simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Uzziah did: howbeit he entered not into the temple of the Lord. And the people did yet corruptly.

He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Uzziah had done; but he did not go into the Temple of the Lord. And the people still went on in their evil ways.


rate difficulty: Glory toGod in the highest, and on earth peace, good pleasure in men.

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


simplify: As also ye have acknowledged us in part, that we are your rejoicing, even as ye also are ours in the day of the Lord Jesus.

Even as you have been ready, in part, to say that we are your glory, in the same way that you are ours, in the day of the Lord Jesus.


rate difficulty: For I have heard the evil report of many, Fear <FI>is<Fi> round about: `Declare, and we declare it,' All mine allies are watching <FI>for<Fi> my halting, `Perhaps he is enticed, and we prevail over him, And we take our vengeance out of him.'

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


simplify: Yet also I lifted up my hand unto them in the wilderness, that I would not bring them into the land which I had given them, flowing with milk and honey, which is the glory of all lands;

And further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land, that I would not take them into the land which I had given them, a land flowing with milk and honey, the glory of all lands;


rate difficulty: God is not a man, that he should lie; neither a son of man, that he should repent. Shall he say and not do? and shall he speak and not make it good?

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


simplify: for in that he died, to the sin he died once, and in that he liveth, he liveth to God;

For the death that he died was a death to sin, once and for all. But the life that he now lives, he lives for God.


simplify: That the man of God may be perfect, throughly furnished unto all good works.

So that the man of God may be complete, trained and made ready for every good work.


simplify: And a sanctuary I did not see in it, for the Lord God, the Almighty, is its sanctuary, and the Lamb,

And I saw no Temple there, for the Lord, our God, the Almighty, and the Lamb are its Temple.


rate difficulty: In those days also I saw Jews that had married wives of Ashdod, of Ammon, [and] of Moab.

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


rate difficulty: and an earthen vessel in which it is boiled is broken, and if in a brass vessel it is boiled, then it is scoured and rinsed with water.

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


simplify: And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, Until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies.  Is not this written in the book of Jashar? And the sun stayed in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day.

And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.


simplify: And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in mine eyes, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did; that I will be with thee, and will build thee a sure house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.

And if you give attention to the orders I give you, walking in my ways and doing what is right in my eyes and keeping my laws and my orders as David my servant did; then I will be with you, building up for you a safe house, as I did for David, and I will give Israel to you.


simplify: then thou shalt say, They are thy servant Jacob’s; it is a present sent unto my lord Esau: and, behold, he also is behind us.

Then say to him, These are your servant Jacob's; they are an offering for my lord, for Esau; and he himself is coming after us.


simplify: And they have healed the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.

And they have made little of the wounds of the daughter of Zion, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: Because you were glad over my land when it was a waste, so will I do to you:


simplify: And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Methuselah, Enoch went on in God's ways for three hundred years, and had sons and daughters:


rate difficulty: for I reckon that I have been nothing behind the very chiefest apostles,

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The twelfth captain for the twelfth month was Heldai the Netophathite, of Othniel; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: no one serving as a soldier did entangle himself with the affairs of life, that him who did enlist him he may please;

A soldier on active service, to please his superior officer, always avoids entangling himself in the affairs of ordinary life.


rate difficulty: And straightway Jesus, knowing in his spirit that they are reasoning thus within themselves, said to them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

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


simplify: I fast twice in the week; I give tithes of all that I get.

Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.


rate difficulty: And others fell upon the thorns; and the thorns grew up and choked them:

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


simplify: Now therefore, my son, obey my voice; and arise, flee thou to Laban my brother to Haran;

So now, my son, do what I say: go quickly to Haran, to my brother Laban;


simplify: as the children of Esau that dwell in Seir, and the Moabites that dwell in Ar, did unto me; until I shall pass over the Jordan into the land which Jehovah our God giveth us.

As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.


simplify: And the disciples came to the other side and forgot to take bread.

And when the disciples came to the other side they had not taken thought to get bread.


simplify: Who in hope believed against hope, to the end that he might become a father of many nations, according to that which had been spoken, So shall thy seed be.

Who without reason for hope, in faith went on hoping, so that he became the father of a number of nations, as it had been said, So will your seed be.


simplify: And the men arose, and went: and Joshua charged them that went to describe the land, saying, Go and walk through the land, and describe it, and come again to me; and I will cast lots for you here before Jehovah in Shiloh.

So the men got up and went; and Joshua gave orders to those who went, to make a record of the land, saying, Go up and down through the land, and make a record of it and come back here to me, and I will make the distribution for you here by the decision of the Lord in Shiloh.


rate difficulty: No oblation which ye shall present to Jehovah shall be made with leaven; for no leaven and no honey shall ye burn [in] any fire-offering to Jehovah.

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


simplify: And God hath both raised up the Lord, and will also raise up us by his own power.

And God who made the Lord Jesus come back from the dead will do the same for us by his power.


simplify: And their brethren, in their villages, were to come in every seven days from time to time to be with them:

And their brothers, in the country places where they were living, were to come in every seven days to be with them from time to time.


simplify: And the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering before the Lord for his sin which he hath done: and the sin which he hath done shall be forgiven him.

And the priest will take away his sin before the Lord with the sheep which is offered for his wrongdoing, and he will have forgiveness for the sin which he has done.


simplify: And it came to pass, as soon as he had made an end of speaking, that, behold, the king’s sons came, and lifted up their voice, and wept: and the king also and all his servants wept very sore.

And while he was talking, the king's sons came, with weeping and loud cries: and the king and all his servants were weeping bitterly.


simplify: And this is the thing that thou shalt do unto them to hallow them, to minister unto me in the priest’s office: Take one young bullock, and two rams without blemish,

This is what you are to do to make them holy, to do the work of priests to me: Take one young ox and two male sheep, without any mark on them,


simplify: And as they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Spirit said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them.

And while they were doing the Lord's work, and going without food, the Holy Spirit said, Let Barnabas and Saul be given to me for the special work for which they have been marked out by me.


simplify: And if thou say in thy heart, Wherefore are these things come upon me? for the greatness of thine iniquity are thy skirts uncovered, and thy heels suffer violence.

And if you say in your heart, Why have these things come on me? because of the number of your sins, your skirts have been uncovered and violent punishment overtakes you.


simplify: He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

The desire of the working man is working for him, for his need of food is driving him on.


simplify: Behold therefore, I will gather thee unto thy fathers, and thou shalt be gathered into thy grave in peace; and thine eyes shall not see all the evil which I will bring upon this place. And they brought the king word again.

For this cause I will let you go to your fathers and be put in your last resting-place in peace, and your eyes will not see all the evil which I will send on this place. So they took this news back to the king.


rate difficulty: And he said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, I pray thee, send me good speed this day, and shew kindness unto my master Abraham.

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


rate difficulty: for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of people, but people, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.

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


simplify: Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be.

Out of the same mouth comes blessing and cursing. My brothers, it is not right for these things to be so.


rate difficulty: As to the offering of the first-fruits, ye shall present them to Jehovah; but they shall not be offered upon the altar for a sweet odour.

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


simplify: the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.

Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water;


rate difficulty: Neither shall he come near any person dead, nor make himself unclean for his father and for his mother;

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


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

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


simplify: As to the rest, pray ye, brethren, concerning us, that the word of the Lord may run and may be glorified, as also with you,

In conclusion, friends, pray for us — pray that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly, and be received everywhere with honor, as it was among you;


simplify: but Paul having gathered together a quantity of sticks, and having laid <FI>them<Fi> upon the fire, a viper--out of the heat having come--did fasten on his hand.

