rate difficulty: Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from the Lord: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

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simplify: And the lodges of the gate eastward were three on this side, and three on that side; they three were of one measure: and the posts had one measure on this side and on that side.

And the rooms of the doorway on the east were three on this side and three on that; all three were of the same size; and the uprights on this side and on that were of the same size.


simplify: And in the day time he was teaching in the temple; and at night he went out, and abode in the mount that is called the mount of Olives.

And every day he was teaching in the Temple and every night he went out to the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives to take his rest.


rate difficulty: His answer was: “It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you hypocrites in the words — ‘This is a people who honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far removed from me;

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simplify: And Jesus was going up and down all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every sickness and every malady among the people.

Jesus went around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their Synagogues, proclaiming the good news of the kingdom, and curing every kind of disease and every kind of sickness.


simplify: For his God doth instruct him to discretion, and doth teach him.

For his God is his teacher, giving him the knowledge of these things.


rate difficulty: The murderer riseth with the light; He killeth the poor and needy; And in the night he is as a thief.

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simplify: And on the seventh day ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work.

Then on the seventh day there will be a holy meeting; you may do no field-work.


simplify: and shall cast them to the furnace of the fire; there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth.

and ‘will throw them into the blazing furnace,’ where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.


rate difficulty: And there was war again with the Philistines; and Elhanan the son of Jair slew Lahmi the brother of Goliath the Gittite, whose spear staff was like a weaver’s beam.

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


simplify: And Jesus answering them, began to say, `Take heed lest any one may lead you astray,

Then Jesus began: “See that no one leads you astray.


simplify: and those that weep, as though they wept not; and those that rejoice, as though they rejoiced not; and those that buy, as though they possessed not;

And for those who are in sorrow, to give no signs of it; and for those who are glad, to give no signs of joy; and for those who are getting property, to be as if they had nothing;


simplify: He shall not strive, nor cry; neither shall any man hear his voice in the streets.

He will not contend, nor cry aloud, Neither will anyone hear his voice in the streets;


rate difficulty: and Azariah, Ezra, and Meshullam,

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rate difficulty: And he will shew you a large upper room furnished and prepared: there make ready for us.

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


simplify: so also it hath been written, `The first man Adam became a living creature,' the last Adam <FI>is<Fi> for a life-giving spirit,

That is what is meant by the words — ‘Adam, the first man, became a human being’; the last Adam became a life-giving spirit.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Whose is this image and superscription?

And he said to them, Whose is this image and name on it?


simplify: Now we know that what things soever the law saith, it saith to them who are under the law: that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.

Now, we have knowledge that what the law says is for those who are under the law, so that every mouth may be stopped, and all men may be judged by God:


simplify: It was said also, Whosoever shall put away his wife, let him give her a writing of divorcement:

Again, it was said, Whoever puts away his wife has to give her a statement in writing for this purpose:


simplify: It cannot be valued with the gold of Ophir, With the precious onyx, or the sapphire.

It may not be valued with the gold of Ophir, with the onyx of great price, or the sapphire.


rate difficulty: Egypt riseth up like the Nile, and his waters toss themselves like the rivers: and he saith, I will rise up, I will cover the earth; I will destroy cities and the inhabitants thereof.

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


rate difficulty: Their heart hath been divided, now they are guilty, He doth break down their altars, He doth destroy their standing-pillars.

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


simplify: Nevertheless they departed not from the sins of the house of Jeroboam, wherewith he made Israel to sin, but walked therein: and there remained the Asherah also in Samaria.)

But still they did not give up the sin of Jeroboam, which he made Israel do, but went on with it; and there was an image of Asherah in Samaria.)


simplify: Then David and his men, which were about six hundred, arose and departed out of Keilah, and went whithersoever they could go. And it was told Saul that David was escaped from Keilah; and he forbare to go forth.

Then David and his men, about six hundred of them, went out of Keilah, and got away wherever they were able to go. And Saul, hearing that David had got away from Keilah, did not go there.


simplify: Now therefore why make ye trial of God, that ye should put a yoke upon the neck of the disciples which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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


simplify: And Moses said unto the people, Fear not: for God is come to prove you, and that his fear may be before you, that ye sin not.

And Moses said to the people, Have no fear: for God has come to put you to the test, so that fearing him you may be kept from sin.


simplify: Aaron therefore went unto the altar, and slew the calf of the sin offering, which was for himself.

So Aaron came near to the altar and put to death the ox for the sin-offering for himself;


rate difficulty: and he proclaimed, saying, `He doth come--who is mightier than I--after me, of whom I am not worthy--having stooped down--to loose the latchet of his sandals;

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


simplify: But thou didst trust in thy beauty, and playedst the harlot because of thy renown, and pouredst out thy whoredoms on every one that passed by; his it was.

But you put your faith in the fact that you were beautiful, acting like a loose woman because you were widely talked of, and offering your cheap love to everyone who went by, whoever it might be.


simplify: And they that heard it said, Then who can be saved?

And those who were present said, Then who may have salvation?


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Moab, yea, for four, I will not turn away the punishment thereof; because he burned the bones of the king of Edom into lime.

These are the words of the Lord: For three crimes of Moab, and for four, I will not let its fate be changed; because he had the bones of the king of Edom burned to dust.


rate difficulty: And he that offered his offering the first day was Nahshon the son of Amminadab, of the tribe of Judah:

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simplify: And they departed from the presence of the council, rejoicing that they were counted worthy to suffer shame for his name.

So they went away from the Sanhedrin, happy to undergo shame for the Name.


rate difficulty: And the man bringeth in the men into Joseph's house, and giveth water, and they wash their feet; and he giveth provender for their asses,


simplify: And there was sore war against the Philistines all the days of Saul: and when Saul saw any mighty man, or any valiant man, he took him unto him.

All through the life of Saul there was bitter war against the Philistines; and whenever Saul saw any strong man or any good fighting man, he kept him near himself.


simplify: I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear: but now mine eye seeth thee.

Word of you had come to my ears, but now my eye has seen you.


simplify: For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?


simplify: For I was an hungred, and ye gave me meat: I was thirsty, and ye gave me drink: I was a stranger, and ye took me in:

For, when I was hungry, you gave me food; when I was thirsty, you gave me drink; when I was a stranger, you took me to your homes;


simplify: And when Toi king of Hamath heard that David had smitten all the host of Hadadezer,

And when Tou, king of Hamath, had news that David had overcome all the army of Hadadezer,


simplify: Hezekiah also had said, What is the sign that I shall go up to the house of Jehovah?

And Hezekiah said, What is the sign that I will go up to the house of the Lord?


simplify: to confirm these days of Purim in their appointed times, according as Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen had enjoined them, and as they had ordained for themselves and for their seed, in the matter of the fastings and their cry.

Giving the force of law to these days of Purim at their fixed times, as they had been ordered by Mordecai the Jew and Esther the queen, and in keeping with the rules they had made for themselves and their seed, in connection with their time of going without food and their cry for help.


rate difficulty: For their rock is not as our Rock, even our enemies themselves being judges.

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


simplify: And when they had preached the word in Perga, they went down into Attalia:

and, after telling the message at Perga, went down to Attaleia.


simplify: and he brought the ark into the tabernacle, and set up the veil of the screen, and screened the ark of the testimony; as Jehovah commanded Moses.

And he took the ark into the House, hanging up the veil before it as the Lord had given him orders.


simplify: and having taken the cup, and having given thanks, he gave to them, saying, `Drink ye of it--all;

Then he took a cup, and, after saying the thanksgiving, gave it to them, with the words: “Drink from it, all of you;


rate difficulty: and Azariah begat Seraiah, and Seraiah begat Jehozadak;

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rate difficulty: Which the Lord commanded Moses in mount Sinai, in the day that he commanded the children of Israel to offer their oblations unto the Lord, in the wilderness of Sinai.

