rate difficulty: `He who is receiving you doth receive me, and he who is receiving me doth receive Him who sent me,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to him, Therefore, whoever slayeth Cain, it shall be revenged sevenfold. And Jehovah set a mark on Cain, lest any finding him should smite him.

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


rate difficulty: and he answering said, `It is not good to take the children's bread, and to cast to the little dogs.'

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


simplify: And David said unto him, Fear not; for I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan thy father’s sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father; and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

And David said to him, Have no fear: for truly I will be good to you, because of your father Jonathan, and I will give back to you all the land which was Saul's; and you will have a place at my table at all times.


simplify: As sorrowful, yet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things.

as saddened, yet always rejoicing; as poor, yet enriching many; as having nothing, and yet possessing all things!


rate difficulty: Lo, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasonings, until ye searched out what to say.

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


rate difficulty: (Now the half that pertained unto the congregation was three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep,

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon’s builders and Hiram’s builders did hew them, and the stonesquarers: so they prepared timber and stones to build the house.

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


simplify: As in the days of thy coming forth out of the land of Egypt will I show unto them marvellous things.

As in the days when you came out from the land of Egypt, let us see things of wonder.


rate difficulty: And if he have smitten him with a stone from the hand, wherewith one may die, and he die, he is a murderer: the murderer shall certainly be put to death.


rate difficulty: And the olive saith to them, Have I ceased from my fatness, by which they honour gods and men, that I have gone to stagger over the trees?

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


simplify: And a great multitude having gathered, and those who from city and city were coming unto him, he spake by a simile:

Once, when a great crowd was collecting, and, when the people of town after town were flocking to Jesus, he spoke to them in the form of a parable:


simplify: These are the feasts of the Lord, which ye shall proclaim to be holy convocations, to offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, and a meat offering, a sacrifice, and drink offerings, every thing upon his day:

These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;


rate difficulty: and we bring near Jehovah's offering, each that which he hath found, vessels of gold--chain, and bracelet, seal-ring, <FI>ear<Fi> -ring, and bead--to make atonement for ourselves before Jehovah.'

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


rate difficulty: For when one saith, I am of Paul; and another, I am of Apollos; are ye not men?


rate difficulty: Thy hand shall be lifted up upon thine adversaries, and all thine enemies shall be cut off.


simplify: if ye be true men, let one of your brethren be bound in your prison-house; but go ye, carry grain for the famine of your houses:

If you are true men, let one of you be kept in prison, while you go and take grain for the needs of your families;


simplify: But let none of you suffer as a murderer, or as a thief, or as an evildoer, or as a busybody in other men’s matters.

I need hardly say that no one among you must suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or a criminal, or for interfering in matters which do not concern Christians.


simplify: And Pharaoh took off his signet ring from his hand, and put it upon Joseph’s hand, and arrayed him in vestures of fine linen, and put a gold chain about his neck;

Then Pharaoh took off his ring from his hand and put it on Joseph's hand, and he had him clothed with the best linen, and put a chain of gold round his neck;


simplify: And I will make thee like the top of a rock: thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon; thou shalt be built no more: for I the Lord have spoken it, saith the Lord God.

I will make you an uncovered rock: you will be a place for the stretching out of nets; there will be no building you up again: for I the Lord have said it, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And his sister Hammoleketh bare Ishod, and Abiezer, and Mahalah.

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


simplify: Blessed are those servants, whom the lord when he cometh shall find watching: verily I say unto you, that he shall gird himself, and make them to sit down to meat, and will come forth and serve them.

Happy are those servants who are watching when the lord comes; truly I say to you, he will make himself their servant and, placing them at the table, he will come out and give them food.


simplify: And tarry with him a few days, until thy brother’s fury turn away;

And be there with him for a little time, till your brother's wrath is turned away;


simplify: So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.

Then we will come on him in some place, wherever he may be, falling on him as the dew comes on the earth: and of him and all the men who are with him not one will get away with his life.


rate difficulty: Then the king of Babylon put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes in Riblah: and the king of Babylon put to death all the great men of Judah.

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


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: But the people of the land slew all them that had conspired against king Amon; and the people of the land made Josiah his son king in his stead.

But the people of the land put to death all those who had taken part in the design against the king, and made Josiah his son king in his place.


rate difficulty: Thou sayest, Lo, thou hast smitten the Edomites; and thine heart lifteth thee up to boast: abide now at home; why shouldest thou meddle to thine hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 17 | difficulty: hard


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

And, when I saw him, I fell at his feet like one dead. He laid his hand on me and said — ‘Do not be afraid. I am the First and the Last,


simplify: and he bade them provide beasts, that they might set Paul thereon, and bring him safe unto Felix the governor.

And get beasts so that they may put Paul on them, and take him safely to Felix, the ruler.


simplify: He that overcometh, I will make him a pillar in the temple of my God, and he shall go out thence no more: and I will write upon him the name of my God, and the name of the city of my God, the new Jerusalem, which cometh down out of heaven from my God, and mine own new name.

Him who overcomes I will make a pillar in the house of my God, and he will go out no more: and I will put on him the name of my God, and the name of the town of my God, the new Jerusalem, which comes down out of heaven from my God, and my new name.


simplify: Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:

For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;


rate difficulty: And I will make many peoples amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid at thee, when I brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, each one for his life, in the day of thy fall.

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


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


simplify: When thou comest into thy neighbour’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.


simplify: For again the Edomites had come and smitten Judah, and carried away captives.

For the Edomites had come again, attacking Judah and taking away prisoners.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Satan, The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee: is not this a brand plucked out of the fire?

And the Lord said to the Satan, May the Lord's word be sharp against you, O Satan, the word of the Lord who has taken Jerusalem for himself: is this not a burning branch pulled out of the fire?


rate difficulty: He turneth not back unto the land of Egypt, And Asshur--he <FI>is<Fi> his king, For they have refused to return.

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


rate difficulty: and, when he had taken it down, he wrapped it in a linen sheet, and laid him in a tomb cut out of stone, in which no one had yet been buried.

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


simplify: 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.

And nothing unclean may come into it, or anyone whose works are cursed or false; but only those whose names are in the Lamb's book of life.


simplify: and thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days: and thou shalt inquire; and they shall show thee the sentence of judgment.

And come before the priests, the Levites, or before him who is judge at the time: and they will go into the question and give you a decision:


simplify: And, behold, I send the promise of my Father upon you: but tarry ye in the city of Jerusalem, until ye be endued with power from on high.

And now I will send to you what my father has undertaken to give you, but do not go from the town, till the power from heaven comes to you.


rate difficulty: Wherefore I take you to record this day, that I am pure from the blood of all men.

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


simplify: And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and the day brake upon them at Hebron.

And they took Asahel's body and put it in the last resting-place of his father in Beth-lehem. And Joab and his men, travelling all night, came to Hebron at dawn.


rate difficulty: whereof I was made a minister, according to the dispensation of God which was given me to you-ward, to fulfil the word of God,


rate difficulty: To cause it to rain on a land where no man is; On the wilderness, wherein there is no man;


simplify: Whosoever therefore resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God: and they that resist shall receive to themselves damnation.

For which reason everyone who puts himself against the authority puts himself against the order of God: and those who are against it will get punishment for themselves.


rate difficulty: They have spoken words, To swear falsehood in making a covenant, And flourished as a poisonous herb hath judgment, on the furrows of a field.

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


rate difficulty: `And thou hast loved Jehovah thy God, and kept His charge, and His statutes, and His judgments, and His commands, all the days;

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


rate difficulty: And Boaz saith to his young man who is set over the reapers, `Whose <FI>is<Fi> this young person?'

