rate difficulty: Brothers, if a man is taken in any wrongdoing, you who are of the Spirit will put such a one right in a spirit of love; keeping watch on yourself, for fear that you yourself may be tested.


simplify: Seeing it is hid from the eyes of all living, and kept close from the fowls of the air.

For it is kept secret from the eyes of all living, unseen by the birds of the air.


rate difficulty: And he appointed, according to the order of David his father, the courses of the priests to their service, and the Levites to their charges, to praise and minister before the priests, as the duty of every day required: the porters also by their courses at every gate: for so had David the man of God commanded.

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


rate difficulty: Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding; Butthat which isin the inward part of fools is made known.

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


simplify: And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left.

And he will put the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.


simplify: And he said, Which way shall we go up? And he answered, The way of the wilderness of Edom.

And he said, Which way are we to go? And he said in answer, By the waste land of Edom.


rate difficulty: and one lamb out of the flock, out of two hundred, out of the watered country of Israel, for a present, and for a burnt-offering, and for peace-offerings, to make atonement by them--an affirmation of the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: The law and the prophets were until John: since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

The law and the prophets sufficed until the time of John. Since then the good news of the kingdom of God has been told, and everybody has been forcing their way into it.


simplify: And the sons of Israel did so: and Joseph gave them wagons, according to the commandment of Pharaoh, and gave them provision for the way.

And the children of Israel did as he said; and Joseph gave them carts as had been ordered by Pharaoh, and food for their journey.


rate difficulty: So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.

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


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


simplify: A wise man is strong; Yea, a man of knowledge increaseth might.

A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.


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


rate difficulty: sown weak, it rises strong; sown a human body, it rises a spiritual body.

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


simplify: To him be glory and dominion for ever and ever. Amen.

To him be ascribed dominion for ever. Amen.


simplify: Salute Andronicus and Junia, my kinsmen, and my fellowprisoners, who are of note among the apostles, who also were in Christ before me.

to Andronicus and Junia, fellow Jews and once my fellow prisoners, who are people of note among the apostles, and who became Christians before I did;


simplify: Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.

Like the sound of war-carriages they go jumping on the tops of the mountains; like the noise of a flame of fire burning up the grain-stems, like a strong people lined up for the fight.


rate difficulty: And I gave her time that she should repent, and she will not repent of her fornication.


rate difficulty: It is as the light of the morning, when the sun comes up, a morning without clouds; making young grass come to life from the earth.


rate difficulty: No; the gift that God gives is for a nobler end; and that is why it is said — ‘God is opposed to the haughty, but gives help to the humble.’


rate difficulty: Now I say that Christ has been made a servant of the circumcision to give effect to the undertakings given by God to the fathers,

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


simplify: And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

Even things without life, having a voice, such as a music-pipe or other instrument, if they do not give out different sounds, who may be certain what is being played?


simplify: And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am Jehovah your God, and there is none else; and my people shall never be put to shame.

And you will be certain that I am in Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and there is no other: and my people will never be shamed.


rate difficulty: And now ye purpose to keep under the children of Judah and Jerusalem for bondmen and bondwomen unto you: but are there not even with you trespasses of your own against Jehovah your God?

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


rate difficulty: And he said, A hundred measures of oil. And he said unto him, Take thy bond, and sit down quickly and write fifty.

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army.

For this cause the Lord has said: See, I am giving the land of Egypt to Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon: he will take away her wealth, and take her goods by force and everything which is there; and this will be the payment for his army.


simplify: She layeth her hands to the spindle, and her hands hold the distaff.

She puts her hands to the cloth-working rod, and her fingers take the wheel.


rate difficulty: for the whole of the land which thou are seeing, to thee I give it, and to thy seed--to the age.

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


rate difficulty: Holy <FI>is<Fi> Israel to Jehovah, The first-fruit of His increase, All consuming him are guilty, Evil cometh in unto them, an affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: And if he do not these three things unto her, then shall she go out for nothing, without money.

And if he does not do these three things for her, she has the right to go free without payment.


rate difficulty: And Aaron and his sons shall eat the flesh of the ram, and the bread that is in the basket, at the entrance of the tent of meeting.


simplify: And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.

And the Jews of the faith, who had come with Peter, were full of wonder, because the Holy Spirit was given to the Gentiles,


rate difficulty: in the day of your sacrificing it is eaten, and on the morrow, and that which is left unto the third day with fire is burnt,

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Rachel had born Joseph, that Jacob said unto Laban, Send me away, that I may go unto mine own place, and to my country.

Now after the birth of Joseph, Jacob said to Laban, Let me go away to my place and my country.


rate difficulty: and the priest shall dip his finger in the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before Jehovah, before the veil.

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


simplify: Neither shall he multiply wives to himself, that his heart turn not away: neither shall he greatly multiply to himself silver and gold.

And he is not to have a great number of wives, for fear that his heart may be turned away; or great wealth of silver and gold.


rate difficulty: And when Phinehas the priest and the princes of the assembly and the heads of the thousands of Israel that were with him heard the words that the children of Reuben and the children of Gad and the children of Manasseh spoke, it was good in their sight.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Gideon, The people are yet too many; bring them down unto the water, and I will try them for thee there: and it shall be, that of whom I say unto thee, This shall go with thee, the same shall go with thee; and of whomsoever I say unto thee, This shall not go with thee, the same shall not go.

Then the Lord said to Gideon, There are still more people than is necessary; take them down to the water so that I may put them to the test for you there; then whoever I say is to go with you will go, and whoever I say is not to go will not go.


simplify: And upon Elam will I bring the four winds from the four quarters of heaven, and will scatter them toward all those winds; and there shall be no nation whither the outcasts of Elam shall not come.

And I will send on Elam four winds from the four quarters of heaven, driving them out to all those winds; there will be no nation into which the wanderers from Elam do not come.


simplify: For he shall grow up before him as a tender plant, and as a root out of a dry ground: he hath no form nor comeliness; and when we shall see him, there is no beauty that we should desire him.

For his growth was like that of a delicate plant before him, and like a root out of a dry place: he had no grace of form, to give us pleasure;


simplify: And now evening having come, seeing it was the preparation, that is, the fore-sabbath,

The evening had already fallen, when, as it was the Preparation day — the day before the Sabbath —


simplify: He shall lean upon his house, but it shall not stand: he shall hold it fast, but it shall not endure.

He is looking to his family for support, but it is not there; he puts his hope in it, but it comes to nothing.


simplify: And thou--watch in all things; suffer evil; do the work of one proclaiming good news; of thy ministration make full assurance,

But you, Timothy, must always be temperate. Face hardships; do the work of a missionary; discharge all the duties of your office.


rate difficulty: Behold, this is the joy of his way, and out of the dust shall others grow.

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


simplify: Thou shalt not commit adultery.

Do not be false to the married relation.


simplify: And they that were with me beheld indeed the light, but they heard not the voice of him that spake to me.

And those who were with me saw the light, but the voice of him who was talking to me came not to their ears.


simplify: Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, detained before Jehovah; and his name was Doeg the Edomite, the chiefest of the herdsmen that belonged to Saul.

Now a certain man of the servants of Saul was there that day, kept back before the Lord; his name was Doeg, an Edomite, the strongest of Saul's runners.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto me, What seest thou, Jeremiah? And I said, Figs: the good figs very good; and the bad very bad, which cannot be eaten for badness.

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


simplify: Wherefore gird up the loins of your mind, be sober, and hope to the end for the grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;

So make your minds ready, and keep on the watch, hoping with all your power for the grace which is to come to you at the revelation of Jesus Christ;


simplify: I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither have I rest; But trouble cometh.