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


simplify: So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together.

So death overtook Saul and his three sons; all his family came to an end together.


rate difficulty: And by these ye shall become unclean: whosoever toucheth the carcass of them shall be unclean until the even;

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Let him alone; let no man move his bones. So they let his bones alone, with the bones of the prophet that came out of Samaria.


rate difficulty: be mindful of Thy servants, of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, turn not unto the stiffness of this people, and unto its wickedness, and unto its sin;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take fine flour, and bake twelve cakes thereof: two tenth deals shall be in one cake.

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


simplify: But Festus, willing to do the Jews a pleasure, answered Paul, and said, Wilt thou go up to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these things before me?

But Festus, desiring to get the approval of the Jews, said to Paul, Will you go up to Jerusalem, and be judged before me there in connection with these things?


simplify: But wisdom is justified of all her children.

And yet wisdom is vindicated by all her children.”


simplify: Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bare him no children: and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.

Now Sarai, Abram's wife, had given him no children; and she had a servant, a woman of Egypt whose name was Hagar.


rate difficulty: For I also am a man under authority, having under me soldiers, and I say to this [one], Go, and he goes; and to another, Come, and he comes; and to my bondman, Do this, and he does it.

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


simplify: After him repaired their brethren, Bavvai the son of Henadad, the ruler of half the district of Keilah.

After him were working their brothers, Bavvai, the son of Henadad, ruler of half the division of Keilah.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

“What, do even you understand so little?”exclaimed Jesus. “Do not you see that there is nothing external to a person, which by going into a person, can ‘defile’ them,


simplify: for the thirteenth, Shubael, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The thirteenth Shubael, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: And it came to pass in their conversing and reasoning together, that Jesus himself, having come nigh, was going on with them,

While they were talking about these things and discussing them, Jesus himself came up and went on their way with them;


simplify: and they, having brought the boats upon the land, having left all, did follow him.

And, when they had brought their boats to shore, they left everything, and followed him.


simplify: And ye shall know that I have sent this commandment unto you, that my covenant may be with Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

And you will be certain that I have sent this order to you, so that it might be my agreement with Levi, says the Lord of armies.


rate difficulty: After the number of the days in which ye searched the land, even forty days, each day for a year, shall ye bear your iniquities, even forty years, and ye shall know my breach of promise.

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rate difficulty: But having the same spirit of faith, as it is said in the Writings, The words of my mouth came from the faith in my heart; in the same way, our words are the outcome of our faith;


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah concerning the prophets that make my people to err; that bite with their teeth, and cry, Peace; and whoso putteth not into their mouths, they even prepare war against him:

This is what the Lord has said about the prophets by whom my people have been turned from the right way; who, biting with their teeth, say, Peace; and if anyone puts nothing in their mouths they make ready for war against him.


rate difficulty: and having fasted forty days and forty nights, afterwards he hungered.

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


simplify: and unleavened bread, and cakes unleavened mingled with oil, and wafers unleavened anointed with oil: of fine wheaten flour shalt thou make them.

And unleavened bread, and unleavened cakes mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes on which oil has been put, made of the best bread-meal;


simplify: Darts are counted as stubble: he laugheth at the shaking of a spear.

A thick stick is no better than a leaf of grass, and he makes sport of the onrush of the spear.


simplify: The mandrakes give forth fragrance; And at our doors are all manner of precious fruits, new and old, Which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.

The mandrakes give out a sweet smell, and at our doors are all sorts of good fruits, new and old, which I have kept for my loved one.


simplify: And the thing was good in the eyes of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of all his servants.

And this seemed good to Pharaoh and to all his servants.


simplify: He that killeth an ox is as he that slayeth a man; he that sacrificeth a lamb, as he that breaketh a dog’s neck; he that offereth an oblation, as he that offereth swine’s blood; he that burneth frankincense, as he that blesseth an idol. Yea, they have chosen their own ways, and their soul delighteth in their abominations:

He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;


simplify: And they shall bear their iniquity: the iniquity of the prophet shall be even as the iniquity of him that seeketh unto him;

And the punishment of their sin will be on them: the sin of the prophet will be the same as the sin of him who goes to him for directions;


simplify: And Abraham was a hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.

Now Abraham was a hundred years old when the birth of Isaac took place.


simplify: As a cage is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: therefore they are become great, and waxen rich.

As the fowl-house is full of birds, so are their houses full of deceit: for this reason they have become great and have got wealth.


simplify: Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

The Lord is unkind to my soul, more than all the daughters of my town.


rate difficulty: But some of the teachers of the law who were sitting there were debating in their minds:

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rate difficulty: The children of Giddel, the children of Gahar, the children of Reaiah,

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


rate difficulty: Length of days <FI>is<Fi> in her right hand, In her left <FI>are<Fi> wealth and honour.

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


rate difficulty: and he wondered because of their unbelief. And he was going round the villages, in a circle, teaching,

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


rate difficulty: The Lord is a God who takes care of his honour and gives punishment for wrong; the Lord gives punishment and is angry; the Lord sends punishment on those who are against him, being angry with his haters.


rate difficulty: And do not make my holy name common; so that it may be kept holy by the children of Israel: I am the Lord who make you holy,

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


simplify: Balaam also the son of Beor, the soothsayer, did the children of Israel slay with the sword among them that were slain by them.

And Balaam, the son of Beor, the prophet, the children of Israel put to death with the sword.


simplify: and God <FI>is<Fi> able all grace to cause to abound to you, that in every thing always all sufficiency having, ye may abound to every good work,

God has power to shower all kinds of blessings on you, so that, having, under all circumstances and on all occasions, all that you can need, you may be able to shower all kinds of benefits on others.


simplify: And Jesus answering saith to them, `Have faith of God;


simplify: There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.

There is a way which seems straight before a man, but its end is the ways of death.


simplify: And there arose a sharp contention, so that they parted asunder one from the other, and Barnabas took Mark with him, and sailed away unto Cyprus:

And there was a sharp argument between them, so that they were parted from one another, and Barnabas took Mark with him and went by ship to Cyprus;


simplify: Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.

See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.


rate difficulty: To reason with a word not useful? And speeches--no profit in them?


simplify: And I call upon you, brethren, through the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that the same thing ye may all say, and there may not be divisions among you, and ye may be perfected in the same mind, and in the same judgment,

But I appeal to you, my friends, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to agree in what you profess, and not to allow divisions to exist among you, but to be united — of one mind and of one opinion.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt eat before the Lord thy God, in the place which he shall choose to place his name there, the tithe of thy corn, of thy wine, and of thine oil, and the firstlings of thy herds and of thy flocks; that thou mayest learn to fear the Lord thy God always.

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simplify: For the Lord’s portion is his people; Jacob is the lot of his inheritance.

For the Lord's wealth is his people; Jacob is the land of his heritage.


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

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


simplify: For his letters, say they, are weighty and powerful; but his bodily presence is weak, and his speech contemptible.

For people say “His letters are impressive and vigorous, but his personal appearance is insignificant and his speaking contemptible.”


simplify: God giveth them to be in security, and they rest thereon; And his eyes are upon their ways.

He takes away his fear of danger and gives him support; and his eyes are on his ways.


simplify: And when the Lord raised them up judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and delivered them out of the hand of their enemies all the days of the judge: for it repented the Lord because of their groanings by reason of them that oppressed them and vexed them.

And whenever the Lord gave them judges, then the Lord was with the judge, and was their saviour from the hands of their haters all the days of the judge; for the Lord was moved by their cries of grief because of those who were cruel to them.


rate difficulty: One board shall have two tenons, connected one with the other: thus shalt thou make for all the boards of the tabernacle.

