simplify: And they cast out many devils, and anointed with oil many that were sick, and healed them.

They drove out many demons, and anointed with oil many who were infirm, and cured them.


rate difficulty: And he said, Leave me not, I pray thee, because thou knowest where we are to encamp in the wilderness, and thou wilt be to us for eyes.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he took it, and did eat before them.

and he took it and ate it before their eyes.


rate difficulty: `Nor do they put new wine into old skins, and if not--the skins burst, and the wine doth run out, and the skins are destroyed, but they put new wine into new skins, and both are preserved together.'

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


rate difficulty: A man oppressed with the blood of a soul, Unto the pit fleeth, none taketh hold on him.

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


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

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simplify: because three are who are testifying <FI>in the heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Spirit, and these--the three--are one;


rate difficulty: Then the Lord came down in the cloud and had talk with him, and put on the seventy men some of the spirit which was on him: now when the spirit came to rest on them, they were like prophets, but only at that time.

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


rate difficulty: For I will not contend for ever, neither will I be always wroth; for the spirit would faint before me, and the souls that I have made.

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


simplify: And he answered and said, He that dippeth his hand with me in the dish, the same shall betray me.

And he made answer and said, He who puts his hand into the plate with me, the same will be false to me.


simplify: And the first-born said unto the younger, Our father is old, and there is not a man in the earth to come in unto us after the manner of all the earth:

And the older daughter said to her sister, Our father is old, and there is no man to be a husband to us in the natural way:


simplify: The children of Bani, six hundred forty and two.

The children of Bani, six hundred and forty-two.


rate difficulty: who encourages us in all our tribulation, that we may be able to encourage those who are in any tribulation whatever, through the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged ofGod.

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


simplify: And he said to them, `What things?' And they said to him, `The things about Jesus of Nazareth, who became a man--a prophet--powerful in deed and word, before God and all the people,

“What things do you mean?”asked Jesus. “Why, about Jesus of Nazareth,” they answered, “who, in the eyes of God and all the people, was a prophet, whose power was felt in both his words and actions;


simplify: Wherefore say unto them, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Ye eat with the blood, and lift up your eyes unto your idols, and shed blood: and shall ye possess the land?

For this cause say to them, This is what the Lord has said: You take your meat with the blood, your eyes are lifted up to your images, and you are takers of life: are you to have the land for your heritage?


rate difficulty: I was at rest, but he hath shattered me; he hath taken me by the neck and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

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


simplify: And he said unto her, Give me thy son. And he took him out of her bosom, and carried him up into a loft, where he abode, and laid him upon his own bed.

And he said to her, Give your son to me. And lifting him out of her arms, he took him up to his room and put him down on his bed.


simplify: Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Happy are those who are attacked on account of righteousness: for the kingdom of heaven will be theirs.


rate difficulty: For ye have heard of my manner of life in time past in the Jews’ religion, how that beyond measure I persecuted the church of God, and made havoc of it:

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


rate difficulty: Faithful are the wounds of a friend; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.


rate difficulty: Because the mind of the flesh is enmity againstGod: for it is not subject to the law ofGod; for neither indeed can it be:


simplify: And Janum, and Beth–tappuah, and Aphekah,

And Janim, and Beth-tappuah, and Aphekah;


rate difficulty: And I will put him like a nail in a safe place; and he will be for a seat of glory to his father's family.


simplify: David therefore departed thence, and escaped to the cave Adullam: and when his brethren and all his father’s house heard it, they went down thither to him.

So David went away from there and took cover in a strong place at Adullam; and his brothers and all his father's people, hearing of it, went down to him there.


rate difficulty: and the enemy who has sowed it is the devil; and the harvest is [the] completion of [the] age, and the harvestmen are angels.

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


simplify: `Take heed your kindness not to do before men, to be seen by them, and if not--reward ye have not from your Father who <FI>is<Fi> in the heavens;

Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in heaven has no reward for you.


simplify: and say unto them, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that I have hid; and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.

And say to them, This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said: See, I will send and take Nebuchadrezzar, the king of Babylon, my servant, and he will put the seat of his kingdom on these stones which have been put in a safe place here by you; and his tent will be stretched over them.


simplify: and what fellowship to light with darkness? and what concord to Christ with Belial? or what part to a believer with an unbeliever?

What harmony can there be between Christ and Belial? Or what can those who accept the faith have in common with those who reject it?


rate difficulty: and God heareth their groaning, and God remembereth His covenant with Abraham, with Isaac, and with Jacob;

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


rate difficulty: He and his people with him, the terrible of the nations, shall be brought to destroy the land; and they shall draw their swords against Egypt, and fill the land with slain.

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


simplify: The thoughts of the diligent tend only to plenteousness; but of every one that is hasty only to want.

The purposes of the man of industry have their outcome only in wealth; but one who is over-quick in acting will only come to be in need.


rate difficulty: to him [be] the glory and the might for the ages of the ages. Amen.


rate difficulty: Nay, much more those members of the body, which seem to be more feeble, are necessary:

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


rate difficulty: And numbers of them, falling on the stone, will be broken, and will be taken in the net.

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


rate difficulty: Concerning Moab. Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, theGod of Israel: Woe unto Nebo! for it is spoiled; Kirjathaim is put to shame, it is taken; Misgab is put to shame and dismayed.

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


simplify: whether to governors, as to those sent through him, for punishment, indeed, of evil-doers, and a praise of those doing good;

and to governors as sent by him to punish evil-doers and to commend those who do right.


simplify: And for the precious things of the earth and fulness thereof, and for the good will of him that dwelt in the bush: let the blessing come upon the head of Joseph, and upon the top of the head of him that was separated from his brethren.

The good things of the earth and all its wealth, the good pleasure of him who was seen in the burning tree: may they come on the head of Joseph, on the head of him who was prince among his brothers.


simplify: And he bought a linen cloth, and taking him down, wound him in the linen cloth, and laid him in a tomb which had been hewn out of a rock; and he rolled a stone against the door of the tomb.

And he got a linen cloth and, taking him down, put the linen cloth round him, and put him in a place for the dead which had been cut out of a rock; and a stone was rolled against the door.


rate difficulty: The boat was by this time some miles from shore, laboring in the waves, for the wind was against her.

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


rate difficulty: Nevertheless to abide in the flesh is more needful for you.

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


rate difficulty: that ye have said to them, Because the waters of the Jordan were cut off, at the presence of the ark of the covenant of Jehovah; in its passing over into the Jordan were the waters of the Jordan cut off; and these stones have been for a memorial to the sons of Israel--to the age.'


simplify: Then shall they also answer, saying, Lord, when saw we thee hungry, or athirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?


simplify: And Jonathan said to the young man that bare his armor, Come, and let us go over unto the garrison of these uncircumcised: it may be that Jehovah will work for us; for there is no restraint to Jehovah to save by many or by few.

And Jonathan said to his young servant who had his arms, Come, let us go over to the armies of these men who have no circumcision: it may be that the Lord will give us help, for there is no limit to his power; the Lord is able to give salvation by a great army or by a small band.


simplify: It is joy to the righteous to do justice; But it is a destruction to the workers of iniquity.

It is a joy to the good man to do right, but it is destruction to the workers of evil.


simplify: Now when he was risen early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons.

Now when he came back from the dead early on the first day of the week, he went first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had sent out seven evil spirits.


rate difficulty: Wherever death comes to you, death will come to me, and there will be my last resting-place; the Lord do so to me and more if we are parted by anything but death.


simplify: They smote also the tents of cattle, and carried away sheep in abundance, and camels, and returned to Jerusalem.

And they made an attack on the tents of the owners of the cattle, and took away great numbers of sheep and camels and went back to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: But the midwives fearedGod, and did not as the king of Egypt had said to them, but saved the male children alive.


simplify: the fifth, Shephatiah of Abital; the sixth, Ithream by Eglah his wife:

The fifth Shephatiah, by Abital; the sixth Ithream, by Eglah his wife.


simplify: But they, when they were departed, spread abroad his fame in all that country.

