simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, Amend your ways and your doings, and I will cause you to dwell in this place.

The Lord of armies, the God of Israel, says, Let your ways and your doings be changed for the better and I will let you go on living in this place.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Ahab heard those words, that he rent his clothes, and put sackcloth upon his flesh, and fasted, and lay in sackcloth, and went softly.

Hearing these words, Ahab, in great grief, put haircloth on his flesh and went without food, sleeping in haircloth, and going about quietly.


simplify: But if they cannot contain, let them marry: for it is better to marry than to burn.

But, if they cannot control themselves, let them marry, for it is better to marry than to be consumed with passion.


rate difficulty: In that same hour he was full of joy in the Holy Spirit and said, I give praise to you, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because you have kept these things secret from the wise and the men of learning, and have made them clear to little children: for so, O Father, it was pleasing in your eyes.

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


rate difficulty: And Abigail hasteth, and taketh two hundred loaves, and two bottles of wine, and five sheep, prepared, and five measures of roasted corn, and a hundred bunches of raisins, and two hundred bunches of figs, and setteth <FI>them<Fi> on the asses.

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


simplify: Who also hath gone about to profane the temple: whom we took, and would have judged according to our law.

Who, in addition, was attempting to make the Temple unclean: whom we took,


simplify: And while he yet spake, lo, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a great multitude with swords and staves, from the chief priests and elders of the people.

And while he was still talking, Judas, one of the twelve, came, and with him a band armed with swords and sticks, from the chief priests and those in authority over the people.


rate difficulty: Now the building that was before the separate place at the end toward the west was seventy cubits broad; and the wall of the building was five cubits thick round about, and the length thereof ninety cubits.

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


simplify: They did work wilily, and went and made as if they had been ambassadors, and took old sacks upon their asses, and wine bottles, old, and rent, and bound up;

Acting with deceit, got food together as if for a long journey; and took old food-bags for their asses, and old and cracked wine-skins kept together with cord;


simplify: But it came to pass that, when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and the Arabians, and the Ammonites, and the Ashdodites, heard that the repairing of the walls of Jerusalem went forward, and that the breaches began to be stopped, then they were very wroth;

But when it came to the ears of Sanballat and Tobiah and the Arabians and the Ammonites and the Ashdodites, that the building of the walls of Jerusalem was going forward and the broken places were being made good, they were full of wrath;


simplify: and if the ministration of the death, in letters, engraved in stones, came in glory, so that the sons of Israel were not able to look stedfastly to the face of Moses, because of the glory of his face--which was being made useless,

If the system of religion which involved death, embodied in a written law and engraved on stones, began amid such glory, that the Israelites were unable to gaze at the face of Moses because of its glory, though it was but a passing glory,


simplify: When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.

This gave rise to a serious dispute, and much discussion, between Paul and Barnabas and these people, and it was therefore settled that Paul and Barnabas and others of their number should go up to Jerusalem, to consult the apostles and officers of the church about the matter under discussion.


rate difficulty: The light shall become dark in his tent, and his lamp over him shall be put out.

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


rate difficulty: How beautiful are thy feet with shoes, O prince’s daughter! the joints of thy thighs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a cunning workman.

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


rate difficulty: And he gave it to Jacob for a law, and to Israel for an eternal agreement;

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


rate difficulty: And he laid his body in his own grave; and they mourned over him, saying, Alas, my brother!


simplify: And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.

And if the Lord had not made the time short, no flesh would have been kept from destruction; but because of the saints he has made the time short.


simplify: thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness;

greed, wickedness, deceit, indecency, envy, slander, haughtiness, folly;


simplify: When Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel,

So Abimelech was chief over Israel for three years.


simplify: One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said,  Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.

One of their prophets has said, The men of Crete are ever false, evil beasts, lovers of food, hating work.


simplify: For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done only that which was evil in my sight from their youth; for the children of Israel have only provoked me to anger with the work of their hands, saith Jehovah.

For the children of Israel and the children of Judah have done nothing but evil in my eyes from their earliest years: the children of Israel have only made me angry with the work of their hands, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And now am I come up without Jehovah against this land to destroy it? Jehovah said to me, Go up against this land and destroy it.


rate difficulty: And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,

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


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

In the twenty-sixth year that Asa was king of Judah, Elah, the son of Baasha, became king of Israel in Tirzah, and he was king for two years.


rate difficulty: and servants of the king, his ministers, say, `Let them seek for the king young women, virgins, of good appearance,

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


simplify: With Onesimus, a faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things which are done here.

With him will be Onesimus, our dear faithful friend, who is one of yourselves. They will tell you all that is going on here.


simplify: And it came to pass, in his saying these things, a certain woman having lifted up the voice out of the multitude, said to him, `Happy the womb that carried thee, and the paps that thou didst suck!'

As Jesus was saying this, a woman in the crowd, raising her voice, exclaimed: “Happy was the mother who bore you and nursed you!”


And after Paul and Barnabas had had no little argument and discussion with them, the brothers made a decision to send Paul and Barnabas and certain others of them to the Apostles and the rulers of the church at Jerusalem about this question.


simplify: And Zechariah, and Aziel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Unni, and Eliab, and Maaseiah, and Benaiah, with psalteries on Alamoth;

And Zechariah and Aziel and Shemiramoth and Jehiel, Unni and Eliab and Maaseiah and Benaiah, with corded instruments put to Alamoth.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah strengtheneth the heart of Pharaoh, and he hath not hearkened unto them, as Jehovah hath spoken unto Moses.

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


simplify: The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! good were it for that man if he had never been born.

The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but cursed is that man through whom the Son of man is given up! It would have been well for that man if he had never been given birth.


simplify: Do thy diligence to come before winter. Eubulus greeteth thee, and Pudens, and Linus, and Claudia, and all the brethren.

Do your best to come before the winter. Eubulus sends you his love, and Pudens and Linus and Claudia, and all the brothers.


simplify: And when the queen of Sheba heard of the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem, with a very great train, and camels that bare spices, and gold in abundance, and precious stones: and when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart.

Now the queen of Sheba, hearing great things of Solomon, came to Jerusalem to put his wisdom to the test with hard questions; and with her came a very great train, and camels weighted down with spices, and great stores of gold and jewels: and when she came to Solomon she had talk with him of everything in her mind.


rate difficulty: And when they had stripped him, they took his head, and his armour, and sent into the land of the Philistines round about, to carry tidings unto their idols, and to the people.

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


rate difficulty: and all the men were, as it were, twelve.

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


rate difficulty: `Lo, I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah, God of all flesh: For Me is anything too wonderful?

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


simplify: And Joseph made ready his chariot, and went up to meet Israel his father, to Goshen, and presented himself unto him; and he fell on his neck, and wept on his neck a good while.

And Joseph got his carriage ready and went to Goshen for the meeting with his father; and when he came before him, he put his arms round his neck, weeping.


rate difficulty: The wise! --his eyes <FI>are<Fi> in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

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


rate difficulty: If there be famine in the land, if there be pestilence, if there be blight, mildew, locust, caterpillar; if their enemy besiege them in the land of their gates; whatever plague, whatever sickness there be:

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


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


simplify: and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

And the Levite, because he has no part or heritage in the land, and the man from a strange country, and the child who has no father, and the widow, who are living among you, will come and take food and have enough; and so the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.


simplify: and those using this world, as not using <FI>it<Fi> up; for passing away is the fashion of this world.

and those who use the good things of the world as using them sparingly; for this world as we see it is passing away.


simplify: In the firstmonth, in the fourteenth day of the month, ye shall have the passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread shall be eaten.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you are to have the Passover, a feast of seven days; unleavened bread is to be your food.


rate difficulty: May words which are like the wind be stopped? or what is troubling you to make answer to them?


rate difficulty: A war-carriage might be got from Egypt for six hundred shekels of silver, and a horse for a hundred and fifty: they got them at the same rate for all the kings of the Hittites and the kings of Aram.

