rate difficulty: As <FI>one<Fi> pretending to be feeble, Who is casting sparks, arrows, and death,

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simplify: Ye have said, It is vain to serve God; and what profit is it that we have kept his charge, and that we have walked mournfully before Jehovah of hosts?

You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?


rate difficulty: But if water is put on the seed, and any part of the dead body gets on to it, it will be unclean to you.

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


simplify: And he put the table in the tent of meeting, upon the side of the tabernacle northward, without the veil.

And he put the table in the Tent of meeting, on the north side outside the veil.


simplify: For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.

For ‘nation will rise against nation and kingdom against kingdom,’ and there will be famines and earthquakes in various places.


simplify: The sixth lot came out to the children of Naphtali, even for the children of Naphtali according to their families.

For the children of Naphtali the sixth heritage came out, for the children of Naphtali by their families;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.

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simplify: Therefore ye shall see no more vanity, nor divine divinations: for I will deliver my people out of your hand: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

For this cause you will see no more foolish visions or make false use of secret arts: and I will make my people free from your power; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons were for the outward business over Israel, for officers and judges.

Of the Izharites, Chenaniah and his sons had to do all the public business of Israel, in relation to judges and men in authority.


rate difficulty: ‘Then, Father,’ he said, ‘I beg you to send Lazarus to my father’s house —

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rate difficulty: Then pleased it the apostles and elders, with the whole church, to send chosen men of their own company to Antioch with Paul and Barnabas; namely, Judas surnamed Barsabas, and Silas, chief men among the brethren:

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


rate difficulty: who led thee through the great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents and scorpions, and thirsty ground where was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;

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


simplify: and their king shall go into captivity, he and his princes together, saith Jehovah.

And their king will be made prisoner, he and his captains together, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Three times in the year it was Solomon's way to give burned offerings and peace-offerings on the altar he had made to the Lord, causing his fire-offering to go up on the altar before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth [it] not; yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth [it] not.

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


rate difficulty: to whom I answered, It is not [the] custom of the Romans to give up any man before that the accused have the accusers face to face, and he have got opportunity of defence touching the charge.


simplify: And Joseph commanded his servants the physicians to embalm his father: and the physicians embalmed Israel.

And Joseph gave orders to his servants who had the necessary knowledge, to make his father's body ready, folding it in linen with spices, and they did so.


simplify: And he put the candlestick in the tent of meeting, over against the table, on the side of the tabernacle southward.

The support for the lights he put in the Tent of meeting, opposite the table, on the south side:


rate difficulty: The inhabitants of Samaria shall fear because of the calf of Beth-aven; for the people thereof shall mourn over it, and the idolatrous priests thereof shall tremble for it, for its glory, because it is departed from it.

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


rate difficulty: Meshezabeel, Zadok, Jaddua,

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


simplify: But all this was done, that the scriptures of the prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him, and fled.

But all this has taken place so that the writings of the prophets might come true. Then all his disciples went from him in flight.


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

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


simplify: And the chief priest having stood up, said to him, `Nothing thou dost answer! what do these witness against thee?

Then the high priest stood up, and said to Jesus: “Have you no answer? What is this evidence which these men are giving against you?”


rate difficulty: and the people make unto the spoil, and take sheep, and oxen, and sons of the herd, and slaughter on the earth, and the people eat with the blood.

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


simplify: But chiefly them that walk after the flesh in the lust of uncleanness, and despise government. Presumptuous are they, selfwilled, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignities.

But specially those who go after the unclean desires of the flesh, and make sport of authority. Ready to take chances, uncontrolled, they have no fear of saying evil of those in high places:


simplify: And Ezra the priest stood up, and said unto them, Ye have transgressed, and have taken strange wives, to increase the trespass of Israel.

And Ezra the priest got to his feet and said to them, You have done wrong and taken strange women for your wives, so increasing the sin of Israel.


simplify: Always in every prayer of mine for you all making request with joy,

always, in every prayer that I offer for you all — my prayers are full of joy —


simplify: And Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. And he divided the children unto Leah, and unto Rachel, and unto the two handmaids.

Then Jacob, lifting up his eyes, saw Esau coming with his four hundred men. So he made a division of the children between Leah and Rachel and the two women-servants.


rate difficulty: And Ephraim did not dispossess the Canaanites that dwelt in Gezer; but the Canaanites dwelt among them in Gezer.

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


simplify: And the people, the princes of Gilead, said one to another, What man is he that will begin to fight against the children of Ammon? he shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead.

And the people of Israel said to one another, Who will be the first to make an attack on the children of Ammon? We will make him head over all Gilead.


rate difficulty: but when the sheep were feeble, he put [them] not in; so the feeble were Laban's, and the strong Jacob's.

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


rate difficulty: For I have laid upon thee the years of their iniquity, according to the number of the days, three hundred and ninety days: so shalt thou bear the iniquity of the house of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: But when you are given up into their hands, do not be troubled about what to say or how to say it: for in that hour what you are to say will be given to you;

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


simplify: Knowing therefore the terror of the Lord, we persuade men; but we are made manifest unto God; and I trust also are made manifest in your consciences.

Having in mind, then, the fear of the Lord, we put these things before men, but God sees our hearts; and it is my hope that we may seem right in your eyes.


rate difficulty: Nethaneel the fourth, Raddai the fifth,

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


simplify: The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets in the wall of the house round about, that the beams should not have hold in the walls of the house.

The lowest line of them being five cubits wide, the middle six cubits wide and the third seven cubits; for there was a space all round the outside walls of the house so that the boards supporting the rooms did not have to be fixed in the walls of the house.


rate difficulty: Into your hand hath God given the heads of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and what have I been able to do like you?' Then their temper desisted from off him in his speaking this thing.

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


rate difficulty: The rulers ceased in Israel, they ceased, Until that I Deborah arose, That I arose a mother in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors;


simplify: And Noah was six hundred years old when the flood of waters was upon the earth.

And Noah was six hundred years old when the waters came flowing over all the earth.


simplify: The sons of Uzziel: Micah the chief, and Isshiah the second.

The sons of Uzziel: Micah the first, and Isshiah the second.


rate difficulty: And in every work that he began in the service of the house of God, and in the law, and in the commandments, to seek his God, he did it with all his heart, and prospered.

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


rate difficulty: and Jesus saith to them--`All ye shall be stumbled at me this night, because it hath been written, I will smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered abroad,

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam said to Balak, Build me here seven altars, and prepare me here seven bullocks and seven rams.

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


simplify: And when they were assembled with the elders, and had taken counsel, they gave large money unto the soldiers,

And when they had come together with those in authority, and had made their decision, they gave much money to the watchmen, saying,


simplify: But if thine enemy hunger, feed him; if he thirst, give him to drink: for in so doing thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.

But if one who has hate for you is in need of food or of drink, give it to him, for in so doing you will put coals of fire on his head.


simplify: Yet will I bring again the captivity of Moab in the latter days, saith the Lord. Thus far is the judgment of Moab.

But still, I will let the fate of Moab be changed in the last days, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And when the boy came to the place where the arrow was, Jonathan, crying out after the boy, said, Has it not gone past you?

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


simplify: But of the cities of these people, which the Lord thy God doth give thee for an inheritance, thou shalt save alive nothing that breatheth:

But in the towns of these peoples whose land the Lord your God is giving you for your heritage, let no living thing be kept from death:


simplify: And thou shalt make a table of acacia wood: two cubits shall be the length thereof, and a cubit the breadth thereof, and a cubit and a half the height thereof.

And you are to make a table of the same wood, two cubits long, a cubit wide and a cubit and a half high,


simplify: And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS.

And see, you will give birth to a son, and his name will be Jesus.


simplify: And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.

