah; and with him two hundred males.


rate difficulty: Then said Saul, I have sinned: return, my son David: for I will no more do thee harm, because my soul was precious in thine eyes this day: behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.

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


rate difficulty: And I will bring forth a seed out of Jacob, and out of Judah a possessor of my mountains; and mine elect shall possess it, and my servants shall dwell there.


rate difficulty: And they utterly destroyed all that was in the city, both man and woman, young and old, and ox, and sheep, and ass, with the edge of the sword.

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


rate difficulty: But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.

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


simplify: Then the king answered and said, Give her the living child, and in no wise slay it: she is the mother thereof.

Then the king made answer and said, Give her the child, and do not put it to death; she is the mother of it.


rate difficulty: (For we are but of yesterday, and know nothing, Because our days upon earth are a shadow);


simplify: Out of Asher his bread shall be fat, And he shall yield royal dainties.

Asher's bread is fat; he gives delicate food for kings.


simplify: And if we have not rather done it for fear of this thing, saying, In time to come your children might speak unto our children, saying, What have ye to do with the Lord God of Israel?

And if we have not, in fact, done this designedly and with purpose, having in our minds the fear that in time to come your children might say to our children, What have you to do with the Lord, the God of Israel?


simplify: Thy head upon thee is like Carmel, And the hair of thy head like purple; The king is held captive in the tresses thereof.

Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.


simplify: Ye men of Israel, hear these words; Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of God among you by miracles and wonders and signs, which God did by him in the midst of you, as ye yourselves also know:

Men of Israel, give ear to these words: Jesus of Nazareth, a man who had the approval of God, as was made clear to you by the great works and signs and wonders which God did by him among you, as you yourselves have knowledge,


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat stood in the congregation of Judah and Jerusalem, in the house of Jehovah, before the new court;

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


simplify: And on the east side toward the rising of the sun shall they of the standard of the camp of Judah pitch throughout their armies: and Nahshon the son of Amminadab shall be captain of the children of Judah.

Those whose tents are on the east side, looking to the dawn, will be round the flag of the children of Judah, with Nahshon, the son of Amminadab, as their chief.


rate difficulty: Doth he thank the servant because he did the things that were commanded?

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


simplify: also for the courses of the priests and the Levites, and for all the work of the service of the house of Jehovah, and for all the vessels of service in the house of Jehovah;

And for the divisions of the priests and Levites, and for all the work in connection with the worship of the house of the Lord, and all the vessels used in the house of the Lord;


rate difficulty: For they were about five thousand men. And he said unto his disciples, Make them sit down in companies, about fifty each.

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


rate difficulty: `And thou--if thou dost walk before Me as David thy father walked, in simplicity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee--My statutes and My judgments thou dost keep--

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: So the workmen wrought, and the work of repairing went forward in their hands, and they set up the house of God in its state, and strengthened it.

So the workmen did their work, making good what was damaged and building up the house of God till it was strong and beautiful again.


simplify: And a certain man drew his bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the armor: wherefore he said to the driver of the chariot, Turn thy hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am sore wounded.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: And it shall come to pass, when all these things are come upon thee, the blessing and the curse, which I have set before thee, and thou shalt call them to mind among all the nations, whither the Lord thy God hath driven thee,

Now when all these things have come on you, the blessing and the curse which I have put before you, if the thought of them comes back to your minds, when you are living among the nations where the Lord your God has sent you,


rate difficulty: And the king said to him, Why speakest thou any more of thy matters? I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

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


rate difficulty: from Sihor which <FI>is<Fi> on the front of Egypt, and unto the border of Ekron northward, to the Canaanite it is reckoned, five princes of the Philistines, the Gazathite, and the Ashdothite, the Eshkalonite, the Gittite, and the Ekronite, also the Avim.

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


rate difficulty: For he is cast into a net by his own feet, and he walketh upon a snare.


simplify: and they rose up, and cast him forth out of the city, and led him unto the brow of the hill whereon their city was built, that they might throw him down headlong.

And they got up and took him out of the town to the edge of the mountain on which their town was, so that they might send him down to his death.


simplify: And Saul said to him, Whose son art thou, thou young man? And David answered, I am the son of thy servant Jesse the Beth-lehemite.

And Saul said to him, Young man, whose son are you? And David in answer said, I am the son of your servant Jesse of Beth-lehem.


simplify: We know that we have passed from death unto life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not his brother abideth in death.

We are conscious that we have come out of death into life because of our love for the brothers. He who has no love is still in death.


simplify: And if his means suffice not for a lamb, then he shall bring his trespass-offering for that wherein he hath sinned, two turtle-doves, or two young pigeons, unto Jehovah; one for a sin-offering, and the other for a burnt-offering.

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


rate difficulty: And wonder overcame them all, and they gave glory to God; and they were full of fear, saying, We have seen strange things today.