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


simplify: Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,

Seeming to be wise, they were in fact foolish,


simplify: and to study to be quiet, and to do your own business, and to work with your own hands, as we did command you,

Make it your ambition to live quietly, and to attend to your own business, and to work with your hands, as we directed you;


rate difficulty: Who, when he had found one pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had, and bought it.

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


rate difficulty: If, however, they all made up only one part, where would the body be?

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


rate difficulty: And Elijah said unto Ahab, Get thee up, eat and drink; for there is the sound of abundance of rain.

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


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


simplify: Then charged he his disciples that they should tell no man that he was Jesus the Christ.

Then he charged his disciples not to tell anyone that he was the Christ.


simplify: But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

But Peter said, May your money come to destruction with you, because you had the idea that what is freely given by God may be got for a price.


simplify: that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

That you were at that time without Christ, being cut off from any part in Israel's rights as a nation, having no part in God's agreement, having no hope, and without God in the world.


simplify: and at the ninth hour Jesus cried with a great voice, saying, `Eloi, Eloi, lamma sabachthani?' which is, being interpreted, `My God, my God, why didst Thou forsake me?'

And, at three, Jesus called out loudly: ‘Eloi, Eloi, lama sabacthani?’”which means ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’


rate difficulty: Build houses, and dwell in them, and plant gardens, and eat the fruit of them.


simplify: And the tidings reached the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.

And the word came to the king of Nineveh, and he got up from his seat of authority, and took off his robe, and covering himself with haircloth, took his seat in the dust.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, What man shall there be of you, that shall have one sheep, and if this fall into a pit on the sabbath day, will he not lay hold on it, and lift it out?

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel called the people together unto the Lord to Mizpeh;

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


simplify: And out of the tribe of Asher, Mishal with its suburbs, Abdon with its suburbs,

And from the tribe of Asher, Mishal and Abdon, with their grass-lands:


rate difficulty: Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.


rate difficulty: And the princes of Pharaoh saw her, and praised her to Pharaoh: and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house.


simplify: And Caleb drove thence the three sons of Anak, Sheshai, and Ahiman, and Talmai, the children of Anak.

And the three sons of Anak, Sheshai and Ahiman and Talmai, the children of Anak, were forced out from there by Caleb.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:

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


simplify: Keep my commandments and live; And my law as the apple of thine eye.

Keep my rules and you will have life; let my teaching be to you as the light of your eyes;


simplify: Cretans and Arabians, we hear them speaking in our tongues the mighty works of God.

Men of Crete and Arabia, to all of us they are talking in our different languages, of the great works of God.


rate difficulty: And Saul seeth and knoweth that Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> with David, and Michal daughter of Saul hath loved him,

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


rate difficulty: If thou doest well, will not [thy countenance] look up [with confidence]? and if thou doest not well, sin lieth at the door; and unto thee [shall be] his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.

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


simplify: He in the first year of his reign, in the first month, opened the doors of the house of Jehovah, and repaired them.

In the first year of his rule, in the first month, opening the doors of the Lord's house, he made them strong.


simplify: For he that is not against us is on our part.


simplify: and I most gladly will spend and be entirely spent for your souls, even if, more abundantly loving you, less I am loved.

For my part, I will most gladly spend, and be spent, for your welfare. Can it be that the more intensely I love you the less I am to be loved?


simplify: And he spake also unto certain who have been trusting in themselves that they were righteous, and have been despising the rest, this simile:

Another time, speaking to people who were satisfied that they were religious, and who regarded everyone else with scorn, Jesus told this parable —


rate difficulty: and he saith to me, `It behoveth thee again to prophesy about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings--many.'


simplify: For ye are all the children of God by faith in Christ Jesus.

For you are all sons of God, through your faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Then shall they know that I am Jehovah, when I have made the land a desolation and an astonishment, because of all their abominations which they have committed.

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


simplify: The gates of the rivers are opened, and the palace is dissolved.

The river doorways are forced open, and the king's house is flowing away.


simplify: `And he who also did receive the two talents having come, said, Sir, two talents thou didst deliver to me; lo, other two talents I did gain besides them.

Then the one who had received the two bags of gold came up and said ‘Sir, you entrusted me with two bags pounds; look, I have made another two!’


simplify: Joshua made war a long time with all those kings.

For a long time Joshua made war on all those kings.


rate difficulty: Only take diligent heed to do the commandment and the law which Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded you, to love Jehovah your God, and to walk in all his ways, and to keep his commandments, and to cleave unto him, and to serve him with all your heart and with all your soul.

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


rate difficulty: At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;


simplify: And thy food which thou shalt eat shall be by weight, twenty shekels a day: from time to time shalt thou eat it.

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


rate difficulty: And wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of thy times, and strength of salvation: the fear of the Lord is his treasure.

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


simplify: Howbeit they did not hearken, but they did after their former manner.

But they gave no attention, but went on in their old way.


simplify: therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast set thy heart as the heart of God,

For this cause the Lord has said: Because you have made your heart as the heart of God,


simplify: And they brought young children to him, that he should touch them: and his disciples rebuked those that brought them.

Some of the people were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them; but the disciples found fault with those who had brought them.


simplify: And Jehoash slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son reigned in his stead.

And Jehoash went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria with the kings of Israel; and Jeroboam his son became king in his place.


simplify: the great trials which thine eyes saw, and the signs, and the wonders, and the mighty hand, and the outstretched arm, whereby Jehovah thy God brought thee out: so shall Jehovah thy God do unto all the peoples of whom thou art afraid.

The great punishments which your eyes saw, and the signs and the wonders and the strong hand and the stretched-out arm, by which the Lord your God took you out: so will the Lord your God do to all the peoples who are the cause of your fears.


rate difficulty: and the messenger of God saith unto me in the dream, Jacob, and I say, Here <FI>am<Fi> I.

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


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

The number of his army was sixty-two thousand, seven hundred.


rate difficulty: Those who wish to appear to advantage in regard to outward observances are the people who are trying to compel you to be circumcised; and they do it only to avoid being persecuted for the cross of Jesus, the Christ.

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


rate difficulty: He is the chief of the ways of God, made by him for his pleasure.

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


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

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


simplify: But withal prepare me also a lodging: for I hope that through your prayers I shall be granted unto you.

And make a room ready for me; for I am hoping that through your prayers I will be given to you.


simplify: He smote the Philistines, even unto Gaza, and the borders thereof, from the tower of the watchmen to the fenced city.

He overcame the Philistines as far as Gaza and its limits, from the tower of the watchman to the walled town.


rate difficulty: And he made the porch for the throne where he judged, the porch of judgment; and it was covered with cedar from floor to floor.


simplify: Be strong and courageous, be not afraid nor dismayed for the king of Assyria, nor for all the multitude that is with him: for there be more with us than with him:

Be strong and take heart; have no fear, and do not be troubled on account of the king of Assyria and all the great army with him: for there is a greater with us.


simplify: And the flesh and the skin he burnt with fire without the camp.

And the flesh and the skin were burned with fire outside the tent-circle;


rate difficulty: And David feareth God on that day, saying, `How do I bring in unto me the ark of God?'


simplify: And in mercy shall the throne be established: and he shall sit upon it in truth in the tabernacle of David, judging, and seeking judgment, and hasting righteousness.