I have no peace, no quiet, and no rest; nothing but pain comes on me.


rate difficulty: These King David made holy to the Lord, together with the silver and gold which he had taken from the nations he had overcome--

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


simplify: And if the avenger of blood pursue after him, then they shall not deliver up the manslayer into his hand; because he smote his neighbor unawares, and hated him not beforetime.

And if the one who has the right of punishment comes after him, they are not to give the taker of life up to him; because he was the cause of his neighbour's death without designing it and not in hate.


rate difficulty: In the city is left desolation, and the gate is smitten with destruction.

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


simplify: aged women as mothers, younger ones as sisters--in all purity;

the older women as mothers, and the younger women as sisters — with all purity.


rate difficulty: And oppress not the widow, nor the fatherless, the stranger, nor the poor; and let none of you imagine evil against his brother in your heart.

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


rate difficulty: All the hands are feeble, and all knees go--waters.

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


simplify: And again, The Lord knoweth the thoughts of the wise, that they are vain.

And it says again —  ‘The Lord sees how fruitless are the deliberations of the wise.’


simplify: Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.

The underworld and Abaddon are never full, and the eyes of man have never enough.


simplify: And it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree; but only those men which have not the seal of God in their foreheads.

They were told not to harm the grass, or any plant, or any tree, but only those who have not ‘the seal of God on their foreheads.’


simplify: Moreover the word of the Lord came to me, saying,

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


simplify: And he did not answer him, not even to one word, so that the governor did wonder greatly.

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


rate difficulty: And makest men as the fishes of the sea, as the creeping things, that have no ruler over them?

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


simplify: He that hath no rule over his own spirit is like a city that is broken down, and without walls.

He whose spirit is uncontrolled is like an unwalled town which has been broken into.


rate difficulty: bind them continually upon thy heart, tie them about thy neck:

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


rate difficulty: With his arm he has done acts of power; he has put to flight those who have pride in their hearts.


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh-necoh put him in chains at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so that he might not be king in Jerusalem; and took from the land a tax of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

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


simplify: And if the whole congregation of Israel sin through ignorance, and the thing be hid from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done somewhat against any of the commandments of the Lord concerning things which should not be done, and are guilty;

And if all the people of Israel do wrong, without anyone's knowledge; if they have done any of the things which by the Lord's order are not to be done, causing sin to come on them;


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, as they were burying a man, that, behold, they spied a band of men; and they cast the man into the sepulchre of Elisha: and when the man was let down, and touched the bones of Elisha, he revived, and stood up on his feet.

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


simplify: Again in the ninth year, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me in the ninth year, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, saying,


rate difficulty: Every male among the priests shall eat thereof; in a holy place shall it be eaten: it is most holy.

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


rate difficulty: If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:

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


rate difficulty: Adonijah, Bigvai, Adin,

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


simplify: Seven weeks shalt thou number unto thee: from the time thou beginnest to put the sickle to the standing grain shalt thou begin to number seven weeks.

Let seven weeks be numbered from the first day when the grain is cut.


simplify: Hast not thou made a hedge about him, and about his house, and about all that he hath, on every side? thou hast blessed the work of his hands, and his substance is increased in the land.

Have you yourself not put a wall round him and his house and all he has on every side, blessing the work of his hands, and increasing his cattle in the land?


rate difficulty: And the sons of Reuben: Enoch, and Phallu, and Hezron, and Carmi.

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


rate difficulty: The great day of the Lord is near, it is near and coming very quickly; the bitter day of the Lord is near, coming on more quickly than a man of war.

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


simplify: They shall lie down alike in the dust, and the worms shall cover them.

Together they go down to the dust, and are covered by the worm.


simplify: And he could not answer Abner a word again, because he feared him.

And so great was Ish-bosheth's fear of Abner that he was not able to say a word in answer.


simplify: Even so then at this present time also there is a remnant according to the election of grace.

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


rate difficulty: And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?

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


rate difficulty: And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver his soul.

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


simplify: And the Lord delivered it also, and the king thereof, into the hand of Israel; and he smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein; he let none remain in it; but did unto the king thereof as he did unto the king of Jericho.

And again the Lord gave it and its king into the hands of Israel; and he put it and every person in it to the sword, till their destruction was complete; and he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.


simplify: And he left the oxen, and ran after Elijah, and said, Let me, I pray thee, kiss my father and my mother, and then I will follow thee. And he said unto him, Go back again: for what have I done to thee?

And letting the oxen be where they were, he came running after Elijah, and said, Only let me give a kiss to my father and mother, and then I will come after you. But he said to him, Go back again; for what have I done to you?


simplify: though these three men were in it, as I live, saith the Lord Jehovah, they should deliver neither sons nor daughters; they only should be delivered, but the land should be desolate.

Even if these three men were in it, by my life, says the Lord, they would not keep safe their sons or daughters, but only themselves, and the land would be made waste.


simplify: Even in the third year of Asa king of Judah did Baasha slay him, and reigned in his stead.

In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha put him to death, and became king in his place.


simplify: And the booty, being the rest of the prey which the men of war had caught, was six hundred thousand and seventy thousand and five thousand sheep,

Now the beasts taken, in addition to what the fighting-men took for themselves, were six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,


rate difficulty: And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.


rate difficulty: And all these thy servants shall come down unto me, and bow down themselves unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the people that follow thee: and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in a great anger.

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


rate difficulty: and he who is in the field, let him not turn to the things behind, to take up his garment.


simplify: After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations.

And after this Job had a hundred and forty years of life, and saw his sons, and his sons' sons, even four generations.


simplify: And they were both naked, the man and his wife, and were not ashamed.

And the man and his wife were without clothing, and they had no sense of shame.


rate difficulty: For I fear lest perhaps coming I find you not such as I wish, and that I be found by you such as ye do not wish: lest [there might be] strifes, jealousies, angers, contentions, evil speakings, whisperings, puffings up, disturbances;

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


rate difficulty: Concerning the children of Ammon. Thus saith Jehovah: Hath Israel no sons? hath he no heir? Why is Malcam heir of Gad, and his people dwell in the cities thereof?

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


rate difficulty: then I have remembered My covenant <FI>with<Fi> Jacob, and also My covenant <FI>with<Fi> Isaac, and also My covenant <FI>with<Fi> Abraham I remember, and the land I remember.

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


rate difficulty: So Joshua rose up early in the morning, and brought Israel by their tribes; and the tribe of Judah was taken:


rate difficulty: And they went and came to Moses, and to Aaron, and to all the congregation of the children of Israel, unto the wilderness of Paran, to Kadesh; and brought back word unto them, and unto all the congregation, and showed them the fruit of the land.


rate difficulty: And he had forty sons and thirty sons’ sons, that rode on threescore and ten ass colts: and he judged Israel eight years.

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good, and to multiply you; so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you, and to bring you to nought; and ye shall be plucked from off the land whither thou goest to possess it.

And as the Lord took delight in doing you good and increasing you, so the Lord will take pleasure in cutting you off and causing your destruction, and you will be uprooted from the land which you are about to take as your heritage.


simplify: Then began he to anathematise, and to swear--`I have not known the man;' and immediately did a cock crow,

Then Peter said: “I swear that I do not know the man! May God punish me if I am lying!” At that moment a cock crowed;


simplify: But Absalom fled, and went to Talmai the son of Ammihur, king of Geshur. And David mourned for his son every day.

So Absalom went in flight and came to Talmai, the son of Ammihud, the king of Geshur, where he was for three years.


simplify: But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you, then shall those that ye let remain of them be as pricks in your eyes, and as thorns in your sides, and they shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.