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


simplify: Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

Nethanel, the fourth, Raddai, the fifth,


rate difficulty: Let my teaching be kept secret: and my words be given to my disciples only.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not delay to offer of thy harvest, and of the outflow of thy presses. The first-born of thy sons shalt thou give unto me.

Do not keep back your offerings from the wealth of your grain and your vines. The first of your sons you are to give to me.


rate difficulty: And Moses calleth unto all Israel, and saith unto them, `Ye--ye have seen all that which Jehovah hath done before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land;

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


simplify: That we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the sleight of men, and cunning craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive;

So that we may be no longer children, sent this way and that, turned about by every wind of teaching, by the twisting and tricks of men, by the deceits of error;


simplify: And Jesus entered and passed through Jericho.

And he went into Jericho, and when he was going through it,


simplify: And what one nation in the earth is like thy people, even like Israel, whom God went to redeem for a people to himself, and to make him a name, and to do for you great things and terrible, for thy land, before thy people, which thou redeemedst to thee from Egypt, from the nations and their gods?

And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, and to make a name for himself, and to do great and strange things for them, driving out a nation and its gods from before his people?


simplify: And Mary said, `My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And Mary said:  “My soul exalts the Lord,


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after this that the king of the children of Ammon died, and Hanun his son reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: A continual dropping in a very rainy day And a contentious woman are alike:

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


simplify: And he read therein before the street that was before the water gate from the morning until midday, before the men and the women, and those that could understand; and the ears of all the people were attentive unto the book of the law.

He was reading it in the wide place in front of the water-doorway, from early morning till the middle of the day, in the hearing of all those men and women whose minds were able to take it in; and the ears of all the people were open to the book of the law.


simplify: Because God hath deprived her of wisdom, Neither hath he imparted to her understanding.

For God has taken wisdom from her mind, and given her no measure of knowledge.


rate difficulty: And when his servants told David these words, it pleased David well to be the king’s son-in-law. And the days were not expired;

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


rate difficulty: and killed the Prince of life; whom God raised from the dead; whereof we are witnesses.


simplify: And when she could not longer hide him, she took for him an ark of bulrushes, and daubed it with slime and with pitch, and put the child therein; and she laid it in the flags by the river’s brink.

And when she was no longer able to keep him secret, she made him a basket out of the stems of water-plants, pasting sticky earth over it to keep the water out; and placing the baby in it she put it among the plants by the edge of the Nile.


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

And the town will be put to the curse, and everything in it will be given to the Lord: only Rahab, the loose woman, and all who are in the house with her, will be kept safe, because she kept secret the men we sent.


simplify: Only be strong and very courageous, to observe to do according to all the law, which Moses my servant commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayest have good success whithersoever thou goest.

Only take heart and be very strong; take care to do all the law which Moses my servant gave you, not turning from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may do well in all your undertakings.


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

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


simplify: And after the Babylonian removal, Jeconiah begat Shealtiel, and Shealtiel begat Zerubbabel,

After the Exile to Babylon — Jeconiah was the father of Shealtiel, Shealtiel of Zerubbabel,


rate difficulty: Call with the throat, restrain not, As a trumpet lift up thy voice, And declare to My people their transgression, And to the house of Jacob their sins;

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


simplify: Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peulthai the eighth: for God blessed him.

Ammiel the sixth, Issachar the seventh, Peullethai the eighth; for the blessing of God was on him.


rate difficulty: He inhabiteth the rock and maketh his dwelling on the point of the cliff, and the fastness:

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


rate difficulty: And upon Dibon, and upon Nebo, and upon Beth–diblathaim,

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


rate difficulty: For I am the Lord that bringeth you up out of the land of Egypt, to be your God: ye shall therefore be holy, for I am holy.

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


simplify: And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the Lord, Israel is my son, even my firstborn:

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


rate difficulty: Jesus called them at once, and they left their father Zebedee in the boat with the crew, and went after him.


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

Then David said to the Philistine, You come to me with a sword and a spear and a javelin: but I come to you in the name of the Lord of armies, the God of the armies of Israel on which you have put shame.


simplify: And in thy seed shall all the nations of the earth be blessed; because thou hast obeyed my voice.

And your seed will be a blessing to all the nations of the earth, because you have done what I gave you orders to do.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, After this manner will I mar the pride of Judah, and the great pride of Jerusalem.

The Lord has said, In this way I will do damage to the pride of Judah and to the great pride of Jerusalem.


simplify: And David went up according to the saying of Gad, as Jehovah commanded.

So David went up, as Gad had said and as the Lord had given orders.


simplify: Whereby the world that then was, being overflowed with water, perished:

and that by the same means the world which then existed was destroyed in a deluge of water.


rate difficulty: And it was so, when they saw that there was much money in the chest, that the king’s scribe and the high priest came up, and they put up in bags, and told the money that was found in the house of the Lord.

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


simplify: He keepeth back his soul from the pit, and his life from perishing by the sword.

To keep back his soul from the underworld, and his life from destruction.


rate difficulty: That is sending by sea ambassadors, Even with implements of reed on the face of the waters, --Go, ye light messengers, Unto a nation drawn out and peeled, Unto a people fearful from its beginning and onwards, A nation meeting out by line, and treading down, Whose land floods have spoiled.

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


simplify: And the king called for Jehoiada the chief, and said unto him, Why hast thou not required of the Levites to bring in out of Judah and out of Jerusalem the collection, according to the commandment of Moses the servant of the Lord, and of the congregation of Israel, for the tabernacle of witness?

Then the king sent for Jehoiada, the chief priest, and said to him, Why have you not given the Levites orders that the tax fixed by Moses, the servant of the Lord, and by the meeting of Israel, for the Tent of witness, is to be got in from Judah and Jerusalem and handed over?


rate difficulty: And Moses lifted up his hand, and with his staff smote the rock twice, and much water came out, and the assembly drank, and their beasts.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that, as he was praying in a certain place, when he ceased, one of his disciples said unto him, Lord, teach us to pray, as John also taught his disciples.

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


simplify: And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying,


simplify: Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The Lord God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Go and get together the chiefs of the children of Israel, and say to them, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has been seen by me, and has said, Truly I have taken up your cause, because of what is done to you in Egypt;


rate difficulty: And you will be my people, and I will be your God.

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


simplify: and there was given to each one white robes, and it was said to them that they may rest themselves yet a little time, till may be fulfilled also their fellow-servants and their brethren, who are about to be killed--even as they.

Then to each of them was given a white robe, and they were told to rest yet a little longer, until the number of their fellow servants and of their friends in Christ's service who were about to be put to death, as they had been, should be complete.


simplify: Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land.

Then Joseph said to the people, I have made you and your land this day the property of Pharaoh; here is seed for you to put in your fields.


simplify: And another of his disciples said to him, `Sir, permit me first to depart and to bury my father;'

“Master,” said another, who was a disciple, “let me first go and bury my father.”


simplify: And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:

And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:


simplify: and talking with him he went in, and doth find many having come together.

Talking with him as he went, Peter entered the house, where he found a large gathering of people, to whom he said:


simplify: And Jair died, and was buried in Camon.

And at the death of Jair his body was put to rest in the earth in Kamon.


rate difficulty: And when he was gone, a lion met him by the way, and slew him: and his carcase was cast in the way, and the ass stood by it, the lion also stood by the carcase.

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


simplify: Who ought to have been here before thee, and object, if they had ought against me.

There were, however, some Jews from Roman Asia who ought to have been here before you, and to have made any charge that they may have against me —


simplify: The sons of Zophah: Suah, and Harnepher, and Shual, and Beri, and Imrah,

The sons of Zophah: Suah and Harnepher and Shual and Beri and Imrah,


rate difficulty: For gone round hath the cry the border of Moab, Unto Eglaim <FI>is<Fi> its howling, And to Beer-Elim <FI>is<Fi> its howling.