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


simplify: And Beth-zur, and Soco, and Adullam,


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


rate difficulty: And the princes say unto them, `They live, and are hewers of wood and drawers of water for all the company, as the princes spake to them.'

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


simplify: and Ahitub begat Zadok, and Zadok begat Shallum,

And Ahitub was the father of Zadok, and Zadok was the father of Shallum,


rate difficulty: And he began to speak unto the people this simile: `A certain man planted a vineyard, and gave it out to husbandmen, and went abroad for a long time,

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


simplify: And it came to pass, that, while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul having passed through the upper country came to Ephesus, and found certain disciples:

And it came about that while Apollos was at Corinth, Paul, having gone through the higher country, came to Ephesus, where there were certain disciples:


simplify: Yet I am Jehovah thy God from the land of Egypt; and thou shalt know no god but me, and besides me there is no saviour.

But I am the Lord your God, from the land of Egypt; you have knowledge of no other God and there is no saviour but me.


simplify: one who for a certain insurrection made in the city, and for murder, was cast into prison.

Now this man was in prison because of an attack against the government in the town, in which there had been loss of life.


simplify: but they that have garnered it shall eat it, and praise Jehovah; and they that have gathered it shall drink it in the courts of my sanctuary.

But those who have got in the grain will have it for their food, and will give praise to the Lord; and those who have got in the grapes will take the wine of them in the open places of my holy house.


rate difficulty: And Abdon son of Hillel, the Pirathonite, dieth, and is buried in Pirathon, in the land of Ephraim, in the hill-country of the Amalekite.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah,God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Israel, our fathers, keep this for ever in the imagination of the thoughts of the heart of thy people, and direct their hearts to thee!

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


simplify: and without a simile he was not speaking to them, and by themselves, to his disciples he was expounding all.

and to them he never used to speak except in parables; but in private to his own disciples he explained everything.


rate difficulty: also we--we preach Christ crucified, to Jews, indeed, a stumbling-block, and to Greeks foolishness,

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


simplify: Be it known now unto the king, that, if this city be builded, and the walls finished, they will not pay tribute, custom, or toll, and in the end it will be hurtful unto the kings.

The king may be certain that when the building of this town and its walls is complete, they will give no tax or payment in goods or forced payments, and in the end it will be a cause of loss to the kings.


rate difficulty: and had commanded him concerning this thing, that he should not go after other gods: but he kept not that which Jehovah commanded.

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


simplify: Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters.

Unleavened cakes are to be your food through all the seven days; let no leavened bread be seen among you, or any leaven, in any part of your land.


simplify: Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s brother, thou shalt not approach to his wife: she is thine aunt.

You may not have sex relations with the wife of your father's brother, for she is of your family;


simplify: And as they cried out, and cast off their clothes, and threw dust into the air,

And while they were crying out, and pulling off their clothing, and sending dust into the air,


rate difficulty: which having taken up, they were using helps, undergirding the ship, and fearing lest they may fall on the quicksand, having let down the mast--so were borne on.

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


simplify: But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.

But their eyes were not open that they might have knowledge of him.


rate difficulty: `And if his offering <FI>is<Fi> out of the flock for a sacrifice of peace-offerings to Jehovah, male or female, a perfect one he doth bring near;

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: medium


simplify: A land wherein thou shalt eat bread without scarceness, thou shalt not lack any thing in it; a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou mayest dig brass.

Where there will be bread for you in full measure and you will be in need of nothing; a land where the very stones are iron and from whose hills you may get copper.


rate difficulty: Observe and hear all these words which I command thee, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee for ever, when thou doest that which is good and right in the eyes of Jehovah thy God.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concision.

Be on the watch against dogs, against the workers of evil, against those of the circumcision:


simplify: For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer–elim.

For the cry has gone round the limits of Moab; as far as to Eglaim and Beer-elim.


rate difficulty: And between the ascent of the corner and the sheep-gate, have the refiners and the merchants strengthened.

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


simplify: Then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains:

Then let those who are in Judaea go in flight to the mountains:


simplify: And they returned, and came to En-mishpat (the same is Kadesh), and smote all the country of the Amalekites, and also the Amorites, that dwelt in Hazazon-tamar.

Then they came back to En-mishpat (which is Kadesh), making waste all the country of the Amalekites and of the Amorites living in Hazazon-tamar.


simplify: And as they were seeking to kill him, tidings came up to the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in confusion.

And while they were attempting to put him to death, news came to the chief captain of the band that all Jerusalem was out of control.


rate difficulty: Then Solomon took his place before the altar of the Lord, all the men of Israel being present, and stretching out his hands to heaven,

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


rate difficulty: Nothing was in the ark but the two flat stones which Moses put there at Horeb, where the Lord made an agreement with the children of Israel when they came out of Egypt.

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


simplify: Howbeit the most High dwelleth not in temples made with hands; as saith the prophet,

But still, the Most High has not his resting-place in houses made with hands, as the prophet says,


simplify: But it shall come to pass, if thou wilt not hearken unto the voice of the Lord thy God, to observe to do all his commandments and his statutes which I command thee this day; that all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee:

But if you do not give ear to the voice of the Lord your God, and take care to do all his orders and his laws which I give you today, then all these curses will come on you and overtake you:


rate difficulty: He reviveth not the wicked, And the judgment of the poor appointeth;

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


rate difficulty: And they said unto Moses, Because there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou taken us away to die in the wilderness? wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to carry us forth out of Egypt?

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


simplify: For what is the hope of the godless, though he get him gain, When God taketh away his soul?

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?


simplify: And Joshua at that time turned back, and took Hazor, and smote the king thereof with the sword: for Hazor beforetime was the head of all those kingdoms.

At that time, Joshua went on to take Hazor and put its king to the sword: for in earlier times Hazor was the chief of all those kingdoms.


rate difficulty: And having gone into the synagogue, he was speaking boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading the things concerning the reign of God,

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


simplify: And if he trespass against thee seven times in a day, and seven times in a day turn again to thee, saying, I repent; thou shalt forgive him.

And if he does you wrong seven times in a day, and seven times comes to you and says, I have regret for what I have done; let him have forgiveness.


rate difficulty: But by the grace of God I am what I am: and his grace which was bestowed upon me was not found vain; but I labored more abundantly than they all: yet not I, but the grace of God which was with me.

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


rate difficulty: These <FI>are<Fi> births of Jacob: Joseph, a son of seventeen years, hath been enjoying himself with his brethren among the flock, (and he <FI>is<Fi> a youth,) with the sons of Bilhah, and with the sons of Zilpah, his father's wives, and Joseph bringeth in an account of their evil unto their father.

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


rate difficulty: one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

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


simplify: And the oracle he prepared in the house within, to set there the ark of the covenant of the Lord.

And he made ready an inmost room in the middle of the house, in which to put the ark of the agreement of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Elisha saith to him, `Take bow and arrows:' and he taketh unto him bow and arrows.

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


simplify: And Jonadab said unto the king, Behold, the king’s sons come: as thy servant said, so it is.

And Jonadab said to the king, See, the king's sons are coming; as your servant said, so it is.


simplify: Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of the Lord filled the house.

Now when Solomon's prayers were ended, fire came down from heaven, burning up all the offerings; and the house was full of the glory of the Lord.


simplify: Then the priest shall consider: and, behold, if the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague: it is all turned white: he is clean.

And if the priest sees that all his flesh is covered with the leper's disease, the priest will say that he is clean: it is all turned white, he is clean.


simplify: And evening having come, he cometh with the twelve,

In the evening he went there with the Twelve,


simplify: Moreover, when ye shall divide by lot the land for inheritance, ye shall offer an oblation unto the Lord, an holy portion of the land: the length shall be the length of five and twenty thousand reeds, and the breadth shall be ten thousand. This shall be holy in all the borders thereof round about.

And when you are making a distribution of the land, by the decision of the Lord, for your heritage, you are to make an offering to the Lord of a part of the land as holy: it is to be twenty-five thousand long and twenty thousand wide: all the land inside these limits is to be holy.


rate difficulty: Every winged crawling thing that goeth upon all four shall be an abomination unto you.