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


simplify: So Solomon overlaid the house within with pure gold: and he made a partition by the chains of gold before the oracle; and he overlaid it with gold.

Solomon had all the inside of the house covered with gold, and he put chains of gold across in front of the inmost room, which itself was covered with gold.


rate difficulty: And, as soon as his term of service was finished, he returned home.

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


rate difficulty: And the priest’s heart was glad, and he took the ephod, and the teraphim, and the graven image, and went in the midst of the people.

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


simplify: But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up stedfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,

But he was full of the Holy Spirit, and looking up to heaven, he saw the glory of God and Jesus at the right hand of God.


simplify: And Jacob loved Rachel; and said, I will serve thee seven years for Rachel thy younger daughter.

And Jacob was in love with Rachel; and he said, I will be your servant seven years for Rachel, your younger daughter.


simplify: Then David the king stood up upon his feet, and said, Hear me, my brethren, and my people: As for me, I had in mine heart to build an house of rest for the ark of the covenant of the Lord, and for the footstool of our God, and had made ready for the building:

Then David the king got up and said, Give ear to me, my brothers and my people; it was my desire to put up a house, a resting-place for the ark of the Lord's agreement, and for the foot-rest of our God; and I had got material ready for the building of it.


simplify: Moreover he burnt incense in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the Lord had cast out before the children of Israel.

More than this, he had offerings burned in the valley of the son of Hinnom, and made his children go through fire, copying the disgusting ways of the nations whom the Lord had sent out of the land before the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: God, my rock, in him will I take refuge; My shield, and the horn of my salvation, my high tower, and my refuge; My saviour, thou savest me from violence.

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel arose, and gat him up from Gilgal unto Gibeah of Benjamin. And Saul numbered the people that were present with him, about six hundred men.

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


simplify: And if ye be Christ’s, then are ye Abraham’s seed, and heirs according to the promise.

And, since you belong to Christ, it follows that you are Abraham’s offspring and, under the promise, sharers in the inheritance.


rate difficulty: For the Izharite: Shelomoth; for sons of Shelomoth: Jahath.

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


simplify: And Micaiah said, As the Lord liveth, even what my God saith, that will I speak.

And Micaiah said, By the living Lord, whatever the Lord says to me I will say.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Let it suffice you, O princes of Israel: remove violence and spoil, and execute justice and righteousness; take away your exactions from my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

This is what the Lord has said: Let this be enough for you, O rulers of Israel: let there be an end of violent behaviour and wasting; do what is right, judging uprightly; let there be no more driving out of my people, says the Lord.


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

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


rate difficulty: It came to pass also in the twelfth year, in the fifteenth day of the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: when thou keepest all this command to do it, which I am commanding thee to-day, to love Jehovah thy God, and to walk in His ways all the days--then thou hast added to thee yet three cities to these three;

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


simplify: And to each hath been given the manifestation of the Spirit for profit;

To each of us there is given spiritual illumination for the general good.


simplify: I made it fair by the multitude of its branches, so that all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden of God, envied it.

I made it beautiful with its mass of branches: so that all the trees in the garden of God were full of envy of it.


rate difficulty: And God, which knoweth the hearts, bare them witness, giving them the Holy Ghost, even as he did unto us;

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


simplify: And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trespasses and sins;

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,


simplify: that is not another, except there be certain who are troubling you, and wishing to pervert the good news of the Christ;

Which is really no good news at all. But then, I know that there are people who are harassing you, and who want to pervert the good news of the Christ.


simplify: Whether is it easier to say to the sick of the palsy, Thy sins be forgiven thee; or to say, Arise, and take up thy bed, and walk?

Which is easier? — to say to the paralyzed man, ‘Your sins are forgiven’? Or to say ‘Get up, and take up your mat, and walk’?


rate difficulty: Command the children of Israel, and say unto them, My oblation, my food for my offerings made by fire, of a sweet savor unto me, shall ye observe to offer unto me in their due season.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: then I beheld all the work of God, that man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because however much a man labor to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea moreover, though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

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


rate difficulty: The man of wealth is to give no more and the poor man no less than the half-shekel of silver, when the offering is made to the Lord as the price for your lives.

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


simplify: And you, being in time past alienated and enemies in your mind in your evil works,

And you, who in the past were cut off and at war with God in your minds through evil works, he has now made one


rate difficulty: and it hath been declared to thee, and thou hast heard, and hast searched diligently, and lo, truth; the thing is established; this abomination hath been done in Israel--

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


rate difficulty: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, nor thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thine ox, nor thine ass, nor any of thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates; that thy manservant and thy maidservant may rest as well as thou.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 16 | difficulty: hard


simplify: These were the orderings of them in their service to come into the house of the Lord, according to their manner, under Aaron their father, as the Lord God of Israel had commanded him.

So they were put into their different groups, to take their places in the house of the Lord, in agreement with the rules made by Aaron their father, as the Lord, the God of Israel, had given him orders.


