simplify: but, through the grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, we believe to be saved, even as also they.'

No, it is through the loving kindness of the Lord Jesus that we, just as they do, believe that we have been saved.”


simplify: And he spake a simile unto them, saying, `Of a certain rich man the field brought forth well;

Then Jesus told them this parable — “There was once a rich man whose land was very fertile;


rate difficulty: But he stood in the midst of the plot, and defended it, and slew the Philistines; and Jehovah wrought a great victory.

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rate difficulty: besides their servants and their maids, of whom there were seven thousand three hundred and thirty-seven; and they had two hundred singing men and singing women.

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simplify: For they will turn away thy son from following me, that they may serve other gods: so will the anger of the Lord be kindled against you, and destroy thee suddenly.

For through them your sons will be turned from me to the worship of other gods: and the Lord will be moved to wrath against you and send destruction on you quickly.


rate difficulty: `Take Aaron and his sons with him, and the garments, and the anointing oil, and the bullock of the sin-offering, and the two rams, and the basket of unleavened things,

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And Saul goeth on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain, and David is hastened to go from the face of Saul, and Saul and his men are compassing David and his men, to catch them.

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


simplify: Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

We beg you, friends, in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, to avoid any follower who is living an ill-ordered life, which is not in agreement with the teaching that you received from us.


simplify: The land shall be utterly emptied, and utterly spoiled: for the Lord hath spoken this word.

The earth will be completely waste and without men; for this is the word of the Lord.


simplify: And his father Isaac said unto him, Come near now, and kiss me, my son.

And his father Isaac said to him, Come near now, my son, and give me a kiss.


rate difficulty: Then Sihon came out against us, he and all his people, to fight at Jahaz.

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


simplify: Edom, and Moab, and the children of Ammon,

Edom and Moab and the children of Ammon,


simplify: Then said the king to Amasa, Assemble me the men of Judah within three days, and be thou here present.

Then the king said to Amasa, Get all the men of Judah together, and in three days be here yourself.


simplify: And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against Lebanon, the Hittite, and the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, heard thereof;

Now on hearing the news of these things, all the kings on the west side of Jordan, in the hill-country and the lowlands and by the Great Sea in front of Lebanon, the Hittites and the Amorites, the Canaanites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites,


simplify: And I fell down before the Lord, as at the first, forty days and forty nights: I did neither eat bread, nor drink water, because of all your sins which ye sinned, in doing wickedly in the sight of the Lord, to provoke him to anger.

And I went down on my face before the Lord, as at the first, for forty days and forty nights, without taking food or drinking water, because of all your sin, in doing evil in the eyes of the Lord and moving him to wrath.


simplify: For now will I break his yoke from off thee, and will burst thy bonds in sunder.

And now I will let his yoke be broken off you, and your chains be parted.


rate difficulty: And when he hath found it, he layeth it on his shoulders, rejoicing.


rate difficulty: Whoso despiseth the word shall be held by it; but he that feareth the commandment shall be rewarded.


rate difficulty: So Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, went up, and falling on him, put him to death; and his body was put to rest in his house in the waste land.


rate difficulty: For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites, so shall also the Son of man be to this generation.

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


rate difficulty: And Hagar bore Abram a son; and Abram called the name of his son whom Hagar bore, Ishmael.

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


rate difficulty: And now, speak to the men of Judah and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, saying, Thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I prepare evil against you, and devise a device against you: turn ye then every one from his evil way, and amend your ways and your doings.

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, Say unto thy brethren, This do ye; lade your beasts, and go, get you unto the land of Canaan;

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


simplify: Repent; or else I will come unto thee quickly, and will fight against them with the sword of my mouth.

Therefore repent, or else, I will come quickly and contend with such people with words that will cut like a sword.


rate difficulty: But the Levites were not numbered among the children of Israel; as Jehovah had commanded Moses.


rate difficulty: And the seven days of the feast he shall offer a burnt-offering to Jehovah, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily for the seven days; and a he-goat daily for a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: And the heart of the rash shall understand knowledge, and the tongue of the stammerers shall be ready to speak plainly.

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rate difficulty: This was the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities and their hamlets.


rate difficulty: And Moses took the anointing oil, and anointed the tabernacle and all that was therein, and sanctified them.

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


simplify: when a prophet speaketh in the name of Jehovah, if the thing follow not, nor come to pass, that is the thing which Jehovah hath not spoken: the prophet hath spoken it presumptuously, thou shalt not be afraid of him.

When a prophet makes a statement in the name of the Lord, if what he says does not take place and his words do not come true, then his word is not the word of the Lord: the words of the prophet were said in the pride of his heart, and you are to have no fear of him.


rate difficulty: But they understood not this saying, and it was concealed from them, that they should not perceive it; and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.


rate difficulty: And the chief priests having taken the silverlings, said, `It is not lawful to put them to the treasury, seeing it is the price of blood;'


rate difficulty: And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.


rate difficulty: Therefore hear ye the word of the Lord, all Judah that dwell in the land of Egypt; Behold, I have sworn by my great name, saith the Lord, that my name shall no more be named in the mouth of any man of Judah in all the land of Egypt, saying, The Lord God liveth.

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


rate difficulty: And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.

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


simplify: Again shalt thou plant vineyards upon the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant, and shall enjoy the fruit thereof.

Again will your vine-gardens be planted on the hill of Samaria: the planters will be planting and using the fruit.


rate difficulty: but, in his loving kindness, are being freely pronounced righteous through the deliverance found in Christ Jesus.

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


rate difficulty: The word that came to Jeremiah from Jehovah in the days of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah, the king of Judah, saying,


rate difficulty: And thou shalt not only while yet I live shew me the kindness of the Lord, that I die not:


rate difficulty: Indeed, I tell you, some who are standing before me will not know death, until they have seen the kingdom of God.”

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


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh called Abram, and said, What is this that thou hast done unto me? why didst thou not tell me that she was thy wife?


simplify: of the sons of Merari, Asaiah the chief, and his brethren two hundred and twenty;

Of the sons of Merari: Asaiah the chief, and his brothers, two hundred and twenty;


simplify: For if Abraham was justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not toward God.

For if Abraham got righteousness by works, he has reason for pride; but not before God.


simplify: To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.


rate difficulty: As he says also in Hosea, I will call not-my-people My people; and the-not-beloved Beloved.

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


simplify: Behold, ye fast for strife and debate, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye shall not fast as ye do this day, to make your voice to be heard on high.

If keeping from food makes you quickly angry, ready for fighting and giving blows with evil hands; your holy days are not such as to make your voice come to my ears on high.


simplify: wherefore, come ye forth out of the midst of them, and be separated, saith the Lord, and an unclean thing do not touch, and I--I will receive you,

Therefore “Come out from among the nations, and separate yourselves from them,” says the Lord, “And touch nothing impure; And I will welcome you;


rate difficulty: But certain men clave unto him, and believed: among whom also was Dionysius the Areopagite, and a woman named Damaris, and others with them.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall sever out men of continual employment to go through the land, who, with the passers-by, shall bury those that remain upon the face of the land, to cleanse it: at the end of seven months shall they make a search.

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


simplify: to go into the caverns of the rocks, and into the clefts of the ragged rocks, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake mightily the earth.

To take cover in the cracks of the rocks, and in the holes of the hills, for fear of the Lord, and before the glory of his power, when he comes out of his place, shaking the earth with his strength.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them, and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of Egypt;

And because of his love for your fathers, he took their seed and made it his, and he himself, present among you, took you out of Egypt by his great power;


rate difficulty: Everyone who is a sinner goes against the law, for sin is going against the law.