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


rate difficulty: And Rabshakeh said unto them, Say ye now to Hezekiah, Thus saith the great king, the king of Assyria, What confidence is this wherein thou trustest?

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


simplify: And found a certain Jew named Aquila, born in Pontus, lately come from Italy, with his wife Priscilla; (because that Claudius had commanded all Jews to depart from Rome:) and came unto them.

There he met a Jew of the name of Aquila, from Pontus, who, with his wife Priscilla, had lately come from Italy, in consequence of the order which had been issued by the Emperor Claudius for all Jews to leave Rome. Paul paid them a visit,


rate difficulty: and she hasteth, and emptieth her pitcher into the drinking-trough, and runneth again unto the well to draw, and draweth for all his camels.

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


rate difficulty: So he built the house, and finished it; and covered the house with beams and boards of cedar.

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


simplify: For the which cause I also suffer these things: nevertheless I am not ashamed: for I know whom I have believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him against that day.

That is why I am undergoing these sufferings; yet I feel no shame, for I know in whom I have put my faith, and am convinced that he is able to guard what I have entrusted to him until ‘that day.’


simplify: And thou shalt gird them with girdles, Aaron and his sons, and bind head-tires on them: and they shall have the priesthood by a perpetual statute: and thou shalt consecrate Aaron and his sons.

And put the linen bands round Aaron and his sons, and the head-dresses on them, to make them priests by my order for ever: so you are to make Aaron and his sons holy to me.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill thy horn with oil, and go: I will send thee to Jesse the Beth-lehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.

And the Lord said to Samuel, How long will you go on sorrowing for Saul, seeing that I have put him from his place as king over Israel? Take oil in your vessel and go; I will send you to Jesse, the Beth-lehemite: for I have got a king for myself among his sons.


simplify: Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him.

And the love of God was made clear to us when he sent his only Son into the world so that we might have life through him.


rate difficulty: and having run forward before, he went up on a sycamore, that he may see him, because through that <FI>way<Fi> he was about to pass by.

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


simplify: And offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving with leaven, and proclaim and publish the free offerings: for this liketh you, O ye children of Israel, saith the Lord God.

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.


simplify: But those husbandmen said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours.

But those workmen said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death, and the heritage will be ours.


simplify: thou shalt surely let the dam go, but the young thou mayest take unto thyself; that it may be well with thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days.

See that you let the mother bird go, but the young ones you may take; so it will be well for you and your life will be long.


simplify: and a certain centurion's servant being ill, was about to die, who was much valued by him,

A captain in the Roman army had a slave whom he valued, and who was seriously ill — almost at the point of death.


rate difficulty: When his lamp shined upon my head, And by his light I walked through darkness;

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


rate difficulty: And over the king's treasures was Azmaveth the son of Adiel; and over the storehouses in the country, in the cities, and in the villages, and in the towers was Jonathan the son of Uzziah.

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


simplify: Did I say, Bring unto me? or, Give a reward for me of your substance?

Did I say, Give me something? or, Make a payment for me out of your wealth?


simplify: And when Paul was now about to open his mouth, Gallio said unto the Jews, If it were a matter of wrong or wicked lewdness, O ye Jews, reason would that I should bear with you:

But when Paul was about to say something, Gallio said to the Jews, If this was anything to do with wrongdoing or crime, there would be a reason for me to give you a hearing:


rate difficulty: It is to have six branches coming out from its sides; three branches from one side and three from the other.


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

“Who, then,”replied the Master, “is that trustworthy steward, the careful man, who will be placed by his master over his establishment, to give them their rations at the proper time?


simplify: As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.

As the apple-tree among the trees of the wood, so is my loved one among the sons. I took my rest under his shade with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.


simplify: Lest strangers be filled with thy strength, And thy labors be in the house of an alien,

And strange men may be full of your wealth, and the fruit of your work go to the house of others;


rate difficulty: The nakedness of a father hath one uncovered in thee, The defiled of impurity they humbled in thee.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Foxes have holes, and birds of the air have nests; but the Son of man hath not where to lay his head.

And Jesus said to him, Foxes have holes and the birds of the air have resting-places, but the Son of man has nowhere to put his head.


simplify: If thou be righteous, what givest thou him? Or what receiveth he of thy hand?

If you are upright, what do you give to him? or what does he take from your hand?


simplify: And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailor to keep them safely:

And when they had given them a great number of blows, they put them in prison, giving orders to the keeper of the prison to keep them safely:


rate difficulty: And he presseth on them greatly, and they turn aside unto him, and come in unto his house; and he maketh for them a banquet, and hath baked unleavened things; and they do eat.

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


simplify: Of Shupham, the family of the Shuphamites: of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.

Of Shephupham, the family of the Shuphamites: and of Hupham, the family of the Huphamites.


rate difficulty: from whom every family in heaven and on earth is named,

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


simplify: But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar among the people.

But they said, Not while the feast is going on, for fear of trouble among the people.


rate difficulty: And Balak the son of Zippor saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.


simplify: And Uzziah the king was a leper unto the day of his death, and dwelt in a separate house, being a leper; for he was cut off from the house of Jehovah: and Jotham his son was over the king’s house, judging the people of the land.

So King Uzziah was a leper till the day of his death, living separately in his private house; for he was cut off from the house of God; and Jotham his son was ruling over his house, judging the people of the land.


simplify: And Sarai said unto Abram, Behold now, Jehovah hath restrained me from bearing; go in, I pray thee, unto my handmaid; it may be that I shall obtain children by her. And Abram hearkened to the voice of Sarai.

And Sarai said to Abram, See, the Lord has not let me have children; go in to my servant, for I may get a family through her. And Abram did as Sarai said.


simplify: and the stars of the heaven fell unto the earth, as a fig tree casteth her unripe figs when she is shaken of a great wind.

And the stars of heaven were falling to the earth, like green fruit from a tree before the force of a great wind.


simplify: The greyhound; the he-goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.

The war-horse, and the he-goat, and the king when his army is with him.


rate difficulty: And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses, saying,

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


simplify: And when the king of Moab saw that the battle was too sore for him, he took with him seven hundred men that drew sword, to break through unto the king of Edom; but they could not.

And when the king of Moab saw that the fight was going against him, he took with him seven hundred men armed with swords, with the idea of forcing a way through to the king of Aram, but they were not able to do so.


simplify: but they that are accounted worthy to attain to that world, and the resurrection from the dead, neither marry, nor are given in marriage:

But those to whom is given the reward of the world to come, and to come back from the dead, have no wives, and are not married;


rate difficulty: And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:


simplify: For who maketh thee to differ? and what hast thou that thou didst not receive? but if thou didst receive it, why dost thou glory as if thou hadst not received it?

For who made you better than your brother? or what have you that has not been given to you? but if it has been given to you, what cause have you for pride, as if it had not been given to you?


simplify: And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.

So after Abram had been living for ten years in the land of Canaan, Sarai took Hagar, her Egyptian servant, and gave her to Abram for his wife.


rate difficulty: And Joshua said, Alas, O Lord God, wherefore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan, to deliver us into the hand of the Amorites, to destroy us? would to God we had been content, and dwelt on the other side Jordan!

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


rate difficulty: Also, that the soul be without knowledge, it is not good; and he that hasteth with his feet sinneth.

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


rate difficulty: And he is to put his hand on the head of the goat and put it to death in the place where they put to death the burned offering before the Lord: it is a sin-offering.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Gad dwelt over against them, in the land of Bashan unto Salecah:

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


simplify: for from thy words thou shalt be declared righteous, and from thy words thou shalt be declared unrighteous.'

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


simplify: Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.

Why will you have more and more punishment? why keep on in your evil ways? Every head is tired and every heart is feeble.


simplify: Thou hast covered with anger and pursued us; thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

Covering yourself with wrath you have gone after us, cutting us off without pity;


rate difficulty: And he reasoned in the synagogue every sabbath, and persuaded Jews and Greeks.