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

the stars will be falling from the heavens,’ and ‘the forces that are in the heavens will be convulsed.’


rate difficulty: And he set the altar of burnt-offering at the door of the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, and offered upon it the burnt-offering and the meal-offering; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

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


simplify: That all the people of the earth might know the hand of the Lord, that it is mighty: that ye might fear the Lord your God for ever.

So that all the peoples of the earth may see that the hand of the Lord is strong; and that they may go in fear of the Lord your God for ever.


simplify: And thine ears shall hear a word behind thee, saying, This is the way, walk ye in it, when ye turn to the right hand, and when ye turn to the left.

And at your back, when you are turning to the right hand or to the left, a voice will be sounding in your ears, saying, This is the way in which you are to go.


rate difficulty: And at the evening offering, having made myself low before God, I got up, and with signs of grief, falling down on my knees, with my hands stretched out to the Lord my God,

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


rate difficulty: and cometh in between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel, and the cloud and the darkness are, and he enlighteneth the night, and the one hath not drawn near unto the other all the night.

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


simplify: If then I know not the meaning of the voice, I shall be to him that speaketh a barbarian, and he that speaketh will be a barbarian unto me.

But if the sense of the voice is not clear to me, I am like a man from a strange country to him who is talking, and he will be the same to me.


rate difficulty: Even a fool when he holdeth his peace is reckoned wise, [and] he that shutteth his lips, intelligent.

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


rate difficulty: and I will overthrow the throne of kingdoms, and I will destroy the strength of the kingdoms of the nations; and I will overthrow the chariots, and those that ride therein; and the horses and their riders shall come down, every one by the sword of his brother.

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


simplify: And he said, Behold now, my lords, turn in, I pray you, into your servant’s house, and tarry all night, and wash your feet, and ye shall rise up early, and go on your ways. And they said, Nay; but we will abide in the street all night.

And he said, My masters, come now into your servant's house and take your rest there for the night, and let your feet be washed; and early in the morning you may go on your way. And they said, Not so, but we will take our night's rest in the street.


simplify: and those that we think to be less honourable of the body, around these we put more abundant honour, and our unseemly things have seemliness more abundant,

and those parts which we deem less honorable we surround with special honor; and our ungraceful parts receive a special grace which our graceful parts do not require.


simplify: and he said to them, `What do ye wish me to do for you?'

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


simplify: Then sent Joseph, and called his father Jacob to him, and all his kindred, threescore and fifteen souls.

Then Joseph sent an urgent invitation to his father Jacob and to his relations, seventy-five persons in all;


rate difficulty: The owner’s servants came to them, and said ‘Was not it good seed that you sowed in your field? Where, then, do the weeds in it come from?’

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


simplify: Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

Do not disparage one another, friends. The person who disparages others, or passes judgment on them, disparages the law and passes judgment on the law. But, if you pass judgment on the law, you are not obeying it, but judging it.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Elias truly shall first come, and restore all things.

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


simplify: Who only hath immortality, dwelling in the light which no man can approach unto; whom no man hath seen, nor can see: to whom be honour and power everlasting. Amen.

who alone is possessed of immortality and dwells in unapproachable light, whom no one has ever seen or ever can see — to whom be ascribed honor and power for ever. Amen.


rate difficulty: All their evil-doing is in Gilgal; there I had hate for them; because of their evil-doing I will send them out of my house; they will no longer be dear to me; all their rulers are uncontrolled.

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


simplify: And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house, mourning and having his head covered.

And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.


simplify: The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is worse than a thorn hedge: the day of thy watchmen, even thy visitation, is come; now shall be their perplexity.

The best of them is like a waste plant, and their upright ones are like a wall of thorns. Sorrow! the day of their fate has come; now will trouble come on them.


rate difficulty: But do thou speak the things that become sound teaching;

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


simplify: And thou shalt bind them for a sign upon thy hand, and they shall be for frontlets between thine eyes.

Let them be fixed as a sign on your hand, and marked on your brow;


simplify: And now art thou any thing better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever fight against them,

What! are you any better than Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever take up a cause against Israel or make war against them?


simplify: And say thou unto them, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel; Cursed be the man that obeyeth not the words of this covenant,

The Lord, the God of Israel, has said, Let that man be cursed who does not give ear to the words of this agreement,


simplify: Now after these things, in the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,

Now after these things, when Artaxerxes was king of Persia, Ezra, the son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,


simplify: And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

And their voices are sounding in a new song, saying, It is right for you to take the book and to make it open: for you were put to death and have made an offering to God of your blood for men of every tribe, and language, and people, and nation,


rate difficulty: It may be that the house of Judah will hear all the evil which I purpose to do unto them; that they may return every man from his evil way; that I may forgive their iniquity and their sin.

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


rate difficulty: The envy also of Ephraim shall depart, and they that vex Judah shall be cut off: Ephraim shall not envy Judah, and Judah shall not vex Ephraim.

