rate difficulty: As to the porch that <FI>is<Fi> on the front, the length <FI>is<Fi> by the front of the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height a hundred and twenty, and he overlayeth it within with pure gold.

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


simplify: And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to supple thee; thou wast not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.

As for your birth, on the day of your birth your cord was not cut and you were not washed in water to make you clean; you were not salted or folded in linen bands.


simplify: If I be wicked, woe unto me; And if I be righteous, yet shall I not lift up my head; Being filled with ignominy, And looking upon mine affliction.

That, if I was an evil-doer, the curse would come on me; and if I was upright, my head would not be lifted up, being full of shame and overcome with trouble.


simplify: Just balances, just weights, a just ephah, and a just hin, shall ye have: I am Jehovah your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.

Have true scales, true weights and measures for all things: I am the Lord your God, who took you out of the land of Egypt;


simplify: If ye continue in the faith grounded and settled, and be not moved away from the hope of the gospel, which ye have heard, and which was preached to every creature which is under heaven; whereof I Paul am made a minister;

If you keep yourselves safely based in the faith, not moved from the hope of the good news which came to you, and which was given to every living being under heaven; of which I, Paul, was made a servant.


simplify: neither give place to the devil.


simplify: In the day of thy planting thou hedgest it in, and in the morning thou makest thy seed to blossom; but the harvest fleeth away in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.

In the day of your planting you were watching its growth, and in the morning your seed was flowering: but its fruit is wasted away in the day of grief and bitter sorrow.


rate difficulty: so that there was the face of a man toward the palm-tree on the one side, and the face of a young lion toward the palm-tree on the other side. Thus was it made through all the house round about:

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


simplify: And it came to pass when Jesus had finished these words, he departed from Galilee, and came into the borders of Judæa beyond the Jordan;

And it came about that after saying these words, Jesus went away from Galilee, and came into the parts of Judaea on the other side of Jordan.


rate difficulty: An inheritance may be gotten hastily at the beginning; but the end thereof shall not be blessed.

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


rate difficulty: My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother.

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


simplify: And God spake all these words, saying,


rate difficulty: Then all the men which knew that their wives had burned incense unto other gods, and all the women that stood by, a great multitude, even all the people that dwelt in the land of Egypt, in Pathros, answered Jeremiah, saying,

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


simplify: And those twelve stones, which they took out of the Jordan, did Joshua set up in Gilgal.

And the twelve stones which they took out of Jordan, Joshua put up in Gilgal.


simplify: And the meat offering shall be an ephah for a ram, and the meat offering for the lambs as he shall be able to give, and an hin of oil to an ephah.

And the meal offering is to be an ephah for the sheep, and for the lambs whatever he is able to give, and a hin of oil to an ephah.


simplify: for this Hagar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and doth correspond to the Jerusalem that now <FI>is<Fi> , and is in servitude with her children,

(The word Hagar meaning in Arabia Mount Sinai) and it ranks with the Jerusalem of today, for she and her children are in slavery.


rate difficulty: Let the deacons be the husbands of one wife, ruling their children and their own houses well.

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


rate difficulty: And Mary said unto the messenger, `How shall this be, seeing a husband I do not know?'

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


rate difficulty: But, on going out, that same servant came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. Seizing him by the throat, he said ‘Pay what you owe me.’

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


simplify: Then Jonathan and David made a covenant, because he loved him as his own soul.

Then Jonathan and David made an agreement together, because of Jonathan's love for David.


rate difficulty: Also the children of those that had been carried away, which were come out of the captivity, offered burnt offerings unto the God of Israel, twelve bullocks for all Israel, ninety and six rams, seventy and seven lambs, twelve he goats for a sin offering: all this was a burnt offering unto the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: Are you more beautiful than any? go down, and take your rest among those without circumcision,


rate difficulty: I exhort therefore, that, first of all, supplications, prayers, intercessions, and giving of thanks, be made for all men;

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


simplify: `Who, then, of these three, seemeth to thee to have become neighbour of him who fell among the robbers?'

Now which, do you think, of these three men,” asked Jesus, “proved himself a neighbor to the man who fell into the robbers’ hands?”


simplify: Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

Then he made the open space for the priests, and the great open space and its doors, plating the doors with brass.


simplify: Therefore the wild beasts of the desert with the wild beasts of the islands shall dwell there, and the owls shall dwell therein: and it shall be no more inhabited for ever; neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation.

For this reason the beasts of the waste land with the wolves will make their holes there and the ostriches will be living in it: never again will men be living there, it will be unpeopled from generation to generation.


simplify: for with the heart doth <FI>one<Fi> believe to righteousness, and with the mouth is confession made to salvation;

For with their hearts people believe and so attain to righteousness, while with their lips they make their Profession of faith and so find salvation.


simplify: And Miriam and Aaron spake against Moses because of the Ethiopian woman whom he had married: for he had married an Ethiopian woman.

Now Miriam and Aaron said evil against Moses, because of the Cushite woman to whom he was married, for he had taken a Cushite woman as his wife.


simplify: Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward.

May Dan be a snake in the way, a horned snake by the road, biting the horse's foot so that the horseman has a fall.


simplify: For Jehovah will judge his people, And repent himself for his servants; When he seeth that their power is gone, And there is noneremaining, shut up or left at large.

For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.


rate difficulty: and of her who is sick in her separation, and of him who hath an issue, the issue of a male or of a female, and of a man who lieth with an unclean woman.'


simplify: And David saw that Saul was come out to seek his life: and David was in the wilderness of Ziph in the wood.

And David was full of fear, in the knowledge that Saul had come out to take his life; and David was in the waste land of Ziph, in Horesh.


simplify: And he said unto me, Son of man, stand upon thy feet, and I will speak with thee.

And he said to me, Son of man, get up on your feet, so that I may say words to you.


simplify: So the ark of the Lord compassed the city, going about it once: and they came into the camp, and lodged in the camp.

So he made the ark of the Lord go all round the town once: then they went back to the tents for the night.


simplify: Yea, though they hire among the nations, now will I gather them; and they begin to be diminished by reason of the burden of the king of princes.

But though they give money to the nations for help, still I will send them in all directions; and in a short time they will be without a king and rulers.


rate difficulty: For the upright will be living in the land, and the good will have it for their heritage.

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


rate difficulty: But the Pharisees went out, and took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.


rate difficulty: For this reason I will let loose my wrath: my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity.


simplify: And on the borders that were between the ledges were lions, oxen, and cherubims: and upon the ledges there was a base above: and beneath the lions and oxen were certain additions made of thin work.

And on the square sides between the frames were lions, oxen, and winged ones; and the same on the frame; and over and under the lions and the oxen and the winged ones were steps.


rate difficulty: Take you twelve men out of the people, out of every tribe a man,


rate difficulty: But the Pharisees, hearing of it, said, This man only sends evil spirits out of men by Beelzebub, the ruler of evil spirits.


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Immer, Hanani and Zebadiah.

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


simplify: and if ye may salute your brethren only, what do ye abundant? do not also the tax-gatherers so?

And, if you only welcome your brothers and sisters, what are you doing more than others? Even the Gentiles do this!


simplify: And Jacob begat Joseph the husband of Mary, of whom was born Jesus, who is called Christ.

Jacob of Joseph, the husband of Mary, who was the mother of Jesus, who is called ‘Christ’.


rate difficulty: and righteous Lot, worn down by the conduct in lasciviousness of the impious, He did rescue,

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


rate difficulty: Of Jeduthun; the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun with the harp, who prophesied in giving thanks and praising Jehovah.