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


simplify: I also will answer my part, I also will show mine opinion.

I will give my answer; I will put forward my knowledge:


rate difficulty: And Aaron speaketh unto Moses, `Lo, to-day they have brought near their sin-offering and their burnt-offering before Jehovah; and <FI>things<Fi> like these meet me, yet I have eaten a sin-offering to-day; is it good in the eyes of Jehovah?'

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


rate difficulty: unintelligent, faithless, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful;

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


simplify: And I arose in the night, I and some few men with me; neither told I any man what my God put into my heart to do for Jerusalem; neither was there any beast with me, save the beast that I rode upon.

And in the night I got up, taking with me a small band of men; I said nothing to any man of what God had put into my heart to do for Jerusalem: and I had no beast with me but the one on which I was seated.


simplify: And there came a voice out of the cloud, saying, This is my beloved Son: hear him.

and from the cloud came a voice which said — “This is my Son, the Chosen One; him you must hear.”


simplify: And Moses declared unto the children of Israel the set feasts of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: The flowers appear on the earth; The time of singing is come, And the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land;

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


rate difficulty: And Hazar-shual, and Beer-sheba, and Biziothiah;

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


rate difficulty: Some of the people were bringing little children to Jesus, for him to touch them; but the disciples found fault with those who had brought them.

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


rate difficulty: And now, though thou wouldest needs be gone, because thou sore longedst after thy father’s house, yet wherefore hast thou stolen my gods?

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rate difficulty: Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?

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


simplify: All these were the children of Asher, heads of the fathers’ houses, choice and mighty men of valor, chief of the princes. And the number of them reckoned by genealogy for service in war was twenty and six thousand men.

All these were the children of Asher, heads of their families, specially strong men of war, chiefs of the rulers. They were recorded in the army for war, twenty-six thousand men in number.


rate difficulty: and now, are your hands strong, and be ye for sons of valour, for your lord Saul. <FI>is<Fi> dead, and also--me have the house of Judah anointed for king over them.'


simplify: Yea, forty years didst thou sustain them in the wilderness, and they lacked nothing; their clothes waxed not old, and their feet swelled not.

Truly, for forty years you were their support in the waste land, and they were in need of nothing; their clothing did not get old or their feet become tired.


rate difficulty: Behold, ye fast for strife and contention, and to smite with the fist of wickedness: ye fast not this day so as to make your voice to be heard on high.

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


rate difficulty: And he removed out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images; and the kingdom was quiet before him.


simplify: And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Then they sent to him certain of the Pharisees and the Herodians, so that they might make use of his words to take him by a trick.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits broad; the altar shall be foursquare: and the height thereof shall be three cubits.

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


rate difficulty: By you the sea was parted before them, so that they went through the sea on dry land; and those who went after them went down into the deep, like a stone into great waters.


rate difficulty: Of a talent of pure gold made he it, and all the vessels thereof.

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


simplify: Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such people as these.


rate difficulty: Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification.


simplify: And they took counsel, and bought with them the potter’s field, to bury strangers in.

And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries.


simplify: The incense that ye burned in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem, ye and your fathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not Jehovah remember them, and came it not into his mind?

The perfumes which you have been burning in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers and your kings and your rulers and the people of the land, had the Lord no memory of them, and did he not keep them in mind?


rate difficulty: But now this shall be the thing which we will do to Gibeah; we will go up by lot against it;


rate difficulty: Therefore, my dear friends, as you have always been obedient in the past, so now work out your own salvation with anxious care, not only when I am with you, but all the more now that I am absent.

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


simplify: and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;

Zechariah was startled at the sight and was awe-struck.


rate difficulty: And David answered Rechab and Baanah his brother, the sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, and said unto them, As the Lord liveth, who hath redeemed my soul out of all adversity,

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


simplify: And he took some of his brethren, even five men, and presented them unto Pharaoh.

And he took five of his brothers to Pharaoh.


simplify: And Abraham stretched forth his hand, and took the knife to slay his son.

And stretching out his hand, Abraham took the knife to put his son to death.


simplify: And Peter calling to remembrance saith unto him, Rabbi, behold, the fig tree which thou cursedst is withered away.

And Peter, having a memory of it, said to him, Master, see, the tree which was cursed by you is dead.


rate difficulty: And the hangings for the open space round the House and the altar, and the curtain for its doorway, and all the cords needed for its use.

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


simplify: And David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in unto him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned unto her house.

And David sent and took her; and she came to him, and he took her to his bed: (for she had been made clean;) then she went back to her house.


rate difficulty: and a man lie with her carnally, and it be hid from the eyes of her husband, and she be defiled in secret, and there be no witness against her, and she have not been caught;

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


simplify: Drop down, ye heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness: let the earth open, and let them bring forth salvation, and let righteousness spring up together; I the Lord have created it.

Let righteousness come down, O heavens, from on high, and let the sky send it down like rain: let the earth be open to give the fruit of salvation, causing righteousness to come up with it; I the Lord have made it come about.


rate difficulty: and the men <FI>are<Fi> feeders of a flock, for they have been men of cattle; and their flock, and their herd, and all that they have, they have brought.'

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


rate difficulty: And he put all the people in position, every man with his instruments of war in his hand, from the right side of the house to the left, by the altar and the house and all round the king.

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


rate difficulty: Get up,”he said to him, “and go on your way. Your faith has delivered you.”

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


simplify: Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the pride of your power, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left behind shall fall by the sword.

Say to the people of Israel, The Lord has said, See, I will make my holy place unclean, the pride of your strength, the pleasure of your eyes, and the desire of your soul; and your sons and daughters, who did not come with you here, will be put to the sword.


simplify: I will bring them down like lambs to the slaughter, like rams with he goats.

I will make them go down to death like lambs, like he-goats together.


rate difficulty: Thy way and thy doings have procured these things unto thee; this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it reacheth unto thine heart.

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


simplify: And Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead.

Then Menahem, the son of Gadi, went up from Tirzah and came to Samaria, and attacking Shallum, son of Jabesh, in Samaria, put him to death and made himself king in his place.


rate difficulty: The lion has come out of his secret place, for the land has become a waste because of the cruel sword, and because of the heat of his wrath.


simplify: And Coz begat Anub, and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.

And Koz was the father of Anub and Zobebah, and the families of Aharhel the son of Harum.


rate difficulty: In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.

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


rate difficulty: Voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare the way of [the] Lord, make his paths straight.

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


rate difficulty: The people had sufficient to eat, and they picked up seven baskets full of the broken pieces that were left.

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


simplify: And Reuben went in the days of wheat harvest, and found mandrakes in the field, and brought them unto his mother Leah. Then Rachel said to Leah, Give me, I pray thee, of thy son’s mandrakes.

Now at the time of the grain-cutting, Reuben saw some love-fruits in the field, and took them to his mother Leah. And Rachel said to her, Let me have some of your son's love-fruits.


simplify: When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys.

At the sound of a second loud note, the tents on the south side are to go forward: the loud note will be the sign to go forward.


rate difficulty: And one washed the chariot in the pool of Samaria; and the dogs licked his blood, where the harlots bathed: according to the word of Jehovah, which he had spoken.

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


simplify: But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

But so that it may not go farther among the people, let us put them in fear of punishment if they say anything in future in this name.


simplify: Happy is the man that feareth alway: but he that hardeneth his heart shall fall into mischief.

Happy is the man in whom is the fear of the Lord at all times; but he whose heart is hard will come into trouble.


rate difficulty: who 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.

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


simplify: Thou wast perfect in thy ways from the day that thou wast created, till unrighteousness was found in thee.

There has been no evil in your ways from the day when you were made, till sin was seen in you.


simplify: Now therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts; Consider your ways.