But if you are slow in driving out the people of the land, then those of them who are still there will be like pin-points in your eyes and like thorns in your sides, troubling you in the land where you are living.


rate difficulty: Speak unto Aaron and unto his sons, saying, On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel: saying unto them,

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


simplify: From the first day of the seventh month began they to offer burnt-offerings unto Jehovah: but the foundation of the temple of Jehovah was not yet laid.

From the first day of the seventh month they made a start with the burned offerings, but the base of the Temple of the Lord had still not been put in its place.


simplify: And David perceived that Jehovah had established him king over Israel, and that he had exalted his kingdom for his people Israel’s sake.

And David saw that the Lord had made his position safe as king over Israel, and that he had made his kingdom great because of his people Israel.


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

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


simplify: By the breath of God ice is given; And the breadth of the waters is straitened.

By the breath of God ice is made, and the wide waters are shut in.


rate difficulty: And his brethren also go and fall before him, and say, `Lo, we <FI>are<Fi> to thee for servants.'

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


rate difficulty: And give worship to the Lord your God, who will send his blessing on your bread and on your water; and I will take all disease away from among you.

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


rate difficulty: whoso is stealing let him no more steal, but rather let him labour, working the thing that is good with the hands, that he may have to impart to him having need.

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


simplify: And when the dew that lay was gone up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness a small round thing, small as the hoar-frost on the ground.

And when the dew was gone, on the face of the earth was a small round thing, like small drops of ice on the earth.


simplify: And Joseph said unto them the third day, This do, and live; for I fear God:

And on the third day Joseph said to them, Do this, if you would keep your lives: for I am a god-fearing man:


simplify: Notwithstanding, the land shall be divided by lot: according to the names of the tribes of their fathers they shall inherit.

But let the distribution of the land be made by the decision of the Lord: by the names of the tribes of their fathers let their heritage be given them.


rate difficulty: But he that heareth, and doeth not, is like a man that without a foundation built an house upon the earth; against which the stream did beat vehemently, and immediately it fell; and the ruin of that house was great.

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


rate difficulty: So he took him to the chief captain and said, Paul, the prisoner, made a request to me to take this young man to you, for he has something to say to you.

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


simplify: What? came the word of God out from you? or came it unto you only?

What! Did God’s message to the world originate with you? Or did it find its way to none but you?


simplify: If ye will fear Jehovah, and serve him, and hearken unto his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of Jehovah, and both ye and also the king that reigneth over you be followers of Jehovah your God, well:

If in the fear of the Lord you are his servants, hearing his voice and not going against the orders of the Lord, but being true to the Lord your God, you and the king ruling over you, then all will be well:


rate difficulty: No meal-offering, which ye shall offer unto Jehovah, shall be made with leaven; for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: For thus saith the Lord, Ye shall not see wind, neither shall ye see rain; yet that valley shall be filled with water, that ye may drink, both ye, and your cattle, and your beasts.

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


simplify: and for all he died, that those living, no more to themselves may live, but to him who died for them, and was raised again.

and that he died for all, so that the living should no longer live for themselves, but for him who died and rose for them.


simplify: Salt is good: but if the salt have lost its saltness, wherewith will ye season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.

Salt is good; but if the taste goes from it, how will you make it salt again? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace one with another.


rate difficulty: And sons of Korah <FI>are<Fi> Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these <FI>are<Fi> families of the Korhite.

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


simplify: The table, and all the vessels thereof, and the shewbread,

The table, with all its vessels and the holy bread;


simplify: Then he openeth the ears of men, And sealeth their instruction,

Then he makes his secrets clear to men, so that they are full of fear at what they see;


rate difficulty: In the plain of the Jordan did the king cast them, in the clay-ground between Succoth and Zeredathah.

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


simplify: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

They began talking to one another about their being short of bread;


simplify: The foundations of the wall of the city were adorned with all manner of precious stones. The first foundation was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;

The bases of the wall of the town had ornaments of all sorts of beautiful stones. The first base was jasper; the second, sapphire; the third, chalcedony; the fourth, emerald;


simplify: Blessed be Jehovah thy God, who delighted in thee, to set thee on his throne, to be king for Jehovah thy God: because thy God loved Israel, to establish them for ever, therefore made he thee king over them, to do justice and righteousness.

Praise be to the Lord your God whose pleasure it was to put you on the seat of his kingdom to be king for the Lord your God: because, in his love for Israel, it was the purpose of your God to make them strong for ever, he made you king over them, to be their judge in righteousness.


rate difficulty: and Hezekiah hearkeneth unto them, and sheweth them all the house of his treasury, the silver, and the gold, and the spices, and the good ointment, and all the house of his vessels, and all that hath been found in his treasuries; there hath not been a thing that Hezekiah hath not shewed them, in his house, and in all his dominion.

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simplify: Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

They are the men who rob widows of their homes, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier.”


simplify: Behold, the Assyrian was a cedar in Lebanon with fair branches, and with a forest-like shade, and of high stature; and its top was among the thick boughs.

See, a pine-tree with beautiful branches and thick growth, giving shade and very tall; and its top was among the clouds.


simplify: `For I say to you, that if your righteousness may not abound above that of the scribes and Pharisees, ye may not enter to the reign of the heavens.

Indeed I tell you that, unless you obey God's commands better than of the teachers of the law, and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.


rate difficulty: And Joseph fell upon his father's face, and wept upon him, and kissed him.

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simplify: Yea, and all that would live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

Yes, and all whose purpose is to be living in the knowledge of God in Christ Jesus, will be cruelly attacked.


simplify: and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps set to the Sheminith, to lead.

And Mattithiah and Eliphelehu and Mikneiah and Obed-edom and Jeiel and Azaziah, with corded instruments on the octave, to give the first note of the song.


simplify: It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in mount Sinai for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the Lord.

It is a regular burned offering, as it was ordered in Mount Sinai, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.


rate difficulty: For I will restore health unto thee, and I will heal thee of thy wounds, saith the Lord; because they called thee an Outcast, saying, This is Zion, whom no man seeketh after.

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rate difficulty: And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things, but have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

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simplify: In all the signs and the wonders, which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt to Pharaoh, and to all his servants, and to all his land,

In all the signs and wonders which the Lord sent him to do in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and all his land;


rate difficulty: And after certain days, when Felix came with his wife Drusilla, which was a Jewess, he sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ.

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simplify: So David dwelt in the fort, and called it the city of David. And David built round about from Millo and inward.

So David took the strong tower for his living-place, naming it the town of David. And David took in hand the building of the town all round, starting from the Millo.


simplify: And they have emptied out the money that was found in the house of Jehovah, and have delivered it into the hand of the overseers, and into the hand of the workmen.

They have taken out all the money which was in the Lord's house and have given it to the overseers and to the workmen.


rate difficulty: But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

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

But having faith in his word, we are looking for a new heaven and a new earth, which will be the resting-place of righteousness.


simplify: For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die: but if ye through the Spirit do mortify the deeds of the body, ye shall live.

If you live in obedience to your earthly nature, you will inevitably die; but if, by the power of the Spirit, you put an end to the evil habits of the body, you will live.


simplify: And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Michaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with trumpets;

And the priests; Eliakim, Maaseiah, Miniamin, Micaiah, Elioenai, Zechariah, and Hananiah, with wind instruments;


simplify: But after thy hardness and impenitent heart treasurest up unto thyself wrath against the day of wrath and revelation of the righteous judgment of God;

But by your hard and unchanged heart you are storing up wrath for yourself in the day of the revelation of God's judging in righteousness;


simplify: All the valiant men arose, and went all night, and took the body of Saul and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth–shan, and came to Jabesh, and burnt them there.

All the fighting men got up and, travelling all night, took Saul's body and the bodies of his sons from the wall of Beth-shan; and they came to Jabesh and had them burned there.


simplify: And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

And I will make children their chiefs, and foolish ones will have rule over them.


rate difficulty: And over the host of the tribe of the children of Naphtali was Ahira the son of Enan.