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


simplify: Greatly desiring to see thee, being mindful of thy tears, that I may be filled with joy;

as I think of your tears, longing to see you, that my happiness may be completed,


simplify: `And the servant said, Sir, it hath been done as thou didst command, and still there is room.

Presently the servant said ‘Sir, your order has been carried out, and still there is room.’


rate difficulty: Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

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


rate difficulty: and to them he said, Go also ye into the vineyard, and whatsoever may be just I will give you. And they went their way.

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


simplify: And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; this is Anah who found the hot springs in the wilderness, as he fed the asses of Zibeon his father.

And these are the children of Zibeon: Aiah and Anah; that same Anah who made the discovery of the water-springs in the waste land, when he was looking after the asses of his father Zibeon.


rate difficulty: and he will appoint them unto him for captains of thousands, and captains of fifties; and he will set some to plow his ground, and to reap his harvest, and to make his instruments of war, and the instruments of his chariots.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt consume all the peoples that Jehovah thyGod will give up unto thee; thine eye shall not spare them, and thou shalt not serve theirgods; for that would be a snare unto thee.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and the heads of Israel are humbled, and the king, and they say, `Righteous <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah.'

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


simplify: For all seek their own, not the things which are Jesus Christ’s.

For they all go after what is theirs, not after the things of Christ.


rate difficulty: Again you have among you those who hold in the same way to the teaching of the Nikolaitans.

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


simplify: And having gifts differing according to the grace that was given to us, whether prophecy, let us prophesy according to the proportion of our faith;

And having different qualities by reason of the grace given to us, such as the quality of a prophet, let it be made use of in relation to the measure of our faith;


simplify: The leprosy therefore of Naaman shall cleave unto thee, and unto thy seed for ever. And he went out from his presence a leper as white as snow.

Because of what you have done, the disease of Naaman the leper will take you in its grip, and your seed after you, for ever. And he went out from before him a leper as white as snow.


simplify: And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen.

They are to take the gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen,


simplify: In Damascus the governor under Aretas the king kept the city of the Damascenes with a garrison, desirous to apprehend me:

When I was in Damascus, the Governor under King Aretas had the gates of that city guarded, so as to arrest me,


rate difficulty: Whereas our substance is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth.

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


simplify: And David made him houses in the city of David, and prepared a place for the ark of God, and pitched for it a tent.

And David made houses for himself in the town of David; and he got ready a place for the ark of God, and put up a tent for it.


rate difficulty: Do not they blaspheme the honorable name by which ye are called?

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


rate difficulty: I have sent Tychicus to Ephesus.

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


simplify: at mid-day, I saw in the way, O king, out of heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me a light--and those going on with me;

that at midday, your Majesty, I saw right in my path, coming from the heavens, a light brighter than the glare of the sun, which shone all around me and those traveling with me.


simplify: And when he was come, straightway he came to him, and saith, Rabbi; and kissed him.

And when he had come, he went straight to him and said, Master; and gave him a kiss.


simplify: For our transgressions are multiplied before thee, and our sins testify against us; for our transgressions are with us, and as for our iniquities, we know them:

For our evil doings are increased before you, and our sins give witness against us: for our evil doings are with us, and we have knowledge of our sins:


rate difficulty: for these are not full of wine, as ye suppose, for it is the third hour of the day;

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rate difficulty: But she is also truly my sister, the daughter of my father, but not the daughter of my mother; and she became my wife.


rate difficulty: and he dieth in a good old age, satisfied with days, riches, and honour, and reign doth Solomon his son in his stead.

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


simplify: The snorting of his horses was heard from Dan: the whole land trembled at the sound of the neighing of his strong ones; for they are come, and have devoured the land, and all that is in it; the city, and those that dwell therein.

The loud breathing of the horses comes to our ears from Dan: at the sound of the outcry of his war-horses, all the land is shaking with fear; for they have come, and have made a meal of the land and everything in it; the town and the people living in it.


simplify: And blasphemed the God of heaven because of their pains and their sores, and repented not of their deeds.

and blasphemed the God of heaven, because of their pains and because of their sores; yet they did not repent of what they had done.


simplify: for it was so, when Jezebel cut off the prophets of Jehovah, that Obadiah took a hundred prophets, and hid them by fifty in a cave, and fed them with bread and water.)

For when Jezebel was cutting off the prophets of the Lord, Obadiah took a hundred of them, and kept them secretly in a hole in the rock, fifty at a time, and gave them bread and water.)


rate difficulty: and they took him, and cast him into the pit: and the pit was empty, there was no water in it.


simplify: and ye did dishonour the poor one; do not the rich oppress you and themselves draw you to judgment-seats;

But you — you insult the poor man! Is not it the rich who oppress you? Is not it they who drag you into law courts?


simplify: And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.


simplify: and speak unto him, saying, Thus speaketh Jehovah of hosts, saying, Behold, the man whose name is the Branch: and he shall grow up out of his place; and he shall build the temple of Jehovah;

And say to him, These are the words of the Lord of armies: See, the man whose name is the Branch, under whom there will be fertile growth.


rate difficulty: `And they have hearkened to thy voice, and thou hast entered, thou and the elders of Israel, unto the king of Egypt, and ye have said unto him, Jehovah, God of the Hebrews, hath met with us; and now, let us go, we pray thee, a journey of three days into the wilderness, and we sacrifice to Jehovah our God.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they are fearing Jehovah, and make to themselves from their extremities priests of high places, and they are acting for them in the house of the high places.

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simplify: Then shall the righteous answer him, saying, Lord, when saw we thee an hungred, and fed thee? or thirsty, and gave thee drink?

Then the righteous will answer ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry, and feed you? Or thirsty, and give you a drink?


simplify: And Jacob came from the field in the evening, and Leah went out to meet him, and said, Thou must come in unto me; for I have surely hired thee with my son’s mandrakes. And he lay with her that night.

In the evening, when Jacob came in from the field, Leah went out to him and said, Tonight you are to come to me, for I have given my son's love-fruits as a price for you. And he went in to her that night.


simplify: After this manner therefore pray ye: Our Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name.

Let this then be your prayer: Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy.


simplify: But take heed to yourselves, lest haply your hearts be overcharged with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and cares of this life, and that day come on you suddenly as a snare:

But give attention to yourselves, for fear that your hearts become over-full of the pleasures of food and wine, and the cares of this life, and that day may come on you suddenly, and take you as in a net:


rate difficulty: I beheld the earth, and, lo, it was waste and void; and the heavens, and they had no light.

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


simplify: wherefore I call upon you to take nourishment, for this is for your safety, for of not one of you shall a hair from the head fall;'

So I beg you to take something to eat; your safety depends on it, for not one of you will lose even a hair of his head.”


simplify: For they themselves shew of us what manner of entering in we had unto you, and how ye turned to God from idols to serve the living and true God;

Indeed, in speaking about us, the people themselves tell of the reception you gave us, and how, turning to God from your idols, you became servants of the true and living God,


simplify: There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man: but God is faithful, who will not suffer you to be tempted above that ye are able; but will with the temptation also make a way to escape, that ye may be able to bear it.

No temptation has come upon you that is not common to all humanity. God will not fail you, and he will not allow you to be tempted beyond your strength; but, when he sends the temptation, he will also provide the way of escape, so that you may have strength to endure.


simplify: And I will stir up the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they shall fight every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbor; city against city, and kingdom against kingdom.