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


simplify: And there shall be an highway for the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from Assyria; like as it was to Israel in the day that he came up out of the land of Egypt.

And there will be a highway for the rest of his people from Assyria; as there was for Israel in the day when he came up out of the land of Egypt.


simplify: Nevertheless in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rejoice that your names are written in heaven.

Do not be glad, however, because you have power over spirits, but because your names are recorded in heaven.


rate difficulty: And in one month I put an end to the three keepers of the flock; for my soul was tired of them, and their souls were disgusted with me.


simplify: And at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

And when the time came for the wall of Jerusalem to be made holy, they sent for the Levites out of all their places to come to Jerusalem, to keep the feast with joy, and with praise and melody, with brass and corded instruments of music.


simplify: and when he seeth a troop, horsemen in pairs, a troop of asses, a troop of camels, he shall hearken diligently with much heed.

And when he sees war-carriages, horsemen by twos, war-carriages with asses, war-carriages with camels, let him give special attention.


simplify: And the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

And the angel took the vessel; and he made it full of the fire of the altar, and sent it down on the earth: and there came thunders and voices and flames and a shaking of the earth.


simplify: For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.


rate difficulty: For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

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


rate difficulty: Lift up your eyes on high, and behold who hath created these things, that bringeth out their host by number: he calleth them all by names by the greatness of his might, for that he is strong in power; not one faileth.

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


simplify: Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done, as in heaven, so on earth.

Let your kingdom come. Let your pleasure be done, as in heaven, so on earth.


rate difficulty: Lod, and Ono, the valley of craftsmen.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, I have been watching this people, and I see that they are a stiff-necked people.

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


simplify: Bind thou up the testimony, seal the law among my disciples.

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


rate difficulty: And many among them have stumbled and fallen, And been broken, and snared, and captured.

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


simplify: And it shall be for a sign and for a witness unto the Lord of hosts in the land of Egypt: for they shall cry unto the Lord because of the oppressors, and he shall send them a saviour, and a great one, and he shall deliver them.

And it will be a sign and a witness to the Lord of armies in the land of Egypt: when they are crying out to the Lord because of their cruel masters, then he will send them a saviour and a strong one to make them free.


simplify: He that soweth iniquity shall reap calamity; And the rod of his wrath shall fail.

By planting the seed of evil a man will get in the grain of sorrow, and the rod of his wrath will be broken.


rate difficulty: And I will set thy border from the Red Sea even unto the sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness unto the River: for I will deliver the inhabitants of the land into your hand: and thou shalt drive them out before thee.

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


simplify: `And take heed to yourselves, lest your hearts may be weighed down with surfeiting, and drunkenness, and anxieties of life, and suddenly that day may come on you,

Be on your guard or your minds will become dulled by debauches or drunkenness or the anxieties of life, and 'that day' will close on you suddenly like a trap.


simplify: I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside many waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

And I will put an end to all her beasts which are by the great waters, and they will never again be troubled by the foot of man or by the feet of beasts.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to Aaron, Take the censer, and put fire thereon from off the altar, and lay on incense, and carry it quickly to the assembly, and make atonement for them; for there is wrath gone out from Jehovah: the plague is begun.

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


simplify: And whatsoever ye do, do it heartily, as to the Lord, and not unto men;

Whatever you do, do it with all your heart, as if working for the Master and not for people,


simplify: The word that came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.

The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord in the tenth year of Zedekiah, king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar.


simplify: And when he came down from the mount, great multitudes did follow him,

When Jesus had come down from the hill, great crowds followed him.


simplify: and on their resisting and speaking evil, having shaken <FI>his<Fi> garments, he said unto them, `Your blood <FI>is<Fi> upon your head--I am clean; henceforth to the nations I will go on.'

However, as they set themselves against him and became abusive, Paul shook his clothes in protest and said to them: “Your blood be on your own heads. My conscience is clear. From this time forward I will go to the Gentiles.”


simplify: And Moses said unto them, Have ye saved all the women alive?

And Moses said to them, Why have you kept all the women safe?


simplify: for whoever the whole law shall keep, and shall stumble in one <FI>point<Fi> , he hath become guilty of all;

For a person who has laid the law, as a whole, to heart, but has failed in one particular, is accountable for breaking all its provisions.


simplify: So also ye, since ye are zealous of spiritual gifts, seek that ye may abound unto the edifying of the church.

So if you are desiring the things which the Spirit gives, let your minds be turned first to the things which are for the good of the church.


simplify: that thou hast slain my children, and delivered them up, in causing them to pass through the fire unto them?

That you put my children to death and gave them up to go through the fire to them?


rate difficulty: Of a truth, Lord, the kings of Assyria have destroyed the nations and their lands,


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

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


rate difficulty: And after certain days, Felix having come with Drusilla his wife, being a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith toward Christ,

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


simplify: and whence <FI>is<Fi> this to me, that the mother of my Lord might come unto me?

But how have I this honor, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?


simplify: A man shall not take his father’s wife, and shall not uncover his father’s skirt.

A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.


simplify: And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?

They blindfolded him and then questioned him. “Now play the prophet,” they said; “who was it that struck you?”


simplify: And every one who shall speak a word against the Son of man, it shall be forgiven him: but unto him that blasphemeth against the Holy Spirit it shall not be forgiven.

And if anyone says a word against the Son of man, he will have forgiveness: but for him who says evil words against the Holy Spirit, there will be no forgiveness.


rate difficulty: And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.

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


rate difficulty: Howbeit I believed not their words, until I came, and mine eyes had seen it: and, behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: for thou exceedest the fame that I heard.

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


simplify: Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.


simplify: Or despisest thou the riches of his goodness and forbearance and longsuffering, not knowing that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?

Or is it nothing to you that God had pity on you, waiting and putting up with you for so long, not seeing that in his pity God's desire is to give you a change of heart?


simplify: And other fell amidst the thorns; and the thorns grew with it, and choked it.

And some went among thorns, and the thorns came up with it and it had no room for growth.


simplify: For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.

For through the baptism of the one Spirit we were all formed into one body, Jews or Greeks, servants or free men, and were all made full of the same Spirit.


simplify: If therefore Demetrius, and the craftsmen that are with him, have a matter against any man, the courts are open, and there are proconsuls: let them accuse one another.

If, then, Demetrius and the workmen who are with him have a protest to make against any man, the law is open to them, and there are judges; let them put up a cause at law against one another.


rate difficulty: And the man said, This is now bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh: let her name be Woman because she was taken out of Man.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul's fear of David became all the greater, and he went on hating him, day by day.

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


rate difficulty: A virtuous woman <FI>is<Fi> a crown to her husband, And as rottenness in his bones <FI>is<Fi> one causing shame.

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


simplify: Then the angel that talked with me went forth, and said unto me, Lift up now thine eyes, and see what is this that goeth forth.

And the angel who was talking to me went out and said to me, Let your eyes be lifted up now, and see the ephah which is going out.


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


rate difficulty: He makes his prayer to God, and he has mercy on him; he sees God's face with cries of joy; he gives news of his righteousness to men;


simplify: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, This shall be a holy anointing oil unto me throughout your generations.

And say to the children of Israel, This is to be the Lord's holy oil, from generation to generation.


simplify: And the king made silver and gold to be in Jerusalem as stones, and cedars made he to be as the sycomore-trees that are in the lowland, for abundance.