Then a king's seat will be based on mercy, and one will be seated on it in the tent of David for ever; judging uprightly, and quick to do righteousness.


simplify: Say now to the rebellious house, Know ye not what these things mean? tell them, Behold, the king of Babylon is come to Jerusalem, and hath taken the king thereof, and the princes thereof, and led them with him to Babylon;

Say now to this uncontrolled people, Are these things not clear to you? Say to them, See, the king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and took its king and its rulers away with him to Babylon;


rate difficulty: Then send quickly and get in your cattle and all you have from the fields; for if any man or beast in the field has not been put under cover, the ice-storm will come down on them with destruction.

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


simplify: And, behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus passed by, cried out, saying, Have mercy on us, O Lord, thou Son of David.

Two blind men who were sitting by the roadside, hearing that Jesus was passing, called out: “Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!”


rate difficulty: And he put the bread on it in order before the Lord, as the Lord had said.

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


rate difficulty: who, having received such a charge, cast them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks.

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


rate difficulty: Do not thou therefore yield unto them: for there lie in wait for him of them more than forty men, who have bound themselves under a curse, neither to eat nor to drink till they have slain him: and now are they ready, looking for the promise from thee.

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


simplify: And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of disease and all manner of sickness among the people.

And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.


rate difficulty: And this was a small thing in thine eyes, O God; but thou hast spoken of thy servant’s house for a great while to come, and hast regarded me according to the estate of a man of high degree, O Jehovah God.

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


rate difficulty: And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in the Syrian tongue, and interpreted in the Syrian tongue.

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


simplify: The legs of the lame are not equal: so is a parable in the mouth of fools.

The legs of one who has no power of walking are hanging loose; so is a wise saying in the mouth of the foolish.


simplify: And, behold, seven other kine came up after them out of the river, ill-favored and lean-fleshed, and stood by the other kine upon the brink of the river.

And after them seven other cows came out of the Nile, poor-looking and thin; and they were by the side of the other cows.


simplify: Then came the disciples to Jesus apart, and said, Why could not we cast him out?

Then the disciples came to Jesus privately, and said, Why were we not able to send it out?


rate difficulty: Also Bakbukiah and Unni, their brethren, were over against them in the watches.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, Go and get a potter’s earthen bottle, and take of the ancients of the people, and of the ancients of the priests;

This is what the Lord has said: Go and get for money a potter's bottle made of earth, and take with you some of the responsible men of the people and of the priests;


rate difficulty: And they continued stedfastly in the apostles’ doctrine and fellowship, and in breaking of bread, and in prayers.

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


simplify: When Jesus saw their faith, he said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, thy sins be forgiven thee.

And Jesus, seeing their faith, said to him, Son, you have forgiveness for your sins.


simplify: How much more them that dwell in houses of clay, Whose foundation is in the dust, Who are crushed before the moth!

How much more those living in houses of earth, whose bases are in the dust! They are crushed more quickly than an insect;


simplify: A day for building thy walls! in that day shall the decree be far removed.

A day for building your walls! in that day will your limits be stretched far and wide.


simplify: And he said unto her, For this saying go thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter.

And he said to her, For this saying go your way; the evil spirit has gone out of your daughter.


simplify: Then Paul, having taken the men, on the following day, with them having purified himself, was entering into the temple, announcing the fulfilment of the days of the purification, till the offering was offered for each one of them.

Paul joined the men, and the next day shared their purification, and went into the Temple, and gave notice of the expiration of the period of purification when the usual offering should have been made on behalf of each of them.


simplify: Behold, the nations are as a drop of a bucket, and are accounted as the small dust of the balance: behold, he taketh up the isles as a very little thing.

See, the nations are to him like a drop hanging from a bucket, and like the small dust in the scales: he takes up the islands like small dust.


simplify: He singeth before men, and saith, I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, And it profited me not:

He makes a song, saying, I did wrong, turning from the straight way, but he did not give me the reward of my sin.


rate difficulty: On this account I write these things being absent, that being present I may not use severity according to the authority which the Lord has given me for building up, and not for overthrowing.

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


simplify: And the husbandmen took his servants, and beat one, and killed another, and stoned another.

But the tenants seized his servants, beat one, killed another, and stoned a third.


rate difficulty: And the watchman saw another man running; and the watchman called unto the porter, and said, Behold, another man running alone. And the king said, He also bringeth tidings.

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


simplify: And there was no more war unto the five and thirtieth year of the reign of Asa.

And there was no more war till the thirty-fifth year of the rule of Asa.


rate difficulty: They are but fools, the princes of Zoan, the wise counsellors of Pharaoh: [their] counsel is become senseless. How say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

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


simplify: and they shall be upon Aaron, and upon his sons, when they go in unto the tent of meeting, or when they come near unto the altar to minister in the holy place; that they bear not iniquity, and die: it shall be a statute for ever unto him and unto his seed after him.

Aaron and his sons are to put these on whenever they go into the Tent of meeting or come near the altar, when they are doing the work of the holy place, so that they may be free from any sin causing death: this is to be an order for him and his seed after him for ever.


rate difficulty: Happy the man who doth endure temptation, because, becoming approved, he shall receive the crown of the life, which the Lord did promise to those loving Him.

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


simplify: `And the king having come in to view those reclining, saw there a man not clothed with clothing of the marriage-feast,

But, when the king went in to see his guests, he noticed there a man who had not put on a wedding-robe.


rate difficulty: Then Hilkiah, the chief priest, said to Shaphan the scribe, I have made discovery of the book of the law in the house of the Lord. So Hilkiah gave it to Shaphan;

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


simplify: No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

No doubt you have knowledge, and wisdom will come to an end with you.


simplify: And they drave not out the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer: but the Canaanites dwell among the Ephraimites unto this day, and serve under tribute.

And the Canaanites who were living in Gezer were not forced out; but the Canaanites have been living among Ephraim, to this day, as servants, doing forced work.


simplify: He was more honourable than the thirty, but he attained not to the first three. And David set him over his guard.

He was honoured over the rest of the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three. And David put him over the fighting men who kept him safe.


rate difficulty: `And by me is made a decree, that any one who changeth this thing, let wood be pulled down from his house, and being raised up, let him be smitten on it, and his house let be made a dunghill for this.

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


rate difficulty: for thy servant obtained the youth by surety from my father, saying, If I bring him not in unto thee--then I have sinned against my father all the days.

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


rate difficulty: And many of the children of Israel shall he turn unto the Lord their God.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, thatin the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people, There shall they be called sons of the living God.

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


simplify: And if thy brother, an Hebrew man, or an Hebrew woman, be sold unto thee, and serve thee six years; then in the seventh year thou shalt let him go free from thee.

If one of your countrymen, a Hebrew man or woman, becomes your servant for a price and does work for you six years, in the seventh year let him go free.


rate difficulty: and he hath laid his hand on the head of his offering, and hath slaughtered it at the opening of the tent of meeting, and sons of Aaron, the priests, have sprinkled the blood on the altar round about.


rate difficulty: and I said unto you, I am Jehovah your God; ye shall not fear the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell. But ye have not hearkened unto my voice.

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


rate difficulty: For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

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


simplify: And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus answereth again, and saith unto them, Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches to enter into the kingdom of God!

And the disciples were full of wonder at his words. But Jesus said to them again, Children, how hard it is for those who put faith in wealth to come into the kingdom of God!


rate difficulty: Only the people sacrificed in high places, because there was no house built unto the name of the Lord, until those days.