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


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


simplify: who bare witness of the word of God, and of the testimony of Jesus Christ, even of all things that he saw.

Who gave witness of the word of God, and of the witness of Jesus Christ, even of all the things which he saw.


simplify: Then the king said, Cause Haman to make haste, that he may do as Esther hath said. So the king and Haman came to the banquet that Esther had prepared.

Then the king said, Let Haman come quickly, so that what Esther has said may be done. So the king and Haman came to the feast which Esther had made ready.


simplify: And the apostles and brethren that were in Judea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.

Now the Apostles and the brothers who were in Judaea had news that the word of God had been given to the Gentiles.


simplify: And Eleazar Aaron’s son took him one of the daughters of Putiel to wife; and she bare him Phinehas: these are the heads of the fathers of the Levites according to their families.

And Eleazar, Aaron's son, took as his wife one of the daughters of Putiel; and she gave birth to Phinehas. These are the heads of the families of the Levites, in the order of their families.


rate difficulty: who also declared unto us your love in the Spirit.

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


simplify: What fruit had ye then in those things whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death.

But what were the fruits that you reaped from those things of which you are now ashamed? For the end of such things is death.


rate difficulty: And I will give to Babylon, and to all the people of Chaldaea, their reward for all the evil they have done in Zion before your eyes, says the Lord.

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


simplify: And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.

And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.


rate difficulty: Say to the house of Israel: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Lo, I am polluting My sanctuary, The excellency of your strength, The desire of your eyes, and the pitied of your soul, And your sons and your daughters whom ye have left, by sword they do fall.

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


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

So that same day Moses made this song, teaching it to the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.

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


rate difficulty: In the year of the jubilee the field shall return unto him of whom it was bought — to him to whom the land belonged.

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


rate difficulty: Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ: Grace be unto you, and peace, from God our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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


simplify: A just balance and scales are Jehovah’s; All the weights of the bag are his work.

True measures and scales are the Lord's: all the weights of the bag are his work.


rate difficulty: and they are bringing out horses from Egypt to Solomon, and from all the lands.

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


simplify: But he knoweth not that the dead are there; and that her guests are in the depths of hell.

But he does not see that the dead are there, that her guests are in the deep places of the underworld.


simplify: The two doors also were of olive tree; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubims and palm trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold, and spread gold upon the cherubims, and upon the palm trees.

On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.


rate difficulty: And Sarai was barren; she had no child.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and thou shalt save Israel from the hand of Midian. Have not I sent thee?

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


simplify: and Ishpan, and Eber, and Eliel,


simplify: Wherefore thus saith the Holy One of Israel, Because ye despise this word, and trust in oppression and perverseness, and stay thereon:

For this cause the Holy One of Israel says, Because you will not give ear to this word, and are looking for help in ways of deceit and evil, and are putting your hope in them:


simplify: Nevertheless, to avoid fornication, let every man have his own wife, and let every woman have her own husband.

But, owing to the prevalence of immorality, I advise every man to have his own wife, and every woman her husband.


rate difficulty: And the word of Jesus came back to Peter, when he said, Before the hour of the cock's cry, you will say three times that you have no knowledge of me. And he went out, weeping bitterly.


simplify: Even so let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.

Even so let your light be shining before men, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father in heaven.


simplify: They cried there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath let the appointed time pass by.

Give a name to Pharaoh, king of Egypt: A noise who has let the time go by.


simplify: And Joseph said unto his brethren, Come near to me, I pray you. And they came near. And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom ye sold into Egypt.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, Come near to me. And they came near, And he said, I am Joseph your brother, whom you sent into Egypt.


simplify: There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.

All distinctions between Jew and Greek, slave and free, male and female, have vanished; for in union with Christ Jesus you are all one.


simplify: Though they bring up their children, yet will I bereave them, that there shall not be a man left: yea, woe also to them when I depart from them!

Even though their children have come to growth I will take them away, so that not a man will be there; for their evil-doing will be complete and they will be put to shame because of it.


rate difficulty: saying, `What do ye think concerning the Christ? of whom is he son?' They say to him, `Of David.'

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


simplify: And he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi answered, Verily she hath no child, and her husband is old.

So he said, What then is to be done for her? And Gehazi made answer, Still there is this, she has no son and her husband is old.


simplify: What I tell you in darkness, that speak ye in light: and what ye hear in the ear, that preach ye upon the housetops.

What I say to you in the dark, say in the light: and what comes to your ear secretly, say publicly from the house-tops.


rate difficulty: And they shall answer, Because they forsook Jehovah, the God of their fathers, who brought them forth out of the land of Egypt, and laid hold on other gods, and worshipped them, and served them: therefore hath he brought all this evil upon them.

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


rate difficulty: Take ye the spoil of silver, take the spoil of gold: for there is none end of the store and glory out of all the pleasant furniture.


simplify: And the man departed out of the city from Beth–lehem–judah to sojourn where he could find a place: and he came to mount Ephraim to the house of Micah, as he journeyed.