And the king made silver and gold as common as stones in Jerusalem, and cedar like the sycamore-trees of the lowland in number.


simplify: Shammoth the Harorite, Helez the Pelonite,

Shammoth the Harodite, Helez the Pelonite,


rate difficulty: And he told her all his heart, and said unto her, There hath not come a razor upon my head; for I have been a Nazirite unto God from my mother’s womb: if I be shaven, then my strength will go from me, and I shall become weak, and be like any other man.

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


rate difficulty: The sojourner that is in thy midst shall rise above thee higher and higher, and thou shalt sink down lower and lower.

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


simplify: Verily I say unto you, that this generation shall not pass, till all these things be done.

I tell you that even the present generation will not pass away, until all these things have taken place.


rate difficulty: And Abraham said to his chief servant, the manager of all his property, Come now, put your hand under my leg:

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Because ye have not heard my words,

So this is what the Lord of armies has said: Because you have not given ear to my words,


rate difficulty: He made also posts of threescore cubits, even unto the post of the court round about the gate.

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


simplify: This is the inheritance of the tribe of the children of Naphtali according to their families, the cities with their villages.

This is the heritage of the tribe of the children of Naphtali by their families, these towns with their unwalled places.


simplify: Whom we preach, warning every man, and teaching every man in all wisdom; that we may present every man perfect in Christ Jesus:

This is the Christ whom we proclaim, warning everyone, and instructing everyone, with all the wisdom that we possess, in the hope of bringing everyone into God’s presence perfected by union with Christ.


simplify: And thou shalt take the garments, and put upon Aaron the coat, and the robe of the ephod, and the ephod, and the breastplate, and gird him with the curious girdle of the ephod:

Take the robes, and put the coat and the dress and the ephod and the priest's bag on Aaron; put the band of needlework round him,


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

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


rate difficulty: Canst thou lift up thy voice to the clouds, That abundance of waters may cover thee?

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


simplify: Then Zedekiah the king said, Behold, he is in your hand: for the king is not he that can do any thing against you.

Then Zedekiah the king said, See, he is in your hands: for the king was not able to do anything against them.


simplify: If ye be willing and obedient, ye shall eat the good of the land:

If you will give ear to my word and do it, the good things of the land will be yours;


simplify: And Sarah died in Kiriath-arba (the same is Hebron), in the land of Canaan: and Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

And Sarah's death took place in Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, in the land of Canaan: and Abraham went into his house, weeping and sorrowing for Sarah.


simplify: And the thing was pleasing before all the multitude, and they did choose Stephen, a man full of faith and the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch,

This proposal was unanimously agreed to; and the disciples chose Stephen — a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit — and Philip, Prochorus, Nicanor, Timon, Parmenas, and Nicholas of Antioch, a former convert to Judaism;


rate difficulty: And Saul said, Blessed be ye of Jehovah; for ye have compassion upon me.

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


simplify: Much food is in the tillage of the poor: but there is that is destroyed for want of judgment.

There is much food in the ploughed land of the poor; but it is taken away by wrongdoing.


simplify: And he looked round about on them all, and said unto him, Stretch forth thy hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored.

And looking round on all of them, he said to him, Put out your hand. And he did so: and his hand was made well.


simplify: And let our people also learn to maintain good works for necessary uses, that they be not unfruitful.

And let our people go on with good works for necessary purposes, so that they may not be without fruit.


simplify: For the transgression of Jacob is all this, and for the sins of the house of Israel. What is the transgression of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?

All this is because of the wrongdoing of Jacob and the sins of the children of Israel. What is the wrongdoing of Jacob? is it not Samaria? and what are the high places of Judah? are they not Jerusalem?


simplify: for we rejoice when we may be infirm, and ye may be powerful; and this also we pray for--your perfection!

We are glad when we are weak, if you are strong. And what we pray for is that you may become perfect.


simplify: Knowing that shortly I must put off this my tabernacle, even as our Lord Jesus Christ hath shewed me.

For I am conscious that in a short time I will have to put off this tent of flesh, as our Lord Jesus Christ has made clear to me.


rate difficulty: Beloved, faithfully dost thou do whatever thou mayest work to the brethren and to the strangers,

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


simplify: And it was told the Gazites, saying, Samson is come hither. And they compassed him in, and laid wait for him all night in the gate of the city, and were quiet all the night, saying, In the morning, when it is day, we shall kill him.

And it was said to the Gazites, Samson is here. So they went round, watching for him all day at the doorway of the town, but at night they kept quiet, saying, When daylight comes we will put him to death.


rate difficulty: AndGod remembered Noah, and all the animals, and all the cattle that were with him in the ark; andGod made a wind to pass over the earth, and the waters subsided.

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


rate difficulty: And ye are risen up against my father’s house this day, and have slain his sons, threescore and ten persons, upon one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the men of Shechem, because he is your brother;)

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


simplify: And Jesus answering, again spake to them in similes, saying,

Once more Jesus spoke to them in parables.


simplify: Moreover there are workmen with thee in abundance, hewers and workers of stone and timber, and all manner of cunning men for every manner of work.

And you have a great number of workmen, cutters and workers of stone and wood, and experts in every sort of work,


simplify: And he will take your daughters to be perfumers, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.


rate difficulty: And the thing is good in the eyes of the Lord, that Solomon hath asked this thing,

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


rate difficulty: And there are given out of the thousands of Israel a thousand for a tribe, twelve thousand armed ones of the host;

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


rate difficulty: As an eagle stirreth up her nest, fluttereth over her young, spreadeth abroad her wings, taketh them, beareth them on her wings:

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


rate difficulty: When the five loaves I did brake to the five thousand, how many hand-baskets full of broken pieces took ye up?' they say to him, `Twelve.'

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


simplify: And unto man he said, Behold, the fear of the Lord, that is wisdom; and to depart from evil is understanding.

And he said to man, Truly the fear of the Lord is wisdom, and to keep from evil is the way to knowledge.


simplify: According to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel made all the work.

The children of Israel did everything as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: `And when they have rest, they turn back to do evil before Thee, and Thou dost leave them in the hand of their enemies, and they rule over them; and they turn back, and call Thee, and Thou from the heavens dost hear, and dost deliver them, according to Thy mercies, many times,

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


simplify: For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

For they are an uncontrolled people, false-hearted, who will not give ear to the teaching of the Lord:


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath taken of its blood with his finger, and hath put on the horns of the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its blood he doth pour out at the foundation of the altar,

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


simplify: If my step hath turned out of the way, And my heart walked after mine eyes, And if any spot hath cleaved to my hands:

If my steps have been turned out of the way, or if my heart went after my eyes, or if the property of another is in my hands;


simplify: And king Ahaz cut off the borders of the bases, and removed the laver from off them; and took down the sea from off the brasen oxen that were under it, and put it upon a pavement of stones.

And King Ahaz took off the sides of the wheeled bases, and took down the great water-vessel from off the brass oxen which were under it and put it on a floor of stone.


rate difficulty: I have sent also unto you all my servants the prophets, rising up early and sending them, saying, Return ye now every man from his evil way, and amend your doings, and go not after other gods to serve them, and ye shall dwell in the land which I have given to you and to your fathers: but ye have not inclined your ear, nor hearkened unto me.

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


rate difficulty: Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.

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


rate difficulty: They sent therefore and gathered all the lords of the Philistines unto them, and said, What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel? And they answered, Let the ark of the God of Israel be carried about unto Gath. And they carried the ark of the God of Israel thither.

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


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

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


simplify: Behold, I send an angel before thee, to keep thee by the way, and to bring thee into the place which I have prepared.