And I will send the Egyptians against the Egyptians: and they will be fighting every one against his brother, and every one against his neighbour; town against town, and kingdom against kingdom.


rate difficulty: on the sabbath-day also we went forth outside of the city, by a river, where there used to be prayer, and having sat down, we were speaking to the women who came together,

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


rate difficulty: And a separate tenth part for every one of the seven lambs;

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


rate difficulty: Then Amaziah took heart, and went out at the head of his people and came to the Valley of Salt, where he put to death ten thousand of the children of Seir;

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


rate difficulty: Then they said, Come, let us make a design against Jeremiah; for teaching will never be cut off from the priest, or wisdom from the wise, or the word from the prophet. Come, let us make use of his words for an attack on him, and let us give attention with care to what he says.


rate difficulty: Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: an heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:

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


rate difficulty: and said to him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus says to them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

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


rate difficulty: Now in the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And I said, Hear, I pray you, O heads of Jacob, and ye princes of the house of Israel; Is it not for you to know judgment?

And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?


simplify: And God said unto Jacob, Arise, go up to Beth-el, and dwell there: and make there an altar unto God, who appeared unto thee when thou fleddest from the face of Esau thy brother.

And God said to Jacob, Go up now to Beth-el and make your living-place there: and put up an altar there to the God who came to you when you were in flight from your brother Esau.


simplify: None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

No one puts forward an upright cause, or gives a true decision: their hope is in deceit, and their words are false; they are with child with sin, and give birth to evil.


simplify: And blessed is he, whosoever shall not be offended in me.

And blessed is the person who finds no hindrance in me.”


simplify: and one lamb of the flock, out of two hundred, from the well-watered pastures of Israel;—for a meal-offering, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement for them, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And one lamb from the flock out of every two hundred, from all the families of Israel, for a meal offering and for a burned offering and for peace-offerings, to take away their sin, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

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


simplify: And they shall be desolate in the midst of the countries that are desolate; and her cities shall be in the midst of the cities that are wasted.

And she will be made waste among the countries which have been made waste, and her towns will be among the towns which are unpeopled.


rate difficulty: And the Prince of Jehovah's host saith unto Joshua, `Cast off thy shoe from off thy foot, for the place on which thou art standing is holy;' and Joshua doth so;

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


simplify: And all the city was gathered together at the door.

And all the town had come together at the door.


simplify: And he that hath his hair fallen off from the part of his head toward his face, he is forehead bald: yet is he clean.

And if the hair has gone from the front part of his head, so that he has no hair there, still he is clean.


simplify: And he brake down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city.

And he had the tower of Penuel broken down and the men of the town put to death.


simplify: (For if a man know not how to rule his own house, how shall he take care of the church of God?)

If someone does not know how to provide for their own household, how can they take charge of the church of God?


rate difficulty: Have in mind Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants, to whom you gave your oath, saying, I will make your seed like the stars of heaven in number, and all this land will I give to your seed, as I said, to be their heritage for ever.

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


rate difficulty: whether--about Titus--my partner and towards you fellow-worker, whether--our brethren, apostles of assemblies--glory of Christ;

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


simplify: Hear counsel, and receive instruction, That thou mayest be wise in thy latter end.

Let your ear be open to suggestion and take teaching, so that at the end you may be wise.


rate difficulty: And Jethro rejoiced for all the goodness which Jehovah had done to Israel, in that he had delivered them out of the hand of the Egyptians.

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


rate difficulty: And when the righteous turneth from his righteousness and practiseth what is wrong, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked doeth, shall he live? None of his righteous acts which he hath done shall be remembered: in his unfaithfulness which he hath wrought, and in his sin which he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

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


rate difficulty: `And when forty years were fulfilled to him, it came upon his heart to look after his brethren, the sons of Israel;

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


rate difficulty: I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

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


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and bid them that they make them tassels on the corners of their garments, throughout their generations, and that they attach to the tassel of the corners a lace of blue;

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


simplify: Every place whereon the sole of your foot shall tread shall be yours: from the wilderness, and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates, even unto the hinder sea shall be your border.

Every place where you put your foot will be yours: from the waste land and Lebanon, from the river, the river Euphrates as far as the Great Sea, will be the limits of your land.


simplify: And Cain went out from the presence of the Lord, and dwelt in the land of Nod, on the east of Eden.

And Cain went away from before the face of the Lord, and made his living-place in the land of Nod on the east of Eden.


rate difficulty: every one who hath fallen on that stone shall be broken, and on whom it may fall, it will crush him to pieces.'

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Is a candle brought to be put under a bushel, or under a bed? and not to be set on a candlestick?

Jesus said to them: “Is a lamp brought to be put under a basket or under the couch, instead of being put on the lamp-stand?


rate difficulty: So Esau made his living-place in the hill-country of Seir (Esau is Edom).

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


rate difficulty: But love your enemies, and do them good, and lend, never despairing; and your reward shall be great, and ye shall be sons of the Most High: for he is kind toward the unthankful and evil.

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


rate difficulty: He went to him and bound up his wounds, dressing them with oil and wine, and then put him on his own mule, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

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


simplify: Which some professing have erred concerning the faith. Grace be with thee. Amen.  The first to Timothy was written from Laodicea, which is the chiefest city of Phrygia Pacatiana.

Through which some, who gave their minds to it, have been turned away from the faith. Grace be with you.


simplify: lo, we call happy those who are enduring; the endurance of Job ye heard of, and the end of the Lord ye have seen, that very compassionate is the Lord, and pitying.

We count those who displayed such endurance blessed! You have heard, too, of Job’s endurance, and have seen what the Lord’s purpose was, for ‘the Lord is full of pity and compassion.’


rate difficulty: And I will take up my cause against him with disease and with blood; and I will send down on him and on his forces and on the peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower and great ice-drops, fire, and burning.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.


rate difficulty: And he came to Nazareth, where he had been brought up: and he entered, as his custom was, into the synagogue on the sabbath day, and stood up to read.

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


simplify: So those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together all as many as they found, both bad and good: and the wedding was furnished with guests.

And those servants went out into the streets, and got together all those whom they came across, bad and good: and the feast was full of guests.


simplify: And when he had so said, there arose a dissension between the Pharisees and the Sadducees: and the multitude was divided.

And when he had said this, there was an argument between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and a division in the meeting.


simplify: and thou shalt bestow the money for whatsoever thy soul desireth, for oxen, or for sheep, or for wine, or for strong drink, or for whatsoever thy soul asketh of thee; and thou shalt eat there before Jehovah thy God, and thou shalt rejoice, thou and thy household.

And with the money get whatever you have a desire for, oxen or sheep or wine or strong drink, whatever your soul's desire may be: and make a feast there before the Lord your God, and be glad, you and all your house;


rate difficulty: As vinegar to the teeth, and as smoke to the eyes, so is the sluggard to them that send him.

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning, when the meat offering was offered, that, behold, there came water by the way of Edom, and the country was filled with water.

Now in the morning, about the time when the offering was made, they saw water flowing from the direction of Edom till the country was full of water.


rate difficulty: or two days, or a month, or many days, when the cloud was long upon the tabernacle, dwelling upon it, the children of Israel [remained] encamped, and journeyed not; but when it was taken up, they journeyed.


simplify: And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:

And the priest is to take it to the altar, and after its head has been twisted off, it is to be burned on the altar, and its blood drained out on the side of the altar:


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.


simplify: Salute Apelles the approved in Christ. Salute them that are of the household of Aristobulus.

Give my love to Apelles, who has the approval of Christ. Say a kind word to those who are of the house of Aristobulus.


simplify: The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye, and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them, and came it not into his mind?

The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto him, Wherewith? And he said, I will go forth, and will be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets. And he said, Thou shalt entice him, and shalt prevail also: go forth, and do so.