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


rate difficulty: For in this we groan, earnestly desiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven:

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


rate difficulty: And they said unto him, Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God, that we may know whether our way which we go shall be prosperous.

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


simplify: and he said, Let me go, I pray thee; for our family hath a sacrifice in the city; and my brother, he hath commanded me to be there: and now, if I have found favor in thine eyes, let me get away, I pray thee, and see my brethren. Therefore he is not come unto the king’s table.

Saying, Our family is making an offering in the town, and my brothers have given me orders to be there: so now, if I have grace in your eyes, let me go away and see my brothers. This is why he has not come to the king's table.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel put away the Baals and the Ashtoreths and served Jehovah only.


simplify: His offering was one silver charger of the weight of an hundred and thirty shekels, a silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meat offering:

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


simplify: And the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the children of Ammon.

And the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and he gave them up into the hands of the Philistines and into the hands of the children of Ammon.


rate difficulty: one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.


simplify: and if any one do not obey our word through the letter, this one note ye, and have no company with him, that he may be ashamed,

If anyone disregards what we have said in this letter, take note of them and avoid their company, so that they may feel ashamed.


simplify: and he said unto them, `To what, then, were ye baptized?' and they said, `To John's baptism.'

“What then was your baptism?” Paul asked.


rate difficulty: Namely, Bezer in the wilderness, in the plain country, of the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, of the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, of the Manassites.

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


simplify: And all the angels were standing round about the throne, andaboutthe elders and the four living creatures; and they fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,


simplify: And after a little those standing near having come, said to Peter, `Truly thou also art of them, for even thy speech doth make thee manifest.'

But soon afterwards those who were standing by came up and said to Peter: “You also are certainly one of them; why, even your way of speaking proves it!”


rate difficulty: Can the rush grow up without mire? can the flag grow without water?

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


simplify: By thy great wisdom and by thy traffick hast thou increased thy riches, and thine heart is lifted up because of thy riches:

By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:


simplify: And they went out at noon. But Ben-hadad was drinking himself drunk in the pavilions, he and the kings, the thirty and two kings that helped him.

And in the middle of the day they went out. But Ben-hadad was drinking in the tents with the thirty-two kings who were helping him.


simplify: And her daughters that are in the field shall be slain with the sword: and they shall know that I am Jehovah.

And her daughters in the open country will be put to the sword: and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: But so much the more went there a fame abroad of him: and great multitudes came together to hear, and to be healed by him of their infirmities.

But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.


simplify: Now therefore ye with the council signify to the chief captain that he bring him down unto you to morrow, as though ye would enquire something more perfectly concerning him: and we, or ever he come near, are ready to kill him.

So we want you now, with the consent of the Council, to suggest to the commanding officer that he should bring Paul down before you, as though you intended to go more fully into his case; but, before he comes here, we will be ready to make away with him.”


simplify: And Solomon’s son was Rehoboam, Abijah his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,

And Solomon's son was Rehoboam, Abijah was his son, Asa his son, Jehoshaphat his son,


rate difficulty: Then shalt thou prosper, if thou takest heed to fulfil the statutes and judgments which the Lord charged Moses with concerning Israel: be strong, and of good courage; dread not, nor be dismayed.

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


simplify: For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled.

For these are to be the days of vengeance, when all that scripture says will be fulfilled.


simplify: And the scribe said unto him, Well, Master, thou hast said the truth: for there is one God; and there is none other but he:

“Wisely answered, teacher!” exclaimed the teacher of the law. “It is true, as you say, that ‘there is one God,’ and that ‘there is no other besides him’;


rate difficulty: And they that had seen [it] related to them how it had happened to the [man] possessed by demons, and concerning the swine.

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


simplify: And he said unto him, `In the law what hath been written? how dost thou read?'

“What is said in the law?”answered Jesus. “What do you read there?”


rate difficulty: And Haman took the apparel and the horse, and arrayed Mordecai, and caused him to ride through the street of the city, and proclaimed before him, Thus shall it be done to the man whom the king delights to honour!

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


simplify: Then said Joshua, Open the mouth of the cave, and bring out those five kings unto me out of the cave.

Then Joshua said, Take away the stones from the mouth of the hole in the rock, and make those five kings come out to me.


rate difficulty: And I have magnified Myself, and sanctified Myself, And I have been known before the eyes of many nations, And they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah!

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


simplify: And I will break the pride of your power: and I will make your heaven as iron, and your earth as brass;

And the pride of your strength will be broken, and I will make your heaven as iron and your earth as brass;


simplify: But if he will not hear thee, then take with thee one or two more, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

But if he will not give ear to you, take with you one or two more, that by the lips of two or three witnesses every word may be made certain.


simplify: I would seek unto God, and unto God would I commit my cause:

But as for me, I would make my prayer to God, and I would put my cause before him:


rate difficulty: fulfil ye my joy, that ye may mind the same thing--having the same love--of one soul--minding the one thing,

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


rate difficulty: Then shall ye know that I am the Lord, when their slain men shall be among their idols round about their altars, upon every high hill, in all the tops of the mountains, and under every green tree, and under every thick oak, the place where they did offer sweet savour to all their idols.


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


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

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


simplify: And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

“I have most earnestly wished,”he said, “to eat this Passover with you before I suffer.


simplify: And Abraham took the wood of the burnt offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took the fire in his hand, and a knife; and they went both of them together.

And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.


rate difficulty: southward it was Ephraim’s, and northward it was Manasseh’s, and the sea was his border; and they reached to Asher on the north, and to Issachar on the east.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also take of the lofty top of the cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the topmost of its young twigs a tender one, and I will plant it upon a high and lofty mountain:

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


simplify: As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:


simplify: and they did not prevail, nor was their place found any more in the heaven;

he did not prevail; and there was no place left for them any longer in the heavens.


simplify: and say, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto Jerusalem: Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of the Canaanite; the Amorite was thy father, and thy mother was a Hittite.

And say, This is what the Lord has said to Jerusalem: Your start and your birth was from the land of the Canaanite; an Amorite was your father and your mother was a Hittite.


simplify: He draweth also the mighty with his power: he riseth up, and no man is sure of life.

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


simplify: The vessels also that are given thee for the service of the house of thy God, those deliver thou before the God of Jerusalem.

And the vessels which have been given to you for the uses of the house of your God, you are to give to the God of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: But if her father disallow her in the day that he heareth; not any of her vows, or of her bonds wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand: and the Lord shall forgive her, because her father disallowed her.

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


simplify: And who is he that will harm you, if ye be followers of that which is good?

Who will do you any damage if you keep your minds fixed on what is good?


simplify: And let them make me a sanctuary, that I may dwell among them.

And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.


simplify: And it came to pass in our going on to prayer, a certain maid, having a spirit of Python, did meet us, who brought much employment to her masters by soothsaying,

One day, as we were on our way to the place of prayer, we were met by a girl possessed by a divining spirit, who made large profits for her masters by fortune-telling.


rate difficulty: And thou, even thyself, shalt discontinue from thine heritage that I gave thee; and I will cause thee to serve thine enemies in the land which thou knowest not: for ye have kindled a fire in mine anger, which shall burn for ever.

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


simplify: And the Lord said, Even thus shall the children of Israel eat their defiled bread among the Gentiles, whither I will drive them.

And the Lord said, Even so the children of Israel will have unclean bread for their food among the nations where I am driving them.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spoke to Moses in the land of Egypt,


simplify: In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.

