rate difficulty: And if ye love those that love you, what thank is it to you? for even sinners love those that love them.

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


simplify: And when he was come into the house, his disciples asked him privately, Why could not we cast him out?

When Jesus had gone indoors, his disciples asked him privately: “Why could not we drive it out?”


simplify: and Jacob went down to Egypt, and died, himself and our fathers,

and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,


rate difficulty: Then spake the chief butler unto Pharaoh, saying, I do remember my faults this day:

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rate difficulty: And he would have put him to death, but for his fear of the people, because in their eyes John was a prophet.

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


simplify: And he said likewise to him, Be thou also over five cities.

And he said, You will be ruler over five towns.


rate difficulty: And those that died in the plague were twenty and four thousand.

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


rate difficulty: Divers weights are an abomination unto Jehovah; and a false balance is not good.

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


simplify: `Fear not, little flock, because your Father did delight to give you the reign;

So do not be afraid, my little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.


rate difficulty: Then leap as a hart doth the lame, And sing doth the tongue of the dumb, For broken up in a wilderness have been waters, And streams in a desert.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall say, Because they have forsaken the covenant of Jehovah theirGod, and worshipped othergods, and served them.

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


rate difficulty: Whoever is ashamed of me and of my teaching, in this unfaithful and wicked generation, of them will the Son of Man be ashamed, when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”

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


rate difficulty: <FI> to men<Fi> of the families of the sons of Manasseh, son of Joseph, they have been for wives, and their inheritance is with the tribe of the family of their father.

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


simplify: This is the service of the sons of Kohath in the tent of meeting, about the most holy things:

And this is to be the work of the sons of Kohath in connection with the most holy things.


simplify: Then Uzziah was wroth; and he had a censer in his hand to burn incense; and while he was wroth with the priests, the leprosy brake forth in his forehead before the priests in the house of Jehovah, beside the altar of incense.

Then Uzziah was angry; and he had in his hand a vessel for burning perfume; and while his wrath was bitter against the priests, the mark of the leper's disease came out on his brow, before the eyes of the priests in the house of the Lord by the altar of perfumes.


simplify: At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?

In that hour the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Who is greatest in the kingdom of heaven?


simplify: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!

May God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.


rate difficulty: And Abigail bare Amasa; and the father of Amasa was Jether the Ishmaelite.

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


simplify: Out of the spoil won in battles did they dedicate to repair the house of Jehovah.

From the goods taken in war, they gave, as a holy offering, materials for the building of the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: but the poor man had nothing at all, but one little ewe lamb which he had bought, and was nourishing; and it grew up with him, and together with his children: it ate of his morsel, and drank of his own cup, and slept in his bosom, and was to him as a daughter.

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


simplify: And she said unto him, My lord, thou swarest by Jehovah thy God unto thy handmaid, saying, Assuredly Solomon thy son shall reign after me, and he shall sit upon my throne.

And she said to him, My lord, you took an oath by the Lord your God and gave your word to your servant, saying, Truly, Solomon your son will be king after me, seated on the seat of my kingdom.


rate difficulty: But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.

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


simplify: In the house of the righteous is much treasure: but in the revenues of the wicked is trouble.

In the house of the upright man there is a great store of wealth; but in the profits of the sinner there is trouble.


rate difficulty: Send me also cedar-trees, fir-trees, and algum-trees, out of Lebanon; for I know that thy servants know how to cut timber in Lebanon. And, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

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


simplify: All these things spake Jesus in similes to the multitudes, and without a simile he was not speaking to them,

Of all this Jesus spoke to the crowd in parables; indeed to them he used never to speak at all except in parables,


simplify: Shall he that cavilleth contend with the Almighty? He that argueth with God, let him answer it.

Will he who is protesting give teaching to the Ruler of all? Let him who has arguments to put forward against God give an answer.


rate difficulty: But which of you, having a servant who is ploughing or keeping sheep, will say to him, when he comes in from the field, Come now and be seated and have a meal,

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


simplify: But wild beasts of the desert shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of doleful creatures; and ostriches shall dwell there, and wild goats shall dance there.

But the beasts of the waste land will have their holes there; and the houses will be full of crying jackals, and ostriches will have their place there, and evil spirits will be dancing there.


rate difficulty: gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Go not up, nor fight with your brethren, the children of Israel; return every man to his house, for this thing is from me. And they hearkened to the word of Jehovah, and returned to depart, according to the word of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And so Aaron will have the names of the children of Israel on the priest's bag over his heart whenever he goes into the holy place, to keep the memory of them before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore Eli said unto Samuel, Go, lie down: and it shall be, if he call thee, that thou shalt say, Speak, Lord; for thy servant heareth. So Samuel went and lay down in his place.

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


simplify: And at that time Solomon held a feast, and all Israel with him, a great congregation, from the entering in of Hamath unto the river of Egypt, before the Lord our God, seven days and seven days, even fourteen days.

So Solomon and all Israel with him, a very great meeting, (for the people had come together from the way into Hamath to the river of Egypt,) kept the feast at that time before the Lord our God, for two weeks, even fourteen days.


rate difficulty: And make staves of acacia-wood and overlay them with gold.

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


simplify: When the unclean spirit is gone out of a man, he walketh through dry places, seeking rest; and finding none, he saith, I will return unto my house whence I came out.

No sooner does a foul spirit leave someone, than it passes through places where there is no water, in search of rest; and finding none, it says ‘I will go back to the home which I left’;


simplify: for, verily I say to you, till that the heaven and the earth may pass away, one iota or one tittle may not pass away from the law, till that all may come to pass.

For I tell you, until the heavens and the earth disappear, not even the smallest letter, nor one stroke of a letter, will disappear from the law until all is done.


rate difficulty: The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord, after that Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard had let him go from Ramah, when he had taken him being bound in chains among all that were carried away captive of Jerusalem and Judah, which were carried away captive unto Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: And those who had seen it gave them an account of how the man who had the evil spirits was made well.

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


simplify: Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

Let everyone give as he has determined before hand, not grudgingly or under compulsion; for God loves ‘a cheerful giver.’


rate difficulty: For David said, Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath given rest unto his people; and he dwelleth in Jerusalem for ever:

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


simplify: And the priests and the Levites that were in all Israel resorted to him out of all their border.

And the priests and Levites who were in all Israel came together to him from every part of their country.


simplify: That search may be made in the book of the records of thy fathers: so shalt thou find in the book of the records, and know that this city is a rebellious city, and hurtful unto kings and provinces, and that they have moved sedition within the same of old time: for which cause was this city destroyed.

So that search may be made in the book of the records of your fathers: and you will see in the book of the records that this town has been uncontrolled, and a cause of trouble to kings and countries, and that there were outbursts against authority there in the past: for which reason the town was made waste.


simplify: Happy is the man that feareth alway; But he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.


simplify: And the priests and the Levites purified themselves; and they purified the people, and the gates, and the wall.

And the priests and the Levites made themselves clean; and they made the people clean, and the doorways and the wall.


simplify: If thou faint in the day of adversity, thy strength is small.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.


simplify: For indeed he accepted the exhortation; but being more forward, of his own accord he went unto you.

for Titus has responded to my appeals and, in his great earnestness, is starting to go to you of his own accord.


simplify: Now when Jesus had heard that John was cast into prison, he departed into Galilee;

Now when it came to his ears that John had been put in prison, he went away to Galilee;


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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will turn again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have compassion on his dwelling-places; and the city shall be builded upon its own hill, and the palace shall be inhabited after its own manner.

The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.


simplify: But he was angry, and would not go in: and his father came out, and entreated him.

But he was angry and would not go in; and his father came out and made a request to him to come in.


simplify: But the boat was now in the midst of the sea, distressed by the waves; for the wind was contrary.

