simplify: If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,

If a false witness makes a statement against a man, saying that he has done wrong,


simplify: The wings of the ostrich wave proudly; But are they the pinions and plumage of love?

Is the wing of the ostrich feeble, or is it because she has no feathers,


simplify: And Abraham took the wood of the burnt-offering, and laid it upon Isaac his son; and he took in his hand the fire and the knife; and they went both of them together.

And Abraham put the wood for the burned offering on his son's back, and he himself took the fire and the knife in his hand, and the two of them went on together.


simplify: And the flocks conceived before the rods, and the flocks brought forth ringstreaked, speckled, and spotted.

And because of this, the flock gave birth to young which were marked with bands of colour.


simplify: For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.


rate difficulty: And they do not say to their heart, <FI>That<Fi> all their evil I have remembered, Now compassed them have their doings, Over-against My face they have been.

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


rate difficulty: I will give in the wilderness the cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oleaster; I will set in the desert the cypress, pine, and box-tree together;

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


simplify: And in the fourteenth year came Chedorlaomer, and the kings that were with him, and smote the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,

And in the fourteenth year, Chedorlaomer and the kings who were on his side, overcame the Rephaim in Ashteroth-karnaim, and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-kiriathaim,


rate difficulty: You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:


simplify: Thus saith thy Lord Jehovah, and thy God that pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I have taken out of thy hand the cup of staggering, even the bowl of the cup of my wrath; thou shalt no more drink it again:

This is the word of the Lord your master, even your God who takes up the cause of his people: See, I have taken out of your hand the cup which overcomes, even the cup of my wrath; it will not again be given to you:


simplify: This Shelomoth and his brethren were over all the treasures of the dedicated things, which David the king, and the heads of the fathers’ houses, the captains over thousands and hundreds, and the captains of the host, had dedicated.

Shelomoth and his brothers were responsible for all the store of holy things which David the king and the heads of families, the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the captains of the army, had given to the Lord.


simplify: If they return to thee with all their heart and with all their soul in the land of their captivity, whither they have carried them captives, and pray toward their land, which thou gavest unto their fathers, and toward the city which thou hast chosen, and toward the house which I have built for thy name:

If with all their heart and soul they are turned again to you, in the land where they are prisoners, the land where they have been taken, and make their prayers, turning their eyes to their land which you gave to their fathers, and to the town which you took for yourself, and the house which I have made for your name:


rate difficulty: A scorner hath sought wisdom, and it is not, And knowledge to the intelligent <FI>is<Fi> easy.

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


simplify: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt; and the famine shall consume the land;

And after that will come seven years when there will not be enough food; and the memory of the good years will go from men's minds; and the land will be made waste by the bad years;


simplify: And the Hittites, and the Perizzites, and the Rephaims,

And the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Rephaim,


rate difficulty: Let them take the robes which the king generally puts on, and the horse on which the king goes, and the crown which is on his head:

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


simplify: Wherefore then gavest not thou my money into the bank, that at my coming I might have required mine own with usury?

Why then did you not put my money in a bank, so that when I came I would get it back with interest?


simplify: Bring forth therefore fruits meet for repentance:

Let your change of heart be seen in your works:


rate difficulty: And the seven priests with their seven horns went on before the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns: the armed men went before them, and the mass of the people went after the ark of the Lord, blowing their horns.

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


simplify: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, that ye stir not up, nor awake my love, until he please.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, do not let love be moved till it is ready.


simplify: Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we would see a sign from thee.

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees, hearing this, said to him, Master, we are looking for a sign from you.


simplify: And David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David.

Then David went to rest with his fathers, and his body was put into the earth in the town of David.


rate difficulty: Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried up, and our hope is lost; we are clean cut off.

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


simplify: at midday, O king, I saw on the way a light from heaven, above the brightness of the sun, shining round about me and them that journeyed with me.

In the middle of the day, on the road I saw a light from heaven, brighter than the sun, shining round me and those who were journeying with me.


rate difficulty: And Isaiah saith, `Take ye a cake of figs;' and they take and lay <FI>it<Fi> on the boil, and he reviveth.

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


rate difficulty: But I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive him into a land barren and desolate, with his face toward the east sea, and his hinder part toward the utmost sea, and his stink shall come up, and his ill savour shall come up, because he hath done great things.

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


simplify: Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnath, and came to the vineyards of Timnath: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.

Then Samson went down to Timnah (and his father and his mother,) and came to the vine-gardens of Timnah; and a young lion came rushing out at him.


rate difficulty: The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

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


rate difficulty: And when you saw that Nahash, the king of the Ammonites, was coming against you, you said to me, No more of this; we will have a king for our ruler: when the Lord your God was your king.

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


simplify: Thou shalt drink also water by measure, the sixth part of an hin: from time to time shalt thou drink.

And you are to take water by measure, the sixth part of a hin: you are to take it at regular times.


simplify: withal taking up the shield of faith, wherewith ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts of the evil one.

And most of all, using faith as a cover to keep off all the flaming arrows of the Evil One.


rate difficulty: Then the king of Israel said, Take ye Micaiah, and carry him back to Amon the governor of the city, and to Joash the king’s son;

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


simplify: And David said unto him, Thy blood be upon thy head; for thy mouth hath testified against thee, saying, I have slain the Lord’s anointed.

And David said to him, May your blood be on your head; for your mouth has given witness against you, saying, I have put to death the man marked with the holy oil.


simplify: And upon every high tower, and upon every fenced wall,

And on every high tower, and on every strong wall;


rate difficulty: But she said, Yea, Lord: for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from their masters’ table.

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


rate difficulty: The words of the wise are as goads, and the collections [of them] as nails fastened in: they are given from one shepherd.

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


simplify: And Gideon saw that he was the angel of Jehovah; and Gideon said, Alas, O Lord Jehovah! forasmuch as I have seen the angel of Jehovah face to face.

Then Gideon was certain that he was the angel of the Lord; and Gideon said, I am in fear, O Lord God! for I have seen the angel of the Lord face to face.


rate difficulty: And you, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, the least among the families of Judah, out of you one will come to me who is to be ruler in Israel; whose going out has been purposed from time past, from the eternal days.

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


simplify: and Enosh lived after he begat Kenan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begat sons and daughters:

And after the birth of Kenan, Enosh went on living for eight hundred and fifteen years, and had sons and daughters:


simplify: And having looked up, he saw those who did cast their gifts to the treasury--rich men,

Looking up, Jesus saw the rich people putting their gifts into the chests for the Temple offerings.


simplify: For I the Lord thy God will hold thy right hand, saying unto thee, Fear not; I will help thee.

For I, the Lord your God, have taken your right hand in mine, saying to you, Have no fear; I will be your helper.


simplify: If thou shalt hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep his commandments and his statutes which are written in this book of the law, and if thou turn unto the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul.

If you give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, keeping his orders and his laws which are recorded in this book of the law, and turning to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.


simplify: do not cease giving thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers,

have never omitted to thank God on your behalf, whenever I make mention of you in my prayers.


rate difficulty: And he shall pass through Judah; he shall overflow and go over, he shall reach even to the neck; and the stretching out of his wings shall fill the breadth of thy land, O Immanuel.


simplify: The grass withereth, the flower fadeth: because the spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: surely the people is grass.

The grass becomes dry, the flower is dead; because the breath of the Lord goes over it: truly the people is grass.


rate difficulty: Then Peter opened his mouth, and said, Of a truth I perceive that God is no respecter of persons:

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


rate difficulty: The watchman of Ephraim was with my God: but the prophet is a snare of a fowler in all his ways, and hatred in the house of his God.


simplify: And as Samuel turned about to go away, Saul laid hold upon the skirt of his robe, and it rent.