But they went out and gave news of him in all that land.


rate difficulty: How foolish it is to say, Today or tomorrow we will go into this town, and be there for a year and do business there and get wealth:

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses, Take sweet spices, stacte and onycha and galbanum, with the best frankincense, in equal weights;

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


rate difficulty: But if what we see not we hope, we expect in patience.


rate difficulty: Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when Jesus finished all these words, he said to his disciples,

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


rate difficulty: And Zebah and Zalmunna <FI>are<Fi> in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who are left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those falling <FI>are<Fi> a hundred and twenty thousand men, drawing sword.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Mushi: Mahli, and Eder, and Jerimoth. These were the sons of the Levites according to their fathers' houses.


simplify: And when the daughter of the said Herodias came in, and danced, and pleased Herod and them that sat with him, the king said unto the damsel, Ask of me whatsoever thou wilt, and I will give it thee.

And when the daughter of Herodias herself came in and did a dance, Herod and those who were at table with him were pleased with her; and the king said to the girl, Make a request for anything and I will give it you.


simplify: And Moses said, This is the thing which Jehovah hath commanded, Let an omerful of it be kept throughout your generations, that they may see the bread wherewith I fed you in the wilderness, when I brought you forth from the land of Egypt.

And Moses said, This is the order which the Lord has given: Let one omer of it be kept for future generations, so that they may see the bread which I gave you for your food in the waste land, when I took you out from the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: The generations of the sons of Manasseh were numbered by their families and their fathers' houses, every male of twenty years old and over who was able to go to war;

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


simplify: So she uncovered her whoredoms, and uncovered her nakedness: then my soul was alienated from her, like as my soul was alienated from her sister.

So her loose behaviour was clearly seen and her shame uncovered: then my soul was turned from her as it had been turned from her sister.


rate difficulty: And I have given them to Aaron and to his sons, from among the children of Israel, to undertake for them all the work of the Tent of meeting, and to take away sin from the children of Israel so that no evil may come on them when they come near the holy place.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

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


rate difficulty: And God said to Israel in a night-vision, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt do what is right and good in the sight of Jehovah, that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest enter in and possess the good land which Jehovah swore unto thy fathers,

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


rate difficulty: And Nibshan, and the city of Salt, and En–gedi; six cities with their villages.


simplify: But when the husbandmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and let us seize on his inheritance.

But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.


simplify: So Hushai, David’s friend, came into the city; and Absalom came into Jerusalem.

So Hushai, David's friend, went into the town, and Absalom came to Jerusalem.


simplify: So she wrote letters in Ahab’s name, and sealed them with his seal, and sent the letters unto the elders and to the nobles that were in his city, and that dwelt with Naboth.

So she sent a letter in Ahab's name, stamped with his stamp, to the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority with Naboth.


simplify: Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight: there was none left but the tribe of Judah only.

So the Lord was very angry with Israel, and his face was turned away from them: only the tribe of Judah kept its place.


simplify: Render to no man evil for evil. Take thought for things honorable in the sight of all men.

Do not give evil for evil to any man. Let all your business be well ordered in the eyes of all men.


rate difficulty: But fornication and all uncleanness or unbridled lust, let it not be even named among you, as it becomes saints;

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


rate difficulty: and I will bring you into the wilderness of the peoples, and there will I enter into judgment with you face to face.

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


simplify: And Eleazar the priest said unto the men of war that went to the battle, This is the statute of the law which Jehovah hath commanded Moses:

Then Eleazar the priest said to the men of war who had been to the fight, This is the rule of the law which the Lord has given to Moses:


rate difficulty: Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I; and thy lips testify against thee.

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


rate difficulty: A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.

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


rate difficulty: And the officers of the children of Israel saw [that] it stood ill with them, because it was said, Ye shall not diminish anything from your bricks, the daily work.

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


rate difficulty: My face will I turn also from them, and they shall profane my secret place; and robbers shall enter into it, and profane it.

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


simplify: Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign; and he reigned in Jerusalem three months: and his mother’s name was Nehushta the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.

Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he became king, he was ruling in Jerusalem for three months, and his mother's name was Nehushta, the daughter of Elnathan of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Symeon hath rehearsed how first God visited the Gentiles, to take out of them a people for his name.

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


simplify: from the ground unto above the door were cherubim and palm-trees made; thus was the wall of the temple.

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


rate difficulty: I sought in mine heart to give myself unto wine, yet acquainting mine heart with wisdom; and to lay hold on folly, till I might see what was that good for the sons of men, which they should do under the heaven all the days of their life.

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


simplify: Why are thy valiant men swept away? they stood not, because the Lord did drive them.

Why has Apis, your strong one, gone in flight? he was not able to keep his place, because the Lord was forcing him down with strength.


rate difficulty: And four times they sent to me in this way, and I sent them the same answer.

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


simplify: And I say unto you, Whosoever shall put away his wife, except for fornication, and shall marry another, committeth adultery: and he that marrieth her when she is put away committeth adultery.

And I say to you, Whoever puts away his wife for any other cause than the loss of her virtue, and takes another, is a false husband: and he who takes her as his wife when she is put away, is no true husband to her.


rate difficulty: And Bildad the Shuhite answereth and saith: --

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


simplify: And they, when they came to Jesus, besought him earnestly, saying, He is worthy that thou shouldest do this for him;

And they, when they came to Jesus, made their request warmly, saying,


rate difficulty: And the king taketh counsel, and his heads, and all the assembly in Jerusalem, to make the passover in the second month,

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


simplify: and his citizens were hating him, and did send an embassy after him, saying, We do not wish this one to reign over us.

But his subjects hated him and sent envoys after him to say ‘We will not have this man as our king.’


simplify: I find then a law, that, when I would do good, evil is present with me.

This, then, is the law that I find — when I want to do right, wrong presents itself!


simplify: He that begetteth a fool doeth it to his sorrow; And the father of a fool hath no joy.

He who has an unwise son gets sorrow for himself, and the father of a foolish son has no joy.


rate difficulty: Your ways and your doings have made these things come on you; this is your sin; truly it is bitter, going deep into your heart.


rate difficulty: For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:

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


rate difficulty: And the three eldest sons of Jesse had gone after Saul to the battle: and the names of his three sons that went to the battle were Eliab the first-born, and next unto him Abinadab, and the third Shammah.

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


simplify: Instead of which king Rehoboam made shields of brass, and committed them to the hands of the chief of the guard, that kept the entrance of the king’s house.

And in their place King Rehoboam had other body-covers made of brass and gave them into the care of the captains of the armed men who were stationed at the door of the king's house.


simplify: If a woman also vow a vow unto the Lord, and bind herself by a bond, being in her father’s house in her youth;

If a woman, being young and under the authority of her father, takes an oath to the Lord or gives an undertaking;


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service.

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


rate difficulty: for the Son of Man came to seek and to save the lost.'

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


rate difficulty: and I have blown with a trumpet--I and all who <FI>are<Fi> with me, and ye have blown with trumpets, even ye, round about all the camp, and have said, For Jehovah and for Gideon.'

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


simplify: And Jacob took him rods of fresh poplar, and of the almond and of the plane-tree; and peeled white streaks in them, and made the white appear which was in the rods.

Then Jacob took young branches of trees, cutting off the skin so that the white wood was seen in bands.


rate difficulty: Draw me, we will run after thee: the king hath brought me into his chambers: we will be glad and rejoice in thee, we will remember thy love more than wine: the upright love thee.

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


rate difficulty: And Gad came to David, and told him, and said to him, Shall seven years of famine come to thee in thy land? or wilt thou flee three months before thine adversaries while they pursue thee? or shall there be three days' pestilence in thy land? Now be aware and consider what word I shall bring again to him that sent me.