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


rate difficulty: For which cause also I have been much hindered from coming to you.


simplify: setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

In this way you nullify the words of God by your traditions, which you hand down; and you do many similar things.”


rate difficulty: Dare any of you, having a matter against his neighbor, go to law before the unrighteous, and not before the saints?

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


rate difficulty: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

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


simplify: and the second row, an emerald, a sapphire, and a diamond;

In the second, a ruby, a sapphire, and an onyx;


simplify: And between the chambers was a breadth of twenty cubits round about the house on every side.

And between the rooms was a space twenty cubits wide all round the house.


rate difficulty: O thou that art named the house of Jacob, is the spirit of the Lord straitened? are these his doings? do not my words do good to him that walketh uprightly?

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


rate difficulty: And Jonathan cried after the lad, Make speed, haste, stay not! And Jonathan's lad gathered up the arrows, and came to his master.

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


rate difficulty: At even-time, lo, terror, before morning it is not, This <FI>is<Fi> the portion of our spoilers, And the lot of our plunderers!

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


rate difficulty: I am jealous over you with the jealousy of God. For I engaged you to one husband so that I might present you to the Christ a pure bride.


simplify: And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

And the children of Israel went through the sea on dry land: and the waters were a wall on their right side and on their left.


rate difficulty: The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.


simplify: For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

For as you have been judging, so you will be judged, and with your measure will it be measured to you.


rate difficulty: They also that err in spirit shall come to understanding, and they that murmur shall receive instruction.


simplify: And as they went on the way, a certain man said unto him, I will follow thee whithersoever thou goest.

And when they were on the way, a certain man said to him, I will come after you wherever you go.


rate difficulty: Give to every man that asketh of thee; and of him that taketh away thy goods ask them not again.

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


rate difficulty: For the day is near, even the day of Jehovah is near; it shall be a day of clouds, a time of the nations.


rate difficulty: Then Paul said, I am not off my head, most noble Festus, but my words are true and wise.


rate difficulty: In the same way, when all the Jews who were in Moab and among the children of Ammon and in Edom and in all the countries, had news that the king of Babylon had let Judah keep some of its people and that he had put over them Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan;

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


simplify: if thou shalt obey the voice of Jehovah thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law; if thou turn unto Jehovah thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul.

If you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his orders and his laws which are recorded in this book of the law, and turning to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


simplify: And when he that hath an issue is cleansed of his issue, then he shall number to himself seven days for his cleansing, and wash his clothes; and he shall bathe his flesh in running water, and shall be clean.

And when a man who has a flow from his body is made clean from it, he is to take seven days to make himself clean, washing his clothing and bathing his body in flowing water, and then he will be clean.


simplify: But ye have not so learned Christ;

But far different is the lesson you learned from the Christ — if, that is, you really listened to him,


simplify: The foreigners shall fade away, And shall come trembling out of their close places.

They will be wasted away, they will come out of their secret places shaking with fear.


simplify: So shalt thou know wisdom to be unto thy soul; If thou hast found it, then shall there be a reward, And thy hope shall not be cut off.

So let your desire be for wisdom: if you have it, there will be a future, and your hope will not be cut off.


rate difficulty: Then goeth he, and taketh to him seven other spirits more wicked than himself; and they enter in, and dwell there: and the last state of that man is worse than the first.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

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


simplify: And Nadab and Abihu died, when they offered strange fire before the Lord.

Death overtook Nadab and Abihu when they made an offering of strange fire before the Lord.


rate difficulty: The seventh lot came forth for the tribe of the children of Dan according to their families.

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


simplify: And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

And on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.


simplify: All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but everything is not profitable. Everything is allowable for me! Yes, but for my part, I will not let myself be enslaved by anything.


simplify: And the singers the sons of Asaph were in their place, according to the commandment of David, and Asaph, and Heman, and Jeduthun the king’s seer; and the porters were at every gate: they needed not to depart from their service; for their brethren the Levites prepared for them.

And the sons of Asaph, the makers of melody, were in their places, as ordered by David and Asaph and Heman and Jeduthun, the king's seer; and the door-keepers were stationed at every door: there was no need for them to go away from their places, for their brothers the Levites made ready for them.


simplify: Is it not thou that driedst up the sea, the waters of the great deep; that madest the depths of the sea a way for the redeemed to pass over?

Did you not make the sea dry, the waters of the great deep? did you not make the deep waters of the sea a way for the Lord's people to go through?


simplify: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

For from this time, a family of five in one house will be on opposite sides, three against two and two against three.


simplify: A prudent man foreseeth the evil, and hideth himself; but the simple pass on, and are punished.

The sharp man sees the evil and takes cover: the simple go straight on and get into trouble.


rate difficulty: and in his human nature put an end to the cause of enmity between them — the law with its injunctions and ordinances — in order to create, through union with himself, from Jew and Gentile, one new humanity and so make peace.


simplify: So Mordecai went his way, and did according to all that Esther had commanded him.

So Mordecai went away and did everything as Esther had said.


rate difficulty: But they have not all given ear to the good news. For Isaiah says, Lord, who has had faith in our word?

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


simplify: And I will feed them that oppress thee with their own flesh; and they shall be drunken with their own blood, as with sweet wine: and all flesh shall know that I the Lord am thy Saviour and thy Redeemer, the mighty One of Jacob.

And the flesh of your attackers will be taken by themselves for food; and they will take their blood for drink, as if it was sweet wine: and all men will see that I the Lord am your saviour, even he who takes up your cause, the Strong One of Jacob.


simplify: On the morrow they left the horsemen to go with him, and returned to the castle:

and on the next day, leaving the troopers to go on with him, they returned to the Fort.


simplify: Why sattest thou among the sheepfolds, To hear the pipings for the flocks? At the watercourses of Reuben There were great searchings of heart.

Why did you keep quiet among the sheep, hearing nothing but the watchers piping to the flocks?


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel, saying, Ye and your wives have both spoken with your mouths, and fulfilled with your hands, saying, We will certainly perform our vows which we have vowed, to burn incense to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out drink-offerings unto her. Ye will certainly establish your vows, and entirely perform your vows.

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


simplify: and thou hast patience and didst bear for my name’s sake, and hast not grown weary.

And you have the power of waiting, and have undergone trouble because of my name, without weariness.


simplify: And it came to pass also, on another sabbath, that he goeth into the synagogue, and teacheth, and there was there a man, and his right hand was withered,

On another Sabbath Jesus went into the synagogue and taught; and there was a man there whose right hand was withered.


rate difficulty: By this we know that we love God’s children — when we love God and carry out his commands.

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


simplify: And they lodged round about the house of God, because the charge was upon them, and the opening thereof every morning pertained to them.

Their sleeping-rooms were round the house of God, for they had the care of it, and were responsible for opening it morning by morning.


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

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


simplify: Yet now, if thou wilt forgive their sin—; and if not, blot me, I pray thee, out of thy book which thou hast written.

But now, if you will give them forgiveness--but if not, let my name be taken out of your book.


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

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


simplify: And I will judge thee, as women that break wedlock and shed blood are judged; and I will bring upon thee the blood of wrath and jealousy.

And you will be judged by me as women are judged who have been untrue to their husbands and have taken life; and I will let loose against you passion and bitter feeling.


simplify: That say, Let him make speed, and hasten his work, that we may see it: and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

Who say, Let him do his work quickly, let him make it sudden, so that we may see it: let the design of the Holy One of Israel come near, so that it may be clear to us.


simplify: And of the sons of Elam; Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel, and Abdi, and Jeremoth, and Eliah.

