rate difficulty: My little children, do not let our love be in word and in tongue, but let it be in act and in good faith.

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


rate difficulty: Paul’s answer to the charge was — ‘I have not committed any offense against the Jewish law, or the Temple, or the Emperor.’

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


rate difficulty: And the name of Saul’s wife was Ahinoam, the daughter of Ahimaaz: and the name of the captain of his host was Abner, the son of Ner, Saul’s uncle.

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


simplify: and the woman, having been afraid, and trembling, knowing what was done on her, came, and fell down before him, and told him all the truth,

Then the woman, in fear and trembling, knowing what had happened to her, came and threw herself down before him, and told him the whole truth.


rate difficulty: And he said unto his father, My head, my head. And he said to his servant, Carry him to his mother.

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


simplify: Wherefore whosoever shall eat the bread or drink the cup of the Lord in an unworthy manner, shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the Lord.

If, then, anyone takes the bread or the cup of the Lord in the wrong spirit, he will be responsible for the body and blood of the Lord.


simplify: And all those hearing were amazed, and said, `Is not this he who laid waist in Jerusalem those calling on this name, and hither to this intent had come, that he might bring them bound to the chief priests?'

All who heard him were amazed.   “Is not this,” they asked, “the man who worked havoc in Jerusalem among those that invoke this name, and who had also come here for the express purpose of having such persons put in chains and taken before the chief priests?”


simplify: Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the Lord thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the Lord empty:

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord your God in the place named by him; at the feast of unleavened bread, the feast of weeks, and the feast of tents: and they are not to come before the Lord with nothing in their hands;


simplify: Is not this David, of whom they sang one to another in dances, saying, Saul slew his thousands, and David his ten thousands?

Is this not David, who was named in their songs, when in the dance they said to one another, Saul has put to death thousands, and David tens of thousands?


simplify: Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.

Whoever, then, will make himself as low as this little child, the same is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: And they went about in Judah and gathered together the Levites out of all the cities of Judah, and the chief fathers of Israel; and they came to Jerusalem.


simplify: And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.


simplify: Son of man, set thy face toward Jerusalem, and drop thy word toward the holy places, and prophesy against the land of Israel,

Son of man, let your face be turned to Jerusalem, let your words be dropped in the direction of her holy place, and be a prophet against the land of Israel;


rate difficulty: Therefore is the anger of the Lord kindled against his people, and he hath stretched forth his hand against them, and hath smitten them: and the hills did tremble, and their carcases were torn in the midst of the streets. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

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


rate difficulty: And at what instant I shall speak concerning a nation, and concerning a kingdom, to build and to plant it;

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


rate difficulty: for we certainly do everything that hath gone out of our mouth, to make perfume to the queen of the heavens, and to pour out to her libations, as we have done, we, and our fathers, our kings, and our heads, in cities of Judah, and in streets of Jerusalem, and--we are satisfied with bread, and we are well, and evil we have not seen.

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


simplify: Now there were seven brethren: and the first took a wife, and dying left no seed.

There were seven brothers: and the first took a wife, and at his death there were no offspring;


simplify: Therefore was he hired, that I should be afraid, and do so, and sin, and that they might have matter for an evil report, that they might reproach me.

For this reason they had given him money, in order that I might be overcome by fear and do what he said and do wrong, and so they would have reason to say evil about me and put shame on me.


rate difficulty: The thunder makes clear his passion, and the storm gives news of his wrath.

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


simplify: Surely the princes of Zoan are fools, the counsel of the wise counsellors of Pharaoh is become brutish: how say ye unto Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the son of ancient kings?

The chiefs of Zoan are completely foolish; the wisest guides of Pharaoh have become like beasts: how do you say to Pharaoh, I am the son of the wise, the offspring of early kings?


rate difficulty: And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said, Go up and put your father to rest, as you gave your oath to him.

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


rate difficulty: Simon answered and said, I suppose that he, to whom he forgave most. And he said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.

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


simplify: A wise son heareth his father’s instruction: but a scorner heareth not rebuke.

A wise son is a lover of teaching, but the ears of the haters of authority are shut to sharp words.


rate difficulty: Have I committed sin, abasing myself in order that ye might be exalted, because I gratuitously announced to you the glad tidings ofGod?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And by reason of the exceeding greatness of the revelations, that I should not be exalted overmuch, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, a messenger of Satan to buffet me, that I should not be exalted overmuch.

And because the revelations were so very great, in order that I might not be overmuch lifted up, there was given to me a thorn in the flesh, one sent from Satan to give me pain.


rate difficulty: So Samuel called unto the Lord; and the Lord sent thunder and rain that day: and all the people greatly feared the Lord and Samuel.

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


rate difficulty: Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, Andforsake us so long time?

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto the people, Be ready against the third day: come not at your wives.


simplify: He also that had received two talents came and said, Lord, thou deliveredst unto me two talents: behold, I have gained two other talents beside 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: and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken <FI>it<Fi> , he began to eat;

With these words he took some bread, and, after saying the thanksgiving to God before them all, broke it in pieces, and began to eat;


rate difficulty: Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwelleth in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, whither he is gone down to take possession of it.

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


simplify: And hath seen in a vision a man named Ananias coming in, and putting his hand on him, that he might receive his sight.

And he has seen a man named Ananias coming in and putting his hands on him, so that he may be able to see.


simplify: Now it came to pass on the day when the sons of God came to present themselves before Jehovah, that Satan also came among them.

And there was a day when the sons of the gods came together before the Lord, and the Satan came with them.


rate difficulty: Drawn from his tent is his confidence, And it causeth him to step to the king of terrors.

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


rate difficulty: among whom was Mary of Magdala, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of the sons of Zebedee.

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


simplify: And cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thee: for they have provoked thee to anger before the builders.

Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.


rate difficulty: Give orders to the children of Israel to give to the Levites, from the heritage which is theirs, towns for themselves, with land on the outskirts of the towns.

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


rate difficulty: The son of Amariah, the son of Azariah, the son of Meraioth,

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


rate difficulty: Near <FI>is<Fi> My righteousness, Gone out hath My salvation and Mine arms, Peoples they judge, on Me isles do wait, Yea, on Mine arm they do wait with hope.

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


rate difficulty: And Zedekiah king of Judah doth not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but is certainly given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and his mouth hath spoken with his mouth, and his eyes see his eyes,

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


rate difficulty: Because they said, He hath an unclean spirit.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord of armies has said: Give thought to your ways.

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


rate difficulty: But now he is dead, wherefore should I fast? can I bring him back again? I shall go to him, but he will not return to me.

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


simplify: But the soul that doeth ought presumptuously, whether he be born in the land, or a stranger, the same reproacheth the Lord; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

But the person who does wrong in the pride of his heart, if he is one of you or of another nation by birth, is acting without respect for the Lord, and will be cut off from his people.


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

And he had four daughters, virgins, who were prophets.


simplify: And the building of the wall thereof was jasper: and the city was pure gold, like unto pure glass.

And the building of its wall was of jasper, and the town was clear gold, clear as glass.


simplify: I have even from the beginning declared it to thee; before it came to pass I shewed it thee: lest thou shouldest say, Mine idol hath done them, and my graven image, and my molten image, hath commanded them.

For this reason I made it clear to you in the past, before it came I gave you word of it: for fear that you might say, My god did these things, and my pictured and metal images made them come about.


rate difficulty: and dost see the affliction of our fathers in Egypt, and their cry hast heard by the sea of Suph,

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


simplify: and the unclean spirits, when they were seeing him, were falling down before him, and were crying, saying--`Thou art the Son of God;'

The foul spirits, too, whenever they caught sight of him, flung themselves down before him, and screamed out: “You are the Son of God”!


simplify: concerning which salvation seek out and search out did prophets who concerning the grace toward you did prophecy,

It was this salvation that the prophets, who spoke long ago of the blessing intended for you, sought, and strove to comprehend;


simplify: All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but all things edify not.