And he went away from the town of Beth-lehem-judah, looking for somewhere to make his living-place; and on his journey he came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah.


simplify: But truly I am full of power by the spirit of the Lord, and of judgment, and of might, to declare unto Jacob his transgression, and to Israel his sin.

But I truly am full of the spirit of the Lord, with power of judging and with strength to make clear to Jacob his wrongdoing and to Israel his sin.


rate difficulty: Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.

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


simplify: But the birthday of Herod being kept, the daughter of Herodias danced in the midst, and did please Herod,

But, when Herod’s birthday came, the daughter of Herodias danced before his guests, and so pleased Herod,


simplify: The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

The light is dark in his tent, and the light shining over him is put out.


simplify: So she kept fast by the maidens of Boaz, to glean unto the end of barley harvest and of wheat harvest; and she dwelt with her mother-in-law.

So she kept near the servant-girls of Boaz to take up the grain till the cutting of the early grain and the cutting of the late grain were ended; and she went on living with her mother-in-law.


simplify: And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, which was in the seventh year of the king.

And he came to Jerusalem in the fifth month, in the seventh year of the king's rule.


rate difficulty: and the young man delayed not to do the thing, for he had delight in Jacob's daughter, and he is honourable above all the house of his father.

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


simplify: Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

If then it is I who am the preacher, or they, this is our word, and to this you have given your faith.


simplify: Therefore if any man be in Christ, he is a new creature: old things are passed away; behold, all things are become new.

Therefore, if anyone is in union with Christ, he is a new being! His old life has passed away; a new life has begun!


simplify: and said unto them, `Men, Israelites, take heed to yourselves about these men, what ye are about to do,

He then said: “People of Israel, take care as to what you intend to do with these men.


simplify: Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death?

Or are you without the knowledge that all we who had baptism into Christ Jesus, had baptism into his death?


rate difficulty: And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,


rate difficulty: John to the seven churches which are in Asia: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne;

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


simplify: But many that are first shall be last; and the last first.

But a great number who are first will be last: and those who are last will be first.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto him, What wilt thou that I should do unto thee? The blind man said unto him, Lord, that I might receive my sight.

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


simplify: For I am Jehovah your God: sanctify yourselves therefore, and be ye holy; for I am holy: neither shall ye defile yourselves with any manner of creeping thing that moveth upon the earth.

For I am the Lord your God: for this reason, make and keep yourselves holy, for I am holy; you are not to make yourselves unclean with any sort of thing which goes about flat on the earth.


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, waters rise up out of the north, and shall become an overflowing flood, and shall overflow the land, and all that is therein; the city, and them that dwell therein: and the men shall cry, and all the inhabitants of the land shall howl,

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed.

So this is what the Lord has said about the prophets who make use of my name, though I sent them not, and say, The sword and need of food will not be in this land: the sword and need of food will put an end to those prophets.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt remember all the way which Jehovah thy God hath led thee these forty years in the wilderness, that he might humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or not.

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


simplify: Now these things were our examples, to the intent we should not lust after evil things, as they also lusted.

Now these things were for an example to us, so that our hearts might not go after evil things, as they did.


rate difficulty: And he returned back from him, and took a yoke of oxen, and slew them, and boiled their flesh with the instruments of the oxen, and gave unto the people, and they did eat. Then he arose, and went after Elijah, and ministered unto him.

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


simplify: He shall shake off his unripe grape as the vine, and shall cast off his flower as the olive.

He is like a vine whose grapes do not come to full growth, or an olive-tree dropping its flowers.


simplify: so that we may keep the feast, not with old leaven, nor with the leaven of evil and wickedness, but with unleavened food of sincerity and truth.

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


simplify: And I, behold, I have taken your brethren the Levites from among the children of Israel: to you they are a gift, given unto Jehovah, to do the service of the tent of meeting.

Now, see, I have taken your brothers the Levites from among the children of Israel: they are given to you and to the Lord, to do the work of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: and we, being of the day--let us be sober, putting on a breastplate of faith and love, and an helmet--a hope of salvation,

But let us, who belong to the day, control ourselves, and put on faith and love as a breast plate, and the hope of salvation as a helmet.


rate difficulty: For not My thoughts <FI>are<Fi> your thoughts, Nor your ways My ways, --an affirmation of Jehovah,

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


simplify: Now because we have maintenance from the king’s palace, and it was not meet for us to see the king’s dishonour, therefore have we sent and certified the king;

Now because we are responsible to the king, and it is not right for us to see the king's honour damaged, we have sent to give the king word of these things,


rate difficulty: This treasure we have in these earthen vessels, so that its all-prevailing power may be seen to come from God, and not to be our own.

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


rate difficulty: He taketh away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, And causeth them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.

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


simplify: Did not your fathers thus, and did not our God bring all this evil upon us, and upon this city? yet ye bring more wrath upon Israel by profaning the sabbath.