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


simplify: And from thence he went against the inhabitants of Debir: and the name of Debir before was Kirjath–sepher:

And from there he went up against the people of Debir. (Now the name of Debir in earlier times was Kiriath-sepher.)


rate difficulty: whosoever will restrain her restraineth the wind, and his right hand encountereth oil.

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning that his spirit was troubled; and he sent and called for all the magicians of Egypt, and all the wise men thereof: and Pharaoh told them his dream; but there was none that could interpret them unto Pharaoh.

And in the morning his spirit was troubled; and he sent for all the wise men of Egypt and all the holy men, and put his dream before them, but no one was able to give him the sense of it.


simplify: And Abraham hastened into the tent unto Sarah, and said, Make ready quickly three measures of fine meal, knead it, and make cakes upon the hearth.

Then Abraham went quickly into the tent, and said to Sarah, Get three measures of meal straight away and make cakes.


rate difficulty: The twentieth to Elijathah; his sons and his brethren, twelve.

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


rate difficulty: And it hath come to pass, in that day, That forgotten is Tyre seventy years, According to the days of one king. At the end of seventy years there is to Tyre as the song of the harlot.

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


rate difficulty: And Balaam riseth, and goeth, and turneth back to his place, and Balak also hath gone on his way.

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


simplify: Not as though the word of God hath taken none effect. For they are not all Israel, which are of Israel:

But it is not as if the word of God was without effect. For they are not all Israel, who are of Israel:


rate difficulty: And all the fat of the bullock of the sin-offering shall he take off from it; the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is on the inwards,

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


rate difficulty: His sons come to honor, and he knoweth it not; And they are brought low, but he perceiveth it not of them.

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


simplify: And all the congregation of them that were come again out of the captivity made booths, and sat under the booths: for since the days of Jeshua the son of Nun unto that day had not the children of Israel done so. And there was very great gladness.

All the people who had been prisoners and had come back, made tents and were living in them: for from the time of Jeshua, the son of Nun, till that day, the children of Israel had not done so. And there was very great joy.


simplify: This is a great mystery: but I speak concerning Christ and the church.

This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.


rate difficulty: and the stars shall be falling from heaven, and the powers that are in the heavens shall be shaken.

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


rate difficulty: And after them out of all the tribes of Israel such as set their hearts to seek the Lord God of Israel came to Jerusalem, to sacrifice unto the Lord God of their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And there have not been found women fair as the daughters of Job in all the land, and their father doth give to them an inheritance in the midst of their brethren.

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


simplify: and also all the prophets from Samuel and those following in order, as many as spake, did also foretell of these days.

Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel onwards, and all their successors who had a message to deliver, told of these days.


rate difficulty: My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make a screen for the door of the Tent, of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the embroiderer.

And you are to make a curtain for the doorway of the Tent, of the best linen with needlework of blue and purple and red.


simplify: And if thine eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: it is better for thee to enter into life with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into hell fire.

And if your eye is a cause of trouble to you, take it out, and put it away from you: it is better for you to go into life with one eye than, having two eyes, to go into the hell of fire.


simplify: A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.

A vision of fear comes before my eyes; the worker of deceit goes on in his false way, and the waster goes on making waste. Up! Elam; to the attack! Media; I have put an end to her sorrow.


rate difficulty: and Jehiel, and Azaziah, and Nahath, and Asahel, and Jerimoth, and Jozabad, and Eliel, and Ismachiah, and Mahath, and Benaiah, were overseers under the hand of Conaniah and Shimei his brother, by the appointment of Hezekiah the king, and Azariah the ruler of the house of God.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For I will not dare to speak of any of those things which Christ hath not wrought by me, to make the Gentiles obedient, by word and deed,

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat king of Judah are sitting, each on his throne, clothed with garments, in a threshing-floor, at the opening of the gate of Samaria, and all the prophets are prophesying before them.

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


rate difficulty: And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

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


rate difficulty: And he is there with Jehovah forty days and forty nights; bread he hath not eaten, and water he hath not drunk; and he writeth on the tables the matters of the covenant--the ten matters.

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


rate difficulty: No one could say a word in answer; nor did anyone after that day venture to question him further.


simplify: But I said, Not so, Lord: for nothing common or unclean hath at any time entered into my mouth.

‘No, Lord, I cannot,’ I answered, ‘for nothing ‘defiled’ or ‘unclean’ has ever passed my lips.’


simplify: And that which thou sowest, thou sowest not that body that shall be, but bare grain, it may chance of wheat, or of some other grain:

And when you put it into the earth, you do not put in the body which it will be, but only the seed, of grain or some other sort of plant;


simplify: And whosoever shall cause one of these little ones that believe on me to stumble, it were better for him if a great millstone were hanged about his neck, and he were cast into the sea.

And whoever is a cause of trouble to one of these little ones who have faith in me, it would be better for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea.


simplify: that ye abstain from things sacrificed to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication; from which if ye keep yourselves, it shall be well with you. Fare ye well.

To keep from things offered to false gods, and from blood, and from things put to death in ways which are against the law, and from the evil desires of the body; if you keep yourselves from these, you will do well. May you be happy.


simplify: As also in all his epistles, speaking in them of these things; in which are some things hard to be understood, which they that are unlearned and unstable wrest, as they do also the other scriptures, unto their own destruction.

It is the same in all his letters, when he speaks in them about these subjects. There are some things in them difficult to understand, which untaught and weak people distort, just as they do all other writings, to their own ruin.


simplify: For ye know what charge we gave you through the Lord Jesus.

Because you have in mind the orders we gave you through the Lord Jesus.


simplify: And I will sprinkle clean water upon you, and ye shall be clean: from all your filthiness, and from all your idols, will I cleanse you.

And I will put clean water on you so that you may be clean: from all your unclean ways and from all your images I will make you clean.


simplify: But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha the man of God, said, Behold, my master hath spared Naaman this Syrian, in not receiving at his hands that which he brought: but, as the Lord liveth, I will run after him, and take somewhat of him.

But Gehazi, the servant of Elisha, the man of God, said, Now my master has taken nothing from Naaman, this Aramaean, of what he would have given him: by the living Lord, I will go after him and get something from him.


rate difficulty: Which shaketh the earth out of her place, and the pillars thereof tremble.

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


simplify: Wherefore I pray you to take some meat: for this is for your health: for there shall not an hair fall from the head of any of you.

So I make request to you to take food; for this is for your salvation: not a hair from the head of any of you will come to destruction.


rate difficulty: And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.

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


rate difficulty: I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, by the roes of the field, let not love be moved till it is ready.

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


simplify: Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:

Now that, by your obedience to the truth, you have purified your lives, so that there is growing up among you a genuine affection, love one another earnestly with all your hearts;


simplify: and began to accuse him, saying, `This one we found perverting the nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Caesar, saying himself to be Christ a king.'

And they began to accuse him: “This is a man whom we found misleading our people, preventing them from paying taxes to the Emperor, and giving out that he himself is ‘Christ, a king.’”


simplify: And God was displeased with this thing; therefore he smote Israel.

And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.


rate difficulty: and he saith unto me, Jehovah, before whom I have walked habitually, doth send His messenger with thee, and hath prospered thy way, and thou hast taken a wife for my son from my family, and from the house of my father;

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


simplify: or have found that which was lost, and deal falsely therein, and swear to a lie; in any of all these things that a man doeth, sinning therein;

Or has taken a false oath about the loss of something which he has come across by chance; if a man has done any of these evil things,


simplify: Even so ye also, when ye shall have done all the things that are commanded you, say, We are unprofitable servants; we have done that which it was our duty to do.

In the same way, when you have done all the things which are given you to do, say, There is no profit in us, for we have only done what we were ordered to do.


simplify: I will consume man and beast; I will consume the fowls of the heaven, and the fishes of the sea, and the stumblingblocks with the wicked; and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord.