For this cause the Lord of armies has said, Give thought to your ways.


simplify: He who is saying in him he doth remain, ought according as he walked also himself so to walk.

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


simplify: No--I say to you, but, if ye may not reform, all ye even so shall perish.

No, I tell you; but, unless you repent, you will all perish as they did.


rate difficulty: This one--let him reckon thus: that such as we are in word, through letters, being absent, such also, being present, <FI>we are<Fi> in deed.

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


simplify: And coming up at that very hour she gave thanks unto God, and spake of him to all them that were looking for the redemption of Jerusalem.

And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: `A prophet out of thy midst, out of thy brethren, like to me, doth Jehovah thy God raise up to thee--unto him ye hearken;

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Are the young men finished?' and he saith, `Yet hath been left the youngest; and lo, he delighteth himself among the flock;' and Samuel saith unto Jesse, `Send and take him, for we do not turn round till his coming in hither.'

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


simplify: And he doeth great wonders, so that he maketh fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men,

It performs great marvels, even causing fire to fall from the heavens to the earth, before people’s eyes;


simplify: For by thy words thou shalt be justified, and by thy words thou shalt be condemned.

For it is by your words that you will be acquitted, and by your words that you will be condemned.”


simplify: And his host, and those that were numbered thereof, were fifty and seven thousand and four hundred.

The number of his army was fifty-seven thousand, four hundred.


simplify: Let it even be established, that thy name may be magnified for ever, saying, The Lord of hosts is the God of Israel, even a God to Israel: and let the house of David thy servant be established before thee.

So let your words be made certain and your name be made great, when men say, The Lord of armies is the God of Israel; and when the family of David your servant is made strong before you.


rate difficulty: And Moses cried unto the Lord, saying, Heal her now, O God, I beseech thee.


rate difficulty: And the angel of Jehovah said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son; and thou shalt call his name Ishmael, because Jehovah hath heard thy affliction.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And we pray unto our God, and appoint a watch against them, by day and by night, because of them.

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


rate difficulty: whom Jehovah of hosts will bless, saying, Blessed be Egypt my people, and Assyria the work of my hands, and Israel mine inheritance!

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


rate difficulty: They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;


simplify: So then let us follow after things which make for peace, and things whereby we may edify one another.

So then, let us go after the things which make peace, and the things by which we may be a help to one another.


rate difficulty: He burneth part thereof in the fire; with part thereof he eateth flesh, he roasteth roast, and is satisfied; yea, he is warm, and saith, Aha, I am become warm, I have seen the fire.

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


rate difficulty: But if a man be just, and do that which is lawful and right,

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


rate difficulty: Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.

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


simplify: And Moses said, Thou must also give into our hand sacrifices and burnt-offerings, that we may sacrifice unto Jehovah our God.

But Moses said, You will have to let us take burned offerings to put before the Lord our God.


simplify: At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

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


simplify: Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!

Cursed are those who seem wise to themselves, and who take pride in their knowledge!


rate difficulty: And the sons of Korah: Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph; these are the families of the Korahites.

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


rate difficulty: And for a ram thou shalt offer as oblation two tenth parts of fine flour mingled with oil, a third part of a hin,

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


rate difficulty: and the basins, and the fire-pans, and the bowls, and the pots, and the candlesticks, and the spoons, and the cups, the gold of that which <FI>is<Fi> gold, and the silver of that which <FI>is<Fi> silver, hath the chief of the executioners taken.

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


rate difficulty: I the Lord have said it, and this I will certainly do to all this evil people who have come together against me: in this waste land destruction will come on them, and death will be their fate.

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


simplify: But if this thing be true, that the tokens of virginity were not found in the damsel;

But if what he has said is true, and she is seen to be not a virgin,


simplify: And a certain ruler asked him, saying, Good Master, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?

And one of the Presidents asked Jesus this question — “Good teacher, what must I do if I am to gain eternal life?”


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, that she was sick, and died: whom when they had washed, they laid her in an upper chamber.

Just at that time she was taken ill, and died; and they had washed her body and laid it out in an upstairs room.


simplify: So Hatach went forth to Mordecai unto the street of the city, which was before the king’s gate.

So Hathach went out and saw Mordecai in the open square of the town before the king's doorway.


rate difficulty: So David and Abishai came down to the army by night: and Saul was sleeping inside the ring of carts with his spear planted in the earth by his head: and Abner and the people were sleeping round him.


rate difficulty: And all the people brake off the golden rings which were in their ears, and brought them unto Aaron.

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


rate difficulty: Then all those virgins got up, and made ready their lights.


simplify: `When the unclean spirit may go forth from the man it walketh through waterless places seeking rest, and not finding, it saith, I will turn back to my house whence I came forth;

No sooner does a foul spirit leave someone, than it passes through places where there is no water, in search of rest; and finding none, it says ‘I will go back to the home which I left’;


rate difficulty: And there also came together the multitude from the cities round about Jerusalem, bringing sick folk, and them that were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed every one.

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


simplify: Then washed I thee with water; yea, I thoroughly washed away thy blood from thee, and I anointed thee with oil.

Then I had you washed with water, washing away all your blood and rubbing you with oil.


simplify: And Moses numbered, as Jehovah commanded him, all the first-born among the children of Israel.

So Moses had all the first sons among the children of Israel numbered, as the Lord said to him.


simplify: The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.

The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.


rate difficulty: And when all Israel saw that the king would give no attention to them, the people in answer said to the king, What part have we in David? what is our heritage in the son of Jesse? to your tents, O Israel; now see to your people, David. So Israel went away to their tents.

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


rate difficulty: It is sport to the foolish man to do evil, but the man of good sense takes delight in wisdom.

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


rate difficulty: Troubles are round us on every side, but we are not shut in; things are hard for us, but we see a way out of them;


rate difficulty: and the sister of Tahpenes beareth to him Genubath his son, and Tahpenes weaneth him within the house of Pharaoh, and Genubath is in the house of Pharaoh in the midst of the sons of Pharaoh.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt-offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God.

Then Jeshua, the son of Jozadak, and his brothers the priests, and Zerubbabel, the son of Shealtiel, with his brothers, got up and made the altar of the God of Israel for burned offerings as is recorded in the law of Moses, the man of God.


simplify: So then the Lord Jesus, after he had spoken unto them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.

So then the Lord Jesus, after he had said these words to them, was taken up into heaven and took his seat at the right hand of God.


rate difficulty: O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?


rate difficulty: Whom hast thou reproached and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted the voice? Against the Holy One of Israel hast thou lifted up thine eyes on high.

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


rate difficulty: To whom hast thou uttered words? And whose spirit came forth from thee?

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


simplify: Because thou servedst not Jehovah thy God with joyfulness, and with gladness of heart, by reason of the abundance of all things;

Because you did not give honour to the Lord your God, worshipping him gladly, with joy in your hearts on account of all your wealth of good things;


rate difficulty: And it was said to the king of Jericho, See, some men have come here tonight from the children of Israel with the purpose of searching out the land.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, this third time I am ready to come to you, and I will not be in laziness a charge; for I do not seek yours, but you; for the children ought not to lay up for the parents, but the parents for the children.

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


rate difficulty: Then if anyone goes out of your house into the street, his blood will be on his head, we will not be responsible; but if any damage comes to anyone in the house, his blood will be on our heads.


simplify: Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters, to carry him to Babylon.

Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, came up against him, and took him away in chains to Babylon.


simplify: And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

And if a man from another country is among you and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let him do as is ordered in the law of the Passover: there is to be the same rule for the man from another nation and for him who had his birth in the land.


simplify: And it shall come to pass at that time, that I will search Jerusalem with lamps; and I will punish the men that are settled on their lees, that say in their heart, Jehovah will not do good, neither will he do evil.