See, I am sending an angel before you, to keep you on your way and to be your guide into the place which I have made ready for you.


rate difficulty: And she being with child cried, travailing in birth, and pained to be delivered.

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


simplify: Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

Do not wonder, friends, if the world hates you.


rate difficulty: And pray that it may not be in winter time;

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


simplify: And a certain one said to him, out of the multitude, `Teacher, say to my brother to divide with me the inheritance.'

“Teacher,” a man in the crowd said to Jesus, “tell my brother to share the property with me.”


simplify: He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, And with continual strife in his bones;

Pain is sent on him as a punishment, while he is on his bed; there is no end to the trouble in his bones;


simplify: And the children of Israel that were come again out of the captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness of the nations of the land, to seek Jehovah, the God of Israel, did eat,

And the children of Israel, who had come back, and all those who were joined to them, after separating themselves from the evil ways of the people of the land to become the servants of the Lord, the God of Israel, took food together,


simplify: And he said unto him, If thy presence go not with me, carry us not up hence.

And Moses said, If you yourself are not going with us, do not send us on from here.


rate difficulty: And when his disciples were come to the other side, they had forgotten to take bread.


simplify: Then Jephthah gathered together all the men of Gilead, and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, Ye are fugitives of Ephraim, ye Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim, and in the midst of Manasseh.

Then Jephthah got together all the men of Gilead and made war on Ephraim; and the men of Gilead overcame Ephraim.


rate difficulty: Declare ye in Judah, and publish in Jerusalem; and say, Blow ye the trumpet in the land: cry, gather together, and say, Assemble yourselves, and let us go into the defenced cities.


simplify: From the ground unto above the door were cherubims and palm trees made, and on the wall of the temple.

From earth level up to the windows there were winged ones and palm-trees pictured on the wall.


simplify: that they made war with Bera king of Sodom, and with Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, and Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar).

They made war with Bera, king of Sodom, and with Birsha, king of Gomorrah, Shinab, king of Admah, and Shemeber, king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (which is Zoar).


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

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


simplify: When ye are come into the land of Canaan, which I give to you for a possession, and I put the plague of leprosy in a house of the land of your possession;

When you have come into the land of Canaan which I will give you for your heritage, if I put the leper's disease on a house in the land of your heritage,


rate difficulty: Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

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


simplify: For Herod himself had sent forth and laid hold upon John, and bound him in prison for Herodias’ sake, his brother Philip’s wife: for he had married her.

For Herod himself had sent and arrested John, and put him in prison, in chains, to please Herodias, the wife of his brother Philip, because Herod had married her.


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

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


simplify: And Jacob went out from Beer–sheba, and went toward Haran.

So Jacob went out from Beer-sheba to go to Haran.


simplify: What time they wax warm, they vanish: when it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

Under the burning sun they are cut off, and come to nothing because of the heat.


rate difficulty: From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; he hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; he hath made me desolate [and] faint all the day.

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


simplify: And he bowed himself, and said, What is thy servant, that thou shouldest look upon such a dead dog as I am?

And he went down on his face before the king, and said, What is your servant, for you to take note of a dead dog such as I am?


rate difficulty: Blind <FI>are<Fi> his watchmen--all of them, They have not known, All of them <FI>are<Fi> dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber.

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


simplify: The sons of Rachel Jacob’s wife; Joseph, and Benjamin.

The sons of Jacob's wife Rachel: Joseph and Benjamin.


rate difficulty: Some fell into good soil, and, shooting up and growing, yielded a return, amounting to thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold.”

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


simplify: I write unto you, my little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name’s sake.

I am writing to you, my children, because you have forgiveness of sins through his name.


rate difficulty: And Saul sent the messengers to see David, saying, Bring him up to me in the bed, that I may slay him.

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


rate difficulty: Silver spread into plates is brought from Tarshish, and gold from Uphaz, the work of the workman, and of the hands of the founder: blue and purple is their clothing: they are all the work of cunning men.

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


simplify: And five of them were wise, and five were foolish.

Five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.


simplify: Therefore let no man glory in men. For all things are yours;

Therefore let no one boast about people; for all things are yours —


rate difficulty: For that they hated knowledge, And did not choose the fear of Jehovah,


simplify: And they went and told it unto the residue: neither believed they them.

They also went and told the rest, but they did not believe even them.


simplify: The Lord repented for this: This also shall not be, saith the Lord God.

The Lord, changing his purpose about this, said, And this will not be.


rate difficulty: `And now, ye are saying to strengthen yourselves before the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David, and ye <FI>are<Fi> a numerous multitude, and with you calves of gold that Jeroboam hath made to you for gods.

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


rate difficulty: `And Jehovah heareth the voice of your words, in your speaking unto me, and Jehovah saith unto me, I have heard the voice of the words of this people which they have spoken unto thee; they have done well <FI>in<Fi> all that they have spoken.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

Then he said, The Lord is witness against you, and the man on whom he has put the holy oil is witness this day that you have seen no wrong in me. And they said, He is witness.


rate difficulty: And again, Praise the Lord, all ye Gentiles; and laud him, all ye people.

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


rate difficulty: Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.

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


simplify: Now after I had delivered the deed of the purchase unto Baruch the son of Neriah, I prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

Now after I had given the paper to Baruch, the son of Neriah, I made my prayer to the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: And David and his men went to Keilah, and fought against the Philistines, and brought away their cattle, and smote them with a great slaughter. So David saved the inhabitants of Keilah.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And the servant was healed in that hour.

And Jesus said to the captain, Go in peace; as your faith is, so let it be done to you. And the servant was made well in that hour.


rate difficulty: and going out of the tombs after his arising, entered into the holy city and appeared unto many.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass on the morrow, that an evil spirit from God came mightily upon Saul, and he prophesied in the midst of the house: and David played with his hand, as he did day by day. And Saul had his spear in his hand;


rate difficulty: And the bones of Saul and Jonathan his son buried they in the country of Benjamin in Zelah, in the sepulchre of Kish his father: and they performed all that the king commanded. And after that God was intreated for the land.

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


simplify: The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

The punishment of your evil-doing is complete, O daughter of Zion; never again will he take you away as a prisoner: he will give you the reward of your evil-doing, O daughter of Edom; he will let your sin be uncovered.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: and thou hast clothed Aaron with the holy garments, and anointed him, and sanctified him, and he hath acted as priest to Me.

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


rate difficulty: And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting the Syrians in the Valley of Salt, even eighteen thousand men.

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah, theGod of Israel: Like these good figs, so will I regard for good them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans;


simplify: And king Solomon was king over all Israel.


simplify: But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

But let your hearts be turned to the place which will be marked out by the Lord your God, among your tribes, to put his name there;


simplify: If thou wert pure and upright: Surely now he would awake for thee, And make the habitation of thy righteousness prosperous.

If you are clean and upright; then he will certainly be moved to take up your cause, and will make clear your righteousness by building up your house again.


rate difficulty: Friends, whom God loves, we know that he has chosen you,

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


simplify: one young bullock, one ram, one he-lamb a year old, for a burnt-offering;

One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;


rate difficulty: Heaven and earth shall pass away: but my words shall not pass away.

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


simplify: and Peter was continuing knocking, and having opened, they saw him, and were astonished,

Meanwhile Peter went on knocking, and, when they opened the gate and saw him, they were amazed.


simplify: we--we have known that we have passed out of the death to the life, because we love the brethren; he who is not loving the brother doth remain in the death.