At the first God made the heaven and the earth.


simplify: The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred twenty and three.

The children of Beth-lehem, a hundred and twenty-three.


rate difficulty: I know his wrath, saith Jehovah, that it is nought; his boastings have wrought nothing.

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


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and his might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

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


simplify: And at the feast the governor had been accustomed to release one to the multitude, a prisoner, whom they willed,

Now, at the feast, the Governor was accustomed to grant the people the release of any one prisoner whom they might choose.


simplify: Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

From the day when I took my people Israel out of Egypt, no town in all the tribes of Israel has been marked out by me for the building of a house for the resting-place of my name; but I made selection of David to be king over my people Israel.


rate difficulty: And under the expanse their wings <FI>are<Fi> straight, one toward the other, to each are two covering on this side, and to each are two covering on that side--their bodies.

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


rate difficulty: he is not the God of dead men, but a God of living men; ye then go greatly astray.'

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


simplify: And the devil said unto him, All this power will I give thee, and the glory of them: for that is delivered unto me; and to whomsoever I will I give it.

“I will give you all this power, and the splendor of them; for it has been given into my hands and I give it to whom I wish.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will raise them out of the place whither ye have sold them, and will return your recompence upon your own head:

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


rate difficulty: Truly, God will not give up him who is without sin, and will not take evil-doers by the hand.

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


rate difficulty: And when Jesus came to the place, he looked up, and saw him, and said unto him, Zaccheus, make haste, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy house.

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


simplify: And by the border of Ephraim, from the east side even unto the west side, Reuben, one portion.

And on the limit of Ephraim, from the east side to the west side: Reuben, one part.


rate difficulty: And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it to his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamt another dream, and behold, the sun and the moon and eleven stars bowed down to me.

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


simplify: Then I will establish the throne of thy kingdom upon Israel for ever, as I promised to David thy father, saying, There shall not fail thee a man upon the throne of Israel.

Then I will make the seat of your rule over Israel certain for ever, as I gave my word to David your father, saying, You will never be without a man to be king in Israel.


rate difficulty: — But thou hast not called upon me, Jacob; for thou hast been weary of me, O Israel:

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


simplify: In the transgression of an evil man there is a snare: but the righteous doth sing and rejoice.

In the steps of an evil man there is a net for him, but the upright man gets away quickly and is glad.


simplify: She obeyed not the voice; she received not correction; she trusted not in Jehovah; she drew not near to her God.

She gave no attention to the voice, she had no use for teaching, she put no faith in the Lord, she did not come near to her God.


rate difficulty: Behold, I will bring evil upon thee, and will take away thy posterity, and will cut off from Ahab him that pisseth against the wall, and him that is shut up and left in Israel,

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


simplify: I am not worthy of the least of all the lovingkindnesses, and of all the truth, which thou hast showed unto thy servant; for with my staff I passed over this Jordan; and now I am become two companies.

I am less than nothing in comparison with all your mercies and your faith to me your servant; for with only my stick in my hand I went across Jordan, and now I have become two armies.


simplify: Holding the mystery of the faith in a pure conscience.

Keeping the secret of the faith in a heart free from sin.


rate difficulty: And he charged them much that no man should know this: and he commanded that something should be given her to eat.

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


simplify: For each man shall bear his own burden.

Because every man is responsible for his part of the work.


rate difficulty: The light burden of our momentary trouble is preparing for us, in measure transcending thought, a weight of imperishable glory;

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


simplify: And the apostles, when they were returned, told him all that they had done. And he took them, and went aside privately into a desert place belonging to the city called Bethsaida.

When the apostles returned, they related to Jesus all that they had done. Then Jesus went privately to a town called Bethsaida, taking the apostles with him.


rate difficulty: But what went ye out to see? a prophet? Yea, I say unto you, and much more than a prophet.

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


simplify: And unto Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera priest of On, bare unto him.

And before the time of need, Joseph had two sons, to whom Asenath, the daughter of Poti-phera, priest of On, gave birth.


rate difficulty: But their bows were broken by a strong one, and the cords of their arms were cut by the Strength of Jacob, by the name of the Stone of Israel:

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as her soul was departing (for she died), that she called his name Ben-oni: but his father called him Benjamin.

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


simplify: And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and rejoiced, believing in God with all his house.

Afterwards he took them up to his house and set before them something to eat, rejoicing that he, with all his household, had come to believe in God.


rate difficulty: And the three eldest of the sons of Jesse had gone and followed Saul to the battle; and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the firstborn, and the second to him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

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


rate difficulty: And if with one they blow, then have the princes, heads of the thousands of Israel, met together unto thee;

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


simplify: and the city hath no need of the sun, nor of the moon, that they may shine in it; for the glory of God did lighten it, and the lamp of it <FI>is<Fi> the Lamb;

The city has no need of ‘the sun or the moon to shine on it, for the glory of God illuminated it,’ and its Lamp was the Lamb.


simplify: Then shalt thou bring forth thy stuff by day in their sight, as stuff for removing: and thou shalt go forth at even in their sight, as they that go forth into captivity.

By day, before their eyes, take out your vessels like those of one who is taken away: and go out in the evening before their eyes, like those who are taken away as prisoners.


simplify: And that he might reconcile both unto God in one body by the cross, having slain the enmity thereby:

And that the two might come into agreement with God in one body through the cross, so putting an end to that division.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Because thou hast forgotten me, and cast me behind thy back, therefore bear thou also thy lewdness and thy whoredoms.

So this is what the Lord has said: Because you have not kept me in your memory, and because your back has been turned to me, you will even undergo the punishment of your evil designs and your loose ways.


rate difficulty: You have been built up on the foundation laid by the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being ‘the corner-stone.’

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


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


simplify: that no man be moved by these afflictions; for yourselves know that hereunto we are appointed.

So that no man might be moved by these troubles; because you see that these things are part of God's purpose for us.


rate difficulty: And they gave a loud cry, saying, What have we to do with you, you Son of God? Have you come here to give us punishment before the time?


simplify: and now, what is keeping down ye have known, for his being revealed in his own time,

And you know now what the restraining influence is which prevents his appearing before his appointed time.


simplify: and they constrained him, saying, `Remain with us, for it is toward evening,' and the day did decline, and he went in to remain with them.

but they pressed him not to do so. “Stay with us,” they said, “for it is getting towards evening, and the sun in already low.” So Jesus went in to stay with them.


rate difficulty: But when the evening was come, the lord of the vineyard says to his steward, Call the workmen and pay [them] their wages, beginning from the last even to the first.

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


rate difficulty: Meleah, Menan, Mattithiah, Nathan, David,


simplify: For these two years hath the famine been in the land: and yet there are five years, in the which there shall neither be earing nor harvest.

For these two years have been years of need, and there are still five more years to come in which there will be no ploughing or cutting of grain.


simplify: And he made the staves of acacia wood, and overlaid them with brass.

The rods he made of hard wood plated with brass.


simplify: And thou shalt put therein the ark of the testimony, and thou shalt screen the ark with the veil.

And inside it put the ark of the law, hanging the veil before it.


rate difficulty: the son of Jesus, the son of Eliezer, the son of Jorim, the son of Matthat, the son of Levi,

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


rate difficulty: And Adoni-zedek said, Seventy kings, whose thumbs and great toes had been cut off, got broken meat under my table: as I have done, so has God done to me in full. And they took him to Jerusalem, and he came to his end there.


rate difficulty: And righteousness shall be the girdle of his loins, and faithfulness the girdle of his reins.