And when Samuel was turning round to go away, Saul took the skirt of his robe in his hand, and the cloth came away.


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


simplify: Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.

You, therefore, are no longer a slave, but a son; and, if a son, then an heir also, by God’s appointment.


simplify: And Joshua spake unto the house of Joseph, even to Ephraim and to Manasseh, saying, Thou art a great people, and hast great power: thou shalt not have one lot only:

Then Joshua said to the children of Joseph, to Ephraim and Manasseh, You are a great people, and have great power: you are not to have one property only,


simplify: So he went and did according unto the word of Jehovah; for he went and dwelt by the brook Cherith, that is before the Jordan.

So he went and did as the Lord said, living by the stream Cherith, east of Jordan.


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

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


simplify: Or do we provoke the Lord to jealousy? are we stronger than he?

Or may we be the cause of envy to the Lord? are we stronger than he?


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

And now, say if you will do what is good and right for my master or not, in order that it may be clear to me what I have to do.


rate difficulty: And the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but Abraham stood yet before the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: They which builded on the wall, and they that bare burdens, with those that laded, every one with one of his hands wrought in the work, and with the other hand held a weapon.

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


simplify: And he came into all the country about Jordan, preaching the baptism of repentance for the remission of sins;

And John went through the whole district of the Jordan, proclaiming baptism on repentance, for the forgiveness of sins.


rate difficulty: For I rejoiced greatly, when brethren came and bare witness unto thy truth, even as thou walkest in truth.

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


simplify: And this again ye do: ye cover the altar of Jehovah with tears, with weeping, and with sighing, insomuch that he regardeth not the offering any more, neither receiveth it with good will at your hand.

And this again you do: covering the altar of the Lord with weeping and with grief, so that he gives no more thought to the offering, and does not take it with pleasure from your hand.


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, prophesy, and smite thy hands together; for [the strokes of] the sword shall be doubled the third time: it is the sword of the slain, the sword that hath slain the great one, which encompasseth them privily.

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


simplify: He leadeth princes away spoiled, and overthroweth the mighty.

He makes priests prisoners, overturning those in safe positions;


simplify: Now will I rise, saith the Lord; now will I be exalted; now will I lift up myself.

Now will I come forward, says the Lord; now will I be lifted up; now will my power be seen.


rate difficulty: And he sent by the hand of Nathan the prophet; and he called his name Jedidiah, because of the Lord.

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


simplify: But if a man find a betrothed damsel in the field, and the man force her, and lie with her: then the man only that lay with her shall die:

But if the man, meeting such a virgin in the open country, takes her by force, then only the man is to be put to death;


simplify: Moreover, brethren, I declare unto you the gospel which I preached unto you, which also ye have received, and wherein ye stand;

Next, friends, I would like to remind you of the good news which I told you, and which you received — the good news on which you have taken your stand,


rate difficulty: God shutteth me up unto the perverse, And to the hands of the wicked turneth me over.

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


rate difficulty: And if the ear says, Because I am not the eye, I am not a part of the body; it is a part of the body all the same.


simplify: And the days in which we came from Kadesh-barnea, until we were come over the brook Zered, were thirty and eight years; until all the generation of the men of war were consumed from the midst of the camp, as Jehovah sware unto them.

Thirty-eight years had gone by from the time when we came away from Kadesh-barnea till we went over the stream Zered; by that time all the generation of the men of war among us were dead, as the Lord had said.


simplify: Even those that were numbered of them, throughout their families, by the house of their fathers, were two thousand and six hundred and thirty.

Who were numbered by families in the order of their fathers' houses, were two thousand, six hundred and thirty.


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


rate difficulty: But Herod the king, because John had made a protest on account of Herodias, his brother's wife, and other evil things which Herod had done,

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


rate difficulty: So David reigned over all Israel, and executed judgment and justice among all his people.

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


simplify: according to the custom of the priesthood, his lot was to make perfume, having gone into the sanctuary of the Lord,

it fell to him by lot, in accordance with the practice among the priests, to go into the Temple of the Lord and burn incense;


rate difficulty: But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.


rate difficulty: Wherefore it shall come to pass, that, when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stout heart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.

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


simplify: Then the disciples took him by night, and let him down by the wall in a basket.

But his disciples took him by night and let him down from the wall in a basket.


simplify: For the scripture saith, Thou shalt not muzzle the ox that treadeth out the corn. And, The labourer is worthy of his reward.

For the Writings say, It is not right to keep the ox from taking the grain when he is crushing it. And, The worker has a right to his reward.


rate difficulty: and built there an altar to Jehovah thy God, an altar of stones, thou dost not wave over them iron.

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


rate difficulty: behold, I do a new thing; now it shall spring forth: shall ye not know it? I will even make a way in the wilderness, rivers in the waste.

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


simplify: The hoary head is a crown of glory, if it be found in the way of righteousness.

The grey head is a crown of glory, if it is seen in the way of righteousness.


simplify: Then Jacob rose up, and set his sons and his wives upon camels;

Then Jacob put his wives and his sons on camels;


rate difficulty: Love's ways are ever fair, it takes no thought for itself; it is not quickly made angry, it takes no account of evil;

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


simplify: even so ye also, when ye see all these things, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors.

Even so, when you see all these things, you may be certain that he is near, even at the doors.


simplify: The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap.

The word about Damascus. See, they have made Damascus a town no longer; it has become a waste place.


simplify: O ye simple, understand prudence; And, ye fools, be of an understanding heart.

Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.


rate difficulty: `Before I form thee in the belly, I have known thee; and before thou comest forth from the womb I have separated thee, a prophet to nations I have made thee.'

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


simplify: Therefore I said unto the children of Israel, No soul of you shall eat blood, neither shall any stranger that sojourneth among you eat blood.

For this reason I have said to the children of Israel, No man among you, or any others living with you, may take blood as food.


simplify: And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,

And he will say, Where are their gods, the rock in which they put their faith?


simplify: And they put him in ward in chains, and brought him to the king of Babylon: they brought him into holds, that his voice should no more be heard upon the mountains of Israel.

They made him a prisoner with hooks, and took him to the king of Babylon; they put him in the strong place so that his voice might be sounding no longer on the mountains of Israel.


simplify: And I was still unknown by face unto the churches of Judæa which were in Christ:

And the churches of Judaea which were in Christ still had no knowledge of my face or person:


simplify: And at Anathoth, Nob, Ananiah,


rate difficulty: But as in those days he who had birth after the flesh was cruel to him who had birth after the Spirit, even so it is now.

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


simplify: Defraud ye not one the other, except it be by consent for a season, that ye may give yourselves unto prayer, and may be together again, that Satan tempt you not because of your incontinency.

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


simplify: And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness.

For about forty years ‘he bore with them in the desert’;


simplify: Now it was not written for his sake alone, that it was reckoned unto him;

Now, it was not because of him only that this was said,


rate difficulty: An end is come, the end is come: it watcheth for thee; behold, it is come.

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


simplify: Seest thou not what they do in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?

Do you not see what they are doing in the towns of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?


simplify: And then shall be revealed the lawless one, whom the Lord Jesus shall slay with the breath of his mouth, and bring to nought by the manifestation of his coming;

And then will come the revelation of that evil one, whom the Lord Jesus will put to death with the breath of his mouth, and give to destruction by the revelation of his coming;


simplify: And having this confidence, I know that I shall abide and continue with you all for your furtherance and joy of faith;

And being certain of this, I am conscious that I will go on, yes, and go on with you all, for your growth and joy in the faith;


simplify: Now my days are swifter than a post: they flee away, they see no good.