But the boat was now in the middle of the sea, and was troubled by the waves: for the wind was against them.


rate difficulty: Then the Egyptians went after them into the middle of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses and his war-carriages and his horsemen.

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


rate difficulty: and every one who left houses, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or fields, for my name's sake, an hundredfold shall receive, and life age-during shall inherit;

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


simplify: The sun shall be turned into darkness, And the moon into blood, Before the day of the Lord come, That great and notable day:

The sun will become dark and the moon will be turned to blood, before that great day of the Lord comes in glory:


rate difficulty: But he and his servants and the people of the land did not give ear to the words of the Lord which he said by Jeremiah the prophet.

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


simplify: For if there come unto your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

Suppose a visitor should enter your synagogue, with gold rings and in grand clothes, and suppose a poor man should come in also, in shabby clothes,


simplify: And they said unto them even as Jesus had commanded: and they let them go.

And they said to them the words which Jesus had said; and they let them go.


rate difficulty: They gave money also unto the masons, and to the carpenters; and food, and drink, and oil, unto them of Sidon, and to them of Tyre, to bring cedar-trees from Lebanon to the sea, unto Joppa, according to the grant that they had of Cyrus king of Persia.

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


simplify: who, in the power of God are being guarded, through faith, unto salvation, ready to be revealed in the last time,

for you who, through faith, are being guarded by the power of God, awaiting a salvation that is ready to be revealed in the last days.


rate difficulty: And Pilate wondered if he were already dead; and having called to [him] the centurion, he inquired of him if he had long died.

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


simplify: When the boughs thereof are withered, they shall be broken off; the women shall come, and set them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them will not have compassion upon them, and he that formed them will show them no favor.

When its branches are dry they will be broken off; the women will come and put fire to them: for it is a foolish people; for this cause he who made them will have no mercy on them, and he whose work they are will not have pity on them.


simplify: then doth it go, and take to it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and having entered, they dwell there, and the last of that man becometh worst than the first.'

Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in, and make their home there; and the last state of that person proves to be worse than the first.”


simplify: When they that fed them saw what was done, they fled, and went and told it in the city and in the country.

When the men who tended them saw what had happened, they ran away, and carried the news to the town, and to the country around.


simplify: So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took dough, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.


rate difficulty: and thou shalt say, Thus shall Babylon sink, and shall not rise again because of the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary. Thus far are the words of Jeremiah.

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


simplify: But if he hath wronged thee at all, or oweth thee aught, put that to mine account;

If he has done you any wrong or is in debt to you for anything, put it to my account.


simplify: Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured, and were destroyed of the destroyer.

And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so ‘were destroyed by the angel of death.’


simplify: unto a dispensation of the fulness of the times, to sum up all things in Christ, the things in the heavens, and the things upon the earth; in him, I say,

The ordering of the times when they are complete, so that all things might come to a head in Christ, the things in heaven and the things on the earth; in him, I say,


simplify: Then the high priest rent his garments, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy: what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard the blasphemy:

Then the high priest, violently parting his robes, said, He has said evil against God: what more need have we of witnesses? for now his words against God have come to your ears:


simplify: Ye shall not eat one day, nor two days, nor five days, neither ten days, nor twenty days,

Not for one day only, or even for five or ten or twenty days;


rate difficulty: If a man have two wives, one beloved, and another hated, and they have born him children, both the beloved and the hated; and if the firstborn son be hers that was hated:


simplify: Upon earth there is not his like, who is made without fear.

On earth there is not another like him, who is made without fear.


simplify: Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels?

Do you think that I cannot ask my Father for help, when he would at once send to my aid more than twelve legions of angels?


rate difficulty: to a virgin betrothed to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary.


simplify: And the rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.

And rain came down on the earth for forty days and forty nights.


simplify: And the cloud removed from over the Tent; and, behold, Miriam was leprous, as white as snow: and Aaron looked upon Miriam, and, behold, she was leprous.

And the cloud was moved from over the Tent; and straight away Miriam became a leper, as white as snow: and Aaron, looking at Miriam, saw that she was a leper.


simplify: The garment also that the plague of leprosy is in, whether it be a woollen garment, or a linen garment;

And any clothing of wool or of linen in which is the mark of the disease;


simplify: And God dealt well with the midwives: and the people multiplied, and waxed very mighty.

And the blessing of God was on these women: and the people were increased in number and became very strong.


simplify: The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.

The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.


simplify: then the congregation shall judge between the smiter and the avenger of blood according to these ordinances;

Then let the meeting of the people be judge between the man responsible for the death and him who has the right of punishment for blood, acting by these rules:


rate difficulty: Offering the word of life; so that I may have glory in you in the day of Christ, because my running was not for nothing and my work was not without effect.

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


simplify: See then that ye walk circumspectly, not as fools, but as wise,

Take care then how you are living, not as unwise, but as wise;


rate difficulty: Then said I, O Lord God, cease, I beseech thee: by whom shall Jacob arise? for he is small.

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


simplify: If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;

If, when he sees the sword coming on the land, by sounding the horn he gives the people news of their danger;


simplify: And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens.

I said, O my God, shame keeps me from lifting up my face to you, my God: for our sins are increased higher than our heads and our evil-doing has come up to heaven.


rate difficulty: Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that, behold, the place was a place for cattle;

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


rate difficulty: And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;

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


simplify: These are the families of the sons of Asher according to those that were numbered of them; who were fifty and three thousand and four hundred.

These are the families of the sons of Asher as they were numbered, fifty-three thousand, four hundred.


rate difficulty: And they place the ark of God on a new cart, from the house of Abinadab, and Uzza and Ahio are leading the cart,

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


simplify: An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

A heritage may be got quickly at first, but the end of it will not be a blessing.


simplify: That Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ye, being rooted and grounded in love,

so that the Christ, through your faith, may make his home within your hearts in love; And I pray that you, now firmly rooted and established, may, with all Christ’s people,


simplify: O the depth of the riches both of the wisdom and knowledge of God! how unsearchable are his judgments, and his ways past finding out!

Oh! The unfathomable wisdom and knowledge of God! How inscrutable are his judgments, how untraceable his ways! Yes —


rate difficulty: Thus said Jehovah of Hosts: Lo, I am saving My people from the land of the rising, And from the land of the going in, of the sun,

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


rate difficulty: And I send before you the hornet, and it casteth them out from your presence--two kings of the Amorite--not by thy sword, nor by thy bow.

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


rate difficulty: But if there be a revelation to another sitting [there], let the first be silent.


rate difficulty: But if her husband, hearing of it, makes her take it back, then the oath she made and the undertaking she gave without thought will have no force or effect, and she will have the Lord's forgiveness.

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


simplify: the Son of Man doth indeed go, as it hath been written concerning him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is delivered up! good it were for him if that man had not been born.'

True, the Son of Man must go, as scripture says of him, yet alas for that man by whom the Son of Man is being betrayed! For that man ‘it would be better never to have been born!’”


simplify: And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.

and he will reign over the descendants of Jacob for ever; And to his kingdom there will be no end.”


simplify: And when we had accomplished those days, we departed and went our way; and they all brought us on our way, with wives and children, till we were out of the city: and we kneeled down on the shore, and prayed.

However, when we had come to the end of our visit, we went on our way, all the disciples with their wives and children escorting us out of the city. We knelt down on the beach, and prayed,


rate difficulty: The way of a fool is right in his own eyes; but he that is wise hearkeneth unto counsel.

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


simplify: Turn away thine eyes from me, For they have overcome me. Thy hair is as a flock of goats, That lie along the side of Gilead.