And it will come about at that time, that I will go searching through Jerusalem with lights; and I will send punishment on the men who have become like wine stored over-long, who say to themselves, The Lord will not do good and will not do evil.


rate difficulty: And he called the name of that place Beth-el; but the name of that city was Luz at the first.

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


simplify: and those passing by were speaking evil of him, wagging their heads,

The passers-by railed at him, shaking their heads as they said:


simplify: And another company turned the way to Beth–horon: and another company turned to the way of the border that looketh to the valley of Zeboim toward the wilderness.

And another went in the direction of Beth-horon: and another went by the hill looking down on the valley of Zeboiim, in the direction of the waste land.


rate difficulty: But Nineveh is like a pool of water whose waters are flowing away; Keep your place, they say; but no one is turning back.


simplify: Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the people be assembled: who among them can declare this, and shew us former things? let them bring forth their witnesses, that they may be justified: or let them hear, and say, It is truth.

Let all the nations come together, and let the peoples be present: who among them is able to make this clear, and give us word of earlier things? let their witnesses come forward, so that they may be seen to be true, and that they may give ear, and say, It is true.


simplify: And on the morrow, as these are proceeding on the way, and are drawing nigh to the city, Peter went up upon the house-top to pray, about the sixth hour,

On the next day, while these men were on their way, just as they were nearing the town, Peter went up on the housetop about midday to pray.


rate difficulty: now, therefore, ye, signify ye to the chief captain, with the sanhedrim, that to-morrow he may bring him down unto you, as being about to know more exactly the things concerning him; and we, before his coming nigh, are ready to put him to death.'

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


simplify: Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.

The house of the man of pride will be uprooted by the Lord, but he will make safe the heritage of the widow.


rate difficulty: Now these are the generations of Pherez. Pherez begot Hezron,

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


rate difficulty: and the firstlings of our sons, and of our cattle, as it is written in the law, and the firstlings of our herds and our flocks, to bring in to the house of our God, to the priests who are ministering in the house of our God.

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


rate difficulty: And the four and twenty elders and the four beasts fell down and worshipped God that sat on the throne, saying, Amen; Alleluia.

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


rate difficulty: as is taught in the glorious good news of the ever-blessed God, with which I was entrusted.

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


simplify: The seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Aphses,

The seventeenth Hezir, the eighteenth Happizzez,


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Moses,


simplify: They say continually unto them that despise me, Jehovah hath said, Ye shall have peace; and unto every one that walketh in the stubbornness of his own heart they say, No evil shall come upon you.

They keep on saying to those who have no respect for the word of the Lord, You will have peace; and to everyone who goes on his way in the pride of his heart, they say, No evil will come to you.


rate difficulty: yea, all the nations have said, Wherefore hath Jehovah done thus to this land? what the heat of this great anger?

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


rate difficulty: But I have used none of these things: neither have I written these things, that it should be so done unto me: for it were better for me to die, than that any man should make my glorying void.

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


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


simplify: And there accompanied him into Asia Sopater of Berea; and of the Thessalonians, Aristarchus and Secundus; and Gaius of Derbe, and Timotheus; and of Asia, Tychicus and Trophimus.

And Sopater of Beroea, the son of Pyrrhus, and Aristarchus and Secundus of Thessalonica, and Gaius of Derbe, and Timothy, and Tychicus and Trophimus of Asia, went with him as far as Asia.


rate difficulty: There shall be no more thenceforth an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not completed his days; for the youth shall die a hundred years old, and the sinner being a hundred years old shall be accursed.

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


rate difficulty: But take ye heed: behold, I have foretold you all things.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, he will slay me; I have no hope: Nevertheless I will maintain my ways before him.


simplify: What shall I say? he hath both spoken unto me, and himself hath done it: I shall go softly all my years because of the bitterness of my soul.

What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.


simplify: And their villages were, Etam, and Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen, and Ashan, five cities:

And their small towns were Etam, Ain, Rimmon, and Tochen and Ashan, five towns;


rate difficulty: If thou seest the oppression of the poor, and violent perverting of judgment and justice in a province, marvel not at the matter; for a higher than the high is watching, and there are higher than they.

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


rate difficulty: [It is] right not to eat meat, nor drink wine, nor [do anything] in which thy brother stumbles, or is offended, or is weak.

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


simplify: Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:


simplify: About whom, when I was at Jerusalem, the chief priests and the elders of the Jews informed me, desiring to have judgment against him.

Against whom the chief priests and the rulers of the Jews made a statement when I was at Jerusalem, requesting me to give a decision against him.


simplify: Moreover Job continued his parable, and said,

And Job again took up the word and said,


simplify: Verily I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom and Gomorrha in the day of judgment, than for that city.

I tell you, the doom of the land of Sodom and Gomorrah will be more bearable in the ‘day of judgment’ than the doom of that town.


rate difficulty: And how hear we every man in our own tongue, wherein we were born?


rate difficulty: And Israel said unto Joseph, Now let me die, since I have seen thy face, that thou art yet alive.

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


rate difficulty: The son of Zerahiah, the son of Uzzi, the son of Bukki,

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


simplify: yea and before governors and kings shall ye be brought for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the Gentiles.

And you will come before rulers and kings because of me, for a witness to them and to the Gentiles.


rate difficulty: And the name of the wife of Abishur <FI>is<Fi> Abihail, and she beareth to him Ahban and Molid.

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


simplify: And he saith unto me, The waters which thou sawest, where the whore sitteth, are peoples, and multitudes, and nations, and tongues.

And he said to me, The waters which you saw, where the evil woman is seated, are peoples, and armies, and nations and languages.


simplify: The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.


simplify: Send them away, that they may go into the country round about, and into the villages, and buy themselves bread: for they have nothing to eat.

Send the people away, so that they may go to the farms and villages around and buy themselves something to eat.”


rate difficulty: And God gave them his blessing, saying, Be fertile and have increase, making all the waters of the seas full, and let the birds be increased in the earth.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, How many loaves have ye? And they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

And Jesus says to them, How much bread have you? And they said, Seven cakes, and some small fishes.


simplify: And Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,


simplify: Jehovah said moreover unto me: Son of man, wilt thou judge Oholah and Oholibah? then declare unto them their abominations.

Then the Lord said to me: Son of man, will you be the judge of Oholibah? then make clear to her the disgusting things she has done.


simplify: And others are they that are sown among the thorns; these are they that have heard the word,

And others are those planted among the thorns; these are they who have given ear to the word,


rate difficulty: And they have dwelt in her, And destruction is no more, And Jerusalem hath dwelt confidently.

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


rate difficulty: and thou hast bathed, and anointed thyself, and put thy garments upon thee, and gone down to the threshing-floor; let not thyself be known to the man till he complete to eat and to drink;

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


simplify: And I will pour my wrath upon Sin, the stronghold of Egypt; and I will cut off the multitude of No.

I will let loose my wrath on Sin, the strong place of Egypt, cutting off the mass of the people of No.


rate difficulty: Behold, the Lord hath a mighty and strong one; as a tempest of hail, a destroying storm, as a tempest of mighty waters overflowing, will he cast down to the earth with the hand.


simplify: When thou comest into thy neighbor’s vineyard, then thou mayest eat of grapes thy fill at thine own pleasure; but thou shalt not put any in thy vessel.

When you go into your neighbour's vine-garden, you may take of his grapes at your pleasure, but you may not take them away in your vessel.


rate difficulty: For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

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


simplify: And he was teaching in one of the synagogues on the sabbath,

Jesus was teaching on a Sabbath in one of the Synagogues,


rate difficulty: And the cities have been to them to inhabit, and their suburbs are for their cattle, and for their goods, and for all their beasts.

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


simplify: For Jehovah will rise up as in mount Perazim, he will be wroth as in the valley of Gibeon; that he may do his work, his strange work, and bring to pass his act, his strange act.