My days go quicker than a post-runner: they go in flight, they see no good.


simplify: Who long for death, but it cometh not, And dig for it more than for hid treasures;

To those whose desire is for death, but it comes not; who are searching for it more than for secret wealth;


rate difficulty: So seating themselves they had food and drink, the two of them together; and the girl's father said to the man, If it is your pleasure, take your rest here tonight, and let your heart be glad.

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


simplify: But the hand of Jehovah was heavy upon them of Ashdod, and he destroyed them, and smote them with tumors, even Ashdod and the borders thereof.

But the hand of the Lord was hard on the people of Ashdod and he sent disease on them through all the country of Ashdod.


rate difficulty: And the city was besieged until the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.

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


simplify: And they answering said, `John the Baptist; and others, Elijah; and others, that a prophet, one of the ancients, was risen;'

“John the Baptist,” was their answer; “others, however, say that you are Elijah, while others say that one of the old prophets has risen again.”


rate difficulty: and their border went up westward, even to Maralah, and reached to Dabbesheth; and it reached to the brook that is before Jokneam;

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


simplify: When Christ, who is our life, shall appear, then shall ye also appear with him in glory.

At the coming of Christ who is our life, you will be seen with him in glory.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answering said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon Bar-jona, for flesh and blood has not revealed [it] to thee, but my Father who is in the heavens.

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


rate difficulty: Or he that exhorteth, on exhortation: he that giveth, let him do it with simplicity; he that ruleth, with diligence; he that sheweth mercy, with cheerfulness.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the matters of Zechariah, lo, they are written on the book of the Chronicles of the kings of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king’s high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah’s brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.

But on the third day after, before the wounds were well, two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brothers, took their swords and came into the town by surprise and put all the males to death.


simplify: If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the Lord hath not sent me.

If these men have the common death of men, or if the natural fate of all men overtakes them, then the Lord has not sent me.


simplify: And Stephen, full of faith and power, did great wonders and miracles among the people.

Meanwhile Stephen, divinely helped and strengthened, was showing great wonders and signs among the people.


rate difficulty: According as we hearkened unto Moses in all things, so will we hearken unto thee: only Jehovah thy God be with thee, as he was with Moses.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For the children of Israel walked forty years in the wilderness, till all the nation, even the men of war that came forth out of Egypt, were consumed, because they hearkened not unto the voice of Jehovah: unto whom Jehovah sware that he would not let them see the land which Jehovah sware unto their fathers that he would give us, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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


simplify: and the base things of the world, and the things despised did God choose, and the things that are not, that the things that are He may make useless--

and God chose what the world counts poor and insignificant — things that to it are unreal — to bring its ‘realities’ to nothing,


rate difficulty: And Abimelech said, What is this thou hast done unto us? one of the people might easily have lain with thy wife, and thou wouldest have brought guiltiness upon us.

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


rate difficulty: And Balak offered oxen and small cattle, and sent to Balaam and to the princes that were with him.

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


rate difficulty: To Babylon they are brought, and there they are till the day of My inspecting them--an affirmation of Jehovah; then I have brought them up, and have brought them back unto this place.'

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when Joram saw Jehu, that he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he answered, What peace, so long as the whoredoms of thy mother Jezebel and her witchcrafts are so many?

Now when Joram saw Jehu he said, Is it peace, Jehu? And he said in answer, What peace is possible while all the land is full of the disgusting sins of your mother Jezebel, and her secret arts?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Jehu, Because thou hast executed well that which is right in my sight, [and] hast done unto the house of Ahab according to all that was in my heart, thy children of the fourth [generation] shall sit on the throne of Israel.

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


simplify: Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell, these forty years.

Through all these forty years your clothing did not get old or your feet become tired.


simplify: But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:

Revere the Christ as Lord in your hearts; always ready to give an answer to anyone who asks your reason for the hope that you cherish, but giving it with courtesy and respect,


simplify: Then will I pluck them up by the roots out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have sanctified for my name, will I cast out of my sight, and will make it to be a proverb and a byword among all nations.

Then I will have this people uprooted out of my land which I have given them; and this house, which I have made holy for my name, I will put away from before my eyes, and make it an example and a word of shame among all peoples.


simplify: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:

For he chose us in our union with Christ before the creation of the universe, so that we might be holy and blameless in his sight, living in the spirit of love.


simplify: And Saul commanded his servants, saying, Commune with David secretly, and say, Behold, the king hath delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king’s son-in-law.

And Saul gave his servants orders saying, Have talk with David secretly and say to him, See how the king has delight in you, and how you are loved by all his servants: then be the king's son-in-law.


rate difficulty: and bread from the heavens Thou hast given to them for their hunger, and water from a rock hast brought out to them for their thirst, and dost say to them to go in to possess the land that Thou hast lifted up Thy hand to give to them.

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


simplify: If I whet my glittering sword, and mine hand take hold on judgment; I will render vengeance to mine enemies, and will reward them that hate me.

If I make sharp my shining sword, and my hand is outstretched for judging, I will give punishment to those who are against me, and their right reward to my haters.


simplify: Speak unto the house of Israel, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I will profane my sanctuary, the excellency of your strength, the desire of your eyes, and that which your soul pitieth; and your sons and your daughters whom ye have left 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: because that which is known of God is manifest in them; for God manifested it unto them.

Because the knowledge of God may be seen in them, God having made it clear to them.


rate difficulty: And those that encamp next unto him shall be the tribe of Asher: and the prince of the children of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ochran.

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


simplify: The staves shall be in the rings of the ark: they shall not be taken from it.

The rods are to be kept in the rings, and never taken out.


simplify: Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

Give praise without end for you, keeping you in mind in my prayers;


simplify: Hear, oh, hear the noise of his voice, And the sound that goeth out of his mouth.

Give ear to the rolling noise of his voice; to the hollow sound which goes out of his mouth.


rate difficulty: And the Pharisees came near to him, tempting him, and saying to him, `Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife for every cause?'

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


simplify: And it came to pass through the lightness of her whoredom, that she defiled the land, and committed adultery with stones and with stocks.

So that through all her loose behaviour the land became unclean, and she was untrue, giving herself to stones and trees.


simplify: They have seen vanity and lying divination, saying, The Lord saith: and the Lord hath not sent them: and they have made others to hope that they would confirm the word.

They have seen visions without substance and made use of secret arts, who say, The Lord has said; and the Lord has not sent them: hoping that the word would have effect.


rate difficulty: and they go not in to see when the holy thing is swallowed, that they have died.'

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


rate difficulty: For this cause I will make my name clear to my people; in that day they will be certain that it is my word which comes to them; see, here am I.

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


rate difficulty: and the sixth, Ithream, of Eglah David's wife. These were born to David in Hebron.

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


rate difficulty: And at the sounding of the fifth angel I saw a star falling from heaven to the earth: and there was given to him the key of the great deep.


simplify: And Joshua returned, and all Israel with him, to Debir, and fought against it:

And Joshua and all Israel with him went on to make an attack on Debir;


simplify: Then Absalom sent for Joab, to send him to the king; but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.

Then Absalom sent for Joab to send him to the king, but he would not come to him: and he sent again a second time, but he would not come.


rate difficulty: He lieth under the shady trees, in the covert of the reed, and fens.

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


simplify: so that he who is thinking to stand--let him observe, lest he fall.

Therefore let the person who thinks that they stand take care that they do not fall.


simplify: And Ibzan died, and was buried at Beth-lehem.

And Ibzan came to his death and his body was put to rest at Beth-lehem.


rate difficulty: Go up against the land of Merathaim, even against it, and against the inhabitants of Pekod: waste and utterly destroy after them, saith the Lord, and do according to all that I have commanded thee.

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


rate difficulty: The island's people showed us marked kindness, for they lit a fire and took us all under shelter, because it had come on to rain and was cold.