I will take away man and beast; I will take away the birds of the heaven and the fishes of the sea; causing the downfall of the evil-doers, and cutting man off from the face of the earth, says the Lord.


simplify: For what is the portion from God above, And the heritage from the Almighty on high?

For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?


rate difficulty: And Moses spake unto the people, saying, Arm ye men from among you for the war, that they may go against Midian, to execute Jehovah’s vengeance on Midian.

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


rate difficulty: And have given them this land, which you gave your word to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

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


simplify: According to all these words, and according to all this vision, so did Nathan speak unto David.

So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.


rate difficulty: And I will put hooks in your mouth, and the fish of your streams will be hanging from your skin; and I will make you come up out of your streams, with all the fish of your streams hanging from your skin.


simplify: And they shall bind the breastplate by the rings thereof unto the rings of the ephod with a lace of blue, that it may be upon the skilfully woven band of the ephod, and that the breastplate be not loosed from the ephod.

So that the rings on the bag may be fixed to the rings of the ephod by a blue cord and on to the band of the ephod, so that the bag may not come loose from the ephod.


simplify: Now the king sat in the winterhouse in the ninth month: and there was a fire on the hearth burning before him.

Now the king was seated in the winter house, and a fire was burning in the fireplace in front of him.


simplify: Thou shalt not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread; neither shall the sacrifice of the feast of the passover be left unto the morning.

No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.


rate difficulty: Again, a second time he went away, and said in prayer, O my Father, if this may not go from me without my taking it, let your pleasure be done.

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


rate difficulty: Before I ended speaking in my heart, behold, Rebecca came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder, and went down to the well, and drew [water]; and I said to her, Give me, I pray thee, to drink.

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


simplify: We shall find all precious substance, we shall fill our houses with spoil:

Goods of great price will be ours, our houses will be full of wealth;


simplify: And putting to sea from thence, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

And sailing again from there, we went on under cover of Cyprus, because the wind was against us.


rate difficulty: for verily I say to you, that whoever may say to this mount, Be taken up, and be cast into the sea, and may not doubt in his heart, but may believe that the things that he saith do come to pass, it shall be to him whatever he may say.

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


rate difficulty: And he, looking on him in fear, said, What is it, Lord? And he said to him, Your prayers and your offerings have come up to God, and he has kept them in mind.

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


simplify: And they departed thence, and passed through Galilee; and he would not that any man should know it.

And they went out from there, through Galilee; and it was his desire that no man might have knowledge of it;


simplify: And they answered Jesus, and said, We cannot tell. And he said unto them, Neither tell I you by what authority I do these things.

So the answer they gave Jesus was — “We do not know.”   “Then I,” he said, “refuse to tell you what authority I have to do these things.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah smiteth the king, and he is a leper unto the day of his death, and he dwelleth in a separate house, and Jotham son of the king <FI>is<Fi> over the house, judging the people of the land.

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


rate difficulty: The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib; but Israel doth not know, my people doth not consider.

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


simplify: I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.

I saw the Lord stationed by the side of the altar, giving blows to the tops of the pillars so that the doorsteps were shaking: and he said, I will let all of them be broken with earth-shocks; I will put the last of them to the sword: if any one of them goes in flight he will not get away, not one of them will be safe.


rate difficulty: Then the soldiers of the governor, having taken Jesus with [them] to the praetorium, gathered against him the whole band,

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


rate difficulty: Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ!


rate difficulty: For the evil which overtakes them is the reward of their evil-doing: such men take their pleasure in the delights of the flesh even in the daytime; they are like the marks of a disease, like poisoned wounds among you, feasting together with you in joy;

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


rate difficulty: And now, be fertile and have increase; have offspring on the earth and become great in number.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore I will look unto the Lord; I will wait for the God of my salvation: my God will hear me.

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


rate difficulty: and that repentance and remission of sins should be preached in his name unto all the nations, beginning from Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: And all winged creeping things are unclean unto you: they shall not be eaten.

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


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

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


simplify: and the prayer of the faith shall save the distressed one, and the Lord shall raise him up, and if sins he may have committed, they shall be forgiven to him.

The prayer offered in faith will save the person who is sick, and the Lord will raise them from their bed; and if they have committed sins, they will be forgiven.


rate difficulty: Whoso is covering his transgressions prospereth not, And he who is confessing and forsaking hath mercy.

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


simplify: and they were filled with madness, and were speaking with one another what they might do to Jesus.

But the teachers of the law and the Pharisees were goaded to madness, and consulted together what they could do to Jesus.


simplify: Who knoweth whether God will not turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?

Who may say that God will not be turned, changing his purpose and turning away from his burning wrath, so that destruction may not overtake us?


rate difficulty: and there are seven kings, the five did fall, and the one is, the other did not yet come, and when he may come, it behoveth him to remain a little time;

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


simplify: But if thou wilt not go forth to the king of Babylon’s princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and thou shalt not escape out of their hand.

But if you do not go out to the king of Babylon's captains, then this town will be given into the hands of the Chaldaeans and they will put it on fire, and you will not get away from them.


rate difficulty: but those my enemies, who did not wish me to reign over them, bring hither and slay before me.'

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


rate difficulty: These are they that were numbered by Moses and Eleazar the priest, who numbered the children of Israel in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho.

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


simplify: on these--the two commands--all the law and the prophets do hang.'

On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets.”


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,


rate difficulty: And he said, I will certainly return unto thee according to the time of life; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard it in the tent door, which was behind him.

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


simplify: `A voice in Ramah was heard--lamentation and weeping and much mourning--Rachel weeping <FI>for<Fi> her children, and she would not be comforted because they are not.'

‘A voice was heard in Ramah, weeping and mourning loudly; Rachel, weeping for her children, refusing all comfort for they were dead.’


simplify: Are not my days few? cease then, and let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,

Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,


simplify: Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John:

Now when the Apostles at Jerusalem had news that the people of Samaria had taken the word of God into their hearts, they sent to them Peter and John;


rate difficulty: that ye enter not among these nations, these that remain among you; and ye shall make no mention of the name of theirgods, nor cause to swear [by them], neither serve them, nor bow yourselves unto them;

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Jediael: Bilhan; and the sons of Bilhan: Jeush and Benjamin and Ehud and Chenaanah and Zethan and Tarshish and Ahishahar.

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


rate difficulty: I am thankful to God, whom I serve from progenitors in a pure conscience, that unceasingly I have remembrance concerning thee in my supplications night and day,

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


rate difficulty: One God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.

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


simplify: They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

For a short time they are lifted up; then they are gone; they are made low, they are pulled off like fruit, and like the heads of grain they are cut off.


rate difficulty: It was planted in a good soil by many waters, that it might bring forth branches, and that it might bear fruit, that it might be a goodly vine.

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


simplify: And I, brethren, when I came to you, came not with excellency of speech or of wisdom, declaring unto you the testimony of God.

And when I came to you, my brothers, I did not come with wise words of knowledge, putting before you the secret of God.


simplify: What then is it, brethren? whenever ye may come together, each of you hath a psalm, hath a teaching, hath a tongue, hath a revelation, hath an interpretation? let all things be for building up;

What do I suggest, then, friends? Whenever you meet for worship, each of you comes, either with a hymn, or a lesson, or a revelation, or the gift of ‘tongues,’ or the interpretation of them; let everything be directed to the building up of faith.


rate difficulty: No sooner does a foul spirit leave a person, than it passes through places where there is no water, in search of rest, and does not find it.

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


simplify: Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; mine heart shall mourn for the men of Kir–heres.

