simplify: He putteth forth his hand upon the rock; he overturneth the mountains by the roots.

Man puts out his hand on the hard rock, overturning mountains by the roots.


simplify: But thou hast not called upon me, O Jacob; but thou hast been weary of me, O Israel.

But you have made no prayer to me, O Jacob: and you have given no thought to me, O Israel.


simplify: but I made supplication for thee, that thy faith fail not; and do thou, when once thou hast turned again, establish thy brethren.

But I have made prayer for you, that your faith may not go from you: and when you are turned again, make your brothers strong.


simplify: If she please not her master, who hath espoused her to himself, then shall he let her be redeemed: to sell her unto a foreign people he shall have no power, seeing he hath dealt deceitfully with her.

If she is not pleasing to her master who has taken her for himself, let a payment be made for her so that she may go free; her master has no power to get a price for her and send her to a strange land, because he has been false to her.


rate difficulty: therefore thus saith Jehovah: Behold, I will punish Shemaiah the Nehelamite, and his seed: he shall not have a man to dwell among this people; neither shall he see the good that I will do for my people, saith Jehovah; because he hath spoken revolt against Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And they were registered by their genealogy by their generations, heads of their fathers' houses, mighty men of valour, twenty thousand two hundred.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to Jehoshaphat with the news, saying, A great army is moving against you from Edom across the sea; and now they are in Hazazon-tamar (which is En-gedi).

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


rate difficulty: And it was given to it to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should also speak, and should cause that as many as should not do homage to the image of the beast should be killed.

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


rate difficulty: And all the men were about twelve.


rate difficulty: The children of Zattu, nine hundred and forty-five.


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

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


simplify: And, behold, immediately there were three men already come unto the house where I was, sent from Cesarea unto me.

And at that minute, three men, sent from Caesarea, came to the house where we were.


simplify: The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons, not to drink wine, are performed; and unto this day they drink none, for they obey their father’s commandment. But I have spoken unto you, rising up early and speaking; and ye have not hearkened unto me.

The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.


simplify: And moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.


simplify: Then said the Lord to him, Put off thy shoes from thy feet: for the place where thou standest is holy ground.

Then the Lord said to him — ‘Take your sandals off your feet, for the spot where you are standing is holy ground.


simplify: Six years thou shalt sow thy field, and six years thou shalt prune thy vineyard, and gather in the fruit thereof;

For six years put seed into your land, and for six years give care to your vines and get in the produce of them;


rate difficulty: Shall the axe boast itself against him that heweth therewith? shall the saw magnify itself against him that wieldeth it? as if a rod should wield them that lift it up, or as if a staff should lift up him that is not wood.

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


rate difficulty: Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;


rate difficulty: I know thy tribulation, and thy poverty (but thou art rich), and the blasphemy of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Who is gone into heaven, and is on the right hand of God; angels and authorities and powers being made subject unto him.

who has gone into heaven, and is at God’s right hand, where angels and archangels and the powers of heaven now yield submission to him.


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

and they were constantly in the Temple Courts, blessing God.


simplify: In that day shall the fair virgins and the young men faint for thirst.

In that day the fair virgins and the young men will be feeble from need of water.


simplify: But if there be no resurrection of the dead, then is Christ not risen:

But, if there is no such thing as a resurrection of the dead, then even Christ has not been raised;


rate difficulty: And there came a fear on all: and they glorified God, saying, That a great prophet is risen up among us; and, That God hath visited his people.

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


rate difficulty: but I will for their sakes remember the covenant of their ancestors, whom I brought forth out of the land of Egypt in the sight of the nations, that I might be their God: I am Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Christ ransomed us from the curse pronounced in the law, by taking the curse on himself for us, for scripture says —  ‘Cursed is anyone who is hanged on a tree.’

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


simplify: And after this it came to pass, that David smote the Philistines, and subdued them, and took Gath and its towns out of the hand of the Philistines.

And it came about after this that David made an attack on the Philistines and overcame them, and took Gath with its daughter-towns out of the hands of the Philistines.


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

(For if a man has not the art of ruling his house, how will he take care of the church of God?)


rate difficulty: And they sung a new song, saying, Thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals thereof: for thou wast slain, and hast redeemed us to God by thy blood out of every kindred, and tongue, and people, and nation;

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


simplify: That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

so that sentence may be passed on all those who refuse to believe the truth, but delight in wickedness.


simplify: but having risen, go down and go on with them, nothing doubting, because I have sent them;'

Go down at once and do not hesitate to go with them, for I have sent them.”


simplify: and charged them that they should not make him known:

Ordering them not to give people word of him:


rate difficulty: And they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years oppressed they all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

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


simplify: So also ye, unless ye utter by the tongue speech easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken? for ye will be speaking into the air.

So if you, in using a strange tongue, say words which have no sense, how will anyone take in what you are saying? for you will be talking to the air.


simplify: And unto Shem, the father of all the children of Eber, the elder brother of Japheth, to him also were children born.

And Shem, the older brother of Japheth, the father of the children of Eber, had other sons in addition.


simplify: Remember the former things of old: for I am God, and there is none else; I am God, and there is none like me,

Let the things which are past come to your memory: for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is no one like me;


rate difficulty: and Simeon blessed them, and said unto Mary his mother, `Lo, this <FI>one<Fi> is set for the falling and rising again of many in Israel, and for a sign spoken against--

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


rate difficulty: And of the priests; Jedaiah, and Jehoiarib, and Jachin,

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


simplify: but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

But later, they took back again the servants and the servant-girls whom they had let go free, and put them again under the yoke as servants and servant-girls.


rate difficulty: Be not thou among those striking hands, Among sureties <FI>for<Fi> burdens.

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


rate difficulty: and he touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she arose and served him.

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


simplify: 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.

For she had no knowledge that it was I who gave her the grain and the wine and the oil, increasing her silver and gold which they gave to the Baal.


rate difficulty: for she hath cast down many wounded, and all slain by her were strong.

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


simplify: who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation;

Who is the image of the unseen God coming into existence before all living things;


rate difficulty: The lip of truth is established for ever, And for a moment--a tongue of falsehood.

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


simplify: All thy fortresses shall be like fig-trees with the first-ripe figs: if they be shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater.

All your walled places will be like fig-trees and your people like the first figs, falling at a shake into the mouth which is open for them.


simplify: Then said they all, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.

And they all said, Are you then the Son of God? and he said, You say that I am.


simplify: He that overcometh, the same shall be clothed in white raiment; and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life, but I will confess his name before my Father, and before his angels.

Those who conquer will be clothed in these white robes, and I will not ‘strike their name out of the book of life’; but I will own them before my Father, and before his angels.


simplify: And, as Isaiah hath said before,  Except the Lord of Sabaoth had left us a seed, We had become as Sodom, and had been made like unto Gomorrah.

And, as Isaiah had said before, If the Lord of armies had not given us a seed, we would have been like Sodom and Gomorrah.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the castle of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died,

And when Zimri saw that the town was taken, he went into the inner room of the king's house, and burning the house over his head, came to his end,


simplify: For whosoever would save his life shall lose it; and whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel’s shall save it.

Whoever has a desire to keep his life, will have it taken from him; and whoever gives up his life because of me and the good news, will keep it.


rate difficulty: And now, O Lord God, the word that thou hast spoken concerning thy servant, and concerning his house, establish it for ever, and do as thou hast said.