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


simplify: In that day shall he swear, saying, I will not be an healer; for in my house is neither bread nor clothing: make me not a ruler of the people.

Then he will say with an oath, I will not be a helper, for in my house there is no bread or clothing: I will not let you make me a ruler of the people.


rate difficulty: Destruction and death have said: `With our ears we have heard its fame.'


simplify: so that also those suffering according to the will of god, as to a stedfast Creator, let them commit their own souls in good doing.

Therefore, I say, let those who suffer, because God wills it so, commit their lives into the hands of a faithful Creator, and persevere in doing right.


rate difficulty: And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:

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


rate difficulty: There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

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


simplify: Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

I mean this: that every one of you says either ‘I follow Paul,’ or ‘I Apollos,’ or ‘I Cephas,’ or ‘I Christ.’


rate difficulty: For thus said the Lord unto me: `Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

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


rate difficulty: And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water.

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


simplify: Save that the Holy Ghost witnesseth in every city, saying that bonds and afflictions abide me.

Only that the Holy Spirit makes clear to me in every town that prison and pains are waiting for me.


simplify: So shall ye know that I am Jehovah your God, dwelling in Zion my holy mountain: then shall Jerusalem be holy, and there shall no strangers pass through her any more.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord your God, living in Zion, my holy mountain: and Jerusalem will be holy, and no strange person will ever again go through her.


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

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


rate difficulty: Or those eighteen, upon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slew them, think ye that they were sinners above all men that dwelt in Jerusalem?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


simplify: for I say to you that I may not drink of the produce of the vine till the reign of God may come.'

“Take this and share it among you. For I tell you that I will not, after today, drink of the juice of the grape, until the kingdom of God has come.”


rate difficulty: And Ananias went out and came to the house, and putting his hands on him, said, Brother Saul, the Lord Jesus, whom you saw when you were on your journey, has sent me, so that you may be able to see, and be full of the Holy Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: And shall cause their voice to be heard against thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads, they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

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


simplify: The full soul loatheth an honeycomb; but to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

The full man has no use for honey, but to the man in need of food every bitter thing is sweet.


simplify: But if he be poorer than thy estimation, then he shall present himself before the priest, and the priest shall value him; according to his ability that vowed shall the priest value him.

But if he is poorer than the value which you have put on him, then let him be taken to the priest, and the priest will put a value on him, such as it is possible for him to give.


simplify: so that whoever may eat this bread or may drink the cup of the Lord unworthily, guilty he shall be of the body and blood of the Lord:

Therefore, whoever eats the bread, or drinks the Lord’s cup, in an irreverent spirit, will have to answer for an offense against the Lord’s body and blood.


simplify: And certain of the Sadducees, who are denying that there is a rising again, having come near, questioned him,

Presently there came up some Sadducees, who maintain that there is no resurrection. Their question was this —


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Menahem, and all he did, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


rate difficulty: And lo, a great wind hath come from over the wilderness, and striketh against the four corners of the house, and it falleth on the young men, and they are dead, and I am escaped--only I alone--to declare <FI>it<Fi> to thee.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


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

Then it was that these words spoken by the prophet Jeremiah were fulfilled — ‘They took the thirty pieces of silver, the price of him who was valued, whom some of the people of Israel valued,


rate difficulty: But ye, brethren, be not weary in well-doing.

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


simplify: And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads,

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


rate difficulty: And Peter said unto him, Aeneas, Jesus Christ healeth thee: arise, and make thy bed. And straightway he arose.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: But if the priest shall come in and look, and behold, the plague hath not spread in the house, after the house hath been plastered, the priest shall pronounce the house clean; for the plague is healed.

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


simplify: But the Lord is the true God, he is the living God, and an everlasting king: at his wrath the earth shall tremble, and the nations shall not be able to abide his indignation.

But the Lord is the true God; he is the living God and an eternal king: when he is angry, the earth is shaking with fear, and the nations give way before his wrath.


simplify: I said, In the noontide of my days I shall go into the gates of Sheol: I am deprived of the residue of my years.

I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.


rate difficulty: But Joshua had said unto the two men that had spied out the country, Go into the harlot’s house, and bring out thence the woman, and all that she hath, as ye sware unto her.

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


simplify: In whom we have boldness and access with confidence by the faith of him.

And in union with him, and through our trust in him, we find courage to approach God with confidence.


simplify: And as they were afraid, and bowed down their faces to the earth, they said unto them, Why seek ye the living among the dead?

But, when in their fear the women bowed their faces to the ground, the men said to them: “Why are you looking among the dead for him who is living?


rate difficulty: Then Joab arose, and came to Absalom unto his house, and said unto him, Wherefore have thy servants set my field on fire?

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


simplify: It may be they will present their supplication before the Lord, and will return every one from his evil way: for great is the anger and the fury that the Lord hath pronounced against this people.

It may be that their prayer for grace will go up to the Lord, and that every man will be turned from his evil ways: for great is the wrath and the passion made clear by the Lord against this people.


simplify: And again he sent unto them another servant; and at him they cast stones, and wounded him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.

A second time the owner sent a servant to them; this man, too, the tenants struck on the head, and insulted.


simplify: For the promise is unto you, and to your children, and to all that are afar off, even as many as the Lord our God shall call.

For the word of God is for you and for your children and for all those who are far off, even all those who may be marked out by the Lord our God.


simplify: And the tribe of Naphtali: and the prince of the children of Naphtali shall be Ahira the son of Enan.

Then the tribe of Naphtali, with Ahira, the son of Enan, as their chief.


rate difficulty: And the glory of Jehovah came into the house by the way of the gate whose prospect is toward the east.

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


simplify: and he cometh to the house of the chief of the synagogue, and seeth a tumult, much weeping and wailing;

Presently they reached the leader’s house, where Jesus saw a scene of confusion — people weeping and wailing incessantly.


simplify: and the fourth row, a beryl, an onyx, and a jasper: they were inclosed in inclosings of gold in their settings.

In the fourth, a topaz, a beryl, and a jasper; they were fixed in twisted frames of gold.


rate difficulty: I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

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


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

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


simplify: And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, and herds, and tents.

And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;


simplify: For I know nothing by myself; yet am I not hereby justified: but he that judgeth me is the Lord.

for, though I am conscious of nothing against myself, that does not prove me innocent. It is the Lord who is my judge.


simplify: And he that overcometh, and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give power over the nations:

To those who conquer and are careful to live my life to the end — to them I will give authority over the nations,


simplify: Should a wise man utter vain knowledge, and fill his belly with the east wind?

Will a wise man make answer with knowledge of no value, or will he give birth to the east wind?


rate difficulty: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

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


rate difficulty: using hospitality one to another without murmuring:

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather unto me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom thou knowest to be the elders of the people, and officers over them; and bring them unto the tent of meeting, that they may stand there with thee.

And the Lord said to Moses, Send for seventy of the responsible men of Israel, who are in your opinion men of weight and authority over the people; make them come to the Tent of meeting and be there with you.


simplify: And they, continuing daily with one accord in the temple, and breaking bread from house to house, did eat their meat with gladness and singleness of heart,

Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the breaking of bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the goodwill of all the people.


rate difficulty: To those who conquer and are careful to live my life to the end — to them I will give authority over the nations,

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


simplify: While they were yet talking with him, came the king’s chamberlains, and hasted to bring Haman unto the banquet that Esther had prepared.

While they were still talking, the king's servants came to take Haman to the feast which Esther had made ready.


simplify: and they having heard, were glorifying the Lord. They said also to him, `Thou seest, brother, how many myriads there are of Jews who have believed, and all are zealous of the law,

and, when they had heard it, they began praising God, and said to Paul:  “You see, brother, that those of our people who have become believers in Christ may be numbered by tens of thousands, and they are all naturally earnest in upholding the Jewish law.


rate difficulty: Then the earth was moved with a violent shock; the bases of heaven were moved and shaking, because he was angry.