For this cause I will give cries of grief for Moab, crying out for Moab, even for all of it; I will be sorrowing for the men of Kir-heres.


rate difficulty: There are, it may be, so many kinds of voices in the world, and none of them is without signification.

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


simplify: Ye shall do no unrighteousness in judgment, in meteyard, in weight, or in measure.

Do not make false decisions in questions of yard-sticks and weights and measures.


simplify: and if we have known that He doth hear us, whatever we may ask, we have known that we have the requests that we have requested from Him.

And if we realize that he listens to us — whatever we ask — we realize that we have what we have asked from him.


simplify: Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: I found Israel as grapes in the wilderness; as first-ripe fruit on the fig-tree, I saw your fathers at the beginning: they went to Baal-Peor, and separated themselves unto that shame, and became abominations like their lover.

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


simplify: And I know that, when I come unto you, I shall come in the fulness of the blessing of Christ.

And I am certain that when I come, I will be full of the blessing of Christ.


simplify: The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred forty and three.

The men of Kiriath-jearim, Chephirah, and Beeroth, seven hundred and forty-three.


rate difficulty: and again he did pray, and the heaven did give rain, and the land did bring forth her fruit.


rate difficulty: And Moses commandeth concerning them Eleazar the priest, and Joshua son of Nun, and the heads of the fathers of the tribes of the sons of Israel;

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


simplify: Then the lord of that servant was moved with compassion, and loosed him, and forgave him the debt.

The master was moved with compassion; and he let him go, and forgave him the debt.


simplify: If the place which the Lord thy God hath chosen to put his name there be too far from thee, then thou shalt kill of thy herd and of thy flock, which the Lord hath given thee, as I have commanded thee, and thou shalt eat in thy gates whatsoever thy soul lusteth after.

If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.


simplify: And he made an house of high places, and made priests of the lowest of the people, which were not of the sons of Levi.

And he made places for worship at the high places, and made priests, who were not Levites, from among all the people.


rate difficulty: and kindleth fire in the torches, and sendeth <FI>them<Fi> out into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burneth <FI>it<Fi> from heap even unto standing corn, even unto vineyard--olive-yard.

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


rate difficulty: Now his brothers went to keep watch over their father's flock in Shechem.

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


rate difficulty: and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;

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


simplify: and I say to you, that for Sodom in that day it shall be more tolerable than for that city.

I tell you that the doom of Sodom will be more bearable on ‘that day’ than the doom of that town.


simplify: So she went, and came unto the man of God to mount Carmel. And it came to pass, when the man of God saw her afar off, that he said to Gehazi his servant, Behold, yonder is the Shunammite:

So she went, and came to Mount Carmel, to the man of God. And when the man of God saw her coming in his direction, he said to Gehazi, his servant, See, there is the Shunammite;


simplify: And he shall separate unto Jehovah the days of his separation, and shall bring a he-lamb a year old for a trespass-offering; but the former days shall be void, because his separation was defiled.

And he will give to the Lord his days of being separate, offering a he-lamb of the first year as an offering for error: but the earlier days will be a loss, because he became unclean.


simplify: And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.

Now after this, the son of the woman of the house became ill, so ill that there was no breath in him.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah hearkened to the voice of Israel, and delivered up the Canaanites; and they utterly destroyed them and their cities: and the name of the place was called Hormah.

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


simplify: Moreover they that work in fine flax, and they that weave networks, shall be confounded.

And all the workers in linen thread, and those who make cotton cloth, will be put to shame.


rate difficulty: For unto God hath any said: `I have taken away, I do not corruptly,

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


simplify: And we know that the Son of God is come, and hath given us an understanding, that we may know him that is true, and we are in him that is true, even in his Son Jesus Christ. This is the true God, and eternal life.

And we are certain that the Son of God has come, and has given us a clear vision, so that we may see him who is true, and we are in him who is true, in his Son Jesus Christ. He is the true God and eternal life.


rate difficulty: (As it is written, He hath dispersed abroad; he hath given to the poor: his righteousness remaineth for ever.

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


simplify: And he did that which was right in the sight of the Lord, and walked in the ways of David his father, and declined neither to the right hand, nor to the left.

And he did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, walking in the ways of his father David, without turning to the right hand or to the left.


simplify: And he said unto her, What form is he of? And she said, An old man cometh up; and he is covered with a robe. And Saul perceived that it was Samuel, and he bowed with his face to the ground, and did obeisance.

And he said to her, What is his form? And she said, It is an old man coming up covered with a robe. And Saul saw that it was Samuel, and with his face bent down to the earth he gave him honour.


rate difficulty: When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it afterward: it shall be for the stranger, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

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


simplify: Only that the generations of the children of Israel might know, to teach them war, at the least such as before knew nothing thereof;

Only because of the generations of the children of Israel, for the purpose of teaching them war--only those who up till then had no experience of it;


rate difficulty: of the same mind one toward another, not minding the high things, but with the lowly going along; become not wise in your own conceit;


simplify: And Ruth the Moabitess said unto Naomi, Let me now go to the field, and glean ears of corn after him in whose sight I shall find grace. And she said unto her, Go, my daughter.

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, Now let me go into the field and take up the heads of grain after him in whose eyes I may have grace. And she said to her, Go, my daughter.


simplify: Leave off, ye simple ones, and live; And walk in the way of understanding.

Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.


rate difficulty: Ye have heard that it has been said, Thou shalt not commit adultery.

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


simplify: Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;


rate difficulty: `Thy father made our yoke sharp, and now, make light <FI>somewhat<Fi> of the sharp service of thy father, and of his heavy yoke that he put upon us, and we serve thee.'

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


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

If you lend only to those from whom you expect to get something, what thanks will be due to you? Even the outcast lend to the outcast in the hope of getting as much in return!


rate difficulty: And Judah saith to Onan, `Go in unto the wife of thy brother, and marry her, and raise up seed to thy brother;'

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


simplify: And the children of Israel departed thence at that time, every man to his tribe and to his family, and they went out from thence every man to his inheritance.

Then the children of Israel went away from there, every man to his tribe and his family, every man went back to his heritage.


simplify: And the king went up into the house of the Lord, and all the men of Judah and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem with him, and the priests, and the prophets, and all the people, both small and great: and he read in their ears all the words of the book of the covenant which was found in the house of the Lord.

And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And when they could not come nigh unto him for the crowd, they uncovered the roof where he was: and when they had broken it up, they let down the bed whereon the sick of the palsy lay.

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


rate difficulty: In those days Hezekiah was sick unto death, and he prayed to Jehovah; and he spoke to him and gave him a sign.

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


rate difficulty: And in the fifth month, in the tenth of the month--it <FI>is<Fi> the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon--come hath Nebuzar-Adan, chief of the executioners; he hath stood before the king of Babylon in Jerusalem,

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


simplify: And when he had taken counsel with the people, he appointed them that should sing unto Jehovah, and give praise in holy array, as they went out before the army, and say, Give thanks unto Jehovah; for his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

And after discussion with the people, he put in their places those who were to make melody to the Lord, praising him in holy robes, while they went at the head of the army, and saying, May the Lord be praised, for his mercy is unchanging for ever.


simplify: And they were all amazed, and they glorified God, and were filled with fear, saying, We have seen strange things to day.

The people, one and all, were lost in amazement, and praised God; and in great awe they said: “We have seen marvelous things today!”


simplify: Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

From the day when I first had knowledge of you, you have gone against the word of the Lord.


simplify: The prince of the children of Joseph, for the tribe of the children of Manasseh, Hanniel the son of Ephod.