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


rate difficulty: And it was told Joab, Behold, the king weepeth and mourneth for Absalom.

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


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

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


simplify: But it shall hail in the downfall of the forest; and the city shall be utterly laid low.

But the tall trees will come down with a great fall, and the town will be low in a low place.


simplify: Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.


simplify: It shall be unto you a sabbath of rest, and ye shall afflict your souls: in the ninth day of the month at even, from even unto even, shall ye celebrate your sabbath.

Let this be a Sabbath of special rest to you, and keep yourselves from all pleasure; on the ninth day of the month at nightfall from evening to evening, let this Sabbath be kept.


simplify: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.


simplify: then answering, Jesus said to her, `O woman, great <FI>is<Fi> thy faith, let it be to thee as thou wilt;' and her daughter was healed from that hour.

“Your faith is great,” was his reply to the woman; “it will be as you wish!” And her daughter was cured that very hour.


simplify: And the children of Reuben, Israel’s first-born, their generations, by their families, by their fathers’ houses, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

The generations of the sons of Reuben, the oldest son of Israel, were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over, who was able to go to war;


simplify: Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.


rate difficulty: Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven.

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


simplify: And his brethren envied him; but his father kept the saying in mind.

And his brothers were full of envy; but his father kept his words in mind.


simplify: For we will not inherit with them on yonder side Jordan, or forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side Jordan eastward.

For we will not have our heritage with them on the other side of Jordan and forward; because our heritage has come to us on this side of Jordan to the east.


rate difficulty: He has no offspring or family among his people, and in his living-place there is no one of his name.

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


simplify: They meet with darkness in the day-time, And grope at noonday as in the night.

In the daytime it becomes dark for them, and in the sunlight they go feeling about as if it was night.


simplify: But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.

But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.


rate difficulty: For by wise guidance thou shalt make thy war; And in the multitude of counsellors there is safety.

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


simplify: Now when these things were done, the princes drew near unto me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests and the Levites, have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, doing according to their abominations, even of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.

Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Perizzites, the Jebusites, the Ammonites, the Moabites, the Egyptians, and the Amorites.


simplify: And I will send the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, among them, till they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord Jehovah: When I shall make thee a desolate city, like the cities that are not inhabited; when I shall bring up the deep upon thee, and the great waters shall cover thee;

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


simplify: He saith, Yea. And when he came into the house, Jesus spake first to him, saying, What thinkest thou, Simon? the kings of the earth, from whom do they receive toll or tribute? from their sons, or from strangers?

He says, Yes. And when he came into the house, Jesus said to him, What is your opinion, Simon? from whom do the kings of the earth get payment or tax? from their sons or from other people?


simplify: Israel was holiness unto the Lord, and the firstfruits of his increase: all that devour him shall offend; evil shall come upon them, saith the Lord.

Israel was holy to the Lord, the first-fruits of his increase: all who made attacks on him were judged as wrongdoers, evil came on them, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; nor to have two body-coats apiece.

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


simplify: he, having gone near to Pilate, asked the body of Jesus,

He now went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus;


simplify: a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

A time for birth and a time for death; a time for planting and a time for uprooting;


simplify: And this isthe blessingof Judah: and he said,  Hear, Jehovah, the voice of Judah, And bring him in unto his people. With his hands he contended for himself; And thou shalt be a help against his adversaries.

And this is the blessing of Judah: he said, Give ear, O Lord, to the voice of Judah and make him one with his people: let your hands take up his cause, and be his help against his attackers.


rate difficulty: Lift up your eyes on high, and see! Who hath created these things, bringing out their host by number? He calleth them all by name; through the greatness of his might and strength of power, not one faileth.

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


simplify: Then said Paul, John verily baptized with the baptism of repentance, saying unto the people, that they should believe on him which should come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.

And Paul said, John gave a baptism which goes with a change of heart, saying to the people that they were to have faith in him who was coming after him, that is, in Jesus.


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees and some of the scribes, coming from Jerusalem, are gathered together to him,

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


simplify: Forasmuch as thou art sent of the king and his seven counsellors, to inquire concerning Judah and Jerusalem, according to the law of thy God which is in thy hand,

Because you are sent by the king and his seven wise men, to get knowledge about Judah and Jerusalem, as you are ordered by the law of your God which is in your hand;


rate difficulty: And I will cause the captivity of Judah and the captivity of Israel to return, and will build them, as at the first.

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


simplify: that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

That you may be respected by those who are outside, and may have need of nothing.


simplify: For this is my blood of the new testament, which is shed for many for the remission of sins.

Take of it, all of you, for this is my blood of the testament, which is given for men for the forgiveness of sins.


rate difficulty: and the groaning lizard, and the great red lizard, and the climbing lizard, and the chomet, and the chameleon.

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


simplify: The tongue of the just is as choice silver: the heart of the wicked is little worth.

The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value.


rate difficulty: What the daughters of Zelophehad say is right: certainly you are to give them a heritage among their father's brothers: and let the property which would have been their father's go to them.

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


simplify: then Paul said unto him, `God is about to smite thee, thou whitewashed wall, and thou--thou dost sit judging me according to the law, and, violating law, dost order me to be smitten!'

Paul turned to him and said:   “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to try me in accordance with law, and yet, in defiance of law, order me to be struck?”


rate difficulty: And the chief of the synagogue answering--much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed--said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth <FI>us<Fi> to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'

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


rate difficulty: There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, I am Abraham’s servant.

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


rate difficulty: These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that Jehovah God made earth and heaven.

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


simplify: and Rabbith, and Kishion, and Ebez,


simplify: And thou, son of man, thus saith the Lord Jehovah unto the land of Israel, An end: the end is come upon the four corners of the land.

And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land.


rate difficulty: because by the works of the law shall no flesh be justified in his sight; for through the law cometh the knowledge of sin.

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


rate difficulty: And he took up his parable, and said, Balaam the son of Beor hath said, and the man whose eyes are open hath said:

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


rate difficulty: Causing men to sin in word, And for a reprover in the gate lay a snare, And turn aside into emptiness the righteous.


rate difficulty: and he was seeking to see Jesus, who he is, and was not able for the multitude, because in stature he was small,


rate difficulty: Even the trees of the wood are glad over you, the trees of Lebanon, saying, From the time of your fall no wood-cutter has come up against us with an axe.

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


rate difficulty: `Therefore those able among you--saith he--having come down together, if there be anything in this man--let them accuse him;'


rate difficulty: And God saith unto Jacob, `Rise, go up to Bethel, and dwell there, and make there an altar to God, who appeared unto thee in thy fleeing from the face of Esau thy brother.'

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.


simplify: And he said, Art thou my very son Esau? And he said, I am.

And he said, Are you truly my son Esau? And he said, I am.


simplify: Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

Now a number of strange women were loved by Solomon, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Zidonians, and Hittites:


rate difficulty: And all these thy bondmen shall come down unto me, and bow down to me, saying, Go out, thou, and all the people that follow thee; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a glowing anger.

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


rate difficulty: Why sayest thou, O Jacob, and speakest, O Israel, My way is hid from the Lord, and my judgment is passed over from my God?

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Jezebel heard that Naboth was stoned, and was dead, that Jezebel said to Ahab, Arise, take possession of the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he refused to give thee for money; for Naboth is not alive, but dead.