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simplify: And when thou comest nigh over against the children of Ammon, distress them not, nor meddle with them: for I will not give thee of the land of the children of Ammon any possession; because I have given it unto the children of Lot for a possession.

And when you come near the land of the children of Ammon, give them no cause of trouble and do not make war on them, for I will not give you any of the land of the children of Ammon for your heritage: because I have given it to the children of Lot.


simplify: And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.

He went in the ways of the kings of Israel, as the family of Ahab did: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife; and he did evil in the eyes of the Lord.


simplify: Behold, he was honourable among the thirty, but attained not to the first three: and David set him over his guard.

He was honoured over the thirty, but he was not equal to the first three: and David put him over his servants.


simplify: And they brought Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made a defence unto the people.

Then they took Alexander out from among the people, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander, making a sign with his hand, was about to make a statement to the people in answer:


simplify: That thou mayest walk in the way of good men, and keep the paths of the righteous.

So that you may go in the way of good men, and keep in the footsteps of the upright.


rate difficulty: And the children of Gad and the children of Reuben came and spoke to Moses, and to Eleazar the priest, and to the princes of the assembly, saying,


simplify: But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

Some one, however, may ask ‘How do the dead rise? And in what body will they come?’


rate difficulty: For we are [but] of yesterday, and know nothing, for our days upon earth are a shadow.


simplify: So Manasseh slept with his fathers, and they buried him in his own house: and Amon his son reigned in his stead.

So Manasseh went to rest with his fathers, and they put his body to rest in his house, and Amon his son became king in his place.


simplify: Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

Do no field-work and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.


simplify: Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the coupling of the second; that the loops may take hold one of another.

Fifty twists on one curtain and fifty on the other, the twists to be opposite one another.


rate difficulty: So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.


rate difficulty: Thou enlargedst my steps under me; And mine ankles did not slip.

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rate difficulty: And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.


rate difficulty: And all the inhabitants of Egypt shall know that I am Jehovah, because they have been a staff of reed to the house of Israel.

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simplify: They say unto him, Lord, that our eyes may be opened.

They say to him, Lord, that our eyes may be open.


simplify: In all your dwelling-places the cities shall be laid waste, and the high places shall be desolate; that your altars may be laid waste and made desolate, and your idols may be broken and cease, and your sun-images may be hewn down, and your works may be abolished.

In all your living-places the towns will become broken walls, and the high places made waste; so that your altars may be broken down and made waste, and your images broken and ended, and so that your sun-images may be cut down and your works rubbed out.


simplify: That your days may be multiplied, and the days of your children, in the land which the Lord sware unto your fathers to give them, as the days of heaven upon the earth.

So that your days, and the days of your children, may be long in the land which the Lord by his oath to your fathers said he would give them, like the days of the eternal heavens.


simplify: and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab; and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

And the son of Salmon by Rahab was Boaz; and the son of Boaz by Ruth was Obed; and the son of Obed was Jesse;


rate difficulty: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: I will cause to burst forth a stormy wind in my fury; and there shall be an overflowing rain in mine anger, and hail-stones in fury for utter destruction.

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rate difficulty: For every one shall be salted with fire.

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simplify: For as often as ye eat this bread, and drink the cup, ye proclaim the Lord’s death till he come.

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


rate difficulty: And they were all giving witness, with wonder, to the words of grace which came from his mouth: and they said, Is not this the son of Joseph?


simplify: In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.

In the third year of the rule of Asa, king of Judah, Baasha, the son of Ahijah, became king over all Israel in Tirzah, and was king for twenty-four years.


simplify: Now it came to pass, when all the people were baptized, that, Jesus also having been baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened,

Now it came about that when all the people had been given baptism, Jesus, having had baptism with them, was in prayer, when, the heaven being open,


rate difficulty: And when did we see you wandering, and take you in? or without clothing, and give it to you?


rate difficulty: for even when we were with you, this we did command you, that if any one is not willing to work, neither let him eat,

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rate difficulty: If any one have ears to hear, let him hear.

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


rate difficulty: The fear of the Lord tendeth to life: and he that hath it shall abide satisfied; he shall not be visited with evil.

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rate difficulty: And will have him cut in two, and will give him a part in the fate of the false ones: there will be weeping and cries of sorrow.


rate difficulty: and I will restore thy judges as at the first, and thy counsellors as at the beginning: afterward thou shalt be called The city of righteousness, a faithful town.

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rate difficulty: And when some soldiers on active service asked “And we — what are we to do?” he said: “Never use violence, or exact anything by false accusation; and be content with your pay.”


rate difficulty: And they removed from Rephidim, and encamped in the wilderness of Sinai.

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rate difficulty: What hast thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewn thee out a sepulchre here, [as] he that heweth out his sepulchre on high, cutting out in the rock a habitation for himself?

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rate difficulty: According to man do I speak these things? or doth not also the law say these things?

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


rate difficulty: And the king saith to him, `Go in peace;' and he riseth and goeth to Hebron,

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simplify: For thus saith the Lord concerning the sons and concerning the daughters that are born in this place, and concerning their mothers that bare them, and concerning their fathers that begat them in this land;

For this is what the Lord has said about the sons and daughters who come to birth in this place, and about their mothers who have given them birth, and about their fathers who have given life to them in this land:


simplify: And the Kohathites set forward, bearing the sanctuary: andthe others did set up the tabernacle against their coming.

Then the Kohathites went forward with the holy place; the others put up the House ready for their coming.


simplify: Many will entreat the favor of the liberal man; And every man is a friend to him that giveth gifts.

Great numbers will make attempts to get the approval of a ruler: and every man is the special friend of him who has something to give.


simplify: And the border extended thence, and turned about on the west quarter southward, from the mountain that lieth before Beth-horon southward; and the goings out thereof were at Kiriath-baal (the same is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the children of Judah: this was the west quarter.

And the limit is marked as coming round to the south on the west side from the mountain which is south of Beth-horon, and ending at Kiriath-baal (which is Kiriath-jearim), a town of the children of Judah: this is the west part.


rate difficulty: Yet now hear, O Jacob my servant; and Israel, whom I have chosen:


rate difficulty: According to their deeds, accordingly he will repay, fury to his adversaries, recompence to his enemies; to the islands he will repay recompence.

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simplify: And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?

And David sent to get knowledge who the woman was. And one said, Is this not Bath-sheba, the daughter of Eliam and wife of Uriah the Hittite?


simplify: For the nation and kingdom that will not serve thee shall perish; yea, those nations shall be utterly wasted.

For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.


simplify: Thou shalt ascend and come like a storm, thou shalt be like a cloud to cover the land, thou, and all thy bands, and many people with thee.

And you will go up, you will come like a storm, you will be like a cloud covering the land, you and all your forces, and a great number of peoples with you.


simplify: So then faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

And so we gather, faith is a result of teaching, and the teaching comes in the message of Christ.


simplify: Wherefore, brethren, look ye out among you seven men of honest report, full of the Holy Ghost and wisdom, whom we may appoint over this business.

Take then from among you seven men of good name, full of the Spirit and of wisdom, to whom we may give control of this business.


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

Those who had arrested Jesus took him to Caiaphas, the high priest, where the teachers of the law and the councillors had assembled.


rate difficulty: Is it good unto thee that thou shouldest oppress, that thou shouldest despise the work of thine hands, and shine upon the counsel of the wicked?

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simplify: And forthwith, when they were come out of the synagogue, they entered into the house of Simon and Andrew, with James and John.

As soon as they had left the synagogue, they went, with James and John, into the house of Simon and Andrew.


simplify: Drought and heat consume the snow waters: so doth the grave those which have sinned.