Of the children of Joseph: of the tribe of the children of Manasseh, a chief, Hanniel, the son of Ephod:


rate difficulty: to know wisdom and instruction; to discern the words of understanding;

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


rate difficulty: Whoso killeth any person, the murderer shall be put to death by the mouth of witnesses: but one witness shall not testify against any person to cause him to die.


simplify: Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Do not judge and you will not be judged.


rate difficulty: `The Spirit of the Lord <FI>is<Fi> upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

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


simplify: Moreover the Lord saith, Because the daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, walking and mincing as they go, and making a tinkling with their feet:

Again, the Lord has said, Because the daughters of Zion are full of pride, and go with outstretched necks and wandering eyes, with their foot-chains sounding when they go:


rate difficulty: And they put his armour in the house of Ashtaroth; and they fastened his body to the wall of Beth-shan.

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


rate difficulty: The desire of the hater of work is death to him, for his hands will do no work.


simplify: Gomer, and all his hordes; the house of Togarmah in the uttermost parts of the north, and all his hordes; even many peoples with thee.

Gomer and all her forces; the people of Togarmah in the inmost parts of the north, with all his forces: a great number of peoples with you.


simplify: But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.

But the present heavens and earth, by the same fiat, have been reserved for fire, and are being kept for the day of the judgment and destruction of the godless.


rate difficulty: And for the side-chambers there was an enlarging, and it went round about [the house] increasing upward; for the surrounding of the house increased upward round about the house; therefore the house had width upward, and so ascended [from] the lower [story] to the upper, by the middle one.

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


simplify: And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.

And that which is over of the flesh and of the bread is to be burned with fire.


simplify: And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria: and I will defend this city.

And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.


rate difficulty: If the spirit of the ruler rise up against thee, leave not thy place; for gentleness allayeth great offences.

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


rate difficulty: And he that gathereth the ashes of the heifer shall wash his clothes, and be unclean until the even: and it shall be unto the children of Israel, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among them, for a statute for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And stood have His feet, in that day, On the mount of Olives, That <FI>is<Fi> before Jerusalem eastward, And cleft hath been the mount of Olives at its midst, To the east, and to the west, a very great valley, And removed hath the half of the mount towards the north. And its half towards the south.

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


simplify: He that saith he abideth in him ought himself also so to walk, even as he walked.

He who professes to maintain union with God is himself bound to live as Christ lived.


simplify: And Parmashta, and Arisai, and Aridai, and Vajezatha,

Parmashta, Arisai, Aridai, and Vaizatha,


simplify: Then Job arose, and rent his mantle, and shaved his head, and fell down upon the ground, and worshipped,

Then Job got up, and after parting his clothing and cutting off his hair, he went down on his face to the earth, and gave worship, and said,


simplify: And thus said Shimei when he cursed, Come out, come out, thou bloody man, and thou man of Belial:

And Shimei said, with curses, Be gone, be gone, you man of blood, you good-for-nothing:


rate difficulty: And he said, Why wilt thou go to him to-day? It is neither new moon nor sabbath. And she said, [It is] well.

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


simplify: Saying, Prophesy unto us, thou Christ, Who is he that smote thee?

“Now play the prophet for us, you Christ! Who was it that struck you?”


simplify: For if the trumpet give an uncertain sound, who shall prepare himself to the battle?

For if the war-horn gives out an uncertain note, who will get ready for the fight?


rate difficulty: It came out that it was recorded in the book how Mordecai had given word of the designs of Bigthana and Teresh, two of the king's servants, keepers of the door, by whom an attack on the king had been designed.

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


simplify: Then was fulfilled that which was spoken by Jeremy the prophet, saying, And they took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him that was valued, whom they of the children of Israel did value;

Then came true that which was said by Jeremiah the prophet, And they took the thirty bits of silver, the price of him who was valued by the children of Israel;


rate difficulty: Surely oppression maketh the wise mad, And a gift destroyeth the heart.

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


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

So the king did not give ear to the people; and this came about by the purpose of the Lord, so that what he had said by Ahijah the Shilonite to Jeroboam, son of Nebat, might be effected.


simplify: And he said unto me, Jehovah, before whom I walk, will send his angel with thee, and prosper thy way; and thou shalt take a wife for my son of my kindred, and of my father’s house:

And he said, The Lord, whom I have ever kept before me, will send his angel with you, who will make it possible for you to get a wife for my son from my relations and my father's house;


rate difficulty: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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


rate difficulty: And they laid hands on her; and she went by the way by the which the horses came into the king’s house: and there was she slain.

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


simplify: The king of Shimron–meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;

The king of Shimron-meron, one; the king of Achshaph, one;


rate difficulty: Blessed [is] he that reads, and they that hear the words of the prophecy, and keep the things written in it; for the time [is] near.


rate difficulty: And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the body-guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.

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


simplify: And now, behold, I know that thou shalt surely be king, and that the kingdom of Israel shall be established in thy hand.

And now I am certain that you will be king, and that the kingdom of Israel will be made strong under your authority.


rate difficulty: And from that day Saul was looking with envy on David.


rate difficulty: And David, moved by a strong desire, said, If only someone would give me a drink of the water from the water-hole of Beth-lehem by the doorway into the town!

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


rate difficulty: and went to the prison, and did their best to conciliate them. Then they took them out, and begged them to leave the city.

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


simplify: And the slain shall fall in the midst of you, and ye shall know that I am Jehovah.

And the dead will be falling down among you, and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

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


rate difficulty: And having left them, having entered again into the boat, he went away to the other side;


simplify: But be shod with sandals; and not put on two coats.

They were to go with common shoes on their feet, and not to take two coats.


rate difficulty: I am sleeping, but my heart waketh: The sound of my beloved knocking! `Open to me, my sister, my friend, My dove, my perfect one, For my head is filled <FI>with<Fi> dew, My locks <FI>with<Fi> drops of the night.'

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


simplify: And they said, We cannot, until all the flocks be gathered together, and they roll the stone from the well’s mouth; then we water the sheep.

And they said, We are not able to do so till all the flocks have come together and the stone has been rolled away from the mouth of the water-hole; then we will get water for the sheep.


rate difficulty: And he spake boldly in the name of the Lord Jesus, and disputed against the Grecians: but they went about to slay him.


simplify: Then fearing lest we should have fallen upon rocks, they cast four anchors out of the stern, and wished for the day.

Then, as they were afraid of our being driven on some rocky coast, they let go four anchors from the stern, and longed for daylight.


rate difficulty: For their calamity shall rise suddenly; and who knoweth the ruin of them both?


rate difficulty: Sing unto the Lord, praise ye the Lord: for he hath delivered the soul of the poor from the hand of evildoers.

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


simplify: Then saith Jesus unto him, Put up again thy sword into its place: for all they that take the sword shall perish with the sword.

Then says Jesus to him, Put up your sword again into its place: for all those who take the sword will come to death by the sword.


simplify: Yet the people have not turned unto him that smote them, neither have they sought Jehovah of hosts.

But the heart of the people was not turned to him who sent punishment on them, and they made no prayer to the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: And now, Jehovah our God, save us from his hand, and all kingdoms of the earth do know that Thou <FI>art<Fi> Jehovah, Thyself alone.'

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


simplify: And the man, in whom was the evil spirit, leaping upon them, and having overcome them, prevailed against them, so that naked and wounded they did flee out of that house,

Then the man, in whom this wicked spirit was, sprang on them, mastered both of them, and so completely overpowered them, that they fled out of the house, stripped of their clothes, and wounded.


simplify: When pride cometh, then cometh shame: but with the lowly is wisdom.

When pride comes, there comes shame, but wisdom is with the quiet in spirit.


rate difficulty: The sons of Manasseh: Asriel, ...whom she bore; his Syrian concubine bore Machir the father of Gilead.