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


simplify: Howbeit the son by the handmaid is born after the flesh; but the son by the freewoman is born through promise.

Now the son by the servant-woman has his birth after the flesh; but the son by the free woman has his birth through the undertaking of God.


rate difficulty: serving the Lord with all humility, and many tears, and temptations, that befell me in the counsels of the Jews against <FI>me<Fi> ;

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


simplify: And your strength shall be spent in vain: for your land shall not yield her increase, neither shall the trees of the land yield their fruits.

And your strength will be used up without profit; for your land will not give her increase and the trees of the field will not give their fruit.


rate difficulty: But the end of what is enjoined is love out of a pure heart and a good conscience and unfeigned faith;

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


simplify: for if thou, out of the olive tree, wild by nature, wast cut out, and, contrary to nature, wast graffed into a good olive tree, how much rather shall they, who <FI>are<Fi> according to nature, be graffed into their own olive tree?

If you were cut off from your natural stock — a wild olive — and were grafted, contrary to the course of nature, on a good olive, much more will they — the natural branches — be grafted back into their parent tree.


simplify: And they said, This is blood: the kings are surely slain, and they have smitten one another: now therefore, Moab, to the spoil.

Then they said, This is blood: it is clear that destruction has come on the kings; they have been fighting one another: now come, Moab, let us take their goods.


simplify: And sold their possessions and goods, and parted them to all men, as every man had need.

And exchanging their goods and property for money, they made division of it among them all, as they had need.


rate difficulty: And of the thousand seven hundred seventy and five shekels he made hooks for the pillars, and overlaid their capitals, and made fillets for them.

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


rate difficulty: Then Job answered and said,


rate difficulty: Ye have been rebellious against Jehovah from the day that I knew you.

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


rate difficulty: which also after a true likeness doth now save you, even baptism, not the putting away of the filth of the flesh, but the interrogation of a good conscience toward God, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ;

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


rate difficulty: And of the sons of Harim: Maaseiah, and Elijah, and Shemaiah, and Jehiel, and Uzziah.

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


simplify: who is the image of the invisible God, first-born of all creation,

For Christ is the incarnation of the invisible God — first-born and head of all creation;


rate difficulty: And he said unto them, The Lord is witness against you, and his anointed is witness this day, that ye have not found ought in my hand. And they answered, He is witness.

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


simplify: If we have sown unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we shall reap your carnal things?

Since we, then, sowed spiritual seed for you, is it too much that we should reap from you an earthly harvest?


rate difficulty: All thanks to God, who, through our union with the Christ, leads us in one continual triumph, and uses us to spread the sweet perfume of the knowledge of him in every place.

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


rate difficulty: and I tell you that Elijah has already come, and people have not recognized him, but have treated him just as they pleased. In the same way, too, the Son of Man is destined to undergo suffering at people’s hands.”

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


simplify: And Arpachshad begat Shelah, and Shelah begat Eber.

And Arpachshad was the father of Shelah, and Shelah was the father of Eber.


rate difficulty: And from under these chambers was the entry on the east side, as one goeth into them from the utter court.

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


simplify: Now the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which Jehovah God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of any tree of the garden?

Now the snake was wiser than any beast of the field which the Lord God had made. And he said to the woman, Has God truly said that you may not take of the fruit of any tree in the garden?


simplify: and she was with child; and she crieth out, travailing in birth, and in pain to be delivered.

And she was with child; and she gave a cry, in the pains of childbirth.


simplify: and asked of him letters to Damascus unto the synagogues, that if he found any that were of the Way, whether men or women, he might bring them bound to Jerusalem.

And made a request for letters from him to the Synagogues of Damascus, so that if there were any of the Way there, men or women, he might take them as prisoners to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: About three Jesus called out loudly: “Eloi, Eloi, lema sabacthani” — that is to say, ‘My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?’

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


simplify: On the sixth day Eliasaph the son of Deuel, prince of the children of Gad, offered:

On the sixth day Eliasaph, the son of Reuel, chief of the children of Gad:


simplify: And the magicians did in like manner with their enchantments, and brought up frogs upon the land of Egypt.

And the wonder-workers did the same with their secret arts, making frogs come up over the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: and Absalom urgeth on him, and he sendeth with him Amnon, and all the sons of the king.


rate difficulty: And her pillars shall be broken in pieces, and all workers for hire shall be sad of soul.

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


rate difficulty: Ceased hath the joy of tabrets, Ceased hath the noise of exulting ones, Ceased hath the joy of a harp.

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


rate difficulty: As the children of Esau did for me in Seir and the Moabites in Ar; till I have gone over Jordan into the land which the Lord our God is giving us.


rate difficulty: They have denied Jehovah, and said, It is not he; neither shall evil come upon us; neither shall we see sword nor famine:


rate difficulty: Of the sons of Hashum; Mattenai, Mattathah, Zabad, Eliphelet, Jeremai, Manasseh, and Shimei.

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


simplify: For the children of Judah have done evil in my sight, saith the Lord: they have set their abominations in the house which is called by my name, to pollute it.

For the children of Judah have done what is evil in my eyes, says the Lord: they have put their disgusting images in the house which is named by my name, making it unclean.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not follow a multitude to do evil; neither shalt thou speak in a cause to turn aside after a multitude to wrest justice:

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


rate difficulty: The merchants among the peoples hiss at thee; thou art become a terror, and thou shalt nevermore have any being.


rate difficulty: Salt is good: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

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


simplify: But Solomon built him an house.

But it was Solomon who built a house for God.


simplify: But the Levites after the tribe of their fathers were not numbered among them.

But the Levites, of the tribe of their fathers, were not numbered among them.


simplify: Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying,

Now in the first year of Cyrus, king of Persia, in order that the word of the Lord given by the mouth of Jeremiah might come true, the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, was moved by the Lord, so that he made a public statement through all his kingdom, and put it in writing, saying,


rate difficulty: And I will send a fire upon Moab, and it shall devour the palaces of Kerijoth; and Moab shall die with tumult, with shouting, [and] with the sound of the trumpet.


rate difficulty: And seeing Peter warming himself by the fire, she gave him a look, and said, You were with this Nazarene, even Jesus.

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


simplify: Take heed to thyself, lest thou make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land whither thou goest, lest it be for a snare in the midst of thee:

But take care, and do not make any agreement with the people of the land where you are going, for it will be a cause of sin to you.


rate difficulty: Ye shall not eat of any thing that dieth of itself: thou shalt give it unto the stranger that is in thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto an alien: for thou art an holy people unto the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not seethe a kid in his mother’s milk.

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 15 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And when she saw Peter warming himself, she looked upon him, and said, And thou also wast with Jesus of Nazareth.

and, seeing Peter warming himself, she looked closely at him, and exclaimed: “Why, you were with Jesus, the Nazarene!”


simplify: Hear the word of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controversy with the inhabitants of the land, because there is no truth, nor mercy, nor knowledge of God in the land.

Give ear to the word of the Lord, O children of Israel; for the Lord has a cause against the people of this land, because there is no good faith in it, and no mercy and no knowledge of God in the land.


simplify: For he knew that for envy they had delivered him.

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


simplify: Thou shalt be blessed above all people: there shall not be male or female barren among you, or among your cattle.

You will have greater blessings than any other people: no male or female among you or among your cattle will be without offspring.


simplify: So the near kinsman said unto Boaz, Buy it for thyself. And he drew off his shoe.

So the near relation said to Boaz, Take it for yourself. And he took off his shoe.


simplify: And he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, according to all that Jehoiakim had done.

And he did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as Jehoiakim had done.


simplify: And she bestowed her whoredoms upon them, the choicest men of Assyria all of them; and on whomsoever she doted, with all their idols she defiled herself.

And she gave her unclean love to them, all of them the noblest men of Assyria: and she made herself unclean with the images of all who were desired by her.


simplify: Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth in the truth;

It takes no pleasure in wrongdoing, but has joy in what is true;


simplify: He that is not with me is against me; and he that gathereth not with me scattereth.