For the Lord will come up as on Mount Perazim, he will be moved to wrath as in the valley of Gibeon; so that he may do his work--strange is his work; and give effect to his act--unnatural is his act.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord appeared unto the woman, and said unto her, Behold now, thou art barren, and bearest not: but thou shalt conceive, and bear a son.

And the angel of the Lord came to the woman, and said to her, See now! though you have never given birth to children, you will be with child and give birth to a son.


simplify: Can that which is unsavoury be eaten without salt? or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

Will a man take food which has no taste without salt? or is there any taste in the soft substance of purslain?


simplify: And she said, I pray you, let me glean and gather after the reapers among the sheaves: so she came, and hath continued even from the morning until now, that she tarried a little in the house.

And she said to me, Let me come into the grain-field and take up the grain after the cutters. So she came, and has been here from morning till now, without resting even for a minute.


rate difficulty: For he wist not what to say; for they were sore afraid.

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


simplify: and I besought thy disciples that they might cast it out, and they were not able.'

I entreated your disciples to drive the spirit out, but they could not.”


simplify: And David said unto Abiathar, I knew on that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would surely tell Saul: I have occasioned the death of all the persons of thy father’s house.

And David said to Abiathar, I was certain that day, when Doeg the Edomite was there, that he would take the news to Saul: I am responsible for the lives of all your father's family.


rate difficulty: And I took the two tables, and cast them out of my two hands, and brake them before your eyes.

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


simplify: But that which ye have already hold fast till I come.

only hold fast to what you have received, until I come.


rate difficulty: Then he made Judah come forward, and the family of the Zerahites was taken; and he made the family of the Zerahites come forward man by man; and Zabdi was taken;


rate difficulty: They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.


simplify: and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

When they heard this, they went at daybreak into the Temple Courts, and began to teach. The high priest and his party, on their arrival, summoned the High Council, including all the leaders of the people among the Israelites, and sent to the jail to fetch the apostles.


simplify: For what thanks can we render to God again for you, for all the joy wherewith we joy for your sakes before our God;

For how great is the praise which we give to God for you, and how great the joy with which we are glad because of you before our God;


simplify: Thou, O Jehovah, abidest for ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation.

You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal.


rate difficulty: Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

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


rate difficulty: Woe unto him that giveth his neighbour drink, that puttest thy bottle to him, and makest him drunken also, that thou mayest look on their nakedness!

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: To the intent that now unto the principalities and powers in heavenly places might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God,

so that now to the archangels and to all the powers on high should be made known, through the church, the all-embracing wisdom of God,


rate difficulty: Therefore whether it were I or they, so we preach, and so ye believed.

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


simplify: where we found brethren, and were entreated to tarry with them seven days: and so we came to Rome.

Where we came across some of the brothers, who kept us with them for seven days; and so we came to Rome.


rate difficulty: Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel.

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


simplify: And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.

And the time of Jehu's rule over Israel in Samaria was twenty-eight years.


rate difficulty: I--I have known, an affirmation of Jehovah, His wrath, and <FI>it is<Fi> not right, His devices--not right they have done.

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


rate difficulty: Meshullam, Abijah, Mijamin,

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


rate difficulty: And now, truly I am one that has the right of redemption, yet there is one that has the right of redemption who is nearer than I.

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


simplify: and the heart-knowing God did bare them testimony, having given to them the Holy Spirit, even as also to us,

Now God, who reads all hearts, declared his acceptance of the Gentiles, by giving them the Holy Spirit, just as he did to us.


rate difficulty: and having heard, they did enter at the dawn into the temple, and were teaching. And the chief priest having come, and those with him, they called together the sanhedrim and all the senate of the sons of Israel, and they sent to the prison to have them brought,

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


rate difficulty: The assemblies of Asia salute you. Aquila and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house, salute you much in [the] Lord.

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


rate difficulty: build for yourselves cities for your infants, and folds for your flock, and that which is going out from your mouth do ye.'

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


simplify: Cursed be he that lieth with his father’s wife, because he hath uncovered his father’s skirt. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who has sex relations with his father's wife, for he has put shame on his father. And let all the people say, So be it.


rate difficulty: And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward, bearing the tabernacle.


rate difficulty: They are vanity, a work of delusion: in the time of their visitation they shall perish.

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


rate difficulty: The word which Habakkuk the prophet saw.

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


rate difficulty: And even I--I do praise thee, For thy right hand giveth salvation to thee.

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


rate difficulty: When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices, so that they might go and anoint the body of Jesus.

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


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

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


simplify: And having heard, the multitudes were astonished at his teaching;

The crowds, who had been listening to him, were greatly struck with his teaching.


rate difficulty: the Son of Man came eating and drinking, and they say, Lo, a man, a glutton, and a wine-drinker, a friend of tax-gatherers and sinners, and wisdom was justified of her children.'

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


simplify: Then shall they begin to say to the mountains, Fall on us; and to the hills, Cover us.

At that time people will begin to say to the mountains ‘Fall on us,’ and to the hills ‘Cover us.’


simplify: Then the king of Israel called an officer, and said, Hasten hither Micaiah the son of Imlah.

Then the king of Israel sent for one of his unsexed servants and said, Go quickly and come back with Micaiah, the son of Imlah.


rate difficulty: And every meal offering which is cooked in the oven and everything made in a cooking pot or on a flat plate, is for the priest by whom it is offered.


rate difficulty: And one of them, a teacher of the law, put a question to him, testing him, and saying,


rate difficulty: And she arose at midnight, and took my son from beside me, while thy handmaid slept, and laid it in her bosom, and laid her dead son in my bosom.

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


simplify: Consider, I pray you, from this day and backward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth month, since the day that the foundation of Jehovah’s temple was laid, consider it.

And now, give thought; looking on from this day, from the twenty-fourth day of the ninth month, from the time when the base of the Lord's house was put in its place, give thought to it.


rate difficulty: Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

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


simplify: Hear diligently my speech, And let my declaration be in your ears.

Give ear with care to my words, and keep what I say in your minds.


simplify: They shall come all for violence: their faces shall sup up as the east wind, and they shall gather the captivity as the sand.

They are coming all of them with force; the direction of their faces is forward, the number of their prisoners is like the sands of the sea.


simplify: And I will come down and talk with thee there: and I will take of the Spirit which is upon thee, and will put it upon them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with thee, that thou bear it not thyself alone.

And I will come down and have talk with you there: and I will take some of the spirit which is on you and put it on them, and they will take part of the weight of the people off you, so that you do not have to take it by yourself.


simplify: Not of works, lest any man should boast.

It is not due to obedience to law, so that no one can boast.


simplify: And Moses and Aaron said unto all the children of Israel, At even, then ye shall know that Jehovah hath brought you out from the land of Egypt;

And Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel, This evening it will be clear to you that it is the Lord who has taken you out of the land of Egypt:


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

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


simplify: But if ye shall still do wickedly, ye shall be consumed, both ye and your king.

But if you still do evil, destruction will overtake you and your king.


rate difficulty: lest Jehovah see it, and it be evil in his sight, and he turn away his anger from him.


simplify: I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.

I, John, who am your brother, and who share with you in the suffering and kingship and endurance of Jesus, found myself on the island called Patmos, for the sake of the message of God and the testimony to Jesus.


rate difficulty: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth; but the word of ourGod abideth for ever.

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


simplify: preach the word; be earnest in season, out of season, convict, rebuke, exhort, in all long-suffering and teaching,

Proclaim the message, be ready in season and out of season, convince, rebuke, encourage, never failing to instruct with forbearance.


simplify: And he carved all the walls of the house round about with carved figures of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, within and without.