And of the sons of Elam, Mattaniah, Zechariah, and Jehiel and Abdi and Jeremoth and Elijah.


simplify: And his servants came near, and spake unto him, and said, My father, if the prophet had bid thee do some great thing, wouldest thou not have done it? how much rather then, when he saith to thee, Wash, and be clean?

Then his servants came to him and said, If the prophet had given you orders to do some great thing, would you not have done it? how much more then, when he says to you, Be washed and become clean?


simplify: O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding profane and vain babblings, and oppositions of science falsely so called:

Timothy, guard what has been entrusted to you. Avoid the profane prattle and contradictions of what some miscall ‘theology,’


rate difficulty: Who can count the dust of Jacob, Or number the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, And let my last end be like his!

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simplify: And the same man had four daughters, virgins, which did prophesy.

He had four unmarried daughters, who had the gift of prophecy.


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, the place of my throne, and the place of the soles of my feet, where I will dwell in the midst of the children of Israel for ever, and my holy name, shall the house of Israel no more defile, neither they, nor their kings, by their whoredom, nor by the carcases of their kings in their high places.

And he said to me, Son of man, this is the place where the seat of my power is and the resting-place of my feet, where I will be among the children of Israel for ever: and no longer will the people of Israel make my holy name unclean, they or their kings, by their loose ways and by the dead bodies of their kings;


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came unto me the second time, saying, What seest thou? And I said, I see a boiling caldron; and the face thereof is from the north.

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


simplify: And in them is fulfilled the prophecy of Esaias, which saith, By hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and shall not perceive:

And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:


rate difficulty: Truly, tomorrow about this time I will send down an ice-storm, such as never was in Egypt from its earliest days till now.

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


simplify: The Son of man came eating and drinking, and they say, Behold a man gluttonous, and a winebibber, a friend of publicans and sinners. But wisdom is justified of her children.

The Son of man has come feasting, and they say, See, a lover of food and wine, a friend of tax-farmers and sinners! And wisdom is judged to be right by her works.


simplify: At the noise of the stamping of the hoofs of his strong ones, at the rushing of his chariots, at the rumbling of his wheels, the fathers look not back to their children for feebleness of hands;

At the noise of the stamping of the feet of his war-horses, at the rushing of his carriages and the thunder of his wheels, fathers will give no thought to their children, because their hands are feeble;


simplify: And Abraham took sheep and oxen, and gave them unto Abimelech; and they two made a covenant.

And Abraham took sheep and oxen and gave them to Abimelech, and the two of them made an agreement together.


simplify: And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

And he sent word by Nathan the prophet, who gave him the name Jedidiah, by the word of the Lord.


simplify: surely ye shall not come into the land, concerning which I sware that I would make you dwell therein, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.

Not one will come into the land which I gave my word you would have for your resting-place, but only Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua, the son of Nun.


simplify: When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth:

When he made ready the heavens I was there: when he put an arch over the face of the deep:


simplify: And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.

And the cubit which is over of the ten curtains at the sides will be hanging over the two sides of the House as a cover.


simplify: We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

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


simplify: But Jeroboam caused an ambushment to come about behind them: so they were before Judah, and the ambushment was behind them.

But Jeroboam had put some of his men to make a surprise attack on them from the back, so some were facing Judah and others were stationed secretly at their back.


rate difficulty: How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

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rate difficulty: And Eleazar, Aaron's son, hath taken to him <FI>one<Fi> of the daughters of Putiel for a wife to himself, and she beareth to him Phinehas: these <FI>are<Fi> heads of the fathers of the Levites, as to their families.

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


simplify: All the things concerning me make known to you shall Tychicus--the beloved brother, and faithful ministrant, and fellow-servant in the Lord--

Our dear friend, Tychicus, will tell you all about me. He is a faithful minister, and a fellow servant in the Master’s cause.


simplify: And the king said, Whosoever saith aught unto thee, bring him to me, and he shall not touch thee any more.

And the king said, If anyone says anything to you, make him come to me, and he will do you no more damage.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Elkanah: Amasai and Ahimoth.

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


simplify: Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils.

Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.


simplify: and they did so, and made all to recline;

This they did, and got all the people seated.


rate difficulty: But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.

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simplify: And I saw a strong angel proclaiming with a great voice, Who is worthy to open the book, and to loose the seals thereof?

And I saw a strong angel saying in a loud voice, Who is able to make the book open, and to undo its stamps?


simplify: But if any man buildeth on the foundation gold, silver, costly stones, wood, hay, stubble;

But on the base a man may put gold, silver, stones of great price, wood, dry grass, cut stems;


simplify: The beginning of the words of his mouth is foolishness: and the end of his talk is mischievous madness.

The first words of his mouth are foolish, and the end of his talk is evil crime.


rate difficulty: See, a day of the Lord is coming when they will make division of your goods taken by force before your eyes.

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


simplify: where, O Death, thy sting? where, O Hades, thy victory?'

‘death has been swallowed up in victory! Where, Death, is your victory? Where, death, is your sting?’


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah slept with his fathers; and Manasseh his son reigned in his stead.


rate difficulty: Thorns are round the way of the hater of work; but the road of the hard worker becomes a highway.

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


simplify: And the sons of Zerah; Zimri, and Ethan, and Heman, and Calcol, and Dara: five of them in all.

And the sons of Zerah: Zimri and Ethan and Heman and Calcol and Dara; five of them.


simplify: But he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.


rate difficulty: (And he took me) to the south, and in front of the separate place and in front of the building there were rooms.

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rate difficulty: And in their care are to be all the boards of the Tent, with their rods and pillars and bases, and all the instruments, and all they are used for,

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


simplify: And the house of Joseph sent to descry Beth–el. (Now the name of the city before was Luz.)

So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)


rate difficulty: Take [gifts] of them of the captivity, of Heldai, of Tobijah, and of Jedaiah, and come thou the same day, and enter into the house of Josiah the son of Zephaniah, whither they are come from Babylon;

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


simplify: And they shall kill him, and the third day he shall be raised again. And they were exceeding sorry.

And they will put him to death, and the third day he will come again from the dead. And they were very sad.


rate difficulty: I do fully testify, then, before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who is about to judge living and dead at his manifestation and his reign--


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

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


rate difficulty: And Pilate again questioned him, saying, `Thou dost not answer anything! lo, how many things they do testify against thee!'

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


rate difficulty: And they have pointed tails like scorpions; and in their tails is their power to give men wounds for five months.

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


simplify: If to others I am not an apostle, yet at least I am to you; for the seal of mine apostleship are ye in the Lord.

If to others I am not an Apostle, at least I am one to you: for the fact that you are Christians is the sign that I am an Apostle.


simplify: Now these are the generations of Terah. Terah begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran begat Lot.

These are the generations of Terah: Terah was the father of Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran was the father of Lot.


simplify: and the Pharisees having seen, said to him, `Lo, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do on a sabbath.'

But, when the Pharisees saw this, they said: “Look! Your disciples are doing what it is not allowable to do on a Sabbath!”


simplify: Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.

Up! go to Nineveh, that great town, and give it the word which I have given you.


rate difficulty: always beseeching at my prayers, if any way now at least I may be prospered by the will ofGod to come to you.


simplify: And Joseph’s ten brethren went down to buy corn in Egypt.

So Joseph's ten brothers went down to get grain from Egypt.


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Israel, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have sold the righteous for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes—

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given the upright man for silver, and the poor for the price of two shoes;


rate difficulty: And certain of them had charge of the vessels of service; for by count were these brought in and by count were these taken out.

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


rate difficulty: Then Zipporah took a stone and cut off the foreskin of her son, and cast it at his feet, and said, A bloody husband indeed art thou to me!