We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love each other. The person who does not love remains in a state of death.


simplify: Now these things, brethren, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes; that in us ye might learn not to go beyond the things which are written; that no one of you be puffed up for the one against the other.

My brothers, it is because of you that I have taken Apollos and myself as examples of these things, so that in us you might see that it is not wise to go farther than what is in the holy Writings, so that no one of you may be lifted up against his brother.


rate difficulty: And he said to Moses, Go up to Jehovah, thou and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel; and worship afar off.

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


rate difficulty: For he who was a servant when he became a Christian is the Lord's free man; and he who was free when he became a Christian is the Lord's servant.


rate difficulty: Let my lord, I pray thee, pass on before his servant, and I will drive on at my ease according to the pace of the cattle that is before me, and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord, to Seir.

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


simplify: For let none of you suffer as a murderer, or a thief, or an evil-doer, or as a meddler in other men’s matters:

Let no one among you undergo punishment as a taker of life, or as a thief, or as an evil-doer, or as one who is over-interested in other men's business;


simplify: And seeing a fig tree afar off having leaves, he came, if haply he might find anything thereon: and when he came to it, he found nothing but leaves; for it was not the season of figs.

And seeing a fig-tree in the distance with leaves, he went to see if by chance it had anything on it: and when he came to it, he saw nothing but leaves, for it was not the time for the fruit.


simplify: And behold, they brought to him a man sick of the palsy, lying on a bed: and Jesus seeing their faith said unto the sick of the palsy, Son, be of good cheer; thy sins are forgiven.

And they took to him a man stretched on a bed who had no power of moving; and Jesus, seeing their faith, said to the man who was ill, Son, take heart; you have forgiveness for your sins.


simplify: My righteousness I hold fast, and will not let it go: My heart shall not reproachmeso long as I live.

I will keep it safe, and will not let it go: my heart has nothing to say against any part of my life.


simplify: And as soon as the commandment came abroad, the children of Israel gave in abundance the first-fruits of grain, new wine, and oil, and honey, and of all the increase of the field; and the tithe of all things brought they in abundantly.

And when the order was made public, straight away the children of Israel gave, in great amounts, the first-fruits of their grain and wine and oil and honey, and of the produce of their fields; and they took in a tenth part of everything, a great store.


rate difficulty: But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

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


simplify: They come to fight with the Chaldeans, but it is to fill them with the dead bodies of men, whom I have slain in mine anger and in my fury, and for all whose wickedness I have hid my face from this city.

... and to make them full of the dead bodies of men whom I have put to death in my wrath and in my passion, and because of whose evil-doing I have kept my face covered from this town.


simplify: The children of Bebai, six hundred twenty and eight.

The children of Bebai, six hundred and twenty-eight.


rate difficulty: And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

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


rate difficulty: Now in the morning when he was coming back to the town, he had a desire for food.


simplify: Said he not unto me, She is my sister? and she, even she herself said, He is my brother: in the integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands have I done this.

Did he not say to me himself, She is my sister? and she herself said, He is my brother: with an upright heart and clean hands have I done this.


simplify: Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were porters keeping the ward at the thresholds of the gates.

Mattaniah, and Bakbukiah, Obadiah, Meshullam, Talmon, Akkub, were door-keepers keeping the watch at the store-houses of the doors.


simplify: And having spoiled principalities and powers, he made a shew of them openly, triumphing over them in it.

He rid himself of all the powers of evil, and held them up to open contempt, when he celebrated his triumph over them on the cross!


simplify: And Jehovah will deliver them up before you, and ye shall do unto them according unto all the commandment which I have commanded you.

The Lord will give them up into your hands, and you are to do to them as I have given you orders.


simplify: thou hast known this, that they did turn from me--all those in Asia, of whom are Phygellus and Hermogenes;

You know, of course, that all our friends in Roman Asia turned their backs on me, and among them Phygellus and Hermogenes.


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

Rather — ‘If your enemy is hungry, feed him; if he is thirsty, give him to drink. By doing this you will heap coals of fire on his head.’


rate difficulty: And the fishers shall lament, and all they that cast angle into the Nile shall mourn, and they that spread nets upon the waters shall languish.

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


simplify: And I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all: and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all:

And I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel; and one king will be king over them all: and they will no longer be two nations, and will no longer be parted into two kingdoms:


simplify: And Saul arose from the earth; and when his eyes were opened, he saw no man: but they led him by the hand, and brought him into Damascus.

And Saul got up from the earth, and when his eyes were open, he saw nothing; and he was guided by the hand into Damascus.


simplify: He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.

The person who says that they are in the light, and yet hates others, is in the darkness even now.


simplify: But say may some one, Thou hast faith, and I have works, shew me thy faith out of thy works, and I will shew thee out of my works my faith:

Some one, indeed, may say — “You are a man of faith, and I am a man of action.”   “Then show me your faith,” I reply, “apart from any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions.”


simplify: and send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Sidon, by the hand of the messengers that come to Jerusalem unto Zedekiah king of Judah:

And send them to the king of Edom, and to the king of Moab, and to the king of the children of Ammon, and to the king of Tyre, and to the king of Zidon, by their servants who come to Jerusalem, to Zedekiah, king of Judah;


rate difficulty: It came to pass after this also, that the children of Moab, and the children of Ammon, and with them other beside the Ammonites, came against Jehoshaphat to battle.

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


simplify: How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.


rate difficulty: one buck of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


rate difficulty: My sons, be not now negligent; for Jehovah hath chosen you to stand before him, to minister unto him, and that ye should be his ministers, and burn incense.

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


simplify: And it shall be, when thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates:

And it will be that, when you have come to an end of reading this book, you are to have a stone fixed to it, and have it dropped into the Euphrates:


simplify: Then Saul took three thousand chosen men out of all Israel, and went to seek David and his men upon the rocks of the wild goats.

Then Saul took three thousand of the best men out of all Israel, and went in search of David and his men on the rocks of the mountain goats.


rate difficulty: And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

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


rate difficulty: Then Horam, king of Gezer, came up to the help of Lachish; and Joshua overcame him and his people, putting all of them to death.

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


simplify: But when Paul perceived that the one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, Brethren, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees: touching the hope and resurrection of the dead I am called in question.

But when Paul saw that half of them were Sadducees and the rest Pharisees, he said in the Sanhedrin, Brothers, I am a Pharisee, and the son of Pharisees: I am here to be judged on the question of the hope of the coming back from the dead.


simplify: But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

And the Pharisees and their scribes made protests against his disciples, saying, Why do you take food and drink with tax-farmers and sinners?


simplify: And forasmuch as Lydda was nigh to Joppa, and the disciples had heard that Peter was there, they sent unto him two men, desiring him that he would not delay to come to them.

And because Lydda was near Joppa, the disciples, having knowledge that Peter was there, sent two men to him, requesting him to come to them straight away.


simplify: And suddenly there came with the messenger a multitude of the heavenly host, praising God, and saying,

Then suddenly there appeared with the angel a multitude of the heavenly Host, praising God, and singing —


simplify: Moreover four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise therewith.

Four thousand were door-keepers; and four thousand gave praise to the Lord with the instruments which I made, said David, for giving praise.


rate difficulty: On the seventh day, when the heart of the king was merry with wine, he commanded Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, and Abagtha, Zethar, and Carcas, the seven chamberlains that served in the presence of Ahasuerus the king,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: He that hath the Son hath life; and he that hath not the Son of God hath not life.

He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.


simplify: Storehouses also for the increase of corn, and wine, and oil; and stalls for all manner of beasts, and cotes for flocks.