Whoever is not with me is against me; and he who does not take part with me in getting people together, is driving them away.


simplify: But I say, Did not Israel know? First Moses saith, I will provoke you to jealousy by them that are no people, and by a foolish nation I will anger you.

But I say, Had Israel no knowledge? First Moses says, You will be moved to envy by that which is not a nation, and by a foolish people I will make you angry.


rate difficulty: and the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who did the signs before him, in which he led astray those who did receive the mark of the beast, and those who did bow before his image; living they were cast--the two--to the lake of the fire, that is burning with brimstone;

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


simplify: Of the Jews five times received I forty stripes save one.

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


simplify: And they called Barnabas, Jupiter; and Paul, Mercurius, because he was the chief speaker.

So they called Barnabas ‘Zeus,’ and Paul ‘Hermes,’ because he took the lead in speaking;


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 to Sheol to my son mourning. And 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.


simplify: Take heed to thyself that thou forsake not the Levite as long as thou livest in thy land.

See that you do not give up caring for the Levite as long as you are living in your land.


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

And when he came into Jerusalem, all the town was moved, saying, Who is this?


simplify: and if he may not hear, take with thee yet one or two, that by the mouth of two witnesses or three every word may stand.

But, if they do not listen to you, take with you one or two others, so that ‘on the evidence of two or three witnesses, every word may be put beyond dispute.’


simplify: and so Paul went forth from the midst of them,


rate difficulty: And this is the law of the trespass-offering: it is most holy.

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


simplify: And the serjeants told these words unto the magistrates: and they feared, when they heard that they were Romans.

The police reported his words to the Magistrates, who, on hearing that Paul and Silas were Roman citizens, were alarmed,


rate difficulty: He that descended is the same who has also ascended up above all the heavens, that he might fill all things;

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


simplify: Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.

Though I speak in the ‘tongues’ of people, or even of angels, yet have not love, I have become mere echoing brass, or a clanging cymbal!


rate difficulty: And the thing was very grievous in Abraham's sight because of his son.

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


simplify: and they were stoning Stephen, calling and saying, `Lord Jesus, receive my spirit;'

And they stoned Stephen, while he cried to the Lord: “Lord Jesus! Receive my spirit!”


simplify: So will I break down the wall that ye have daubed with untempered morter, and bring it down to the ground, so that the foundation thereof shall be discovered, and it shall fall, and ye shall be consumed in the midst thereof: and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain:

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


rate difficulty: When she was brought forth, she sent to her father in law, saying, By the man, whose these are, am I with child: and she said, Discern, I pray thee, whose are these, the signet, and bracelets, and staff.

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


simplify: And he leaping up stood, and walked, and entered with them into the temple, walking, and leaping, and praising God.

And, jumping up, he got on to his feet and went into the Temple with them, walking and jumping and giving praise to God.


simplify: And also that every man should eat and drink, and enjoy the good of all his labour, it is the gift of God.

And for every man to take food and drink, and have joy in all his work, is a reward from God.


simplify: It shall have two shoulder-pieces joined to the two ends thereof, that it may be joined together.

It is to have two bands stitched to it at the top of the arms, joining it together.


rate difficulty: Then give ear to this, you heads of the children of Jacob, you rulers of the children of Israel, hating what is right, twisting what is straight.

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


rate difficulty: And I commanded Joshua at that time, saying, Thine eyes have seen all that Jehovah yourGod hath done to these two kings: so will Jehovah do to all the kingdoms to which thou shalt go.

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


simplify: trembling also, and astonished, he said, `Lord, what dost thou wish me to do?' and the Lord <FI>said<Fi> unto him, `Arise, and enter into the city, and it shall be told thee what it behoveth thee to do.'

“Yet stand up and go into the city, and you will be told what you must do.”


simplify: Wherefore I also, after I heard of your faith in the Lord Jesus, and love unto all the saints,

For this cause I, having had news of the faith in the Lord Jesus which is among you, and which you make clear to all the saints,


rate difficulty: `He who is loving father or mother above me, is not worthy of me, and he who is loving son or daughter above me, is not worthy of me,

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


simplify: And having taken the cup, having given thanks, he gave to them, and they drank of it--all;

Then he took a cup, and, after saying the thanksgiving, gave it to them, and they all drank from it.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he was in a certain city, behold a man full of leprosy: who seeing Jesus fell on his face, and besought him, saying, Lord, if thou wilt, thou canst make me clean.

And it came about that while he was in one of the towns, there was a leper there: and when he saw Jesus he went down on his face in prayer to him, saying, Lord, if it is your pleasure, you have power to make me clean.


rate difficulty: And they removed from Marah, and came unto Elim: and in Elim were twelve fountains of water, and threescore and ten palm trees; and they pitched there.

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


rate difficulty: And in the eighteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar he took away as prisoners from Jerusalem eight hundred and thirty-two persons:


rate difficulty: And she said to him, Why do you say you are my lover when your heart is not mine? Three times you have made sport of me, and have not made clear to me the secret of your great strength.

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


simplify: But I see another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of sin which is in my members.

But I see another law in my body, working against the law of my mind, and making me the servant of the law of sin which is in my flesh.


rate difficulty: And he said, For I will be with thee; and this shall be the sign to thee that I have sent thee: when thou hast brought forth the people out of Egypt, ye shall serveGod upon this mountain.

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


rate difficulty: And this is the reason why Joshua did so: all the males of the people who came out of Egypt, all the fighting-men, had been overtaken by death in the waste land on the way, after they came out of Egypt.


rate difficulty: Lambs <FI>are<Fi> for thy clothing, And the price of the field <FI>are<Fi> he-goats,

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


rate difficulty: And they cried with a loud voice in the Jewish [language] to the people of Jerusalem that were on the wall, to frighten them and to trouble them; that they might take the city.

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


rate difficulty: Give sounds of joy, make melody together, waste places of Jerusalem: for the Lord has given comfort to his people, he has taken up the cause of Jerusalem.


simplify: So that all who fell that day of Benjamin were twenty and five thousand men that drew the sword; all these were men of valor.

So twenty-five thousand of the swordsmen of Benjamin came to their end that day, all strong men of war.


rate difficulty: Awake, O north wind, and come, O south, Cause my garden to breathe forth, its spices let flow, Let my beloved come to his garden, And eat its pleasant fruits!

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


rate difficulty: On [the] east three gates; and on [the] north three gates; and on [the] south three gates; and on [the] west three gates.


simplify: And he came to Capernaum: and being in the house he asked them, What was it that ye disputed among yourselves by the way?

They came to Capernaum. When Jesus had gone into the house, he asked them: “What were you discussing on the way?”


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


simplify: And the Lord’s anger was kindled against Israel, and he made them wander in the wilderness forty years, until all the generation, that had done evil in the sight of the Lord, was consumed.

Then the Lord was angry with Israel, and he made them wanderers in the waste land for forty years? till all that generation who had done evil in the eyes of the Lord was dead.


rate difficulty: To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among them which are sanctified by faith that is in me.

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


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.


simplify: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning: let us solace ourselves with loves.

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.


simplify: I am a stranger and a sojourner with you: give me a possession of a buryingplace with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

I am living among you as one from a strange country: give me some land here as my property, so that I may put my dead to rest.


simplify: And I will send the hornet before thee, which shall drive out the Hivite, the Canaanite, and the Hittite, from before thee.

I will send hornets before you, driving out the Hivite and the Canaanite and the Hittite before your face.


rate difficulty: Behold, Jehovah hath proclaimed unto the end of the earth, Say ye to the daughter of Zion, Behold, thy salvation cometh; behold, his reward is with him, and his recompence before him.

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


simplify: and having received nourishment, was strengthened, and Saul was with the disciples in Damascus certain days,

and, after he had taken food, he felt his strength return.     Saul stayed for some days with the disciples who were at Damascus,


simplify: When I would heal Israel, then is the iniquity of Ephraim uncovered, and the wickedness of Samaria; for they commit falsehood, and the thief entereth in, and the troop of robbers ravageth without.