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


simplify: Command the priests that bear the ark of the testimony, that they come up out of Jordan.

Give orders to the priests who take up the ark of witness, to come up out of Jordan.


rate difficulty: Taking with him Peter and the two sons of Zebedee, he began to show signs of sadness and deep distress of mind.

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


rate difficulty: Yea, the beasts of the field pant unto thee; for the water brooks are dried up, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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


rate difficulty: As they went up the ascent to the city, they met maidens going forth to draw water; and they said to them, Is the seer here?


rate difficulty: And the king made of the sandal-wood a balustrade for the house of Jehovah, and for the king's house, and harps and lutes for the singers. There came no such sandal-wood, nor was there seen to this day.)


rate difficulty: Under the whole heavens He directeth it, And its light <FI>is<Fi> over the skirts of the earth.

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


simplify: And Jehovah looked upon him, and said, Go in this thy might, and save Israel from the hand of Midian: have not I sent thee?

And the Lord, turning to him, said, Go in the strength you have and be Israel's saviour from Midian: have I not sent you?


simplify: For one believeth that he may eat all things: another, who is weak, eateth herbs.

One man has faith to take all things as food: another who is feeble in faith takes only green food.


rate difficulty: Has this house, which is named by my name, become a hole of thieves to you? Truly I, even I, have seen it, says the Lord.


simplify: because to you it hath been granted in the behalf of Christ, not only to believe on him, but also to suffer in his behalf:

Because to you it has been given in the cause of Christ not only to have faith in him, but to undergo pain on his account:


simplify: Or know ye not that he that is joined to a harlot is one body? for, The twain, saith he, shall become one flesh.

Or do you not see that he who is joined to a loose woman is one body with her? for God has said, The two of them will become one flesh.


simplify: Then said David, Will the men of Keilah deliver up me and my men into the hand of Saul? And Jehovah said, They will deliver thee up.

Then David said, Will the men of Keilah give me and my men up to Saul? and the Lord said, They will give you up.


simplify: For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.

For he has no pleasure in troubling and causing grief to the children of men.


simplify: Command therefore that the sepulchre be made sure until the third day, lest his disciples come by night, and steal him away, and say unto the people, He is risen from the dead: so the last error shall be worse than the first.

So order the tomb to be made secure until the third day. Otherwise his disciples may come and steal him, and then say to the people ‘He has risen from the dead,’ when the latest imposture will be worse than the first.”


rate difficulty: ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, adversary of the Jews, they have slain, and on the prey they have not put forth their hand.

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


simplify: And whosoever of you will be the chiefest, shall be servant of all.

And whoever has a desire to be first among you, let him be servant of all.


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

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


simplify: And she said, Behold, thy sister in law is gone back unto her people, and unto her gods: return thou after thy sister in law.

And Naomi said, See, your sister-in-law has gone back to her people and to her gods: go back after your sister-in-law.


rate difficulty: and the water goeth round about the altar, and also, the trench he hath filled with water.

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


simplify: And unto him that smiteth thee on the one cheek offer also the other; and him that taketh away thy cloke forbid not to take thy coat also.

If a man gives you a blow on one side of your face, then let the other side be turned to him; from him who takes away your coat, do not keep back your robe.


rate difficulty: And thou hast said, `What--hath God known? Through thickness doth He judge?

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


rate difficulty: Lo, I am sending for many fishers, An affirmation of Jehovah, And they have fished them, And after this I send for many hunters, And they have hunted them from off every mountain, And from off every hill, and from holes of the rocks.

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


simplify: And Salmon begat Booz of Rachab; and Booz begat Obed of Ruth; and Obed begat Jesse;

Salmon of Boaz, whose mother was Rahab, Boaz of Obed, whose mother was Ruth, Obed of Jesse,


rate difficulty: Take that thine is, and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.

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


simplify: And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.

And they made four pillars for it of hard wood plated with gold: they had hooks of gold and four silver bases.


rate difficulty: And whoever toucheth her bed shall wash his garments, and bathe in water, and be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: Yea, I will make many peoples amazed at thee, and their kings shall be horribly afraid for thee, when I shall brandish my sword before them; and they shall tremble at every moment, every man for his own life, in the day of thy fall.

And I will make a number of peoples overcome with wonder at you, and their kings will be full of fear because of you, when my sword is waved before them: they will be shaking every minute, every man fearing for his life, in the day of your fall.


simplify: So Samuel turned again after Saul; and Saul worshipped the Lord.

So Samuel went back after Saul, and Saul gave worship to the Lord.


simplify: and Beth-nimrah, and Beth-haran: fortified cities, and folds for sheep.

And Beth-nimrah and Beth-haran: walled towns and shut-in places for sheep.


rate difficulty: Then let your hands be strong, and have no fear: though Saul your lord is dead, the people of Judah have made me their king.

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


simplify: `Again he sent other servants more than the first, and they did to them in the same manner.

A second time the owner sent some servants, a larger number than before, and the tenants treated them in the same way.


simplify: Behold my hands and my feet, that it is I myself: handle me, and see; for a spirit hath not flesh and bones, as ye see me have.

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


rate difficulty: One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice;

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


simplify: But them that are without God judgeth. Therefore put away from among yourselves that wicked person.

while God judges those who are outside? ‘Put away the wicked from among you.’


simplify: As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:


simplify: the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, and the mercy-seat that is thereupon, and all the furniture of the Tent,

The Tent of meeting, and the ark of the law, and the cover which is on it, and all the things for the tent,


rate difficulty: Harim, Meremoth, Obadiah,

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


simplify: And he said unto them, This kind can come forth by nothing, but by prayer and fasting.

“A spirit of this kind,”he said, “can be driven out only by prayer.”


rate difficulty: And with pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain upon him, and upon his hordes, and upon the many peoples that are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.

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


simplify: Because it is written, Be ye holy; for I am holy.

For scripture says —  ‘You will be holy, because I am holy.’


simplify: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of our God shall stand forever.

The grass is dry, the flower is dead; but the word of our God is eternal.


simplify: And an angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim, and said, I made you to go up out of Egypt, and have brought you unto the land which I sware unto your fathers; and I said, I will never break my covenant with you.

Now the angel of the Lord came up from Gilgal to Bochim. And he said, *** I took you out of Egypt, guiding you into the land which I gave by an oath to your fathers; and I said, My agreement with you will never be broken by me:


rate difficulty: And she went out of the place where she was, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on their way to go back to the land of Judah.


simplify: I decked thee also with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck.

And I made you fair with ornaments and put jewels on your hands and a chain on your neck.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord of hosts; There shall yet old men and old women dwell in the streets of Jerusalem, and every man with his staff in his hand for very age.

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


simplify: And the chief priests and the scribes heard it, and sought how they might destroy him: for they feared him, for all the multitude was astonished at his teaching.

And it came to the ears of the chief priests and scribes, and they took thought how they might put him to death; being in fear of him, because all the people were full of wonder at his teaching.


simplify: For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first:

Because the Lord himself will come down from heaven with a word of authority, with the voice of the chief angel, with the sound of a horn: and the dead in Christ will come to life first;


simplify: And David took all the flocks and the herds, which they drave before those other cattle, and said, This is David’s spoil.

And they took all the flocks and herds, and driving them in front of him, said, These are David's.


simplify: Yea, if thou cry after discernment, And lift up thy voice for understanding;

Truly, if you are crying out for good sense, and your request is for knowledge;


simplify: And Peter answering said to him, `Explain to us this simile.'

Peter spoke up: “Explain this saying to us.”


rate difficulty: And if a man smite the eye of his servant, or the eye of his maid, that it perish; he shall let him go free for his eye’s sake.


simplify: Then having let away the multitudes, Jesus came to the house, and his disciples came near to him, saying, `Explain to us the simile of the darnel of the field.'