Now in the fourth year of King Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea, son of Elah, king of Israel, Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria, shutting it in with his armies.


rate difficulty: But thou, Israel, my servant, Jacob whom I have chosen, the seed of Abraham my friend,

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


simplify: For first of all, when ye come together in the church, I hear that there be divisions among you; and I partly believe it.

For first of all, it has come to my ears that when you come together in the church, there are divisions among you, and I take the statement to be true in part.


simplify: For as ye in times past have not believed God, yet have now obtained mercy through their unbelief:

For as you, in time past, were not under the rule of God, but now have got mercy through their turning away,


rate difficulty: If an unbeliever invites you to his house and you consent to go, eat anything that is put before you, without making inquiries to satisfy your scruples.

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


rate difficulty: and he went down with them, and came to Nazareth, and he was subject to them, and his mother was keeping all these sayings in her heart,

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


simplify: And Moses said, Hereby ye shall know that the Lord hath sent me to do all these works; for I have not done them of mine own mind.

And Moses said, Now you will see that the Lord has sent me to do all these works, and I have not done them of myself.


rate difficulty: By me do chiefs rule, and nobles, All judges of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And the cup in like manner after supper, saying, This cup is the new covenant in my blood, even that which is poured out for you.

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


simplify: Hear ye, and give ear; be not proud: for the Lord hath spoken.

Give ear and let your ears be open; be not lifted up: for these are the words of the Lord.


simplify: They know not, neither do they consider: for he hath shut their eyes, that they cannot see; and their hearts, that they cannot understand.

They have no knowledge or wisdom; for he has put a veil over their eyes, so that they may not see; and on their hearts, so that they may not give attention.


rate difficulty: And blessed be thy advice, and blessed be thou, which hast kept me this day from coming to shed blood, and from avenging myself with mine own hand.

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


simplify: And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

Now he had sent Judah before him to Goshen, to get word from Joseph; and so they came to the land of Goshen.


simplify: At the end of every seven years thou shalt make a release.

At the end of every seven years there is to be a general forgiveness of debt.


rate difficulty: He hath built the upper gate of the house of Jehovah, and in the wall of Ophel he hath built abundantly;

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


simplify: but Peter and those with him were heavy with sleep, and having waked, they saw his glory, and the two men standing with him.

Peter and his companions had been overpowered by sleep but, suddenly becoming wide awake, they saw Jesus glorified and the two men who were standing beside him.


rate difficulty: For there went forth fire from Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon; It consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.


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

And let all its fat be taken away, as the fat is taken away from the peace-offerings, and let it be burned on the altar by the priest for a sweet smell to the Lord; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.


rate difficulty: And it was told David what Rizpah the daughter of Aiah, the concubine of Saul, had done.

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


simplify: And David spake to the men that stood by him, saying, What shall be done to the man that killeth this Philistine, and taketh away the reproach from Israel? for who is this uncircumcised Philistine, that he should defy the armies of the living God?

And David said to the men near him, What will be done to the man who overcomes this Philistine and takes away the shame from Israel? for who is this Philistine, a man without circumcision, that he has put shame on the armies of the living God?


simplify: For what careth he for his house after him, When the number of his months is cut off?

For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?


simplify: And when he was come into the house, the blind men came to him: and Jesus saith unto them, Believe ye that I am able to do this? They say unto him, Yea, Lord.

And when he had come into the house, the blind men came to him; and Jesus said to them, Have you faith that I am able to do this? They said to him, Yes, Lord.


rate difficulty: The poor useth entreaties; But the rich answereth roughly.

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


rate difficulty: Judah is a lion’s whelp; From the prey, my son, thou art gone up: He stooped down, he couched as a lion, And as a lioness; who shall rouse him up?

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


rate difficulty: and they go--Solomon, and all the assembly with him--to the high place that <FI>is<Fi> in Gibeon, for there hath been God's tent of meeting, that Moses, servant of Jehovah, made in the wilderness,

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


rate difficulty: And Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold of the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tabernacle of the congregation, for a memorial for the children of Israel before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: And king Arad the Canaanite, which dwelt in the south in the land of Canaan, heard of the coming of the children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And he walked in all the way that his father walked in, and served the idols that his father served, and worshipped them:

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


simplify: When thou criest, let them that thou hast gathered deliver thee; but the wind shall take them, a breath shall carry them all away: but he that taketh refuge in me shall possess the land, and shall inherit my holy mountain.

Your false gods will not keep you safe in answer to your cry; but the wind will take them, they will be gone like a breath: but he who puts his hope in me will take the land, and will have my holy mountain as his heritage.


simplify: Because that Abraham obeyed my voice, and kept my charge, my commandments, my statutes, and my laws.

Because Abraham gave ear to my voice and kept my words, my rules, my orders, and my laws.


simplify: how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?

How he went into the house of God and took for food the holy bread which it was not right for him or for those who were with him to take, but only for the priests?


rate difficulty: His foot is taken in the net; he comes into its grip.

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


simplify: And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus: and when I saw her, I wondered with great admiration.

And I saw the woman drunk with the blood of Christ’s people and with the blood of the martyrs for Jesus. When I saw her, I was amazed beyond measure;


simplify: First, I thank my God through Jesus Christ for you all, that your faith is spoken of throughout the whole world.

First of all, I give praise to my God through Jesus Christ for you all, because news of your faith has gone into all the world.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, after the death of Joshua, that the sons of Israel ask at Jehovah, saying, `Who doth go up for us unto the Canaanite, at the commencement, to fight against it?'

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


simplify: And Ahiah, the son of Ahitub, I–chabod’s brother, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the Lord’s priest in Shiloh, wearing an ephod. And the people knew not that Jonathan was gone.

And Ahijah, the son of Ahitub, brother of Ichabod, the son of Phinehas, the son of Eli, the priest of the Lord in Shiloh, who had the ephod. And the people had no idea that Jonathan had gone.


rate difficulty: And to the Reubenites, and to the Gadites, and to half the tribe of Manasseh, spake Joshua, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and, after Paul had placed his hands on them, the Holy Spirit descended on them, and they began to speak with ‘tongues’ and to preach.

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


simplify: So shall it be in the end of the world: the angels shall come forth, and sever the wicked from among the righteous,

So will it be in the end of the world: the angels will come and take out the bad from the good,


simplify: And after three days and an half the Spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.

And after three days and a half the breath of life from God went into them, and they got up on their feet; and great fear came on those who saw them.


rate difficulty: and he saw two boats standing by the lake: but the fishermen had gone out of them, and were washing their nets.


simplify: And when he had read it, he asked of what province he was; and when he understood that he was of Cilicia,

And after reading it, he said, What part of the country do you come from? And, hearing that he was from Cilicia,


simplify: And the Lord said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

And the Lord said to her, Two nations are in your body, and two peoples will come to birth from you: the one will be stronger than the other, and the older will be the servant of the younger.


simplify: For this is my covenant unto them, when I shall take away their sins.

And this is my agreement with them, when I will take away their sins.


simplify: But younger widows refuse: for when they have waxed wanton against Christ, they desire to marry;

But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;


simplify: And the king commanded all the people, saying, Keep the passover unto the Lord your God, as it is written in the book of this covenant.

And the king gave orders to all the people, saying, Keep the Passover to the Lord your God, as it says in this book of the law.


simplify: and thou tookest thy broidered garments, and coveredst them, and didst set mine oil and mine incense before them.

And you took your robes of needlework for their clothing, and put my oil and my perfume before them.


simplify: For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the Lord will feed them as a lamb in a large place.

For Israel is uncontrolled, like a cow which may not be controlled; now will the Lord give them food like a lamb in a wide place.


rate difficulty: but he who did endure to the end, he shall be saved;

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


simplify: And Jesus saith unto him, The foxes have holes, and the birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

“Foxes have holes,” answered Jesus, “and wild birds their nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”


rate difficulty: And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him, but he refused to be comforted, and said, For I will go down to my son into Sheol mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

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


rate difficulty: and we--we cut trees out of Lebanon, according to all thy need, and bring them in to thee--floats by sea, to Joppa, and thou dost take them up to Jerusalem.'