When my desire was for the fate of my people to be changed and to make Israel well, then the sin of Ephraim was made clear, and the evil-doing of Samaria; for their ways are false, and the thief comes into the house, while the band of outlaws takes property by force in the streets.


simplify: Elihu spake moreover, and said,


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.

Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all he did, are recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel.


rate difficulty: Watch therefore: for ye know not on what day your Lord cometh.

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


rate difficulty: But still the high places were not taken away; the people went on making offerings and burning them in the high places.


simplify: Then Saul said to Jonathan, Tell me what thou hast done. And Jonathan told him, and said, I did but taste a little honey with the end of the rod that was in mine hand, and, lo, I must die.

Then Saul said to Jonathan, Give me an account of what you have done. And Jonathan gave him the story and said, Certainly I took a little honey on the end of my rod; and now death is to be my fate.


simplify: and he shall lay his hand upon the head of his oblation, and kill it before the tent of meeting: and Aaron’s sons shall sprinkle the blood thereof upon the altar round about.

And he is to put his hand on the head of his offering and put it to death before the Tent of meeting; and Aaron's sons are to put some of its blood on and round the altar.


rate difficulty: I have sent you this short letter by Silvanus, a true brother, in my opinion; comforting you and witnessing that this is the true grace of God; keep to it.


simplify: that on you may come all the righteous blood being poured out on the earth from the blood of Abel the righteous, unto the blood of Zacharias son of Barachias, whom ye slew between the sanctuary and the altar:

in order the blood on your heads may fall every drop of innocent ‘blood split on earth,’ from the blood of innocent Abel down to that of Zechariah, Barachiah’s son, whom you murdered between the Temple and the altar.


simplify: Happy is he who is reading, and those hearing, the words of the prophecy, and keeping the things written in it--for the time is nigh!

Blessed is the one who reads, and blessed are they who listen to, the words of this prophecy, and lay to heart what is here written; for the time is near.


simplify: It is as sport to a fool to do wickedness; Andso iswisdom to a man of understanding.

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


rate difficulty: At which season Moses was born, and was exceeding fair; and he was nourished three months in his father’s house:

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


simplify: Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother’s eye.

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


simplify: So the posts that rode upon mules and camels went out, being hastened and pressed on by the king’s commandment. And the decree was given at Shushan the palace.

So the men went out on the quick-running horses used on the king's business, wasting no time and forced on by the king's order; and the order was given out in Shushan, the king's town.


simplify: Neither shouldest thou have stood in the crossway, to cut off those of his that did escape; neither shouldest thou have delivered up those of his that did remain in the day of distress.

And do not take your place at the cross-roads, cutting off those of his people who get away; and do not give up to their haters those who are still there in the day of trouble.


simplify: Nevertheless, whereto we have already attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing.

Only, as far as we have got, let us be guided by the same rule.


simplify: My transgression is sealed up in a bag, and thou sewest up mine iniquity.

My wrongdoing is corded up in a bag, and my sin is shut up safe.


rate difficulty: And Jonathan Saul’s son arose, and went to David into the wood, and strengthened his hand in God.

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


rate difficulty: So he came to the men of Succoth and said, Here are Zebah and Zalmunna, on account of whom you made sport of me, saying, Are the hands of Zebah and Zalmunna even now in your hand, that we are to give bread to your army who are overcome with weariness?

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


simplify: For I will surely save thee, and thou shalt not fall by the sword, but thy life shall be for a prey unto thee; because thou hast put thy trust in me, saith Jehovah.

For I will certainly let you go free, and you will not be put to the sword, but your life will be given to you out of the hands of your attackers: because you have put your faith in me, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: And Uzziah prepared for them throughout all the host shields, and spears, and helmets, and habergeons, and bows, and slings to cast stones.

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


rate difficulty: And now, show not yourselves scorners, Lest strong be your bands, For a consumption, that is determined, I have heard, by the Lord, Jehovah of Hosts, <FI>Is<Fi> for all the land.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass, when God helped the Levites that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, that they sacrificed seven bullocks and seven rams.

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


simplify: Flee ye, wander far off, dwell in the depths, O ye inhabitants of Hazor, saith Jehovah; for Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon hath taken counsel against you, and hath conceived a purpose against you.

Go in flight, go wandering far off, take cover in deep places, O people of Hazor, says the Lord; for Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, has made a design against you, he has a purpose against you in mind.


rate difficulty: And he said in answer, Have you not seen in the Writings, that he who made them at the first made them male and female, and said,

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


simplify: As ye also learned of Epaphras our dear fellowservant, who is for you a faithful minister of Christ;

As it was given to you by Epaphras, our well-loved helper, who is a true servant of Christ for us,


rate difficulty: The children of the doorkeepers: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, in all a hundred and thirty-nine.


simplify: The Lord grant unto him that he may find mercy of the Lord in that day: and in how many things he ministered unto me at Ephesus, thou knowest very well.

(May he have the Lord's mercy in that day); and of all he did for me at Ephesus you have full knowledge.


simplify: It shall be for the priests that are sanctified of the sons of Zadok; which have kept my charge, which went not astray when the children of Israel went astray, as the Levites went astray.

For the priests who have been made holy, those of the sons of Zadok who kept the orders I gave them, who did not go out of the right way when the children of Israel went from the way, as the Levites did,


rate difficulty: And after this, Abraham buried Sarah his wife in the cave of the field of Machpelah before Mamre: the same is Hebron in the land of Canaan.

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


rate difficulty: In that day, `A desirable vineyard,' respond ye to her,

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


rate difficulty: For vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass’s colt.

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


rate difficulty: At that time, saith the Lord, they shall bring out the bones of the kings of Judah, and the bones of his princes, and the bones of the priests, and the bones of the prophets, and the bones of the inhabitants of Jerusalem, out of their graves:

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


simplify: Fear and the pit are come upon us, devastation and destruction.

Fear and deep waters have come on us, wasting and destruction.


simplify: Wherefore the law was our schoolmaster to bring us unto Christ, that we might be justified by faith.

So the law has been a servant to take us to Christ, so that we might have righteousness by faith.


rate difficulty: And they rose up early in the morning, and gat them up to the top of the mountain, saying, Lo, we are here, and will go up unto the place which Jehovah hath promised: for we have sinned.

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


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


simplify: and as many as by this rule do walk--peace upon them, and kindness, and on the Israel of God!

May all who rule their conduct by this principle find peace and mercy — they who are the Israel of God.


simplify: And God remembered Rachel, and God hearkened to her, and opened her womb.

Then God gave thought to Rachel, and hearing her prayer he made her fertile.


rate difficulty: And Saul said unto Ahiah, Bring hither the ark of God. For the ark of God was at that time with the children of Israel.

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


simplify: And having risen up from the prayer, having come unto the disciples, he found them sleeping from the sorrow,

Then he rose from praying, and came to the disciples and found them sleeping for sorrow.


rate difficulty: It is to be your food, for you and your families in every place: it is your reward for your work in the Tent of meeting.

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


simplify: Then the king arose, and tare his garments, and lay on the earth; and all his servants stood by with their clothes rent.

Then the king got up in great grief, stretching himself out on the earth: and all his servants were by his side, with their clothing parted.


rate difficulty: for my eyes have seen the salvation


simplify: And the Lord said unto him, `Be going on, because a choice vessel to Me is this one, to bear My name before nations and kings--the sons also of Israel;

But the Lord said to him: “Go, for this man is my chosen instrument to uphold my name before the Gentiles and their kings, and the people of Israel.


rate difficulty: In the road of righteousness is life, but the way of the evil-doer goes to death.


simplify: And he will take your daughters to be confectionaries, and to be cooks, and to be bakers.

Your daughters he will take to be makers of perfumes and cooks and bread-makers.


simplify: The prince that lacketh understanding is also a great oppressor; Buthe that hateth covetousness shall prolong his days.