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


simplify: and the earth opened its mouth, and swallowed them up, and their households, and all the men that appertained unto Korah, and all their goods.

And the earth, opening her mouth, took them in, with their families, and all the men who were joined to Korah, and their goods.


rate difficulty: for the one and twentieth to Hothir, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his people made no burning for him, like the burning of his fathers.

And time went on, and after two years, his inside falling out because of the disease, he came to his death in cruel pain. And his people made no burning for him like the burning made for his fathers.


simplify: and they shall kill him, and the third day he shall rise,' and they were exceeding sorry.

and they will put him to death, but on the third day he will rise.” The disciples were greatly distressed.


rate difficulty: who say, Let him hasten, let him speed his work, that we may see [it]; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

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


simplify: Then they took the king, and carried him up unto the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath; and he gave judgment upon him.

Then they made the king a prisoner and took him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah in the land of Hamath to be judged.


simplify: So he made two doors of olive-wood; and he carved upon them carvings of cherubim and palm-trees and open flowers, and overlaid them with gold; and he spread the gold upon the cherubim, and upon the palm-trees.

On the olive-wood doors were cut designs of winged ones and palm-trees and open flowers, all of them, with the doors, plated with gold.


simplify: And behold, six men came from the way of the upper gate, which lieth toward the north, every man with his slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man in the midst of them clothed in linen, with a writer’s inkhorn by his side. And they went in, and stood beside the brazen altar.

And six men came from the way of the higher doorway looking to the north, every man with his axe in his hand: and one man among them was clothed in linen, with a writer's inkpot at his side. And they went in and took their places by the brass altar.


simplify: And of the Levites: Shemaiah the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;

And of the Levites: Shemaiah, the son of Hasshub, the son of Azrikam, the son of Hashabiah, of the sons of Merari;


simplify: And they laid hands on them, and put them in hold unto the next day: for it was now eventide.

And they took them and put them in prison till the morning, for it was now evening.


rate difficulty: And he shall bring them on the eighth day of his cleansing unto the priest, unto the entrance of the tent of meeting, before Jehovah.

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


simplify: My father made me swear, saying, Lo, I die: in my grave which I have digged for me in the land of Canaan, there shalt thou bury me. Now therefore let me go up, I pray thee, and bury my father, and I will come again.

My father made me take an oath, saying, When I am dead, put me to rest in the place I have made ready for myself in the land of Canaan. So now let me go and put my father in his last resting-place, and I will come back again.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Write thou these words: for after the tenor of these words I have made a covenant with thee and with Israel.

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


rate difficulty: Gad — troops will rush upon him; But he will rush upon the heel.

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


simplify: Whether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the glory of God.

So then, if it is a question of food or drink, or any other thing, whatever you do, do all to the glory of God.


simplify: And he hewed two tables of stone like unto the first; and Moses rose up early in the morning, and went up unto mount Sinai, as Jehovah had commanded him, and took in his hand two tables of stone.

So Moses got two stones cut like the first; and early in the morning he went up Mount Sinai, as the Lord had said, with the two stones in his hand.


simplify: And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

So the brothers sent Paul straight away to the sea: but Silas and Timothy kept there still.


rate difficulty: And he spoke of the trees, from the cedar-tree that is on Lebanon even to the hyssop that springs out of the wall; he spoke also of cattle, and of fowls, and of creeping things, and of fishes.

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


rate difficulty: Every valley shall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crooked shall be made straight, and the rough places plain:

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


rate difficulty: And what great nation has laws and decisions so right as all this law which I put before you today?

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


simplify: Especially because I know thee to be expert in all customs and questions which are among the Jews: wherefore I beseech thee to hear me patiently.

The more so, because you are expert in all questions to do with the Jews and their ways: so I make my request to you to give me a hearing to the end.


rate difficulty: lo, I am putting away the posterity of Baasha, even the posterity of his house, and have given up thy house as the house of Jeroboam son of Nebat;

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: After many days thou shalt be visited: in the latter years thou shalt come into the land that is brought back from the sword, that is gathered out of many peoples, upon the mountains of Israel, which have been a continual waste; but it is brought forth out of the peoples, and they shall dwell securely, all of them.

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


simplify: Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful.

Be full of pity, even as your Father is full of pity.


simplify: Then said Micah, Now know I that the Lord will do me good, seeing I have a Levite to my priest.

Then Micah said, Now I am certain that the Lord will do me good, seeing that the Levite has become my priest.


simplify: Is it not that I have no help in me, And that wisdom is driven quite from me?

I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.


rate difficulty: and the South, and the Plain of the valley of Jericho the city of palm-trees, unto Zoar.

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


rate difficulty: Everything devoted in Israel shall be thine.

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


rate difficulty: and Jehovah delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel; and he took it on the second day, and smote it with the edge of the sword, and all the souls that were therein, according to all that he had done to Libnah.

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


rate difficulty: And the famine has been over all the face of the land, and Joseph openeth all <FI>places<Fi> which have <FI>corn<Fi> in them, and selleth to the Egyptians; and the famine is severe in the land of Egypt,

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


rate difficulty: and My people on whom My name is called be humbled, and pray, and seek My face, and turn back from their evil ways, then I--I hear from the heavens, and forgive their sin, and heal their land.

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


simplify: The children of Adin, six hundred fifty and five.

The children of Adin, six hundred and fifty-five.


rate difficulty: Who art thou, O great mountain? before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain: and he shall bring forth the headstone thereof with shoutings, crying, Grace, grace unto it.

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


simplify: and the Horites in their mount Seir, unto El-paran, which is by the wilderness.

And the Horites in their mountain Seir, driving them as far as El-paran, which is near the waste land.


rate difficulty: Then Abijam went to rest with his fathers, and they put him into the earth in the town of David: and Asa his son became king in his place.


simplify: Hear, O my son, and receive my sayings; and the years of thy life shall be many.

Give ear, O my son, and let your heart be open to my sayings; and long life will be yours.


rate difficulty: How much more, if haply the people had eaten freely to day of the spoil of their enemies which they found? for had there not been now a much greater slaughter among the Philistines?

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


simplify: When thou goest forth in camp against thine enemies, then thou shalt keep thee from every evil thing.

When you go out to war and put your tents in position, keep from every evil thing.


simplify: If we this day be examined of the good deed done to the impotent man, by what means he is made whole;

If we are questioned today about a good work done to a man who was ill, as to how he has been made well,


simplify: They grope in the dark without light, and he maketh them to stagger like a drunken man.

They go feeling about in the dark without light, wandering without help like those overcome with wine.


simplify: For there are some eunuchs, which were so born from their mother’s womb: and there are some eunuchs, which were made eunuchs of men: and there be eunuchs, which have made themselves eunuchs for the kingdom of heaven’s sake. He that is able to receive it, let him receive it.

Some men, it is true, have from birth been disabled for marriage, while others have been disabled by their fellow men, and others again have disabled themselves for the sake of the kingdom of heaven. Let him accept it who can.”


rate difficulty: I will lay waste mountains and hills, and dry up all their herbs; and I will make the rivers islands, and I will dry up the pools.

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


rate difficulty: I have confidence as to you in [the] Lord, that ye will have no other mind; and he that is troubling you shall bear the guilt [of it], whosoever he may be.

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


simplify: Six days shall work be done, but on the seventh day is a sabbath of solemn rest, holy to Jehovah: whosoever doeth any work on the sabbath day, he shall surely be put to death.