Did not your fathers do the same, and did not our God send all this evil on us and on this town? but you are causing more wrath to come on Israel by not keeping the Sabbath holy.


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

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


simplify: And the priest shall put of the oil that is in his hand upon the tip of the right ear of him that is to be cleansed, and upon the thumb of his right hand, and upon the great toe of his right foot, upon the place of the blood of the trespass offering:

And the priest will put some of the oil which is in his hand on the point of the ear of the man who is to be made clean and on the thumb of his right hand and on the great toe of his right foot, on the place where the blood of the offering for wrongdoing was put;


rate difficulty: and has put all things under his feet, and gave him [to be] head over all things to the assembly,

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


simplify: but in very deed for this cause have I made thee to stand, to show thee my power, and that my name may be declared throughout all the earth.

But, for this very reason, I have kept you from destruction, to make clear to you my power, and so that my name may be honoured through all the earth.


rate difficulty: And the winepress was trodden without the city, and there came out blood from the winepress, even unto the bridles of the horses, as far as a thousand and six hundred furlongs.

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


simplify: And an angel of the Lord stood by them, and the glory of the Lord shone round about them: and they were sore afraid.

And an angel of the Lord came to them, and the glory of the Lord was shining round about them: and fear came on them.


rate difficulty: “Go to the village facing us,”he said, “and, when you get there, you will find a foal tethered, which no one has yet ridden; untie it and lead it here.

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


rate difficulty: A liberal soul is made fat, And whoso is watering, he also is watered.

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


simplify: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

This man went in to Pilate, and made a request for the body of Jesus. Then Pilate gave orders for it to be given to him.


simplify: And said unto me, Behold, I will make thee fruitful, and multiply thee, and I will make of thee a multitude of people; and will give this land to thy seed after thee for an everlasting possession.

And said to me, Truly, I will make you fertile and give you increase and will make of you a great family of nations: and I will give this land to your seed after you to be their heritage for ever.


simplify: So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first.

And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah did according to the word of Moses; and he removed the dog-flies from Pharaoh, from his bondmen, and from his people; there remained not one.


rate difficulty: From whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,


rate difficulty: And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the Lord; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.

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


rate difficulty: Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity.

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


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth in Gilead is ours, and we be still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

And the king of Israel said to his servants, Do you not see that Ramoth-gilead is ours? and we are doing nothing to get it back from the hands of the king of Aram.


rate difficulty: Cast out a scorner--and contention goeth out, And strife and shame cease.

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


rate difficulty: He findeth him in a land--a desert, And in a void--a howling wilderness, He turneth him round--He causeth him to understand--He keepeth him as the apple of His eye.

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


simplify: And the children of Israel wept for Moses in the plains of Moab thirty days: so the days of weeping in the mourning for Moses were ended.

For thirty days the children of Israel were weeping for Moses in the table-lands of Moab, till the days of weeping and sorrow for Moses were ended.


rate difficulty: and the Jews having seen the multitudes, were filled with zeal, and did contradict the things spoken by Paul--contradicting and speaking evil.

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


simplify: Then were there brought unto him little children, that he should lay his hands on them, and pray: and the disciples rebuked them.

Then some people took little children to him, so that he might put his hands on them in blessing: and the disciples said sharp words to them.


rate difficulty: Sell what ye possess and give alms; make to yourselves purses which do not grow old, a treasure which does not fail in the heavens, where thief does not draw near nor moth destroy.

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


simplify: and it came to pass, when we came to the lodging-place, that we opened our sacks, and, behold, every man’s money was in the mouth of his sack, our money in full weight: and we have brought it again in our hand.

And when we came to our night's resting-place, on opening our bags we saw that every man's money was in the mouth of his bag, all our money in full weight: and we have it with us to give it back;


simplify: and the helmet of the salvation receive, and the sword of the Spirit, which is the saying of God,

And receive ‘the helmet of salvation,’ and ‘the sword of the Spirit’ — which is the message of God — always with prayer and supplication.


simplify: When the morning stars sang together, And all the sons of God shouted for joy?

When the morning stars made songs together, and all the sons of the gods gave cries of joy?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Hath Jehovah's hand become short? Now shalt thou see whether my word will come to pass unto thee or not.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in mount Hor, by the border of the land of Edom, saying,

And at Mount Hor, at the edge of the land of Edom, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,


rate difficulty: And if the person is from five to twenty years old, the value will be twenty shekels for a male, and ten for a female.

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


rate difficulty: So also ye, reckon yourselves dead to sin and alive toGod in Christ Jesus.

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


simplify: Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

Give honour to your father and to your mother, so that your life may be long in the land which the Lord your God is giving you.


simplify: Therefore, behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that steal my words every one from his neighbour.