Let your eyes be turned away from me; see, they have overcome me; your hair is as a flock of goats which take their rest on the side of Gilead.


simplify: And again,  Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; And let all the peoples praise him.

And again, Give praise to the Lord, all you Gentiles; and let all the nations give praise to him.


rate difficulty: And Caleb went against the Canaanites of Hebron: (now in earlier times Hebron was named Kiriath-arba:) and he put Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai to the sword.

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


rate difficulty: And behold, forthwith three men stood before the house in which we were, having been sent from Cæsarea unto me.

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


simplify: And we dreamed a dream in one night, I and he; we dreamed each man according to the interpretation of his dream.

And we had a dream on the same night, the two of us, and the dreams had a special sense.


simplify: And if he will not redeem the field, or if he have sold the field to another man, it shall not be redeemed any more.

But if he has no desire to get it back, or if he has given it for a price to another man, it may not be got back again.


simplify: Know ye not that they which run in a race run all, but one receiveth the prize? So run, that ye may obtain.

Do you not see that in a running competition all take part, but only one gets the reward? So let your minds be fixed on the reward.


rate difficulty: But the hand of Ahikam the son of Shaphan was with Jeremiah, that they should not give him into the hand of the people to put him to death.

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


simplify: There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

There is only one lawgiver and judge — he who has the power both to save and to destroy. But who are you that pass judgment on your neighbor?


simplify: To the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved.

and so to enhance that glorious manifestation of his loving kindness which he gave us in the one he loves;


simplify: And having gone on thence a little, he saw James of Zebedee, and John his brother, and they were in the boat refitting the nets,

Going on a little further, he saw James, Zebedee’s son, and his brother John, who were in their boat mending the nets.


simplify: He answered and said unto them, Give ye them to eat. And they say unto him, Shall we go and buy two hundred pennyworth of bread, and give them to eat?

But he said to them in answer, Give them food yourselves. And they said to him, Are we to go and get bread for two hundred pence, and give it to them?


rate difficulty: and striving to maintain in the bond of peace the unity given by the Spirit.

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


simplify: O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will set thy stones in fair colors, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

O troubled one, storm-crushed, uncomforted! see, your stones will be framed in fair colours, and your bases will be sapphires.


rate difficulty: All that were numbered of the camp of Ephraim were a hundred and eight thousand one hundred, according to their hosts. And they shall set forth third.


rate difficulty: And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, as his father was a friend to me. So David sent his servants, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And David's servants came into the land of the children of Ammon.


rate difficulty: And he made the camels to kneel down without the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time that women go out to draw water.


rate difficulty: Their quiver is as an open sepulchre; they are all mighty men.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesse said unto David his son, Take now for thy brethren an ephah of this parched grain, and these ten loaves, and carry them quickly to the camp to thy brethren;

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


simplify: and will not rather say unto him, Make ready wherewith I may sup, and gird thyself, and serve me, till I have eaten and drunken; and afterward thou shalt eat and drink?

Will he not say, Get a meal for me, and make yourself ready and see to my needs till I have had my food and drink; and after that you may have yours?


simplify: Now therefore restore the man his wife; for he is a prophet, and he shall pray for thee, and thou shalt live: and if thou restore her not, know thou that thou shalt surely die, thou, and all that are thine.

So now, give the man back his wife, for he is a prophet, and let him say a prayer for you, so your life may be safe: but if you do not give her back, be certain that death will come to you and all your house.


simplify: for many were bearing false testimony against him, and their testimonies were not alike.

for, though there were many who gave false evidence against him, yet their evidence did not agree.


simplify: They stoop, they bow down together; they could not deliver the burden, but themselves are gone into captivity.

They are bent down, they are falling together: they were not able to keep their images safe, but they themselves have been taken prisoner.


rate difficulty: `And a man or woman--when there is in them a familiar spirit, or who <FI>are<Fi> wizards--are certainly put to death; with stones they stone them; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.'


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


simplify: And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.

And he who is seated on the high seat said, See, I make all things new. And he said, Put it in the book; for these words are certain and true.


simplify: But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a shilling?

But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny?


rate difficulty: And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the door of the tent of meeting.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And the overhanging part that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the back of the tabernacle.

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


simplify: A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous man dealeth treacherously, and the destroyer destroyeth. Go up, O Elam; besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the twentieth day of the second month, in the second year, that the cloud was taken up from off the tabernacle of the testimony.

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


simplify: When the lord therefore of the vineyard cometh, what will he do unto those husbandmen?

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


rate difficulty: Of Harim, Adna; of Meraioth, Helkai;

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


rate difficulty: And she said, The glory is gone from Israel, for the ark of God has been taken.

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


simplify: So when they were dismissed, they came to Antioch: and when they had gathered the multitude together, they delivered the epistle:

So they, being sent away, came down to Antioch, and having got the people together, they gave them the letter.


rate difficulty: And he said, See, I have given you your request in this one thing more: I will not send destruction on this town.

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


simplify: To devise cunning works, to work in gold, and in silver, and in brass,

To do all sorts of delicate work in gold and silver and brass;


rate difficulty: For as the lightning goes forth from the east and shines to the west, so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

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


simplify: And this I say, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words.

I say this to prevent anyone from deceiving you by plausible arguments.


simplify: And he brought the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

And he put the other sheep before the Lord, the sheep with which they were made priests; and Aaron and his sons put their hands on the head of the sheep,


rate difficulty: Then shall his mind change, and he shall pass over, and offend, imputing this his power unto his god.

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


simplify: And they said unto Joshua, We are thy servants. And Joshua said unto them, Who are ye? and from whence come ye?

And they said to Joshua, We are your servants. Then Joshua said to them, Who are you and where do you come from?


rate difficulty: For Jehovah brought Judah low because of Ahaz king of Israel; for he had dealt wantonly in Judah, and trespassed sore against Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: and there shall in no wise enter into it anything unclean, or he that maketh an abomination and a lie: but only they that are written in the Lamb’s book of life.


rate difficulty: I have coveted [the] silver or gold or clothing of no one.

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


rate difficulty: And he went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, saying, O my Father, if it be possible, let this cup pass from me: nevertheless not as I will, but as thou wilt.

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


simplify: Ho Ariel, Ariel, the city where David encamped! add ye year to year; let the feasts come round:

Ho! Ariel, Ariel, the town against which David made war; put year to year, let the feasts come round:


simplify: Love ye therefore the sojourner; for ye were sojourners in the land of Egypt.

So be kind to the man from a strange country who is living among you, for you yourselves were living in a strange country in the land of Egypt.


simplify: For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell, and shall consume the earth with her increase, and set on fire the foundations of the mountains.

For my wrath is a flaming fire, burning to the deep parts of the underworld, burning up the earth with her increase, and firing the deep roots of the mountains.


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


simplify: For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

There was, you remember, a time when we ourselves were foolish, disobedient, misled, slaves to all kinds of passions and vices, living in a spirit of malice and envy, detested ourselves and hating one another.


simplify: For this isasthe waters of Noah unto me; for as I have sworn that the waters of Noah shall no more go over the earth, so have I sworn that I will not be wroth with thee, nor rebuke thee.

For this is like the days of Noah to me: for as I took an oath that the waters of Noah would never again go over the earth, so have I taken an oath that I will not again be angry with you, or say bitter words to you.


simplify: And Rabbith, and Kishion, and Abez,


simplify: He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without iniquity, just and right is he.

He is the Rock, complete is his work; for all his ways are righteousness: a God without evil who keeps faith, true and upright is he.


rate difficulty: I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore we henceforth know no man after the flesh: even though we have known Christ after the flesh, yet now we know him so no more.

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


simplify: their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullocks, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the ordinance;

And their meal offering and their drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered.


rate difficulty: And there came to him James and John, the sons of Zebedee, saying to him, Master, will you give us whatever may be our request?