Then Jezebel, hearing that Naboth had been stoned and was dead, said to Ahab, Get up and take as your heritage the vine-garden of Naboth the Jezreelite, which he would not give you for money, for Naboth is no longer living but is dead.


simplify: And the stones shall be according to the names of the children of Israel, twelve, according to their names; like the engravings of a signet, every one according to his name, they shall be for the twelve tribes.

The jewels are to be twelve in number, for the names of the children of Israel; every jewel having the name of one of the twelve tribes cut on it as on a stamp.


simplify: But the firstling of a cow, or the firstling of a sheep, or the firstling of a goat, thou shalt not redeem; they are holy: thou shalt sprinkle their blood upon the altar, and shalt burn their fat for an offering made by fire, for a sweet savor unto Jehovah.

But no such payment may be made for the first birth of an ox or a sheep or a goat; these are holy: their blood is to be dropped on the altar, and their fat burned for an offering made by fire, a sweet smell to the Lord.


simplify: To reveal his Son in me, that I might preach him among the heathen; immediately I conferred not with flesh and blood:

To give the revelation of his Son in me, so that I might give the news of him to the Gentiles; then I did not take the opinion of flesh and blood,


simplify: My people, go ye out of the midst of her, and deliver ye every man his soul from the fierce anger of the Lord.

My people, go out from her, and let every man get away safe from the burning wrath of the Lord.


simplify: And certain of the Pharisees said unto them, Why do ye that which is not lawful to do on the sabbath days?

But some of the Pharisees said, Why do you do what it is not right to do on the Sabbath?


simplify: Whom I have sent unto you for the same purpose, that ye might know our affairs, and that he might comfort your hearts.

Whom I have sent to you for this very purpose, so that you may have knowledge of our position, and that he may give comfort to your hearts.


rate difficulty: And the company shall stone them with stones, and despatch them with their swords; they shall slay their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.

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


simplify: whereby he hath granted unto us his precious and exceeding great promises; that through these ye may become partakers of the divine nature, having escaped from the corruption that is in the world by lust.

And through this he has given us the hope of great rewards highly to be valued; so that by them we might have our part in God's being, and be made free from the destruction which is in the world through the desires of the flesh.


rate difficulty: Do not you know that Christ’s people will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases?

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


rate difficulty: a token of the righteous judgment of God, for your being counted worthy of the reign of God, for which also ye suffer,

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jonathan: Peleth and Zaza. These were the sons of Jerahmeel.

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


simplify: And they straightway left the boat and their father, and followed him.

And they went straight from the boat and their father and came after him.


rate difficulty: Saul approved of his being put to death.  On that very day a great persecution broke out against the church which was in Jerusalem; and its members, with the exception of the apostles, were all scattered over the districts of Judea and Samaria.


simplify: For, even as the body is one, and hath many members, and all the members of the one body, being many, are one body, so also <FI>is<Fi> the Christ,

For just as the human body is one whole, and yet has many parts, and all its parts, many though they are, form but one body, so it is with the Christ;


simplify: I wrote unto the church: but Diotrephes, who loveth to have the preeminence among them, receiveth us not.

I sent a letter to the church, but Diotrephes, whose desire is ever to have the first place among them, will not have us there.


simplify: Unto thee it was shewed, that thou mightest know that the Lord he is God; there is none else beside him.

All this he let you see, so that you might be certain that the Lord is God and there is no other.


simplify: Now therefore hear thou the word of the Lord: Thou sayest, Prophesy not against Israel, and drop not thy word against the house of Isaac.

Now then, give ear to the word of the Lord: You say, Be no prophet to Israel, and say not a word against the people of Isaac.


rate difficulty: And Moses goeth up, Aaron also, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel,

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


rate difficulty: And a likeness <FI>is<Fi> over the heads of the living creatures of an expanse, as the colour of the fearful ice, stretched out over their heads from above.

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


simplify: Last of all the woman died also.

And last of all, the woman came to her end.


rate difficulty: Take this book of the law and put it by the ark of the Lord's agreement, so that it may be a witness against you.

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


simplify: But now, after that ye have known God, or rather are known of God, how turn ye again to the weak and beggarly elements, whereunto ye desire again to be in bondage?

But now that you have come to have knowledge of God, or more truly, God has knowledge of you, how is it that you go back again to the poor and feeble first things, desiring to be servants to them again?


rate difficulty: Beryls and stones of value to be put on the ephod and on the priest's bag.

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


rate difficulty: But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

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


simplify: Behold, Hanamel the son of Shallum thine uncle shall come unto thee, saying, Buy thee my field that is in Anathoth; for the right of redemption is thine to buy it.

See, Hanamel, the son of Shallum, your father's brother, will come to you and say, Give the price and get for yourself my property in Anathoth: for you have the right of the nearest relation.


simplify: And let these my words, wherewith I have made supplication before Jehovah, be nigh unto Jehovah our God day and night, that he maintain the cause of his servant, and the cause of his people Israel, as every day shall require;

And may these my words, the words of my prayer to the Lord, be before the Lord our God day and night, so that he may see right done to his servant and to his people Israel, day by day as we have need.


simplify: And he said, Hagar, Sarai’s handmaid, whence camest thou? and whither goest thou? And she said, I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.

And he said, Hagar, Sarai's servant, where have you come from and where are you going? And she said, I am running away from Sarai, my master's wife.


rate difficulty: But let no man take of the bread and the cup without testing himself.

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


rate difficulty: and all the mingled people, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gazah, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

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


simplify: And I put a jewel on thy forehead, and earrings in thine ears, and a beautiful crown upon thine head.

And I put a ring in your nose and ear-rings in your ears and a beautiful crown on your head.


rate difficulty: The Lord standeth up to plead, and standeth to judge the people.

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


simplify: Ye shall not eat anything with the blood: neither shall ye use enchantments, nor practise augury.

Nothing may be used for food with its blood in it; you may not make use of strange arts, or go in search of signs and wonders.


rate difficulty: And Ahab made a grove; and Ahab did more to provoke the Lord God of Israel to anger than all the kings of Israel that were before him.


simplify: And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib was come, and that he was purposed to fight against Jerusalem,

And when Hezekiah saw that Sennacherib had come for the purpose of fighting against Jerusalem,


rate difficulty: Spikenard and saffron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices:


rate difficulty: Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian: and he sat down by a well.


simplify: The Lord shall make the pestilence cleave unto thee, until he have consumed thee from off the land, whither thou goest to possess it.

The Lord will send disease after disease on you, till you have been cut off by death from the land to which you are going.


rate difficulty: For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

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


rate difficulty: Now these are the kings of the land whom the children of Israel overcame, taking as their heritage their land on the east side of Jordan, from the valley of the Arnon to Mount Hermon, and all the Arabah to the east:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: But if it have been stolen from him, he shall make [it] good unto its owner.

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


rate difficulty: and they slaughter the passover-offering, and the priests sprinkle out of their hand, and the Levites are striping;


simplify: and the command that <FI>is<Fi> for life, this was found by me for death;

The Commandment that should have meant life I found to result in death!


rate difficulty: And Jacob said to his brethren, Gather stones. And they took stones, and made a heap, and ate there upon the heap.


rate difficulty: We are conscious that the law is good, if a man makes a right use of it,

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


simplify: For Moses truly said unto the fathers, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear in all things whatsoever he shall say unto you.

For Moses said, The Lord will give you a prophet from among your people, like me; you will give ear to everything which he will say to you.


simplify: Servants, be obedient unto them that according to the flesh are your masters, with fear and trembling, in singleness of your heart, as unto Christ;

Servants, do what is ordered by those who are your natural masters, having respect and fear for them, with all your heart, as to Christ;


rate difficulty: And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will also make the multitude of Egypt to cease, by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.