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


rate difficulty: And he passed through mount Ephraim, and passed through the land of Shalishah, but they found [them] not; and they passed through the land of Shaalim, and they were not there; and they passed through the land of Benjamin, and they found [them] not.


simplify: And the fourth part of an hin of wine for a drink offering shalt thou prepare with the burnt offering or sacrifice, for one lamb.

And for the drink offering, you are to give with the burned offering or other offering, the fourth part of a hin of wine for every lamb.


simplify: according to a foreknowledge of God the Father, in sanctification of the Spirit, to obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ: Grace to you and peace be multiplied!

and who were chosen in accordance with the foreknowledge of God the Father, through the consecration of the Spirit, to learn obedience, and to be purified by the sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, from Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ. May blessing and peace be yours in ever increasing measure.


rate difficulty: Therefore all they that devour thee shall be devoured; and all thine adversaries, every one of them, shall go into captivity; and they that spoil thee shall be a spoil, and all that prey upon thee will I give for a prey.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto me, Cast it unto the potter, the goodly price that I was prized at by them. And I took the thirty pieces of silver, and cast them unto the potter, in the house of Jehovah.

And the Lord said to me, Put it into the store-house, the price at which I was valued by them. And I took the thirty shekels of silver and put them into the store-house in the house of the Lord.


simplify: A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.


simplify: and to them that were in Racal, and to them that were in the cities of the Jerahmeelites, and to them that were in the cities of the Kenites,

and Carmel and in the towns of the Jerahmeelites, and in the towns of the Kenites;


simplify: God will not withdraw his anger; The helpers of Rahab do stoop under him.

God's wrath may not be turned back; the helpers of Rahab were bent down under him.


simplify: And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And Jehovah said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thy hand.

And David, desiring directions from God, said, Am I to go up against the Philistines? and will you give them into my hands? And the Lord said, Go up; for I will give them into your hands.


rate difficulty: Ishmerai also, and Jezliah, and Jobab, the sons of Elpaal;


simplify: And his father refused, and said, I know it, my son, I know it: he also shall become a people, and he also shall be great: but truly his younger brother shall be greater than he, and his seed shall become a multitude of nations.

But his father would not, saying, I am doing it on purpose, my son; he will certainly become a nation and a great one; but his younger brother will be greater than he, and his seed will become a great family of nations.


rate difficulty: In those days there was no king in Israel; every man did what was right in his own eyes.


simplify: He said furthermore unto me, Son of man, seest thou what they do? even the great abominations that the house of Israel committeth here, that I should go far off from my sanctuary? but turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations.

And he said to me, Son of man, do you see what they are doing? even the very disgusting things which the children of Israel are doing here, causing me to go far away from my holy place? but you will see other most disgusting things.


simplify: Then shall he bring with a bullock a meat offering of three tenth deals of flour mingled with half an hin of oil.

Then with the ox give a meal offering of three tenth parts of a measure of the best meal mixed with half a hin of oil.


rate difficulty: And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire: and as for the flesh, all that be clean shall eat thereof.

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


simplify: And these shall stand upon mount Ebal to curse; Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.

And these are to be on Mount Ebal for the curse: Reuben, Gad, and Asher, and Zebulun, Dan, and Naphtali.


simplify: According to all the works which they have done since the day that I brought them up out of Egypt even unto this day, in that they have forsaken me, and served other gods, so do they also unto thee.

As they have done from the first, from the day when I took them out of Egypt till this day, turning away from me and worshipping other gods, so now they are acting in the same way to you.


rate difficulty: For he that sows to his own flesh, shall reap corruption from the flesh; but he that sows to the Spirit, from the Spirit shall reap eternal life:


rate difficulty: In that day the Egyptians will be like women: and the land will be shaking with fear because of the waving of the Lord's hand stretched out over it.


simplify: What then? What Israel doth seek after, this it did not obtain, and the chosen did obtain, and the rest were hardened,

What follows from this? Why, that Israel as a nation failed to secure what it was seeking, while those whom God selected did secure it.


rate difficulty: `Lo, I am sending a messenger before thee to keep thee in the way, and to bring thee in unto the place which I have prepared;

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rate difficulty: Now Eli was very old; and he heard all that his sons did unto all Israel, and how that they lay with the women that did service at the door of the tent of meeting.

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


rate difficulty: And he looked on Amalek, and took up his parable, and said,  Amalek was the first of the nations; But his latter end shall come to destruction.

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


rate difficulty: But when we hope for what is not before our eyes, then we wait for it with patience.

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


rate difficulty: For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

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


simplify: So the king commanded, and they made a chest, and set it without at the gate of the house of Jehovah.

So at the king's order they made a chest and put it outside the doorway of the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he that is sown among the thorns — this is he who hears the word, and the anxious care of this life, and the deceit of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

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


rate difficulty: And Israel journeyed, and spread his tent beyond the tower of Eder.

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


simplify: And Jesus saith unto him, I will come and heal him.

And he said to him, I will come and make him well.


rate difficulty: He is unto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret places.

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


simplify: But they said, We will drink no wine; for Jonadab the son of Rechab, our father, commanded us, saying, Ye shall drink no wine, neither ye, nor your sons, for ever:

But they said, We will take no wine: for Jonadab, the son of Rechab our father, gave us orders, saying, You are to take no wine, you or your sons, for ever:


simplify: Ephraim compasseth me about with falsehood, and the house of Israel with deceit; but Judah yet ruleth with God, and is faithful with the Holy One.

The deceit of Ephraim and the false words of Israel are about me on every side. ...


simplify: Lo, he doth come with the clouds, and see him shall every eye, even those who did pierce him, and wail because of him shall all the tribes of the land. Yes! Amen!

‘He is coming among the clouds!’ Every eye will see him, even those who pierced him; ‘and all the nations of the earth will mourn over him.’ So will it be. Amen.


simplify: But the wise answered, saying, Not so; lest there be not enough for us and you: but go ye rather to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

But the wise made answer, saying, There may not be enough for us and you; it would be better for you to go to the traders and get oil for yourselves.


simplify: Know ye not that we shall judge angels? how much more, things that pertain to this life?

Is it not certain that we are to be the judges of angels? how much more then of the things of this life?


simplify: And they came unto Jacob their father unto the land of Canaan, and told him all that befell unto them; saying,

So when they came to Jacob their father, in the land of Canaan, they gave him an account of all their experiences, saying,


simplify: And Jacob rose up from Beer-sheba: and the sons of Israel carried Jacob their father, and their little ones, and their wives, in the wagons which Pharaoh had sent to carry him.

Then Jacob went on from Beer-sheba; and the sons of Jacob took their father and their little ones and their wives in the carts which Pharaoh had sent for them.


simplify: And if it be not redeemed within the space of a full year, then the house that is in the walled city shall be established for ever to him that bought it throughout his generations: it shall not go out in the jubile.

And if he does not get it back by the end of the year, then the house in the town will become the property of him who gave the money for it, and of his children for ever; it will not go from him in the year of Jubilee.


simplify: Wherefore he called that place Beer–sheba; because there they sware both of them.

So he gave that place the name Beer-sheba, because there the two of them had given their oaths.


simplify: Therefore did my heart rejoice, and my tongue was glad; moreover also my flesh shall rest in hope:

And for this cause my heart was glad and my tongue full of joy, and my flesh will be resting in hope:


simplify: And the children of Israel did so, and gathered some more, some less.

And the children of Israel did so, and some took more and some less.


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

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


simplify: and he answering saith to them, `He having two coats--let him impart to him having none, and he having victuals--in like manner let him do.'

“Let anyone who has two coats,” answered John, “share with the person who has none; and anyone who has food do the same.”


rate difficulty: Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf?