Snow waters become dry with the heat: so do sinners go down into the underworld.


simplify: And Abraham called the name of that place Jehovah-jireh: as it is said to this day, In the mount of Jehovah it shall be provided.

And Abraham gave that place the name Yahweh-yireh: as it is said to this day, In the mountain the Lord is seen.


rate difficulty: For he that speaketh in an unknown tongue speaketh not unto men, but unto God: for no man understandeth him; howbeit in the spirit he speaketh mysteries.

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rate difficulty: of Jashub, the family of the Jashubites; of Shimron, the family of the Shimronites.

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


simplify: Then there arose certain of the synagogue, which is called the synagogue of the Libertines, and Cyrenians, and Alexandrians, and of them of Cilicia and of Asia, disputing with Stephen.

But some of those who were of the Synagogue named that of the Libertines, and some of the men of Cyrene and of Alexandria and those from Cilicia and Asia, had arguments with Stephen.


rate difficulty: but I say unto you that Elias also is come, and they have done to him whatever they would, as it is written of him.

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


simplify: The curse of the Lord is in the house of the wicked: but he blesseth the habitation of the just.

The curse of the Lord is on the house of the evil-doer, but his blessing is on the tent of the upright.


simplify: And thou shalt bring it to thy father, that he may eat, and that he may bless thee before his death.

And you will take it to him, so that he may have a good meal and give you his blessing before his death.


simplify: Therefore the showers have been withholden, and there hath been no latter rain; yet thou hadst a harlot’s forehead, thou refusedst to be ashamed.

So the showers have been kept back, and there has been no spring rain; still your brow is the brow of a loose woman, you will not let yourself be shamed.


simplify: The children of Merari according to their families had out of the tribe of Reuben, and out of the tribe of Gad, and out of the tribe of Zebulun, twelve cities.

The children of Merari by their families were given twelve towns from the tribes of Reuben and Gad and Zebulun.


simplify: From that time began Jesus to shew to his disciples that it is necessary for him to go away to Jerusalem, and to suffer many things from the elders, and chief priests, and scribes, and to be put to death, and the third day to rise.

At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the councillors, and chief priests, and teachers of the law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.


rate difficulty: But above all things, my brethren, swear not, neither by heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath: but let your yea be yea; and your nay, nay; lest ye fall into condemnation.

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rate difficulty: and in your knowledge self-control; and in your self-control patience; and in your patience godliness;

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


simplify: It was said unto her, The elder shall serve the younger.

that ‘the elder would be a servant to the younger.’


simplify: From the time that it goeth forth it shall take you: for morning by morning shall it pass over, by day and by night: and it shall be a vexation only to understand the report.

Whenever they come through they will overtake you; for they will come through morning after morning, by day and by night: and the news will be nothing but fear.


rate difficulty: And he caused all that were found in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

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simplify: and it was told him, saying, `Thy mother and thy brethren do stand without, wishing to see thee;'

So word was brought to him — ‘Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, wanting to see you.’


rate difficulty: and sabbath having come, he began in the synagogue to teach, and many hearing were astonished, saying, `Whence hath this one these things? and what the wisdom that was given to him, that also such mighty works through his hands are done?

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rate difficulty: He who goes about talking of others makes secrets public, but the true-hearted man keeps things covered.

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

When he had entered Jerusalem, the whole city was stirred, and asked —


simplify: Or I only and Barnabas, have not we power to forbear working?

Or I only and Barnabas, have we no right to take a rest from work?


rate difficulty: And Pharaoh hath drawn near, and the sons of Israel lift up their eyes, and lo, the Egyptians are journeying after them, and they fear exceedingly, and the sons of Israel cry unto Jehovah.

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simplify: crying out, `Men, Israelites, help! this is the man who, against the people, and the law, and this place, all everywhere is teaching; and further, also, Greeks he brought into the temple, and hath defiled this holy place;'

“People of Israel! Help! This is the man who teaches everyone everywhere against our people, our law, and this place; and, what is more, he has actually brought Greeks into the Temple and defiled this sacred place.”


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah spoke consolingly to all the Levites that had understanding in the good knowledge of Jehovah; and they ate the feast-offerings the seven days, sacrificing peace-offerings, and extolling Jehovah theGod of their fathers.

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simplify: And all that heard them laid them up in their heart, saying, What then shall this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.

And all who had word of them kept them in their minds and said, What will this child be? For the hand of the Lord was with him.


rate difficulty: And she said, Did I desire a son of my lord? did I not say, Do not deceive me?

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


simplify: And thou shalt put the two wreathen chains of gold in the two rings at the ends of the breastplate.

Put the two gold chains on the two rings at the ends of the bag;


simplify: And the candlesticks of pure gold, five on the right side, and five on the left, before the oracle, with the flowers, and the lamps, and the tongs of gold,

And the supports for the lights, five on the right side and five on the left before the inmost room, of clear gold; and the flowers and the lights and all the instruments of gold;


rate difficulty: And he made the altar for the burning of spices, using the same hard wood; it was square, a cubit long and a cubit wide and two cubits high; the horns made of the same.


rate difficulty: And I have oxen and asses and flocks and men-servants and women-servants: and I have sent to give my lord news of these things so that I may have grace in his eyes.


simplify: and to one he gave five talents, and to another two, and to another one, to each according to his several ability, went abroad immediately.

He gave five bags of gold to one, two to another, and one bag to a third, in proportion to the ability of each. Then he set out on his travels.


simplify: For how shall I go up to my father, and the lad be not with me? lest peradventure I see the evil that shall come on my father.

For how may I go back to my father without the boy, and see the evil which will come on my father?


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

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the morning, that Balak took Balaam, and brought him up into the high places of Baal; and he saw from thence the utmost part of the people.

And in the morning Balak took Balaam up to the high places of Baal, and from there he was able to see the outer limits of the people.


rate difficulty: I am a wall, and my breasts like the towersthereof Then was I in his eyes as one that found peace.

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simplify: And they shall come from the east, and from the west, and from the north, and from the south, and shall sit down in the kingdom of God.

And they will come from the east and from the west, from the north and from the south, and take their places in the kingdom of God.


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

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


simplify: For every one that curseth his father or his mother shall surely be put to death: he hath cursed his father or his mother; his blood shall be upon him.

Every man cursing his father or his mother is certainly to be put to death; because of his curse on his father or his mother, his blood will be on him.


rate difficulty: Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and his servants and his princes and all his people;

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rate difficulty: Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the flame of his fire shall not shine.

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rate difficulty: and it hath come to pass (in My sending a cloud over the earth) that the bow hath been seen in the cloud,

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rate difficulty: In that hour the disciples came to Jesus saying, Who then is greatest in the kingdom of the heavens?

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simplify: because they had not executed mine ordinances, but had rejected my statutes, and had profaned my sabbaths, and their eyes were after their fathers’ idols.

Because they had not done my orders, but had been turned away from my rules, and had not given respect to my Sabbaths, and their eyes were turned to the images of their fathers.


simplify: Now these are the things wherein Solomon was instructed for the building of the house of God. The length by cubits after the first measure was threescore cubits, and the breadth twenty cubits.

And Solomon put the base of the house of God in position; by the older measure it was sixty cubits long and twenty cubits wide.


simplify: Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews:

After passing through Amphipolis and Apollonia, Paul and Silas came to Thessalonica. Here the Jews had a synagogue;


simplify: There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.

In the days of Herod, king of Judaea, there was a certain priest, by name Zacharias, of the order of Abijah; and he had a wife of the family of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.


rate difficulty: And I will punish Bel in Babylon, and I will bring forth out of his mouth that which he hath swallowed up: and the nations shall not flow together any more unto him: yea, the wall of Babylon shall fall.