This is what the Lord has said: I will put an end to great numbers of the people of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon.


rate difficulty: So be it. Let blessing and glory and wisdom and praise and honour and power and strength be given to our God for ever and ever. So be it.


rate difficulty: saying with a great voice, `Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive the power, and riches, and wisdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and blessing!'

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


simplify: Arise, and go down to the potter’s house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.

Up! go down to the potter's house, and there I will let my words come to your ears.


simplify: For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.

For they have made their hearts ready like an oven, while they are waiting secretly; their wrath is sleeping all night; in the morning it is burning like a flaming fire.


simplify: and before the throne <FI>is<Fi> a sea of glass like to crystal, and in the midst of the throne, and round the throne, <FI>are<Fi> four living creatures, full of eyes before and behind;

and in front of the throne is what seemed to be a sea of glass, ‘resembling crystal, while within the space before the throne and around the throne are four Creatures full of eyes’ in front and behind.


simplify: redeeming the time, because the days are evil;

making the most of every opportunity; for these are evil days.


simplify: by thy great wisdom and by thy traffic hast thou increased thy riches, and thy heart is lifted up because of thy riches;—

By your great wisdom and by your trade your power is increased, and your heart is lifted up because of your power:


rate difficulty: and, since their trade was the same as his, he stayed and worked with them — their trade was tent-making.

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


rate difficulty: She <FI>is<Fi> watching the ways of her household, And bread of sloth she eateth not.

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


simplify: Thou shalt bring down the noise of strangers, as the heat in a dry place; even the heat with the shadow of a cloud: the branch of the terrible ones shall be brought low.

As heat by the shade of a cloud, the noise of the men of pride has been made quiet by you; as heat by the shade of a cloud, the song of the cruel ones has been stopped.


simplify: for as many as are of works of law are under a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed <FI>is<Fi> every one who is not remaining in all things that have been written in the Book of the Law--to do them,'

All who rely on obedience to law are under a curse, for scripture says —  ‘Cursed is everyone who does not abide by all that is written in the book of the law, and do it.’


simplify: `Happy the clean in heart--because they shall see God.

Blessed are the pure in heart,  for they will see God.


simplify: For whosoever shall give you a cup of water to drink, because ye are Christ’s, verily I say unto you, he shall in no wise lose his reward.

Whoever gives you a cup of water, because you are Christ's, truly I say to you, he will in no way be without his reward.


simplify: Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into the eternal fire which is prepared for the devil and his angels:

Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:


simplify: Boast not against the branches. But if thou boast, thou bearest not the root, but the root thee.

Yet do not exult over the other branches. But, if you do exult over them, remember that you do not support the root, but that the root supports you.


simplify: And I will lay waste her vines and her fig-trees, whereof she hath said, These are my hire that my lovers have given me; and I will make them a forest, and the beasts of the field shall eat them.

And I will make waste her vines and her fig-trees, of which she has said, These are the payments which my lovers have made to me; and I will make them a waste of trees, and the beasts of the field will take them for food.


rate difficulty: being possessed of land, having sold [it], brought the money and laid it at the feet of the apostles.


rate difficulty: And they consider not in their hearts that I remember all their wickedness: now have their own doings beset them about; they are before my face.

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


rate difficulty: And thou hast said unto them, Thus said Jehovah of Hosts, turn back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah of Hosts, And I turn back unto you, said Jehovah of Hosts.

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


simplify: Why do ye persecute me as God, and are not satisfied with my flesh?

Why are you cruel to me, like God, for ever saying evil against me?


rate difficulty: having your behaviour among the nations right, that in that which they speak against you as evil-doers, of the good works having beheld, they may glorify God in a day of inspection.

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


rate difficulty: And whatsoever ye do, in word or in deed, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus, giving thanks to God the Father through him.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord shall command the blessing upon thee in thy storehouses, and in all that thou settest thine hand unto; and he shall bless thee in the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 10 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And that which fell among thorns are they, which, when they have heard, go forth, and are choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this life, and bring no fruit to perfection.

By that which fell among the brambles are meant those who hear the message, but who, as they go on their way, are completely choked by this world’s cares and wealth and pleasures, and bring nothing to perfection.


simplify: For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;

And when David had sent destruction on Edom, and Joab, the captain of the army, had gone to put the dead into the earth, and had put to death every male in Edom;


rate difficulty: The whole heave-offering shall be five and twenty thousand by five and twenty thousand; ye shall offer the holy heave-offering foursquare with the possession of the city.

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


simplify: And one of his servants said, None, my lord, O king: but Elisha, the prophet that is in Israel, telleth the king of Israel the words that thou speakest in thy bedchamber.

And one of them said, Not one of us, my lord king; but Elisha, the prophet in Israel, gives the king of Israel news of the words you say even in your bedroom.


rate difficulty: And he had power to give breath to the image of the beast, so that words might come from the image of the beast, and that he might have all those who did not give worship to the image of the beast put to death.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: And the king said unto Esther the queen, The Jews have slain and destroyed five hundred men in Shushan the palace, and the ten sons of Haman; what then have they done in the rest of the king’s provinces! Now what is thy petition? and it shall be granted thee: or what is thy request further? and it shall be done.

And the king said to Esther the queen, The Jews have put five hundred men to death in Shushan, as well as the ten sons of Haman: what then have they done in the rest of the kingdom! Now what is your prayer? for it will be given to you; what other request have you? and it will be done.


rate difficulty: Till another king arose, which knew not Joseph.

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


simplify: What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?


simplify: And they of the South shall possess the mount of Esau, and they of the lowland the Philistines; and they shall possess the field of Ephraim, and the field of Samaria; and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.

And they will take the South, and the lowland, and the country of Ephraim, and Gilead, as their heritage.


simplify: I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feasts, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.


simplify: And they said unto him, `Wherefore do the disciples of John fast often, and make supplications--in like manner also those of the Pharisees--but thine do eat and drink?'

“John’s disciples,” they said to Jesus, “Often fast and say prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, while yours are eating and drinking!”


simplify: And ye yourselves like unto men that wait for their lord, when he will return from the wedding; that when he cometh and knocketh, they may open unto him immediately.

and be like servants who are waiting for their Master’s return from his wedding, so that, when he comes and knocks, they may open the door for him at once.


rate difficulty: And lo, it hath gone up--all of it--thorns! Covered its face have nettles, And its stone wall hath been broken down.

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


rate difficulty: But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

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


simplify: Ye shall offer these beside the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.

These are to be offered in addition to the morning burned offering, which is a regular burned offering at all times.


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

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


rate difficulty: But I know thine abode, and thy going out, and thy coming in, and thy raging against me.

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


simplify: And saying, Where is the promise of his coming? for since the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation.

Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.


simplify: They say still unto them that despise me, The Lord hath said, Ye shall have peace; and they say unto every one that walketh after the imagination of his own heart, No evil shall come upon you.

They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.


rate difficulty: Whoso is covering hatred with lying lips, And whoso is bringing out an evil report is a fool.

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


simplify: And for the other side shall be hangings of fifteen cubits; their pillars three, and their sockets three.

And on the other side, hangings fifteen cubits long, with three pillars and three bases.


rate difficulty: either Jews by birth or converts, and some are Cretans and Arabians — yet we all alike hear them speaking in our own tongues of the great things that God has done.”

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