And all the walls of the house inside and out were ornamented with forms of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers.


simplify: Then he which had received the one talent came and said, Lord, I knew thee that thou art an hard man, reaping where thou hast not sown, and gathering where thou hast not strawed:

The man who had received the single bag of gold came up, too, and said ‘Sir, I knew that you were a hard man; you reap where you have not sown, and gather up where you have not winnowed;


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

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


rate difficulty: And according as Esaias said before, Unless [the] Lord of hosts had left us a seed, we had been as Sodom, and made like even as Gomorrha.

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


simplify: So they came and called unto the porter of the city; and they told them, saying, We came to the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there, neither voice of man, but the horses tied, and the asses tied, and the tents as they were.

So they came in, and, crying out to the door-keepers of the town, they gave them the news, saying, We came to the tents of the Aramaeans, and there was no one there and no voice of man, only the horses and the asses in their places, and the tents as they were.


simplify: Cease, my son, to hear the instruction that causeth to err from the words of knowledge.

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


simplify: for in Him we live, and move, and are; as also certain of your poets have said: For of Him also we are offspring.

for in him we live and move and are. To use the words of some of your own poets —  ‘His offspring, too, are we.’


rate difficulty: Who gave us salvation from so great a death: on whom we have put our hope that he will still go on to give us salvation;

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord came down in the pillar of the cloud, and stood in the door of the tabernacle, and called Aaron and Miriam: and they both came forth.

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


simplify: And they said, There must be an inheritance for them that are escaped of Benjamin, that a tribe be not blotted out from Israel.

And they said, How is the rest of Benjamin to be given offspring so that one tribe of Israel may not be put out of existence,


rate difficulty: and they bring nigh the he-goats of the sin-offering before the king and the assembly, and they lay their hands upon them;


simplify: and let the king appoint officers in all the provinces of his kingdom, that they may gather together all the fair young virgins unto Shushan the palace, to the house of the women, unto the custody of Hegai the king’s chamberlain, keeper of the women; and let their things for purification be given them;

Let the king give authority to certain men in all the divisions of his kingdom, to get together all the fair young virgins and send them to Shushan, the king's town, to the women's house, under the care of Hegai, the king's servant, the keeper of the women: and let the things needed for making them clean be given to them;


simplify: proving what is well-pleasing unto the Lord;

Testing by experience what is well-pleasing to the Lord;


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

And the king said to his servants, Do you not see that a chief and a great man has come to his end today in Israel?


simplify: He shall see of the travail of his soul, and shall be satisfied: by the knowledge of himself shall my righteous servant justify many; and he shall bear their iniquities.

... made clear his righteousness before men ... had taken their sins on himself.


rate difficulty: For he says to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and pity on whom I will have pity.

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


simplify: for it behoveth this corruptible to put on incorruption, and this mortal to put on immortality;

For this perishable body of ours must put on an imperishable form, and this dying body a deathless form.


simplify: And he took the damsel by the hand, and said unto her, Talitha cumi; which is, being interpreted, Damsel, I say unto thee, arise.

And taking her by the hand, he said to her, Talitha cumi, which is, My child, I say to you, Get up.


simplify: And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.

And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as children.


simplify: And the Lord gave Solomon wisdom, as he promised him: and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon; and they two made a league together.

Now the Lord had given Solomon wisdom, as he had said to him; and there was peace between Hiram and Solomon, and they made an agreement together.


rate difficulty: For Jehovah thyGod will bless thee, as he promised thee; and thou shalt lend on pledge to many nations, but thou shalt not borrow; and thou shalt rule over many nations, but they shall not rule over thee.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead.

And they were laughing at him, being certain that she was dead.


rate difficulty: and the seventh day <FI>is<Fi> a sabbath to Jehovah thy God; thou dost not do any work, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy handmaid, and thine ox, and thine ass, and all thy cattle, and thy sojourner who <FI>is<Fi> within thy gates; so that thy man-servant, and thy handmaid doth rest like thyself;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 16 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For the scripture saith, Whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

Because it is said in the holy Writings, Whoever has faith in him will not be shamed.


rate difficulty: Ye are the sons of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with your fathers, saying unto Abraham, And in thy seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

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


simplify: God forbid: for then how shall God judge the world?


simplify: And coming into his own country he taught them in their synagogue, insomuch that they were astonished, and said, Whence hath this man this wisdom, and these mighty works?

And coming into his country, he gave them teaching in their Synagogue, so that they were greatly surprised and said, Where did this man get this wisdom and these works of power?


rate difficulty: And I have cast upon thee abominations, And dishonoured thee, and made thee as a sight.

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


rate difficulty: divide thou it into parts, and thou hast poured on it oil; it <FI>is<Fi> a present.

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


simplify: to seek the Lord, if perhaps they did feel after Him and find, --though, indeed, He is not far from each one of us,

That they might search for God, if by any means they might feel their way to him and find him. And yet he is not really far from any one of us;


simplify: And Segub begat Jair, who had three and twenty cities in the land of Gilead.

And Segub was the father of Jair, who had twenty-three towns in the land of Gilead.


simplify: I will be surety for him; of my hand shalt thou require him: if I bring him not unto thee, and set him before thee, then let me bear the blame for ever:

Put him into my care and make me responsible for him: if I do not give him safely back to you, let mine be the sin for ever.


simplify: A certain one of them, a prophet of their own, said--`Cretans! always liars, evil beasts, lazy bellies!'

It was a Cretan — one of their own teachers — who said: ‘Cretans are always liars, base brutes, and gluttonous idlers’; and his statement is true.


simplify: And the Lord said, Who then is the faithful and wise steward, whom his lord shall set over his household, to give them their portion of food in due season?

And the Lord said, Who then is the wise and responsible servant whom his lord will put in control of his family, to give them their food at the right time?


rate difficulty: And ye shall eat old store long kept, and ye shall bring forth the old because of the new.

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


rate difficulty: I give in a wilderness the cedar, Shittah, and myrtle, and oil-tree, I set in a desert the fir-pine and box-wood together.

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


simplify: And her gates shall lament and mourn; and she shall be desolate and sit upon the ground.

And in the public places of her towns will be sorrow and weeping; and she will be seated on the earth, waste and uncovered.


simplify: Ephraim, as I saw Tyrus, is planted in a pleasant place: but Ephraim shall bring forth his children to the murderer.

As I have seen a beast whose young have been taken from her, so Ephraim will give birth to children only for them to be put to death.


simplify: And this thing became sin unto the house of Jeroboam, even to cut it off, and to destroy it from off the face of the earth.

And this became a sin in the family of Jeroboam, causing it to be cut off and sent to destruction from the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: Ho, ho, and flee from the land of the north, An affirmation of Jehovah, For, as the four winds of the heavens, I have spread you abroad, An affirmation of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Cush: Seba and Havilah and Sabta and Raama and Sabteca. And the sons of Raamah: Sheba and Dedan.

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


rate difficulty: And while they still disbelieved for joy, and wondered, he said unto them, Have ye here anything to eat?

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


simplify: Therefore shall ye lay up these my words in your heart and in your soul, and bind them for a sign upon your hand, that they may be as frontlets between your eyes.

So keep these words deep in your heart and in your soul, and have them fixed on your hand for a sign and marked on your brow;


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

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


simplify: and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,

This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called ‘the Beautiful Gate,’ to beg of those who went in.


simplify: Slay all her bullocks; let them go down to the slaughter: woe unto them! for their day is come, the time of their visitation.

Put all her oxen to the sword; let them go down to death: sorrow is theirs, for their day has come, the time of their punishment.


simplify: Then went Abimelech to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it.

Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and put his army in position against Thebez and took it.


rate difficulty: and whoever may give to drink to one of these little ones a cup of cold water only in the name of a disciple, verily I say to you, he may not lose his reward.'