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rate difficulty: Why? Because I do not love you? God knows that I do!

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

Now to him who is able to strengthen you, as promised in the good news entrusted to me and in the proclamation of Jesus Christ, in accordance with the revelation of that hidden purpose, which in past ages was kept secret but now has been revealed


rate difficulty: Ye did run well; who did hinder you that ye should not obey the truth?

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rate difficulty: The love doth never fail; and whether <FI>there be<Fi> prophecies, they shall become useless; whether tongues, they shall cease; whether knowledge, it shall become useless;

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rate difficulty: One that ruleth well his own house, having his children in subjection with all gravity;


rate difficulty: `And Thy good Spirit Thou hast given, to cause them to act wisely; and Thy manna Thou hast not withheld from their mouth, and water Thou hast given to them for their thirst,

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


simplify: Them that sin rebuke before all, that others also may fear.

Say sharp words to sinners when all are present, so that the rest may be in fear.


simplify: Both riches and honour come of thee, and thou reignest over all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.


simplify: And he that blasphemeth the name of the Lord, he shall surely be put to death, and all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the stranger, as he that is born in the land, when he blasphemeth the name of the Lord, shall be put to death.

And he who says evil against the name of the Lord will certainly be put to death; he will be stoned by all the people; the man who is not of your nation and one who is an Israelite by birth, whoever says evil against the holy Name is to be put to death.


simplify: What is thy beloved more than another beloved, O thou fairest among women? what is thy beloved more than another beloved, that thou dost so charge us?

What is your loved one more than another, O fairest among women? What is your loved one more than another, that you say this to us?


simplify: And fear came upon all those dwelling around them, and in all the hill-country of Judea were all these sayings spoken of,

All their neighbors were awe-struck at this; and throughout the hill-country of Judea the whole story was much talked about;


simplify: Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.


simplify: And David said, I will show kindness unto Hanun the son of Nahash, because his father showed kindness to me. So David sent messengers to comfort him concerning his father. And David’s servants came into the land of the children of Ammon to Hanun, to comfort him.

And David said, I will be a friend to Hanun, the son of Nahash, because his father was a friend to me. So David sent men to him, to give him words of comfort on account of his father. And the servants of David came to Hanun, to the land of the children of Ammon, offering him comfort.


simplify: But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things: but now here he is comforted, and thou art in anguish.

But Abraham said, Keep in mind, my son, that when you were living, you had your good things, while Lazarus had evil things: but now, he is comforted and you are in pain.


rate difficulty: And if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-offering; he shall offer it a male without blemish.

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


rate difficulty: And all the men of Israel assembled themselves unto king Solomon at the feast, in the month Ethanim, which is the seventh month.

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simplify: And they called the name of that place Bochim: and they sacrificed there unto the Lord.

And they gave that place the name of Bochim, and made offerings there to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the whole valley of the dead bodies, and of the ashes, and all the fields unto the brook of Kidron, unto the corner of the horse gate toward the east, shall be holy unto the Lord; it shall not be plucked up, nor thrown down any more for ever.

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


simplify: And thou shalt not defile the land which ye inhabit, in the midst of which I dwell: for I, Jehovah, dwell in the midst of the children of Israel.

Do not make unclean the land where you are living and in which is my House: for I the Lord am present among the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

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


rate difficulty: And Laban went into Jacob’s tent, and into Leah’s tent, and into the tent of the two maid-servants; but he found them not. And he went out of Leah’s tent, and entered into Rachel’s tent.


rate difficulty: To what purpose is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing [he] hath no sense?

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rate difficulty: In Rama was there a voice heard, lamentation, and weeping, and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children, and would not be comforted, because they are not.

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rate difficulty: All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,

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


rate difficulty: Who were clothed in blue, captains and rulers, all of them young men to be desired, horsemen seated on horses.

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


simplify: And when the children of Israel heard of it, the whole congregation of the children of Israel gathered themselves together at Shiloh, to go up to war against them.

Then all the meeting of the children of Israel, hearing this, came together at Shiloh to go up against them to war.


rate difficulty: And being seen in form as a man, he took the lowest place, and let himself be put to death, even the death of the cross.

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


simplify: Concerning the ordinance of oil, the bath of oil, ye shall offer the tenth part of a bath out of the cor, which is an homer of ten baths; for ten baths are an homer:

And the fixed measure of oil is to be a tenth of a bath from the cor, for ten baths make up the cor;


simplify: And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

And in the morning, The weather will be bad today, for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the times.


simplify: I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.


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

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


simplify: But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was compelled to be circumcised:

But not even Titus who was with me, being a Greek, was made to undergo circumcision:


simplify: for those who did minister well a good step to themselves do acquire, and much boldness in faith that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus.

Those who have filled that post with honor gain for themselves an honorable position, as well as great confidence through the faith that they place in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: And thou, child, shalt be called [the] prophet of [the] Highest; for thou shalt go before the face of [the] Lord to make ready his ways;

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


rate difficulty: the Arabah also, and the Jordan and the border thereof, from Chinnereth even unto the sea of the Arabah, the Salt Sea, under the slopes of Pisgah eastward.

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


simplify: Wherefore he did evil in the sight of the Lord like the house of Ahab: for they were his counsellors after the death of his father to his destruction.

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as the family of Ahab did; for after the death of his father they were his guides to his destruction.


simplify: He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.


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

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


rate difficulty: and, as God has raised the Lord, so he will raise up us also by the exercise of his power.


simplify: who shall transform the body of our humiliation to its becoming conformed to the body of his glory, according to the working of his power, even to subject to himself the all things.

who, by the exercise of his power to bring everything into subjection to himself, will make this body that we have in our humiliation like to that body which he has in his glory.


simplify: And now art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receive thy brother’s blood from thy hand;

And now you are cursed from the earth, whose mouth is open to take your brother's blood from your hand;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; Behold, I will bring again the captivity of Jacob’s tents, and have mercy on his dwellingplaces; and the city shall be builded upon her own heap, and the palace shall remain after the manner thereof.

The Lord has said, See, I am changing the fate of the tents of Jacob, and I will have pity on his houses; the town will be put up on its hill, and the great houses will be living-places again.


simplify: the headtires, and the ankle chains, and the sashes, and the perfume-boxes, and the amulets;

The head-bands, and the arm-chains, and the worked bands, and the perfume-boxes, and the jewels with secret powers,


rate difficulty: Come against her from the utmost border; open her store-houses; cast her up as heaps, and destroy her utterly; let nothing of her be left.

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


rate difficulty: 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.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 15 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Gather yourselves together, and hear, ye sons of Jacob; and hearken unto Israel your father.

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


simplify: And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the burnt-offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

And he is to put his hand on the head of the burned offering and it will be taken for him, to take away his sin.


simplify: There shall the dart-snake make her nest, and lay, and hatch, and gather under her shade; yea, there shall the kites be gathered, every one with her mate.

The arrowsnake will make her hole and put her eggs there, and get her young together under her shade: there the hawks will come together by twos.


simplify: and they did overcome him because of the blood of the Lamb, and because of the word of their testimony, and they did not love their life--unto death;

Their victory was due to the blood of the Lamb, and to the message to which they bore their testimony. In their love of life they shrank not from death.


simplify: And the woman said, Wherefore then hast thou devised such a thing against the people of God? for in speaking this word the king is as one that is guilty, in that the king doth not fetch home again his banished one.

And the woman said, Why have you had such a thought about the people of God? (for in saying these very words the king has put himself in the wrong because he has not taken back the one whom he sent far away.)


simplify: When ye come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord’s supper.

But now, when you come together, it is not possible to take the holy meal of the Lord:


rate difficulty: The sons of Mushi: Mahli and Eder and Jeremoth, three.