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


simplify: and, behold, seven other kine came up after them, poor and very ill-favored and lean-fleshed, such as I never saw in all the land of Egypt for badness:

Then after them came seven other cows, very thin and poor-looking, worse than any I ever saw in the land of Egypt;


rate difficulty: Now Joseph was taken down to Egypt; and Potiphar the Egyptian, a captain of high position in Pharaoh's house, got him for a price from the Ishmaelites who had taken him there.

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


simplify: Now therefore fear ye not: I will nourish you, and your little ones. And he comforted them, and spake kindly unto them.

So now, have no fear: for I will take care of you and your little ones. So he gave them comfort with kind words.


simplify: And Abner said to him, Turn thee aside to thy right hand or to thy left, and lay thee hold on one of the young men, and take thee his armor. But Asahel would not turn aside from following him.

And Abner said, Then go to the right or to the left and put your hands on one of the fighting-men and take his arms. But Asahel would not be turned away from going after Abner.


simplify: With him the Reubenites and the Gadites received their inheritance, which Moses gave them, beyond the Jordan eastward, even as Moses the servant of Jehovah gave them:

With him the Reubenites and the Gadites have been given their heritage, which Moses gave them, on the east side of Jordan, as Moses, the servant of the Lord, gave them;


rate difficulty: For he had dominion over all the region on this side the river, from Tiphsah even to Azzah, over all the kings on this side the river: and he had peace on all sides round about him.

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


simplify: And I answered, Who art thou, Lord? And he said unto me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom thou persecutest.

And I, answering, said, Who are you; Lord? And he said to me, I am Jesus of Nazareth, whom you are attacking.


rate difficulty: Neither will I hide my face any more from them: for I have poured out my spirit upon the house of Israel, saith the Lord God.


rate difficulty: Then said Jehovah unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shear-jashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, in the highway of the fuller’s field;

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


simplify: And he overlaid it with pure gold within and without, and made a crown of gold to it round about.

Plating it inside and out with the best gold, and putting an edge of gold all round it.


simplify: And it came to pass, that the father of Publius lay sick of a fever and of a bloody flux: to whom Paul entered in, and prayed, and laid his hands on him, and healed him.

And the father of Publius was ill, with a disease of the stomach; to whom Paul went, and put his hands on him, with prayer, and made him well.


simplify: After that, he was seen of James; then of all the apostles.

After that, he appeared to James, and then to all the apostles.


simplify: What, then, shall we say? shall we continue in the sin that the grace may abound?

What are we to say, then? Are we to continue to sin, in order that God’s loving kindness may be multiplied?


simplify: Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the fat of my feast remain all night until the morning.

Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.


rate difficulty: Hallow yourselves therefore, and be holy; for I am Jehovah yourGod.

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


simplify: by weight also for the candlesticks of gold, and for the lamps thereof, of gold, by weight for every candlestick and for the lamps thereof; and for the candlesticks of silver, silver by weight for every candlestick and for the lamps thereof, according to the use of every candlestick;

And gold by weight for the light-supports and the vessels for the lights, the weight of gold needed for every support and every vessel for lights; and for the silver light-supports, the weight of silver needed for every support and for the different vessels as every one was to be used;


rate difficulty: Then Hezekiah said to Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which you have said. Then he said, ... if in my time there is peace and righteousness?

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


simplify: And the house, that is, the temple before it, was forty cubits long.

And the house, that is, the Temple, in front of the holy place was forty cubits long.


simplify: He saith to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?'

“But you,” he said, “who do you say that I am?”


rate difficulty: For he will be great in the sight of the Lord; he will not drink any wine or strong drink, and he will be filled with the Holy Spirit from the very hour of his birth,

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


rate difficulty: And if he be not redeemed in these years, then he shall go out in the year of jubile, both he, and his children with him.

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


simplify: But Mary kept all these sayings, pondering them in her heart.

But Mary kept all these words in her heart, and gave much thought to them.


rate difficulty: Which bringeth forth the chariot and horse, the army and the power; they shall lie down together, they shall not rise: they are extinct, they are quenched as tow.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, `Why <FI>is it<Fi> that ye were seeking me? did ye not know that in the things of my Father it behoveth me to be?'

“What made you search for me?”he answered. “Did not you know that I must be in my Father’s house?”


simplify: They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them: they have made them a molten calf, and have worshipped it, and have sacrificed thereunto, and said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which have brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

Even now they are turned away from the rule I gave them, and have made themselves a metal ox and given worship to it and offerings, saying, This is your god, O Israel, who took you up out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: Yet he filled their houses with good things: But the counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Though he made their houses full of good things: but the purpose of the evil-doers is far from me!


simplify: And they came near to the steward of Joseph’s house, and they communed with him at the door of the house,

So they went up to Joseph's chief servant at the door of the house,


simplify: My son, be wise, and make my heart glad, that I may answer him that reproacheth me.

My son, be wise and make my heart glad, so that I may give back an answer to him who puts me to shame.


rate difficulty: And the heart-knowingGod bore them witness, giving [them] the Holy Spirit as to us also,

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


simplify: that it might be fulfilled that was spoken through Isaiah the prophet, saying,

in fulfillment of these words in the prophet Isaiah —


simplify: But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

But come near, you sons of her who is wise in secret arts, the seed of her who is false to her husband, and of the loose woman.


simplify: And I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you.

And this day I have made it clear to you, and you have not given ear to the voice of the Lord your God in anything for which he has sent me to you.


simplify: And the women, who had come with him out of Galilee, followed after, and beheld the tomb, and how his body was laid.

And the women who had come with him from Galilee went after him and saw the place and how his body had been put to rest;


simplify: Then Judas, who betrayed him, when he saw that he was condemned, repented himself, and brought back the thirty pieces of silver to the chief priests and elders,

Then Judas, who was false to him, seeing that he was to be put to death, in his regret took back the thirty bits of silver to the chief priests and those in authority,


simplify: Yea, thou castest off fear, and restrainest prayer before God.

Truly, you make the fear of God without effect, so that the time of quiet worship before God is made less by your outcry.


rate difficulty: `And who <FI>is<Fi> the man that hath betrothed a woman, and hath not taken her? --let him go and turn back to his house, lest he die in battle, and another man take her.

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


simplify: for it is sanctified through the word of God and prayer.

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


rate difficulty: But to each the manifestation of the Spirit is given for profit.

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


simplify: And one shall say unto him, What are these wounds in thine hands? Then he shall answer, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.


rate difficulty: If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.


simplify: and I will be to you for a Father, and ye--ye shall be to Me for sons and daughters, saith the Lord Almighty.'

and I will be a father to you, and you will be my sons and daughters,” says the Lord, the Ruler of all.’


simplify: Therefore David enquired of the Lord, saying, Shall I go and smite these Philistines? And the Lord said unto David, Go, and smite the Philistines, and save Keilah.

So David, questioning the Lord, said, Am I to go and make an attack on these Philistines? And the Lord said to David, Go and make an attack on the Philistines so that Keilah may be kept from falling into their hands.


simplify: And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

And in his teaching he said, Be on your watch against the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes and be respected in the market-places,


simplify: But we hoped that it was he who should redeem Israel. Yea and besides all this, it is now the third day since these things came to pass.

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;


simplify: the sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan the son of Shagee the Hararite,

The sons of Hashem the Gizonite, Jonathan, the son of Shage the Hararite,


simplify: And they dwelt therein, and have built thee a sanctuary therein for thy name, saying,

And they made it their living-place, building there a holy house for your name, and saying,


rate difficulty: Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

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


simplify: and in the knowledge the temperance, and in the temperance the endurance, and in the endurance the piety,

knowledge by self-control, self-control by endurance, endurance by piety,


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

While Peter was saying these words, the Holy Spirit came on all those who were hearing the word.


rate difficulty: Truly I say to you, Whoever says to this mountain, Be taken up and be put into the sea; and has no doubt in his heart, but has faith that what he says will come about, he will have his desire.