Then Jesus left the crowd, and went into the house. Presently his disciples came to him, and said: “Explain to us the parable of the weeds in the field.”


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the end of three years, that two of the servants of Shimei ran away unto Achish, son of Maacah, king of Gath. And they told Shimei, saying, Behold, thy servants are in Gath.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, I cannot return with thee, nor go in with thee; neither will I eat bread nor drink water with thee in this place.

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


rate difficulty: And sons of Uzziel <FI>are<Fi> Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri.

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


rate difficulty: And he began to say to them, To-day this scripture is fulfilled in your ears.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first of the month hath Moses spoken unto the sons of Israel according to all that Jehovah hath commanded him concerning them;

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


rate difficulty: I will overturn, overturn, overturn, it: and it shall be no more, until he come whose right it is; and I will give it him.

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


simplify: Where there is no vision, the people cast off restraint; But he that keepeth the law, happy is he.

Where there is no vision, the people are uncontrolled; but he who keeps the law will be happy.


simplify: If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.

If with only human hopes I had fought in the arena at Ephesus, what should I have gained by it? If the dead do not rise, then — ‘Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die’!


rate difficulty: And he came in the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law,

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


simplify: But when they perceived that he was a Jew, all with one voice about the space of two hours cried out, Great is Diana of the Ephesians.

But when they saw that he was a Jew, all of them with one voice went on crying out for about two hours, Great is Diana of Ephesus.


simplify: Even of the covenant which he made with Abraham, and of his oath unto Isaac;

The agreement which he made with Abraham, and his oath to Isaac;


simplify: Spikenard and saffron, Calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; Myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.

Spikenard and safron; calamus and cinnamon, with all trees of frankincense; myrrh and aloes, with all the chief spices.


simplify: And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judæa: for thus it is written through the prophet,

And they said to him, In Beth-lehem of Judaea; for so it is said in the writings of the prophet,


simplify: and I will bring back all the people unto thee: the man whom thou seekest is as if all returned: so all the people shall be in peace.

And I will make all the people come back to you as a bride comes back to her husband: it is the life of only one man you are going after; so all the people will be at peace.


simplify: Conscience, I say, not thine own, but of the other: for why is my liberty judged of another man’s conscience?

Right and wrong, I say, not for you, but for the other man; for the fact that I am free is not dependent on another man's sense of right or wrong.


rate difficulty: The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all that were merry-hearted do sigh;

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


rate difficulty: And, behold, Cushi came; and Cushi said, Tidings, my lord the king: for the Lord hath avenged thee this day of all them that rose up against thee.

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


simplify: but when the flock were feeble, he put them not in: so the feebler were Laban’s, and the stronger Jacob’s.

But when the flocks were feeble, he did not put the sticks before them; so that the feebler flocks were Laban's and the stronger were Jacob's.


simplify: For I know the forwardness of your mind, for which I boast of you to them of Macedonia, that Achaia was ready a year ago; and your zeal hath provoked very many.

For I have before made clear to those of Macedonia my pride in your ready mind, saying to them that Achaia has been ready for a year back; and a great number have been moved to do the same by your example.


rate difficulty: And the king said to his servants, Know ye not that there is a prince and a great man fallen this day in Israel?

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: And these are the egresses of the city: On the north side four thousand and five hundred reeds by measure;

And these are the outskirts of the town: on the north side, four thousand five hundred by measure;


rate difficulty: and they rise early on the morrow, and cause burnt-offerings to ascend, and bring nigh peace-offerings; and the people sit down to eat and to drink, and rise up to play.

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


rate difficulty: And when Tamar had news that her father-in-law was going up to Timnah to the wool-cutting,

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


simplify: So she caught him, and kissed him, Andwith an impudent face she said unto him:

So she took him by his hand, kissing him, and without a sign of shame she said to him:


rate difficulty: And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

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


simplify: And he was with them coming in and going out at Jerusalem.

After that, Saul remained in Jerusalem, in close intercourse with the apostles; and he spoke fearlessly in the name of the Lord,


simplify: And they had in their inheritance Beer–sheba, Sheba, and Moladah,

And they had for their heritage Beer-sheba and Shema and Moladah


simplify: For thou hast made of a city an heap; of a defenced city a ruin: a palace of strangers to be no city; it shall never be built.

For you have made a town a waste place: a strong town a mass of broken walls; the tower of the men of pride has come to an end; it will never be put up again.


simplify: From the cry of Heshbon even unto Elealeh, and even unto Jahaz, have they uttered their voice, from Zoar even unto Horonaim, as an heifer of three years old: for the waters also of Nimrim shall be desolate.

The cry of Heshbon comes even to Elealeh; to Jahaz their voice is sounding; from Zoar even to Horonaim and to Eglath-shelishiyah: for the waters of Nimrim will become dry.


rate difficulty: Solomon had a vineyard at Baal–hamon; he let out the vineyard unto keepers; every one for the fruit thereof was to bring a thousand pieces of silver.

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


simplify: And they that stood by said, Revilest thou God’s high priest?

And those who were near said, Do you say such words against God's high priest?


rate difficulty: Concerning which salvation prophets, who have prophesied of the grace towards you, sought out and searched out;

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


simplify: And if they be bound in fetters, And be taken in the cords of affliction;

And if they have been prisoned in chains, and taken in cords of trouble,


simplify: I beheld, and, lo, there was no man, and all the birds of the heavens were fled.

Looking, I saw that there was no man, and all the birds of heaven had gone in flight.


simplify: Lest the land whence thou broughtest us out say, Because the Lord was not able to bring them into the land which he promised them, and because he hated them, he hath brought them out to slay them in the wilderness.

Or it may be said in the land from which you have taken them, Because the Lord was not able to take them into the land which he said he would give them, and because of his hate for them, he has taken them out to put them to death in the waste land.


simplify: He maketh his feet like hinds’ feet, And setteth me upon my high places.

He makes my feet like roes' feet, and puts me on high places.


rate difficulty: There were nets of open-work for the crowns on the tops of the pillars, a net of open-work for one and a net of open-work for the other.

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


simplify: Salute thee do all those with me; salute those loving us in faith; the grace <FI>is<Fi> with you all!

All who are with me here send you their greeting. Give my greeting to our friends in the faith.    God bless you all.


rate difficulty: `And also there hath been a man prophesying in the name of Jehovah, Urijah son of Shemaiah, of Kirjath-Jearim, and he prophesieth against this city, and against this land according to all the words of Jeremiah,

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


simplify: Him, being delivered by the determinate counsel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and slain:

He, I say, in accordance with God’s definite plan and with his previous knowledge, was betrayed, and you, by the hands of lawless men, nailed him to a cross and put him to death.


rate difficulty: And God blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which God created and made.

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


rate difficulty: And whosoever toucheth one that is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

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


rate difficulty: And in the morning he went out and, stopping, said to all the people there, You are upright men: it is true that I made designs against my master, and put him to death; but who is responsible for the death of all these?


simplify: As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

But as to the Gentiles who have the faith, we sent a letter, giving our decision that they were to keep themselves from offerings made to false gods, and from blood, and from the flesh of animals put to death in ways against the law, and from the evil desires of the body.


simplify: And, behold, certain of the scribes said within themselves, This man blasphemeth.

Then some of the teachers of the law said to themselves: “This man is blaspheming!”


simplify: And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me.

And to all present he said: “If any one wishes to walk in my steps, let them renounce self, and take up their cross daily, and follow me.


rate difficulty: As to righteous men, they judge them with the judgment of adulteresses, And the judgment of women shedding blood, For they <FI>are<Fi> adulteresses, And blood <FI>is<Fi> in their hands.

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


rate difficulty: Call now; is there any that will answer thee? And to which of the holy ones wilt thou turn?