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


simplify: And from Jesus Christ, who is the faithful witness, and the first begotten of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth. Unto him that loved us, and washed us from our sins in his own blood,

And from Jesus Christ, the true witness, the first to come back from the dead, and the ruler of the kings of the earth. To him who had love for us and has made us clean from our sins by his blood;


simplify: These are the commandments and the judgments, which the Lord commanded by the hand of Moses unto the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.

These are the laws and the orders which the Lord gave to the children of Israel by Moses, in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho.


rate difficulty: Wherefore he says, Wake up, [thou] that sleepest, and arise up from among the dead, and the Christ shall shine upon thee.

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


simplify: These are the sons of Esau, who is Edom, and these are their dukes.

These were the sons of Esau (that is, Edom), and these were their chiefs.


simplify: Her wise ladies answered her, Yea, she returned answer to herself,

Her wise women gave answer to her, yes, she made answer again to herself,


simplify: And there was in their synagogue a man with an unclean spirit; and he cried out,

Now there was in their synagogue at the time a man under the power of a foul spirit, who called out:


simplify: Then I testified against them, and said unto them, Why lodge ye about the wall? if ye do so again, I will lay hands on you. From that time forth came they no more on the sabbath.

Then I gave witness against them and said, Why are you waiting all night by the wall? if you do so again I will have you taken prisoners. From that time they did not come again on the Sabbath.


rate difficulty: so that he will not give to any of them of the flesh of his children whom he shall eat, because he hath nothing left him, in the siege and in the distress wherewith thine enemy shall distress thee in all thy gates.

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


simplify: And all Judah stood before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.

And all Judah were waiting before the Lord, with their little ones, their wives, and their children.


rate difficulty: And Pilate answered them, saying, Will ye that I release unto you the King of the Jews?

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


rate difficulty: And when they were going away, Jesus, talking of John, said to all the people, What went you out into the waste land to see? a tall stem moving in the wind?

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


rate difficulty: having given also a direction to the centurion to keep Paul, to let <FI>him<Fi> also have liberty, and to forbid none of his own friends to minister or to come near to him.

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


rate difficulty: They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all.

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


simplify: And Elisha said unto her, What shall I do for thee? tell me, what hast thou in the house? And she said, Thine handmaid hath not any thing in the house, save a pot of oil.

Then Elisha said to her, What am I to do for you? say now, what have you in the house? And she said, Your servant has nothing in the house but a pot of oil.


rate difficulty: Jehovah repented concerning this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And by him all that believe are justified from all things, from which ye could not be justified by the law of Moses.

And through him everyone who has faith is made free from all those things, from which the law of Moses was not able to make you free.


simplify: And saying, If thou be the king of the Jews, save thyself.

And saying, If you are the King of the Jews, get yourself free.


simplify: and they took knowledge of him, that it was he that sat for alms at the Beautiful Gate of the temple; and they were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

And they saw that it was the man who made requests for money at the door of the Temple, and they were full of wonder and surprise at what had taken place.


simplify: And all Israel heard say that Saul had smitten the garrison of the Philistines, and also that Israel was had in abomination with the Philistines. And the people were gathered together after Saul to Gilgal.

And all Israel had the news that Saul had made an attack on the Philistines, and that Israel was bitterly hated by the Philistines. And the people came together after Saul to Gilgal.


simplify: And next him was Jehozabad, and with him an hundred and fourscore thousand ready prepared for the war.

And after him Jehozabad, and with him a hundred and eighty thousand trained for war.


simplify: for not he who is commending himself is approved, but he whom the Lord doth commend.

For it is not those who commend themselves that stand the test, but those who are commended by the Lord.


rate difficulty: He preserveth not the life of the wicked: but giveth right to the poor.

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


simplify: Then both the men, between whom the controversy is, shall stand before the Lord, before the priests and the judges, which shall be in those days;

Then the two men, between whom the argument has taken place, are to come before the Lord, before the priests and judges who are then in power;


rate difficulty: The multitude are not wise, Nor do the aged understand judgment.

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


simplify: And there were there many women beholding from afar, who did follow Jesus from Galilee, ministering to him,

There were many women there, watching from a distance, who had accompanied Jesus from Galilee and had been attending on him.


rate difficulty: a son of seven years is Jehoash in his reigning.


rate difficulty: But I have built an house of habitation for thee, and a place for thy dwelling for ever.


rate difficulty: And ye magnify yourselves against Me with your mouth, And have made abundant against Me your words, I--I have heard.

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


simplify: And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

Instantly he recovered his sight, and began to follow Jesus, praising God. And all the people, on seeing it, gave glory to God.


simplify: Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Hamutal the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.

Jehoahaz was twenty-three years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for three months; his mother's name was Hamutal, the daughter of Jeremiah of Libnah.


rate difficulty: and did charge them that they might not make him manifest,

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


simplify: Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the Lord, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

See, I am against you, says the Lord, O mountain of destruction, causing the destruction of all the earth: and my hand will be stretched out on you, rolling you down from the rocks, and making you a burned mountain.


rate difficulty: If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;

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


simplify: have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?

Can everyone have power to cure diseases? Can everyone speak in ‘tongues’? Can everyone interpret them?


simplify: in whom also ye were circumcised with a circumcision not made with hands, in the putting off of the body of the sins of the flesh in the circumcision of the Christ,

By your union with him you received a circumcision that was not performed by human hands, when you threw off the tyranny of the earthly body, and received the circumcision of the Christ.


rate difficulty: But Absalom pressed him, and he let Amnon and all the king’s sons go with him.

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


rate difficulty: For fear that, coming suddenly, he sees you sleeping.


simplify: At that time they shall call Jerusalem the throne of the Lord; and all the nations shall be gathered unto it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: neither shall they walk any more after the imagination of their evil heart.

At that time Jerusalem will be named the seat of the Lord's kingdom; and all the nations will come together to it, to the name of the Lord, to Jerusalem: and no longer will their steps be guided by the purposes of their evil hearts.


rate difficulty: “I tell you,”he added, “that some of those who are standing here will not know death until they have seen the kingdom of God come in power.”

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


simplify: And they come unto a place which was named Gethsemane: and he saith unto his disciples, Sit ye here, while I pray.

And they came to a place which was named Gethsemane: and he said to his disciples, Be seated here while I say a prayer.


rate difficulty: And while they were going on their way, they came to some water, and the Ethiopian said, See, here is water; why may I not have baptism?

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


rate difficulty: To the rest of the Levites, the sons of Merari, were given, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmono with its outskirts, Tabor with its outskirts;

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


rate difficulty: And Ephraim <FI>is<Fi> a trained heifer--loving to thresh, And I--I have passed over on the goodness of its neck, I cause <FI>one<Fi> to ride Ephraim, Plough doth Judah, harrow for him doth Jacob.

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


rate difficulty: And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.


rate difficulty: And I made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord God, do not send destruction on your people and your heritage, to whom, by your great power, you have given salvation, whom you have taken out of Egypt by the strength of your hand.

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


rate difficulty: Let no man deceive you with vain words: for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience.


rate difficulty: And in the synagogue was a man, having a spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out with a great voice,

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


rate difficulty: But Naaman was wroth, and went away, and said, Behold, I thought, He will surely come out to me, and stand, and call on the name of Jehovah his God, and wave his hand over the place, and recover the leper.

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


rate difficulty: that I may come unto you in joy through the will of God, and together with you find rest.

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


rate difficulty: Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.


simplify: If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

If, after the way of men, I was fighting with beasts at Ephesus, what profit is it to me? If the dead do not come to life again, let us take our pleasure in feasting, for tomorrow we come to an end.