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


simplify: And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and of purple, of scarlet, and fine twined linen, with cunning work.

And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.


rate difficulty: And when Leah saw that she had ceased to bear, she took Zilpah her maidservant and gave her to Jacob as wife.

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


simplify: So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.

So David went, and his six hundred men went with him, and they came to the stream Besor.


simplify: assuredly, therefore, let all the house of Israel know, that both Lord and Christ did God make him--this Jesus whom ye did crucify.'

So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ — this Jesus whom you crucified.”


rate difficulty: Now these are the names of his children which he had in Jerusalem; Shammua, and Shobab, Nathan, and Solomon,

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Laadan; the chief was Jehiel, and Zetham, and Joel, three.

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


rate difficulty: howbeit the gold, and the silver, the brass, the iron, the tin, and the lead,

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


simplify: And Peter went out, and wept bitterly.


simplify: The sons of Benjamin; Bela, and Becher, and Jediael, three.

The sons of Benjamin: Bela and Becher and Jediael, three.


rate difficulty: And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him take the lowest place:


simplify: And the men answered her, Our life for yours, if ye utter not this our business. And it shall be, when the Lord hath given us the land, that we will deal kindly and truly with thee.

And the men said to her, Our life for yours if you keep our business secret; and when the Lord has given us the land, we will keep faith and be kind to you.


rate difficulty: Behold his bed, which is Solomon’s; threescore valiant men are about it, of the valiant of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And a mighty angel took up a stone like a great millstone, and cast it into the sea, saying, Thus with violence shall that great city Babylon be thrown down, and shall be found no more at all.

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


simplify: Who hath enjoined him his way? or who can say, Thou hast wrought iniquity?

Who ever gave orders to him, or said to him, You have done wrong?


simplify: And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.

Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.


rate difficulty: But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I trust that through your prayers I shall be given unto you.


simplify: And the Spirit of Jehovah came mightily upon him, and he rent him as he would have rent a kid; and he had nothing in his hand: but he told not his father or his mother what he had done.

And the spirit of the Lord came on him with power, and, unarmed as he was, pulling the lion in two as one might do to a young goat, he put him to death; (but he said nothing to his father and mother of what he had done.)


simplify: And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?

And when they were getting the young ass, the owners of it said to them, Why are you taking the young ass?


simplify: And he did that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walked in the ways of David his father, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.


rate difficulty: And judgment is come upon the plain country, upon Holon, and upon Jahzah, and upon Mephaath,


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that his master’s wife cast her eyes upon Joseph; and she said, Lie with me.

And after a time, his master's wife, looking on Joseph with desire, said to him, Be my lover.


rate difficulty: He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

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


simplify: This is the offering of Aaron and of his sons, which they shall offer unto the Lord in the day when he is anointed; the tenth part of an ephah of fine flour for a meat offering perpetual, half of it in the morning, and half thereof at night.

This is the offering which Aaron and his sons are to make to the Lord on the day when he is made a priest: the tenth part of an ephah of the best meal for a meal offering for ever; half of it in the morning and half in the evening.


simplify: who also made us sufficient <FI>to be<Fi> ministrants of a new covenant, not of letter, but of spirit; for the letter doth kill, and the spirit doth make alive.

our fitness comes from God, who himself made us fit to be ministers of a new covenant, of which the substance is, not a written law, but a Spirit. For the written law means death, but the Spirit gives life.


simplify: The third captain of the host for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest, chief: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The third captain of the army for the third month was Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada the priest; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: When thy wares went forth out of the seas, thou filledst many people; thou didst enrich the kings of the earth with the multitude of thy riches and of thy merchandise.

When your goods went out over the seas, you made numbers of peoples full; the wealth of the kings of the earth was increased with your great wealth and all your goods.


rate difficulty: Now therefore the sword shall never depart from thy house; because thou hast despised me, and hast taken the wife of Urijah the Hittite to be thy wife.

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


rate difficulty: A blessing will be on your coming in and on your going out.

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


simplify: For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape.

For he put his oath on one side in letting the agreement be broken; and though he had given his hand to it, he did all these things; he will not get away safe.


rate difficulty: Who is giving rain on the face of the land, And is sending waters on the out-places.

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


simplify: And as I began to speak, the Holy Ghost fell on them, as on us at the beginning.

And, while I was talking to them, the Holy Spirit came on them, as on us at first.


simplify: And Aaron shall offer his bullock of the sin offering, which is for himself, and make an atonement for himself, and for his house.

And Aaron is to give the ox of the sin-offering for himself, to make himself and his house free from sin.


simplify: I gave my back to the smiters, and my cheeks to them that plucked off the hair; I hid not my face from shame and spitting.

I was offering my back to those who gave me blows, and my face to those who were pulling out my hair: I did not keep my face covered from marks of shame.


rate difficulty: Whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or [the] world, or life, or death, or things present, or things coming, all are yours;

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


rate difficulty: And when the virgins were gathered together the second time, then Mordecai was sitting in the king’s gate.


rate difficulty: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps.

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


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


simplify: unto Timothy, my true child in faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.

To Timothy, my true child in the faith: Grace, mercy, peace, from God the Father and Christ Jesus our Lord.


simplify: I sent Moses also and Aaron, and I plagued Egypt, according to that which I did among them: and afterward I brought you out.

And I sent Moses and Aaron, troubling Egypt by all the signs I did among them: and after that I took you out.


rate difficulty: And he let them do it. And the unclean spirits came out and went into the pigs; and the herd went rushing down a sharp slope into the sea, about two thousand of them; and they came to their death in the sea.


rate difficulty: But ye have dishonored the poor man. Do not the rich oppress you, and themselves drag you before the judgment-seats?

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


rate difficulty: And Moses spake unto the children of Israel, that they should keep the passover.

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


simplify: Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

And they are to give the lamb and the meal offering and the oil, morning by morning, for a burned offering at all times.


rate difficulty: That our children have had this promise completely fulfilled to them by God, by his raising Jesus. That is just what is said in the second Psalm —  ‘You are my Son; this day I have become your Father.’


rate difficulty: Therefore say unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Return ye, and turn yourselves from your idols; and turn away your faces from all your abominations.

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


simplify: So we boiled my son, and did eat him: and I said unto her on the next day, Give thy son, that we may eat him: and she hath hid her son.

So, boiling my son, we had a meal of him; and on the day after I said to her, Now give your son for our food; but she has put her son in a secret place.


rate difficulty: On account of these things the Jews, having seized me in the temple, attempted to lay hands on and destroy me.


rate difficulty: From thence she seeketh the prey, and her eyes behold afar off.

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


rate difficulty: Hear ye now what Jehovah saith: Arise, contend thou before the mountains, and let the hills hear thy voice.

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


simplify: Woe to the crown of pride of the drunkards of Ephraim, and to the fading flower of his glorious beauty, which is on the head of the fat valley of them that are overcome with wine!

Ho! crown of pride of those who are given up to wine in Ephraim, and the dead flower of his glory which is on the head of those who are overcome by strong drink!


simplify: And he gathered together all the princes of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.