We are free to do all things, but there are things which it is not wise to do. We are free to do all things, but not all things are for the common good.


rate difficulty: Till I come, give thyself to reading, to exhortation, to teaching.

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


simplify: And when he was entered into a ship, his disciples followed him.

And when he had got into a boat, his disciples went after him.


rate difficulty: Woe unto them that, rising early in the morning, run after strong drink; that linger till twilight, [till] wine inflameth them!

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


simplify: The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works.

The Lord has taken an oath by the pride of Jacob, Truly I will ever keep in mind all their works.


rate difficulty: And as we have borne the image of the earthy, we shall also bear the image of the heavenly.

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


simplify: And after her he took Maachah the daughter of Absalom; which bare him Abijah, and Attai, and Ziza, and Shelomith.

And after her he took Maacah, the daughter of Absalom; and she had Abijah and Attai and Ziza and Shelomith by him.


simplify: Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

And it was among them that we all once lived our lives, indulging the cravings of our earthly nature, and carrying out the desires prompted by that earthly nature and by our own thoughts. Our nature exposed us to the divine wrath, like the rest of humanity.


simplify: And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.

And Moses said to them, Let nothing be kept till the morning.


simplify: And when they urged him till he was ashamed, he said, Send. They sent therefore fifty men; and they sought three days, but found him not.

But when they kept on requesting him, he was shamed and said, Send, then. So they sent fifty men; but after searching for three days, they came back without having seen him.


simplify: And their brethren, which were in their villages, were to come after seven days from time to time 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: Then Esther the queen answered and said, If I have found favour in thy sight, O king, and if it please the king, let my life be given me at my petition, and my people at my request:

Then Esther the queen, answering, said, If I have your approval, O king, and if it is the king's pleasure, let my life be given to me in answer to my prayer, and my people at my request:


rate difficulty: And Abraham riseth early in the morning, unto the place where he hath stood <FI>before<Fi> the face of Jehovah;

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


rate difficulty: Your boasting is unseemly. Do not you know that even a little leaven leavens all the dough?


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Stretch forth thy hand toward heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon man, and upon beast, and upon every herb of the field, throughout the land of Egypt.

And the Lord said to Moses, Now let your hand be stretched out to heaven so that there may be an ice-storm on all the land of Egypt, on man and on beast and on every plant of the field through all the land of Egypt.


simplify: And now, behold, Jehovah hath kept me alive, as he spake, these forty and five years, from the time that Jehovah spake this word unto Moses, while Israel walked in the wilderness: and now, lo, I am this day fourscore and five years old.

And now, as you see, the Lord has kept me safe these forty-five years, from the time when the Lord said this to Moses, while Israel was wandering in the waste land: and now I am eighty-five years old.


rate difficulty: And he said unto his disciples, Therefore I say unto you, Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat; neither for the body, what ye shall put on.

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


rate difficulty: If iniquity <FI>is<Fi> in thy hand, put it far off, And let not perverseness dwell in thy tents.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, behold, are they not written in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Amaziah, first and last, are they not recorded in the book of the kings of Judah and Israel?


simplify: and in the piety the brotherly kindness, and in the brotherly kindness the love;

piety by mutual affection, and mutual affection by love.


simplify: Then began he to curse and to swear, saying, I know not the man. And immediately the cock crew.

Then with curses and oaths he said, I have no knowledge of the man. And straight away there came the cry of a cock.


simplify: And Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah had made him horns of iron, and said, Thus saith the Lord, With these thou shalt push Syria until they be consumed.

And Zedekiah, the son of Chenaanah, made himself iron horns and said, The Lord says, Pushing back the Aramaeans with these, you will put an end to them completely.


simplify: Thus saith God Jehovah, he that created the heavens, and stretched them forth; he that spread abroad the earth and that which cometh out of it; he that giveth breath unto the people upon it, and spirit to them that walk therein:

God the Lord, even he who made the heavens, measuring them out on high; stretching out the earth, and giving its produce; he who gives breath to the people on it, and life to those who go about on it, says:


rate difficulty: All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

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


simplify: But there rose up certain of the sect of the Pharisees which believed, saying, That it was needful to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses.

But some of the Pharisees, who were of the faith, got up and said, It is necessary for these to have circumcision and to keep the law of Moses.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, and walked in the way of his father, and in his sin wherewith he made Israel to sin.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, copying the evil ways of his father, and the sin which he did and made Israel do.


simplify: And Gideon said unto them, I would make a request of you, that ye would give me every man the ear-rings of his spoil. (For they had golden ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)

Then Gideon said to them, I have a request to make to you; let every man give me the ear-rings he has taken. (For they had gold ear-rings, because they were Ishmaelites.)


simplify: And evening having come, there came a rich man, from Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was discipled to Jesus,

When evening had fallen, there came a rich man belonging to Ramah, named Joseph, who had himself become a disciple of Jesus.


simplify: Now for a long season Israel hath been without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law.

Now for a long time Israel has been without the true God, and without a teaching priest and without the law;


simplify: And he called the name of the first, Jemimah; and the name of the second, Keziah; and the name of the third, Keren-happuch.

And he gave the first the name of Jemimah, the second Keziah, and the third Keren-happuch;


simplify: And Jehovah said to Samuel, Behold, I will do a thing in Israel, at which both the ears of every one that heareth it shall tingle.

And the Lord said to Samuel, See, I will do a thing in Israel at which the ears of everyone hearing of it will be burning.


simplify: And Joab came into the house to the king, and said, Thou hast shamed this day the faces of all thy servants, which this day have saved thy life, and the lives of thy sons and of thy daughters, and the lives of thy wives, and the lives of thy concubines;

And Joab came into the house to the king and said, Today you have put to shame the faces of all your servants who even now have kept you and your sons and your daughters and your wives and all your women safe from death;


rate difficulty: and Jehovah thy God hath made thee abundant in every work of thy hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, for good; for Jehovah turneth back to rejoice over thee for good, as He rejoiced over thy fathers,

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


simplify: And the taskmasters of the people went out, and their officers, and they spake to the people, saying, Thus saith Pharaoh, I will not give you straw.

And the overseers of the people and their responsible men went out and said to the people, Pharaoh says, I will give you no more dry stems.


simplify: and the fame of this went forth to all the land.

The report of this spread through all that part of the country.


rate difficulty: And when he came to Samaria, he smote all that remained unto Ahab in Samaria, till he had destroyed him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake to Elijah.

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


simplify: The same dealt craftily with our race, and ill-treated our fathers, that they should cast out their babes to the end they might not live.

He, having evil designs against our nation, was cruel to our fathers, and they were forced to put out their young children, so that they might not go on living.


simplify: whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

Stand firm against him, strong in your faith; knowing, as you do, that the sufferings which you are undergoing are being endured to the full by the Lord's followers throughout the world.


simplify: And thou shalt make a candlestick of pure gold: of beaten work shall the candlestick be made, even its base, and its shaft; its cups, its knops, and its flowers, shall be of one piece with it:

And you are to make a support for lights, of the best gold; its base and its pillar are to be of hammered gold; its cups, its buds, and its flowers are to be made of the same metal.


rate difficulty: And he built the house of the forest of Lebanon; its length was a hundred cubits, and its breadth fifty cubits, and its height thirty cubits, upon four rows of cedar-pillars, with cedar-beams upon the pillars;

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


simplify: Doth not even nature itself teach you, that, if a man have long hair, it is a dishonor to him?

Does it not seem natural to you that if a man has long hair, it is a cause of shame to him?


rate difficulty: These are the families of Issachar according to those that were numbered of them, sixty-four thousand three hundred.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And the people of Nineveh believed God; and they proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.

And the people of Nineveh had belief in God; and a time was fixed for going without food, and they put on haircloth, from the greatest to the least.


rate difficulty: Even he shall build the temple of the Lord; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne: and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.

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


simplify: In that day Jehovah with his hard and great and strong sword will punish leviathan the swift serpent, and leviathan the crooked serpent; and he will slay the monster that is in the sea.

In that day the Lord, with his great and strong and cruel sword, will send punishment on Leviathan, the quick-moving snake, and on Leviathan, the twisted snake; and he will put to death the dragon which is in the sea.


rate difficulty: Now those that sealed were, Nehemiah, the Tirshatha, the son of Hachaliah, and Zidkijah,

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


rate difficulty: And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

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


simplify: Lift up thine eyes round about, and behold: all these gather themselves together, and come to thee. As I live, saith Jehovah, thou shalt surely clothe thee with them all as with an ornament, and gird thyself with them, like a bride.

Let your eyes be lifted up round about, and see: they are all coming together to you. By my life, says the Lord, truly you will put them all on you as an ornament, and be clothed with them like a bride.


simplify: Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men and all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.

Let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting, let the old men, even all the people of the land, come together to the house of the Lord your God, crying out to the Lord.


simplify: I sent him therefore the more carefully, that, when ye see him again, ye may rejoice, and that I may be the less sorrowful.

I have sent him, then, the more gladly, so that when you see him again, you may be happy and I may have the less sorrow.


rate difficulty: Wherefore Adoni-zedek king of Jerusalem sent unto Hoham king of Hebron, and unto Piram king of Jarmuth, and unto Japhia king of Lachish, and unto Debir king of Eglon, saying,

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


simplify: And great fear came upon all the church, and upon as many as heard these things.

Then great fear came on all the church and on all who had knowledge of these things.


simplify: Being defamed, we intreat: we are made as the filth of the world, and are the offscouring of all things unto this day.

we meet slander with gentle appeals. We have been treated as the scum of the earth, the vilest of the vile, to this very hour.


simplify: And he took him a potsherd to scrape himself withal; and he sat down among the ashes.

And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.


simplify: for we are not as the many, adulterating the word of God, but as of sincerity--but as of God; in the presence of God, in Christ we do speak.

Unlike many people, we are not in the habit of making profit out of God’s message; but in all sincerity, and bearing God’s commission, we speak before him in union with Christ.


rate difficulty: and said to the judges, Consider what ye do: for ye judge not for man, but for Jehovah; and he is with you in the judgment.

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


simplify: And after the uproar was ceased, Paul called unto him the disciples, and embraced them, and departed for to go into Macedonia.

And after the noise had come to an end, Paul, having sent for the disciples and given them comfort, went away from them to Macedonia.


rate difficulty: Who was with the ruler, Sergius Paulus, an able man. This man sent for Barnabas and Saul, desiring to have knowledge of the word of God.

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


simplify: And Absalom said unto him, See, thy matters are good and right; but there is no man deputed of the king to hear thee.

And Absalom would say to him, See, your cause is true and right; but no man has been named by the king to give you a hearing.


rate difficulty: Take your hand far away from me; and let me not be overcome by fear of you.


rate difficulty: And Moses stood in the gate of the camp, and said, He that is for Jehovah, [let him come] to me. And all the sons of Levi gathered to him.


simplify: Hast thou comprehended the earth in its breadth? Declare, if thou knowest it all.

Have you taken note of the wide limits of the earth? Say, if you have knowledge of it all.


simplify: And I will bring you in unto the land, concerning the which I did swear to give it to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it you for an heritage: I am the Lord.

And I will be your guide into the land which I made an oath to give to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob; and I will give it to you for your heritage: I am Yahweh.


simplify: And he saith to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering saith to him, `Thou art the Christ.'

“But you,”he asked, “who do you say that I am?”To this Peter replied: “You are the Christ.”


rate difficulty: And I--I have established My covenant with thee, And thou hast known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, Did I not say that he would not be a prophet of good but of evil?

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


simplify: Then said he unto all Israel, Be ye on one side, and I and Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said unto Saul, Do what seemeth good unto thee.

Then he said to all Israel, You be on one side, and I with Jonathan my son will be on the other side. And the people said to Saul, Do whatever seems good to you.


simplify: and they rejoiced, and covenanted to give him money,

They were glad of this, and agreed to pay him.


simplify: And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia write: These things saith he that is holy, he that is true, he that hath the key of David, he that openeth and none shall shut, and that shutteth and none openeth:

And to the angel of the church in Philadelphia say: These things says he who is holy, he who is true, he who has the key of David, opening the door so that it may be shut by no one, and shutting it so that it may be open to no one.


simplify: And when ye shall come into the land, and shall have planted all manner of trees for food, then ye shall count the fruit thereof as uncircumcised: three years shall it be as uncircumcised unto you: it shall not be eaten of.

And when you have come into the land, and have put in all sorts of fruit-trees, their fruit will be as if they had not had circumcision, and for three years their fruit may not be used for food.


rate difficulty: I have laid a snare for thee, And also--thou art captured, O Babylon, And thou--thou hast known, Thou hast been found, and also art caught, For against Jehovah thou hast stirred thyself up.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen again from the dead; and that this Jesus, whom I preach unto you, is Christ.

He laid before them and explained that the Christ must undergo suffering and rise from the dead; and “It is this man,” he declared, “who is the Christ — this Jesus about whom I am telling you.”


simplify: And he taught them many things by parables, and said unto them in his doctrine,

And he gave them teaching about a number of things in the form of stories, and said to them in his teaching, Give ear:


rate difficulty: for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.'

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


simplify: And David sware moreover, and said, Thy father certainly knoweth that I have found grace in thine eyes; and he saith, Let not Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved: but truly as the Lord liveth, and as thy soul liveth, there is but a step between me and death.

But David took his oath again and said, Your father sees that I am dear to you; so he says to himself, Let Jonathan have no idea of this, for it will be a grief to him; but as the Lord is living, and as your soul is living, there is only a step between me and death.


rate difficulty: Cease, my son, to hear instruction--To err from sayings of knowledge.

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


simplify: Whose hope shall be cut off, and whose trust shall be a spider’s web.

Whose support is cut off, and whose hope is no stronger than a spider's thread.


simplify: And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.

Then the House was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari, who were responsible for moving the House, went forward.


rate difficulty: One shall say, I am Jehovah’s; and another shall call himself by the name of Jacob; and another shall subscribe with his hand unto Jehovah, and surname himself by the name of Israel.

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


simplify: Before their face the people shall be much pained: all faces shall gather blackness.

At their coming the people are bent with pain: all faces become red together.


rate difficulty: (For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)

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


simplify: `And that in the good ground: These are they, who in an upright and good heart, having heard the word, do retain <FI>it<Fi> , and bear fruit in continuance.

But by that in the good ground are meant those who, having heard the message, keep it in the good, rich soil of their hearts, and patiently yield a return.


simplify: For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.

For we are God’s handiwork, created, by our union with Christ Jesus, for the good actions in doing which God had pre-arranged that we should spend our lives.


simplify: beloved, concerning all things I desire thee to prosper, and to be in health, even as thy soul doth prosper,

Dear friend, I pray that all may be well with you and that you may have good health — I know that all is well with your soul.


simplify: Come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land; for I know that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.

Come now, in answer to my prayer, and put a curse on this people, for they are greater than I: and then I may be strong enough to overcome them and send them out of the land: for it is clear that good comes to him who has your blessing, but he on whom you put your curse is cursed.


simplify: but the Pharisees having heard, said, `This one doth not cast out demons, except by Beelzeboul, ruler of the demons.'

But the Pharisees heard of it and said: “He drives out demons only by the help of Beelzebul the chief of the demons.”


simplify: So Ahab went up to eat and to drink. And Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he bowed himself down upon the earth, and put his face between his knees.

So Ahab went up to have food and drink, while Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he went down on the earth, putting his face between his knees.


rate difficulty: Now when he had gone, the king's servants came, and saw that the doors of the summer-house were locked; and they said, It may be that he is in his summer-house for a private purpose.


simplify: `If therefore they may say to you, Lo, in the wilderness he is, ye may not go forth; lo, in the inner chambers, ye may not believe;

Therefore, if people say to you ‘He is in the wilderness!’, do not go out there; or ‘He is in an inner room!’, do not believe it;


rate difficulty: For, behold, I will send serpents, cockatrices, among you, which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And the man, the Levite, husband of the woman who hath been murdered, answereth and saith, `Into Gibeah (which <FI>is<Fi> to Benjamin) I have come, I and my concubine, to lodge;

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


simplify: And they said unto Jephthah, Come, and be our captain, that we may fight with the children of Ammon.

And they said to Jephthah, Come and be our chief so that we may make war against the children of Ammon.


simplify: And the likeness of the firmament upon the heads of the living creature was as the colour of the terrible crystal, stretched forth over their heads above.

And over the heads of the living beings there was the form of an arch, looking like ice, stretched out over their heads on high.


simplify: and they having shaken off the dust of their feet against them, came to Iconium,

They, however, shook the dust off their feet in protest,


simplify: Then was brought unto him one possessed with a demon, blind and dumb: and he healed him, insomuch that the dumb man spake and saw.

Then they took to him one with an evil spirit, who was blind and had no power of talking: and he made him well so that he had the power of talking and seeing.


rate difficulty: Demetrius hath good report of all men, and of the truth itself: yea, and we also bear record; and ye know that our record is true.

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


simplify: And whosoever toucheth anything that was under him shall be unclean until the even: and he that beareth those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

And anyone touching anything which was under him will be unclean till the evening; anyone taking up any of these things is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.


simplify: Thou camest down also upon mount Sinai, and spakest with them from heaven, and gavest them right judgments, and true laws, good statutes and commandments:

And you came down on Mount Sinai, and your voice came to them from heaven, giving them right decisions and true laws, good rules and orders:


rate difficulty: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds, I will be like the Most High:

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


simplify: And Joab gave the sum of the number of the people unto David. And all they of Israel were a thousand thousand and an hundred thousand men that drew sword: and Judah was four hundred threescore and ten thousand men that drew sword.

And Joab gave David the number of all the people; all the men of Israel, able to take up arms, were one million, one hundred thousand men; and those of Judah were four hundred and seventy thousand men, able to take up arms.


rate difficulty: Elam the fifth, Jehohanan the sixth, Eliehoenai the seventh.

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


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

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


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

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


rate difficulty: For nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there shall be famines and pestilences, and earthquakes in divers places.

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith Jehovah: Behold, he shall fly as an eagle, and shall spread out his wings against Moab.

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


rate difficulty: Thou art not united with them in burial, For thy land thou hast destroyed, Thy people thou hast slain, Not named to the age is the seed of evil doers.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.


simplify: and with thee will I break in pieces the horse and his rider;

With you the horse and the horseman will be broken; with you the war-carriage and he who goes in it will be broken;


rate difficulty: and from among your own selves shall rise up men speaking perverted things to draw away the disciples after them.

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


simplify: But that ye may know that the Son of man hath power on earth to forgive sins, (he saith to the sick of the palsy,)

But so that you may see that the Son of man has authority for the forgiveness of sins on earth, (he said to the man,)


rate difficulty: so shall thy barns be filled with plenty, and thy vats shall overflow with new wine.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


simplify: and there were certain of them men of Cyprus and Cyrene, who having entered into Antioch, were speaking unto the Hellenists, proclaiming good news--the Lord Jesus,

Some of them, however, who were men of Cyprus and Cyrene, on coming to Antioch, addressed themselves also to the Jews of foreign birth, telling them the good news about that Lord Jesus.


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

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


simplify: And these are they which are sown among thorns; such as hear the word,

And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word,


rate difficulty: And when he humbled himself, the anger of Jehovah turned away from him, that he would not destroy him altogether; and also in Judah there were good things.


rate difficulty: And Peter answered unto her, Tell me whether ye sold the land for so much? And she said, Yea, for so much.

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


rate difficulty: And having heard of a rising again of the dead, some, indeed, were mocking, but others said, `We will hear thee again concerning this;'

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


simplify: Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee.

Up! let your face be bright, for your light has come, and the glory of the Lord is shining on you.


rate difficulty: Then the king went on to Gilgal, and Chimham went on with him: and all the people of Judah conducted the king, and also half the people of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Go unto the people, and sanctify them to day and to morrow, and let them wash their clothes,

And the Lord said to Moses, Go to the people and make them holy today and tomorrow, and let their clothing be washed.


rate difficulty: And through thy knowledge shall the weak brother perish, for whom Christ died?

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


rate difficulty: They have been attacked by all those who came across them: and their attackers said, We are doing no wrong, because they have done evil against the Lord in whom is righteousness, against the Lord, the hope of their fathers.

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


simplify: 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.

Then the watchman saw another man running: and crying out in the direction of the door he said, Here is another man running by himself. And the king said, He, like the other, comes with news.


simplify: And he answered, My lord, O king, my servant deceived me: for thy servant said, I will saddle me an ass, that I may ride thereon, and go with the king; because thy servant is lame.

And he said in answer, Because of the deceit of my servant, my lord king: for I, your servant, said to him, You are to make ready an ass and on it I will go with the king, for your servant has not the use of his feet.


rate difficulty: saying, What think ye concerning the Christ? whose son is he? They say to him, David's.

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


simplify: And if it be eaten at all on the third day, it is abominable; it shall not be accepted.

If any of it is used for food on the third day, it is a disgusting thing and will not be pleasing to the Lord.


simplify: Be sober, vigilant, because your opponent the devil, as a roaring lion, doth walk about, seeking whom he may swallow up,

Exercise self-control, be watchful. Your adversary, the devil, like a roaring lion, is prowling about, eager to devour you.


simplify: And the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines seven months.

Now the ark of the Lord was in the country of the Philistines for seven months.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Take heed, and keep yourselves from all covetousness: for a man’s life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.

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


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

Grace to you and peace from God the Father and our Lord Jesus Christ,


simplify: And when they were come to Jerusalem, they were received of the church and the apostles and the elders, and they rehearsed all things that God had done with them.

And when they came to Jerusalem, they had a meeting with the church and the Apostles and the rulers, and they gave an account of all the things which God had done through them.


rate difficulty: So the men of Kiriath-jearim came and took the ark of the Lord to the house of Abinadab in Gibeah, and they made his son Eleazar holy and put the ark in his care.

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


simplify: And shall not God avenge his own elect, which cry day and night unto him, though he bear long with them?

And will not God do right in the cause of his saints, whose cries come day and night to his ears, though he is long in doing it?


simplify: And the border of the children of Dan went out beyond them; for the children of Dan went up and fought against Leshem, and took it, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and possessed it, and dwelt therein, and called Leshem, Dan, after the name of Dan their father.

(But the limit of the children of Dan was not wide enough for them; so the children of Dan went up and made war on Leshem and took it, putting it to the sword without mercy, and they took it for their heritage and made a place for themselves there, giving it the name of Leshem-dan, after the name of their father, Dan.)


rate difficulty: A wicked messenger falleth into mischief: but a faithful ambassador is health.


simplify: The way of the wicked is as darkness: They know not at what they stumble.

The way of sinners is dark; they see not the cause of their fall.


simplify: And when all the people saw it, they fell on their faces: and they said, Jehovah, he is God; Jehovah, he is God.

And when the people saw it, they all went down on their faces, and said, The Lord, he is God, the Lord, he is God.


rate difficulty: And he had it given out in Nineveh, By the order of the king and his great men, no man or beast, herd or flock, is to have a taste of anything; let them have no food or water:

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


simplify: And having gone forth, Jesus departed from the temple, and his disciples came near to show him the buildings of the temple,

Leaving the Temple Courts, Jesus was walking away, when his disciples came up to draw his attention to the Temple buildings.


rate difficulty: And walking by the sea of Galilee, he saw Simon, and Andrew, [Simon's] brother, casting out a net in the sea, for they were fishers.

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


rate difficulty: And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

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


rate difficulty: for there shall be henceforth five in one house divided--three against two, and two against three;

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


rate difficulty: `And He doth humble thee, and cause thee to hunger and doth cause thee to eat the manna (which thou hast not known, even thy fathers have not known), in order to cause thee to know that not by bread alone doth man live, but by every produce of the mouth of Jehovah man doth live.

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


rate difficulty: Diverse weights, and diverse measures, Both of them alike are an abomination to Jehovah.

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


simplify: And there followed him a great multitude of the people, and of women who bewailed and lamented him.

And a great band of people went after him, and of women making signs of grief and weeping for him.


simplify: And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of Jehovah.

And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord.


simplify: Now therefore be ye not scoffers, lest your bonds be made strong; for a decree of destruction have I heard from the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, upon the whole earth.

And now, take care that you do not make sport of him, or your bands will be made strong; for I have had word from the Lord, the Lord of armies, of an end, of a complete end, which is to come on all the land.


simplify: So we abode in the valley over against Beth-peor.

So we were waiting in the valley facing Beth-peor.


rate difficulty: Afterward he brought me to the gate, even the gate that looketh toward the east:

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


simplify: and <FI>there are<Fi> heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but one <FI>is<Fi> the glory of the heavenly, and another that of the earthly;

There are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies; but the beauty of the heavenly bodies is not the beauty of the earthly.


rate difficulty: Then Jesus was carried up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted of the devil:

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


simplify: His prayer also, and how God was entreated of him, and all his sin and his trespass, and the places wherein he built high places, and set up the Asherim and the graven images, before he humbled himself, behold, they are written in the history of Hozai.

And the prayer which he made to God, and how God gave him an answer, and all his sin and his wrongdoing, and the places where he made high places and put up pillars of wood and images, before he put away his pride, are recorded in the history of the seers.


simplify: And there came over against Gibeah ten thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and the battle was sore; but they knew not that evil was close upon them.

And they came in front of Gibeah, ten thousand of the best men in all Israel, and the fighting became more violent; but the children of Benjamin were not conscious that evil was coming on them.


simplify: But let us, who are of the day, be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for an helmet, the hope of salvation.

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


rate difficulty: They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.

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


rate difficulty: and whosoever would be first of you shall be bondman of all.


rate difficulty: Because ye thrust with side and with shoulder, and push all the weak ones with your horns, till ye have scattered them abroad,

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


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


simplify: That at the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven, and things in earth, and things under the earth;

So that at the name of Jesus every knee may be bent, of those in heaven and those on earth and those in the underworld,


rate difficulty: And some of them that stood by, when they heard it, said, Behold, he calleth Elijah.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king doth sit in the gate. And all the people came before the king: for Israel had fled every man to his tent.

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


simplify: And the pelican, and the gier eagle, and the cormorant,

And the pelican and the vulture and the cormorant;


rate difficulty: He takes them all up with his hook, he takes them in his net, getting them together in his fishing-net: for which cause he is glad and full of joy.


simplify: The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth, and Haziel, and Haran, three. These were the heads of the fathers’housesof Ladan.

The sons of Shimei: Shelomoth and Haziel and Haran, three; these were the heads of the families of Ladan.


simplify: And he said unto her, Up, and let us be going; but none answered: then he took her up upon the ass; and the man rose up, and gat him unto his place.

And he said to her, Get up and let us be going; but there was no answer; so he took her up and put her on the ass, and went on his way and came to his house.


simplify: If I have found favour in the sight of the king, and if it please the king to grant my petition, and to perform my request, let the king and Haman come to the banquet that I shall prepare for them, and I will do to morrow as the king hath said.

If I have the king's approval, and if it is the king's pleasure to give me my prayer and do my request, let the king and Haman come to the feast which I will make ready for them, and tomorrow I will do as the king has said.


simplify: Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, saluteth you, always striving for you in his prayers, that ye may stand perfect and fully assured in all the will of God.

Epaphras, who is one of you, a servant of Christ Jesus, sends you his love, ever taking thought for you in his prayers, that you may be complete and fully certain of all the purpose of God.


simplify: Wherefore, remember, that ye <FI>were<Fi> once the nations in the flesh, who are called Uncircumcision by that called Circumcision in the flesh made by hands,

Remember, therefore, that you were once Gentiles yourselves, as your bodies showed; you were called ‘The Uncircumcised’ by those who were called ‘The Circumcised’ — circumcised only by human hands!


rate difficulty: Yet Jesus made no reply — not even a single word; at which the Governor was greatly astonished.

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


simplify: And this shall be a sign unto you, saith the Lord, that I will punish you in this place, that ye may know that my words shall surely stand against you for evil:

And this will be the sign to you, says the Lord, that I will give you punishment in this place, so that you may see that my words will certainly have effect against you for evil:


simplify: And they shall mock him, and shall scourge him, and shall spit upon him, and shall kill him: and the third day he shall rise again.

who will mock him, spit on him, and scourge him, and put him to death; and after three days he will rise again.”


rate difficulty: `And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

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


rate difficulty: and how do we hear [them] each in our own dialect in which we have been born,

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


simplify: There shall nothing cast their young, nor be barren, in thy land: the number of thy days I will fulfil.

All your animals will give birth without loss, not one will be without young in all your land; I will give you a full measure of life.


simplify: Whosoever hideth her hideth the wind, and the ointment of his right hand, which bewrayeth itself.

He who keeps secret the secret of his friend, will get himself a name for good faith.


simplify: Thy body islikea round goblet, Wherein no mingled wine is wanting: Thy waist is like a heap of wheat Set about with lilies.

Your stomach is a store of grain with lilies round it, and in the middle a round cup full of wine.


simplify: Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the Lord sent me from Kadesh–barnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.

I was forty years old when Moses, the servant of the Lord, sent me from Kadesh-barnea to make a search through the land; and the account which I gave him was in keeping with his desire.


simplify: The soul that sinneth, it shall die: the son shall not bear the iniquity of the father, neither shall the father bear the iniquity of the son; the righteousness of the righteous shall be upon him, and the wickedness of the wicked shall be upon him.

The soul which does sin will be put to death: the son will not be made responsible for the evil-doing of the father, or the father for the evil-doing of the son; the righteousness of the upright will be on himself, and the evil-doing of the evil-doer on himself.


simplify: And it came to pass, that, when Elisabeth heard the salutation of Mary, the babe leaped in her womb; and Elisabeth was filled with the Holy Ghost:

And when the voice of Mary came to the ears of Elisabeth, the baby made a sudden move inside her; then Elisabeth was full of the Holy Spirit,


rate difficulty: And he said, Take her and put her out of the window. So they sent her down with force, and her blood went in a shower on the wall and on the horses; and she was crushed under their feet.


simplify: And I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with a fire infolding itself, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst thereof as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.

And, looking, I saw a storm-wind coming out of the north, a great cloud with flames of fire coming after one another, and a bright light shining round about it and in the heart of it was something coloured like electrum.


rate difficulty: And all the gold of the heave-offering that they offered up to Jehovah, of the captains of thousands, and of the captains of hundreds, was sixteen thousand seven hundred and fifty shekels.

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


simplify: This is the thing which Jehovah doth command concerning the daughters of Zelophehad, saying, Let them be married to whom they think best; only into the family of the tribe of their father shall they be married.

This is the order of the Lord about the daughters of Zelophehad: The Lord says, Let them take as their husbands whoever is most pleasing to them, but only among the family of their father's tribe.


simplify: And Azariah the son of Nathan was over the officers: and Zabud the son of Nathan was principal officer, and the king’s friend:

Azariah, the son of Nathan, was over those in authority in the different divisions of the country; Zabud, the son of Nathan, was priest and the king's friend;


simplify: neither went I up to Jerusalem to them that were apostles before me: but I went away into Arabia; and again I returned unto Damascus.

And I went not up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; but I went away into Arabia, and again I came back to Damascus.


simplify: Where then is that gratulation of yourselves? for I bear you witness, that, if possible, ye would have plucked out your eyes and given them to me.

Where then is that happy condition of yours? because I give you witness, that, if possible, you would have taken out your eyes and given them to me.


simplify: They shall die grievous deaths: they shall not be lamented, neither shall they be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the ground; and they shall be consumed by the sword, and by famine; and their dead bodies shall be food for the birds of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth.

Death from evil diseases will overtake them; there will be no weeping for them and their bodies will not be put to rest; they will be like waste on the face of the earth: the sword and need of food will put an end to them; their dead bodies will be meat for the birds of heaven and for the beasts of the earth.


rate difficulty: Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, that Moses sat to judge the people: and the people stood about Moses from the morning unto the evening.

Now on the day after, Moses took his seat to give decisions for the people: and the people were waiting before Moses from morning till evening.


simplify: For every one shall be salted with fire, and every sacrifice shall be salted with salt.

‘For it is by fire that everyone will be salted.


rate difficulty: and the father of the damsel hath said unto the elders, My daughter I have given to this man for a wife, and he doth hate her;

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


simplify: How that he was caught up into paradise, and heard unspeakable words, which it is not lawful for a man to utter.

Was caught up into Paradise, and heard unspeakable things of which no human being may tell.


simplify: And they appointed Kedesh in Galilee in mount Naphtali, and Shechem in mount Ephraim, and Kirjath–arba, which is Hebron, in the mountain of Judah.

So they made selection of Kedesh in Galilee in the hill-country of Naphtali, and Shechem in the hill-country of Ephraim, and Kiriath-arba (which is Hebron) in the hill-country of Judah.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, thou hast slain thy people; the seed of evil-doers shall not be named for ever.

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


rate difficulty: “See to yourselves! They will betray you to courts of law; and you will be taken to Synagogues and beaten; and you will be brought up before governors and kings for my sake, so that you can bear witness before them.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah thy God hath put all this oath on thine enemies, and on those hating thee, who have pursued thee.

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


simplify: He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.


simplify: And Joel the son of Zichri was their overseer; and Judah the son of Hassenuah was second over the city.

And Joel, the son of Zichri, was their overseer; and Judah, the son of Hassenuah, was second over the town.


rate difficulty: But he answered and said unto them, When it is evening, ye say, It will be fair weather: for the heaven is red.

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


rate difficulty: And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.


simplify: And under their hand was an army, three hundred thousand and seven thousand and five hundred, that made war with mighty power, to help the king against the enemy.

And under their orders was a trained army of three hundred and seven thousand, five hundred, of great strength in war, helping the king against any who came against him.


rate difficulty: Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to Jehovah.


simplify: For I delivered unto you first of all that which I also received, how that Christ died for our sins according to the scriptures;

For I gave to you first of all what was handed down to me, how Christ underwent death for our sins, as it says in the Writings;


rate difficulty: `I Jehovah <FI>am<Fi> thy God, who hath brought thee out from the land of Egypt, from a house of servants.

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


simplify: But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may take of it, when he has had circumcision.


rate difficulty: Because Manasseh king of Judah hath done these abominations, and hath done wickedly above all that the Amorites did, who were before him, and hath made Judah also to sin with his idols;

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The Pharisees also came unto him, tempting him, and saying unto him, Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?

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


simplify: And Samson said unto them, If ye do after this manner, surely I will be avenged of you, and after that I will cease.

And Samson said to them, If you go on like this, truly I will take my full payment from you; and that will be the end of it.


simplify: And he looked, and behold a well in the field, and, lo, there were three flocks of sheep lying by it; for out of that well they watered the flocks: and a great stone was upon the well’s mouth.

And there he saw a water-hole in a field, and by the side of it three flocks of sheep, for there they got water for the sheep: and on the mouth of the water-hole there was a great stone.


rate difficulty: So this is what the Lord has said: Make search among the nations and see who has had word of such things; the virgin of Israel has done a very shocking thing.


simplify: He that speaketh flattery to his friends, even the eyes of his children shall fail.

As for him who is false to his friend for a reward, light will be cut off from the eyes of his children.


simplify: They that observe lying vanities forsake their own mercy.

The worshippers of false gods have given up their only hope.


rate difficulty: And if any man will sue thee at the law, and take away thy coat, let him have thy cloke also.

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


simplify: For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

I do not regard myself as in any way inferior to the most eminent apostles!


simplify: But the manifestation of the Spirit is given to every man to profit withal.

But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.


simplify: Lift up thy voice, O daughter of Gallim: cause it to be heard unto Laish, O poor Anathoth.

Give a loud cry, daughter of Gallim; let Laishah give ear; let Anathoth give answer to her.


rate difficulty: And a certain man, by name Simon, was before in the city using magic, and amazing the nation of Samaria, saying himself to be a certain great one,

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


simplify: For therein is the righteousness of God revealed from faith to faith: as it is written, The just shall live by faith.

For in it there is the revelation of the righteousness of God from faith to faith: as it is said in the holy Writings, The man who does righteousness will be living by his faith.


simplify: But the high places were not removed: nevertheless Asa’s heart was perfect with the Lord all his days.

The high places, however, were not taken away: but still the heart of Asa was true to the Lord all his life.


rate difficulty: And he is to take the ox to the door of the Tent of meeting before the Lord; and put his hand on its head and put it to death before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: these three men in its midst: I live--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah--neither sons nor daughters do they deliver; they alone are delivered, and the land is a desolation.

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


simplify: and they said to him, `Where wilt thou that we might prepare?'

“Where do you wish us to make preparations?” they asked.


simplify: But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

But without your approval I would do nothing; so that your good works might not be forced, but done freely from your heart.


simplify: And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

And men will go into cracks of the rocks, and into holes of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.


simplify: And they that had laid hold on Jesus led him away to Caiaphas the high priest, where the scribes and the elders were assembled.

And those who had made Jesus prisoner took him away to the house of Caiaphas, the high priest, where the scribes and those in authority over the people had come together.


rate difficulty: And set up over his head his accusation written, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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


simplify: And the scripture, foreseeing that God would justify the heathen through faith, preached before the gospel unto Abraham, saying, In thee shall all nations be blessed.

And the holy Writings, seeing before the event that God would give the Gentiles righteousness by faith, gave the good news before to Abraham, saying, In you will all the nations have a blessing.


rate difficulty: And Nob, the city of the priests, smote he with the edge of the sword, both men and women, children and sucklings, and oxen, and asses, and sheep, with the edge of the sword.

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


simplify: And the people cried unto Moses; and Moses prayed unto Jehovah, and the fire abated.

And the people made an outcry to Moses, and Moses made prayer to the Lord, and the fire was stopped.


simplify: And ye have this day rejected your God, who himself saved you out of all your adversities and your tribulations; and ye have said unto him, Nay, but set a king over us. Now therefore present yourselves before the Lord by your tribes, and by your thousands.

But today you are turned away from your God, who himself has been your saviour from all your troubles and sorrows; and you have said to him, Put a king over us. So now, take your places before the Lord by your tribes and by your thousands.


simplify: And he said, This will be the manner of the king that shall reign over you: he will take your sons, and appoint them unto him, for his chariots, and to be his horsemen; and they shall run before his chariots;

And he said, This is the sort of king who will be your ruler: he will take your sons and make them his servants, his horsemen, and drivers of his war-carriages, and they will go running before his war-carriages;


rate difficulty: and the priest shall look upon him the seventh day: if it spread abroad in the skin, then the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is the plague of leprosy.


simplify: And Moses said unto him, As soon as I am gone out of the city, I will spread abroad my hands unto the Lord; and the thunder shall cease, neither shall there be any more hail; that thou mayest know how that the earth is the Lord’s.

And Moses said, When I am gone outside the town, my hands will be stretched out to the Lord; the thunders and the ice-storm will come to an end, so that you may see that the earth is the Lord's.


rate difficulty: How then wilt thou turn away the face of one captain of the least of my master’s servants, and put thy trust on Egypt for chariots and for horsemen?

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And whether one member suffer, all the members suffer with it; or one member be honoured, all the members rejoice with it.

If one part suffers, all the others suffer with it, and if one part has honor done it, all the others share its joy.


simplify: Will ye steal, murder, and commit adultery, and swear falsely, and burn incense unto Baal, and walk after other gods whom ye know not;

Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;


rate difficulty: They shall not dwell in thy land, lest they make thee sin against me; for if thou serve their gods, it will surely be a snare unto thee.

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


simplify: But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet, and Shimei, and Rei, and the mighty men which belonged to David, were not with Adonijah.

But Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and Nathan the prophet and Shimei and Rei, and David's men of war did not take the side of Adonijah.


simplify: He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever.

He will be the builder of a house for my name, and I will make the seat of his authority certain for ever.


simplify: And Moses took the rod from before Jehovah, as he commanded him.

And Moses took the rod from before the Lord as he gave him orders.


simplify: And David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away: and David rescued his two wives.

And David got back everything the Amalekites had taken; and he got back his two wives.


simplify: And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.


rate difficulty: Did not He that made me in the womb make him? Yea, prepare us in the womb doth One.

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


simplify: then wherefore gavest thou not my money into the bank, and I at my coming should have required it with interest?

Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?


rate difficulty: And [it is] not wonderful, for Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light.

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


simplify: Go and tell David my servant, Thus saith the Lord, Thou shalt not build me an house to dwell in:

Go and say to David my servant, The Lord says, You are not to make me a house for my living-place:


simplify: And they that did eat were four thousand men, beside women and children.

And there were four thousand men who took food, together with women and children.


simplify: And ye shall chase your enemies, and they shall fall before you by the sword.

And you will put to flight those who are against you, and they will be put to death by your swords.


simplify: For now have I chosen and hallowed this house, that my name may be there for ever; and mine eyes and my heart shall be there perpetually.

For I have taken this house for myself and made it holy, so that my name may be there for ever; and my eyes and my heart will be there at all times.


simplify: From Ekron even unto the sea, all that lay near Ashdod, with their villages:

From Ekron to the sea, all the towns by the side of Ashdod, with their unwalled places.


rate difficulty: Rise and go, for this <FI>is<Fi> not the rest, Because of uncleanness it doth corrupt, And corruption is powerful.

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


simplify: For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.

For I am the meanest of the apostles, I who am unworthy of the name of ‘apostle,’ because I persecuted the church of God.


simplify: The oath which he sware unto Abraham our father,

The oath which he made to Abraham, our father,


rate difficulty: And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: He who has faith in the Son of God has the witness in himself: he who has not faith in God makes him false, because he has not faith in the witness which God has given about his Son.

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


rate difficulty: This shall not be your cauldron, neither shall ye be the flesh in the midst of it: I will judge you in the borders of Israel;

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


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

Give to everyone who asks of you; and, when anyone takes away what is yours, do not demand its return.


simplify: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: How are the mighty fallen, And the weapons of war perished!

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron,


simplify: beyond the Jordan, in the valley over against Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon king of the Amorites, who dwelt at Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel smote, when they came forth out of Egypt.

On the far side of Jordan, in the valley facing Beth-peor, in the land of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who was ruling in Heshbon, whom Moses and the children of Israel overcame after they had come out of Egypt:


rate difficulty: And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

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


simplify: For who maketh thee to differ from another? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? now if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory, as if thou hadst not received it?

For who makes any one of you superior to others? And what have you that was not given you? But if you received it as a gift, why do you boast as if you had not?


simplify: And Saul, having come to Jerusalem, did try to join himself to the disciples, and they were all afraid of him, not believing that he is a disciple,

On his arrival in Jerusalem, Saul attempted to join the disciples, but they were all afraid of him, as they did not believe that he was really a disciple.


rate difficulty: In whatever tribe the man from a strange land is living, there you are to give him his heritage, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And Samson goeth down to Timnath, and seeth a woman in Timnath of the daughters of the Philistines,

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


simplify: Then Judah came near unto him, and said, Oh my lord, let thy servant, I pray thee, speak a word in my lord’s ears, and let not thine anger burn against thy servant: for thou art even as Pharaoh.

Then Judah came near him, and said, Let your servant say a word in my lord's ears, and let not your wrath be burning against your servant: for you are in the place of Pharaoh to us.


simplify: Watch ye, stand fast in the faith, quit you like men, be strong.

Be on the watch, unmoved in the faith, and be strong like men.


rate difficulty: Then a third angel followed them, crying in a loud voice — ‘Whoever worships the Beast and its image, and receives its brand on his forehead or on his hand,

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


simplify: and all, whatever ye may do in word or in work, <FI>do<Fi> all things in the name of the Lord Jesus--giving thanks to the God and Father, through him.

And, whatever you say or do, do everything in the name of the Lord Jesus; and through him offer thanksgiving to God the father.


rate difficulty: For the cloud of the Lord was resting on the House by day, and at night there was fire in the cloud, before the eyes of all the people of Israel, and so it was through all their journeys.

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


simplify: He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.

He said, Make room; for the girl is not dead, but sleeping. And they were laughing at him.


simplify: and if I thankfully do partake, why am I evil spoken of, for that for which I give thanks?

If, for my part, I take the food thankfully, why should I be abused for eating that for which I give thanks?


rate difficulty: Then Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, Take one ox for yourselves and get it ready first, for there are more of you; and make your prayers to your god, but put no fire under.


simplify: And he smote them from Aroer, even till thou come to Minnith, even twenty cities, and unto the plain of the vineyards, with a very great slaughter. Thus the children of Ammon were subdued before the children of Israel.

And he made an attack on them from Aroer all the way to Minnith, overrunning twenty towns, as far as Abel-cheramim, and put great numbers to the sword. So the children of Ammon were crushed before the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: And if men dispute, and one strike the other with a stone, or with the fist, and he die not, but take to [his] bed,


simplify: I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto them, God shall add unto him the plagues which are written in this book:

For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book:


rate difficulty: You will become a waste, O Mount Seir, and all Edom, even all of it: and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: But to us there is but one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we in him; and one Lord Jesus Christ, by whom are all things, and we by him.

There is for us only one God, the Father, of whom are all things, and we are for him; and one Lord, Jesus Christ, through whom are all things, and we have our being through him.


simplify: And they were astonished at his doctrine: for his word was with power.

They were amazed at his teaching, because his words were spoken with authority.


simplify: And when the disciples heard it, they were astonished exceedingly, saying, Who then can be saved?

And the disciples, hearing this, were greatly surprised, saying, Who then may have salvation?


simplify: Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things: they have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hid their eyes from my sabbaths, and I am profaned among them.

Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.


rate difficulty: If then there are questions to be judged in connection with the things of this life, why do you put them in the hands of those who have no position in the church?


rate difficulty: And they took Absalom, and cast him into a great pit in the wood, and raised a very great heap of stones upon him. And all Israel fled every one to his tent.

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


simplify: And Hiram sent to the king sixscore talents of gold.

And Hiram sent the king a hundred and twenty talents of gold.


simplify: And when he was come down from the mountain, great multitudes followed him.

And when he had come down from the mountain, great numbers of people came after him.


rate difficulty: Therefore doth the Lord, the Lord of Hosts, Send among his fat ones leanness, And under his honour He kindleth a burning As the burning of a fire.

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


rate difficulty: For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

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


rate difficulty: Haste ye and come, all ye nations round about, and gather yourselves together. Thither cause thy mighty ones to come down, O Jehovah.

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


simplify: For Mordecai the Jew was next unto king Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews, and accepted of the multitude of his brethren, seeking the good of his people, and speaking peace to all his seed.

For Mordecai the Jew was second only to King Ahasuerus, and great among the Jews and respected by the body of his countrymen; working for the good of his people, and saying words of peace to all his seed.


simplify: Walk in wisdom toward them that are without, redeeming the time.

Be wise in your behaviour to those who are outside, making good use of the time.


simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, according to all that his father Amaziah had done;

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as his father Amaziah had done.


simplify: For since the beginning of the world men have not heard, nor perceived by the ear, neither hath the eye seen, O God, beside thee, what he hath prepared for him that waiteth for him.

The ear has not had news of, or the eye seen, ... any God but you, working for the man who is waiting for him.


rate difficulty: Of the nations concerning which the Lord said unto the children of Israel, Ye shall not go in to them, neither shall they come in unto you: for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods: Solomon clave unto these in love.

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


simplify: So then also in the present time a remnant according to the choice of grace there hath been;

And so in our own time, too, there is to be found a remnant of our nation selected by God in love.


simplify: Then shall they know that I am the Lord their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.

And they will be certain that I am the Lord their God, because I sent them away as prisoners among the nations, and have taken them together back to their land; and I have not let one of them be there any longer.


rate difficulty: And among these nations shalt thou have no rest, neither shall the sole of thy foot have a resting-place, and Jehovah shall give thee there a trembling heart, languishing of the eyes, and pining of the soul.

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


simplify: He saith unto them, But who say ye that I am?

He says to them, But who do you say that I am?


rate difficulty: I know that whateverGod doeth, it shall be for ever; there is nothing to be added to it, nor anything to be taken from it; andGod doeth [it], that [men] should fear before him.

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


rate difficulty: Thus speaketh the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel, saying, Because thou hast sent letters in thy name unto all the people that are at Jerusalem, and to Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah the priest, and to all the priests, saying,

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


simplify: For before these days rose up Theudas, boasting himself to be somebody; to whom a number of men, about four hundred, joined themselves: who was slain; and all, as many as obeyed him, were scattered, and brought to nought.

For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away.


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

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


rate difficulty: And when he saw them he said, This is the army of God: so he gave that place the name of Mahanaim.

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


rate difficulty: Hearken, my beloved brethren, Hath not God chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom which he hath promised to them that love him?

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


rate difficulty: The children of Solomon’s servants: the children of Sotai, the children of Sophereth, the children of Perida,

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


rate difficulty: Is this your joyous city, whose antiquity is of ancient days? her own feet shall carry her afar off to sojourn.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel that were present kept the passover at that time, and the feast of unleavened bread seven days.

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


simplify: And the men of Israel and of Judah arose, and shouted, and pursued the Philistines, until thou comest to Gai, and to the gates of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines fell down by the way to Shaaraim, even unto Gath, and unto Ekron.

And the men of Israel and of Judah got up, and gave a cry, and went after the Philistines as far as Gath and the town doors of Ekron. And the wounded of the Philistines were falling down by the road from Shaaraim all the way to Gath and Ekron.


simplify: Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.

Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.


rate difficulty: and the sons of Israel have seen the face of Moses that the skin of the face of Moses hath shone, and Moses hath put back the vail on his face until his going in to speak with Him.

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


rate difficulty: for, while John baptized with water, you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit before many days have passed.”

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


rate difficulty: It is fit neither for the land nor for the dunghill: men cast it out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

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


simplify: Neither say they in their heart, Let us now fear the Lord our God, that giveth rain, both the former and the latter, in his season: he reserveth unto us the appointed weeks of the harvest.

And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.


simplify: And he received it at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, and made it a molten calf: and they said, These are thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And in the day of his coming in unto the sanctuary, unto the inner court, to minister in the sanctuary, he bringeth near his sin-offering--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: When thus it is in the heart of the land, In the midst of the peoples, As the compassing of the olive, As gleanings when harvest hath been finished,

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


rate difficulty: and Nadab dieth, and Abihu, in the presence of their father, and they had no sons, and Eleazar and Ithamar act as priests.

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


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

They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction.


rate difficulty: and he beholdeth the heaven opened, and a certain vessel descending, as it were a great sheet, let down by four corners upon the earth:

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


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that his fathers had done.

He did evil in the eyes of the Lord as his fathers had done.


simplify: And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Elijah heard it, that he wrapped his face in his mantle, and went out, and stood in the entrance of the cave. And behold, a voice [came] to him and said, What doest thou here, Elijah?

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


rate difficulty: And after the uproar ceased, Paul having sent for the disciples and exhorted them, took leave of them, and departed to go into Macedonia.

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


simplify: And Sarai said unto Abram, My wrong be upon thee: I gave my handmaid into thy bosom; and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes: Jehovah judge between me and thee.

And Sarai said to Abram, May my wrong be on you: I gave you my servant for your wife and when she saw that she was with child, she no longer had any respect for me: may the Lord be judge between you and me.


simplify: And he also stripped off his clothes, and he also prophesied before Samuel, and lay down naked all that day and all that night. Wherefore they say, Is Saul also among the prophets?

And he took off his clothing, acting like a prophet before Samuel, and falling down he was stretched out, without his clothing, all that day and all that night. This is the reason for the saying, Is even Saul among the prophets?