And store-houses for the produce of grain and wine and oil; and buildings for all sorts of beasts and flocks.


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

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simplify: But they cried, saying, Crucify him, crucify him.

but they kept calling out: “Crucify, crucify him!”


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

If I am not an apostle to others, yet at least I am to you; for you are the seal that stamps me as an apostle in union with the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the people answer and say, `Far be it from us to forsake Jehovah, to serve other gods;


rate difficulty: Now after these things, God put Abraham to the test, and said to him, Abraham; and he said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: their numbered ones, for the tribe of Reuben, are six and forty thousand and five hundred.

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rate difficulty: And he said to Bidkar his captain, Take him up [and] cast him in the plot of the field of Naboth the Jizreelite. For remember how, when I and thou rode together after Ahab his father, that Jehovah laid this burden upon him:

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


rate difficulty: I know that there is nothing good in me — I mean in my earthly nature. For, although it is easy for me to want to do right, to act rightly is not easy.


rate difficulty: Then I will give you rain in due season, and the land shall yield her increase, and the trees of the field shall yield their fruit.


simplify: Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.


simplify: But if he thus say, I have no delight in thee; behold, here am I, let him do to me as seemeth good unto him.

But if he says, I have no delight in you: then, here I am; let him do to me what seems good to him.


rate difficulty: We, Jews by nature, and not sinners of [the] nations,

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


simplify: Of Heman: the sons of Heman; Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel, and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti, and Romamti–ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, and Mahazioth:

Of Heman, the sons of Heman: Bukkiah, Mattaniah, Uzziel, Shebuel and Jerimoth, Hananiah, Hanani, Eliathah, Giddalti and Romamti-ezer, Joshbekashah, Mallothi, Hothir, Mahazioth;


rate difficulty: Then David put garrisons in Syria–damascus; and the Syrians became David’s servants, and brought gifts. Thus the Lord preserved David whithersoever he went.

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


rate difficulty: For what saith the scripture? And Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned unto him for righteousness.

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


simplify: Glory ye in his holy name; Let the heart of them rejoice that seek Jehovah.

Have glory in his holy name; let the hearts of those who are searching after the Lord be glad.


simplify: And Shemaiah the son of Nethaneel the scribe, one of the Levites, wrote them before the king, and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar, and before the chief of the fathers of the priests and Levites: one principal household being taken for Eleazar, and one taken for Ithamar.

And Shemaiah, the son of Nethanel the scribe, who was a Levite, put down their names in writing, the king being present with the rulers, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, and the heads of families of the priests and the Levites; one family being taken for Eleazar and then one for Ithamar, and so on.


simplify: Verily I say unto you, All their sins shall be forgiven unto the sons of men, and their blasphemies wherewith soever they shall blaspheme:

Truly, I say to you, The sons of men will have forgiveness for all their sins and for all the evil words they say:


rate difficulty: He built Elath, and restored it to Judah, after that the king slept with his fathers.


rate difficulty: Therefore thy gates shall be open continually; they shall not be shut day nor night; that men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles, and that their kings may be brought.

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


rate difficulty: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.

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


simplify: What is it then? I will pray with the spirit, and I will pray with the understanding also: I will sing with the spirit, and I will sing with the understanding also.

What then? let my prayer be from the spirit, and equally from the mind; let my song be from the spirit, and equally from mind.


rate difficulty: Shall I then take my bread, and my water, and my flesh that I have killed for my shearers, and give it unto men, whom I know not whence they be?

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh's army,


rate difficulty: and the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, with cymbals of brass to sound,


simplify: Delicate living is not seemly for a fool; Much less for a servant to have rule over princes.

Material comfort is not good for the foolish; much less for a servant to be put over rulers.


simplify: Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the Lord, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken.

Go after good and not evil, so that life may be yours: and so the Lord, the God of armies, will be with you, as you say.


simplify: Behold, he shall come up as clouds, and his chariots shall be as a whirlwind: his horses are swifter than eagles. Woe unto us! for we are spoiled.

See, he will come up like the clouds, and his war-carriages like the storm-wind: his horses are quicker than eagles. Sorrow is ours, for destruction has come on us.


simplify: Even the very dust of your city, which cleaveth on us, we do wipe off against you: notwithstanding be ye sure of this, that the kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.

Even the dust of your town, which is on our feet, we put off as a witness against you; but be certain of this, that the kingdom of God is near.


rate difficulty: These are the children of Zilpah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Leah, and Jacob had these sixteen children by her.

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


simplify: And thou shalt say unto them, Whatsoever man there be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers which sojourn among you, that offereth a burnt offering or sacrifice,

And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,


rate difficulty: `When a man doth give unto his neighbour silver, or vessels to keep, and it hath been stolen out of the man's house; if the thief is found, he repayeth double.

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


simplify: Let us lie down in our shame, and let our confusion cover us; for we have sinned against Jehovah our God, we and our fathers, from our youth even unto this day; and we have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah our God.

Let us be stretched on the earth in our downfall, covering ourselves with our shame: for we have been sinners against the Lord our God, we and our fathers, from our earliest years even till this day: and we have not given ear to the voice of the Lord our God.


rate difficulty: And the one woman said, O my lord, I and this woman dwell in one house; and I was delivered of a child with her in the house.

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


simplify: The earth mourneth and fadeth away, the world languisheth and fadeth away, the lofty people of the earth do languish.

The earth is sorrowing and wasting away, the world is full of grief and wasting away, the high ones of the earth come to nothing.


simplify: but they were calling out, saying, `Crucify, crucify him.'

but they kept calling out: “Crucify, crucify him!”


simplify: for the Holy Spirit shall teach you in that very hour what ye ought to say.

For the Holy Spirit will make clear to you in that very hour what to say.


simplify: For what is our hope, or joy, or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming?

For what hope or joy will be ours, or what crown will we have to boast of, in the presence of our Lord Jesus, at his coming, if it be not you?


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not go up and down as a talebearer among thy people: neither shalt thou stand against the blood of thy neighbor: I am Jehovah.

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


simplify: The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: he that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

The highway of the upright is to be turned away from evil: he who takes care of his way will keep his soul.


simplify: Nevertheless the people be strong that dwell in the land, and the cities are walled, and very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.

But the people living in the land are strong, and the towns are walled and very great; further, we saw the children of Anak there.


rate difficulty: And straightway Jesus, perceiving in himself that the power proceeding from him had gone forth, turned him about in the crowd, and said, Who touched my garments?

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


simplify: and the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah.

And the rest of the oil in the priest's hand he will put on the head of him who is to be made clean; and so the priest will make him free from sin before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And now ye think to withstand the kingdom of the Lord in the hand of the sons of David; and ye be a great multitude, and there are with you golden calves, which Jeroboam made you for gods.

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


simplify: When they desired him to tarry longer time with them, he consented not;

When they asked him to prolong his stay, he declined, saying however,


simplify: and having begun from Moses, and from all the prophets, he was expounding to them in all the Writings the things about himself.

Then, beginning with Moses and all the prophets, he explained to them all through the scriptures the passages that referred to himself.


rate difficulty: Wherefore alsoGod highly exalted him, and granted him a name, that which is above every name,

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


rate difficulty: And the work of righteousness shall be peace; and the effect of righteousness, quietness and assurance for ever.