And he got together all the chiefs of Israel, with the priests and the Levites.


simplify: Because of this <FI>it is<Fi> of faith, that <FI>it may be<Fi> according to grace, for the promise being sure to all the seed, not to that which <FI>is<Fi> of the law only, but also to that which <FI>is<Fi> of the faith of Abraham,

That is why everything is made to depend on faith: so that everything may be God’s gift, and in order that the fulfillment of the promise may be made certain for all Abraham’s descendants — not only for those who take their stand on the law, but also for those who take their stand on the faith of Abraham. (He is the Father of us all;


rate difficulty: And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,

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


simplify: And thou shalt lay them up in the tabernacle of the congregation before the testimony, where I will meet with you.

And let them be stored up in the Tent of meeting, in front of the ark of witness where I come to you.


simplify: being rooted and built up in him, and confirmed in the faith, as ye were taught--abounding in it in thanksgiving.

rooted in him, building up your characters through union with him, growing stronger through your faith, as you were taught, overflowing with faith and thanksgiving.


rate difficulty: Be not tricked; God is not made sport of: for whatever seed a man puts in, that will he get back as grain.


rate difficulty: For he hath despised the oath by breaking the covenant; and behold, he had given his hand, and yet hath done all these things; he shall not escape.

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


simplify: And Hezekiah had exceeding much riches and honor: and he provided him treasuries for silver, and for gold, and for precious stones, and for spices, and for shields, and for all manner of goodly vessels;

And Hezekiah had very great wealth and honour; and he made himself store-houses for his gold and silver and jewels and spices, and for body-covers and all sorts of beautiful vessels.


simplify: And he marvelled because of their unbelief. And he went round about the villages teaching.

And he was greatly surprised because they had no faith. And he went about the country places teaching.


simplify: And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, and were drawn away from the city; and they began to smite of the people, and kill, as at other times, in the highways, of which one goeth up to the house of God, and the other to Gibeah in the field, about thirty men of Israel.

And the children of Benjamin went out against the people, moving away from the town; and as before, at their first attack, they put to death about thirty men of Israel on the highways, of which one goes up to Beth-el and the other to Gibeah, and in the open country.


simplify: mighty works also--not common--was God working through the hands of Paul,

God did miracles of no ordinary kind by Paul’s hands;


rate difficulty: At that time Jesus went on the sabbath day through the corn; and his disciples were an hungred, and began to pluck the ears of corn, and to eat.


simplify: Now on the firstdayof unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where wilt thou that we make ready for thee to eat the passover?

Now on the first day of unleavened bread the disciples came to Jesus, saying, Where are we to make ready for you to take the Passover meal?


simplify: And when we passed by from our brethren the children of Esau, which dwelt in Seir, through the way of the plain from Elath, and from Ezion–gaber, we turned and passed by the way of the wilderness of Moab.

So we went on past our brothers, the children of Esau, living in Seir, by the road through the Arabah, from Elath and Ezion-geber. And turning, we went by the road through the waste land of Moab.


simplify: And Gehazi passed on before them, and laid the staff upon the face of the child; but there was neither voice, nor hearing. Wherefore he went again to meet him, and told him, saying, The child is not awaked.

And Gehazi went on before them and put the stick on the child's face; but there was no voice, and no one gave attention. So he went back, and meeting him gave him the news, saying, The child is not awake.


rate difficulty: And having been asked by the Pharisees, When is the kingdom ofGod coming? he answered them and said, The kingdom ofGod does not come with observation;


simplify: salute Arbanus, our fellow-workman in Christ, and Stachys, my beloved;

to Urban, our fellow worker in the cause of Christ, and to my dear friend Stachys;


simplify: Why are thy strong ones swept away? they stood not, because Jehovah did drive them.

Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:

And in that day I will send for my servant, Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah:


rate difficulty: and having in his hand a little opened book. And he set his right foot on the sea, and the left upon the earth,

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


simplify: or who did first give to Him, and it shall be given back to him again?

Or who has first given to him, so that he may claim a reward?’


simplify: And he said, How shall we liken the kingdom of God? or in what parable shall we set it forth?

And he said, What picture may we give of the kingdom of God, or with what story may we make it clear?


simplify: because, having known God they did not glorify <FI>Him<Fi> as God, nor gave thanks, but were made vain in their reasonings, and their unintelligent heart was darkened,

because, although they learned to know God, yet they did not offer him as God either praise or thanksgiving. Their speculations about him proved futile, and their undiscerning minds were darkened.


rate difficulty: not unto many peoples, deep of lip and heavy of tongue, whose words thou dost not understand. If I had not sent thee unto them--they, they do hearken unto thee,

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


rate difficulty: Now Shemaiah the prophet came to Rehoboam, and to the princes of Judah, that were gathered together to Jerusalem because of Shishak, and said unto them, Thus saith Jehovah, Ye have forsaken me, therefore have I also left you in the hand of Shishak.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Say unto the king and to the queen, Humble yourselves, sit down: for your principalities shall come down, even the crown of your glory.

Say to the king and to the queen-mother, Make yourselves low, be seated on the earth: for the crown of your glory has come down from your heads.


rate difficulty: But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,

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


simplify: And bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.

And let us not be put to the test, but keep us safe from the Evil One.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; I will therefore spread out my net over thee with a company of many people; and they shall bring thee up in my net.

This is what the Lord has said: My net will be stretched out over you, and I will take you up in my fishing-net.


simplify: And round about the throne were four and twenty thrones: and upon the thrones I saw four and twenty elders sitting, arrayed in white garments; and on their heads crowns of gold.

And round about the high seat were four and twenty seats: and on them I saw four and twenty rulers seated, clothed in white robes; and on their heads crowns of gold.


simplify: Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

Now, the reward is credited to him who does works, not as of grace but as a debt.


rate difficulty: And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

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


rate difficulty: And David commanded to gather together the sojourners that were in the land of Israel; and he set masons to hew wrought stones to build the house of God.

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


simplify: No man, when he hath lighted a candle, covereth it with a vessel, or putteth it under a bed; but setteth it on a candlestick, that they which enter in may see the light.

No one sets light to a lamp and then covers it with a bowl or puts it underneath a couch, but they put it on a lamp-stand, so that anyone who comes in may see the light.


rate difficulty: But to him that is able to do far exceedingly above all which we ask or think, according to the power which works in us,

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


simplify: For what is a man profited, if he shall gain the whole world, and lose his own soul? or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul?

What good will it do a person to gain the whole world, if he forfeits his life? Or what will a person give that is of equal value with his life?


rate difficulty: So that let him that thinks that he stands take heed lest he fall.

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


simplify: If any man love not the Lord Jesus Christ, let him be Anathema Maran-atha.

If any man has not love for the Lord, let him be cursed. Maran atha (our Lord comes).


simplify: Blessed is the man that doeth this, and the son of man that layeth hold on it; that keepeth the sabbath from polluting it, and keepeth his hand from doing any evil.

Happy is the man who does this, and the son of man whose behaviour is so ordered; who keeps the Sabbath holy, and his hand from doing any evil.


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel saith unto Elisha, at his seeing them, `Do I smite--do I smite--my father?'

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


simplify: And when David rose up in the morning, the word of Jehovah came unto the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying,

And David got up in the morning; now the word of the Lord had come to the prophet Gad, David's seer, saying,


rate difficulty: All these things Jesus spoke to the crowds in parables, and without a parable he did not speak to them,


simplify: Whence <FI>are<Fi> wars and fightings among you? not thence--out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?


simplify: and these things we write to you, that your joy may be full.

And we are writing all this to you that our joy may be complete.


simplify: Thou shalt not take thee a wife, neither shalt thou have sons or daughters in this place.

You are not to take a wife for yourself or have sons or daughters in this place.


rate difficulty: This wisdom descendeth not from above, but is earthly, sensual, devilish.

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


simplify: But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And she hath rebelled against mine ordinances in doing wickedness more than the nations, and against my statutes more than the countries that are round about her; for they have rejected mine ordinances, and as for my statutes, they have not walked in them.