Six days may work be done, but the seventh day is a Sabbath of complete rest, holy to the Lord; whoever does any work on the Sabbath day is to be put to death.


rate difficulty: For the poor shall never cease out of the land: therefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt open thine hand wide unto thy brother, to thy poor, and to thy needy, in thy land.

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


rate difficulty: But concerning the things of which ye have written [to me]: [It is] good for a man not to touch a woman;

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


simplify: But the lad knew not any thing: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

But the boy had no idea what was going on; only Jonathan and David had knowledge of it.


simplify: The Son of man goeth, even as it is written of him: but woe unto that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had not been born.

The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.


rate difficulty: And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,

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


simplify: And they said unto him, Hold thy peace, lay thy hand upon thy mouth, and go with us, and be to us a father and a priest: is it better for thee to be priest unto the house of one man, or to be priest unto a tribe and a family in Israel?

And they said to him, Be quiet; say nothing, and come with us and be our father and priest; is it better for you to be priest to one man's house or to be priest to a tribe and a family in Israel?


rate difficulty: I have long time holden my peace; I have been still, and refrained myself: now will I cry out like a travailing woman; I will gasp and pant together.

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


simplify: And Joshua said unto the children of Israel, How long are ye slack to go in to possess the land, which Jehovah, the God of your fathers, hath given you?

Then Joshua said to the children of Israel, Why are you so slow to go in and take up your heritage in the land which the Lord, the God of your fathers, has given you?


rate difficulty: Stretching out his hand, Jesus touched him, saying as he did so: “I am willing; become clean.” Instantly he was made clean from his leprosy;


rate difficulty: And he gathered together the priests and the Levites, and said to them, Go out unto the cities of Judah, and gather of all Israel money to repair the house of your God from year to year; and see that ye hasten the matter. Howbeit the Levites hastened it not.

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


rate difficulty: For I have caused my terror in the land of the living: and he shall be laid in the midst of the uncircumcised with them that are slain with the sword, even Pharaoh and all his multitude, saith the Lord God.

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


rate difficulty: Brethren, sons of Abraham's race, and those who among you fearGod, to you has the word of this salvation been sent:

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


simplify: For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.


simplify: And he killed it; and Moses sprinkled the blood upon the altar round about.

And he put it to death; and Moses put some of the blood on and round the altar.


simplify: for even when we were with you, we said to you beforehand, that we are about to suffer tribulation, as also it did come to pass, and ye have known <FI>it<Fi> ;

For, even while we were with you, we warned you beforehand that we were certain to encounter trouble. And so it proved, as you know.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Levi; Gershon, Kohath, and Merari.

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


rate difficulty: Christ did redeem us from the curse of the law, having become for us a curse, for it hath been written, `Cursed is every one who is hanging on a tree,'

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


simplify: Of whom I have no certain thing to write unto my lord. Wherefore I have brought him forth before you, and specially before thee, king Agrippa, that, after examination had, I may have somewhat to write.

But I have no certain account of him to send to Caesar. So I have sent for him to come before you, and specially before you, King Agrippa, so that after the business has been gone into, I may have something to put in writing.


simplify: And they dwelt in Gilead in Bashan, and in her towns, and in all the suburbs of Sharon, upon their borders.

And they were living in Gilead in Bashan, in its small towns and in all the grass-land of Sirion as far as its limits.


simplify: And the rest of the acts of Zachariah, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Zechariah are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


simplify: But Jesus yet answered nothing; so that Pilate marvelled.

But Jesus gave no more answers, so that Pilate was full of wonder.


simplify: It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.

It is better to take note of the protest of the wise, than for a man to give ear to the song of the foolish.


simplify: And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

And they will put them out before the sun and the moon and all the stars of heaven, whose lovers and servants they have been, after whom they have gone, to whom they have made prayers, and to whom they have given worship: they will not be put together or placed in the earth; they will be waste on the face of the earth.


simplify: the Son of Man shall send forth his messengers, and they shall gather up out of his kingdom all the stumbling-blocks, and those doing the unlawlessness,

The Son of Man will send his angels, and they will gather from his kingdom all that hinders and those who live in sin,


simplify: As God liveth, who hath taken away my right, And the Almighty, who hath vexed my soul

By the life of God, who has taken away my right; and of the Ruler of all, who has made my soul bitter;


rate difficulty: and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;

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


simplify: And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the Lord hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.


rate difficulty: for you have brought these men here, though they are neither robbers of Temples nor blasphemers of our Goddess.

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


simplify: Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

As for yourself — keep this faith of yours to yourself, as in the presence of God. Happy the person who never has to condemn themselves in regard to something they think right!


simplify: Then take the box of oil, and pour it on his head, and say, Thus saith the Lord, I have anointed thee king over Israel. Then open the door, and flee, and tarry not.

Then take the bottle and put the oil on his head, and say, The Lord says, I have put the holy oil on you to make you king over Israel. Then, opening the door, go in flight, without waiting.


rate difficulty: And I will dash them one against another, both the fathers and the sons together, saith Jehovah; I will not pity, nor spare, nor have mercy so as not to destroy them.

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


simplify: And immediately the damsel arose, and was walking, for she was twelve years <FI>old<Fi> ; and they were amazed with a great amazement,

The little girl stood up at once, and began to walk about; for she was twelve years old. And, as soon as they saw it, they were overwhelmed with amazement;


rate difficulty: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

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


simplify: And it may be that I will abide, yea, and winter with you, that ye may bring me on my journey whithersoever I go.

And I will probably make some stay with you or, perhaps, remain for the winter, so that you may yourselves send me on my way, wherever I may be going.


simplify: And he made the court: on the south side southward the hangings of the court were of fine twined linen, an hundred cubits:

To make the open space, he put hangings on the south side, of the best linen, a hundred cubits long:


simplify: And he said unto me, These sayings are faithful and true: and the Lord God of the holy prophets sent his angel to shew unto his servants the things which must shortly be done.

And he said to me, These words are certain and true: and the Lord, the God of the spirits of the prophets, sent his angel to make clear to his servants the things which are now to come about.


simplify: But in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some to honour, and some to dishonour.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.


rate difficulty: And he has upon his garment, and upon his thigh, a name written, King of kings, and Lord of lords.

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


simplify: Go not up, for the Lord is not among you; that ye be not smitten before your enemies.

Go not up, for the Lord is not with you, and you will be overcome by those who are fighting against you.


simplify: and he was giving heed to them, looking to receive something from them;

The man was all attention, expecting to get something from them;


rate difficulty: And Shemaiah son of Nethaneel the scribe, of the Levites, writeth them before the king and the princes, and Zadok the priest, and Ahimelech son of Abiathar, and heads of the fathers, for priests and for Levites: one house of a father being taken possession of for Eleazar, and one being taken possession of for Ithamar.

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


simplify: And on the morrow that is after the preparation, were gathered together the chief priests, and the Pharisees, unto Pilate,

The next day — that is, the day following the Preparation-day — the chief priests and Pharisees came in a body to Pilate, and said:


simplify: And these signs shall follow them that believe; In my name shall they cast out devils; they shall speak with new tongues;

And these signs will be with those who have faith: in my name they will send out evil spirits; and they will make use of new languages;


simplify: and ran round about that whole region, and began to carry about on their beds those that were sick, where they heard he was.

And went running through all the country round about, and took on their beds those who were ill, to where it was said that he was.


rate difficulty: And I see, and rise up, and say unto the freemen, and unto the prefects, and unto the rest of the people, `Be not afraid of them; the Lord, the great and the fearful, remember ye, and fight for your brethren, your sons, and your daughters, your wives, and your houses.'

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


simplify: And Hiram came out from Tyre to see the cities which Solomon had given him; and they pleased him not.