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


rate difficulty: and Hadoram, and Uzal, and Diklah,

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


rate difficulty: And he seeketh Ahaziah, and they capture him, (and he is hiding himself in Samaria), and bring him in unto Jehu, and put him to death, and bury him, for they said, `He <FI>is<Fi> son of Jehoshaphat, who sought Jehovah with all his heart;' and there is none to the house of Ahaziah to retain power for the kingdom.

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


simplify: The tents of robbers prosper, And they that provoke God are secure; Into whose hand God bringeth abundantly.

There is wealth in the tents of those who make destruction, and those by whom God is moved to wrath are safe; even those whose god is their strength.


simplify: And he said to them, `Whenever ye may enter into a house, there remain till ye may depart thence,

“Whenever you go to stay at a house,”he said, “remain there until you leave that place;


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Take to thee spices, stacte, and onycha, and galbanum, spices and pure frankincense; they are part for part;

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


simplify: and they received of Moses all the offering which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, wherewith to make it. And they brought yet unto him freewill-offerings every morning.

And they took from Moses all the offerings which the children of Israel had given for the building of the holy place. And still they went on giving him more free offerings every morning.


simplify: And after a little while another saw him, and said, Thou also art one of them. But Peter said, Man, I am not.

And after a little time, another saw him and said, You are one of them; and he said, Man, I am not.


simplify: And the keeper of the prison awaking out of his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled.

Roused from his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, the Governor drew his sword intending to kill himself, in the belief that the prisoners had escaped.


rate difficulty: and they were stumbled at him. And Jesus said to them, `A prophet is not without honour except in his own country, and in his own house:'

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


rate difficulty: A generation--swords <FI>are<Fi> their teeth, And knives--their jaw-teeth, To consume the poor from earth, And the needy from <FI>among<Fi> men.

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


simplify: and their brethren, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,

And their brothers, Shebaniah, Hodiah, Kelita, Pelaiah, Hanan,


simplify: Only be sure that thou eat not the blood: for the blood is the life; and thou mayest not eat the life with the flesh.

But see that you do not take the blood for food; for the blood is the life; and you may not make use of the life as food with the flesh.


rate difficulty: And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Ye know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to keep company, or come unto one of another nation; but God hath shewed me that I should not call any man common or unclean.

And he said to them, You yourselves have knowledge that it is against the law for a man who is a Jew to be in the company of one who is of another nation; but God has made it clear to me that no man may be named common or unclean:


rate difficulty: and I will send among them the sword, the famine, and the pestilence, until they be consumed from off the land that I gave unto them and to their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief of the house of the father of the Gershonites shall be Eliasaph the son of Lael.

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


simplify: but shall minister with their brethren in the tent of meeting, to keep the charge, and shall do no service. Thus shalt thou do unto the Levites touching their charges.

But be with their brothers in the Tent of meeting, taking care of it but doing no work. This is what you are to do in connection with the Levites and their work.


rate difficulty: Behold the day, behold, it is come: the morning is gone forth; the rod hath blossomed, pride hath budded.

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


simplify: And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

Jesus went all through Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness among the people;


rate difficulty: And when David sent for him, he took meat and drink with him, and David made him the worse for drink: and when evening came, he went to rest on his bed with the servants of his lord, but he did not go down to his house.

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


simplify: And the multitude rose up together against them: and the magistrates rent off their clothes, and commanded to beat them.

The mob rose as one person against them, and the Magistrates stripped them of their clothing and ordered them to be beaten with rods.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel arose, and went up to Beth-el, and asked counsel of God; and they said, Who shall go up for us first to battle against the children of Benjamin? And Jehovah said, Judah shall go up first.


simplify: And Isaiah said unto them, Thus shall ye say to your master, Thus saith Jehovah, Be not afraid of the words that thou hast heard, wherewith the servants of the king of Assyria have blasphemed me.

And Isaiah said to them, This is what you are to say to your master: The Lord says, Be not troubled by the words which the servants of the king of Assyria have said against me in your hearing.


simplify: And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.


simplify: A worthy woman who can find? For her price is far above rubies.

Who may make discovery of a woman of virtue? For her price is much higher than jewels.


simplify: The desire of a man is his kindness: and a poor man is better than a liar.

The ornament of a man is his mercy, and a poor man is better than one who is false.


simplify: And my spirit hath rejoiced in God my Saviour.


simplify: Therefore by this shall the iniquity of Jacob be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he maketh all the stones of the altar as chalkstones that are beaten in sunder, so that the Asherim and the sun-images shall rise no more.

So by this will the sin of Jacob be covered, and this is all the fruit of taking away his punishment; when all the stones of the altar are crushed together, so that the wood pillars and the sun-images will not be put up again.


rate difficulty: Canst thou by searching find out God? Canst thou find out the Almighty unto perfection?

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


simplify: And the second took her to wife, and he died childless.

The second and third brothers both took her as their wife;


simplify: But these, as natural brute beasts, made to be taken and destroyed, speak evil of the things that they understand not; and shall utterly perish in their own corruption;

These people, however, like animals without reason, intended by nature to be caught and killed — these people, I say, malign those of whom they know nothing, and will assuredly perish through their own corruption,


simplify: To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.

To those who conquer — to them I will give the right to sit beside me on my throne, as I, when I conquered, took my seat beside my Father on his throne.


rate difficulty: Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of his dear Son:

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


simplify: and she shall bring forth a son, and thou shalt call his name Jesus, for he shall save his people from their sins.'

She will give birth to a son; name him Jesus, for he will save his people from their sins.”


simplify: And they shall come from the east and west, and from the north and 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.


simplify: And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

Then the king of Assyria sent the Tartan and the Rab-saris and the Rab-shakeh from Lachish to Jerusalem, to King Hezekiah, with a strong force. And they went up and came to Jerusalem, and took up their position by the stream of the higher pool, by the highway of the washerman's field.


simplify: Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Beth–lehem–judah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.

Now there came a time, in the days of the judges, when there was no food in the land. And a certain man went from Beth-lehem-judah, he and his wife and his two sons, to make a living-place in the country of Moab.


simplify: Then said the Lord unto me; This gate shall be shut, it shall not be opened, and no man shall enter in by it; because the Lord, the God of Israel, hath entered in by it, therefore it shall be shut.

And the Lord said to me, This doorway is to be shut, it is not to be open, and no man is to go in by it, because the Lord, the God of Israel, has gone in by it; and it is to be shut.


simplify: And they neither found me in the temple disputing with any man, neither raising up the people, neither in the synagogues, nor in the city:

where my prosecutors never found me holding discussions with anyone, or causing a crowd to collect — either in the Temple, or in the Synagogues, or about the city;


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

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


simplify: Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.

Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;


rate difficulty: And they took that which Micah had made, and the priest whom he had, and came unto Laish, unto a people quiet and secure, and smote them with the edge of the sword; and they burnt the city with fire.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to him, Where have you come from? And he said, I have come in flight from the tents of Israel.


simplify: and he said unto the vine-dresser, Lo, three years I come seeking fruit in this fig-tree, and do not find, cut it off, why also the ground doth it render useless?

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


simplify: or saith he it assuredly for our sake? Yea, for our sake it was written: because he that ploweth ought to plow in hope, and he that thresheth, to thresh in hope of partaking.

Or has he us in mind? Yes, it was said for us; because it is right for the ploughman to do his ploughing in hope, and for him who is crushing the grain to do his work hoping for a part in the fruits of it.


simplify: And they stood before Moses, and before Eleazar the priest, and before the princes and all the congregation, by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

They came before Moses and Eleazar the priest and the chiefs and all the people at the door of the Tent of meeting, and said,


simplify: Moreover also I gave them statutes that were not good, and ordinances wherein they should not live;

And further, I gave them rules which were not good and orders in which there was no life for them;


rate difficulty: For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,


simplify: As the Lord commanded Moses, so the children of Israel did, and they divided the land.