The prince who has no sense is a cruel ruler; but he who has no desire to get profit for himself will have long life.


rate difficulty: He went up to the altar he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, the month fixed by him at his pleasure; and he gave orders for a feast for the people of Israel, and went up to the altar, and there he made the smoke of his offerings go up.

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter-in-law has committed fornication, and behold, she is also with child by fornication. And Judah said, Bring her forth, that she may be burned.

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


simplify: And Moses spake to the children of Israel, that they should bring forth him that had cursed out of the camp, and stone him with stones. And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Moses said these words to the children of Israel, and they took the man who had been cursing outside the tent-circle and had him stoned. The children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses.


rate difficulty: Thou wilt perform truth to Jacob, loving-kindness to Abraham, which thou hast sworn unto our fathers, from the days of old.

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


simplify: And Saul said to David, Thou art not able to go against this Philistine to fight with him; for thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth.

And Saul said to David, You are not able to go out against this Philistine and have a fight with him: for you are only a boy, and he has been a man of war from his earliest days.


simplify: And Dinah the daughter of Leah, whom she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Now Dinah, the daughter whom Leah had by Jacob, went out to see the women of that country.


simplify: For in the resurrection they neither marry, nor are given in marriage, but are as angels in heaven.

For when they come back from the dead there are no husbands and wives, but they are as the angels in heaven.


rate difficulty: I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord commanded us to do all these statutes, to fear the Lord our God, for our good always, that he might preserve us alive, as it is at this day.

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


rate difficulty: Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

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


simplify: And there was given to me a reed like to a rod, and the messenger stood, saying, `Rise, and measure the sanctuary of God, and the altar, and those worshipping in it;

Then I was given a measure like a rod, and a voice said to me — ‘Go and measure the Temple of God and the altar, and count the worshiper there.


simplify: Why saidst thou, She is my sister? so I might have taken her to me to wife: now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

Why did you say that she was your sister? so that I took her for my wife: now, take your wife and go on your way.


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

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


simplify: And Jehovah God called unto the man, and said unto him, Where art thou?

And the voice of the Lord God came to the man, saying, Where are you?


simplify: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Alas for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You destroy widow’s houses, even while pretending to make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.


rate difficulty: For the sons of Israel and the sons of Judah have been only doing evil in Mine eyes, from their youth; for the sons of Israel are only provoking Me with the work of their hands--an affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: O Lord, for thy servant’s sake, and according to thine own heart, hast thou done all this greatness, in making known all these great things.

O Lord, because of your servant, and from your heart, you have done all these great things and let them be seen.


simplify: And Jesus said unto the centurion, Go thy way; and as thou hast believed, so be it done unto thee. And his servant was healed in the selfsame hour.

Then Jesus said to the captain: “Go now, and it will be according to your faith.” And the man was cured that very hour.


rate difficulty: Of the altar, the wood <FI>is<Fi> three cubits in height, and its length two cubits; and its corners <FI>are<Fi> to it, and its length, and its walls <FI>are<Fi> of wood, and he speaketh unto me, `This <FI>is<Fi> the table that <FI> is<Fi> before Jehovah.'

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


simplify: And if it seem evil unto you to serve Jehovah, choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which your fathers served that were beyond the River, or the gods of the Amorites, in whose land ye dwell: but as for me and my house, we will serve Jehovah.

And if it seems evil to you to be the servants of the Lord, make the decision this day whose servants you will be: of the gods whose servants your fathers were across the River, or of the gods of the Amorites in whose land you are living: but I and my house will be the servants of the Lord.


rate difficulty: deceits are in his heart; he deviseth mischief at all times, he soweth discords.

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


rate difficulty: `And when there is in a man a sin--a cause of death, and he hath been put to death, and thou hast hanged him on a tree,

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


simplify: And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that I will cause the sun to go down at noon, and I will darken the earth in the clear day:

And it will come about in that day, says the Lord God, that I will make the sun go down in the middle of the day, and I will make the earth dark in daylight:


simplify: Howbeit thou art just in all that is come upon us; for thou hast dealt truly, but we have done wickedly;

But still, you have been in the right in everything which has come on us; you have been true to us, but we have done evil:


simplify: And while he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down unto him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Jehovah; why should I wait for Jehovah any longer?

While he was still talking to them, the king came down and said, This evil is from the Lord; why am I to go on waiting any longer for the Lord?


simplify: And all Israel from Dan even to Beer-sheba knew that Samuel was established to be a prophet of Jehovah.

And it was clear to all Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba that Samuel had been made a prophet of the Lord.


rate difficulty: Surely at the commandment of the Lord came this upon Judah, to remove them out of his sight, for the sins of Manasseh, according to all that he did;

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


simplify: But he giveth more grace. Wherefore the scripture saith, God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to the humble.

But he gives more grace. So that the Writings say, God is against the men of pride, but he gives grace to those who make themselves low before him.


rate difficulty: They are waxed fat, they shine: yea, they overpass in deeds of wickedness; they plead not the cause, the cause of the fatherless, that they may prosper; and the right of the needy do they not judge.

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


simplify: Then said Haggai, If one that is unclean by reason of a dead body touch any of these, shall it be unclean? And the priests answered and said, It shall be unclean.

Then Haggai said, Will any of these be made unclean by the touch of one who is unclean through touching a dead body? And the priests answering said, It will be made unclean.


rate difficulty: And when they were come to him, he said unto them, Ye know, from the first day that I came into Asia, after what manner I have been with you at all seasons,

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


rate difficulty: The wet places and the pools will not be made sweet; they will be given up to salt.

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


simplify: that the fellowship of thy faith may become working in the full knowledge of every good thing that <FI>is<Fi> in you toward Christ Jesus;

and I pray that your participation in the faith may result in action, as you come to a fuller realization of everything that is good and Christlike in us.


rate difficulty: And I have raised for them shepherds, And they have fed them, And they fear no more, nor are affrighted, Nor are they lacking--an affirmation of Jehovah.

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


simplify: lo, I Paul do say to you, that if ye be circumcised, Christ shall profit you nothing;

Understand that I, Paul, myself tell you that if you allow yourselves to be circumcised, Christ will avail you nothing.


simplify: And they made proclamation throughout Judah and Jerusalem unto all the children of the captivity, that they should gather themselves together unto Jerusalem;

And they made a public statement through all Judah and Jerusalem, to all those who had come back, that they were to come together to Jerusalem;


simplify: Art thou bound unto a wife? seek not to be loosed. Art thou loosed from a wife? seek not a wife.

If you are married to a wife, make no attempt to get free from her: if you are free from a wife, do not take a wife.


simplify: Then I came to the governors beyond the River, and gave them the king’s letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.

Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.


rate difficulty: Among these were the divisions of the porters, even among the chief men, having wards one against another, to minister in the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: and Abram saith unto the king of Sodom, `I have lifted up my hand unto Jehovah, God Most High, possessing heaven and earth--

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


rate difficulty: And said unto him, Dost thou certainly know that Baalis the king of the Ammonites hath sent Ishmael the son of Nethaniah to slay thee? But Gedaliah the son of Ahikam believed them not.

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


rate difficulty: And when Esau was forty years old he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Basemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite:

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


rate difficulty: Yea verily, and I count all things to be loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but refuse, that I may gain Christ,

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


rate difficulty: who was delivered up for our trespasses, and was raised for our justification.

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


rate difficulty: What <FI>is<Fi> the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?

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


simplify: But if the wicked turn from all his sins that he hath committed, and keep all my statutes, and do that which is lawful and right, he shall surely live, he shall not die.

But if the evil-doer, turning away from all the sins which he has done, keeps my rules and does what is ordered and right, life will certainly be his; death will not be his fate.


rate difficulty: that Jehovah sendeth a man, a prophet, unto the sons of Israel, and he saith to them, `Thus said Jehovah, God of Israel, I--I have brought you up out of Egypt, and I bring you out from a house of servants,

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


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


rate difficulty: So the king died, and was brought to Samaria; and they buried the king in Samaria.


rate difficulty: Thus did the Lord Jehovah shew unto me; and behold, he formed locusts in the beginning of the shooting up of the latter growth, and behold, it was the latter growth after the king's mowings.