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


rate difficulty: Say to your brothers, Ammi; and to your sisters, Ruhamah.


simplify: If thou faint in the day of adversity, Thy strength is small.

If you give way in the day of trouble, your strength is small.


simplify: This is the law of the plague of leprosy in a garment of woollen or linen, either in the warp, or the woof, or anything of skin, to pronounce it clean, or to pronounce it unclean.

This is the law about the leper's disease in the thread of wool or linen material, in clothing or in anything of skin, saying how it is to be judged clean or unclean.


rate difficulty: `Thy fulness and thy liquids thou dost not delay; the first-born of thy sons thou dost give to Me;

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


simplify: And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

And I saw the seven angels who had their place before God; and seven horns were given to them.


rate difficulty: `An olive, green, fair, of goodly fruit,' Hath Jehovah called thy name, At the noise of a great tumult He hath kindled fire against it, And broken have been its thin branches.

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


rate difficulty: and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the law of [the] Lord: A pair of turtle doves, or two young pigeons.


rate difficulty: And in the same way as we have taken on us the image of the man from the earth, so we will take on us the image of the one from heaven.

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


simplify: Put away from thee a froward mouth, and perverse lips put far from thee.

Put away from you an evil tongue, and let false lips be far from you.


simplify: But there came a messenger unto Saul, saying, Haste thee, and come; for the Philistines have made a raid upon the land.

But a man came to Saul saying, Be quick and come; for the Philistines have made an attack on the land.


simplify: And the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be defiled: or if the spirit of jealousy come upon him, and he be jealous of his wife, and she be not defiled:

If the spirit of doubt comes into her husband's heart, and he has doubts of his wife, with good cause; or if he has doubts of her without cause:


simplify: But if they will not pass over with you armed, they shall have possessions among you in the land of Canaan.

But if they do not go over with you armed, they will have to take their heritage with you in the land of Canaan.


simplify: And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,

One of them, finding he was cured, came back, praising God loudly,


rate difficulty: And they feared exceedingly, and said one to another, What manner of man is this, that even the wind and the sea obey him?

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


simplify: And thou shalt take the anointing oil, and anoint the tabernacle, and all that is therein, and shalt hallow it, and all the furniture thereof: and it shall be holy.

And take the holy oil and put it on the House and everything in it, and make it and everything in it holy:


rate difficulty: and the daughter of the same Herodias having come in, and danced, pleased Herod and those that were with [him] at table; and the king said to the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt and I will give it thee.

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


simplify: In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day, the hand of Jehovah was upon me, and he brought me thither.

In the twenty-fifth year after we had been taken away prisoners, in the first month of the year, on the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after the town was taken, on the very same day, the hand of the Lord was on me, and he took me there.


simplify: (and he bade them teach the children of Judah the song of the bow: behold, it is written in the book of Jashar):

(It is recorded in the book of Jashar for teaching to the sons of Judah) and he said:


simplify: And did all drink the same spiritual drink: for they drank of that spiritual Rock that followed them: and that Rock was Christ.

and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.


simplify: For they said unto me, Make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we know not what is become of him.

For they said to me, Make us a god to go before us: as for this Moses, who took us up out of the land of Egypt, we have no idea what has come to him.


simplify: and what the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to that working of the strength of his might

And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,


rate difficulty: Now the people were saying evil against the Lord; and the Lord, hearing it, was angry and sent fire on them, burning the outer parts of the tent-circle.

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


simplify: and seeking to lay hold on him, they feared the multitudes, seeing they were holding him as a prophet.

yet, although eager to arrest him, they were afraid of the crowds, who regarded him as a prophet.


rate difficulty: He will yet again have compassion on us, he will tread under foot our iniquities: and thou wilt cast all their sins into the depths of the sea.

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


simplify: And when she had opened it, she saw the child: and, behold, the babe wept. And she had compassion on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews’ children.

And opening it, she saw the child, and he was crying. And she had pity on him, and said, This is one of the Hebrews' children.


rate difficulty: These are the journeys of the children of Israel, when they went forth out of the land of Egypt by their hosts under the hand of Moses and Aaron.

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simplify: Have we not power to eat and to drink?

Have we no right to take food and drink?


rate difficulty: For, if ye do thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, If ye do judgment thoroughly Between a man and his neighbour,

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


simplify: But those things, which God before had shewed by the mouth of all his prophets, that Christ should suffer, he hath so fulfilled.

But it was in this way that God fulfilled all that he had long ago foretold, as to the sufferings of his Christ, by the lips of all the prophets.


simplify: and he commanded them that they may take nothing for the way, except a staff only--no scrip, no bread, no brass in the girdle,

He instructed them to take nothing but a staff for the journey — not even bread, or a bag, or coins in their purse;


simplify: And Moses and Aaron came to the front of the tent of meeting.

Then Moses and Aaron came to the front of the Tent of meeting.


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

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


simplify: I have cut off the nations: their towers are desolate; I made their streets waste, that none passeth by: their cities are destroyed, so that there is no man, that there is none inhabitant.

I have had the nations cut off, their towers are broken down; I have made their streets a waste so that no one goes through them: destruction has overtaken their towns, so that there is no man living in them.


rate difficulty: I have blotted out, as a thick cloud, thy transgressions, and, as a cloud, thy sins: return unto me; for I have redeemed thee.

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


simplify: Many will say to me in that day, Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy by thy name, and by thy name cast out demons, and by thy name do many mighty works?

A great number will say to me on that day, Lord, Lord, were we not prophets in your name, and did we not by your name send out evil spirits, and by your name do works of power?


simplify: Be ye afraid of the sword: for wrath bringeth the punishments of the sword, that ye may know there is a judgment.

Be in fear of the sword, for the sword is the punishment for such things, so that you may be certain that there is a judge.


rate difficulty: And Moses made clear to the children of Israel the orders about the fixed feasts of the Lord.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Of Kish, the sons of Kish: Jerahmeel.

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


simplify: but whoso keepeth his word, in him verily hath the love of God been perfected. Hereby we know that we are in him:

But in every man who keeps his word, the love of God is made complete. By this we may be certain that we are in him:


simplify: Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness,

Seeing then that all these things are coming to such an end, what sort of persons is it right for you to be, in all holy behaviour and righteousness,


rate difficulty: And Aaron went to the altar and slaughtered the calf of the sin-offering which was for himself;

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


rate difficulty: From the fulness of its passing over it taketh you, For morning by morning it passeth over, By day and by night, And it hath been only a trembling to consider the report.

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


rate difficulty: And I am certain that when the men of Egypt see you, they will say, This is his wife: and they will put me to death and keep you.

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


simplify: And they returned from spying out the land at the end of forty days.

At the end of forty days they came back from viewing the land.


simplify: But now we are delivered from the law, that being dead wherein we were held; that we should serve in newness of spirit, and not in the oldness of the letter.

But now we are set free from the law, because we are dead to that which once kept us under restraint; and so we serve under new, spiritual conditions, and not under old, written regulations.


simplify: For according to the number of thy cities were thy gods, O Judah; and according to the number of the streets of Jerusalem have ye set up altars to that shameful thing, even altars to burn incense unto Baal.

For the number of your gods is as the number of your towns, O Judah; and for every street in Jerusalem you have put up altars to the Baal for burning perfumes to the Baal.


rate difficulty: And we, brethren, having been taken from you for the space of an hour--in presence, not in heart--did hasten the more abundantly to see your face in much desire,

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


simplify: Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly:

Let a horn be sounded in Zion, let a time be fixed for going without food, have a holy meeting:


simplify: and he who is falling on this stone shall be broken, and on whomsoever it may fall it will crush him to pieces.'