As the Lord had given orders to Moses, so the people of Israel did, and they made division of the land.


simplify: `And I say to you, that, whoever may put away his wife, if not for whoredom, and may marry another, doth commit adultery; and he who did marry her that hath been put away, doth commit adultery.'

But I tell you that anyone who divorces his wife, except on the ground of some serious sexual sin, and marries another woman, is guilty of adultery.”


simplify: Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the city of Sepharvaim, of Hena, and Ivvah?

Where is the king of Hamath, and the king of Arpad, and the king of the town of Sepharvaim, of Hena and of Ivvah?


simplify: which He wrought in the Christ, having raised him out of the dead, and did set <FI>him<Fi> at His right hand in the heavenly <FI>places<Fi> ,

The same mighty power was exerted on the Christ, when he raised the Christ from the dead and ‘caused him to sit at his right hand’ on high, exalting him above all angels and archangels of every rank,


simplify: Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.


rate difficulty: Then the Ziphites came up to Gibeah to see Saul, and said, Is not David living secretly among us in the strong places in Horesh, in the hill of Hachilah to the south of the waste land?

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


simplify: The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion of the Holy Ghost, be with you all. Amen.  The second epistle to the Corinthians was written from Philippi, a city of Macedonia, by Titus and Lucas.

May the blessing of the Lord Jesus Christ, and the love of God, and the communion with the Holy Spirit, be with you all.


rate difficulty: And let us not get tired of well-doing; for at the right time we will get in the grain, if we do not give way to weariness.

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


rate difficulty: For if by the offence of the one death reigned by the one, much rather shall those who receive the abundance of grace, and of the free gift of righteousness, reign in life by the one Jesus Christ:)

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


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

Then, fearing that by chance we might come on to the rocks, they let down four hooks from the back of the ship, and made prayers for the coming of day.


rate difficulty: And they said to him, Joseph is living, and is ruler over all the land of Egypt. And at this word Jacob was quite overcome, for he had no faith in it.

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


rate difficulty: For truly, the earth will be dark, and the peoples veiled in blackest night; but the Lord will be shining on you, and his glory will be seen among you.

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


simplify: Their infants also shall be dashed in pieces before their eyes; their houses shall be rifled, and their wives ravished.

Their young children will be broken up before their eyes; their goods will be taken away, and their wives made the property of others.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Rise up early in the morning, and stand before Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of the Hebrews, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And the Lord said to Moses, Get up early in the morning and take your place before Pharaoh, and say to him, This is what the Lord, the God of the Hebrews, says: Let my people go so that they may give me worship.


simplify: And he that searcheth the hearts knoweth what is the mind of the Spirit, because he maketh intercession for the saints according to the will of God.

Yet he who searches all our hearts knows what the Spirit’s meaning is, because the pleadings of the Spirit for Christ’s people are in accordance with his will.


rate difficulty: From the Jews five times have I received forty [stripes], save one.


rate difficulty: Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, whom Jehovah hath afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.

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


simplify: And forgive thy people that have sinned against thee, and all their transgressions wherein they have transgressed against thee, and give them compassion before them who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them:

Answering with forgiveness the people who have done wrong against you, and overlooking the evil which they have done against you; let those who made them prisoners be moved with pity for them, and have pity on them;


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.


simplify: Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign; and he reigned two years in Jerusalem: and his mother’s name was Meshullemeth the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.

Amon was twenty-two years old when he became king, ruling in Jerusalem for two years; his mother's name was Meshullemeth, the daughter of Haruz of Jotbah.


simplify: And I saw when the Lamb opened one of the seals, and I heard, as it were the noise of thunder, one of the four beasts saying, Come and see.

Then I saw the Lamb break one of the seven seals, and I heard one of the four Creatures crying with a voice like thunder — ‘Come.’


simplify: Moreover, if he be gotten into a city, then shall all Israel bring ropes to that city, and we will draw it into the river, until there be not one small stone found there.

And if he has gone into some town, then let all Israel take strong cords to that town, and we will have it pulled into the valley, till not one small stone is to be seen there.


rate difficulty: And Micaiah said, Behold, thou shalt see on that day, when thou shalt go into an inner chamber to hide thyself.

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


simplify: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given to them, and the souls of those who have been beheaded because of the testimony of Jesus, and because of the word of God, and who did not bow before the beast, nor his image, and did not receive the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand, and they did live and reign with Christ the thousand years;

Then I saw thrones, and to those who took their seats on them authority was given to act as judges. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded because of the testimony to Jesus and because of the message of God, for they had refused to worship the Beast or its image, and had not received the brand on their foreheads and on their hands. They were restored to life, and they reigned with the Christ for a thousand years.


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

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


rate difficulty: And he slaughtereth the burnt-offering, and the sons of Aaron have presented unto him the blood, and he sprinkleth it on the altar round about;

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


simplify: Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

Let love be without deceit. Be haters of what is evil; keep your minds fixed on what is good.


simplify: It shall even be as when an hungry man dreameth, and, behold, he eateth; but he awaketh, and his soul is empty: or as when a thirsty man dreameth, and, behold, he drinketh; but he awaketh, and, behold, he is faint, and his soul hath appetite: so shall the multitude of all the nations be, that fight against mount Zion.

And it will be like a man desiring food, and dreaming that he is feasting; but when he is awake there is nothing in his mouth: or like a man in need of water, dreaming that he is drinking; but when he is awake he is feeble and his soul is full of desire: so will all the nations be which make war on Mount Zion.


rate difficulty: And Saul saith unto Michal, `Why thus hast thou deceived me--that thou dost send away mine enemy, and he is escaped?' and Michal saith unto Saul, `He said unto me, Send me away: why do I put thee to death?'

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


simplify: `Ye have known that after two days the passover cometh, and the Son of Man is delivered up to be crucified.'

“You know that in two days time the Festival of the Passover will be here; and that the Son of Man is to be given up to be crucified.”


rate difficulty: And he put them in ward in the house of the captain of the guard, into the prison, the place where Joseph was bound.

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


rate difficulty: And I have laid a charge against you, According to the fruit of your doings, An affirmation of Jehovah, And I have kindled a fire in its forest, And it hath consumed--all its suburbs!

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


simplify: So that contrariwise ye ought rather to forgive him, and comfort him, lest perhaps such a one should be swallowed up with overmuch sorrow.

so that now you must take the opposite course, and forgive and encourage him, or else he may be overwhelmed by the intensity of his pain.


rate difficulty: And on the day after, the Lord did as he had said, causing the death of all the cattle of Egypt, but there was no loss of any of the cattle of Israel.

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


simplify: (for they call themselves of the holy city, and stay themselves upon the God of Israel; Jehovah of hosts is his name):

For they say that they are of the holy town, and put their faith in the God of Israel: the Lord of armies is his name.


simplify: `Write the things that thou hast seen, and the things that are, and the things that are about to come after these things;

Therefore write of what you have seen and of what is happening now and of what is about to take place —


rate difficulty: The day was drawing to a close, when the twelve came up to him, and said: “Send the crowd away, so that they may make their way to the villages and farms around about, and find themselves lodgings and provisions, for we are in a lonely spot here.”


simplify: And the woman took and spread a covering over the well’s mouth, and spread ground corn thereon; and the thing was not known.

And a woman put a cover over the hole, and put crushed grain on top of it, and no one had any knowledge of it.


simplify: And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his, straightway.

And that same hour of the night, he took them, and when he had given attention to their wounds, he and all his family had baptism straight away.


simplify: I am this day fourscore years old: and can I discern between good and evil? can thy servant taste what I eat or what I drink? can I hear any more the voice of singing men and singing women? wherefore then should thy servant be yet a burden unto my lord the king?

I am now eighty years old: good and bad are the same to me; have meat and drink any taste for me now? am I able to take pleasure in the voices of men or women in song? why then am I to be a trouble to my lord the king?


simplify: And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

When they are sounded, all the people are to come together to you at the door of the Tent of meeting.


simplify: And for the east side eastward fifty cubits.