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


simplify: Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, And in their death they were not divided: They were swifter than eagles, They were stronger than lions.

Saul and Jonathan were loved and pleasing; in their lives and in their death they were not parted; they went more quickly than eagles, they were stronger than lions.


simplify: And having called near the multitude, with his disciples, he said to them, `Whoever doth will to come after me--let him disown himself, and take up his cross, and follow me;

Calling the people and his disciples to him, Jesus said: “If anyone wishes to walk in my steps, let them renounce self, take up their cross, and follow me.


simplify: Now the Lord is that Spirit: and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

And the ‘Lord’ is the Spirit, and, where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is freedom.


simplify: And as soon as David had made an end of offering burnt offerings and peace offerings, he blessed the people in the name of the Lord of hosts.

And after David had made the burned offerings and the peace-offerings, he gave the people a blessing in the name of the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: and upon all the ships of Tarshish, and upon all pleasant works of art.


rate difficulty: And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

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rate difficulty: And they cast lots, the small as well as the great, according to their fathers' houses, for every gate.

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rate difficulty: And Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.

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rate difficulty: Behold, he drinketh up a river, and hasteth not: he trusteth that he can draw up Jordan into his mouth.

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simplify: So two or three cities wandered unto one city to drink water, and were not satisfied: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

So two or three towns went wandering to one town looking for water, and did not get enough: and still you have not come back to me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: for thy servant hath known that I have sinned; and lo, I have come to-day, first of all the house of Joseph, to go down to meet my lord the king.'


rate difficulty: They gave him wine mixed with bitter drink: and after tasting it, he took no more.

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rate difficulty: And Israel sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

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simplify: Strangers have devoured his strength, and he knoweth it not: yea, gray hairs are here and there upon him, and he knoweth it not.

Men from other lands have made waste his strength, and he is not conscious of it; grey hairs have come on him here and there, and he has no knowledge of it.


simplify: O my soul, come not thou into their council; Unto their assembly, my glory, be not thou united; For in their anger they slew a man, And in their self-will they hocked an ox.

Take no part in their secrets, O my soul; keep far away, O my heart, from their meetings; for in their wrath they put men to death, and for their pleasure even oxen were wounded.


simplify: and,  On their hands they shall bear thee up, Lest haply thou dash thy foot against a stone.

And, In their hands they will keep you up, so that your foot may not be crushed against a stone.


simplify: Therefore shall the strength of Pharaoh be your shame, and the trust in the shadow of Egypt your confusion.

And the strength of Pharaoh will be your shame, and your hope in the shade of Egypt will come to nothing.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto me, Vex not Moab, neither contend with them in battle; for I will not give thee of his land for a possession; because I have given Ar unto the children of Lot for a possession.

And the Lord said to me, Make no attack on Moab and do not go to war with them, for I will not give you any of his land: because I have given Ar to the children of Lot for their heritage.


simplify: He scorneth the multitude of the city, neither regardeth he the crying of the driver.

He makes sport of the noise of the town; the voice of the driver does not come to his ears;


simplify: But first must he suffer many things, and be rejected of this generation.

But first he must undergo much suffering, and he must be rejected by the present generation.


rate difficulty: So are the ways of every one that is greedy of gain; which taketh away the life of the owners thereof.

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rate difficulty: And he a third time said unto them, `Why, what evil did he? no cause of death did I find in him; having chastised him, then, I will release <FI>him<Fi> .'

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rate difficulty: And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?

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simplify: And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.

And Mephibosheth, the son of Saul's son, came down for the purpose of meeting the king; his feet had not been cared for or his hair cut or his clothing washed from the day when the king went away till the day when he came back in peace.


rate difficulty: I have strength for all things in him that gives me power.


simplify: And Naboth said to Ahab, The Lord forbid it me, that I should give the inheritance of my fathers unto thee.

But Naboth said to Ahab, By the Lord, far be it from me to give you the heritage of my fathers.


simplify: And when we had launched from thence, we sailed under Cyprus, because the winds were contrary.

Putting to sea again, we sailed under the lee of Cyprus, because the wind was against us;


rate difficulty: but the spiritual discerns all things, and he is discerned of no one.


simplify: But David went and returned from Saul to feed his father’s sheep at Beth–lehem.

Now David went to and from Saul, looking after his father's sheep at Beth-lehem.


simplify: All my affairs shall Tychicus make known unto you, the beloved brother and faithful minister and fellow-servant in the Lord:

Tychicus will give you news of all my business: he is a dear brother and true servant and helper in the word;


rate difficulty: And whenever the cloud was taken up from the House, the children of Israel went forward on their journey:

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simplify: And after these days Elisabeth his wife conceived; and she hid herself five months, saying,

After that time, Elisabeth, being certain that she was to become a mother, kept herself from men's eyes for five months, saying,


rate difficulty: “Where will it be possible,” his disciples answered, “to get sufficient bread for these people in this lonely place?”

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simplify: And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

Now when the Philistines had news that the children of Israel had come together at Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And the children of Israel, hearing of it, were full of fear.


simplify: And thou shalt speak my words unto them, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear: for they are most rebellious.

And you are to give them my words, if they give ear to you or if they do not: for they are uncontrolled.


rate difficulty: At that time the word of the Lord came to Isaiah, the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and take off your robe, and your shoes from your feet; and he did so, walking unclothed and without shoes on his feet.

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rate difficulty: But others said, It is Elijah. And others said, It is a prophet, even like one of the prophets.

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simplify: By me princes rule, And nobles, evenall the judges of the earth.

Through me chiefs have authority, and the noble ones are judging in righteousness.


rate difficulty: Behold what manner of love the Father hath bestowed upon us, that we should be called children of God; and such we are. For this cause the world knoweth us not, because it knew him not.

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simplify: tribulation and anguish, upon every soul of man that worketh evil, of the Jew first, and also of the Greek;

Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;


rate difficulty: Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

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simplify: for I say to you, ye may not see me henceforth, till ye may say, Blessed <FI>is<Fi> he who is coming in the name of the Lord.'

For nevermore, I tell you, will you see me, until you say — ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord!’”


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

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


rate difficulty: So in the lowest part of the space at the back of the walls, in the open places, I put the people by families, with their swords, their spears, and their bows.

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simplify: Where is the dwelling of the lions, and the feedingplace of the young lions, where the lion, even the old lion, walked, and the lion’s whelp, and none made them afraid?

Where is the lions' hole, the place where the young lions got their food, where the lion and the she-lion were walking with their young, without cause for fear?


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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rate difficulty: and Adoraim, and Lachish, and Azekah,

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simplify: Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, am left a prophet of Jehovah; but Baal’s prophets are four hundred and fifty men.

Then Elijah said to the people, I, even I, am the only living prophet of the Lord; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.


rate difficulty: And one of them said, Be pleased to go with your servants. And he said, I will go.

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rate difficulty: Wherefore David said unto the Gibeonites, What shall I do for you? and wherewith shall I make the atonement, that ye may bless the inheritance of the Lord?

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rate difficulty: And he maketh in Jerusalem inventions--a device of an inventor--to be on the towers, and on the corners, to shoot with arrows and with great stones, and his name goeth out unto a distance, for he hath been wonderfully helped till that he hath been strong.

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simplify: And he commanded the people to sit down on the ground: and he took the seven loaves, and gave thanks, and brake, and gave to his disciples to set before them; and they did set them before the people.

Jesus told the crowd to sit down on the ground. Then he took the seven loaves, and, after saying the thanksgiving, broke them, and gave them to his disciples to serve out; and they served them out to the crowd.


rate difficulty: But shun profane babblings: for they will proceed further in ungodliness,

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rate difficulty: What we eat, however, will not bring us nearer to God. We lose nothing by not eating this food, and we gain nothing by eating it.