Yes, and he who falls on this stone will be dashed to pieces, while anyone on whom it falls — it will scatter him as dust.”


simplify: And he came out, and went, as he was wont, to the mount of Olives; and his disciples also followed him.

And he came out, and went, as his way was, to the Mountain of Olives, and the disciples went with him.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass as he was praying alone, his disciples were with him, and he asked them saying, Who do the crowds say that I am?

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


simplify: neither shall they defile themselves any more with their idols, nor with their detestable things, nor with any of their transgressions; but I will save them out of all their dwelling-places, wherein they have sinned, and will cleanse them: so shall they be my people, and I will be their God.

And they will no longer make themselves unclean with their images or with their hated things or with any of their sins: but I will give them salvation from all their turning away in which they have done evil, and will make them clean; and they will be to me a people, and I will be to them a God.


simplify: proving what is well-pleasing to the Lord,

Always trying to find out what is pleasing to the Lord.


rate difficulty: I speak to you as man of discernment; form your own judgment about what I am saying.


simplify: though, indeed, without witness He did not leave himself, doing good--from heaven giving rains to us, and fruitful seasons, filling our hearts with food and gladness;'

Yet he has not failed to give you, in the good he does, some revelation of himself — sending you from heaven rain and fruitful seasons, and gladdening your hearts with plenty and good cheer.”


simplify: And when we had sailed slowly many days, and scarce were come over against Cnidus, the wind not suffering us, we sailed under Crete, over against Salmone;

For several days our progress was slow, and it was only with difficulty that we arrived off Cnidus. As the wind was still unfavorable when we came off Cape Salmone, we sailed under the lee of Crete,


rate difficulty: of anything which cometh out from the wine-vine she doth not eat, and wine and strong drink she doth not drink, and any unclean thing she doth not eat; all that I have commanded her she doth observe.'

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


rate difficulty: From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs: Glory to the righteous. But I said, I pine away, I pine away, woe is me! the treacherous have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.

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


simplify: A wicked doer giveth heed to false lips; and a liar giveth ear to a naughty tongue.

A wrongdoer gives attention to evil lips, and a man of deceit gives ear to a damaging tongue.


rate difficulty: For your fellowship in the gospel from the first day until now;

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


simplify: But I have made Esau bare, I have uncovered his secret places, and he shall not be able to hide himself: his seed is spoiled, and his brethren, and his neighbours, and he is not.

I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; In the day that I shall have cleansed you from all your iniquities I will also cause you to dwell in the cities, and the wastes shall be builded.

This is what the Lord has said: In the day when I make you clean from all your evil-doings I will let the towns be peopled and there will be building on the waste places.


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

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


rate difficulty: Hear this word that the Lord hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying,

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


simplify: But why dost thou judge thy brother? or why dost thou set at nought thy brother? for we shall all stand before the judgment seat of Christ.

I would ask the one ‘Why do you judge other followers of the Lord?’ And I would ask the other ‘Why do you despise them?’ For we will all stand before the court of God.


simplify: And he said unto her, Daughter, thy faith hath made thee whole; go in peace, and be whole of thy plague.

“Daughter,”he said, “your faith has delivered you. Go, and peace be with you; be free from your complaint.”


simplify: And Herod the tetrarch heard of all the things being done by him, and was perplexed, because it was said by certain, that John hath been raised out of the dead;

Prince Herod heard of all that was happening, and was perplexed, because it was said by some that John must be risen from the dead.


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

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


rate difficulty: and whoever may have the goods of the world, and may view his brother having need, and may shut up his bowels from him--how doth the love of God remain in him?

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


rate difficulty: 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: And lest, when I come again, my God will humble me among you, and that I shall bewail many which have sinned already, and have not repented of the uncleanness and fornication and lasciviousness which they have committed.

I am afraid that, on my next visit, my God may humble me in regard to you, and that I may have to mourn over many who have long been sinning, and have not repented of the impurity, immorality, and sensuality, in which they have indulged.


simplify: And went to him, and bound up his wounds, pouring in oil and wine, and set him on his own beast, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.

He went to him and bound up his wounds, dressing them with oil and wine, and then put him on his own mule, and brought him to an inn, and took care of him.


simplify: But the dung gate repaired Malchiah the son of Rechab, the ruler of part of Beth–haccerem; he built it, and set up the doors thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.

And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the doorway of the waste, building it up and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods.


rate difficulty: Give counsel, execute justice; make thy shade as the night in the midst of the noonday; hide the outcasts; betray not the fugitive.

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


rate difficulty: then both the men between whom the controversy is shall stand before Jehovah, before the priests and the judges that shall be in those days;

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


simplify: and they were astonished at his teaching, because his word was with authority.

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


simplify: And he caused all that were present in Jerusalem and Benjamin to stand to it. And the inhabitants of Jerusalem did according to the covenant of God, the God of their fathers.

And he made all the people in Jerusalem and Benjamin give their word to keep it. And the people of Jerusalem kept the agreement of God, the God of their fathers.


simplify: And it came to pass at midnight, that the man was afraid, and turned himself: and, behold, a woman lay at his feet.

Now in the middle of the night, the man awaking from his sleep in fear, and lifting himself up, saw a woman stretched at his feet.


simplify: So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat the king of Judah went up to Ramoth-gilead.

So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat, the king of Judah, went up to Ramoth-gilead.


rate difficulty: And now you have come to take the place of your fathers, another generation of sinners, increasing the wrath of the Lord against Israel.


rate difficulty: `And Jehovah speaketh unto you out of the midst of the fire; a voice of words ye are hearing and a similitude ye are not seeing, only a voice;

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


rate difficulty: Give ear, O Israel: today you are to go over Jordan, to take the heritage of nations greater and stronger than yourselves, and towns of great size with walls as high as heaven;

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


simplify: And the priest shall offer the one for a sin offering, and the other for a burnt offering, and make an atonement for him, for that he sinned by the dead, and shall hallow his head that same day.

And the priest will give one for a sin-offering and the other for a burned offering to take away the sin which came on him on account of the dead, and he will make his head holy that same day.


simplify: And why call ye me, Lord, Lord, and do not the things which I say?

Why do you call me ‘Master! Master!’ and yet fail to do what I tell you?


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

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


rate difficulty: How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of Jehovah is with us? Behold, certainly the lying pen of the scribes hath made it falsehood.

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


simplify: Take the Levites instead of all the first-born among the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites instead of their cattle; and the Levites shall be mine: I am Jehovah.

Take the Levites in place of all the first sons of the children of Israel, and the cattle of the Levites in place of their cattle; the Levites are to be mine; I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: My beloved <FI>is<Fi> clear and ruddy, Conspicuous above a myriad!

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


rate difficulty: And when the day came, they were not discerning the land, but a certain creek were perceiving having a beach, into which they took counsel, if possible, to thrust forward the ship,

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


simplify: Behold, I will bring again the shadow of the degrees, which is gone down in the sun dial of Ahaz, ten degrees backward. So the sun returned ten degrees, by which degrees it was gone down.

See, I will make the shade which has gone down on the steps of Ahaz with the sun, go back ten steps. So the shade went back the ten steps by which it had gone down.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses and unto Aaron, saying,


simplify: And the fame hereof went abroad into all that land.

And the news of it went out into all that land.


simplify: This is the portion of a wicked man from God, And the heritage appointed unto him by God.

This is the reward of the evil man, and the heritage given to him by God.


rate difficulty: Whoso is reproving a man afterwards findeth grace, More than a flatterer with the tongue.

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


simplify: At that season Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

At that time news of Jesus came to Herod the king;


rate difficulty: that this shall be no grief unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath avenged himself. And when Jehovah shall have dealt well with my lord, then remember thy handmaid.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But the man became greatly distressed on hearing this, for he was extremely rich.