And on the east side, the open space was fifty cubits long.


simplify: But they shook off the dust of their feet against them, and came unto Iconium.

But they, shaking off the dust of that place from their feet, came to Iconium.


rate difficulty: All the Jews have knowledge of my way of life from my early years, as it was from the start among my nation, and at Jerusalem;

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


simplify: for I think that God did set forth us the apostles last--as appointed to death, because a spectacle we became to the world, and messengers, and men;

For, as it seems to me, God has exhibited us, the apostles, last of all, as people doomed to death. We are made a spectacle to the universe, both to angels and to people!


simplify: And said, I beseech thee, O Lord God of heaven, the great and terrible God, that keepeth covenant and mercy for them that love him and observe his commandments:

And said, O Lord, the God of heaven, the great God, greatly to be feared, keeping faith and mercy with those who have love for him and are true to his laws:


rate difficulty: And Moses and Aaron gathered the assembly together before the rock, and he said unto them, Hear now, ye rebels; shall we bring you forth water out of this rock?

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


rate difficulty: They did cry there, Pharaoh king of Egypt is but a noise; he hath passed the time appointed.

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


rate difficulty: From that time Jesus went about preaching and saying, Let your hearts be turned from sin, for the kingdom of heaven is near.


rate difficulty: Thou art my maul, [my] weapons of war: and with thee I will break in pieces the nations, and I will with thee destroy kingdoms;

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel and Judah, that dwelt in the cities of Judah, they also brought in the tithe of oxen and sheep, and the tithe of dedicated things which were consecrated unto Jehovah their God, and laid them by heaps.

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


simplify: And of Levi he said, Let thy Thummim and thy Urim be with thy holy one, whom thou didst prove at Massah, and with whom thou didst strive at the waters of Meribah;

And of Levi he said, Give your Thummim to Levi and let the Urim be with your loved one, whom you put to the test at Massah, with whom you were angry at the waters of Meribah;


rate difficulty: And he that lieth in the house shall wash his clothes; and he that eateth in the house shall wash his clothes.

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


rate difficulty: And I will shew wonders in the heavens and on the earth, blood, and fire, and pillars of smoke.

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


simplify: But even the very hairs of your head are all numbered. Fear not therefore: ye are of more value than many sparrows.

No, even the hairs of your head are all numbered. Do not be afraid; you are of more value than many sparrows.


rate difficulty: And when I passed by thee, and saw thee polluted in thine own blood, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live; yea, I said unto thee when thou wast in thy blood, Live.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 14 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the sons of Ulam were mighty men of valour, archers, and had many sons, and sons’ sons, an hundred and fifty. All these are of the sons of Benjamin.

And the sons of Ulam were men of war, bowmen, and had a great number of sons and sons' sons, a hundred and fifty. All these were the sons of Benjamin.


simplify: For thus saith Jehovah, Behold, I will make thee a terror to thyself, and to all thy friends; and they shall fall by the sword of their enemies, and thine eyes shall behold it; and I will give all Judah into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall carry them captive to Babylon, and shall slay them with the sword.

For the Lord has said, See, I will make you a cause of fear to yourself and to all your friends: they will come to their death by the sword of their haters, and your eyes will see it: and I will give all Judah into the hands of the king of Babylon, and he will take them away prisoners into Babylon and put them to the sword.


rate difficulty: And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: And the citizens of Shechem set liers in wait for him on the tops of the mountains, and they robbed all that came along that way by them. And it was told Abimelech.

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


simplify: And he said to them, `This kind is able to come forth with nothing except with prayer and fasting.'

“A spirit of this kind,”he said, “can be driven out only by prayer.”


rate difficulty: Seventy-four thousand, six hundred of the tribe of Judah were numbered.


simplify: And afterward Hezron went in to the daughter of Machir the father of Gilead, whom he married when he was threescore years old; and she bare him Segub.

And after that, Hezron had connection with the daughter of Machir, the father of Gilead, whom he took as his wife when he was sixty years old; and she had Segub by him.


simplify: Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

Do not make false statements to one another; because you have put away the old man with all his doings,


rate difficulty: And I turn back, and lift up mine eyes, and look, and lo, four chariots are coming forth from between two of the mountains, and the mountains <FI>are<Fi> mountains of brass.

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


rate difficulty: Assyria shall not save us; we will not ride upon horses; neither will we say any more to the work of our hands, Ye are our gods; for in thee the fatherless findeth mercy.

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


simplify: When Pilate saw that he could prevail nothing, but that rather a tumult was made, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, I am innocent of the blood of this just person: see ye to it.

When Pilate saw that his efforts were unavailing, but that, on the contrary, a riot was beginning, he took some water, and washed his hands in the sight of the crowd, saying as he did so: “I am not answerable for this bloodshed; you must see to it yourselves.”


rate difficulty: But go, tell his disciples and Peter, he goes before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him, as he said to you.

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


rate difficulty: This is the heave-offering which ye shall offer: the sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of wheat, and ye shall give the sixth part of an ephah out of a homer of barley;

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


simplify: having known that soon is the laying aside of my tabernacle, even as also our Lord Jesus Christ did shew to me,

for I know that the time for this ‘tent’ of mine to be put away is soon coming, as our Lord Jesus Christ himself assured me.


rate difficulty: For, if ye certainly do this thing, Then come in by the gates of this house Have kings sitting for David on his throne, Riding on chariot, and on horses, He, and his servants, and his people.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Have ye never read what David did, when he had need, and was an hungred, he, and they that were with him?

And he said to them, Have you no knowledge of what David did, when he had need and was without food, he, and those who were with him?


rate difficulty: And I will call for a sword against him unto all my mountains, saith the Lord Jehovah: every man’s sword shall be against his brother.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah brought upon them the captains of the host of the king of Assyria, who took Manasseh with fetters, and bound him with chains of brass, and carried him to Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: So I went in and saw; and behold every form of creeping things, and abominable beasts, and all the idols of the house of Israel, pourtrayed upon the wall round about.

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


simplify: And the altar hearth shall be twelve cubits long by twelve broad, square in the four sides thereof.

And the fireplace is twelve cubits long and twelve cubits wide, square on its four sides.


simplify: Salute Herodion my kinsman. Greet them that be of the household of Narcissus, which are in the Lord.

to my countryman Herodion; to the Christians in the household of Narcissus;


rate difficulty: My Father! let Job be tried--unto victory, Because of answers for men of iniquity,

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


rate difficulty: And whoever says a word against the Son of man, will have forgiveness; but whoever says a word against the Holy Spirit, will not have forgiveness in this life or in that which is to come.


simplify: And there sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead.

And a certain young man named Eutychus, who was seated in the window, went into a deep sleep; and while Paul went on talking, being overcome by sleep, he had a fall from the third floor, and was taken up dead.


simplify: Then fourteen years after I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, and took Titus with me also.

Then after the space of fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus with me.


rate difficulty: No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass at the time of the ardour of the flocks, that I lifted up mine eyes, and saw in a dream, and behold, the rams that leaped upon the flocks were ringstraked, speckled, and spotted.

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


rate difficulty: For thus said Jehovah: Lo, I am slinging out the inhabitants of the land at this time, And have been an adversary to them, So that they are found out.

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


simplify: And straightway they forsook their nets, and followed him.

They left their nets at once, and followed him.


rate difficulty: The children of Hariph, an hundred and twelve.


simplify: He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not also with him freely give us all things?

He who did not keep back his only Son, but gave him up for us all, will he not with him freely give us all things?


rate difficulty: and Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed,

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


simplify: Igal the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,

Igal, the son of Nathan of Zobah, Bani the Gadite,


rate difficulty: And so, as we could bear it no longer, we made up our minds to remain behind alone at Athens,


simplify: For he sacrificed unto the gods of Damascus, which smote him; and he said, Because the gods of the kings of Syria helped them, therefore will I sacrifice to them, that they may help me. But they were the ruin of him, and of all Israel.