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rate difficulty: And having cried out, and torn him much, he came out: and the boy became as one dead; insomuch that the more part said, He is dead.


simplify: The aged women likewise, that they be in behaviour as becometh holiness, not false accusers, not given to much wine, teachers of good things;

That old women are to be self-respecting in behaviour, not saying evil of others, not given to taking much wine, teachers of that which is good,


simplify: But the firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb: and if thou redeem him not, then shalt thou break his neck. All the firstborn of thy sons thou shalt redeem. And none shall appear before me empty.

A lamb may be given in payment for the young of an ass, but if you will not make payment for it, its neck will have to be broken. For all the first of your sons you are to make payment. No one is to come before me without an offering.


rate difficulty: Let him be seated by himself, saying nothing, because he has put it on him.


rate difficulty: Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith Jehovah, which destroyest all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand upon thee, and roll thee down from the rocks, and will make thee a burnt mountain.

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rate difficulty: Zenan, and Hadashah, and Migdal–gad,

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simplify: After this manner he made the ten bases: all of them had one casting, one measure, and one form.

All the ten bases were made in this way, after the same design, of the same size and form.


simplify: Good understanding giveth favor; But the way of the transgressor is hard.

Wise behaviour gets approval, but the way of the false is their destruction.


rate difficulty: Now the rest of the acts of Pekahiah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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rate difficulty: For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited.

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simplify: Nor by the earth; for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem; for it is the city of the great King.

Or by the earth, because it is the resting-place for his foot; or by Jerusalem, because it is the town of the great King.


simplify: And when he had given him licence, Paul stood on the stairs, and beckoned with the hand unto the people. And when there was made a great silence, he spake unto them in the Hebrew tongue, saying,

The commanding officer gave his permission, and Paul, standing on the steps, made signs with his hand to the people, and, when comparative silence had been obtained, he said to them in Hebrew:


simplify: Blessed is the man that endureth temptation: for when he is tried, he shall receive the crown of life, which the Lord hath promised to them that love him.

Blessed is the person who remains firm under temptation, for, when they have stood the test, they will receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those who love him.


rate difficulty: And the brazen altar, which was before Jehovah, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Jehovah, and put it on the north side of his altar.

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rate difficulty: All the families of the Shuhamites, according to those that were numbered of them, were sixty-four thousand four hundred.

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rate difficulty: Then the king was much moved, and went up into the room over the door, weeping, and saying, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom! if only my life might have been given for yours, O Absalom, my son, my son!

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simplify: And Jair the son of Manasseh went and took the towns thereof, and called them Havvoth-jair.

And Jair, the son of Manasseh, went and took the towns of Gilead, naming them Havvoth-Jair.


simplify: lest if Macedonians may come with me, and find you unprepared, we--we may be put to shame (that we say not--ye) in this same confidence of boasting.

Otherwise, if any Macedonians were to come with me, and find you unprepared, we — to say nothing of you — should feel ashamed of our present confidence.


rate difficulty: Let no one give evil for evil; but ever go after what is good, for one another and for all.

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simplify: And when they had platted a crown of thorns, they put it upon his head, and a reed in his right hand: and they bowed the knee before him, and mocked him, saying, Hail, King of the Jews!

and having twisted some thorns into a crown, put it on his head, and a rod in his right hand, and then, going down on their knees before him, they mocked him. “Long life to you, king of the Jews!” they said.


simplify: And the king went forth, and all his household after him. And the king left ten women, which were concubines, to keep the house.

So the king went out, taking with him all the people of his house, but for ten of his women, who were to take care of the house.


simplify: and the messenger took the censer, and did fill it out of the fire of the altar, and did cast <FI>it<Fi> to the earth, and there came voices, and thunders, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

Then the angel took the censer, and filled it with fire from the altar, and threw it down on the earth; and there followed ‘peals of thunder, cries, flashes of lightning,’ and an earthquake.


simplify: And the king said, Enquire thou whose son the stripling is.

And the king said, Make search and see whose son this young man is.


rate difficulty: And when they looked, they see that the stone has been rolled [away], for it was very great.


simplify: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.


rate difficulty: And I took my staff Beauty, and cut it asunder, that I might break my covenant which I had made with all the peoples.

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simplify: And they forsook Jehovah, and served Baal and the Ashtaroth.

And they gave up the Lord, and became the servants of Baal and the Astartes.


rate difficulty: and it turneth back in its distress unto Jehovah, God of Israel, and they seek Him, and He is found of them,

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simplify: And Baruch the son of Neriah did according to all that Jeremiah the prophet commanded him, reading in the book the words of the Lord in the Lord’s house.

And Baruch, the son of Neriah, did as Jeremiah the prophet gave him orders to do, reading from the book the words of the Lord in the Lord's house.


simplify: Wherefore his servants said unto him, Let there be sought for my lord the king a young virgin: and let her stand before the king, and cherish him; and let her lie in thy bosom, that my lord the king may get heat.

So his servants said to him, Let search be made for a young virgin for my lord the king, to take care of him and be waiting on him; and you may take her in your arms, and so my lord the king will be warm.


simplify: And Nabal answered David’s servants, and said, Who is David? and who is the son of Jesse? there are many servants now-a-days that break away every man from his master.

And Nabal gave them his answer and said, Who is David? who is the son of Jesse? there are a number of servants in these days running away from their masters.


simplify: so also ye, reckon yourselves to be dead indeed to the sin, and living to God in Jesus Christ our Lord.

So let it be with you — regard yourselves as dead to sin, but as living for God, through union with Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

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simplify: And it came to pass, when he reigned, that he smote all the house of Jeroboam; he left not to Jeroboam any that breathed, until he had destroyed him, according unto the saying of the Lord, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite:

And straight away when he became king, he sent destruction on all the offspring of Jeroboam; there was not one living person of all the family of Jeroboam whom he did not put to death, so the word of the Lord, which he said by his servant Ahijah the Shilonite, came about;


simplify: And he put forth the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and heaven, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looketh toward the north; where was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provoketh to jealousy.

And he put out the form of a hand and took me by the hair of my head; and the wind, lifting me up between the earth and the heaven, took me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the way into the inner door facing to the north; where was the seat of the image of envy.


rate difficulty: and Ozias begat Joatham, and Joatham begat Achaz, and Achaz begat Ezekias,

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rate difficulty: and announce customs which it is not lawful for us to receive nor practise, being Romans.

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simplify: Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?

Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?


simplify: And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense.

And an angel of the Lord appeared to him, standing on the right of the Altar of Incense.


simplify: Yet say ye, Why? doth not the son bear the iniquity of the father? When the son hath done that which is lawful and right, and hath kept all my statutes, and hath done them, he shall surely live.

But you say, Why does not the son undergo punishment for the evil-doing of the father? When the son has done what is ordered and right, and has kept my rules and done them, life will certainly be his.


simplify: For ye say, Where is the house of the prince? and where are the dwelling places of the wicked?

For you say, Where is the house of the ruler, and where is the tent of the evil-doer?


rate difficulty: Only, the high places have not turned aside--yet are the people sacrificing and making perfume in high places; he hath built the high gate of the house of Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

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rate difficulty: Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.


rate difficulty: But I am speaking to you who were Gentiles.

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simplify: And it came to pass, when Joshua was by Jericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Joshua went unto him, and said unto him, Art thou for us, or for our adversaries?