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


simplify: And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

I will give to you the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatever is fixed by you on earth will be fixed in heaven: and whatever you make free on earth will be made free in heaven.


simplify: for of a truth in this city against thy holy Servant Jesus, whom thou didst anoint, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the peoples of Israel, were gathered together,

For, truly, in this town, against your holy servant, Jesus, who was marked out by you as Christ, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel, came together,


simplify: When once the master of the house is risen up, and hath shut to the door, and ye begin to stand without, and to knock at the door, saying, Lord, open to us; and he shall answer and say to you, I know you not whence ye are;

When the master of the house has got up, and the door has been shut, and you, still outside, give blows on the door, saying, Lord, let us in; he will make answer and say, I have no knowledge of where you come from.


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


simplify: Blessed are they that wash their robes, that they may have the right to come to the tree of life, and may enter in by the gates into the city.

A blessing on those whose robes are washed, so that they may have a right to the tree of life, and may go in by the doors into the town.


simplify: Then Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to him, with the rest of the people that remained.

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away to Babylon as prisoners, all the rest of the workmen who were still in the town, as well as those who had given themselves up to him, and all the rest of the people.


rate difficulty: and when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, who said that he was alive.

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


simplify: Gather the people, sanctify the congregation, assemble the elders, gather the children, and those that suck the breasts: let the bridegroom go forth of his chamber, and the bride out of her closet.

Get the people together, make the mass of the people holy, send for the old men, get together the children and babies at the breast: let the newly married man come out of his room and the bride from her tent.


simplify: Let the day perish wherein I was born, and the night in which it was said, There is a man child conceived.

Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.


simplify: Moreover ye see and hear, that not alone at Ephesus, but almost throughout all Asia, this Paul hath persuaded and turned away much people, saying that they be no gods, which are made with hands:

and you see and hear that not only at Ephesus, but in almost the whole of Roman Asia, this Paul has convinced and won over great numbers of people, by his assertion that those Gods which are made by hands are not Gods at all.


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

But he kept his place in the middle of the bit of land, and kept back their attack and overcame the Philistines: and the Lord gave a great salvation.


simplify: And he charged them that they should tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it;

Jesus insisted on their not telling anyone; but the more he insisted, the more perseveringly they made it known,


simplify: who doth serve as a soldier at his own charges at any time? who doth plant a vineyard, and of its fruit doth not eat? or who doth feed a flock, and of the milk of the flock doth not eat?

Does anyone ever serve as a soldier at his own expense? Does anyone plant a vineyard and not eat its produce? Or does anyone look after a herd and not drink the milk?


simplify: Saying, Surely they that did rise up against us are cut off, And the remnant of them the fire hath consumed.

Saying, Truly, their substance is cut off, and their wealth is food for the fire.


simplify: Brethren, if any of you do err from the truth, and one convert him;

My friends, should one of you be led astray from the truth, and someone bring them back again,


rate difficulty: And he setteth the graven image of the shrine that he made in the house of which Jehovah said unto David and unto Solomon his son, `In this house, and in Jerusalem, that I have chosen out of all the tribes of Israel, I put My name--to the age;

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


rate difficulty: His is the power for ever. So be it.

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


rate difficulty: And the taskmasters were urgent saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

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


rate difficulty: Madmenah is fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim take to flight.

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


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Go down to the house of the king of Judah, and speak there this word,

This is what the Lord has said: Go down to the house of the king of Judah and there give him this word,


simplify: And Saul sought to smite David even to the wall with the spear; but he slipped away out of Saul’s presence, and he smote the spear into the wall: and David fled, and escaped that night.

And Saul would have sent his spear through him, pinning him to the wall, but he got away and the spear went into the wall: and that night David went in flight and got away.


rate difficulty: And the Levites <FI>are<Fi> Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, Mattaniah, he <FI>is<Fi> over the thanksgiving, and his brethren,

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


simplify: And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el; and Jehovah was with them.

And the family of Joseph went up against Beth-el, and the Lord was with them.


simplify: Wilt thou judge them, son of man, wilt thou judge them? Cause them to know the abominations of their fathers;

Will you be their judge, O son of man, will you be their judge? make clear to them the disgusting ways of their fathers,


rate difficulty: And afterward came out his brother, that had the scarlet thread upon his hand: and his name was called Zerah.

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


simplify: And Absalom came to the king, and said, Behold now, thy servant hath sheepshearers; let the king, I beseech thee, and his servants go with thy servant.

And Absalom came to the king and said, See now, your servant is cutting the wool of his sheep; will the king and his servants be pleased to come?


simplify: And there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.

Another portent also was seen in the heavens There was a great red Dragon, with seven heads and ten horns, and on his heads were seven diadems.


simplify: And they all said, Art thou then the Son of God? And he said unto them, Ye say that I am.

And they all said, Are you then the Son of God? and he said, You say that I am.


rate difficulty: And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within and on the backside, sealed with seven seals.

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


rate difficulty: There were also that said, We have borrowed money for the king’s tribute upon our fields and our vineyards.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Ram, the firstborn of Jerahmeel, were Maaz, and Jamin, and Eker.

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


rate difficulty: And he burnt the house of the Lord, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.

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


simplify: He said also unto me, Turn thee yet again, and thou shalt see greater abominations that they do.

Then he said to me, You will see even more disgusting things which they do.


simplify: And it came to pass in the eleventh year, in the thirdmonth, in the firstdayof the month, that the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

Now in the eleventh year, in the third month, on the first day of the month, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And Balaam rose up in the morning, and saddled his ass, and went with the princes of Moab.

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


rate difficulty: So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.


simplify: As soon as Jesus heard the word that was spoken, he saith unto the ruler of the synagogue, Be not afraid, only believe.

But Jesus, giving no attention to their words, said to the ruler of the Synagogue, Have no fear, only have faith.


rate difficulty: As Jehovah had commanded Moses his servant, so did Moses command Joshua, and so did Joshua: he let nothing fail of all that Jehovah had commanded Moses.


simplify: This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.

But I say, Go on in the Spirit, and you will not come under the rule of the evil desires of the flesh.


simplify: And he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, `Why me do ye tempt? bring me a denary, that I may see;'

Should we pay, or should we not pay?” Knowing their hypocrisy, Jesus said to them: “Why are you testing me? Bring me a coin to look at.”


rate difficulty: Sheol beneath hath been troubled at thee, To meet thy coming in, It is waking up for thee Rephaim, All chiefs ones of earth, It hath raised up from their thrones All kings of nations.

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


rate difficulty: If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

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


simplify: And there was of the house of Saul a servant whose name was Ziba. And when they had called him unto David, the king said unto him, Art thou Ziba? And he said, Thy servant is he.

Now there was of Saul's people a servant named Ziba, and they sent him to David; and the king said to him, Are you Ziba? And he said, I am.


rate difficulty: For,  All flesh is as grass, And all the glory thereof as the flower of grass. The grass withereth, and the flower falleth:

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


rate difficulty: But every one shall die for his own iniquity: every man that eateth the sour grape, his teeth shall be set on edge.

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


rate difficulty: The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah will answer and say unto his people, Behold, I send you corn, and new wine, and oil, and ye shall be satisfied therewith; and I will no more make you a reproach among the nations.

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


rate difficulty: But, as the Jewish leaders opposed my release, I was compelled to appeal to the Emperor — not, indeed, that I had any charge to make against my own nation.

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


simplify: and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, Because ye believed not in me, to sanctify me in the eyes of the children of Israel, therefore ye shall not bring this assembly into the land which I have given them.

Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, Because you had not enough faith in me to keep my name holy before the children of Israel, you will not take this people into the land which I have given them.


rate difficulty: And Jehoshaphat is going on and becoming very great, and he buildeth in Judah palaces and cities of store,

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


rate difficulty: The priests may not take for food any bird or beast which has come to a natural death or whose death has been caused by another animal.

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


simplify: When Ephraim spake trembling, he exalted himself in Israel; but when he offended in Baal, he died.

When the words of my law came from Ephraim, he was lifted up in Israel; but when he did evil through the Baal, death overtook him.


simplify: They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat.

They will never be in need of food or drink: and they will never again be troubled by the burning heat of the sun:


simplify: O Lord, thou hast deceived me, and I was deceived: thou art stronger than I, and hast prevailed: I am in derision daily, every one mocketh me.

O Lord, you have been false to me, and I was tricked; you are stronger than I, and have overcome me: I have become a thing to be laughed at all the day, everyone makes sport of me.


simplify: He that hath a wayward heart findeth no good; And he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.


rate difficulty: And ye are complete in him, which is the head of all principality and power:

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


simplify: Then came Peter and said to him, Lord, how oft shall my brother sin against me, and I forgive him? until seven times?

Then Peter came and said to him, Lord, what number of times may my brother do wrong against me, and I give him forgiveness? till seven times?


simplify: And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth are passed away; and the sea is no more.

And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were gone; and there was no more sea.


simplify: Hadad, and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:

Hadad and Tema, Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah:


simplify: and a woman, if she have long hair, a glory it is to her, because the hair instead of a covering hath been given to her;

a woman’s long hair is her glory? Her hair has been given her to serve as a covering.


rate difficulty: But the Lord your God will give them up into your hands, overpowering them till their destruction is complete.

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


simplify: And he entered again into the synagogue, and there was there a man having the hand withered,

On another occasion Jesus went in to a synagogue, where there was a man whose hand was withered.


simplify: And this is the boldness that we have toward Him, that if anything we may ask according to his will, He doth hear us,

And this is the confidence with which we approach him, that whenever we ask anything that is in accordance with his will, he listens to us.


rate difficulty: For while the son of Jesse is living on the earth, your position is unsafe and your kingdom is in danger. So make him come here to me, for it is certainly right for him to be put to death.

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


simplify: Euodia I exhort, and Syntyche I exhort, to be of the same mind in the Lord;

I entreat Euodia, and I entreat Syntyche, to live in harmony, in union with the Lord;


rate difficulty: If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: but I gave no credit to their words, until I came and mine eyes had seen; and behold, the half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me: thou exceedest the report that I heard.

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


simplify: But when it pleased God, who separated me from my mother’s womb, and called me by his grace,

But when it was the good pleasure of God, by whom I was marked out even from my mother's body, through his grace,


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

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


simplify: And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

And David and all the men of Israel made melody before the Lord with all their power, with songs and with corded instruments and instruments of brass.


rate difficulty: 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 uncover thy sins.

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


rate difficulty: Does he feel grateful to his servant for doing what he is told?


simplify: ye have not left your brethren these many days unto this day, but have kept the charge of the commandment of Jehovah your God.

You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And Jesus gave a loud cry, and gave up his spirit.


rate difficulty: And the remainder of the trees of his forest shall be few: yea, a child might write them.

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


simplify: The roaring of the lion, and the voice of the fierce lion, And the teeth of the young lions, are broken.

Though the noise of the lion and the sounding of his voice, may be loud, the teeth of the young lions are broken.


simplify: having gone toward Mysia, they were trying to go on toward Bithynia, and the Spirit did not suffer them,

When they reached the borders of Mysia, they attempted to go into Bithynia, but the Spirit of Jesus did not permit them.


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


simplify: Let not kindness and truth forsake thee: Bind them about thy neck; Write them upon the tablet of thy heart:

Let not mercy and good faith go from you; let them be hanging round your neck, recorded on your heart;


rate difficulty: So the king hearkened not unto the people; for it was brought about of God, that Jehovah might establish his word, which he spake by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam the son of Nebat.

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


simplify: Salute Rufus chosen in the Lord, and his mother and mine.

Give my love to Rufus, one of the Lord's selection, and to his mother and mine.


simplify: and he doth call near the twelve, and he began to send them forth two by two, and he was giving them power over the unclean spirits,

He called the Twelve to him, and began to send them out as his messengers, two and two, and gave them authority over foul spirits.


simplify: These things did Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and had a name among the three mighty men.

These were the acts of Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, who had a great name among the thirty men of war.


rate difficulty: for through faith we walk, not through sight--

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


simplify: And they possessed all the coasts of the Amorites, from Arnon even unto Jabbok, and from the wilderness even unto Jordan.

All the limit of the Amorites was theirs, from the Arnon as far as the Jabbok and from the waste land even to Jordan.


rate difficulty: and Zebadiah, and Meshullam, and Hizki, and Heber,

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


rate difficulty: Shall not all these take up a parable against him, and a taunting proverb against him, and say, Woe to him that increaseth that which is not his! how long? and that ladeth himself with pledges!


rate difficulty: Of the children of Issachar, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;

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


simplify: Then Ehud went forth into the porch, and shut the doors of the upper room upon him, and locked them.

Then Ehud went out into the covered way, shutting the doors of the summer-house on him and locking them.


rate difficulty: To whom they all gave attention, from the smallest to the greatest, saying, This man is that power of God which is named Great.

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


rate difficulty: He that rebuketh a man shall afterwards find more favour than he that flattereth with the tongue.

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


simplify: Now it came to pass, when Jeremiah had made an end of speaking all that the Lord had commanded him to speak unto all the people, that the priests and the prophets and all the people took him, saying, Thou shalt surely die.

Now, when Jeremiah had come to the end of saying everything the Lord had given him orders to say to all the people, the priests and the prophets and all the people took him by force, saying, Death will certainly be your fate.


simplify: And it came to pass, when ye heard the voice out of the midst of the darkness, while the mountain was burning with fire, that ye came near unto me, even all the heads of your tribes, and your elders;

And after hearing the voice which came out of the dark while the mountain was burning with fire, all the heads of your tribes and your chiefs came to me,


rate difficulty: When thou comest unto the land which Jehovah thyGod giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like all the nations that are about me;

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


simplify: In a dream, in a vision of the night, When deep sleep falleth upon men, In slumberings upon the bed;

In a dream, in a vision of the night, when deep sleep comes on men, while they take their rest on their beds;


rate difficulty: And he said, I will send thee a kid of the goats from the flock. And she said, Wilt thou give me a pledge, till thou send it?

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto her, Give me, I pray thee, a little water to drink; for I am thirsty. And she opened a bottle of milk, and gave him drink, and covered him.

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


rate difficulty: Though he gives fruit among his brothers, an east wind will come, the wind of the Lord coming up from the waste land, and his spring will become dry, his fountain will be without water: it will make waste the store of all the vessels of his desire.

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


simplify: The show of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have done evil unto themselves.

Their respect for a man's position is a witness against them; and their sin is open to the view of all; like that of Sodom, it is not covered. A curse on their soul! for the measure of their sin is full.


rate difficulty: Instantly it seemed as if a film fell from Saul’s eyes, and his sight was restored. Then he got up and was baptized,


simplify: Now in the eighteenth year of his reign, when he had purged the land and the house, he sent Shaphan the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah the governor of the city, and Joah the son of Joahaz the recorder, to repair the house of Jehovah his God.

Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of the Lord his God.


rate difficulty: Malluch, Harim, Baanah.

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


simplify: And the Lord said, If ye had faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye might say unto this sycamine tree, Be thou plucked up by the root, and be thou planted in the sea; and it should obey you.

And the Lord said, If your faith was only as great as a grain of mustard seed, you might say to this tree, Be rooted up and planted in the sea; and it would be done.


simplify: Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at a hair-breadth, and not miss.

Who were left-handed, able to send a stone at a hair without error.


rate difficulty: Johanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel, Neriah,

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


rate difficulty: I will not drive them out from before thee in one year; lest the land become desolate, and the beast of the field multiply against thee.

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


rate difficulty: And after my skin hath compassed this <FI>body<Fi> , Then from my flesh I see God:

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


simplify: And I beheld, and heard an angel flying through the midst of heaven, saying with a loud voice, Woe, woe, woe, to the inhabiters of the earth by reason of the other voices of the trumpet of the three angels, which are yet to sound!

And there came to my ears the cry of an eagle in flight in the middle of heaven, saying with a great voice, Trouble, trouble, trouble, to all on the earth, because of the other voices of the horns of the three angels, whose sounding is still to come.


simplify: And Nebuzar–adan captain of the guard took these, and brought them to the king of Babylon to Riblah:

These Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took with him to the king of Babylon at Riblah.


simplify: And it came to pass, that, as I made my journey, and was come nigh unto Damascus about noon, suddenly there shone from heaven a great light round about me.

While I was still on my way, just as I was getting close to Damascus, about midday, suddenly there flashed from the heavens a great light all around me.


rate difficulty: And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.

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


simplify: Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain; and he shall bring forth the top stone with shoutings of Grace, grace, unto it.

Who are you, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel you will become level: and he will let all see the headstone, with cries of Grace, grace, to it.


simplify: and I will remember my covenant, which is between me and you and every living creature of all flesh; and the waters shall no more become a flood to destroy all flesh.

And I will keep in mind the agreement between me and you and every living thing; and never again will there be a great flow of waters causing destruction to all flesh.


rate difficulty: And immediately Jesus stretched out his hand and caught hold of him, and says to him, O thou of little faith, why didst thou doubt?

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


rate difficulty: and Joelah, and Zebadiah, the sons of Jeroham of Gedor.

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


rate difficulty: And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them the Lord thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of the Lord; and by their word shall every controversy and every stroke be tried:


rate difficulty: Arise, let us go; behold, he that delivers me up has drawn nigh.

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


simplify: Go through, go through the gates; prepare ye the way of the people; cast up, cast up the highway; gather out the stones; lift up a standard for the people.

Go through, go through the doors; make ready the way of the people; let the highway be lifted up; let the stones be taken away; let a flag be lifted up over the peoples.


rate difficulty: And Jonadab said to the king, Behold, the king's sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Jahdai: Regem, and Jotham, and Geshem, and Pelet, and Ephah, and Shaaph.


rate difficulty: And all the people of Judah took Uzziah, who was sixteen years old, and made him king in the room of his father Amaziah.

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


simplify: and not having found them, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the city rulers, calling aloud--`These, having put the world in commotion, are also here present,

and, not finding them there, they proceeded to drag Jason and some of the Lord's followers before the city magistrates, shouting out:   “These men, who have turned the world upside down, have now come here,


simplify: It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

It is good for a man to undergo the yoke when he is young.


simplify: And he built the city round about, from Millo even round about; and Joab repaired the rest of the city.

And he took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo; and Joab put the rest of the town in order.


rate difficulty: Who for a reward give support to the cause of the sinner, and who take away the righteousness of the upright from him.


rate difficulty: The nakedness of thy father's wife's daughter, begotten of thy father: she is thy sister: thou shalt not uncover her nakedness.

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


rate difficulty: In that day there shall be a fountain opened to the house of David and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem for sin and for uncleanness.

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


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

And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;


rate difficulty: Jetur, Naphish, and Kedemah. These are the sons of Ishmael.


simplify: Then Asa was wroth with the seer, and put him in a prison house; for he was in a rage with him because of this thing. And Asa oppressed some of the people the same time.

Then Asa was angry with the seer, and put him in prison, burning with wrath against him because of this thing. And at the same time Asa was cruel to some of the people.


simplify: So Esau returned that day on his way unto Seir.

So Esau, turning back that day, went on his way to Seir.


rate difficulty: Then he laid his hands again upon his eyes, and he saw distinctly, and was restored and saw all things clearly.


rate difficulty: And now, if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me; and if not, tell me; and I will turn to the right hand or to the left.

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


rate difficulty: And she came to Jerusalem with a very great train, with camels weighted down with spices, and stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.

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


rate difficulty: In holiness and righteousness before him, all the days of our life.

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


rate difficulty: Those whose hearts were turned away from him will get knowledge, and those who made an outcry against him will give attention to his teaching.

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


rate difficulty: Will you keep the old way by which evil men went?

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


simplify: Therefore seeing we have this ministry, as we have received mercy, we faint not;

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:


rate difficulty: Take your place in the doorway of the Lord's house, and give out this word there, and say, Give ear to the word of the Lord, all you of Judah who come inside these doors to give worship to the Lord.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


simplify: Thus the Lord saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.

So that day the Lord gave Israel salvation from the hands of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead on the sea's edge.


rate difficulty: that ye may eat and may drink at my table, in my kingdom, and may sit on thrones, judging the twelve tribes of Israel.'

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


rate difficulty: And he that sitteth on any object whereon he sat that hath the flux shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


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

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


simplify: And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.

And this is the way you are to make it: it is to be three hundred cubits long, fifty cubits wide, and thirty cubits high.


simplify: neither shall he stand that handleth the bow; and he that is swift of foot shall not deliver himself; neither shall he that rideth the horse deliver himself;

And the bowman will not keep his place; he who is quick-footed will not get away safely: and the horseman will not keep his life.


rate difficulty: Of their flesh shall ye not eat, and their carcase shall ye not touch: they shall be unclean unto you.

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


simplify: Behold, I will bring a fear upon thee, saith the Lord God of hosts, from all those that be about thee; and ye shall be driven out every man right forth; and none shall gather up him that wandereth.

See, I will send fear on you, says the Lord, the Lord of armies, from those who are round you on every side; you will be forced out, every man straight before him, and there will be no one to get together the wanderers.


simplify: And all the people shall hear, and fear, and do no more presumptuously.

And all the people, hearing of it, will be full of fear and put away their pride.


rate difficulty: Then David sent out ten young men; and David said to the young men, Go up to Carmel, and go to Nabal, and greet him in my name.


rate difficulty: Then Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron, and said to them, I have done evil this time: the Lord is upright, and I and my people are sinners.


simplify: And Joseph remembered the dreams which he dreamed of them, and said unto them, Ye are spies; to see the nakedness of the land ye are come.

Then the memory of his dreams about them came back to Joseph, and he said to them, You have come secretly to see how poor the land is.


simplify: Be glad then, ye children of Zion, and rejoice in Jehovah your God; for he giveth you the former rain in just measure, and he causeth to come down for you the rain, the former rain and the latter rain, in the first month.

Be glad, then, you children of Zion, and have joy in the Lord your God: for he gives you food in full measure, making the rain come down for you, the early and the late rain as at the first.


rate difficulty: For truly my words shall not be false: he that is perfect in knowledge is with thee.

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


simplify: And Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah lived after the death of Jehoash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel fifteen years.

Amaziah, the son of Joash, king of Judah, went on living for fifteen years after the death of Jehoash, son of Jehoahaz, king of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the chieftains of Judah shall say in their heart, The inhabitants of Jerusalem are my strength in Jehovah of hosts their God.

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


simplify: The young men of Aven and of Pi–beseth shall fall by the sword: and these cities shall go into captivity.

The young men of On and Pi-beseth will be put to the sword: and these towns will be taken away prisoners.


rate difficulty: Where then [is] boasting? It has been excluded. By what law? of works? Nay, but by law of faith;


simplify: The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved.

The grain-cutting is past, the summer is ended, and no salvation has come to us.


rate difficulty: Igal, the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

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


rate difficulty: Anyone who does not take their cross and follow in my steps is not worthy of me.

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


rate difficulty: I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got me men-singers and women-singers, and the delights of the children of men, a wife and concubines.

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


rate difficulty: Now therefore let the fear of Jehovah be upon you; take heed and do it: for there is no iniquity with Jehovah our God, nor respect of persons, nor taking of bribes.


rate difficulty: For in the place whither they have removed him he dieth, And this land he doth not see again.

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


rate difficulty: For I have kept the ways of Jehovah, And have not wickedly departed from my God.


rate difficulty: He that troubleth his own house shall inherit the wind: and the fool shall be servant to the wise of heart.


simplify: And she conceived again, and bare a son; and said, Because the Lord hath heard that I was hated, he hath therefore given me this son also: and she called his name Simeon.

Then she became with child again, and gave birth to a son; and said, Because it has come to the Lord's ears that I am not loved, he has given me this son in addition: and she gave him the name Simeon.


rate difficulty: And after the reading of the law and the prophets the rulers of the synagogue sent unto them, saying, Ye men and brethren, if ye have any word of exhortation for the people, say on.

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


rate difficulty: The music-makers: the children of Asaph, a hundred and forty-eight.


simplify: For not he that commendeth himself is approved, but whom the Lord commendeth.

For the Lord's approval of a man is not dependent on his opinion of himself, but on the Lord's opinion of him.


rate difficulty: And Moses goeth up from the plains of Moab unto mount Nebo, the top of Pisgah, which <FI>is<Fi> on the front of Jericho, and Jehovah sheweth him all the land--Gilead unto Dan,

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


rate difficulty: In those days, and at that time, saith Jehovah, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not be found: for I will pardon those whom I leave remaining.


simplify: And they turned and fled toward the wilderness unto the rock of Rimmon: and they gleaned of them in the highways five thousand men; and pursued hard after them unto Gidom, and slew two thousand men of them.

And turning, they went in flight to the rock of Rimmon in the waste land: and on the highways five thousand of them were cut off by the men of Israel, who, pushing on hard after them to Geba, put to death two thousand more.


simplify: see my hands and my feet, that I am he; handle me and see, because a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me having.'

Look at my hands and my feet, and you will know that it is I. Feel me, and look at me, for a spirit has not flesh and bones, as you see that I have.”


simplify: But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.

“But about ‘that day,’ or ‘the hour,’ no one knows — not even the angels in heaven, not even the Son — but only the Father.


simplify: But Jesus called them unto him, saying, Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not: for to such belongeth the kingdom of God.

But Jesus sent for them, saying, Let the children come to me, and do not keep them away, for of such is the kingdom of heaven.


simplify: And he said unto him, Take me an heifer of three years old, and a she goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and a turtledove, and a young pigeon.

And he said, Take a young cow of three years old, and a she-goat of three years old, and a sheep of three years old, and a dove and a young pigeon.


simplify: And they come to Jerusalem, and Jesus having gone into the temple, began to cast forth those selling and buying in the temple, and the tables of the money-changers and the seats of those selling the doves, he overthrew,

They came to Jerusalem. Jesus went into the Temple Courts, and began to drive out those who were buying and selling there. He overturned the tables of the money changers, and the seats of the pigeon-dealers,


rate difficulty: Wherefore also God did give them up, in the desires of their hearts, to uncleanness, to dishonour their bodies among themselves;

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


rate difficulty: three calyxes made like almonds in the one branch, a knop and a flower, and three calyxes made like almonds in one branch, a knop and a flower; so for the six branches which are coming out from the candlestick.

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


rate difficulty: And when Abner was returned to Hebron, Joab took him aside in the gate to speak with him quietly, and smote him there under the fifth rib, that he died, for the blood of Asahel his brother.

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


rate difficulty: And the Angel of Jehovah appeared to the woman, and said to her, Behold now, thou art barren and bearest not; but thou shalt conceive and bear a son.

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


rate difficulty: Let not him that is deceived trust in vanity: for vanity shall be his recompence.

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


simplify: Behold, I waited for your words; I gave ear to your reasons, whilst ye searched out what to say.

I was waiting for your words, I was giving ear to your wise sayings; while you were searching out what to say,


simplify: And Adaiah the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasiai the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;

And Adaiah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Pashhur, the son of Malchijah, and Maasai, the son of Adiel, the son of Jahzerah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Meshillemith, the son of Immer;


simplify: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

For this cause be ruled by God; but make war on the Evil One and he will be put to flight before you.


simplify: And Hazael said, Why weepeth my lord? And he answered, Because I know the evil that thou wilt do unto the children of Israel: their strong holds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash their children, and rip up their women with child.

And Hazael said, Why is my lord weeping? Then he said in answer, Because I see the evil which you will do to the children of Israel: burning down their strong towns, putting their young men to death with the sword, smashing their little ones against the stones, and cutting open the women who are with child.


rate difficulty: and, after telling them the whole story, sent them to Jaffa.

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


rate difficulty: The sorrows of hell compassed me about; the snares of death prevented me;

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


rate difficulty: Joshua therefore came upon them suddenly; for he went up from Gilgal all the night.


simplify: He trusted in Jehovah, the God of Israel; so that after him was none like him among all the kings of Judah, nor among them that were before him.

He had faith in the Lord, the God of Israel; so that there was no one like him among all the kings of Judah who were before him.


rate difficulty: Who has made us able to be servants of a new agreement; not of the letter, but of the Spirit: for the letter gives death, but the Spirit gives life.


simplify: Then the Lord said unto me, Out of the north an evil shall break forth upon all the inhabitants of the land.

Then the Lord said to me, Out of the north evil will come, bursting out on all the people of the land.


rate difficulty: For I have not been cut off before darkness, And before me He covered thick darkness.


simplify: And there went out unto him all the land of Judea, and they of Jerusalem, and were all baptized of him in the river of Jordan, confessing their sins.

The whole of Judea, as well as all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, went out to him; and they were baptized by him in the Jordan River, confessing their sins.


simplify: And Er, Judah’s first-born, was wicked in the sight of Jehovah; and Jehovah slew him.

Now Er, Judah's first son, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, so that he put him to death.


simplify: For a certain man named Demetrius, a silversmith, which made silver shrines for Diana, brought no small gain unto the craftsmen;

For there was a certain man named Demetrius, a silver-worker, who made silver boxes for the images of Diana, and gave no small profit to the workmen;


simplify: And the Assyrian shall fall by the sword, not of man; and the sword, not of men, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall become subject to taskwork.

Then the Assyrian will come down by the sword, but not of man; the sword, not of men, will be the cause of his destruction: and he will go in flight from the sword, and his young men will be put to forced work.


simplify: His disciples say unto him, If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry.

The disciples say to him, If this is the position of a man in relation to his wife, it is better not to be married.


simplify: and Ashan with its suburbs, and Beth-shemesh with its suburbs;

And Ashan with its outskirts, and Beth-shemesh with its outskirts;


rate difficulty: But go ye and learn what that meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice: for I am not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.

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


rate difficulty: In this we see what love is, because he gave his life for us; and it is right for us to give our lives for the brothers.


simplify: We roar all like bears, and moan sore like doves: we look for justice, but there is none; for salvation, but it is far off from us.

We make noises of grief, like bears, and sad sounds like doves: we are looking for our right, but it is not there; for salvation, but it is far from us.


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

When a man's ways are pleasing to the Lord, he makes even his haters be at peace with him.


simplify: For Demas hath forsaken me, having loved this present world, and is departed unto Thessalonica; Crescens to Galatia, Titus unto Dalmatia.

for Demas, in his love for the world, has deserted me. He has gone to Thessalonica, Crescens to Galatia, and Titus to Dalmatia.


rate difficulty: Then she said, I desire one small petition of thee; refuse me not. And the king said to her, Ask, my mother, for I will not refuse thee.

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


rate difficulty: Rejoice with those who are rejoicing, and weep with those who are weeping.

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


simplify: Jehovah, thy hand is lifted up, yet they see not: but they shall seethyzeal for the people, and be put to shame; yea, fire shall devour thine adversaries.

Lord, your hand is lifted up, but they do not see: let them see ... yes, your haters will be burned up in the fire.


rate difficulty: Now these are their living-places, the limits inside which they were to put up their tents: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites, because they had the first selection,

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


rate difficulty: And Israel said, Wherefore dealt ye so ill with me, as to tell the man whether ye had yet a brother?

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


rate difficulty: They lay hold on bow and spear; they are cruel, and have no mercy; their voice roareth like the sea; and they ride upon horses, every one set in array, as a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.


simplify: The Lord said to my lord, Sit at my right hand, till I may make thine enemies thy footstool?

‘The Lord said to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I put your enemies beneath your feet”’?


rate difficulty: Therefore, as I said, we do not lose heart. No, even though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day.

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


rate difficulty: and I fix on Jerusalem for My name being there, and I fix on David to be over My people Israel.


simplify: but I--I say to you, that whoever may put away his wife, save for the matter of whoredom, doth make her to commit adultery; and whoever may marry her who hath been put away doth commit adultery.

But I say to you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of some serious sexual sin, leads to her committing adultery; while anyone who marries her after her divorce is guilty of adultery.


rate difficulty: Because he was not certain what to say, for they were in great fear.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: and he told her all his heart, and said to her, There has not come a razor upon my head; for I am a Nazarite ofGod from my mother's womb; if I should be shaven, then my strength would go from me, and I should be weak, and be like all mankind.


rate difficulty: And there they preached the gospel.


simplify: The Lord God hath opened mine ear, and I was not rebellious, neither turned away back.

And I have not put myself against him, or let my heart be turned back from him.


simplify: The words of the wise are as goads; and as nails well fastened are the words of the masters of assemblies, which are given from one shepherd.

The words of the wise are pointed, and sayings grouped together are like nails fixed with a hammer; they are given by one guide.


simplify: From Jordan eastward, all the land of Gilead, the Gadites, and the Reubenites, and the Manassites, from Aroer, which is by the river Arnon, even Gilead and Bashan.

East of Jordan, in all the land of Gilead, the Gadites and the Reubenites and the Manassites, from Aroer by the valley of the Arnon, all Gilead and Bashan.


simplify: And pray ye that your flight be not in the winter.

And say a prayer that it may not be in the winter.


simplify: And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.

‘Your brother has come back,’ the servant told him, ‘and your father has killed the fattened calf, because he has him back safe and sound.’


simplify: and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;

but we look for ‘new heavens and a new earth,’ where righteousness will have its home, in fulfillment of the promise of God.


simplify: And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

And he said to them in answer, What did Moses say you were to do?


simplify: the ark, and the staves thereof, the mercy-seat, and the veil of the screen;

The ark with its cover and its rods and the veil hanging before it;


rate difficulty: Now therefore know certainly that ye shall die by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, in the place whither ye desire to go and to sojourn.

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


simplify: Shew me a penny. Whose image and superscription hath it? They answered and said, Cesar’s.

“Show me a coin. Whose head and title are on it?”


rate difficulty: And whosoever toucheth his bed shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: And it came to pass that Peter passing throughout all <FI>quarters<Fi> , came down also unto the saints who were dwelling at Lydda,

Peter, while traveling from place to place throughout the country, went down to visit the people of Christ living at Lydda.


simplify: And ye shall rejoice before Jehovah your God, ye, and your sons, and your daughters, and your men-servants, and your maid-servants, and the Levite that is within your gates, forasmuch as he hath no portion nor inheritance with you.

And you will be glad before the Lord your God, you and your sons and your daughters, and your men-servants and your women-servants, and the Levite who is with you in your house, because he has no part or heritage among you.


rate difficulty: In the day that thy walls are to be built, in that day shall the decree be far removed.

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


simplify: Thus did Moses: according to all that the Lord commanded him, so did he.

And Moses did this; as the Lord gave him orders, so he did.


rate difficulty: And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.

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


simplify: Then Pilate said unto them, Why, what evil hath he done? And they cried out the more exceedingly, Crucify him.

And Pilate said to them, Why, what evil has he done? But their cry was the louder, To the cross!


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

may God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and give you peace.


simplify: And Joel, and Jehu the son of Josibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

And Joel and Jehu, the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,


simplify: And Arpachshad lived five and thirty years, and begat Shelah:

And Arpachshad was thirty-five years old when he became the father of Shelah:


simplify: Fear not the things which thou art about to suffer: behold, the devil is about to cast some of you into prison, that ye may be tried; and ye shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee the crown of life.

Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.


simplify: And the seventh messenger did sound, and there came great voices in the heaven, saying, `The kingdoms of the world did become <FI>those<Fi> of our Lord and of His Christ, and he shall reign to the ages of the ages!'

Then the seventh angel blew; and loud voices were heard in heaven saying —  ‘The kingdom of the world has become the kingdom of our Lord and of his Christ, and he will reign for ever and ever.’


rate difficulty: Let every man give honour to his mother and to his father and keep my Sabbaths: I am the Lord your God.

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


rate difficulty: and eastward he dwelt even unto the entrance of the wilderness from the river Euphrates, because their cattle were multiplied in the land of Gilead.

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


simplify: And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Oh, this people have sinned a great sin, and have made them gods of gold.

Then Moses went back to the Lord and said, This people has done a great sin, making themselves a god of gold;


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that a man shall keep alive a young cow, and two sheep;


rate difficulty: And there came a cloud overshadowing them: and there came a voice out of the cloud, This is my beloved Son: hear ye him.


rate difficulty: In that day--an affirmation of Jehovah, I do gather the halting one, And the driven away one I bring together, And she whom I have afflicted.

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


simplify: For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote unto you with many tears; not that ye should be grieved, but that ye might know the love which I have more abundantly unto you.

For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.


simplify: And of Asher, such as were able to go out in the host, that could set the battle in array, forty thousand.

And of Asher, forty thousand who went out with the army, expert in ordering the fight.


simplify: Whoso heweth out stones shall be hurt therewith; and he that cleaveth wood is endangered thereby.

He who gets out stones from the earth will be damaged by them, and in the cutting of wood there is danger.


simplify: Then the angel of the Lord answered and said, O Lord of hosts, how long wilt thou not have mercy on Jerusalem and on the cities of Judah, against which thou hast had indignation these threescore and ten years?

Then the angel of the Lord, answering, said, O Lord of armies, how long will it be before you have mercy on Jerusalem and on the towns of Judah against which your wrath has been burning for seventy years?


rate difficulty: and the days that David hath reigned over Israel <FI>are<Fi> forty years, in Hebron he hath reigned seven years, and in Jerusalem he hath reigned thirty and three years.

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


simplify: And they answering say to him, `Where, sir?' and he said to them, `Where the body <FI>is<Fi> , there will the eagles be gathered together.'

“Where will it be, Master?” asked the disciples. “Where there is a body,”said Jesus, “‘there will the vultures flock.’”


simplify: And I will lay it waste: it shall not be pruned, nor digged; but there shall come up briers and thorns: I will also command the clouds that they rain no rain upon it.

And I will make it waste; its branches will not be touched with the knife, or the earth worked with the spade; but blackberries and thorns will come up in it: and I will give orders to the clouds not to send rain on it.


simplify: And the south side southward, from Tamar even to the waters of strife in Kadesh, the river to the great sea. And this is the south side southward.

And the south side to the south will be from Tamar as far as the waters of Meribath-kadesh, to the stream of Egypt, to the Great Sea. This is the south side, on the south.


rate difficulty: These were the numbered of the children of Israel, six hundred thousand and a thousand seven hundred and thirty.

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


simplify: And Jahazah, and Kedemoth, and Mephaath,


simplify: Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

“Repent,” answered Peter, “and be baptized every one of you in the faith of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins; and then you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.


rate difficulty: And the superscription of his accusation was written over, THE KING OF THE JEWS.

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


rate difficulty: And David, according to the saying of Gad, went up as the Lord commanded.

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


rate difficulty: And he hath believed in Jehovah, and He reckoneth it to him--righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: And the scribes that came down from Jerusalem said, He hath Beelzebub, and, By the prince of the demons casteth he out the demons.

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


rate difficulty: Their children in the third generation may come into the meeting of the Lord's people.

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


rate difficulty: And send for Jesse to be present at the offering, and I will make clear to you what you are to do: and you are to put the holy oil on him whose name I give you.

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


simplify: And Moses went out from Pharaoh, and intreated the Lord.

Then Moses went out from Pharaoh and made prayer to the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then the priest shall charge the woman with an oath of cursing, and the priest shall say unto the woman, The Lord make thee a curse and an oath among thy people, when the Lord doth make thy thigh to rot, and thy belly to swell;

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


rate difficulty: And when he was come into Jerusalem, all the city was moved, saying, Who is this?


simplify: The sons of Jehieli: Zetham, and Joel his brother, over the treasures of the house of Jehovah.

The sons of Jehieli: Zetham and Joel, his brother, had the care of the stores of the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And it was so, that after the Lord had spoken these words unto Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

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


simplify: And they took the two princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they slew Oreb at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they slew at the winepress of Zeeb, and pursued Midian: and they brought the heads of Oreb and Zeeb to Gideon beyond the Jordan.

And they took the two chiefs of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; and they put Oreb to death at the rock of Oreb, and Zeeb they put to death at the place of the grape-crushing in Zeeb, and they went after Midian; but the heads of Oreb and Zeeb they took across Jordan to Gideon.


simplify: If thou at all take thy neighbour’s raiment to pledge, thou shalt deliver it unto him by that the sun goeth down:

If ever you take your neighbour's clothing in exchange for the use of your money, let him have it back before the sun goes down:


rate difficulty: in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn upon them.

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


simplify: Now therefore, our God, we thank thee, and praise thy glorious name.

So now, our God, we give you praise, honouring the glory of your name.


simplify: A wise man scaleth the city of the mighty, And bringeth down the strength of the confidence thereof.

A wise man goes up into the town of the strong ones, and overcomes its strength in which they put their faith.


simplify: Neither as being lords over God’s heritage, but being ensamples to the flock.

Not as lords over God's heritage, but making yourselves examples to the flock.


simplify: Behold, I will gather them out of all the countries, whither I have driven them in mine anger, and in my wrath, and in great indignation; and I will bring them again unto this place, and I will cause them to dwell safely.

See, I will get them together from all the countries where I have sent them in my wrath and in the heat of my passion and in my bitter feeling; and I will let them come back into this place where they may take their rest safely.


simplify: And he beheld them, and said, What is this then that is written, The stone which the builders rejected, the same is become the head of the corner?

But Jesus looked at them and said: “What then is the meaning of this passage? —  ‘The stone which the builders despised has now itself become the corner-stone.’


simplify: And it came--the great city--into three parts, and the cities of the nations did fall, and Babylon the great was remembered before God, to give to her the cup of the wine of the wrath of His anger,

and the great city was torn in three, and the cities of the nation fell, and God remembered Babylon the Great, and gave her the maddening wine-cup of his wrath;


simplify: These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.

These are the generations of Noah. Noah was an upright man and without sin in his generation: he went in the ways of God.


simplify: and I remembered the saying of the Lord, how he said, John indeed did baptize with water, and ye shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit;

and I recalled the saying of the Master — ‘John baptized with water, but you will be baptized with the Holy Spirit.’


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees went out and began to dispute against him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, tempting him.

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


rate difficulty: to the one a savor from death unto death; to the other a savor from life unto life. And who is sufficient for these things?

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


rate difficulty: So the armed men gave up the prisoners and the goods they had taken to the heads and the meeting of the people.

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


simplify: But into whatsoever city ye enter, and they receive you not, go your ways out into the streets of the same, and say,

But if you go into a town where they will not have you, go out into the streets of it and say,


rate difficulty: And he said, Thou shalt no more rejoice, O thou oppressed virgin daughter of Sidon: arise, pass over to Kittim; even there shalt thou have no rest.

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


simplify: Blessed is that servant, whom his lord when he cometh shall find so doing.

Happy will that servant be whom their master, when he comes home, will find doing this.


simplify: That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.

That your eyes may be open to this house day and night, to this place of which you have said that you would put your name there; to give ear to the prayer which your servant may make, turning to this place.


simplify: But the vow of a widow, or of her that is divorced, even everything wherewith she hath bound her soul, shall stand against her.

But an oath made by a widow or one who is no longer married to her husband, and every undertaking she has given, will have force.


rate difficulty: For the Lord, controlling me with a strong hand, gave me orders not to go in the way of this people, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And there appeared to them parted tongues, as of fire, and it sat upon each one of them.

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


simplify: If the whole body were an eye, where were the hearing? If the whole were hearing, where were the smelling?

If all the body was an eye, where would be the hearing? if all was hearing, where would be the smelling?


rate difficulty: all these <FI>are<Fi> sons of Heman--seer of the king in the things of God--to lift up a horn; and God giveth to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

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


simplify: Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

But, perhaps, you bear the name of ‘Jew,’ and are relying on law, and boast of belonging to God, and understand his will,


rate difficulty: And a certain maid, having seen him sitting by the light, and having fixed her eyes upon him, said, And this [man] was with him.


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

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


simplify: I bring near my righteousness; it shall not be far off, and my salvation shall not tarry: and I will place salvation in Zion for Israel my glory.

My righteousness is near, it is not far off; salvation will come quickly; and I will make Zion free, and give Israel my glory.


rate difficulty: And I--I have not sinned against thee, and thou art doing with me evil--to fight against me. Jehovah, the Judge, doth judge to-day between the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.'

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


simplify: `And these are they who on the good ground have been sown: who do hear the word, and receive, and do bear fruit, one thirty-fold, and one sixty, and one an hundred.'

But the people meant by the seed sown on the good ground are those who hear the message, and welcome it, and yield a return, thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold.”


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees and Sadducees having come, tempting, did question him, to shew to them a sign from the heaven,

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


rate difficulty: Now when Jesus had come into the parts of Caesarea Philippi, he said, questioning his disciples, Who do men say that the Son of man is?

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


rate difficulty: and say, Hear the word of Jehovah, O kings of Judah, and inhabitants of Jerusalem. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel: Behold, I will bring evil upon this place, the which whosoever heareth, his ears shall tingle;

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


simplify: When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.


simplify: And they shall fall down slain in the land of the Chaldeans, and thrust through in her streets.

And the dead will be stretched out in the land of the Chaldaeans, and the wounded in her streets.


rate difficulty: Notwithstanding the land shall be divided by lot; according to the names of the tribes of their fathers shall they inherit;

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


rate difficulty: From the end of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous! And I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! The treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

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


simplify: Then were they all of good cheer, and they also took some meat.

Then they all took heart and did the same.


simplify: And if his oblation for a sacrifice of peace-offerings unto Jehovah be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

And if what he gives for a peace-offering to the Lord is of the flock, let him give a male or female, without any mark on it.


simplify: Defraud ye not one the other, except it be with consent for a time, that ye may give yourselves to fasting and prayer; and come together again, that Satan tempt you not for your incontinency.

Do not keep back from one another what is right, but only for a short time, and by agreement, so that you may give yourselves to prayer, and come together again; so that Satan may not get the better of you through your loss of self-control.


rate difficulty: I have known thy works, that neither cold art thou nor hot; I would thou wert cold or hot.

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


simplify: Wherefore, beloved, seeing that ye look for such things, be diligent that ye may be found of him in peace, without spot, and blameless.

For this reason, my loved ones, as you are looking for these things, take great care that when he comes you may be in peace before him, free from sin and every evil thing.


rate difficulty: And ye shall wash your clothes on the seventh day, and ye shall be clean; and afterward ye shall come into the camp.

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


rate difficulty: and one loaf of bread, and one cake of oiled bread, and one wafer, out of the basket of unleavened bread that is before Jehovah:


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees and scribes were angry, saying, This man gives approval to sinners, and takes food with them.

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


simplify: And he went up, and lay upon the child, and put his mouth upon his mouth, and his eyes upon his eyes, and his hands upon his hands: and he stretched himself upon the child; and the flesh of the child waxed warm.

Then he got up on the bed, stretching himself out on the child, and put his mouth on the child's mouth, his eyes on his eyes and his hands on his hands; and the child's body became warm.


rate difficulty: And Saul said to him, Why have ye conspired against me, thou and the son of Jesse, in that thou hast given him bread, and a sword, and hast inquired ofGod for him, that he should rise against me as a lier-in-wait, as at this day?

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel said to all the people, Do you see the man of the Lord's selection, how there is no other like him among all the people? And all the people with loud cries said, Long life to the king!

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


simplify: For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus in behalf of you Gentiles,—

For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles,


simplify: and his feet like unto burnished brass, as if it had been refined in a furnace; and his voice as the voice of many waters.

And his feet like polished brass, as if it had been burned in a fire; and his voice was as the sound of great waters.


rate difficulty: Only bear a remembrance with thee of me when it goes well with thee, and deal kindly, I pray thee, with me, and make mention of me to Pharaoh, and bring me out of this house;

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: In this shalt thou know that I am Jehovah — behold, I will smite with the staff that is in my hand upon the water which is in the river, and it shall be turned into blood.

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


simplify: Then answered all the wicked men and base fellows, of those that went with David, and said, Because they went not with us, we will not give them aught of the spoil that we have recovered, save to every man his wife and his children, that he may lead them away, and depart.

Then the bad and good-for-nothing men among those who went with David said, Because they did not go with us, we will give them nothing of the goods which we have got back, but only to every man his wife and children, so that he may take them and go.


rate difficulty: and Joseph commandeth his servants, the physicians, to embalm his father, and the physicians embalm Israel;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And these were born unto him in Jerusalem; Shimea, and Shobab, and Nathan, and Solomon, four, of Bath–shua the daughter of Ammiel:

And in Jerusalem he had four sons, Shimea and Shobab and Nathan and Solomon, by Bath-shua, the daughter of Ammiel;


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass in the time of her bearing, that lo, twins <FI>are<Fi> in her womb;

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


rate difficulty: And when he went forth to land, there met him out of the city a certain man, which had devils long time, and ware no clothes, neither abode in any house, but in the tombs.

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


rate difficulty: And moreover, the wine is treacherous: he is a proud man, and keepeth not at rest, he enlargeth his desire as Sheol, and he is like death and cannot be satisfied; and he assembleth unto him all nations, and gathereth unto him all peoples.

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Hearken, O isles, unto me, And attend, O peoples, from afar, Jehovah from the womb hath called me, From the bowels of my mother He hath made mention of my name.

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


simplify: And in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God unto a city of Galilee, named Nazareth,

Now in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a town in Galilee, named Nazareth,


simplify: After these things, and this faithfulness, Sennacherib king of Assyria came, and entered into Judah, and encamped against the fortified cities, and thought to win them for himself.

Now after these things and this true-hearted work, Sennacherib, king of Assyria, came into Judah, and put his army in position before the walled towns of Judah, designing to make his way into them by force.


rate difficulty: With what do I come before Jehovah? Do I bow to God Most High? Do I come before Him with burnt-offerings? With calves--sons of a year?

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


simplify: And after six days Jesus taketh Peter, James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into an high mountain apart,

Six days later, Jesus took with him Peter, and the brothers James and John, and led them up a high mountain alone.


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

And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.


simplify: And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lunatick, and those that had the palsy; and he healed them.

and his fame spread all through Syria. They brought to him all who were ill with any form of disease, or who were suffering pain — any who were either possessed by demons, or were lunatic, or paralyzed; and he cured them.


rate difficulty: saying to the prisoners, Go forth; to them that are in darkness, Shew yourselves. They shall feed in the ways, and their pasture shall be on all bare hills.


rate difficulty: And he answered and said unto them, What did Moses command you?

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


simplify: So, then, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh;

So then, friends, we owe nothing to our earthly nature, that we should live in obedience to it.


rate difficulty: And the voice that I heard out of the heaven is again speaking with me, and saying, `Go, take the little scroll that is open in the hand of the messenger who hath been standing upon the sea, and upon the land:'

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


rate difficulty: Ziph, and Telem, and Bealoth,

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thyself.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make fifty clasps of gold, and couple the curtains one to another with the clasps: and the tabernacle shall be one whole.

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


rate difficulty: For because ye bare it not at the first, Jehovah our God made a breach upon us, for that we sought him not according to the ordinance.

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


simplify: By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.


simplify: Moreover they reckoned not with the men, into whose hand they delivered the money to be bestowed on workmen: for they dealt faithfully.

And they did not get any statement of accounts from the men to whom the money was given for the workmen, for they made use of it with good faith.


simplify: to deliver up such a one to the Adversary for the destruction of the flesh, that the spirit may be saved in the day of the Lord Jesus.

to deliver such a man as this over to Satan, that what is sensual in him may be destroyed, so that his spirit may be saved at the day of the Lord.


simplify: And it came to pass, that on the eighth day they came to circumcise the child; and they called him Zacharias, after the name of his father.

And on the eighth day they came to see to the circumcision of the child, and they would have given him the name of Zacharias, his father's name;


simplify: I heard, and my body trembled, My lips quivered at the voice; Rottenness entereth into my bones, and I tremble in my place; Because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, For the coming up of the people that invadeth us.

Hearing it, my inner parts were moved, and my lips were shaking at the sound; my bones became feeble, and my steps were uncertain under me: I gave sounds of grief in the day of trouble, when his forces came up against the people in bands.


simplify: having stripped the principalities and the authorities, he made a shew of them openly--having triumphed 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!


rate difficulty: But as scripture says — ‘They to whom he had never been proclaimed will see; and they who have never heard will understand!’

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


rate difficulty: Giving thanks to the Father who did make us meet for the participation of the inheritance of the saints in the light,

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


simplify: we not looking to the things seen, but to the things not seen; for the things seen <FI>are<Fi> temporary, but the things not seen <FI>are<Fi> age-during.

we, all the while, gazing not on what is seen, but on what is unseen; for what is seen is transient, but what is unseen is imperishable.