For he made offerings to the gods of Damascus, who were attacking him, and said, Because the gods of the kings of Aram are giving them help, I will make offerings to them so that they may give me help. But they were the cause of his downfall, and of that of all Israel.


rate difficulty: A precious son is Ephraim to Me? A child of delights? For since My speaking against him, I do thoroughly remember him still, Therefore have My bowels been moved for him, I do greatly love him, An affirmation of Jehovah.


simplify: And when this epistle hath been read among you, cause that it be read also in the church of the Laodiceans; and that ye also read the epistle from Laodicea.

And when this letter has been made public among you, let the same be done in the church of Laodicea; and see that you have the letter from Laodicea.


rate difficulty: Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said to him in a vision, Ananias! and he said, Here I am, Lord.


rate difficulty: Likewise must the deacons be grave, not doubletongued, not given to much wine, not greedy of filthy lucre;

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


rate difficulty: `And if Jehovah thy God doth enlarge thy border, as He hath sworn to thy fathers, and hath given to thee all the land which He hath spoken to give to thy fathers--

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


rate difficulty: And Michal, Saul's daughter, had no child till the day of her death.


simplify: That the name of our Lord Jesus Christ may be glorified in you, and ye in him, according to the grace of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ.

Then, in the loving kindness of our God and the Lord Jesus Christ, will the name of Jesus, our Lord, be honored in you, and you in him.


simplify: And there were going on with him great multitudes, and having turned, he said unto them,

One day, when great crowds of people were walking with Jesus, he turned and said to them:


simplify: And it came to pass, as Jesus sat at meat in the house, behold, many publicans and sinners came and sat down with him and his disciples.

And it came about, when he was in the house taking food, that a number of tax-farmers and sinners came and took their places with Jesus and his disciples.


simplify: for not ourselves do we preach, but Christ Jesus--Lord, and ourselves your servants because of Jesus;

(For it is not ourselves that we proclaim, but Christ Jesus, as Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake.)


rate difficulty: and that captain answered the man of God, and said, Now, behold, if Jehovah should make windows in heaven, might such a thing be? and he said, Behold, thou shalt see it with thine eyes, but shalt not eat thereof:

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


rate difficulty: Ezer the chief, Obadiah the second, Eliab the third,

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


rate difficulty: The Lord Jesus Christ be with thy spirit. Grace be with you. Amen.  The second epistle unto Timotheus, ordained the first bishop of the church of the Ephesians, was written from Rome, when Paul was brought before Nero the second time.

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


rate difficulty: And there shall the beasts of the desert meet with the jackals, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; the lilith also shall settle there, and find for herself a place of rest.

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


simplify: Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat the son of Hori.

Of the tribe of Simeon, Shaphat, the son of Hori.


simplify: And ye shall eat fat till ye be full, and drink blood till ye be drunken, of my sacrifice which I have sacrificed for you.

You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.


simplify: And he built there an altar, and called the place El–beth–el: because there God appeared unto him, when he fled from the face of his brother.

And there he made an altar, naming the place El-beth-el: because it was there he had the vision of God when he was in flight from his brother.


simplify: And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame: for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.


simplify: For we hear of some that walk among you disorderly, that work not at all, but are busybodies.

For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.


rate difficulty: and he would not suffer that any man should carry a vessel through the temple.

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


rate difficulty: Lo, all that are incensed against thee shall be ashamed and confounded; they that strive with thee shall be as nothing, and shall perish.

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


rate difficulty: Know therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, the faithful God, which keepeth covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations;

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


simplify: He will not suffer me to take my breath, But filleth me with bitterness.

He would not let me take my breath, but I would be full of bitter grief.


simplify: And it came to pass on the day when the Lord spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,

And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in the land of Egypt,


rate difficulty: And by the border of Zebulun, from the east side unto the west side, Gad, one portion.

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


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto me yet again, saying,


simplify: A third part of thee shall die with the pestilence, and with famine shall they be consumed in the midst of thee: and a third part shall fall by the sword round about thee; and I will scatter a third part into all the winds, and I will draw out a sword after them.

A third of you will come to death from disease, wasting away among you through need of food; a third will be put to the sword round about you; and a third I will send away to every wind, letting loose a sword after them.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

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


rate difficulty: Before it consumed hath fire, And after it burn doth a flame, As the garden of Eden <FI>is<Fi> the land before it, And after it a wilderness--a desolation! And also an escape there hath not been to it,

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


rate difficulty: And he sent messengers throughout Manasseh, and they also were gathered after him; and he sent messengers to Asher, and to Zebulun, and to Naphtali; and they came up to meet them.


simplify: And the half, which was the portion of them that went out to war, was in number three hundred thousand and thirty thousand and seven thousand and five hundred sheep:

And the half given as their part to the men who went to the war, was three hundred and thirty-seven thousand, five hundred sheep,


rate difficulty: But your father has not kept faith with me, and ten times he has made changes in my payment; but God has kept him from doing me damage.

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


rate difficulty: And those who took of the bread were five thousand men.


simplify: And they drew Alexander out of the multitude, the Jews putting him forward. And Alexander beckoned with the hand, and would have made his 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:


rate difficulty: And when they were come, and had gathered the church together, they rehearsed all that God had done with them, and how he had opened the door of faith unto the Gentiles.

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


simplify: And Beth–arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth–el,

And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el


simplify: But there is nothing covered up, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

But nothing is covered up, which will not come to light, or secret, which will not be made clear.


simplify: And Moses let his father in law depart; and he went his way into his own land.

And Moses let his father-in-law go away, and he went back to his land.


simplify: having been begotten again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, through the word of God, which liveth and abideth.

Because you have had a new birth, not from the seed of man, but from eternal seed, through the word of a living and unchanging God.


rate difficulty: If a man makes a fire in a field or a vine-garden, and lets the fire do damage to another man's field, he is to give of the best produce of his field or his vine-garden to make up for it.

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


rate difficulty: For if I had a desire to take credit to myself, it would not be foolish, for I would be saying what is true: but I will not, for fear that I might seem to any man more than he sees me to be, or has word from me that I am.

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


simplify: And though men be risen up to pursue thee, and to seek thy soul, yet the soul of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of life with Jehovah thy God; and the souls of thine enemies, them shall he sling out, as from the hollow of a sling.

And though a man has taken up arms against you, putting your life in danger, still the soul of my lord will be kept safe among the band of the living with the Lord your God; and the souls of those who are against you he will send violently away from him, like stones from a bag.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,

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


rate difficulty: To-day ye are going out, in the month of Abib.

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


rate difficulty: He also that is slack in his work  Is brother to him that is a destroyer.


simplify: Call upon you, then, do I--the prisoner of the Lord--to walk worthily of the calling with which ye were called,

I beg you, then — I who am a prisoner in the Master’s cause — to live lives worthy of the call that you have received;


rate difficulty: And some shouted one thing, some another, among the crowd: and when he could not know the certainty for the uproar, he commanded him to be brought into the castle.


simplify: The soul which hath touched any such shall be unclean until even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he wash his flesh with water.

Any person touching any such unclean thing will be unclean till evening, and may not take of the holy food till his flesh has been bathed in water;


simplify: In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall ye call every man his neighbour under the vine and under the fig tree.

In that day, says the Lord of armies, you will be one another's guests under the vine and under the fig-tree.


rate difficulty: Even their silver and their gold will not be able to keep them safe in the day of the Lord's wrath; but all the land will be burned up in the fire of his bitter wrath: for he will put an end, even suddenly, to all who are living in the land.


rate difficulty: These mentioned by their names were princes in their families: and the house of their fathers increased greatly.

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


simplify: Lest thou give thine honour unto others, and thy years unto the cruel:

For fear that you may give your honour to others, and your wealth to strange men: