rate difficulty: I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things--as many as I possess.

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


simplify: And when they had prayed, the place was shaken where they were assembled together; and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and they spake the word of God with boldness.

When their prayer was ended, the place in which they were assembled was shaken; and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to tell God’s message fearlessly.


rate difficulty: Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus said, Someone was touching me, for I had the feeling that power had gone out from me.

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


simplify: And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.

And to the rest of the sons of Kohath there were given by the Lord's decision ten towns out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim and out of the tribe of Dan and out of the half-tribe of Manasseh.


rate difficulty: Whoso stoppeth his ears at the cry of the poor, he also shall cry himself, but shall not be heard.

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


simplify: who, having examined me, were wishing to release <FI>me<Fi> , because of their being no cause of death in me,

The Romans, when they had examined me, were ready to release me, because there was nothing in my conduct deserving death.


simplify: Moreover Uzziah had an army of fighting men, that went out to war by bands, according to the number of their reckoning made by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the officer, under the hand of Hananiah, one of the king’s captains.

In addition, Uzziah had an army of fighting-men who went out to war in bands, as they had been listed by Jeiel the scribe and Maaseiah the ruler, under the authority of Hananiah, one of the king's captains.


rate difficulty: You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel!


rate difficulty: Two wagons and four oxen he gave unto the sons of Gershon, according to their service:

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rate difficulty: And they gave by lot out of the tribe of the children of Judah, and out of the tribe of the children of Simeon, and out of the tribe of the children of Benjamin, these cities which were mentioned by name.

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


simplify: And as Peter was beneath in the court, there cometh one of the maids of the high priest;

And while Peter was down in the open square of the building, one of the servant-girls of the high priest came;


rate difficulty: and wherever he was going, to villages, or cities, or fields, in the market-places they were laying the infirm, and were calling upon him, that they may touch if it were but the fringe of his garment, and as many as were touching him were saved.

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


simplify: And Jehoash king of Judah took all the hallowed things that Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah, his fathers, kings of Judah, had dedicated, and his own hallowed things, and all the gold that was found in the treasures of the house of Jehovah, and of the king’s house, and sent it to Hazael king of Syria: and he went away from Jerusalem.

Then Jehoash, king of Judah, took all the holy things which Jehoshaphat and Jehoram and Ahaziah his fathers, the kings of Judah, had given to the Lord, together with the things he himself had given, and all the gold in the Temple store and in the king's house, and sent it to Hazael, king of Aram; and he went away from Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And the carcases of this people shall be food for the fowl of the heavens, and for the beasts of the earth; and none shall scare [them] away.


simplify: For ye bear with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.

For you put up with the foolish gladly, being wise yourselves.


rate difficulty: and he saith unto them, `What are ye counselling, and we answer this people, who have spoken unto me, saying, Lighten <FI>somewhat<Fi> of the yoke that thy father put upon us?'

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


simplify: For that which I do I know not: for not what I would, that do I practise; but what I hate, that I do.

And I have no clear knowledge of what I am doing, for that which I have a mind to do, I do not, but what I have hate for, that I do.


simplify: Nay, ye do wrong, and defraud, and that your brethren.

So far from doing this, you yourselves do wrong and take your brothers' property.


simplify: And he hath filled him with the spirit of God, in wisdom, in understanding, and in knowledge, and in all manner of workmanship;

And he has made him full of the spirit of God, in all wisdom and knowledge and art of every sort;


simplify: who may go out before them, and who may come in before them, and who may lead them out, and who may bring them in; that the congregation of Jehovah be not as sheep which have no shepherd.

To go out and come in before them and be their guide; so that the people of the Lord may not be like sheep without a keeper.


simplify: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in Egypt: and thou shalt observe and do these statutes.

And you will keep in mind that you were a servant in the land of Egypt: and you will take care to keep all these laws.


rate difficulty: This, indeed, is what he says in the book of Hosea — ‘Those who were not my people, I will call my people, and those who were unloved I will love.

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


rate difficulty: And anyone who, after touching any unclean thing of man or an unclean beast or any unclean and disgusting thing, takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Like a troubled fountain and a dirty spring, is an upright man who has to give way before evil-doers.


rate difficulty: And the man did as Joseph bade; and the man brought the men to Joseph’s house.

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


simplify: Also I set watchmen over you, saying, Hearken to the sound of the trumpet. But they said, We will not hearken.

And I put watchmen over you, saying, Give attention to the sound of the horn; but they said, We will not give attention.


rate difficulty: And he slaughtered the burnt-offering; and Aaron's sons delivered to him the blood, which he sprinkled on the altar round about.

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


rate difficulty: And Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood, which they had made for the purpose; and beside him stood Mattithiah, and Shema, and Anaiah, and Urijah, and Hilkiah, and Maaseiah, on his right hand; and on his left hand, Pedaiah, and Mishael, and Malchiah, and Hashum, and Hashbadana, Zechariah, and Meshullam.

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


rate difficulty: and if bitter zeal ye have, and rivalry in your heart, glory not, nor lie against the truth;

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


rate difficulty: They that tarry long at the wine; They that go to seek out mixed wine.


rate difficulty: And Elisha dieth, and they bury him, and troops of Moab come in to the land, at the coming in of the year,

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


simplify: For if I pray in a tongue, my spirit prayeth, but my understanding is unfruitful.

For if I make use of tongues in my prayers, my spirit makes the prayer, but not my mind.


rate difficulty: So they sent men to make a search round Beth-el. (Now the name of the town in earlier times was Luz.)

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


simplify: that thine alms may be in secret: and thy Father who seeth in secret shall recompense thee.

So that your giving may be in secret; and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.


rate difficulty: And at Beth-marcaboth, and at Hazarsusim, and at Beth-biri, and at Shaaraim. These were their towns till David became king.


simplify: And they journeyed from Oboth, and encamped in Iye-abarim, in the border of Moab.

And they went on from Oboth, and put up their tents in Iye-abarim at the edge of Moab.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when the king's commandment and his decree was heard, and when many maidens were gathered together unto Shushan the fortress, unto the custody of Hegai, that Esther also was brought into the king's house, unto the custody of Hegai, keeper of the women.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: I was taking note; and truly not one of you was able to make clear Job's error, or to give an answer to his words.


rate difficulty: And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for the forty’s sake.

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


simplify: And I took your father Abraham from beyond the River, and led him throughout all the land of Canaan, and multiplied his seed, and gave him Isaac.

And I took your father Abraham from the other side of the River, guiding him through all the land of Canaan; I made his offspring great in number, and gave him Isaac.


rate difficulty: And it was told Solomon that Shimei had gone from Jerusalem to Gath, and had come again.


simplify: But after certain days, Felix came with Drusilla, his wife, who was a Jewess, and sent for Paul, and heard him concerning the faith in Christ Jesus.

But after some days, Felix came with Drusilla his wife, who was of the Jews by birth, and sent for Paul, and gave hearing to him about faith in Christ Jesus.


rate difficulty: Shall vain words have an end? Or what provoketh thee that thou answerest?

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


rate difficulty: He is before all things, and in him all things have being.


simplify: And the king of Israel said unto Jehoshaphat, There is yet one man by whom we may inquire of Jehovah: but I hate him; for he never prophesieth good concerning me, but always evil: the same is Micaiah the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.

And the king of Israel said to Jehoshaphat, There is still one man by whom we may get directions from the Lord, but I have no love for him, because he has never been a prophet of good to me, but only of evil: he is Micaiah, the son of Imla. And Jehoshaphat said, Let not the king say so.


simplify: But Rabshakeh said unto them, Hath my master sent me to thy master, and to thee, to speak these words? hath he not sent me to the men that sit on the wall, to eat their own dung, and to drink their own water with you?

But the Rab-shakeh said to them, Is it to your master or to you that my master has sent me to say these words? has he not sent me to the men seated on the wall? for they are the people who will be short of food with you when the town is shut in.


simplify: The words of a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.

The words of a wise man's mouth are sweet to all, but the lips of a foolish man are his destruction.


rate difficulty: and having in readiness to avenge all disobedience when your obedience shall have been fulfilled.

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


simplify: Jehovah hath taken away thy judgments, he hath cast out thine enemy: the King of Israel, even Jehovah, is in the midst of thee; thou shalt not fear evil any more.

The Lord has taken away those who were judging you, he has sent your haters far away: the King of Israel, even the Lord, is among you: you will have no more fear of evil.


rate difficulty: As it was said in the holy Writings, God gave them a spirit of sleep, eyes which might not see, and ears which have no hearing, to this day.

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


rate difficulty: And they that fed them fled, and went away into the city, and told everything, and what was befallen to them that were possessed with demons.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus having earnestly beheld, said to them, `With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible.'

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


rate difficulty: The king of Aphek, one; The king of Lasharon, one;

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


simplify: When they were past the first and the second ward, they came unto the iron gate that leadeth unto the city; which opened to them of his own accord: and they went out, and passed on through one street; and forthwith the angel departed from him.

And when they had gone past the first and second watchmen they came to the iron door into the town, which came open by itself: and they went out and down one street; and then the angel went away.


simplify: These cities were every one with their suburbs round about them: thus it was with all these cities.

Every one of these towns had grass-lands round it.


simplify: Then Abner called to Joab, and said, Shall the sword devour for ever? knowest thou not that it will be bitterness in the latter end? how long shall it be then, ere thou bid the people return from following their brethren?

Then crying out to Joab, Abner said, Are fighting and destruction to go on for ever? do you not see that the end will only be bitter? how long will it be before you send the people back and make them give up attacking their countrymen?


rate difficulty: These are the families of the sons of Noah, after their generations, in their nations. And from these came the distribution of the nations on the earth after the flood.

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


rate difficulty: He is full of sap before the sun, and his sprout shooteth forth over his garden;

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


simplify: And thou take of their daughters unto thy sons, and their daughters go a whoring after their gods, and make thy sons go a whoring after their gods.

Or take their daughters for your sons; for when their daughters give worship before their gods, they will make your sons take part with them.


simplify: And when Silas and Timotheus were come from Macedonia, Paul was pressed in the spirit, and testified to the Jews that Jesus was Christ.

But, when Silas and Timothy had come down from Macedonia, Paul devoted himself entirely to delivering the message, earnestly maintaining before the Jews that Jesus was the Christ.


simplify: Notwithstanding the children rebelled against me: they walked not in my statutes, neither kept my judgments to do them, which if a man do, he shall even live in them; they polluted my sabbaths: then I said, I would pour out my fury upon them, to accomplish my anger against them in the wilderness.

But the children would not be controlled by me; they were not guided by my rules, and they did not keep and do my orders, which, if a man does them, will be life to him; and they had no respect for my Sabbaths: then I said I would let loose my passion on them to give full effect to my wrath against them in the waste land.


rate difficulty: Lastly, be strong in the Lord, and in the strength of his power.

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


simplify: and the frogs shall come up both upon thee, and upon thy people, and upon all thy servants.

The frogs will come up over you and your people and all your servants.


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


rate difficulty: `But I have against thee a few things: That thou dost suffer the woman Jezebel, who is calling herself a prophetess, to teach, and to lead astray, my servants to commit whoredom, and idol-sacrifices to eat;

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


rate difficulty: Then went the captain with the officers, and brought them, but without violence; for they feared the people, lest they should be stoned.

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


simplify: And the people waited for Zacharias, and marvelled that he tarried so long in the temple.

And the people were waiting for Zacharias and were surprised because he was in the Temple for such a long time.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Joshua, This day have I rolled away the reproach of Egypt from off you. And the name of the place was called Gilgal to this day.


rate difficulty: and when the seven thunders spake their voices, I was about to write, and I heard a voice out of the heaven saying to me, `Seal the things that the seven thunders spake,' and, `Thou mayest not write these things.'

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 3 | difficulty: hard


simplify: In those days, and at that time, will I cause a Branch of righteousness to grow up unto David; and he shall execute justice and righteousness in the land.

In those days and at that time, I will let a Branch of righteousness come up for David; and he will be a judge in righteousness in the land.


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

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


simplify: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

Or, Who will go down into the deep? (that is, to make Christ come again from the dead:)


simplify: The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchiah,

The son of Michael, the son of Baaseiah, the son of Malchijah,


simplify: And Delilah said to Samson, Tell me, I pray thee, wherein thy great strength lieth, and wherewith thou mightest be bound to afflict thee.

So Delilah said to Samson, Make clear to me now what is the secret of your great strength, and how you may be put in bands and made feeble.


rate difficulty: and to those in Hormah, and to those in Chor-Ashan, and to those in Athach,

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


simplify: And unto the children of Levi, behold, I have given all the tithe in Israel for an inheritance, in return for their service which they serve, even the service of the tent of meeting.

And to the children of Levi I have given as their heritage all the tenths offered in Israel, as payment for the work they do, the work of the Tent of meeting.


rate difficulty: He saith to them, `How then doth David in the Spirit call him lord, saying,

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


simplify: But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam said unto Johanan the son of Kareah, Thou shalt not do this thing: for thou speakest falsely of Ishmael.

But Gedaliah, the son of Ahikam, said to Johanan, the son of Kareah, You are not to do this: for what you say about Ishmael is false.


rate difficulty: Has done wrong to the poor and to him who is in need, and taken property by force, and has not given back to one in his debt what is his, and has given worship to images and has done disgusting things,

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


rate difficulty: And he brought him to Jerusalem, and set him on a pinnacle of the temple, and said unto him, If thou be the Son of God, cast thyself down from hence:

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


rate difficulty: But the fields of the city, and the villages thereof, gave they to Caleb the son of Jephunneh for his possession.

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


rate difficulty: Now, in earlier times this was the way in Israel when property was taken over by a near relation, or when there was a change of owner. To make the exchange certain one man took off his shoe and gave it to the other; and this was a witness in Israel.


rate difficulty: Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres.

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


simplify: After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was lightened with his glory.

After these things I saw another angel coming down out of heaven, having great authority; and the earth was bright with his glory.


simplify: And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.

And in the eighth year you will put in your seed, and get your food from the old stores, till the fruit of the ninth year is ready.


rate difficulty: And behold, two blind men sitting by the way side, when they heard that Jesus was passing by, cried out, saying, Lord, have mercy on us, thou son of David.


rate difficulty: Incline thine ear, O Jehovah, and hear; open thine eyes, O Jehovah, and see; and hear the words of Sennacherib, wherewith he hath sent him to defy the living God.

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


simplify: And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, cities of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were pertaining unto the children of Machir the son of Manasseh, even to the one half of the children of Machir by their families.

And half Gilead, and Ashtaroth, and Edrei, towns of the kingdom of Og in Bashan, were for the children of Machir, the son of Manasseh, for half of the children of Machir by their families.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass, if ye diligently hearken unto me, saith Jehovah, to bring in no burden through the gates of this city on the sabbath day, and to hallow the sabbath day, to do no work therein;

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


simplify: And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel, according unto all that Jehovah had given him in commandment unto them;

Now in the fortieth year, on the first day of the eleventh month, Moses gave to the children of Israel all the orders which the Lord had given him for them;


rate difficulty: So the priests and the Levites sanctified themselves to bring up the ark of Jehovah, the God of Israel.

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


simplify: They are created now, and not from the beginning; even before the day when thou heardest them not; lest thou shouldest say, Behold, I knew them.

They have only now been effected, and not in the past: and before this day they had not come to your ears; for fear that you might say, I had knowledge of them.


simplify: I am Jehovah, and there is none else; besides me there is no God. I will gird thee, though thou hast not known me;

I am the Lord, and there is no other; there is no God but me: I will make you ready for war, though you had no knowledge of me:


rate difficulty: He made me free from my strong hater, from those who were against me, because they were stronger than I.

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


simplify: Because he hath despised the word of the Lord, and hath broken his commandment, that soul shall utterly be cut off; his iniquity shall be upon him.

Because he had no respect for the word of the Lord, and did not keep his law, that man will be cut off without mercy and his sin will be on him.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after the death of Abraham, thatGod blessed his son Isaac. And Isaac dwelt at Beer-lahai-roi.

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


simplify: And all their villages that were round about the same cities, unto Baal. These were their habitations, and their genealogy.

And all the small places round these towns, as far as Baalath-beer, the high place of the South. These were their living-places, and they have lists of their generations.


simplify: And if I by Beelzebub cast out devils, by whom do your children cast them out? therefore they shall be your judges.

And if I by Beelzebub send evil spirits out of men, by whom do your sons send them out? So let them be your judges.


simplify: Let every soul to the higher authorities be subject, for there is no authority except from God, and the authorities existing are appointed by God,

Let everyone obey the supreme Authorities. For no Authority exists except by the will of God, and the existing Authorities have been appointed by God.


rate difficulty: Five times I received at the hands of my own people forty lashes, all but one.


simplify: Thou shalt not raise a false report: put not thine hand with the wicked to be an unrighteous witness.

Do not let a false statement go further; do not make an agreement with evil-doers to be a false witness.


simplify: And as if I were not coming unto you certain were puffed up;

Some, I hear, are puffed up with pride, thinking that I am not coming to you.


rate difficulty: I left nothing undone to show you that, laboring as I labored, you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, how he said himself — ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

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


rate difficulty: For riches are not for ever: and doth the crown endure to every generation?

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


simplify: And he that betrayed him had given them a token, saying, Whomsoever I shall kiss, that same is he; take him, and lead him away safely.

Now he who had been false to him had given them a sign, saying, The one to whom I give a kiss, that is he; take him, and get him away safely.


rate difficulty: No cedars were equal to it in the garden of God; the fir-trees were not like its branches, and plane-trees were as nothing in comparison with its arms; no tree in the garden of God was so beautiful.


rate difficulty: and king Solomon <FI>is<Fi> blessed, and the throne of David is established before Jehovah unto the age.'

reading_level: 5 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: for those such <FI>are<Fi> false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves into apostles of Christ,

Such people are false apostles, treacherous workers, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ!


simplify: And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: every tree therefore which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire.

Already, indeed, the axe is lying at the root of the trees. Therefore every tree that fails to bear good fruit will be cut down and thrown into the fire.”


simplify: Now when this was noised abroad, the multitude came together, and were confounded, because that every man heard them speak in his own language.

And when this sound came to their ears, they all came together, and were greatly surprised because every man was hearing the words of the disciples in his special language.


rate difficulty: Yea, I attended unto you, And, behold, there was none that convinced Job, Or that answered his words, among you.

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


simplify: What? know ye not that he which is joined to an harlot is one body? for two, saith he, shall be one flesh.

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


rate difficulty: `Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

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


rate difficulty: And when he came there, he had a horn sounded in the hill-country of Ephraim, and all the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he at their head.


rate difficulty: And have I now come to send destruction on this land without the Lord's authority? It was the Lord himself who said to me, Go up against this land and make it waste.


simplify: during forty days, being tempted of the devil. And he did eat nothing in those days: and when they were completed, he hungered.

For forty days, being tested by the Evil One. And he had no food in those days; and when they came to an end, he was in need of food.


simplify: And if any one say unto you, Why do ye this? say ye, The Lord hath need of him; and straightway he will send him back hither.

And if anyone says to you, Why are you doing this? say, The Lord has need of him and will send him back straight away.


rate difficulty: I wrote unto you in an epistle not to company with fornicators:

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


simplify: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am carnal, sold under sin.

For we are conscious that the law is of the spirit; but I am of the flesh, given into the power of sin.


rate difficulty: And Josiah turneth aside all the abominations out of all the lands that the sons of Israel have, and causeth every one who is found in Israel to serve, to serve Jehovah their God; all his days they turned not aside from after Jehovah, God of their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: and they did bow before the dragon who did give authority to the beast, and they did bow before the beast, saying, `Who <FI>is<Fi> like to the beast? who is able to war with it?'

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


simplify: And in the morning, passing by, they saw the fig-tree having been dried up from the roots,

As they passed by early in the morning, they noticed that the fig-tree was withered up from the roots.


rate difficulty: And Festus said, `King Agrippa, and all men who are present with us, ye see this one, about whom all the multitude of the Jews did deal with me, both in Jerusalem and here, crying out, He ought not to live any longer;

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


simplify: and said, Behold, I see the heavens opened, and the Son of man standing on the right hand of God.

And he said, Now I see heaven open, and the Son of man at the right hand of God.


simplify: Wisdom is a strength to the wise man more than ten rulers that are in a city.

Wisdom makes a wise man stronger than ten rulers in a town.


simplify: I am my beloved’s; And his desire is toward me.

I am for my loved one, and his desire is for me.


simplify: and not holding the head, from which all the body--through the joints and bands gathering supply, and being knit together--may increase with the increase of God.

They fail to maintain union with the head, to whom it is due that the whole body, nourished and knit together by the contact and connexion of every part, grows with a divine growth.


simplify: And it came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.

And in the evening he took Leah, his daughter, and gave her to him, and he went in to her.


rate difficulty: And while the day was coming on, Paul besought them all to take some food, saying, This day is the fourteenth day that ye wait and continue fasting, having taken nothing.

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


rate difficulty: saying, `Give also to me this authority, that on whomsoever I may lay the hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.'

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


rate difficulty: Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.


simplify: As a fountain casteth out her waters, so she casteth out her wickedness: violence and spoil is heard in her; before me continually is grief and wounds.

As the spring keeps its waters cold, so she keeps her evil in her: the sound of cruel and violent behaviour is in her; before me at all times are disease and wounds.


simplify: Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my firstborn for my transgression, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?


rate difficulty: And it came to pass afterward, that he loved a woman in the valley of Sorek, whose name was Delilah.

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


simplify: and even to old age I am he, and even to hoar hairs will I carry you; I have made, and I will bear; yea, I will carry, and will deliver.

Even when you are old I will be the same, and when you are grey-haired I will take care of you: I will still be responsible for what I made; yes, I will take you and keep you safe.


simplify: beseeching us with much entreaty in regard of this grace and the fellowship in the ministering to the saints:

Seriously requesting us that they might have a part in this grace of being servants to the needs of the saints:


simplify: and he died for all, that they that live should no longer live unto themselves, but unto him who for their sakes died and rose again.

And that he underwent death for all, so that the living might no longer be living to themselves, but to him who underwent death for them and came back from the dead.


rate difficulty: and it hath come to pass, when thy days have been fulfilled to go with thy fathers, that I have raised up thy seed after thee, who is of thy sons, and I have established his kingdom,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And the seven angels who had the seven horns made ready for sounding them.

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


simplify: being buried with him in the baptism, in which also ye rose with <FI>him<Fi> through the faith of the working of God, who did raise him out of the dead.

For in baptism you were buried with Christ; and in baptism you were also raised to life with him, through your faith in the omnipotence of God, who raised him from the dead.


rate difficulty: And when it came to his ears that it was Jesus of Nazareth, he gave a cry, and said, Jesus, Son of David, have mercy on me.

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


simplify: And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the things wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

And he gave them an account of the glories of his wealth, and the number of children he had, and the ways in which he had been honoured by the king, and how he had put him over the captains and servants of the king.


rate difficulty: lo, I pray thee, thy servant hath found grace in thine eyes, and thou dost make great thy kindness which thou hast done with me by saving my life, and I am unable to escape to the mountain, lest the evil cleave <FI>to<Fi> me, and I have died;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 11 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And take thou unto thee Aaron thy brother, and his sons with him, from among the children of Israel, that he may minister unto me in the priest’s office, even Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s sons.

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


rate difficulty: we were buried together, then, with him through the baptism to the death, that even as Christ was raised up out of the dead through the glory of the Father, so also we in newness of life might walk.

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


simplify: My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

My root will be open to the waters, and the night mist will be on my branches,


simplify: And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

And the King will make answer and say to them, Truly I say to you, Because you did it to the least of these my brothers, you did it to me.


simplify: And Araunah looked, and saw the king and his servants coming on toward him: and Araunah went out, and bowed himself before the king on his face upon the ground.

And Araunah, looking out, saw the king and his servants coming to him: and Araunah went out, and went down on his face to the earth before the king.


simplify: Then Abigail made haste, and took two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep ready dressed, and five measures of parched corn, and an hundred clusters of raisins, and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on asses.

Then Abigail quickly took two hundred cakes of bread and two skins full of wine and five sheep ready for cooking and five measures of dry grain and a hundred parcels of dry grapes and two hundred cakes of figs, and put them on asses.


simplify: Jehovah bless thee, and keep thee:

May the Lord send his blessing on you and keep you:


rate difficulty: And the angel said to him, Gird thyself, and bind on thy sandals. And he did so. And he says to him, Cast thine upper garment about thee and follow me.

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


simplify: And a second time they say, Hallelujah. And her smoke goeth up for ever and ever.

And again they said, Praise to the Lord. And her smoke went up for ever and ever.


simplify: Ten cubits shall be the length of a board, and a cubit and a half the breadth of each board.

Every board is to be ten cubits high and a cubit and a half wide.


rate difficulty: And the two companies of you, even all that go forth on the sabbath, shall keep the watch of the house of Jehovah about the king.

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


simplify: But thou, Beth-lehem Ephrathah, which art little to be among the thousands of Judah, out of thee shall one come forth unto me that is to be ruler in Israel; whose goings forth are from of old, from everlasting.

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.


rate difficulty: The hoary head is a crown of glory, [if] it is found in the way of righteousness.

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


simplify: Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads.

‘Do not harm the earth, or the sea, or the trees, until we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’


rate difficulty: He that receiveth a prophet in the name of a prophet shall receive a prophet’s reward; and he that receiveth a righteous man in the name of a righteous man shall receive a righteous man’s reward.

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


rate difficulty: And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh,

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord answered me, and said, Write the vision, and make it plain upon tables, that he may run that readeth it.

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


simplify: And beholding the openness of Peter and John, and having perceived that they are men unlettered and plebeian, they were wondering--they were taking knowledge also of them that with Jesus they had been--

When the Council saw how boldly Peter and John spoke, and found that they were uneducated men of humble station, they were surprised, and realized that they had been companions of Jesus.


simplify: Everything that openeth the womb, of all flesh which they offer unto Jehovah, both of man and beast shall be thine: nevertheless the first-born of man shalt thou surely redeem, and the firstling of unclean beasts shalt thou redeem.

The first birth of every living thing which is offered to the Lord, of man or beast, is to be yours; but for the first sons of man payment is to be made, and for the first young of unclean beasts.


rate difficulty: Then they sat down, and kept watch over him there.

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


rate difficulty: And his feet like unto fine brass, as if they burned in a furnace; and his voice as the sound of many waters.

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


rate difficulty: And they sent away Rebecca their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham's servant, and his men.

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


simplify: but supposing him to be in the company, they went a day’s journey; and they sought for him among their kinsfolk and acquaintance:

And in the belief that he was with some of their number, they went a day's journey; and after looking for him among their relations and friends,


rate difficulty: And thou, son of man, say unto the children of thy people, The righteousness of the righteous shall not deliver him in the day of his transgression; and as for the wickedness of the wicked, he shall not fall thereby in the day that he turneth from his wickedness; neither shall the righteous be able to live thereby in the day that he sinneth.

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


rate difficulty: And Hushai said to Absalom, The counsel that Ahithophel has given this time is not good.


rate difficulty: Then shalt thou understand the fear of Jehovah, And find the knowledge of God.


simplify: And when Saul sent messengers to take David, she said, He is sick.

And when Saul sent men to take David, she said, He is ill.


simplify: The threshing-floor and the winepress shall not feed them, and the new wine shall fail her.

The grain-floor and the place where the grapes are crushed will not give them food; there will be no new wine for them.


simplify: God is my strong fortress; And he guideth the perfect in his way.

God puts a strong band about me, guiding me in a straight way.


simplify: and Simon also himself did believe, and, having been baptized, he was continuing with Philip, beholding also signs and mighty acts being done, he was amazed.

Even Simon believed, and after his baptism attached himself to Philip, and was in his turn mystified at seeing signs and great miracles constantly occurring.


rate difficulty: And he arose from thence, and cometh into the coasts of Judea by the farther side of Jordan: and the people resort unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

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


rate difficulty: A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom there is no rising up.


rate difficulty: And David said unto Ahimelech the priest, The king hath commanded me a business, and hath said unto me, Let no man know any thing of the business whereabout I send thee, and what I have commanded thee: and I have appointed my servants to such and such a place.

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


rate difficulty: rendering vengeance to them that know not God, and to them that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus:

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


simplify: And he said unto them, This is that which the Lord hath said, To morrow is the rest of the holy sabbath unto the Lord: bake that which ye will bake to day, and seethe that ye will seethe; and that which remaineth over lay up for you to be kept until the morning.

And he said, This is what the Lord has said, Tomorrow is a day of rest, a holy Sabbath to the Lord: what has to be cooked may be cooked; and what is over, put on one side to be kept till the morning.


simplify: Yet Jehovah testified unto Israel, and unto Judah, by every prophet, and every seer, saying, Turn ye from your evil ways, and keep my commandments and my statutes, according to all the law which I commanded your fathers, and which I sent to you by my servants the prophets.

And he gave witness to Israel and Judah, by every prophet and seer, saying, Come back from your evil ways, and do my orders and keep my rules, and be guided by the law which I gave to your fathers and sent to you by my servants the prophets.


rate difficulty: But Ishmael the son of Nethaniah escaped from Johanan with eight men, and went to the Ammonites.

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


rate difficulty: and give them a charge unto their masters, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Thus shall ye say unto your masters:

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


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

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


rate difficulty: So if any one [be] in Christ, [there is] a new creation; the old things have passed away; behold all things have become new:

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


rate difficulty: And they will take all your clothing off you and take away your ornaments.

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


simplify: And there came also tax-gatherers to be baptised, and they said unto him, `Teacher, what shall we do?'

Even tax-gatherers came to be baptized, and said to John: “Teacher, what are we to do?”


rate difficulty: And the Levites, of the children of the Kohathites and of the children of the Korahites, stood up to praise Jehovah, the God of Israel, with an exceeding loud voice.

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


rate difficulty: While they were untying the foal, the owners asked them — “Why are you untying the foal?”

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


rate difficulty: `Cursed <FI>art<Fi> thou in thy coming in, and cursed <FI>art<Fi> thou in thy going out.

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


simplify: And Moses said unto Aaron, What did this people unto thee, that thou hast brought so great a sin upon them?

And Moses said to Aaron, What did the people do to you that you let this great sin come on them?


simplify: And Abimelech gat him up to mount Zalmon, he and all the people that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bough from the trees, and took it up, and laid it on his shoulder: and he said unto the people that were with him, What ye have seen me do, make haste, and do as I have done.

Then Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, with all his people; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand and, cutting down branches of trees, took them and put them on his back. And he said to the people who were with him, Be quick and do as you have seen me do.


rate difficulty: Dishon, Ezer, and Dishan: these are the chiefs of the Horites, offspring of Seir in the land of Edom.

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


rate difficulty: And he reared up the court round about the tabernacle and the altar, and set up the screen of the gate of the court. So Moses finished the work.


simplify: And about the time of her death the women that stood by her said unto her, Fear not; for thou hast brought forth a son. But she answered not, neither did she regard it.

And when she was very near death the women who were with her said, Have no fear, for you have given birth to a son. But she made no answer and gave no attention to it.


simplify: unto the carpenters, and to the builders, and to the masons, and for buying timber and hewn stone to repair the house.

To the woodworkers and the builders and the stone-cutters; and for getting wood and cut stones for the building up of the house.


simplify: And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

and, owing to the increase of wickedness, the love of most will grow cold.


simplify: And the Lord hath given me knowledge of it, and I know it: then thou shewedst me their doings.

And the Lord gave me knowledge of it and I saw it: then you made clear to me their doings.


simplify: Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ also loved the church, and gave himself for it;

Husbands, love your wives, just as the Christ loved the church, and gave himself for her,


rate difficulty: But the Jews, seeing the crowds, were filled with envy, and contradicted the things said by Paul, [contradicting and] speaking injuriously.

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


simplify: In whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit.

And, through union in him, you also are being built up together, to be a place where God lives through the Spirit.


rate difficulty: Humble yourselves in the sight of the Lord, and he shall lift you up.

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


rate difficulty: And Absalom her brother said unto her, Hath Amnon thy brother been with thee? but hold now thy peace, my sister: he is thy brother; regard not this thing. So Tamar remained desolate in her brother Absalom’s house.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, he shall come up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan against the habitation of the strong: but I will suddenly make him run away from her: and who is a chosen man, that I may appoint over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time? and who is that shepherd that will stand before me?

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


simplify: And all his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted; and he said, For I will go down into the grave unto my son mourning. Thus his father wept for him.

And all his sons and all his daughters came to give him comfort, but he would not be comforted, saying with weeping, I will go down to the underworld to my son. So great was his father's sorrow for him.


rate difficulty: Wherefore thus saith the Lord God of hosts, Because ye speak this word, behold, I will make my words in thy mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: and Jehoash son of Jehoahaz turneth and taketh the cities out of the hand of Ben-Hadad son of Hazael that he had taken out of the hand of Jehoahaz his father in war; three times hath Joash smitten him, and he bringeth back the cities of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

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


rate difficulty: And Jacob said to his household, and to all that were with him, Put away the strangegods that are among you, and cleanse yourselves, and change your garments;

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


simplify: And thou, son of man, be not afraid of them, neither be afraid of their words, though briers and thorns are with thee, and thou dost dwell among scorpions: be not afraid of their words, nor be dismayed at their looks, though they are a rebellious house.

And you, son of man, have no fear of them or of their words, even if sharp thorns are round you and you are living among scorpions: have no fear of their words and do not be overcome by their looks, for they are an uncontrolled people.


rate difficulty: and he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, a land flowing with milk and honey.

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


simplify: Ye heard the evil speaking, what appeareth to you?' and they all condemned him to be worthy of death,

“You heard his blasphemy? What is your verdict?” They all condemned him, declaring that he deserved death.


simplify: Over against the border shall the rings be for places of the staves to bear the table.

The rings are to be fixed under the frame to take the rods with which the table is to be lifted.


simplify: Men shall buy fields for money, and subscribe the deeds, and seal them, and call witnesses, in the land of Benjamin, and in the places about Jerusalem, and in the cities of Judah, and in the cities of the hill-country, and in the cities of the lowland, and in the cities of the South: for I will cause their captivity to return, saith Jehovah.

Men will get fields for money, and put the business in writing, stamping the papers and having them witnessed, in the land of Benjamin and in the country round Jerusalem and in the towns of Judah and in the towns of the hill-country and in the towns of the lowland and in the towns of the South: for I will let their fate be changed, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Ozem the sixth, David the seventh;

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


simplify: And he went forth and warred against the Philistines, and brake down the wall of Gath, and the wall of Jabneh, and the wall of Ashdod, and built cities about Ashdod, and among the Philistines.

He went out and made war against the Philistines, pulling down the walls of Gath and Jabneh and Ashdod, and building towns in the country round Ashdod and among the Philistines.


simplify: And Joseph came in unto them in the morning, and looked upon them, and, behold, they were sad.

And in the morning when Joseph came to them he saw that they were looking sad.


simplify: the two pillars, and the bowls, and the two capitals which were on the top of the pillars, and the two networks to cover the two bowls of the capitals that were on the top of the pillars,

The two pillars, and the two crowns on the tops of the pillars, and the network covering the two cups of the crowns on the tops of the pillars;


simplify: And there the centurion found a ship of Alexandria sailing into Italy; and he put us therein.

And there the captain came across a ship of Alexandria, sailing for Italy, and put us in it.


simplify: And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light.

And no wonder; for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.


rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord God is upon me; because the Lord hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

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


simplify: And the soldiers also mocked him, coming to him, offering him vinegar,

And the men of the army made sport of him, coming to him and giving him bitter wine,


rate difficulty: The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.

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


rate difficulty: The wise man, fearing, keeps himself from evil; but the foolish man goes on in his pride, with no thought of danger.

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


simplify: Whosoever shall confess that Jesus is the Son of God, God dwelleth in him, and he in God.

Whoever acknowledges that Jesus Christ is the Son of God — God remains in union with that man, and he with God.


rate difficulty: Who take pleasure in wrongdoing, and have joy in the evil designs of the sinner;


simplify: And having sternly charged him, immediately he put him forth,

and then Jesus, after sternly warning him, immediately sent him away, and said to him:


rate difficulty: But the law is not based on faith; no, its words are —  ‘Those who practice these precepts will find life through them.’


simplify: and there was going forth a fame concerning him to every place of the region round about.

And rumors about Jesus traveled through every place in the neighborhood.


simplify: And he will pass through the sea of affliction, and will smite the waves in the sea, and all the depths of the Nile shall dry up; and the pride of Assyria shall be brought down, and the sceptre of Egypt shall depart.

And they will go through the sea of Egypt, and all the deep waters of the Nile will become dry: and the pride of Assyria will be made low, and the power of Egypt will be taken away.


simplify: and then shall appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heaven; and then shall all the tribes of the earth smite the breast, and they shall see the Son of Man coming upon the clouds of the heaven, with power and much glory;

Then will appear the sign of the Son of Man in the heavens; and all the peoples of the earth will mourn, when they see the Son of Man coming on the clouds of the heavens,’ with power and great glory;


rate difficulty: And the priest shall make atonement for him before Jehovah, and it shall be forgiven him concerning anything of all that he hath done so as to trespass therein.

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


rate difficulty: And there was no day like that, before it or after it, when the Lord gave ear to the voice of a man; for the Lord was fighting for Israel.

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


simplify: As the partridge that sitteth on eggs which she hath not laid, so is he that getteth riches, and not by right; in the midst of his days they shall leave him, and at his end he shall be a fool.

Like the partridge, getting eggs together but not producing young, is a man who gets wealth but not by right; before half his days are ended, it will go from him, and at his end he will be foolish.


simplify: This we will do to them, and let them live; lest wrath be upon us, because of the oath which we sware unto them.

This is what we will do to them: we will not put them to death, for fear that wrath may come on us because of our oath to them.


rate difficulty: And they put Abner's body to rest in Hebron; and the king and all the people were weeping loudly by the resting-place of Abner's body.


simplify: for the things which are done by them in secret it is a shame even to speak of.

For the things which are done by them in secret it is shame even to put into words.


simplify: And after five days came down the chief priest Ananias, with the elders, and a certain orator--Tertullus, and they made manifest to the governor <FI>the things<Fi> against Paul;

Five days afterwards the high priest Ananias came down with some of the councillors and a barrister named Tertullus. They laid an information with the Governor against Paul;


simplify: The iniquity of Ephraim is bound up; his sin is laid up in store.

The wrongdoing of Ephraim is shut up; his sin is put away in secret.


simplify: And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind them; and they cried unto Jehovah, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

And Judah, turning their faces, saw that they were being attacked in front and at the back; and they gave a cry for help to the Lord, while the priests were sounding their horns.


simplify: And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Darius, that the word of the Lord came unto Zechariah in the fourth day of the ninth month, even in Chisleu;

And it came about in the fourth year of King Darius, that the word of the Lord came to Zechariah on the fourth day of the ninth month, the month Chislev.


simplify: And thou shalt make the boards for the tabernacle, twenty boards for the south side southward.

These are the boards needed for the house; twenty boards for the south side,


simplify: Your kerchiefs also will I tear, and deliver my people out of your hand, and they shall be no more in your hand to be hunted; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will have your veils violently parted in two, and will make my people free from your hands, and they will no longer be in your power for you to go after them; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.


simplify: And Haran died before his father Terah in the land of his nativity, in Ur of the Chaldees.

And death came to Haran when he was with his father Terah in the land of his birth, Ur of the Chaldees.


simplify: That ye be not soon shaken in mind, or be troubled, neither by spirit, nor by word, nor by letter as from us, as that the day of Christ is at hand.

That you may not be moved in mind or troubled by a spirit, or by a word, or by a letter as from us, with the suggestion that the day of the Lord is even now come;


simplify: And the men of Israel turned in the battle, and Benjamin began to smite and kill of the men of Israel about thirty persons; for they said, Surely they are smitten down before us, as in the first battle.

The men of Israel were to make a turn about in the fight. And Benjamin had overcome and put to death about thirty of the men of Israel, and were saying, Certainly they are falling back before us as in the first fight.


rate difficulty: The sons of Shemaiah: Othni and Rephael and Obed, Elzabad, whose brothers were great men of war, Elihu and Semachiah.

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


rate difficulty: And I have this day declared it to you; but ye have not obeyed the voice of Jehovah your God in anything for which he hath sent me unto you.

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


simplify: They are all hot as an oven, and devour their judges; all their kings are fallen: there is none among them that calleth unto me.

They are all heated like an oven, and they put an end to their judges; all their kings have been made low; not one among them makes prayer to me.


rate difficulty: And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them.

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


simplify: but every one that eateth it shall bear his iniquity, because he hath profaned the holy thing of Jehovah: and that soul shall be cut off from his people.

And as for anyone who takes it for food, his sin will be on him, for he has put shame on the holy thing of the Lord: he will be cut off from his people.


rate difficulty: And ye have not hearkened unto Me--an affirmation of Jehovah--so as to provoke Me to anger with the work of your hands for evil to you.

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


rate difficulty: `And a man who lieth with a male as one lieth with a woman; abomination both of them have done; they are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.

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


rate difficulty: And Joash saith to all who have stood against him, `Ye, do ye plead for Baal? ye--do ye save him? he who pleadeth for him is put to death during the morning; if he <FI>is<Fi> a god he himself doth plead against him, because he hath broken down his altar.'

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: medium


rate difficulty: When the strong man armed keeps watch over his house, then his goods are safe:


rate difficulty: Then his brethren and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the buryingplace of Manoah his father. And he judged Israel twenty years.

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


rate difficulty: And anyone who has been sleeping in the house will have to have his clothing washed; and anyone who takes food in that house will have to have his clothing washed.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Ham: Cush, and Mizraim, and Put, and Canaan.


rate difficulty: and the day following he entered Caesarea. Cornelius was expecting them, and had invited his relations and intimate friends to meet them.

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


simplify: And the children of Benjamin gathered themselves together out of the cities unto Gibeah, to go out to battle against the children of Israel.

And the children of Benjamin came together from all their towns to Gibeah, to go to war with the children of Israel.


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

And a certain ruler put a question to him, saying, Good Master, what have I to do so that I may have eternal life?


simplify: Lie not one to another, having put off the old man with his practices,

Never lie to one another. Get rid of your old self and its habits,


rate difficulty: And Rebekah hath a brother, and his name <FI>is<Fi> Laban, and Laban runneth unto the man who <FI>is<Fi> without, unto the fountain;

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


simplify: Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also?

Am I talking as a man? does not the law say the same?


simplify: But he that lacketh these things is blind, and cannot see afar off, and hath forgotten that he was purged from his old sins.

For the man who has not these things is blind, seeing only what is near, having no memory of how he was made clean from his old sins.


rate difficulty: And God went on to say to Moses, Say to the children of Israel, The Lord, the God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, has sent me to you: this is my name for ever, and this is my sign to all generations.

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


simplify: And he began to say unto them, To-day hath this scripture been fulfilled in your ears.

Then he said to them, Today this word has come true in your hearing.


simplify: The letter which ye sent unto us hath been plainly read before me.

And now the sense of the letter which you sent to us has been made clear to me,


simplify: That thou shalt take up this proverb against the king of Babylon, and say, How hath the oppressor ceased! the golden city ceased!

That you will take up this bitter song against the king of Babylon, and say, How has the cruel overseer come to an end! He who was lifted up in pride is cut off;


simplify: Salute thee doth Epaphras, (my fellow-captive in Christ Jesus,)

Epaphras, who is my fellow prisoner for Christ Jesus, sends you his greeting;


rate difficulty: Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, Who <FI>are<Fi> in the mountain of Samaria, Who are oppressing the poor, Who are bruising the needy, Who are saying to their lords: `Bring in, and we do drink.'

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


simplify: for not by will of man did ever prophecy come, but by the Holy Spirit borne on holy men of God spake.

for no prophetic teaching ever came in the old days at the mere wish of people, but people, moved by the Holy Spirit, spoke direct from God.


rate difficulty: I will gather them that sorrow for the solemn assemblies, who were of thee: the reproach of it was a burden [unto them].

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


simplify: and having come, a poor widow did put in two mites, which are a farthing.

but one poor widow came and put in two small coins, worth very little.


simplify: and his first-born son Abdon, and Zur, and Kish, and Baal, and Ner, and Nadab,

And Abdon his oldest son, and Zur and Kish and Baal and Ner and Nadab


rate difficulty: My heart <FI>is<Fi> to the lawgivers of Israel, Who are offering themselves willingly among the people, Bless ye Jehovah!

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


simplify: Annas and Caiaphas being chief priests--there came a word of God unto John the son of Zacharias, in the wilderness,

and when Annas and Caiaphas were high priests, a command from God came to John, the son of Zechariah, while he was in the wilderness.


simplify: for where there are two or three gathered together--to my name, there am I in the midst of them.'

For where two or three have come together in my name, I am present with them.”


rate difficulty: And Reuben spoke to his father, saying, Slay my two sons if I bring him not back to thee: give him into my hand, and I will bring him to thee again.


rate difficulty: But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto the chief priests, and captains of the temple, and elders, that were come against him, Are ye come out, as against a robber, with swords and staves?

And Jesus said to the chief priests and the captains of the Temple and the rulers, who had come against him, Have you come out as against a thief, with swords and sticks?


simplify: But when thou art bidden, go and sit down in the lowest room; that when he that bade thee cometh, he may say unto thee, Friend, go up higher: then shalt thou have worship in the presence of them that sit at meat with thee.

No, when you are invited, go and take the lowest place, so that, when the host who has invited you comes, he may say to you ‘Friend, come higher up’; and then you will be honored in the eyes of all your fellow guests.


simplify: because of which things cometh the anger of God upon the sons of the disobedience,

These are the things because of which the wrath of God comes,


rate difficulty: If I say to the earth, You are my father; and to the worm, My mother and my sister;

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


rate difficulty: And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

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


simplify: Then said Ahimaaz the son of Zadok, Let me now run, and bear the king tidings, how that the Lord hath avenged him of his enemies.

Then Ahimaaz, the son of Zadok, said, Let me go and give the king news of how the Lord has done right in his cause against those who took up arms against him.


rate difficulty: Can that which hath no savor be eaten without salt? Or is there any taste in the white of an egg?

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


simplify: Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways, and to fear him.

Then keep the orders of the Lord your God, fearing him and walking in his ways.


rate difficulty: And in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, ye shall have a holy convocation; ye shall do no servile work: it is a day of blowing of trumpets unto you.

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


simplify: Wherefore they arose and fled in the twilight, and left their tents, and their horses, and their asses, even the camp as it was, and fled for their life.

So they got up and went in flight, in the half light, without their tents or their horses or their asses or any of their goods; they went in flight, fearing for their lives.


simplify: The waters hide themselvesand becomelike stone, And the face of the deep is frozen.

The waters are joined together, hard as a stone, and the face of the deep is covered.


rate difficulty: For on this day, in the town of David, a Saviour has come to birth, who is Christ the Lord.


simplify: from the Lord was this, and it is wonderful in our eyes.'

this corner-stone has come from the Lord, and is marvelous in our eyes.’”


simplify: And in the seven plenteous years the earth brought forth by handfuls.

Now in the seven good years the earth gave fruit in masses.


rate difficulty: For the Lord is making Babylon waste, and putting an end to the great voice coming out of her; and her waves are thundering like great waters, their voice is sounding loud:

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord, he it is that doth go before thee; he will be with thee, he will not fail thee, neither forsake thee: fear not, neither be dismayed.

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


simplify: And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.

And when the days of the feast came to an end and they were going back, the boy Jesus was still in Jerusalem, but they had no knowledge of it:


simplify: From mount Hor ye shall point out your border unto the entrance of Hamath; and the goings forth of the border shall be to Zedad:

And from Mount Hor the line will go in the direction of Hamath; the farthest point of it will be at Zedad:


simplify: Now to him that worketh is the reward not reckoned of grace, but of debt.

Now wages are regarded as due to the person who works, not as a favor, but as a debt;


rate difficulty: None eye pitied thee, to do any of these unto thee, to have compassion upon thee; but thou wast cast out in the open field, to the lothing of thy person, in the day that thou wast born.

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


simplify: And thou shalt speak unto the children of Israel, saying, Whosoever curseth his God shall bear his sin.

And say to the children of Israel, As for any man cursing God, his sin will be on his head.


rate difficulty: And as for the people, he made servants of them, town by town, from one end of Egypt to the other.


simplify: Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

But the growth of his hair was starting again after it had been cut off.


simplify: And Jehovah descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Jehovah.

And the Lord came down in the cloud and took his place by the side of Moses, and Moses gave worship to the name of the Lord.


simplify: And they began to pray him to depart out of their coasts.

so they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the messengers were gone away from them to the heavens, that the men, the shepherds, said unto one another, `We may go over indeed unto Bethlehem, and see this thing that hath come to pass, that the Lord did make known to us.'

Now, when the angels had left them and gone back to heaven, the shepherds said to one another: “Let us go at once to Bethlehem, and see this thing that has happened, of which the Lord has told us.”


rate difficulty: And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

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


simplify: For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north:

For you said in your heart, I will go up to heaven, I will make my seat higher than the stars of God; I will take my place on the mountain of the meeting-place of the gods, in the inmost parts of the north.


simplify: Which things also we speak, not in words which man’s wisdom teacheth, but which the Spirit teacheth; combining spiritual things with spiritual words.

And these are the things which we say, not in the language of man's wisdom, but in words given to us by the Spirit, judging the things of the spirit by the help of the Spirit.


simplify: And when forty years were fulfilled, an angel appeared to him in the wilderness of mount Sinai, in a flame of fire in a bush.

At the end of forty years, an angel came to him in the waste land of Sinai, in the flame of a burning thorn-tree.


simplify: O Lord God, turn not away the face of thine anointed: remember the mercies of David thy servant.

O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.


simplify: But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.

But we were hoping that he would be the Saviour of Israel. In addition to all this he has now let three days go by from the time when these things took place;


simplify: The tongue of the righteous isaschoice silver: The heart of the wicked is little worth.

The tongue of the upright man is like tested silver: the heart of the evil-doer is of little value.


rate difficulty: For the earth bringeth forth fruit of herself; first the blade, then the ear, after that the full corn in the ear.

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


simplify: And if thou wilt walk before me, as David thy father walked, in integrity of heart, and in uprightness, to do according to all that I have commanded thee, and wilt keep my statutes and my judgments:

As for you, if you will go on your way before me, as David your father did, uprightly and with a true heart, doing what I have given you orders to do, keeping my laws and my decisions;


simplify: but he left the linen cloth, and fled naked.

But he got away unclothed, without the linen cloth.


rate difficulty: Then, after reading the king's letter, Rehum and Shimshai the scribe and their friends went quickly to Jerusalem, to the Jews, and had them stopped by force.

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


simplify: And now Timotheus having come unto us from you, and having declared good news to us of your faith and love, and that ye have a good remembrance of us always, desiring much to see us, as we also <FI>to see<Fi> you,

But, when Timothy recently returned to us from you with good news of your faith and love, and told us how kindly you think of us — always longing, he said, to see us, just as we are longing to see you —


rate difficulty: The sons of Manasseh by his servant-wife, the Aramaean woman: she gave birth to Machir, the father of Gilead;

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


rate difficulty: And out of the basket of unleavened bread which was before the Lord he took one unleavened cake, and one cake of bread with oil on it, and one thin cake, and put them on the fat and on the right leg:

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


simplify: Yet thus saith the Lord God; At the end of forty years will I gather the Egyptians from the people whither they were scattered:

For this is what the Lord has said: At the end of forty years I will get the Egyptians together from the peoples where they have gone in flight:


simplify: And Herod was highly displeased with them of Tyre and Sidon: but they came with one accord to him, and, having made Blastus the king’s chamberlain their friend, desired peace; because their country was nourished by the king’s country.

Now he was very angry with the people of Tyre and Sidon: and they came to him, all together, and having made friends with Blastus, the controller of the king's house, they made a request for peace, because their country was dependent on the king's country for its food.


simplify: And the sons of Kohath; Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.

And the sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.


simplify: Lest thou give thine honor unto others, And thy years unto the cruel;

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


rate difficulty: And they first took their journey according to the commandment of the Lord by the hand of Moses.

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


rate difficulty: Unto the sons of Gershom were given out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with her suburbs, and Ashtaroth with her suburbs:

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


simplify: For narrow is the gate, and straitened the way, that leadeth unto life, and few are they that find it.

For narrow is the door and hard the road to life, and only a small number make discovery of it.


simplify: Take my yoke upon you, and learn of me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and ye shall find rest unto your souls.

Take my yoke on you and become like me, for I am gentle and without pride, and you will have rest for your souls;


simplify: And by the border of Judah, from the east side unto the west side, shall be the offering which ye shall offer of five and twenty thousand reeds in breadth, and in length as one of the other parts, from the east side unto the west side: and the sanctuary shall be in the midst of it.

And on the limit of Judah, from the east side to the west side, will be the offering which you are to make, twenty-five thousand wide, and as long as one of the parts, from the east side to the west side: and the holy place will be in the middle of it.


simplify: And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the Lord’s passover.

And take your meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover.


rate difficulty: `And these are they who toward the thorns are sown: these are they who are hearing the word,

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Joshua, Be not afraid because of them: for to morrow about this time will I deliver them up all slain before Israel: thou shalt hough their horses, and burn their chariots with fire.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Have no fear of them: for tomorrow at this time I will give them all up dead before Israel; you are to have the leg-muscles of their horses cut and their war-carriages burned with fire.


rate difficulty: Is there no balm in Gilead; is there no physician there? why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered?

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


simplify: Who hath also sealed us, and given the earnest of the Spirit in our hearts.

And it is he who has put his stamp on us, even the Spirit, as the sign in our hearts of the coming glory.


simplify: Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

A curse is on you, Pharisees! for your desires are for the most important seats in the Synagogues and for words of respect said to you in the market-place.


simplify: What, then, is my reward? --that proclaiming good news, without charge I shall make the good news of the Christ, not to abuse my authority in the good news;

What is my reward, then? To present the good news free of all cost, and so make but a sparing use of the rights which it gives me.


rate difficulty: And that man hath gone up out of his city from time to time, to bow himself, and to sacrifice, before Jehovah of Hosts, in Shiloh, and there <FI>are<Fi> two sons of Eli, Hophni and Phinehas, priests to Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: You have now been with your brothers for a long time; till this day you have been doing the orders of the Lord your God.


simplify: The words of Jonadab the son of Rechab, that he commanded his sons not to drink wine, are performed; for unto this day they drink none, but obey their father’s commandment: notwithstanding I have spoken unto you, rising early and speaking; but ye hearkened not unto me.

The orders which Jonadab, the son of Rechab, gave to his sons to take no wine, are done, and to this day they take no wine, for they do the orders of their father: but I have sent my words to you, getting up early and sending them, and you have not given ear to me.


simplify: And he came to Nazareth, where he hath been brought up, and he went in, according to his custom, on the sabbath-day, to the synagogue, and stood up to read;

Coming to Nazareth, where he had been brought up, Jesus, as was his custom, went on the Sabbath into the synagogue, and stood up to read the scriptures.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, the Redeemer of Israel, and his Holy One, to him whom man despiseth, to him whom the nation abhorreth, to a servant of rulers, Kings shall see and arise, princes also shall worship, because of the Lord that is faithful, and the Holy One of Israel, and he shall choose thee.

The Lord who takes up Israel's cause, even his Holy One, says to him whom men make sport of, who is hated by the nations, a servant of rulers: Kings will see and get up from their places, and chiefs will give worship: because of the Lord who keeps faith; even the Holy One of Israel who has taken you for himself.


rate difficulty: and David runneth and standeth over the Philistine, and taketh his sword, and draweth it out of its sheath, and putteth him to death, and cutteth off with it his head; and the Philistines see that their hero <FI>is<Fi> dead, and flee.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;

Then the second angel blew; and what appeared to be a great mountain, burning, was hurled into the sea. A third of the sea became blood,


simplify: At that time will I bring you again, even in the time that I gather you: for I will make you a name and a praise among all people of the earth, when I turn back your captivity before your eyes, saith the Lord.

At that time I will make you come in, at that time I will get you together: for I will make you a name and a praise among all the peoples of the earth when I let your fate be changed before your eyes, says the Lord.


simplify: They are all gone out of the way, they are together become unprofitable; there is none that doeth good, no, not one.

They have all gone astray; they have one and all become depraved; there is no one who is doing good — no, not one!’


rate difficulty: And his mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.


simplify: There is one lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy: who art thou that judgest another?

There is only one judge and law-giver, even he who has the power of salvation and of destruction; but who are you to be your neighbour's judge?


rate difficulty: For even as we have many members in one body, and all the members have not the same office:


simplify: but a whole month, until it come out at your nostrils, and it be loathsome unto you; because that ye have rejected Jehovah who is among you, and have wept before him, saying, Why came we forth out of Egypt?

But every day for a month, till you are tired of it, turning from it in disgust: because you have gone against the Lord who is with you, and have been weeping before him saying, Why did we come out of Egypt?


simplify: O inhabitant of Lebanon, that makest thy nest in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied shalt thou be when pangs come upon thee, the pain as of a woman in travail!

O you who are living in Lebanon, making your living-place in the cedars, how greatly to be pitied will you be when pains come on you, as on a woman in childbirth!


rate difficulty: So David went up thither, and his two wives also, Ahinoam the Jizreelitess, and Abigail the wife of Nabal the Carmelite.

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


simplify: But those that encamp before the tabernacle toward the east, even before the tabernacle of the congregation eastward, shall be Moses, and Aaron and his sons, keeping the charge of the sanctuary for the charge of the children of Israel; and the stranger that cometh nigh shall be put to death.

And those whose tents are to be placed on the east side of the House in front of the Tent of meeting, looking to the dawn, are Moses and Aaron and his sons, who will do the work of the holy place for the children of Israel; and any strange person who comes near will be put to death.


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

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


simplify: And they passed over Jordan, and pitched in Aroer, on the right side of the city that lieth in the midst of the river of Gad, and toward Jazer:

And they went over Jordan, and starting from Aroer, from the town which is in the middle of the valley, they went in the direction of the Gadites, and on to Jazer;


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Joshua, Stretch out the javelin that is in thy hand toward Ai; for I will give it into thy hand. And Joshua stretched out the javelin that was in his hand toward the city.

And the Lord said to Joshua, Let your spear be stretched out against Ai; for I will give it into your hands. So Joshua took up his spear, stretching it out in the direction of the town.


rate difficulty: Joah his son, Iddo his son, Zerah his son, Jeaterai his son.

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


simplify: Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.


simplify: Where is the way to the dwelling of light? And as for darkness, where is the place thereof,

Which is the way to the resting-place of the light, and where is the store-house of the dark;


simplify: and she, having seen, was troubled at his word, and was reasoning of what kind this salutation may be.

Mary was much disturbed at his words, and was wondering to herself what such a greeting could mean,


rate difficulty: So they went forward three days' journey from the mountain of the Lord; and the ark of the Lord's agreement went three days' journey before them, looking for a resting-place for them;

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


rate difficulty: night and day exceedingly beseeching, that we might see your face, and perfect the things lacking in your faith.

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


rate difficulty: When there was no deep I was given birth, when there were no fountains flowing with water.

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


simplify: And the chief priests and scribes stood and vehemently accused him.

And the chief priests and the scribes were there, making statements against him violently.


rate difficulty: and Shallum begat Jekamiah, and Jekamiah begat Elishama.

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


rate difficulty: The highway of the upright is to depart from evil: He that keepeth his way preserveth his soul.

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


simplify: A foolish woman is clamorous: she is simple, and knoweth nothing.

The foolish woman is full of noise; she has no sense at all.


rate difficulty: your dead bodies shall fall in this wilderness; and all that were numbered of you, according to your whole number, from twenty years old and upward, that have murmured against me,

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


rate difficulty: See, I am waiting here by the water-spring; and the daughters of the town are coming out to get water:


rate difficulty: It is, then, through my union with Christ Jesus that I have a proud confidence in my work for God.


rate difficulty: Then went he inward, and measured each post of the entrance, two cubits; and the entrance, six cubits; and the breadth of the entrance, seven cubits.

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


simplify: And they shall know that I, Jehovah, their God am with them, and that they, the house of Israel, are my people, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And they will be certain that I the Lord their God am with them, and that they, the children of Israel, are my people, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Babylon hath been a golden cup in Jehovah’s hand, that made all the earth drunken: the nations have drunk of her wine; therefore the nations are mad.

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


rate difficulty: And Laban said to him, Surely thou art my bone and my flesh. And he abode with him the space of a month.


simplify: Brethren, be not children in understanding: howbeit in malice be ye children, but in understanding be men.

My friends, do not show yourselves children in understanding. In wickedness be infants, but in understanding show yourselves adults.


simplify: And saying, The time is fulfilled, and the kingdom of God is at hand: repent ye, and believe the gospel.

“The time has come, and the kingdom of God is at hand; repent, and believe the good news.”


simplify: Ye are not able the cup of the Lord to drink, and the cup of demons; ye are not able of the table of the Lord to partake, and of the table of demons;

You cannot drink both the Cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot partake at the Table of the Lord and at the table of demons.


rate difficulty: And the priest shall dip his finger in some of the blood, and sprinkle it seven times before the Lord, even before the vail.


simplify: And Ahab the son of Omri did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah above all that were before him.

And Ahab, the son of Omri, did evil in the eyes of the Lord, even worse than all who went before him.


simplify: and these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, they received the word with all readiness of mind, every day examining the Writings whether those things were so;

These Jews of Beroea were better disposed than those in Thessalonica, for they welcomed the message with great readiness, and daily examined the scriptures to see if what was said was true.


rate difficulty: And of the poor of the people, and the remnant of the people who are left in the city, and those who are falling away, who have fallen unto the king of Babylon, and the remnant of the multitude, hath Nebuzar-Adan chief of the executioners, removed;

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


rate difficulty: Cursed are those who get up early in the morning to give themselves up to strong drink; who keep on drinking far into the night till they are heated with wine!

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


simplify: And he humbled not himself before Jehovah, as Manasseh his father had humbled himself; but this same Amon trespassed more and more.

He did not make himself low before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had done, but went on sinning more and more.


rate difficulty: and is based on the hope of eternal life, which God, who never lies, promised before the ages began,

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


simplify: Then Solomon began to build the house of the Lord at Jerusalem in mount Moriah, where the Lord appeared unto David his father, in the place that David had prepared in the threshingfloor of Ornan the Jebusite.

Then Solomon made a start at building the house of the Lord on Mount Moriah in Jerusalem, where the Lord had been seen by his father David, in the place which David had made ready in the grain-floor of Ornan the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: For if Abraham were justified by works, he hath whereof to glory; but not before God.


simplify: And this thing became a sin; for the people went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

And this became a sin in Israel; for the people went to give worship to the one at Beth-el, and to the other at Dan.


simplify: If thou see the ass of him that hateth thee lying under his burden, thou shalt forbear to leave him, thou shalt surely release it with him.

If you see the ass of one who has no love for you bent down to the earth under the weight which is put on it, you are to come to its help, even against your desire.


rate difficulty: And to take with you the silver and gold freely offered by the king and his wise men to the God of Israel, whose Temple is in Jerusalem,

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