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


rate difficulty: Do not think that I have come to send peace upon the earth: I have not come to send peace, but a sword.


rate difficulty: The pillar of cloud went ever before them by day, and the pillar of fire by night.


rate difficulty: For whenever you take the bread and the cup you give witness to the Lord's death till he comes.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, at the return of the year, that Ben-Hadad numbered the Syrians, and went up to Aphek, to fight against Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And they speak unto him--the lads who had grown up with him--saying, `Thus dost thou say to this people who have spoken unto thee, saying, Thy father made our yoke heavy, and thou, make <FI>it<Fi> light upon us; thus dost thou speak unto them, My little <FI>finger<Fi> is thicker than the loins of my father;

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


rate difficulty: The Lord is slow to anger, and great in power, and will not at all acquit the wicked: the Lord hath his way in the whirlwind and in the storm, and the clouds are the dust of his feet.

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


simplify: These were they that were numbered of the families of the Kohathites, all that might do service in the tabernacle of the congregation, which Moses and Aaron did number according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

This is the number of those of the Kohathites who did the work in the Tent of meeting, as they were numbered by Moses and Aaron at the order of the Lord.


simplify: We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

They are wounded with our arrows; destruction has come on Heshbon, even to Dibon; and we have made the land waste as far as Nophah, stretching out to Medeba.


rate difficulty: Seven days shalt thou prepare every day a goat for a sin-offering: they shall also prepare a young bullock, and a ram out of the flock, without blemish.

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


rate difficulty: The Lord hath said concerning you, O ye remnant of Judah; Go ye not into Egypt: know certainly that I have admonished you this day.

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


simplify: and the Pharisees having seen, said to his disciples, `Wherefore with the tax-gatherers and sinners doth your teacher eat?'

When the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples: “Why does your teacher eat in the company of tax-gatherers and outcasts?”


simplify: In the fulness of his sufficiency he shall be in straits: The hand of every one that is in misery shall come upon him.

Even when his wealth is great, he is full of care, for the hand of everyone who is in trouble is turned against him.


simplify: And the man wondering at her held his peace, to wit whether the Lord had made his journey prosperous or not.

And the man, looking at her, said nothing, waiting to see if the Lord had given his journey a good outcome.


simplify: we, then, ought to receive such, that fellow-workers we may become to the truth.

We, therefore, ought to give such people a hearty welcome, and so take our share in their work for the truth.


rate difficulty: and David <FI>is<Fi> then in the fortress, and the station of the Philistines <FI>is<Fi> then in Beth-Lehem,

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


simplify: being spoken evil of, we entreat; as filth of the world we did become--of all things an offscouring--till now.

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


rate difficulty: If thy brother grow poor, and sell of his possession, then shall his redeemer, his nearest relation, come and redeem that which his brother sold.

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


simplify: And if a man smite his servant, or his maid, with a rod, and he die under his hand; he shall be surely punished.

If a man gives his man-servant or his woman-servant blows with a rod, causing death, he is certainly to undergo punishment.


rate difficulty: And she increased her whoredoms; for she saw men portrayed upon the wall, the images of the Chaldeans portrayed with vermilion,

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


rate difficulty: Now before Isaiah had gone out of the middle of the town, the word of the Lord came to him, saying,

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


rate difficulty: and when they had hoisted it up, they used helps, under-girding the ship; and, fearing lest they should be cast upon the Syrtis, they lowered the gear, and so were driven.

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


rate difficulty: And from the evil-doers their light is kept back, and the arm of pride is broken.

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


simplify: and the evil spirit, answering, said, `Jesus I know, and Paul I am acquainted with; and ye--who are ye?'

but the wicked spirit answered them: “Jesus I acknowledge, and Paul I know, but you — who are you?”


rate difficulty: Now on the twenty-fourth day of this month the children of Israel came together, taking no food and putting haircloth and dust on their bodies.

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


simplify: For the vision is yet for an appointed time, but at the end it shall speak, and not lie: though it tarry, wait for it; because it will surely come, it will not tarry.

For the vision is still for the fixed time, and it is moving quickly to the end, and it will not be false: even if it is slow in coming, go on waiting for it; because it will certainly come, it will not be kept back.


rate difficulty: and now, swear to me by God here: thou dost not lie to me, or to my continuator, or to my successor; according to the kindness which I have done with thee thou dost with me, and with the land in which thou hast sojourned.'

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when she pressed him daily with her words, and urged him, so that his soul was vexed unto death;

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


simplify: Moreover the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying, Jeremiah, what seest thou? And I said, I see a rod of an almond-tree.

Again the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Jeremiah, what do you see? And I said, I see a branch of an almond-tree.


rate difficulty: Attend unto me, O my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall go forth from me, and I will establish my justice for a light of the peoples.

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


simplify: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.


simplify: And again he said, Whereunto shall I liken the kingdom of God?

And again he said, What is the kingdom of God like?


rate difficulty: I have put these things in writing for you who have faith in the name of the Son of God, so that you may be certain that you have eternal life.

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


rate difficulty: And in answer he said, Am I not ordered to say only what the Lord puts into my mouth?


simplify: of certain men the sins are manifest beforehand, leading before to judgment, and certain also they follow after;

There are some people whose sins are conspicuous and lead on to judgment, while there are others whose sins dog their steps.


rate difficulty: And to the Jews I became as a Jew, that I might gain Jews; to them that are under the law, as under the law, not being myself under the law, that I might gain them that are under the law;

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


rate difficulty: Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth;

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


simplify: But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

But the Baal has taken all the work of our fathers from our earliest days; their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.


rate difficulty: He kisseth the lips who giveth a right answer.


rate difficulty: Now there were in Antioch, in the assembly which was [there], prophets and teachers: Barnabas, and Simeon who was called Niger, and Lucius the Cyrenian, and Manaen, foster-brother of Herod the tetrarch, and Saul.

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


simplify: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy strength: this is the first commandment.

and you must love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.’


rate difficulty: Now therefore, in the sight of all Israel, the assembly of Jehovah, and in the audience of our God, observe and seek out all the commandments of Jehovah your God; that ye may possess this good land, and leave it for an inheritance to your children after you for ever.

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


rate difficulty: and reject His statutes and His covenant that He made with their fathers, and His testimonies that He testified against them, and go after the vain thing, and become vain, and after the nations that are round about them, of whom Jehovah commanded them not to do like them;

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


rate difficulty: Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

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


simplify: When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God, thou shalt not slack to pay it: for the Lord thy God will surely require it of thee; and it would be sin in thee.

When you take an oath to the Lord, do not be slow to give effect to it: for without doubt the Lord your God will make you responsible, and will put it to your account as sin.


simplify: I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.

I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead but of the living.


rate difficulty: when suddenly a great earthquake occurred. For an angel of the Lord descended from heaven, and came and rolled away the stone, and seated himself on it.

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


simplify: And he commanded a centurion to keep Paul, and to let him have liberty, and that he should forbid none of his acquaintance to minister or come unto him.

So he gave orders to the captain in charge of Paul to keep him in custody, but to relax the regulations, and not to prevent any of his personal friends from attending to his wants.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he made, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all he did, and his ivory house, and all the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


simplify: `Concerning all things of which I am accused by Jews, king Agrippa, I have thought myself happy, being about to make a defence before thee to-day,

“I have been congratulating myself, King Agrippa,” he said, “that it is before you that I have to make my defense today, with regard to all the charges brought against me by my own people,


rate difficulty: Death and life are in the power of the tongue; And they that love it shall eat the fruit thereof.

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


simplify: And he did very abominably in following idols, according to all things as did the Amorites, whom the Lord cast out before the children of Israel.