For this cause I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who take my words, every one from his neighbour.


simplify: and the altar of burnt-offering with all its vessels, and the laver and its base,

And the altar of burned offerings with all its vessels, and the washing-vessel with its base,


simplify: And I will break the bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitant from the valley of Aven, and him that holdeth the sceptre from the house of Eden; and the people of Syria shall go into captivity unto Kir, saith Jehovah.

And I will have the locks of the door of Damascus broken, and him who is seated in power cut off from the valley of Aven, and him in whose hand is the rod from the house of Eden; and the people of Aram will go away as prisoners into Kir, says the Lord.


simplify: And from the bottom upon the ground to the lower ledge shall be two cubits, and the breadth one cubit; and from the lesser ledge to the greater ledge shall be four cubits, and the breadth a cubit.

And from the base on the earth level to the lower shelf, the altar is two cubits high and a cubit wide; and from the smaller shelf to the greater shelf it is four cubits high and a cubit wide.


simplify: But Peter took him up, saying, Stand up; I myself also am a man.

Peter, however, lifted him up, saying as he did so: “Stand up, I am only human like yourself.”


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, thus saith the Lord God; These are the ordinances of the altar in the day when they shall make it, to offer burnt offerings thereon, and to sprinkle blood thereon.

And he said to me, Son of man, the Lord God has said, These are the rules for the altar, when they make it, for the offering of burned offerings on it and the draining out of the blood.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto me, Backsliding Israel hath showed herself more righteous than treacherous Judah.

And the Lord said to me, Israel in her turning away is seen to be more upright than false Judah.


simplify: My son, walk not thou in the way with them; refrain thy foot from their path:

My son, do not go with them; keep your feet from their ways:


rate difficulty: So early on the day after they got up and made burned offerings and peace-offerings; and took their seats at the feast, and then gave themselves to pleasure.

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


simplify: (Beforetime in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, thus he said, Come, and let us go to the seer; for he that is now called a Prophet was beforetime called a Seer.)

(In the past in Israel, when a man went to get directions from God, he said, Come let us go to the Seer, for he who now is named Prophet was in those days given the name of Seer.)


simplify: And David waxed greater and greater; for Jehovah of hosts was with him.

And David became greater and greater in power, because the Lord of armies was with him.


simplify: And they called the name of the city Dan, after the name of Dan their father, who was born unto Israel: howbeit the name of the city was Laish at the first.

And they gave the town the name of Dan, after Dan their father, who was the son of Israel: though the town had been named Laish at first.


rate difficulty: Which the clouds do drop and distil upon man abundantly.

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


simplify: And the greater house he ceiled with fir-wood, which he overlaid with fine gold, and wrought thereon palm-trees and chains.

And the greater house was roofed with cypress-wood, plated with the best gold and ornamented with designs of palm-trees and chains.


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 arise and give him as many as he needeth.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh; lo, he cometh forth to the water; and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh when he comes out to the water; and say to him, This is what the Lord says: Let my people go to give me worship.


simplify: And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Master with publicans and sinners?

And when the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, Why does your Master take food with tax-farmers and sinners?


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, in the twenty and third year of king Jehoash, the priests have not strengthened the breach of the house,

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


rate difficulty: In the year when the Tartan came to Ashdod, sent by Sargon, king of Assyria, and made war against it and took it;

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


simplify: For in the multitude of dreams and many words there are also divers vanities: but fear thou God.

Because much talk comes from dreams and things of no purpose. But let the fear of God be in you.


rate difficulty: but when it came that we completed the days, having gone forth, we went on, all bringing us on the way, with women and children, unto the outside of the city, and having bowed the knees upon the shore, we prayed,

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


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

“I have observed all these,” he replied, “from childhood.”


simplify: and why not (as we are slanderously reported, and as some affirm that we say), Let us do evil, that good may come? whose condemnation is just.

Let us not do evil so that good may come (a statement which we are falsely said by some to have made), because such behaviour will have its right punishment.


simplify: And it was so on the morrow, that Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the midst of the host in the morning watch, and slew the Ammonites until the heat of the day: and it came to pass, that they which remained were scattered, so that two of them were not left together.

Now on the day after, Saul put the people into three bands, and in the morning watch they came to the tents of the Ammonites, and they went on attacking them till the heat of the day: and those who were not put to death were put to flight in every direction, so that no two of them were together.


simplify: And he would not for a while: but afterward he said within himself, Though I fear not God, nor regard man;

For a time the judge refused, but afterwards he said to himself ‘Although I am without fear of God or regard for people,


rate difficulty: So I see a law that, though I have a mind to do good, evil is present in me.

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


simplify: but I will scatter them with a whirlwind among all the nations which they have not known. Thus the land was desolate after them, so that no man passed through nor returned: for they laid the pleasant land desolate.

But with a storm-wind I sent them in flight among all the nations of whom they had no knowledge. So the land was waste after them, so that no man went through or came back: for they had made waste the desired land.


rate difficulty: Or how can any one enter into the house of the strong [man] and plunder his goods, unless first he bind the strong [man]? and then he will plunder his house.