But when Hiram came from Tyre to see the towns which Solomon had given him, he was not pleased with them.


simplify: And these are the sons of Reuel Esau’s son; duke Nahath, duke Zerah, duke Shammah, duke Mizzah: these are the dukes that came of Reuel in the land of Edom; these are the sons of Bashemath Esau’s wife.

And these are the sons of Esau's son Reuel: Nahath, Zerah, Shammah, Mizzah: these were the chiefs of Reuel in the land of Edom, the children of Esau's wife Basemath.


simplify: And if by these things ye will not be reformed unto me, but will walk contrary unto me;

And if by these things you will not be turned to me, but still go against me;


rate difficulty: For through the voice of the Lord the Assyrian will be broken, and the Lord's rod will be lifted up against him.

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


simplify: And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite of Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother’s name was Zeruah, a widow, he also lifted up his hand against the king.

And there was Jeroboam, the son of Nebat, an Ephraimite from Zeredah, a servant of Solomon, whose mother was Zeruah, a widow; and his hand was lifted up against the king.


rate difficulty: and for a sacrifice of peace-offering, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five yearling lambs. This was the offering of Pagiel the son of Ocran.

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


simplify: And the arches thereof were toward the utter court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof: and the going up to it had eight steps.

The covered way was on the side nearest the outer square; and there were palm-trees on the uprights: and there were eight steps going up to it.


rate difficulty: You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

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


rate difficulty: and the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses of the kings of Judah, have been--as the place of Tophet--defiled, even all the houses on whose roofs they have made perfume to all the host of the heavens, so as to pour out oblations to other gods.'

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


rate difficulty: Lo, I am sending My messenger, And he hath prepared a way before Me, And suddenly come in unto his temple Doth the Lord whom ye are seeking, Even the messenger of the covenant, Whom ye are desiring, Lo, he is coming, said Jehovah of Hosts.

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


simplify: And when David enquired of the Lord, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.

And when David went for directions to the Lord, he said, You are not to go up against them in front; but make a circle round them from the back and come on them opposite the spice-trees.


rate difficulty: And when Elisha came into the house, behold, the child was dead, [and] laid upon his bed.

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


simplify: But the end of all things is at hand: be ye therefore of sound mind, and be sober unto prayer:

But the end of all things is near: so be serious in your behaviour and keep on the watch with prayer;


rate difficulty: The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging <FI>himself<Fi> in his wrong.


simplify: Go to now, ye that say, To day or to morrow we will go into such a city, and continue there a year, and buy and sell, and get gain:

Listen to me, you who say ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, spend a year there, and trade, and make money,’


rate difficulty: have all gifts of healings? do all speak with tongues? do all interpret?


rate difficulty: From there he went to Mount Carmel, and came back from there to Samaria.


rate difficulty: and have kept alive my father, and my mother, and my brothers, and my sisters, and all that they have, and have delivered our souls from death.'

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


simplify: The spirit of man is the candle of the Lord, searching all the inward parts of the belly.

The Lord keeps watch over the spirit of man, searching all the deepest parts of the body.


simplify: And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from serving us?

And word came to Pharaoh of the flight of the people: and the feeling of Pharaoh and of his servants about the people was changed, and they said, Why have we let Israel go, so that they will do no more work for us?


simplify: And Babylon shall become heaps, a dwelling-place for jackals, an astonishment, and a hissing, without inhabitant.

And Babylon will become a mass of broken walls, a hole for jackals, a cause of wonder and surprise, without a living man in it.


rate difficulty: Then spake the woman whose the living child was unto the king, for her heart yearned over her son, and she said, Oh, my lord, give her the living child, and in no wise slay it. But the other said, It shall be neither mine nor thine; divide it.

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


simplify: And the messenger answering said to the women, `Fear not ye, for I have known that Jesus, who hath been crucified, ye seek;

But the angel, addressing the women, said; “You need not be afraid. I now that it is Jesus, who was crucified, for whom you are looking.


simplify: John said unto him, Teacher, we saw one casting out demons in thy name; and we forbade him, because he followed not us.

John said to him, Master, we saw one driving out evil spirits in your name: and we said that he might not, because he is not one of us.


simplify: For it is written in the book of Psalms,  Let his habitation be made desolate, And let no man dwell therein:  and,  His office let another take.

For in the book of Psalms it says, Let his house be waste, and let no man be living in it: and, Let his position be taken by another.


rate difficulty: And while he was in the waste land of Paran, his mother got him a wife from the land of Egypt.

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


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, at Jeroboam son of Nebat's--who <FI>is<Fi> in Egypt because he hath fled from the face of Solomon the king--hearing, that Jeroboam turneth back out of Egypt;

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


rate difficulty: And Saul saith unto Jonathan, `Declare to me, what hast thou done?' and Jonathan declareth to him, and saith, `I certainly tasted with the end of the rod that <FI>is<Fi> in my hand a little honey; lo, I die!'

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


rate difficulty: And of Benjamin: Eliada, a mighty man of valour, and with him two hundred thousand, armed with bow and shield;


rate difficulty: Behold, I give of the synagogue of Satan, of them that say they are Jews, and they are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee.

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


rate difficulty: And they came to the grain-floor of Atad on the other side of Jordan, and there they gave the last honours to Jacob, with great and bitter sorrow, weeping for their father for seven days.

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, If they hear not Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded, though one rose from the dead.

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah seven days in the year: [it is] an everlasting statute throughout your generations; in the seventh month shall ye celebrate it.

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


rate difficulty: That thine eyes may be open toward this house night and day, even toward the place of which thou hast said, My name shall be there: that thou mayest hearken unto the prayer which thy servant shall make toward this place.

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


simplify: And they stoned Stephen, calling upon the Lord, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

And Stephen, while he was being stoned, made prayer to God, saying, Lord Jesus, take my spirit.


simplify: And when they had done this, they inclosed a great multitude of fishes; and their nets were breaking;

And when they had done this, they got such a great number of fish that it seemed as if their nets would be broken;


simplify: for he had known that because of envy they had delivered him up.

For he knew that it was out of jealousy that they had given Jesus up to him.


simplify: I lifted up mine hand unto them also in the wilderness, that I would scatter them among the heathen, and disperse them through the countries;

Further, I gave my oath to them in the waste land that I would send them wandering among the nations, driving them out among the countries;


simplify: And now whereas my father did lade you with a heavy yoke, I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

If my father put a hard yoke on you, I will make it harder: my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give you blows with snakes.


rate difficulty: Wilt thou restrain thyself in presence of these things, Jehovah? Wilt thou hold thy peace, and afflict us very sore?

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


rate difficulty: For as Jonah was three days and three nights in the stomach of the great fish, so will the Son of man be three days and three nights in the heart of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: My son, attend unto my wisdom, and bow thine ear to my understanding:

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


rate difficulty: Even a stork in the heavens knoweth her appointed times, and the turtle-dove and the swallow and the crane observe the time of their coming; but my people know not the judgment of Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said unto Elisha, when he saw them, My father, shall I smite them? shall I smite them?

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


simplify: Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and of silver, but also of wood and of earth; and some unto honor, and some unto dishonor.

Now in a great house there are not only vessels of gold and silver, but others of wood and earth, and some which are honoured and some without honour.


simplify: Micah the Morasthite prophesied in the days of Hezekiah king of Judah, and spake to all the people of Judah, saying, Thus saith the Lord of hosts; Zion shall be plowed like a field, and Jerusalem shall become heaps, and the mountain of the house as the high places of a forest.