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


simplify: And now I commend you to God, and to the word of his grace, which is able to build you up, and to give you the inheritance among all them that are sanctified.

And now, I give you into the care of God and the word of his grace, which is able to make you strong and to give you your heritage among all the saints.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to him--`It hath been said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.'

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


simplify: These all continued with one accord in prayer and supplication, with the women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and with his brethren.

They all united in devoting themselves to prayer, and so did some women, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.


rate difficulty: The lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of,

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah said unto Isaiah, What shall be the sign that the Lord will heal me, and that I shall go up into the house of the Lord the third day?

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


rate difficulty: The seventh captain for the seventh month was Helez the Pelonite, of the sons of Ephraim; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.

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


simplify: and it came to pass about the time of the shutting of the gate, when it was dark, that the men went out; whither the men went I know not: pursue after them quickly; for ye will overtake them.

And when it was the time for shutting the doors at dark, they went out; I have no idea where the men went: but if you go after them quickly, you will overtake them.


rate difficulty: The field which Abraham purchased of the sons of Heth: there was Abraham buried, and Sarah his wife.

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


simplify: Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,

Now the works of the flesh are clear, which are these: evil desire, unclean things, wrong use of the senses,


simplify: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; If it be marvellous in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be marvellous in mine eyes? saith the Lord of hosts.

This is what the Lord of armies has said: If this is a wonder to the rest of this people, is it a wonder to me? says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And they came to Balaam, and said to him, Thus says Balak the son of Zippor: Suffer not thyself, I pray thee, to be restrained from coming to me;

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


rate difficulty: And the lot came to the tribe of Manasseh (for he was the firstborn of Joseph), to Machir, the firstborn of Manasseh, the father of Gilead, for he was a man of war, and he had Gilead and Bashan.

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


rate difficulty: And he put the altar of the Lord in order, offering peace-offerings and praise-offerings on it, and said that all Judah were to be servants of the Lord, the God of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: He put another story before them, saying, The kingdom of heaven is like a grain of mustard seed which a man took and put in his field:

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Egypt said to them, Why do ye, Moses and Aaron, wish to have the people go off from their works? Away, to your burdens!


rate difficulty: And thou shalt not let any of thy seed pass through the fire to Molech, neither shalt thou profane the name of thy God: I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: The family of Levi by themselves, and their wives by themselves; the family of Shimei by themselves, and their wives by themselves;


rate difficulty: Thou dost not take to thee a wife, Nor hast thou sons and daughters in this place.

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


simplify: The meek also shall increase their joy in Jehovah, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One of Israel.

And the poor will have their joy in the Lord increased, and those in need will be glad in the Holy One of Israel.


rate difficulty: I will make men so small in number, that a man will be harder to get than gold, even the best gold of Ophir.

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


rate difficulty: And stand in the holy place according to the divisions of the fathers’ houses of your brethren the children of the people, and let there be for each a portion of a father’s house of the Levites.

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


simplify: And this was the numbering of them according to their fathers’ houses: Of Judah, the captains of thousands: Adnah the captain, and with him mighty men of valor three hundred thousand;

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


rate difficulty: But the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Gideon; and he blew a trumpet; and Abiezer was gathered together after him.

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


simplify: Job speaketh without knowledge, And his words are without wisdom.

Job's words do not come from knowledge; they are not the fruit of wisdom.


simplify: that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

So that what was ordered by the law might be done in us, who are living, not in the way of the flesh, but in the way of the Spirit.


rate difficulty: For this cause the underworld has made wide its throat, opening its mouth without limit: and her glory, and the noise of her masses, and her loud-voiced feasters, will go down into it.


rate difficulty: He hath dug in the darkness--houses; By day they shut themselves up, They have not known light.


rate difficulty: Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.

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


rate difficulty: Thy calf, O Samaria, hath cast [thee] off; mine anger is kindled against them: how long will they be incapable of purity?

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


simplify: And the ark of God remained with the family of Obed-edom in his house three months: and Jehovah blessed the house of Obed-edom, and all that he had.

And the ark of God was in the house of Obed-edom for three months; and the Lord sent a blessing on the house of Obed-edom and on all he had.


rate difficulty: Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

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


simplify: And David went up from thence, and dwelt in the strongholds of En-gedi.

And from there, David went up and took cover in the safe place of En-gedi.


simplify: For he built again the high places which Hezekiah his father had broken down; and he reared up altars for the Baalim, and made Asheroth, and worshipped all the host of heaven, and served them.

For he put up again the high places which had been pulled down by his father Hezekiah; and he made altars for the Baals, and pillars of wood, and was a worshipper and servant of all the stars of heaven;


rate difficulty: and established are the field, and the cave which <FI>is<Fi> in it, to Abraham for a possession of a burying-place, from the sons of Heth.

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


rate difficulty: Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: `Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.' Nor say let the eunuch, `Lo, I am a tree dried up,'

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


rate difficulty: At the cry, Babylon is taken! the earth is shaking, and the cry comes to the ears of the nations.


simplify: Then came he unto the gate which looketh toward the east, and went up the steps thereof: and he measured the threshold of the gate, one reed broad; and the other threshold, one reed broad.

Then he came to the doorway looking to the east, and went up by its steps; and he took the measure of the doorstep, one rod wide.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel give to the Levites these cities and their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by the hand of Moses, by lot.


rate difficulty: I have given you teaching in the way of wisdom, guiding your steps in the straight way.


rate difficulty: If you have had a taste of the grace of the Lord:

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


rate difficulty: And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourneth, and come with all the desire of his soul unto the place which Jehovah shall choose;

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


simplify: Let the day perish wherein I was born, And the night which said, There is a man-child conceived.

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.


rate difficulty: Then saith Jesus to him, `Go--Adversary, for it hath been written, The Lord thy God thou shalt bow to, and Him only thou shalt serve.'

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Therefore, behold, days are coming, saith Jehovah, when it shall no more be said, Topheth, and Valley of the son of Hinnom, but the valley of slaughter; for they shall bury in Topheth, till there be no place.

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


simplify: awake up, as is right, and sin not; for certain have an ignorance of God; for shame to you I say <FI>it<Fi> .

Wake up to a righteous life, and cease to sin. There are some who have no true knowledge of God. I speak in this way to shame you.


rate difficulty: Go and say to Ebed-melech the Ethiopian, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, my words will come true for this town, for evil and not for good: they will come about before your eyes on that day.

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


rate difficulty: They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed: their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the Lord: they shall not satisfy their souls, neither fill their bowels: because it is the stumblingblock of their iniquity.


simplify: So one of the priests whom they had carried away from Samaria came and dwelt in Beth-el, and taught them how they should fear Jehovah.

So one of the priests whom they had taken away as a prisoner from Samaria came back, and, living in Beth-el, became their teacher in the worship of the Lord.


rate difficulty: But to the rest speak I, not the Lord: If any brother hath a wife that believeth not, and she be pleased to dwell with him, let him not put her away.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

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


simplify: the <FI>son<Fi> of Salah, the <FI>son<Fi> of Cainan, the <FI>son<Fi> of Arphaxad, the <FI>son<Fi> of Shem, the <FI>son<Fi> of Noah, the <FI>son<Fi> of Lamech,


rate difficulty: The word that Jehovah hath spoken unto Jeremiah the prophet concerning the coming in of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, to smite the land of Egypt:

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


simplify: And Jesus said, Who is it that touched me? And when all denied, Peter said, and they that were with him, Master, the multitudes press thee and crush thee.

And Jesus said, Who was touching me? And when they all said, It is not I, Peter and those who were with him said, Master, the people are pushing round you on every side.


simplify: And Elimelech Naomi’s husband died; and she was left, and her two sons.