Now when Joshua was near Jericho, lifting up his eyes he saw a man in front of him, with his sword uncovered in his hand: and Joshua went up to him and said, Are you for us or against us?


simplify: And when they found them not, they dragged Jason and certain brethren before the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;

And when they were not able to get them, they took Jason and some of the brothers by force before the rulers of the town, crying, These men, who have made trouble all over the world have now come here;


simplify: Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in Sheol, whither thou goest.

Whatever comes to your hand to do with all your power, do it because there is no work, or thought, or knowledge, or wisdom in the place of the dead to which you are going.


simplify: And as many as receive you not, when ye depart from that city, shake off the dust from your feet for a testimony against them.

And if any people will not take you in, when you go away from that town, put off its dust from your feet for a witness against them.


rate difficulty: There was nothing in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

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rate difficulty: Surely he hath borne our griefs and carried our sorrows; and we, we did regard him stricken, smitten ofGod, and afflicted.

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rate difficulty: That the faith which you have in common with them may be working with power, in the knowledge of every good thing in you, for Christ.

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simplify: For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth him in the joy of his heart.

He will not give much thought to the days of his life; because God lets him be taken up with the joy of his heart.


rate difficulty: And he hath brought thee near to him, and all thy brethren the sons of Levi with thee: and seek ye the priesthood also?

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simplify: Neither shall he profane his seed among his people: for I the Lord do sanctify him.

And he may not make his seed unclean among his people, for I the Lord have made him holy.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to them, `Do ye not because of this go astray, not knowing the Writings, nor the power of God?

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rate difficulty: And taken from them hath been a reviling by all the removed of Judah that <FI>are<Fi> in Babylon, saying, Jehovah doth set thee as Zedekiah, and as Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted with fire;

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simplify: And he asked for a writing table, and wrote, saying, His name is John. And they marvelled all.

Asking for a writing-tablet, he wrote the words — ‘His name is John.’ Everyone was surprised;


rate difficulty: And perfume with leaven a thank-offering, And proclaim willing gifts, sound ye! For so ye have loved, O sons of Israel, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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rate difficulty: and her parents were amazed, but he charged them to say to no one what was come to pass.


simplify: Which is a manifest token of the righteous judgment of God, that ye may be counted worthy of the kingdom of God, for which ye also suffer:

Which is a clear sign of the decision which God in his righteousness has made; to give you a part in his kingdom, for which you have undergone this pain;


rate difficulty: But the days will come, when the bridegroom shall be taken away from them, and then shall they fast in those days.

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simplify: And when he had thus spoken, the king rose up, and the governor, and Bernice, and they that sat with them:

Then the king rose, with the Governor and Bernice and those who had been sitting with them,


simplify: And he cried and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me, and send Lazarus, that he may dip the tip of his finger in water, and cool my tongue; for I am in anguish in this flame.

And he gave a cry and said, Father Abraham, have mercy on me and send Lazarus, so that he may put the end of his finger in water and put it on my tongue, for I am cruelly burning in this flame.


simplify: but they shall serve Jehovah their God, and David their king, whom I will raise up unto them.

But they will be servants to the Lord their God and to David their king, whom I will give back to them.


rate difficulty: And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh.

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simplify: For the king had taken counsel, and his princes, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to keep the passover in the second month.

For the king, after discussion with his chiefs and all the body of the people in Jerusalem, had made a decision to keep the Passover in the second month.


simplify: And after that I looked, and, behold, the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

And after these things I saw, and the house of the Tent of witness in heaven was open:


simplify: And he answered and said, It is not meet to take the children’s bread and cast it to the dogs.

And he made answer and said, It is not right to take the children's bread and give it to the dogs.


simplify: `And concerning the dead, that they rise: have ye not read in the Book of Moses (at The Bush), how God spake to him, saying, I <FI>am<Fi> the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob;

“As to the dead, and the fact that they rise, have you never read in the book of Moses, in the passage about the Bush, how God spoke to him saying — ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’?


simplify: And the priest shall put some of the blood upon the horns of the altar of sweet incense before the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the congregation; and shall pour all the blood of the bullock at the bottom of the altar of the burnt offering, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

And the priest is to put some of the blood on the horns of the altar on which perfume is burned before the Lord in the Tent of meeting, draining out all the rest of the blood of the ox at the base of the altar of burned offering which is at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And the children of Israel asked of Jehovah (for the ark of the covenant of God was there in those days,

And the children of Israel made request to the Lord, (for the ark of the agreement of the Lord was there in those days,


rate difficulty: While he is yet speaking, lo, a bright cloud overshadowed them, and lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying, `This is My Son, --the Beloved, in whom I did delight; hear him.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus went forth, and his disciples, into the villages of Cæsarea Philippi: and on the way he asked his disciples, saying unto them, Who do men say that I am?

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


rate difficulty: But if the leprosy break out much in the skin, and the leprosy cover all the skin of [him that hath] the sore, from his head even to his foot, wherever the eyes of the priest look,

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


simplify: And he came to the sheepcotes by the way, where was a cave; and Saul went in to cover his feet: and David and his men remained in the sides of the cave.

And on the way he came to a place where sheep were kept, where there was a hollow in the rock; and Saul went in for a private purpose. Now David and his men were in the deepest part of the hollow.


rate difficulty: Yet have thou respect unto the prayer of thy servant, and to his supplication, O Lord my God, to hearken unto the cry and to the prayer, which thy servant prayeth before thee to day:

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And it shall be a statute for ever unto you: in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, ye shall afflict your souls, and shall do no manner of work, the home-born, or the stranger that sojourneth among you:

And let this be an order to you for ever: in the seventh month, on the tenth day, you are to keep yourselves from pleasure and do no sort of work, those who are Israelites by birth and those from other lands who are living among you:


simplify: Thou shalt not wrest the justice due to thy poor in his cause.

Let no wrong decisions be given in the poor man's cause.


rate difficulty: And all they of the land came to a wood; and there was honey on the ground.

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


simplify: If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most miserable.

If in this life only we have hope in Christ, we are of all men most unhappy.


simplify: And Jephthah vowed a vow unto Jehovah, and said, If thou wilt indeed deliver the children of Ammon into my hand,

And Jephthah took an oath to the Lord, and said, If you will give the children of Ammon into my hands,


rate difficulty: She is to have nothing which comes from the vine for her food, and let her take no wine or strong drink or anything which is unclean; let her take care to do all I have given her orders to do.

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


simplify: And on the morrow when he departed, he took out two pence, and gave them to the host, and said unto him, Take care of him; and whatsoever thou spendest more, when I come again, I will repay thee.

And the day after he took two pennies and gave them to the owner of the house and said, Take care of him; and if this money is not enough, when I come again I will give you whatever more is needed.


simplify: Now the children of Israel after their number, to wit, the chief fathers and captains of thousands and hundreds, and their officers that served the king in any matter of the courses, which came in and went out month by month throughout all the months of the year, of every course were twenty and four thousand.

Now the number of the children of Israel, that is, the heads of families, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the men in authority who were servants of the king in anything to do with the divisions which came in and went out month by month through all the months of the year, in every division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain: for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain.

You are not to make use of the name of the Lord your God for an evil purpose; whoever takes the Lord's name on his lips for an evil purpose will be judged as a sinner by the Lord.


simplify: So I turned and came down from the mount, and the mount was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.

So turning round I came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire; and the two stones of the agreement were in my hands.


rate difficulty: Till when, O Jehovah, have I cried, And Thou dost not hear? I cry unto Thee--`Violence,' and Thou dost not save.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ; that every one may receive the things done in his body, according to that he hath done, whether it be good or bad.

For at the court of the Christ we must all appear in our true characters, so that each may reap the results of the life which he has lived in the body, in accordance with his actions — whether good or worthless.


rate difficulty: But is under keepers and managers till the time fixed by the father.

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