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


simplify: Ye are bought with a price; be not ye the servants of men.

It is the Lord who has made payment for you: be not servants of men.


simplify: And Ephron answered Abraham, saying unto him,


simplify: And again I say unto you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.


simplify: And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

And for about forty years he put up with their ways in the waste land.


rate difficulty: Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter, and the brothers James and John, and led them up a high mountain alone.

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


rate difficulty: It is not good to eat much honey: so for men to search their own glory is not glory.


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Forbid him not: for he that is not against us is for us.

“None of you must prevent him,”Jesus said to John; “whoever’s not against you is for you.”


simplify: And Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house.

And Jerubbaal, the son of Joash, went back to his house and was living there.


simplify: Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me,

Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;


simplify: But food will not commend us to God: neither, if we eat not, are we the worse; nor, if we eat, are we the better.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.


simplify: And the first sounded, and there followed hail and fire, mingled with blood, and they were cast upon the earth: and the third part of the earth was burnt up, and the third part of the trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up.

And at the sounding of the first, a rain of ice and fire, mixed with blood, was sent on the earth: and a third part of the earth, and of the trees, and all green grass was burned up.


rate difficulty: He causeth to boil as a pot the deep, The sea he maketh as a pot of ointment.

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


simplify: And the revolters are gone deep in making slaughter; but I am a rebuker of them all.

They have gone deep in the evil ways of Shittim, but I am the judge of all.


rate difficulty: And they were double beneath; and in like manner they were entire unto the top thereof unto one ring: thus he did to both of them in the two corners.

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


simplify: And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord God: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

And I will send to all my mountains for a sword against him, says the Lord: every man's sword will be against his brother.


simplify: And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?


simplify: And he presented the meal-offering, and filled his hand therefrom, and burnt it upon the altar, besides the burnt-offering of the morning.

And he put the meal offering before the Lord, and taking some of it in his hand he had it burned on the altar, separately from the burned offering of the morning.


simplify: Neither do men light a candle, and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick; and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.

People do not light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on the lamp-stand, where it gives light to everyone in the house.


simplify: And do this thing: take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their room;

This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places;


rate difficulty: For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, if thou go with us, yea, it shall be, that what good soever Jehovah shall do unto us, the same will we do unto thee.

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


rate difficulty: And they reasoned with themselves, saying, If we shall say, From heaven; he will say, Why did ye not believe him?

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


simplify: And John was clothed with camel’s hair, and with a girdle of a skin about his loins; and he did eat locusts and wild honey;

And John was clothed in camel's hair, with a leather band about him; and his food was locusts and honey.


simplify: And Solomon told her all her questions: and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not.

And Solomon gave her answers to all her questions; there was no secret which he did not make clear to her.


rate difficulty: James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ, greets the twelve tribes that are living abroad.

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


rate difficulty: Bread of falsehood is sweet to a man; But afterwards his mouth shall be filled with gravel.

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


rate difficulty: `Be mindful of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, Thy servants, to whom Thou hast sworn by Thyself, and unto whom Thou speakest: I multiply your seed as stars of the heavens, and all this land, as I have said, I give to your seed, and they have inherited to the age;'

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


rate difficulty: and he fleeth, he and all that he hath, and riseth, and passeth over the River, and setteth his face <FI>toward<Fi> the mount of Gilead.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I thought it necessary therefore to entreat the brethren, that they would go before unto you, and make up beforehand your aforepromised bounty, that the same might be ready as a matter of bounty, and not of extortion.

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


simplify: And when we had come in sight of Cyprus, leaving it on the left hand, we sailed unto Syria, and landed at Tyre; for there the ship was to unlade her burden.

And when we had come in view of Cyprus, going past it on our left, we went on to Syria, and came to land at Tyre: for there the goods which were in the ship had to be taken out.


rate difficulty: `Thou dost not plant for thee a shrine of any trees near the altar of Jehovah thy God, which thou makest for thyself,

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


simplify: With three rows of great stones, and a row of new timber: and let the expenses be given out of the king’s house:

With three lines of great stones and one line of new wood supports; and let the necessary money be given out of the king's store-house;


simplify: Behold, I have told you before.

See, I have made it clear to you before it comes about.


simplify: he also shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, that hath been mingled unmixed in the cup of His anger, and he shall be tormented in fire and brimstone before the holy messengers, and before the Lamb,

that person will drink the maddening wine of God that has been poured unmixed into the cup of his wrath, and they will be tortured with fire and sulphur before the eyes of the holy angels and before the eyes of the Lamb.


simplify: And thou, son of man, say unto the house of Israel: Thus ye speak, saying, Our transgressions and our sins are upon us, and we pine away in them; how then can we live?

And you, son of man, say to the children of Israel, You say, Our wrongdoing and our sins are on us and we are wasting away in them; how then may we have life?