And Elimelech, Naomi's husband, came to his end; and only her two sons were with her.


simplify: Be ye mindful always of his covenant; the word which he commanded to a thousand generations;

He has kept his agreement in mind for ever, the word which he gave for a thousand generations;


rate difficulty: And he said to him, I am a prophet also as thou art; and an angel spoke to me by the word of Jehovah saying, Bring him back with thee into thy house, that he may eat bread and drink water. He lied unto him.

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


rate difficulty: Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

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


simplify: For our conversation is in heaven; from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jesus Christ:

For our country is in heaven; from where the Saviour for whom we are waiting will come, even the Lord Jesus Christ:


simplify: As he spake to our fathers, to Abraham, and to his seed for ever.


simplify: And it came to pass, whensoever the stronger cattle did conceive, that Jacob laid the rods before the eyes of the cattle in the gutters, that they might conceive among the rods.

And whenever the stronger ones of the flock became with young, Jacob put the sticks in front of them in the drinking-places, so that they might become with young when they saw the sticks.


rate difficulty: till my coming in, and I have taken you unto a land like your own land, a land of corn and wine, a land of bread and vineyards;

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


rate difficulty: Beware of the dogs, beware of the evil workers, beware of the concision:

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


simplify: By these three was the third part of men killed, by the fire, and by the smoke, and by the brimstone, which issued out of their mouths.

By these evils a third part of men was put to death, by the fire, and the smoke, and the burning smell which came out of their mouths.


rate difficulty: out of [the] tribe of Juda, twelve thousand sealed; out of [the] tribe of Reuben, twelve thousand; out of [the] tribe of Gad, twelve thousand;


simplify: Mine answer to them that do examine me is this,

The defense that I make to my critics is this:


rate difficulty: And ye have done as I have done, On the upper lip ye are not covered, And bread of men ye do not eat.

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


simplify: God bringeth him forth out of Egypt; He hath as it were the strength of the wild-ox: He shall eat up the nations his adversaries, And shall break their bones in pieces, And smite them through with his arrows.

It is God who has taken him out of Egypt; his horns are like those of the mountain ox; the nations warring against him will be his food, their bones will be broken, they will be wounded with his arrows.


rate difficulty: <FI> are<Fi> all apostles? <FI>are<Fi> all prophets? <FI>are<Fi> all teachers? <FI>are<Fi> all powers?


rate difficulty: And the Philistines say, `Who hath done this?' And they say, `Samson, son-in-law of the Timnite, because he hath taken away his wife, and giveth her to his companion;' and the Philistines go up, and burn her and her father with fire.


simplify: And Manasseh had in Issachar and in Asher Beth–shean and her towns, and Ibleam and her towns, and the inhabitants of Dor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Endor and her towns, and the inhabitants of Taanach and her towns, and the inhabitants of Megiddo and her towns, even three countries.

In Issachar and Asher, Manasseh had Beth-shean and its daughter-towns, and Ibleam and its daughter-towns, and the people of Dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of En-dor and its daughter-towns, and the people of Taanach and its daughter-towns, and the people of Megiddo and its daughter-towns, that is, the three hills.


rate difficulty: in which ye are glad, a little now, if it be necessary, being made to sorrow in manifold trials,

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


simplify: And thou shalt be secure, because there is hope; yea, thou shalt dig about thee, and thou shalt take thy rest in safety.

And you will be safe because there is hope; after looking round, you will take your rest in quiet;


simplify: And in those times there was no peace to him that went out, nor to him that came in; but great vexations were upon all the inhabitants of the lands.

In those times there was no peace for him who went out or for him who came in, but great trouble was on all the people of the lands.


rate difficulty: And he divided himself against them by night, he and his servants, and smote them, and pursued them unto Hobah, which is on the left hand of Damascus.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And the water went all round the altar, till the drain was full.

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


rate difficulty: And if the Lord your God makes wide the limits of your land, as he said in his oath to your fathers, and gives you all the land which he undertook to give to your fathers;

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


simplify: They gave him vinegar to drink mingled with gall: and when he had tasted thereof, he would not drink.

They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.


simplify: Neither did Asher drive out the inhabitants of Accho, nor the inhabitants of Zidon, nor of Ahlab, nor of Achzib, nor of Helbah, nor of Aphik, nor of Rehob:

And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out;


rate difficulty: And Ishbibenob, who was of the children of Raphah — the weight of his lance was three hundred shekels of bronze, and he was girded with new [armour] — thought to smite David.

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


simplify: Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir–heres: because the riches that he hath gotten are perished.

So my heart is sounding for Moab like the sound of pipes, and my heart is sounding like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: for the wealth he has got for himself has come to an end.


rate difficulty: So putting away all wrongdoing, and all tricks and deceits and envies and evil talk,

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


rate difficulty: And the fortress of the high place of thy walls He hath bowed down--He hath made low, He hath caused <FI>it<Fi> to come to the earth, --unto dust.

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


rate difficulty: Keep in mind the days of the past, give thought to the years of generations gone by: go to your father and he will make it clear to you, to the old men and they will give you the story.

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


simplify: Jehovah will enter into judgment with the elders of his people, and the princes thereof: It is ye that have eaten up the vineyard; the spoil of the poor is in your houses:

The Lord comes to be the judge of their responsible men and of their rulers: it is you who have made waste the vine-garden, and in your houses is the property of the poor which you have taken by force.


simplify: And Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the days of Jacob, the years of his life, were a hundred forty and seven years.

And Jacob was living in the land of Goshen for seventeen years; so the years of his life were a hundred and forty-seven.


rate difficulty: For the children of Israel and the children of Levi shall bring the heave-offering of the corn, of the new wine and the oil, into the chambers, where are the vessels of the sanctuary, and the priests that minister, and the doorkeepers and the singers. And we will not forsake the house of ourGod.

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


simplify: It shall come to pass, when he seeth that the lad is not with us, that he will die: and thy servants shall bring down the gray hairs of thy servant our father with sorrow to the grave.

When he sees that the boy is not with us, he will come to his death, and our father's grey head will go down in sorrow to the underworld.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of two full years, that Pharaoh dreamed: and, behold, he stood by the river.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses said unto the people, Ye have sinned a great sin: and now I will go up unto Jehovah; peradventure I shall make atonement for your sin.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith the Lord God of the Hebrews, 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, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.


simplify: The meal-offering and the drink-offering are cut off from the house of Jehovah; the priests, Jehovah’s ministers, mourn.

The meal offering and the drink offering have been cut off from the house of the Lord; the priests, the Lord's servants, are sorrowing.


simplify: And he went forward a little, and fell on the ground, and prayed that, if it were possible, the hour might pass from him.

And he went forward a little, and falling down on the earth, made request that, if possible, the hour might go from him.


rate difficulty: And I will lay my vengeance upon Edom by the hand of my people Israel: and they shall do in Edom according to mine anger and according to my fury; and they shall know my vengeance, saith the Lord God.


rate difficulty: Now when the sun was going down, a deep sleep came on Abram, and a dark cloud of fear.

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


rate difficulty: for before the coming of certain from James, with the nations he was eating, and when they came, he was withdrawing and separating himself, fearing those of the circumcision,

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


simplify: But all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his share, and his coulter, and his axe, and his mattock.

But all the Israelites had to go to the Philistines to get their ploughs and blades and axes and hooks made sharp;


simplify: For whether we live, we live unto the Lord; and whether we die, we die unto the Lord: whether we live therefore, or die, we are the Lord’s.

As long as we have life we are living to the Lord; or if we give up our life it is to the Lord; so if we are living, or if our life comes to an end, we are the Lord's.