Micah the Morashtite, who was a prophet in the days of Hezekiah, king of Judah, said to all the people of Judah, This is what the Lord of armies has said: Zion will become like a ploughed field, and Jerusalem will become a mass of broken walls, and the mountain of the house like the high places of the woodland.


rate difficulty: And many among them shall stumble, and fall, and be broken, and snared, and taken.

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


rate difficulty: Because of this the Lord has given me the reward of my righteousness, because my hands are clean in his eyes.

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


simplify: As for me, is my complaint to man? and if it were so, why should not my spirit be troubled?

As for me, is my outcry against man? is it then to be wondered at if my spirit is troubled?


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

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


rate difficulty: For in Jesus Christ neither circumcision availeth any thing, nor uncircumcision; but faith which worketh by love.

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


rate difficulty: Judah hath dealt treacherously, and an abomination is committed in Israel and in Jerusalem; for Judah hath profaned the holiness of the Lord which he loved, and hath married the daughter of a strange god.

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


simplify: All the flocks of Kedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nebaioth shall minister unto thee: they shall come up with acceptance on mine altar, and I will glorify the house of my glory.

All the flocks of Kedar will come together to you, the sheep of Nebaioth will be ready for your need; they will be pleasing offerings on my altar, and my house of prayer will be beautiful.


simplify: They were ware of it, and fled unto Lystra and Derbe, cities of Lycaonia, and unto the region that lieth round about:

the apostles heard of it, and took refuge in Lystra and Derbe, towns in Lycaonia, and in the district around,


simplify: And his sons did unto him according as he commanded them:

So his sons did as he had given them orders to do:


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

Give orders, then, that the place where his body is may be made safe till the third day, for fear that his disciples come and take him away secretly and say to the people, He has come back from the dead: and the last error will be worse than the first.


rate difficulty: and Maaseiah the son of Baruch, the son of Col-hozeh, the son of Hazaiah, the son of Adaiah, the son of Joiarib, the son of Zechariah, the son of Shiloni.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Cain, Why art thou wroth? and why is thy countenance fallen?

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


rate difficulty: And the table with its vessels, and the holy light-support with all its vessels, and the altar for the burning of spices,

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


simplify: who, having come, and having seen the grace of God, was glad, and was exhorting all with purpose of heart to cleave to the Lord,

On coming there he saw to his great joy these tokens of the loving kindness of God, and encouraged them all to make up their minds to be faithful to the Lord —


simplify: And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.

And he made chains, like neck ornaments, and put them on the tops of the pillars, and a hundred apples on the chains.


simplify: And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him: and they went into an house.

And Judas Iscariot, who was false to him.


simplify: And they sware unto the Lord with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.

And they made an oath to the Lord, with a loud voice, sounding wind-instruments and horns.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Gideon, By those three hundred who were drinking with their tongues I will give you salvation and give the Midianites into your hands; let the rest of the people go away, every man to his place.

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


simplify: There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.


simplify: For he is not a God of the dead, but of the living: for all live unto him.

Now he is not God of dead people, but of living. For in his sight all are alive.”


rate difficulty: And Othniel the son of Kenaz, the brother of Caleb, took it: and he gave him Achsah his daughter to wife.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso loveth correction loveth knowledge; But he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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


simplify: Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brethren of David: of Issachar, Omri the son of Michael:

Of Judah, Elihu, one of the brothers of David; of Issachar, Omri, the son of Michael;


simplify: All the gold that was occupied for the work in all the work of the holy place, even the gold of the offering, was twenty and nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary.

The gold used for all the different work done for the holy place, the gold which was given, was twenty-nine talents, and seven hundred and thirty shekels in weight, by the scale of the holy place.


rate difficulty: He made him ride on the high places of the earth, And he ate the produce of the field; And he made him suck honey out of the crag, And oil out of the flinty rock;


rate difficulty: Hearing this, Pilate asked if the man was a Galilean;


rate difficulty: and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes condemned them with an overthrow, having made them an example unto those that should live ungodly;

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rate difficulty: But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, which shall devour the palaces of Ben–hadad.

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rate difficulty: Sweet is the memory of the fish we had in Egypt for nothing, and the fruit and green plants of every sort, sharp and pleasing to the taste:


simplify: And Uriah said unto David, The ark, and Israel, and Judah, abide in tents; and my lord Joab, and the servants of my lord, are encamped in the open fields; shall I then go into mine house, to eat and to drink, and to lie with my wife? as thou livest, and as thy soul liveth, I will not do this thing.

And Uriah said to David, Israel and Judah with the ark are living in tents, and my lord Joab and the other servants of my lord are sleeping in the open field; and am I to go to my house and take food and drink, and go to bed with my wife? By the living Lord, and by the life of your soul, I will not do such a thing.


rate difficulty: They have wandered naked in out-places, They have been polluted with blood, Without <FI>any<Fi> being able to touch their clothing,

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simplify: And the Philistines gathered themselves together to fight with Israel, thirty thousand chariots, and six thousand horsemen, and people as the sand which is on the sea shore in multitude: and they came up, and pitched in Michmash, eastward from Beth–aven.

And the Philistines came together to make war on Israel, three thousand war-carriages and six thousand horsemen and an army of people like the sands of the sea in number: they came up and took up their position in Michmash, to the east of Beth-aven.


simplify: And, hardly passing it, came unto a place which is called The fair havens; nigh whereunto was the city of Lasea.

And sailing down the side of it, as well as we were able, we came to a certain place named Fair Havens, near which was the town of Lasea.


simplify: As they were making their hearts merry, behold, the men of the city, certain base fellows, beset the house round about, beating at the door; and they spake to the master of the house, the old man, saying, Bring forth the man that came into thy house, that we may know him.

While they were taking their pleasure at the meal, the good-for-nothing men of the town came round the house, giving blows on the door; and they said to the old man, the master of the house, Send out that man who came to your house, so that we may take our pleasure with him.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, the God of Israel; Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge them that are carried away captive of Judah, whom I have sent out of this place into the land of the Chaldeans for their good.

This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, has said: Like these good figs, so in my eyes will be the prisoners of Judah, whom I have sent from this place into the land of the Chaldaeans for their good.


simplify: If any man take a wife, and go in unto her, and hate her,

If any man takes a wife, and having had connection with her, has no delight in her,


simplify: All my state shall Tychicus declare unto you, who is a beloved brother, and a faithful minister and fellowservant in the Lord:

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


rate difficulty: Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.

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rate difficulty: And ye shall make proclamation on that same day — a holy convocation shall it be unto you: no manner of servile work shall ye do: [it is] an everlasting statute in all your dwellings throughout your generations.

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simplify: And in these days, Peter having risen up in the midst of the disciples, said, (the multitude also of the names at the same place was, as it were, an hundred and twenty,)

About this time, at a meeting of the Lord's followers, when there were about a hundred and twenty present, Peter rose to speak.


simplify: And when he had begun to reckon, one was brought unto him, which owed him ten thousand talents.

When he had begun to do so, one of them was brought to him who owed him ten thousand bags of gold;


rate difficulty: He who says that he is living in him, will do as he did.

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rate difficulty: But how then shall the scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?

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rate difficulty: Then Jesus was led up into the wilderness by the Spirit to be tempted by the devil.


simplify: And they said, Some say that thou art John the Baptist: some, Elias; and others, Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

“Some say John the Baptist,” they answered, “Others, however, say that he is Elijah, while others again say Jeremiah, or one of the prophets.”


simplify: And he arose and departed, and came to Samaria. And as he was at the shearing house in the way,

Then he got up and came to Samaria. And he was at the meeting-place of the keepers of sheep, by the way,


simplify: Fifty loops shalt thou make in the one curtain, and fifty loops shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is in the second coupling; the loops shall be opposite one to another.

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


rate difficulty: And Moses and Aaron took these men, marked out by name;

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