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


simplify: But as for Moses the man of God, his sons were named among the tribe of Levi.

And the sons of Moses, the man of God, were put into the list of the tribe of Levi.


simplify: The lion did tear in pieces enough for his whelps, and strangled for his lionesses, and filled his caves with prey, and his dens with ravin.

Food enough for his young and for his she-lions was pulled down by the lion; his hole was full of flesh and his resting-place stored with meat.


simplify: and he said to them, `And ye--who do ye say me to be?' and Peter answering said, `The Christ of God.'

“But you,”he went on, “who do you say that I am?”And to this Peter answered: “The Christ of God.”


rate difficulty: I entreat you, friends, to become like me, as I became like you. You have never done me any wrong.

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


simplify: And he that regarded not the word of the Lord left his servants and his cattle in the field.

And he who gave no attention to the word of the Lord, kept his servants and his cattle in the field.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.


rate difficulty: And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God; Thus saith the Lord God; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

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


simplify: Therefore I counsel that all Israel be generally gathered unto thee, from Dan even to Beer–sheba, as the sand that is by the sea for multitude; and that thou go to battle in thine own person.

But my suggestion is that all Israel, from Dan as far as Beer-sheba, comes together to you, a great army like the sands of the sea in number; and that you yourself go out among them.


simplify: After this I will return, and will build again the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and I will build again the ruins thereof, and I will set it up:

After these things I will come back, and will put up the tent of David which has been broken down, building up again its broken parts and making it complete:


rate difficulty: And he was three days without seeing, and neither ate nor drank.

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


simplify: As touching the gospel, they are enemies for your sake: but as touching the election, they are beloved for the fathers’ sake.

As far as the good news is in question, they are cut off from God on account of you, but as far as the selection is in question, they are loved on account of the fathers.


simplify: There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.

There is a great evil which I have seen under the sun--wealth kept by the owner to be his downfall.


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

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


simplify: Did not Solomon king of Israel sin by these things? yet among many nations was there no king like him, who was beloved of his God, and God made him king over all Israel: nevertheless even him did outlandish women cause to sin.

Was it not in these things that Solomon, king of Israel, did wrong? among a number of nations there was no king like him, and he was dear to his God, and God made him king over all Israel: but even he was made to do evil by strange women.


rate difficulty: And some of the heads of families gave money for the work. The Tirshatha gave into the store a thousand darics of gold, fifty basins, five hundred and thirty priests' robes.


rate difficulty: And they heard the voice of Jehovah Elohim, walking in the garden in the cool of the day. And Man and his wife hid themselves from the presence of Jehovah Elohim, in the midst of the trees of the garden.

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


simplify: Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the archives, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.

Then Darius the king gave an order and a search was made in the house of the records, where the things of value were stored up in Babylon.


rate difficulty: Then cometh Jesus from Galilee upon the Jordan, unto John to be baptized by him,

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


simplify: And to the others he said in mine hearing, Go ye after him through the city, and smite: let not your eye spare, neither have ye pity:

And to these he said in my hearing, Go through the town after him using your axes: do not let your eyes have mercy, and have no pity:


simplify: When they stood, these stood; and when they mounted up, these mounted up with them: for the spirit of the living creature was in them.

When they were at rest in their place, these were at rest; when they were lifted up, these went up with them: for the spirit of life was in them.


simplify: And when the messengers came in, behold, the teraphim was in the bed, with the pillow of goats’ hair at the head thereof.

And when the men came in, there was the image in the bed, with the cushion of goat's hair at its head


simplify: If we believe not, yet he abideth faithful: he cannot deny himself.

If we are without faith, still he keeps faith, for he will never be untrue to himself.


simplify: Then they that were in the ship came and worshipped him, saying, Of a truth thou art the Son of God.

And those who were in the boat gave him worship, saying, Truly you are the Son of God.


simplify: They have over them as king the angel of the abyss: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek tongue he hath the name Apollyon.

They have over them as king the angel of the great deep: his name in Hebrew is Abaddon, and in the Greek language Apollyon.


rate difficulty: Because sentence against an evil work is not executed speedily, therefore the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.

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


simplify: to receive the share of this ministration and apostleship, from which Judas, by transgression, did fall, to go on to his proper place;'

To take the place in this apostolic work, which Judas has abandoned, to go to his proper place.”


simplify: He sendeth it forth under the whole heaven, And his lightning unto the ends of the earth.

He sends it out through all the heaven, and his thunder-flame to the ends of the earth.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, having uttered a loud cry, expired.

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


simplify: He took also of the seed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful soil; he placed it beside many waters; he set it as a willow-tree.

And he took some of the seed of the land, planting it in fertile earth, placing it by great waters; he put it in like a willow-tree.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at noon that Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud; for he is agod; for he is meditating, or gone aside, or he is on a journey; perhaps he sleeps, and will awake.

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


simplify: For we can do nothing against the truth, but for the truth.

Because we are able to do nothing against what is true, but only for it.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Jacob, Return unto the land of thy fathers, and to thy kindred; and I will be with thee.

Then the Lord said to Jacob, Go back to the land of your fathers, and to your relations, and I will be with you.


simplify: Sell that ye have, and give alms; provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the heavens that faileth not, where no thief approacheth, neither moth corrupteth.

Sell what belongs to you, and give in charity. Make yourselves purses that will not wear out — an inexhaustible treasure in heaven, where no thief comes near, or moth works ruin.


simplify: At that time Berodach–baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters and a present unto Hezekiah: for he had heard that Hezekiah had been sick.

At that time, Merodach-baladan, the son of Baladan, king of Babylon, sent letters with an offering to Hezekiah, because he had news that Hezekiah had been ill.


rate difficulty: The one preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds:

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


simplify: Him that dieth of Ahab in the city the dogs shall eat; and him that dieth in the field shall the fowls of the air eat.

Any man of the family of Ahab who comes to his death in the town will become food for the dogs; and he who comes to his death in the open country will be food for the birds of the air.


rate difficulty: For God sees that on the day when you take of its fruit, your eyes will be open, and you will be as gods, having knowledge of good and evil.

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


rate difficulty: And the king made silver to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore trees that are in the vale, for abundance.


simplify: Now after these things the Lord appointed seventy others, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself was about to come.

Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.


simplify: And two boards shalt thou make for the corners of the tabernacle in the hinder part.

With two boards for the angles of the House at the back.


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, Do ye not yet understand?

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


simplify: And Achan answered Joshua, and said, Of a truth I have sinned against Jehovah, the God of Israel, and thus and thus have I done:

And Achan, answering, said to Joshua, Truly I have done wrong against the Lord, the God of Israel, and this is what I have done:


simplify: Thy right hand, O Jehovah, is glorious in power, Thy right hand, O Jehovah, dasheth in pieces the enemy.

Full of glory, O Lord, is the power of your right hand; by your right hand those who came against you are broken.


simplify: For calamity from God is a terror to me, And by reason of his majesty I can do nothing.

For the fear of God kept me back, and because of his power I might not do such things.


simplify: My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

My son, keep the rule of your father, and have in memory the teaching of your mother:


rate difficulty: But the wicked shall be cut off from the land, And the treacherous shall be rooted out of it.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make boards for the tabernacle of shittim wood standing up.

And you are to make upright boards of hard wood for the House.


simplify: But if ye forgive not men their trespasses, neither will your Father forgive your trespasses.

but, if you do not forgive others their offenses, not even your Father will forgive your offenses.


simplify: He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be damned.