He did a very disgusting thing in going after false gods, doing all the things the Amorites did, whom the Lord sent out before the children of Israel.)


rate difficulty: For she did not know that I gave her the grain, and the new wine, and the oil, and multiplied unto her silver and gold, which they used for Baal.

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


simplify: And were continually in the temple, praising and blessing God. Amen.

And they were in the Temple at all times, giving praise to God.


simplify: And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.


simplify: And the suburbs of the cities, which ye shall give unto the Levites, shall reach from the wall of the city and outward a thousand cubits round about.

Stretching from the wall of the towns a distance of a thousand cubits all round.


simplify: For Heshbon was the city of Sihon the king of the Amorites, who had fought against the former king of Moab, and taken all his land out of his hand, even unto the Arnon.

For Heshbon was the town of Sihon, king of the Amorites, who had made war against an earlier king of Moab and taken from him all his land as far as the Arnon.


rate difficulty: to the intent that now unto the principalities and the powers in the heavenly places might be made known through the church the manifold wisdom of God,

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


rate difficulty: behold, the hand of Jehovah is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks: there shall be a very grievous murrain.

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


simplify: And I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments upon No.

And I will make Pathros a waste, and put a fire in Zoan, and send my punishments on No.


rate difficulty: The poor and crushed are looking for water where no water is, and their tongue is dry for need of it: I the Lord will give ear to their prayer, I the God of Israel will not give them up.

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


simplify: When the scoffer is punished, the simple is made wise; And when the wise is instructed, he receiveth knowledge.

When the man of pride undergoes punishment, the simple man gets wisdom; and by watching the wise he gets knowledge.


simplify: and Herod having sought for him, and not having found, having examined the guards, did command <FI>them<Fi> to be led away to punishment, and having gone down from Judea to Caesarea, he was abiding <FI>there<Fi> .

And, when Herod had made further search for him and failed to find him, he closely questioned the Guard, and ordered them away to execution. Then he went down from Judea to stay at Caesarea.


rate difficulty: O that there were such an heart in them, that they would fear me, and keep all my commandments always, that it might be well with them, and with their children for ever!

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


rate difficulty: And the children are impudent and stiffhearted: I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon it was, to the threshold of the house: and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the writer’s inkhorn by his side.

And the glory of the God of Israel had gone up from the winged ones on which it was resting, to the doorstep of the house. And crying out to the man clothed in linen who had the writer's inkpot at his side,


rate difficulty: The heating-pot is for silver and the oven-fire for gold, and a man is measured by what he is praised for.

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


simplify: and he became very hungry, and wished to eat; and they making ready, there fell upon him a trance,

He became hungry and wanted something to eat; but while it was being prepared, he fell into a trance,


simplify: And they said unto Moses, Speak thou with us, and we will hear; but let not God speak with us, lest we die.

And they said to Moses, To your words we will give ear, but let not the voice of God come to our ears, for fear death may come on us.


simplify: But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.


rate difficulty: But she that giveth herself to pleasure is dead while she liveth.

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


simplify: And Saul and the men of Israel were gathered together, and pitched by the valley of Elah, and set the battle in array against the Philistines.

And Saul and the men of Israel came together and took up their position in the valley of Elah, and put their forces in order against the Philistines.


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

And when he came to Samaria, he put to death all those of Ahab's family who were still in Samaria, till there were no more of them, as the Lord had said to Elijah.


simplify: And Joseph saw his brethren, and he knew them, but made himself strange unto them, and spake roughly unto them; and he said unto them, Whence come ye? And they said, From the land of Canaan to buy food.

And when Joseph saw his brothers, it was clear to him who they were, but he made himself strange to them, and talking roughly to them, said, Where do you come from? And they said, From the land of Canaan, to get food.


simplify: Moreover the Lord stirred up against Jehoram the spirit of the Philistines, and of the Arabians, that were near the Ethiopians:

Then the Philistines and the Arabians, who are by Ethiopia, were moved by the Lord to make war on Jehoram;


rate difficulty: And he saith unto him, `I do not go; but unto my land and unto my kindred do I go.'

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


rate difficulty: She also, as catching prey, lieth in wait, And the treacherous among men she increaseth.

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


simplify: But I said, How shall I put thee among the children, and give thee a pleasant land, a goodly heritage of the hosts of nations? and I said, Thou shalt call me, My father; and shalt not turn away from me.

But I said, How am I to put you among the children, and give you a desired land, a heritage of glory among the armies of the nations? and I said, You are to say to me, My father; and not be turned away from me.


simplify: And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he is keeping the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him; for we will not sit down till he come hither.

Then Samuel said to Jesse, Are all your children here? And he said, There is still the youngest, and he is looking after the sheep. And Samuel said to Jesse, Send and make him come here: for we will not take our seats till he is here.


rate difficulty: In the day when the Lord God made earth and heaven there were no plants of the field on the earth, and no grass had come up: for the Lord God had not sent rain on the earth and there was no man to do work on the land.

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


rate difficulty: “You have answered right,”said Jesus; “do that, and you will live.”

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


rate difficulty: These are those that were numbered of the children of Israel, according to their fathers' houses: all those that were numbered of the camps, according to their hosts, were six hundred and three thousand five hundred and fifty.

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


simplify: For he loveth our nation, and he hath built us a synagogue.

“For he is devoted to our nation, and himself built our synagogue for us.”


rate difficulty: And to this people you are to say, The Lord has said, See, I put before you the way of life and the way of death.


rate difficulty: He hath declared to thee, O man, what <FI>is<Fi> good; Yea, what is Jehovah requiring of thee, Except--to do judgment, and love kindness, And lowly to walk with thy God?

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


simplify: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

people whose minds have been blinded by the God of this age, unbelievers as they are, so that the light from the good news of the glory of the Christ, who is the incarnation of God, should not shine for them.


rate difficulty: and Ishmaiah the Gibeonite, a mighty one among the thirty, and over the thirty, and Jeremiah, and Jahaziel, and Johanan, and Josabad the Gederathite.

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


simplify: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur.

At the head of the army of the children of Manasseh was Gamaliel, the son of Pedahzur.


rate difficulty: These are the generations of Jacob. Joseph, being seventeen years old, was feeding the flock with his brethren; and the lad was with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father’s wives: and Joseph brought unto his father their evil report.

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


rate difficulty: and David riseth and goeth, and all the people who <FI>are<Fi> with him, from Baale-Judah, to bring up thence the ark of God, whose name hath been called--the name of Jehovah of Hosts, inhabiting the cherubs--upon it.

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


rate difficulty: and he saith, `Thou hast asked a hard thing; if thou dost see me taken from thee, it is to thee so; and if not, it is not.'

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


rate difficulty: And Saul clothed David with his dress, and put a helmet of bronze upon his head, and clothed him with a corselet.

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


rate difficulty: Then he sheweth them their work, and their transgressions that they have exceeded.

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


simplify: Then they brought out the king’s son, and put the crown upon him, and gave him the testimony, and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons anointed him; and they said, Long live the king.

Then they made the king's son come out, and they put the crown on his head and gave him the arm-bands and made him king: and Jehoiada and his sons put the holy oil on him and said, Long life to the king.


simplify: Consider the lilies how they grow: they toil not, they spin not; and yet I say unto you, that Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.

Think of the lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.


simplify: And the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin; and the men of Israel set the battle in array against them at Gibeah.

And the men of Israel went out to war against Benjamin (and the men of Israel put their forces in fighting order against them at Gibeah).


simplify: Surely I would speak to the Almighty, and I desire to reason with God.

But I would have talk with the Ruler of all, and my desire is to have an argument with God.