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


simplify: And they shall dwell safely therein, and shall build houses, and plant vineyards; yea, they shall dwell with confidence, when I have executed judgments upon all those that despise them round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God.

And they will be safe there, building houses and planting vine-gardens and living without fear; when I have sent my punishments on all those who put shame on them round about them; and they will be certain that I am the Lord their God.


simplify: For a certain woman, whose young daughter had an unclean spirit, heard of him, and came and fell at his feet:

For a woman, whose little daughter had a foul spirit in her, heard of him immediately, and came and threw herself at his feet —


rate difficulty: I beseech you therefore, be ye imitators of me.


rate difficulty: Behold, for peace I had great bitterness: but thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption: for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.

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


simplify: Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.


rate difficulty: And news of them came to the ears of the church at Jerusalem: and they sent Barnabas as far as Antioch:

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


rate difficulty: By his hand the north is stretched out in space, and the earth is hanging on nothing.

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


simplify: Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ, according to the faith of God’s elect, and the knowledge of the truth which is according to godliness,

Paul, a servant of God, and an Apostle of Jesus Christ, in agreement with the faith of the saints of God and the full knowledge of what is true in harmony with religion,


rate difficulty: where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried. Jehovah do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part me and thee!

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


simplify: (For the life was manifested, and we have seen it, and bear witness, and shew unto you that eternal life, which was with the Father, and was manifested unto us;)

That life was made visible, and we have seen it, and now bear our testimony to it, and tell you of that eternal life, which was with the Father and was made visible to us.


simplify: And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.

And his brothers said to him, Are you to be our king? will you have authority over us? And because of his dream and his words, their hate for him became greater than ever.


simplify: The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, saith the Lord.

The horn of Moab is cut off, and his arm is broken, says the Lord.


simplify: I entreat thee concerning my child--whom I did beget in my bonds--Onesimus,

I plead with you for this child of mine, Onesimus, to whom, in my prison, I have become a father.


simplify: whether it be in warp, or woof; of linen, or of woollen; whether in a skin, or in anything made of skin;

If it is in the threads of the linen or of the wool, or in leather, or in anything made of skin;


rate difficulty: `And the priest hath made perfume with the fat on the altar, and the breast hath been Aaron's and his sons;

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


simplify: and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

And her two sons, one of whom was named Gershom, for he said, I have been living in a strange land:


rate difficulty: Lest he that heareth it revile thee, And thine infamy turn not away.

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


simplify: Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.

By righteousness a nation is lifted up, but sin is a cause of shame to the peoples.


simplify: And he said unto them, Hinder me not, seeing Jehovah hath prospered my way; send me away that I may go to my master.

And he said, Do not keep me; the Lord has given a good outcome to my journey; let me now go back to my master.


rate difficulty: For I am with thee, saith Jehovah, to save thee: for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have scattered thee; yet of thee will I not make a full end, but I will correct thee with judgment, and will not hold thee altogether guiltless.

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


rate difficulty: According as his divine power hath given unto us all things that pertain unto life and godliness, through the knowledge of him that hath called us to glory and virtue:

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and Azariah son of Nathan <FI>is<Fi> over the officers; and Zabud son of Nathan <FI>is<Fi> minister, friend of the king;

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


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, When a man or woman shall commit any sin that men commit, to do a trespass against the Lord, and that person be guilty;

Say to the children of Israel, If a man or a woman does any of the sins of men, going against the word of the Lord, and is in the wrong;


simplify: But he answered and said unto them, An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas:

But he, answering, said to them, An evil and false generation is looking for a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of the prophet Jonah:


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Moses, Go to the people, and hallow them to-day and to-morrow, and let them wash their clothes;

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


simplify: And the floors shall be full of wheat, and the fats shall overflow with wine and oil.

And the floors will be full of grain, and the crushing-places overflowing with wine and oil.


rate difficulty: Yea, ye overwhelm the fatherless, and dig [a pit] for your friend.

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


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he shewed, and how he warred, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?

Now the rest of the acts of Jehoshaphat, and his great power, and how he went to war, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah?


simplify: Tarshish was thy merchant by reason of the multitude of all kind of riches; with silver, iron, tin, and lead, they traded in thy fairs.

Tarshish did business with you because of the great amount of your wealth; they gave silver, iron, tin, and lead for your goods.


simplify: And when he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece,

And when he had gone through those parts and given them much teaching, he came into Greece.


rate difficulty: And the king stood in his place, and made a covenant before Jehovah, to walk after Jehovah, and to keep his commandments and his testimonies and his statutes with all his heart and with all his soul, to perform the words of the covenant that are written in this book.

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


simplify: With Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, and with Tidal king of nations, and Amraphel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar; four kings with five.

Against Chedorlaomer, king of Elam, and Tidal, king of Goiim, and Amraphel, king of Shinar, and Arioch, king of Ellasar: four kings against the five.


simplify: and Zadok the son of Ahitub, and Abimelech the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was scribe;

And Zadok, the son of Ahitub; and Ahimelech, the son of Abiathar, were priests; and Shavsha was the scribe;


simplify: And he said, What is the thing that the Lord hath said unto thee? I pray thee hide it not from me: God do so to thee, and more also, if thou hide any thing from me of all the things that he said unto thee.

And he said, What did the Lord say to you? Do not keep it from me: may God's punishment be on you if you keep from me anything he said to you.


rate difficulty: Sons of Shem <FI>are<Fi> Elam, and Asshur, and Arphaxad, and Lud, and Aram.

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


rate difficulty: He is not kind to the widow, and he has no pity for her child.

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


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of seven days, that the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

And at the end of seven days, the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


simplify: For who will hearken unto you in this matter? but as his part is that goeth down to the battle, so shall his part be that tarrieth by the stuff: they shall part alike.

Who is going to give any attention to you in this question? for an equal part will be given to him who went to the fight and to him who was waiting by the goods: they are all to have the same.


rate difficulty: And Jesse said to his son David, Take now for your brothers an ephah of this dry grain and these ten cakes of bread, and go quickly with them to the tents to your brothers;

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


rate difficulty: and I brought them into the house of Jehovah, into the chamber of the sons of Hanan the son of Igdaliah, the man ofGod, which was by the chamber of the princes, which was above the chamber of Maaseiah the son of Shallum, the keeper of the threshold.

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


rate difficulty: And Isaac brought her into his mother Sarah’s tent, and took Rebekah, and she became his wife; and he loved her. And Isaac was comforted after his mother’s death.

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


simplify: And they shall wander from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, they shall run to and fro to seek the word of the Lord, and shall not find it.

And they will go wandering from sea to sea, and from the north even to the east, running here and there in search of the word of the Lord, and they will not get it.


rate difficulty: Cast off good hath Israel, an enemy pursueth him.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, thou art fair, my beloved, yea, pleasant: also our bed is green.

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


rate difficulty: And let them gather all the food of those good years that come, and lay up corn under the hand of Pharaoh, and let them keep food in the cities.

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


simplify: And in none other is there salvation: for neither is there any other name under heaven, that is given among men, wherein we must be saved.

And in no other is there salvation: for there is no other name under heaven, given among men, through which we may have salvation.


rate difficulty: Every man shall kiss his lips that giveth a right answer.

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


simplify: And a certain man drew a bow at a venture, and smote the king of Israel between the joints of the harness: wherefore he said unto the driver of his chariot, Turn thine hand, and carry me out of the host; for I am wounded.

And a certain man sent an arrow from his bow without thought of its direction, and gave the king of Israel a wound where his breastplate was joined to his clothing; so he said to the driver of his war-carriage, Go to one side and take me away out of the army, for I am badly wounded.


rate difficulty: For we do not wish you to be ignorant, brethren, of our tribulation that happened to us in Asia, that we were exceedingly burdened above <FI>our<Fi> power, so that we despaired even of life;

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