He who has faith and is given baptism will get salvation; but he who has not faith will be judged.


rate difficulty: And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,


simplify: And thou shalt do that which is right and good in the sight of the Lord: that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest go in and possess the good land which the Lord sware unto thy fathers,

And do what is upright and good in the eyes of the Lord your God, so that it may be well for you and you may go in and take for your heritage that good land from which the Lord undertook by an oath to your fathers,


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Joash, and all that he did, are they not written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Judah?

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


rate difficulty: And king Rehoboam made in their stead brasen shields, and committed them unto the hands of the chief of the guard, which kept the door of the king’s house.

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


simplify: I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, saith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty.

I am the First and the Last, says the Lord God who is and was and is to come, the Ruler of all.


simplify: But when Paul had appealed to be kept for the decision of the emperor, I commanded him to be kept till I should send him to Cæsar.

But when Paul made a request that he might be judged by Caesar, I gave orders for him to be kept till I might send him to Caesar.


simplify: And the tribe of Zebulun: and the prince of the children of Zebulun shall be Eliab the son of Helon.

After him, the tribe of Zebulun, with Eliab, the son of Helon, as their chief.


rate difficulty: And this is the offering which ye shall take of them: gold, and silver, and brass,

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that fishers shall stand by it: from En-gedi even unto En-eglaim shall be a place for the spreading of nets; their fish shall be after their kinds, as the fish of the great sea, exceeding many.

And fishermen will take up their places by it: from En-gedi as far as En-eglaim will be a place for the stretching out of nets; the fish will be of every sort, like the fish of the Great Sea, a very great number.


rate difficulty: This is what the Lord has said: The supporters of Egypt will have a fall, and the pride of her power will come down: from Migdol to Syene they will be put to the sword in it, says the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: But have me in thy remembrance when it shall be well with thee, and show kindness, I pray thee, unto me, and make mention of me unto Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


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

And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.


simplify: And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not.

And I gave her time for a change of heart, but she has no mind to give up her unclean ways.


simplify: to the necessities of the saints communicating; the hospitality pursuing.

relieving the wants of Christ’s people; devoted to hospitality.


rate difficulty: And they gathered them together upon heaps: and the land stank.


simplify: And thou, Ezra, after the wisdom of thy God, that is in thine hand, set magistrates and judges, which may judge all the people that are beyond the river, all such as know the laws of thy God; and teach ye them that know them not.

And you, Ezra, by the wisdom of your God which is in you, are to put rulers and judges to have authority over all the people across the river who have knowledge of the laws of your God; and you are to give teaching to him who has no knowledge of them.


rate difficulty: And a certain woman, by name Lydia, a seller of purple, of the city of Thyatira, who worshippedGod, heard; whose heart the Lord opened to attend to the things spoken by Paul.

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


rate difficulty: For the woman who has a husband is placed by the law under the power of her husband as long as he is living; but if her husband is dead, she is free from the law of the husband.

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


simplify: All these things spake Jesus unto the multitude in parables; and without a parable spake he not unto them:

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


rate difficulty: and did make them a kingdom of priests in the service of our God, and they are reigning on the earth.’

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


simplify: And if any of the flesh of the sacrifice of his peace offerings be eaten at all on the third day, it shall not be accepted, neither shall it be imputed unto him that offereth it: it shall be an abomination, and the soul that eateth of it shall bear his iniquity.

And if any of the flesh of the peace-offering is taken as food on the third day, it will not be pleasing to God and will not be put to the account of him who gives it; it will be unclean and a cause of sin to him who takes it as food.


rate difficulty: And they measured with the omer: then he that gathered much had nothing over, and he that gathered little wanted nothing: they had gathered every man according to the measure of his eating.


simplify: For wherein now shall it be known that I have found favor in thy sight, I and thy people? is it not in that thou goest with us, so that we are separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth?

For is not the fact of your going with us the sign that I and this people have grace in your eyes, so that we, that is, I and your people, are separate from all other people on the face of the earth?


simplify: And they lifted up their voices, and said, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.

Said, in loud voices, Jesus, Master, have mercy on us.


rate difficulty: Go to the ant, thou sluggard; Consider her ways, and be wise:

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


rate difficulty: So the children went in and possessed the land, and thou subduedst before them the inhabitants of the land, the Canaanites, and gavest them into their hands, with their kings, and the people of the land, that they might do with them as they would.

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


rate difficulty: And now, what hast thou to do with the way of Egypt, to drink the waters of Shihor? And what hast thou to do with the way of Assyria, to drink the waters of the River?

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


rate difficulty: And they draw not nigh unto Me to act as My priest, and to draw nigh unto any of My holy things, unto the holy of holies, and they have borne their shame and their abominations that they have done,

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


rate difficulty: And the men of Israel turned again upon the children of Benjamin, and smote them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city, and the cattle, and all that they found: moreover all the cities which they found they set on fire.

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


simplify: And the men, whom Moses sent to spy out the land, who returned, and made all the congregation to murmur against him, by bringing up an evil report against the land,

And the men whom Moses sent to see the land, and who, by the bad account they gave of the land, were the cause of the outcry the people made against Moses,


rate difficulty: And they overcame all the towns round Gerar, because the Lord sent fear on them; and they took away their goods from the towns, for there were stores of wealth in them.

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


simplify: If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches?

So, if you have proved untrustworthy with the ‘dishonest money,’ who will trust you with the true?


simplify: and having seen certain of his disciples with defiled hands--that is, unwashed--eating bread, they found fault;

They had noticed that some of his disciples ate their food with their hands ‘defiled,’ by which they meant unwashed.


rate difficulty: and I will execute judgments upon Moab, and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And he made the most holy place; it was twenty cubits long, and twenty cubits wide, like the greater house, and was plated all over with the best gold; six hundred talents were used for it.


simplify: or only I and Barnabas, have we not authority--not to work?

Or is it only Barnabas and I who have no right to give up working for our bread?


simplify: Because of the multitude of the whoredoms of the wellfavoured harlot, the mistress of witchcrafts, that selleth nations through her whoredoms, and families through her witchcrafts.

Because of all the false ways of the loose woman, expert in attraction and wise in secret arts, who takes nations in the net of her false ways, and families through her secret arts.


rate difficulty: But when Herod's birthday came, the daughter of Herodias was dancing before them, and Herod was pleased with her.

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


simplify: And the four living creatures said, Amen. And the elders fell down and worshipped.

And the four beasts said, So be it. And the rulers went down on their faces and gave worship.


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God unto them; Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat cattle and between the lean cattle.

For this reason the Lord has said to them, Truly, I, even I, will be judge between the fat sheep and the thin sheep.


rate difficulty: they do not leave of till morning; and a bone they do not break in it: according to all the statute of the passover they prepare it.


simplify: Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt-offerings in every place that thou seest;

Take care that you do not make your burned offerings in any place you see:


rate difficulty: this corner-stone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’”


simplify: When they were by the house of Micah, they knew the voice of the young man the Levite; and they turned aside thither, and said unto him, Who brought thee hither? and what doest thou in this place? and what hast thou here?

When they were near the house of Micah, hearing a voice which was not strange to them, that of the young Levite, they went out of their road to his place, and said to him, How did you come here? and what are you doing in this place? and why are you here?


simplify: Saying, Let us alone; what have we to do with thee, thou Jesus of Nazareth? art thou come to destroy us? I know thee who thou art, the Holy One of God.

Saying, What have we to do with you, Jesus of Nazareth? have you come to put an end to us? I see well who you are, the Holy One of God.


simplify: and all the villages that were round about these cities to Baalath-beer, Ramah of the South. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Simeon according to their families.

And all the unwalled places round about these towns as far as Baalath-beer-ramah to the south. This is the heritage of the tribe of Simeon by their families.


simplify: His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant; thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will make thee ruler over many things: enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.


rate difficulty: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.


simplify: And if any beast, of which ye may eat, die; he that toucheth the carcase thereof shall be unclean until the even.

And if any beast which may be used for food comes to a natural death, anyone touching its dead body will be unclean till evening.


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

that servant’s master will come on a day when they do not expect him, and at an hour of which they are unaware,


rate difficulty: He will surely reprove you, if ye do secretly accept persons.

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


rate difficulty: After making some stay in Antioch, he set out on a tour through the Phrygian district of Galatia, strengthening the faith of all the disciples as he went.

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


rate difficulty: When a man’s ways please Jehovah, He maketh even his enemies to be at peace with him.


simplify: And it shall be, as with the people, so with the priest; as with the servant, so with his master; as with the maid, so with her mistress; as with the buyer, so with the seller; as with the lender, so with the borrower; as with the taker of usury, so with the giver of usury to him.

And it will be the same for the people as for the priest; for the servant as for his master; and for the woman-servant as for her owner; the same for the one offering goods for a price as for him who takes them; the same for him who gives money at interest and for him who takes it; the same for him who lets others have the use of his property as for those who make use of it.


rate difficulty: `For, ask, I pray thee, at the former days which have been before thee, from the day that God prepared man on the earth, and from the <FI>one<Fi> end of the heavens even unto the <FI>other<Fi>  end of the heavens, whether there hath been as this great thing--or hath been heard like it?

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


simplify: And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

and then sleeps by night and rises by day, while the seed is shooting up and growing — he knows not how.


simplify: How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I cast thee off, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboiim? my heart is turned within me, my compassions are kindled together.

How may I give you up, O Ephraim? how may I be your saviour, O Israel? how may I make you like Admah? how may I do to you as I did to Zeboim? My heart is turned in me, it is soft with pity.


simplify: As every man hath received the gift, even so minister the same one to another, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God.

Making distribution among one another of whatever has been given to you, like true servants of the unmeasured grace of God;


simplify: For mine eyes are upon all their ways: they are not hid from my face, neither is their iniquity hid from mine eyes.

For my eyes are on all their ways: there is no cover for them from my face, and their evil-doing is not kept secret from my eyes.


rate difficulty: And John was clothed with camel's hair, and a girdle of skin around his loins, and eating locusts and honey of the field,

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


simplify: A divine sentence is in the lips of the king: his mouth transgresseth not in judgment.

Decision is in the lips of the king: his mouth will not go wrong in judging.


simplify: He pursued them, and passed safely; even by the way that he had not gone with his feet.

He goes after them safely, not touching the road with his feet.


rate difficulty: `And to the messenger of the assembly in Philadelphia write: These things saith he who is holy, he who is true, he who is having the key of David, he who is opening and no one doth shut, and he shutteth and no one doth open!

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


simplify: The sons of Gershon; Libni, and Shimi, according to their families.

The sons of Gershon: Libni and Shimei, in the order of their families.


rate difficulty: And in the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.

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


rate difficulty: Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


simplify: but whoso shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it is profitable for him that a great millstone should be hanged about his neck, and that he should be sunk in the depth of the sea.

But whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him to have a great stone fixed to his neck, and to come to his end in the deep sea.


rate difficulty: A gracious woman retaineth honour: and strong men retain riches.


rate difficulty: And he said also to [his] disciples, There was a certain rich man who had a steward, and he was accused to him as wasting his goods.

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


simplify: even the mystery which hath been hid for ages and generations: but now hath it been manifested to his saints,

The secret which has been kept from all times and generations, but has now been made clear to his saints,


rate difficulty: Dost thou bind a Reem in a furrow <FI>with<Fi> his thick band? Doth he harrow valleys after thee?

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


rate difficulty: But if she bear a maid-child, then she shall be unclean two weeks, as in her impurity; and she shall continue in the blood of her purifying threescore and six days.

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


rate difficulty: And this is the law of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, which one shall offer unto Jehovah.


simplify: If it be possible, as much as lieth in you, live peaceably with all men.

If it is possible, as far as rests with you, live peaceably with everyone.


simplify: The children of Elam, a thousand two hundred fifty and four.

The children of Elam, a thousand, two hundred and fifty-four.


simplify: but I will take the kingdom out of his son’s hand, and will give it unto thee, even ten tribes.

But I will take the kingdom from his son, and give it to you.


rate difficulty: At that time, an affirmation of Jehovah, I am for God to all families of Israel, And they--they are to Me for a people.

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


rate difficulty: And after a little time those who were near came and said to Peter, Truly you are one of them; because your talk is witness against you.


simplify: I have taught thee in the way of wisdom; I have led thee in right paths.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And they smite on that day among the Philistines from Michmash to Aijalon, and the people are very weary,

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


rate difficulty: And to the angel of the church in Thyatira write: These things saith the Son of God, who hath his eyes like a flame of fire, and his feet are like unto burnished brass:

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


simplify: Now the name of the Israelite that was slain, even that was slain with the Midianitish woman, was Zimri, the son of Salu, a prince of a chief house among the Simeonites.

Now the man of Israel who was put to death with the woman of Midian was Zimri, the son of Salu, a chief of one of the families of the Simeonites.


simplify: not as Cain--of the evil one he was, and he did slay his brother, and wherefore did he slay him? because his works were evil, and those of his brother righteous.

We must not be like Cain, who belonged to the evil one and killed his brother. And why did he kill him? It was because his life was bad while his brother’s was good.


rate difficulty: as when he goeth into the wood with his neighbour to hew wood, and his hand fetcheth a stroke with the axe to cut down the tree, and the iron slippeth from the handle, and lighteth upon his neighbour, that he die; such an one shall flee unto one of these cities, and live;

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


simplify: And the children of Israel did according to all that the Lord commanded Moses: so they pitched by their standards, and so they set forward, every one after their families, according to the house of their fathers.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.


simplify: Whosoever transgresseth, and abideth not in the doctrine of Christ, hath not God. He that abideth in the doctrine of Christ, he hath both the Father and the Son.

Everyone who goes beyond the limits of the teaching of the Christ has failed to find God; the person who keeps to that teaching — they have found both the Father and the Son.


rate difficulty: It is not possible for a good tree to give bad fruit, and a bad tree will not give good fruit.

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


simplify: And on the one side without, as one goeth up to the entry of the gate toward the north, were two tables; and on the other side, which belonged to the porch of the gate, were two tables.

On the outer side, to the north, as one goes up to the opening of the doorway, were two tables.


simplify: And he set the mitre upon his head; and upon the mitre, in front, did he set the golden plate, the holy crown; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And on his head he put the head-dress, and in front of the head-dress the plate of gold, the holy crown, as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: And there ye shall eat before the Lord your God, and ye shall rejoice in all that ye put your hand unto, ye and your households, wherein the Lord thy God hath blessed thee.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the Lord: for he hath heard your murmurings.

And Moses said to Aaron, Say to all the people of Israel, Come near before the Lord for he has given ear to your outcry.


simplify: The deep saith, It is not in me; And the sea saith, It is not with me.

The deep waters say, It is not in me: and the sea says, It is not with me.


simplify: Let your loins be girded about, and your lamps burning;

Be ready, dressed as for a journey, with your lights burning.


rate difficulty: the sun being eclipsed; and the Temple curtain was torn down the middle.

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


rate difficulty: Hoshea, Hananiah, Hasshub,

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


simplify: But bring your youngest brother unto me; so shall your words be verified, and ye shall not die. And they did so.

And come back to me with your youngest brother, so that your words may be seen to be true, and you will not be put to death. This is what you are to do.


simplify: and again, The Lord knoweth the reasonings of the wise, that they are vain.

And again, The Lord has knowledge of the reasonings of the wise, that they are nothing.


rate difficulty: Afterward I came unto the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabeel, who was shut up; and he said, Let us meet together in the house of God, within the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple: for they will come to slay thee; yea, in the night will they come to slay thee.

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


simplify: With good will doing service, as to the Lord, and not to men:

Doing your work readily, as to the Lord, and not to men:


rate difficulty: Starting from the baptism of John till he went up from us, one will have to be a witness with us of his coming back from death.

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


rate difficulty: And David son of Jesse hath reigned over all Israel,

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


rate difficulty: and from the opening of the tent of meeting ye go not out seven days, till the day of the fulness, the days of your consecration--for seven days he doth consecrate your hand;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Now these are the last words of David: David the son of Jesse saith, And the man who was raised up on high, The anointed of theGod of Jacob, And the sweet psalmist of Israel saith,

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


simplify: and I said, What shall I do, Lord? and the Lord said unto me, Having risen, go on to Damascus, and there it shall be told thee concerning all things that have been appointed for thee to do.

Then I said ‘What am I to do, Lord?’ ‘Get up and go into Damascus,’The Lord said to me, ‘and there you will be told all that you have been appointed to do.’


simplify: Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may be forgiven thee.

Therefore repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord, that, if possible, you may be forgiven for such a thought;


rate difficulty: Then Solomon came from his journey to the high place that was at Gibeon to Jerusalem, from before the tabernacle of the congregation, and reigned over Israel.

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


simplify: On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad:

On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad:


simplify: What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years in the bitterness of my soul.

What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.


rate difficulty: (Because he who was working in Peter as the Apostle of the circumcision was working no less in me among the Gentiles);


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel out of their heritage gave to the Levites these towns with their grass-lands, by the order of the Lord.

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


simplify: Son of man, set thy face toward the mountains of Israel, and prophesy unto them,

Son of man, let your face be turned to the mountains of Israel, and be a prophet to them, and say,


simplify: And I said unto her, Thou shalt abide for me many days; thou shalt not play the harlot, and thou shalt not be for another man: so will I also be for thee.

And I said to her, You are to be mine for a long space of time; you are not to be false to me, and no other man is to have you for his wife; and so will I be to you.


rate difficulty: The discretion of a man maketh him slow to anger, and it is his glory to pass over a transgression.

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


simplify: Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup, when it moveth itself aright.

Keep your eyes from looking on the wine when it is red, when its colour is bright in the cup, when it goes smoothly down:


rate difficulty: And he said, Who art thou? And she answered, I am Ruth, thy handmaid: spread thy skirt over thy handmaid; for thou hast the right of redemption.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: I chargetheein the sight of God, and of Christ Jesus, who shall judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom:


simplify: But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.


rate difficulty: The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

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


simplify: In those days the house of Judah shall walk with the house of Israel, and they shall come together out of the land of the north to the land that I have given for an inheritance unto your fathers.

In those days the family of Judah will go with the family of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north into the land which I gave for a heritage to your fathers.


rate difficulty: And above the firmament that was over their heads was the likeness of a throne, as the appearance of a sapphire stone; and upon the likeness of the throne was a likeness as the appearance of a man upon it above.

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


rate difficulty: And the child became tall, and strong in spirit; and he was living in the waste land till the day when he came before the eyes of Israel.

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


simplify: And therefore I have sworn unto the house of Eli, that the iniquity of Eli’s house shall not be expiated with sacrifice nor offering for ever.

So I have made an oath to the family of Eli that no offering of meat or of meal which they may make will ever take away the sin of his family.


simplify: For Moses had given the inheritance of the two tribes and the half-tribe beyond the Jordan: but unto the Levites he gave no inheritance among them.

For Moses had given their heritage to the two tribes and the half-tribe on the other side of Jordan, but to the Levites he gave no heritage among them.


simplify: And the king said unto her, What aileth thee? And she answered, I am indeed a widow woman, and mine husband is dead.

And the king said to her, What is your trouble? And her answer was, Truly I am a widow, and my husband is dead.


rate difficulty: And some of those who stood there, when they heard [it], said, This [man] calls for Elias.


rate difficulty: But I said, How I will put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of the nations! and I said, Ye shall call me My Father, and shall not turn away from following me.

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


rate difficulty: And he put the staves into the rings on the sides of the altar, with which to carry it. Hollow with boards did he make it.


simplify: But who am I, and what is my people, that we should be able to offer so willingly after this sort? for all things come of thee, and of thine own have we given thee.

But who am I and what is my people, that we have power to give so freely in this way? for all things come from you, and what we have given you is yours.


rate difficulty: Behold, the Lord maketh the earth empty, and maketh it waste, and turneth it upside down, and scattereth abroad the inhabitants thereof.

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


rate difficulty: And this is the law for the meal offering: it is to be offered to the Lord before the altar by the sons of Aaron.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Moses entered into the Tent, the pillar of cloud descended, and stood at the door of the Tent: and Jehovah spake with Moses.

And whenever Moses went into the Tent, the pillar of cloud came down, and took its place by the door of the Tent, as long as the Lord was talking with Moses.


simplify: So that the law is become our tutor to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.


simplify: to the assembly of God that is in Corinth, to those sanctified in Christ Jesus, called saints, with all those calling upon the name of our Lord Jesus Christ in every place--both theirs and ours:

from Paul, who has been called to be an apostle of Jesus Christ by the will of God, and from Sosthenes, our fellow follower of the Lord.


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

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


rate difficulty: the ark of the testimony, and its staves, and the mercy-seat;

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


rate difficulty: But Pharaoh's heart was made hard, and he did not give ear to them, as the Lord had said.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt put the mercy-seat above upon the ark; and in the ark thou shalt put the testimony that I shall give thee.

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


simplify: How long shall the land mourn, and the herbs of every field wither, for the wickedness of them that dwell therein? the beasts are consumed, and the birds; because they said, He shall not see our last end.

How long will the land have grief, and the plants of all the land be dry? because of the sins of the people living in it, destruction has overtaken the beasts and the birds; because they said, God does not see our ways.


simplify: Now to him that is of power to stablish you according to my gospel, and the preaching of Jesus Christ, according to the revelation of the mystery, which was kept secret since the world began,

Now to him who is able to make you strong in agreement with the good news which I gave you and the preaching of Jesus Christ, in the light of the revelation of that secret which has been kept through times eternal,


simplify: And the king said unto Zadok, Carry back the ark of God into the city: if I shall find favor in the eyes of Jehovah, he will bring me again, and show me both it, and his habitation:

And the king said to Zadok, Take the ark of God back into the town: if I have grace in the eyes of the Lord, he will let me come back and see it and his House again:


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Judah, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because they have rejected the law of Jehovah, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have caused them to err, after which their fathers did walk.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Judah, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because they have given up the law of the Lord, and have not kept his rules; and their false ways, in which their fathers went, have made them go out of the right way.


simplify: For they that are such serve not our Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly; and by good words and fair speeches deceive the hearts of the simple.

For such persons are not serving Christ, our Master, but are slaves to their own appetites; and, by their smooth words and flattery, they deceive simple-minded people.


simplify: `The manner of my life then, indeed, from youth--which from the beginning was among my nation, in Jerusalem--know do all the Jews,

My life, then, from youth upwards, was passed, from the very first, among my own nation, and in Jerusalem, and is within the knowledge of all Jews;


simplify: O that thou wert as my brother, that sucked the breasts of my mother! when I should find thee without, I would kiss thee; yea, I should not be despised.

Oh that you were my brother, who took milk from my mother's breasts! When I came to you in the street, I would give you kisses; yes, I would not be looked down on.


simplify: He that smiteth a man, so that he dieth, shall surely be put to death.

He who gives a man a death-blow is himself to be put to death.


simplify: And in cutting of stones, to set them, and in carving of timber, to work in all manner of workmanship.

In cutting stones for framing, and to do every form of woodwork.


simplify: And the people asked him, saying, What shall we do then?

And the people put questions to him, saying, What have we to do?


simplify: And Jehovah said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sake.

And the Lord said, If there are fifty upright men in the town, I will have mercy on it because of them.


simplify: So Abram went, as Jehovah had spoken unto him; and Lot went with him: and Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.

So Abram went as the Lord had said to him, and Lot went with him: Abram was seventy-five years old when he went away from Haran.


rate difficulty: And it came about that while I was on my journey, coming near to Damascus, about the middle of the day, suddenly I saw a great light from heaven shining round me.

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


rate difficulty: For thou hast taken a pledge from thy brother for nought, and stripped the naked of their clothing.

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


rate difficulty: Edom will be his heritage, and he will put an end to the last of the people of Seir.

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


rate difficulty: At every onslaught take up faith for your shield; for with it you will be able to extinguish all the flaming darts of the evil one.


rate difficulty: if from my lord the king this thing hath been, then thou hast not caused thy servant to know who doth sit on the throne of my lord the king after him.'

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


simplify: And when they were come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to his servant that was with him, Come, and let us return; lest my father leave caring for the asses, and take thought for us.

And when they had come to the land of Zuph, Saul said to the servant who was with him, Come, let us go back, or my father may give up caring about the asses and be troubled about us.


simplify: And it was covered with cedar above over the forty and five beams, that were upon the pillars; fifteen in a row.

And it was covered with cedar over the forty-five supports which were on the pillars, fifteen in a line.


simplify: And he called Gehazi, and said, Call this Shunammite. So he called her. And when she was come in unto him, he said, Take up thy son.

And he gave orders to Gehazi, and said, Send for the Shunammite. And she came in answer to his voice. And he said, Take up your son.


rate difficulty: As his divine power has given to us all things which relate to life andgodliness, through the knowledge of him that has called us by glory and virtue,

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


simplify: And when they were a good way from the house of Micah, the men that were in the houses near to Micah’s house were gathered together, and overtook the children of Dan.

When they had gone some way from the house of Micah, the men from the houses near Micah's house came together and overtook the children of Dan,


rate difficulty: O Lord, my strength, and my fortress, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the Gentiles shall come unto thee from the ends of the earth, and shall say, Surely our fathers have inherited lies, vanity, and things wherein there is no profit.

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


rate difficulty: And take the cedar-wood and the hyssop and the red thread and the living bird and put them in the blood of the dead bird and in the flowing water, shaking it over the house seven times.

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


simplify: Every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.

Every place on which you put your foot I have given to you, as I said to Moses.


simplify: Then I took Jaazaniah the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brethren, and all his sons, and the whole house of the Rechabites;

Then I took Jaazaniah, the son of Jeremiah, the son of Habazziniah, and his brothers and all his sons and all the Rechabites;


rate difficulty: But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the chief of the fathers of Israel, said unto them, Ye have nothing to do with us to build an house unto our God; but we ourselves together will build unto the Lord God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia hath commanded us.

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


rate difficulty: For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.

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


rate difficulty: But Peter denied it. “I do not know or understand what you mean,” he replied. Then he went out into the porch;


simplify: And they spake unto him, saying, If thou wilt be a servant unto this people this day, and wilt serve them, and answer them, and speak good words to them, then they will be thy servants for ever.

And they said to him, If you will be a servant to this people today, caring for them and giving them a gentle answer, then they will be your servants for ever.


simplify: Thou shalt not do so unto the Lord thy God: for every abomination to the Lord, which he hateth, have they done unto their gods; for even their sons and their daughters they have burnt in the fire to their gods.

Do not so to the Lord your God: for everything which is disgusting to the Lord and hated by him they have done in honour of their gods: even burning their sons and daughters in the fire to their gods.


simplify: The righteous is delivered out of trouble; And the wicked cometh in his stead.

The upright man is taken out of trouble, and in his place comes the sinner.


rate difficulty: And as for those who were against me, who would not have me for their ruler, let them come here, and be put to death before me.

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


rate difficulty: and he hath brought it near before Jehovah, and hath made atonement for her, and she hath been cleansed from the fountain of her blood; this <FI>is<Fi> the law of her who is bearing, in regard to a male or to a female.

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


simplify: Give me now wisdom and knowledge, that I may go out and come in before this people; for who can judge this thy people, that is so great?

Give me now wisdom and knowledge, so that I may go out and come in before this people: for who is able to be the judge of this great people of yours?


rate difficulty: and if to the city thou dost turn back, and hast said to Absalom, Thy servant I am, O king; servant of thy father I <FI>am<Fi> also hitherto, and now, I <FI>am<Fi> also thy servant; then thou hast made void for me the counsel of Ahithophel;

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


simplify: And there was again war with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the staff of whose spear was like a weaver’s beam.

And again there was war with the Philistines; and Elhanan, the son of Jair, put to death Lahmi, the brother of Goliath the Gittite, the stem of whose spear was like a cloth-worker's rod.


simplify: and having called near one of the young men, he was inquiring what these things might be,

and he called one of the servants and asked what it all meant.


simplify: and neither so was their testimony alike.

Yet not even on that point did their evidence agree.


rate difficulty: But [the] fruit of righteousness in peace is sown for them that make peace.


rate difficulty: And Joab cometh unto the king, and declareth <FI>it<Fi> to him, and he calleth unto Absalom, and he cometh unto the king, and boweth himself to him, on his face, to the earth, before the king, and the king giveth a kiss to Absalom.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: But Joshua the son of Nun, and Caleb the son of Jephunneh, remained alive of those men that went to spy out the land.

But Joshua, the son of Nun, and Caleb, the son of Jephunneh, of those who went to see the land, were not touched by disease.


simplify: And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, forasmuch as we have sworn both of us in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord be between me and thee, and between my seed and thy seed for ever. And he arose and departed: and Jonathan went into the city.

And Jonathan said to David, Go in peace, for we two have taken an oath, in the name of the Lord, saying, The Lord will be between me and you, and between my seed and your seed for ever. Then David went away, and Jonathan went into the town.


rate difficulty: And he went away from there, and came into his country; and his disciples went with him.


rate difficulty: But Herodias kept it [in her mind] against him, and wished to kill him, and could not:

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


simplify: And Me–jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border before Japho.


rate difficulty: “Yes, Master,” she said, “for even dogs do feed on the scraps that fall from their owners’ table.”

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


simplify: And she said unto him, How canst thou say, I love thee, when thine heart is not with me? thou hast mocked me these three times, and hast not told me wherein thy great strength lieth.

And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.


rate difficulty: For when they had slaughtered their children unto their idols, they came the same day into my sanctuary to profane it; and behold, thus have they done in the midst of my house.

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


simplify: And if ye lend to them of whom ye hope to receive, what thank have ye? for sinners also lend to sinners, to receive as much again.

And if you let those have the use of your money, from whom you are hoping to get it back, what credit is it to you? even sinners do so to sinners, hoping to get back as much as they gave.


rate difficulty: And the Philistines went hard after Saul and his sons, and put to death Jonathan and Abinadab and Malchi-shua, the sons of Saul.

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


rate difficulty: And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.

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


rate difficulty: So he said to his gardener ‘Three years now I have come to look for fruit on this fig tree, without finding any! Cut it down. Why should it rob the soil?’


simplify: `Fire I came to cast to the earth, and what will I if already it was kindled?

I came to cast fire on the earth; and what more can I wish, if it is already kindled?


rate difficulty: But as they stretched him forward with the thongs, Paul said to the centurion who stood [by], Is it lawful for you to scourge a man [who is] a Roman and uncondemned?

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


rate difficulty: And what other nation in the earth, like your people Israel, did a god go out to take for himself, to be his people, making his name great and to be feared, driving out the nations from before your people whom you made free and took out of Egypt?

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


simplify: For Jehovah hath indignation against all the nations, and wrath against all their host: he hath utterly destroyed them, he hath delivered them to the slaughter.

For the Lord is angry with all the nations, and his wrath is burning against all their armies: he has put them to the curse, he has given them to destruction.


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

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


simplify: This man went unto Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus.

This man went to Pilate and made a request for the body of Jesus.


simplify: And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?

Knowing their thoughts, Jesus exclaimed: “Why do your cherish such wicked thoughts?


simplify: And in all vineyards shall be wailing; for I will pass through the midst of thee, saith Jehovah.

In all the vine-gardens there will be cries of grief: for I will go through among you, says the Lord.


simplify: What doth it profit, my brethren, though a man say he hath faith, and have not works? can faith save him?

What use is it, my brothers, for a man to say that he has faith, if he does nothing? will such a faith give him salvation?


simplify: No man also seweth a piece of new cloth on an old garment: else the new piece that filled it up taketh away from the old, and the rent is made worse.

No man puts a bit of new cloth on an old coat: or the new, by pulling away from the old, makes a worse hole.


rate difficulty: And the people went forth and brought [them], and made themselves booths, everyone upon the roof of his house, and in their courts, and in the courts of the house ofGod, and in the open space of the water-gate, and in the open space of the gate of Ephraim.

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


rate difficulty: Who were violently taken away before their time, who were overcome by the rush of waters:

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


simplify: Then it shall come to pass, that the sword, which ye feared, shall overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and the famine, whereof ye were afraid, shall follow close after you there in Egypt; and there ye shall die.

Then it will come about that the sword, which is the cause of your fear, will overtake you there in the land of Egypt, and need of food, which you are fearing, will go after you there in Egypt; and there death will come to you.


simplify: And he poured of the anointing oil upon Aaron’s head, and anointed him, to sanctify him.

And some of the oil he put on Aaron's head, to make him holy.


simplify: Correct thy son, and he will give thee rest; Yea, he will give delight unto thy soul.

Give your son training, and he will give you rest; he will give delight to your soul.


rate difficulty: Then certain of the heads of the children of Ephraim, Azariah the son of Johanan, Berechiah the son of Meshillemoth, and Jehizkiah the son of Shallum, and Amasa the son of Hadlai, stood up against them that came from the war,


simplify: And he that was sown upon the good ground, this is he that heareth the word, and understandeth it; who verily beareth fruit, and bringeth forth, some a hundredfold, some sixty, some thirty.

And the seed which was put in good earth, this is he who gives ear to the word, and gets the sense of it; who gives fruit, some a hundred, some sixty, some thirty times as much.


simplify: And he cried, A lion: My lord, I stand continually upon the watchtower in the daytime, and I am set in my ward whole nights:

And the watchman gave a loud cry, O my lord, I am on the watchtower all day, and am placed in my watch every night:


rate difficulty: For our glorying is this: the testimony of our conscience, that in simplicity and sincerity of God, not in fleshly wisdom, but in the grace of God, we did conduct ourselves in the world, and more abundantly toward you;

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


simplify: And certain of the scribes answering said, `Teacher, thou didst say well;'

“Well said, teacher!” exclaimed some of the teachers of the law,


simplify: And when the Lord saw that Leah was hated, he opened her womb: but Rachel was barren.

Now the Lord, seeing that Leah was not loved, gave her a child; while Rachel had no children.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith suddenly unto Moses, and unto Aaron, and unto Miriam, `Come out ye three unto the tent of meeting;' and they three come out.

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


simplify: Shall I not in that day, saith the Lord, even destroy the wise men out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau?

Will I not, in that day, says the Lord, take away the wise men out of Edom, and wisdom out of the mountain of Esau?


rate difficulty: She stretcheth out her hand to the afflicted, and she reacheth forth her hands to the needy.

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


rate difficulty: Keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: for this is why I give you orders to do this.

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


rate difficulty: I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord.

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


simplify: And a superscription also was written over him in letters of Greek, and Latin, and Hebrew, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

And these words were put in writing over him, THIS IS THE KING OF THE JEWS.


simplify: And they, having received the money, did as they were taught, and this account was spread abroad among Jews till this day.

So the soldiers took the money, and did as they were instructed. This story spread widely; the people of Judea still tell it today.


rate difficulty: And behold, Jehovah stood above it. And he said, I am Jehovah, theGod of Abraham, thy father, and theGod of Isaac: the land on which thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.

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


simplify: But at the place which the Lord thy God shall choose to place his name in, there thou shalt sacrifice the passover at even, at the going down of the sun, at the season that thou camest forth out of Egypt.

But in the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place of his name, there you are to put the Passover to death in the evening, at sundown, at that time of the year when you came out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: For which cause I remind thee to stir up the gift of God that is in thee through the putting on of my hands,

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


rate difficulty: For the ear heard, and declareth me happy, And the eye hath seen, and testifieth <FI>to<Fi> me.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, in their parting from him, Peter said unto Jesus, `Master, it is good to us to be here; and we may make three booths, one for thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elijah,' not knowing what he saith:


simplify: Truly the signs of an apostle were wrought among you in all patience, in signs, and wonders, and mighty deeds.

The marks of the true apostle were exhibited among you in constant endurance, as well as by signs, by marvels, and by miracles.


simplify: Then shalt thou lay up gold as dust, and the gold of Ophir as the stones of the brooks.

And put your gold in the dust, even your gold of Ophir among the rocks of the valleys;


rate difficulty: And saith unto them, Go your way into the village over against you: and as soon as ye be entered into it, ye shall find a colt tied, whereon never man sat; loose him, and bring him.

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


simplify: feed the flock of God that <FI>is<Fi> among you, overseeing not constrainedly, but willingly, neither for filthy lucre, but of a ready mind,

I beg you to be true shepherds of the flock of God among you, not because you are compelled, but of your own free will; not from a base love of gain, but with a ready spirit;


simplify: These are the sons of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob in Paddan-aram, with his daughter Dinah: all the souls of his sons and his daughters were thirty and three.

All these, together with his daughter Dinah, were the children of Leah, whom Jacob had by her in Paddan-aram; they were thirty-three in number.


simplify: And there were dwelling at Jerusalem Jews, devout men, out of every nation under heaven.

Now there were living at Jerusalem, Jews, God-fearing men, from every nation under heaven.


simplify: Ye are our epistle written in our hearts, known and read of all men:

You yourselves are our letter — a letter written on our hearts, and one which everybody can read and understand.


rate difficulty: And all murmured when they saw [it], saying, He has turned in to lodge with a sinful man.

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


rate difficulty: and hesitated not at the promise ofGod through unbelief; but found strength in faith, giving glory toGod;


simplify: but I--I say to you, not to swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God,

But I say to you that you must not swear at all, either by heaven, since that is God’s throne,


rate difficulty: and the thin ears swallowed up the seven good ears: and I told it unto the magicians; but there was none that could declare it to me.

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


simplify: And they journeyed from the wilderness of Sinai, and encamped in Kibroth-hattaavah.

And they went on from the waste land of Sinai and put up their tents in Kibroth-hattaavah.


simplify: And the Lord God took the man, and put him into the garden of Eden to dress it and to keep it.

And the Lord God took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to do work in it and take care of it.


simplify: This was doneon the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same they rested, and made it a day of feasting and gladness.

This they did on the thirteenth day of the month Adar; and on the fourteenth day of the same month they took their rest, and made it a day of feasting and joy.


rate difficulty: But he answering said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment ofGod on account of your traditional teaching?

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


simplify: that all the peoples of the earth may know the hand of Jehovah, that it is mighty; that ye may fear Jehovah your God for ever.

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


simplify: and there were certain much displeased within themselves, and saying, `For what hath this waste of the ointment been made?

Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly: “Why has the perfume been wasted like this?


rate difficulty: A son of eight years is Jehoiachin in his reigning, and three months and ten days he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah;

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: and did put no difference also between us and them, by the faith having purified their hearts;

He made no distinction between them and us, when he purified their hearts by their faith.