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


simplify: And your threshing shall reach unto the vintage, and the vintage shall reach unto the sowing time; and ye shall eat your bread to the full, and dwell in your land safely.

And the crushing of the grain will overtake the cutting of the grapes, and the cutting of the grapes will overtake the planting of the seed, and there will be bread in full measure, and you will be living in your land safely.


simplify: From that time Jesus began to preach, and to say, Repent: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.

At that time Jesus began to proclaim —  “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand.”


simplify: Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the Lord, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;

As well as to all the males, of three years old and over, listed by their families, who went into the house of the Lord to do what was needed day by day, for their special work with their divisions.


simplify: for true and righteous are his judgments; for he hath judged the great harlot, her that corrupted the earth with her fornication, and he hath avenged the blood of his servants at her hand.

For true and upright are his decisions; for by him has the evil woman been judged, who made the earth unclean with the sins of her body; and he has given her punishment for the blood of his servants.


simplify: The law of the wise is a fountain of life, That one may depart from the snares of death.

The teaching of the wise is a fountain of life, turning men away from the nets of death.


simplify: Also Jeshua, and Bani, and Sherebiah, Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodijah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites, caused the people to understand the law: and the people stood in their place.

And Jeshua and Bani and Sherebiah and Jamin, Akkub, Shabbethai, Hodiah, Maaseiah, Kelita, Azariah, Jozabad, Hanan, Pelaiah, and the Levites made the law clear to the people: and the people kept in their places.


simplify: And I will also give thee into their hand, and they shall throw down thine eminent place, and shall break down thy high places: they shall strip thee also of thy clothes, and shall take thy fair jewels, and leave thee naked and bare.

I will give you into their hands, and your arched room will be overturned and your high places broken down; they will take your clothing off you and take away your fair jewels: and when they have done, you will be uncovered and shamed.


simplify: And I will pursue after them with the sword, with the famine, and with the pestilence, and will deliver them to be tossed to and fro among all the kingdoms of the earth, to be an execration, and an astonishment, and a hissing, and a reproach, among all the nations whither I have driven them;

I will go after them, attacking them with the sword and with need of food and with disease, and will make them a cause of fear to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a curse and a wonder and a surprise and a name of shame among all the nations where I have sent them:


simplify: Then came to him the mother of Zebedee’s children with her sons, worshipping him, and desiring a certain thing of him.

Then the mother of the sons of Zebedee came to him with her sons, giving him worship and making a request of him.


simplify: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph the son of Deuel.

And for the peace-offerings, two oxen, five male sheep, five he-goats, five he-lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliasaph, the son of Reuel


simplify: For ye are bought with a price: therefore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.

For a payment has been made for you: let God be honoured in your body.


rate difficulty: All the men of thy confederacy have pushed thee to the border; the men that were at peace with thee have deceived thee, they have prevailed against thee; [they that eat] thy bread have laid a snare under thee. There is no understanding in him.

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


rate difficulty: and having gone through the island unto Paphos, they found a certain magian, a false prophet, a Jew, whose name <FI>is<Fi> Bar-Jesus;

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


rate difficulty: So there went after Abishai, Joab and the Cherethites and the Pelethites and all the fighting-men; they went out of Jerusalem to overtake Sheba, the son of Bichri.

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


rate difficulty: Then they went on their journey from Succoth, and put up their tents in Etham at the edge of the waste land.

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


simplify: who did give himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of the present evil age, according to the will of God even our Father,

gave himself for our sins, in accordance with the will of God and Father,


simplify: And if a woman have an issue of her blood many days out of the time of her separation, or if it run beyond the time of her separation; all the days of the issue of her uncleanness shall be as the days of her separation: she shall be unclean.

And if a woman has a flow of blood for a long time, not at the time when she generally has it, or if the flow goes on longer than the normal time, she will be unclean while the flow of blood goes on, as she is at other normal times.


rate difficulty: When I say unto the wicked, O wicked man, thou shalt surely die; if thou dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at thine hand.

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


rate difficulty: Restore, I pray you, to them, even this day, their fields, their vineyards, their oliveyards, and their houses, also the hundredth part of the money, and of the grain, the new wine, and the oil, that ye exact of them.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief priests took the pieces of silver and said, It is not lawful to cast them into the Corban, since it is [the] price of blood.

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


rate difficulty: And I will scatter the Egyptians among the nations, and disperse them through the countries: and they shall know that I [am] Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: They have tails like scorpions, and stings, and in their tails lies their power to harm people for five months.

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


rate difficulty: Because of thy having an enmity age-during, And thou dost saw the sons of Israel, By the hands of the sword, In the time of their calamity, In the time of the iniquity of the end:

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


rate difficulty: So Rabshakeh returned, and found the king of Assyria warring against Libnah; for he had heard that he was departed from Lachish.


rate difficulty: And it cometh to pass, when he hath finished to bring near the present, that he sendeth away the people bearing the present,

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


simplify: Hear another parable: There was a man that was a householder, who planted a vineyard, and set a hedge about it, and digged a winepress in it, and built a tower, and let it out to husbandmen, and went into another country.

Give ear to another story. A master of a house made a vine garden, and put a wall round it, and made a place for crushing out the wine, and made a tower, and let it out to field-workers, and went into another country.


rate difficulty: And these men are keepers of sheep and owners of cattle, and have with them their flocks and their herds and all they have.

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


simplify: And thou shalt put the staves into the rings by the sides of the ark, that the ark may be borne with them.

And put the rods through the rings at the sides of the ark, for lifting it.


rate difficulty: And he will make her take an oath, and say to her, If no man has been your lover and you have not been with another in place of your husband, you are free from this bitter water causing the curse;

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


simplify: and this I say, A covenant confirmed before by God to Christ, the law, that came four hundred and thirty years after, doth not set aside, to make void the promise,

My point is this — An agreement already confirmed by God cannot be canceled by the law, which came four hundred and thirty years later, so as to cause the promise to be set aside.


rate difficulty: and Midian and Amalek, and all the sons of the east are lying in the valley, as the locust for multitude, and of their camels there is no number, as sand which <FI>is<Fi> on the sea-shore for multitude.


simplify: How beautiful are thy feet in sandals, O prince’s daughter! Thy rounded thighs are like jewels, The work of the hands of a skilful workman.

How beautiful are your feet in their shoes, O king's daughter! The curves of your legs are like jewels, the work of the hands of a good workman:


simplify: And she said to the king, It was a true report that I heard in mine own land of thy acts and of thy wisdom.

And she said to the king, The account which was given to me in my country of your acts and your wisdom was true.


rate difficulty: and the children of Judah and the children of Jerusalem have ye sold unto the children of the Greeks, that ye might remove them far from their border.

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


simplify: Zenas the lawyer and Apollos bring diligently on their way, that nothing to them may be lacking,

Do your best to help Zenas, the teacher of the law, and Apollos, on their way, and see that they want for nothing.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him, and said unto him, The Lord is with thee, thou mighty man of valour.

And the angel of the Lord came before his eyes, and said to him, The Lord is with you, O man of war.


rate difficulty: Hear ye the words of this covenant, and speak unto the men of Judah, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem;

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


simplify: For the king had at sea a navy of Tarshish with the navy of Hiram: once every three years came the navy of Tarshish, bringing gold, and silver, ivory, and apes, and peacocks.

For the king had Tarshish-ships at sea with the ships of Hiram; once every three years the Tarshish-ships came with gold and silver and ivory and monkeys and peacocks.


rate difficulty: For we are a sweet savor of Christ unto God, in them that are saved, and in them that perish;

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


simplify: that I may establish the oath which I sware unto your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey, as at this day. Then answered I, and said, Amen, O Jehovah.

So that I may give effect to the oath which I made to your fathers, to give them a land flowing with milk and honey as at this day. And I said in answer, So be it, O Lord.