simplify: Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness whereof he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down unto him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen thereof!

Now Elisha became ill with the disease which was the cause of his death: and Joash, king of Israel, came down to him, and weeping over him said, My father, my father, the war-carriages of Israel and its horsemen!


rate difficulty: But Paul's sister's son had word of their design, and he came into the army building and gave news of it to Paul.

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


simplify: And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil, three tenth parts for an ox, two tenth parts for a male sheep,


rate difficulty: `The things hidden <FI>are<Fi> to Jehovah our God, and the things revealed <FI>are<Fi> to us and to our sons--to the age, to do all the words of this law.

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


simplify: Hast thou made him to leap as a locust? The glory of his snorting is terrible.

Is it through you that he is shaking like a locust, in the pride of his loud-sounding breath?


simplify: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners that are among the children of Israel.

For this cause the Lord has said, No man from a strange land, without circumcision of heart and flesh, of all those who are living among the children of Israel, is to come into my holy place.


rate difficulty: Then the armed men, cutting the cords of the boat, let her go.

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


rate difficulty: and Paul said, `At the tribunal of Caesar I am standing, where it behoveth me to be judged; to Jews I did no unrighteousness, as thou dost also very well know;

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


simplify: And Moses and Aaron did so, as Jehovah commanded; and he lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.

And Moses and Aaron did as the Lord had said; and when his rod had been lifted up and stretched out over the waters of the Nile before the eyes of Pharaoh and his servants, all the water in the Nile was turned to blood;


simplify: And Jehoahaz besought Jehovah, and Jehovah hearkened unto him; for he saw the oppression of Israel, how that the king of Syria oppressed them.

Then Jehoahaz made prayer to the Lord, and the Lord gave ear to him, for he saw how cruelly Israel was crushed by the king of Aram.


simplify: And the word of Jehovah came unto me, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to me, saying,


rate difficulty: And I will set my face against that man, and will make him a sign and a proverb, and I will cut him off from the midst of my people; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.

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


rate difficulty: and also Ruth the Moabitess, wife of Mahlon, I have bought to myself for a wife, to raise up the name of the dead over his inheritance; and the name of the dead is not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place; witnesses ye <FI>are<Fi> to-day.'

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


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass, the ark of the covenant of Jehovah is entering in unto the city of David, and Michal daughter of Saul is looking through the window, and seeth king David dancing and playing, and despiseth him in her heart.

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


simplify: And after the three days and a half, a spirit of life from God did enter into them, and they stood upon their feet, and great fear fell upon those beholding them,

After three days and a half ‘the life-giving breath of God entered these men, and they stood up on their feet,’ and a great terror took possession of those who were watching them.


rate difficulty: `And if a female she bear, then she hath been unclean two weeks, as in her separation; and sixty and six days she doth abide for the blood of her cleansing.

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


rate difficulty: Consider, I pray you, from this day and onward, from the four and twentieth day of the ninth [month], from the day that the foundation of Jehovah's temple was laid, consider [it].

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Nathan said to the king, Go, do all that is in thine heart; for the Lord is with thee.

And Nathan said to the king, Go and do whatever is in your heart; for the Lord is with you.


rate difficulty: And he removed thence and dug another well; and they did not strive for that. And he called the name of it Rehoboth, and said, For now Jehovah has made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.


rate difficulty: And said, This fellow said, I am able to destroy the temple of God, and to build it in three days.

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


simplify: And she shall bring forth a son; and thou shalt call his name JESUS; for it is he that shall save his people from their sins.

And she will give birth to a son; and you will give him the name Jesus; for he will give his people salvation from their sins.


rate difficulty: Behold now behemoth, which I made with thee; he eateth grass as an ox.

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


simplify: Rejoice not when thine enemy falleth, and let not thine heart be glad when he stumbleth:

Do not be glad at the fall of your hater, and let not your heart have joy at his downfall:


simplify: The crown of the wise is their riches: but the foolishness of fools is folly.

Their wisdom is a crown to the wise, but their foolish behaviour is round the head of the unwise.


simplify: They shall inquire concerning Zion with their faces thitherward, saying, Come ye, and join yourselves to Jehovah in an everlasting covenant that shall not be forgotten.

They will be questioning about the way to Zion, with their faces turned in its direction, saying, Come, and be united to the Lord in an eternal agreement which will be kept in mind for ever.


simplify: And Sharon shall be a fold of flocks, and the valley of Achor a place for the herds to lie down in, for my people that have sought me.

And Sharon will be a grass-land for the flocks, and the valley of Achor a resting-place for the herds: for my people whose hearts have been turned back to me.


simplify: Now therefore go to, proclaim in the ears of the people, saying, Whosoever is fearful and afraid, let him return and depart early from mount Gilead. And there returned of the people twenty and two thousand; and there remained ten thousand.

So now, let it be given out to the people that anyone who is shaking with fear is to go back from Mount Galud. So twenty-two thousand of the people went back, but there were still ten thousand.


simplify: who showest lovingkindness unto thousands, and recompensest the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them; the great, the mighty God, Jehovah of hosts is his name;

You have mercy on thousands, and send punishment for the evil-doing of the fathers on their children after them: the great, the strong God, the Lord of armies is his name:


simplify: Unto the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first: and there Abram called on the name of the Lord.

To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And when they were getting the young ass, the owners of it said to them, Why are you taking the young ass?

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


rate difficulty: Oh that I had one to hear me! (Lo, here is my signature, let the Almighty answer me) Andthat I hadthe indictment which mine adversary hath written!

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


simplify: And Leah said, God hath given me my hire, because I have given my maiden to my husband: and she called his name Issachar.

Then Leah said, God has made payment to me for giving my servant-girl to my husband: so she gave her son the name Issachar.


simplify: Even the Lord God of hosts; the Lord is his memorial.

Even the Lord, the God of armies; the Lord is his name.


simplify: And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

The children of Israel are to put up their tents, every man in his tent-circle round his flag.


rate difficulty: Ye are sons of Jehovah yourGod: ye shall not cut yourselves, nor make any baldness between your eyes for a dead person.

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


simplify: and also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.

But I will be the judge of that nation whose servants they are, and they will come out from among them with great wealth.


simplify: Cursed be he that removeth his neighbor’s landmark. And all the people shall say, Amen.

Cursed is he who takes his neighbour's landmark from its place. And let all the people say, So be it.


simplify: I testify fully, before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, and the choice messengers, that these things thou mayest keep, without forejudging, doing nothing by partiality.

I charge you solemnly, before God and Christ Jesus and the chosen angels, to carry out these directions, unswayed by prejudice, never acting with partiality.


simplify: Take ye therefore good heed unto yourselves; for ye saw no manner of form on the day that Jehovah spake unto you in Horeb out of the midst of the fire;

So keep watch on yourselves with care; for you saw no form of any sort on the day when the voice of the Lord came to you in Horeb out of the heart of the fire:


rate difficulty: And the king said, Thou shalt certainly die, Ahimelech, thou, and all thy father's house.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall there be moaning.

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


rate difficulty: And Job answereth and saith: --

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


simplify: And the name of the Midianitish woman that was slain was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was head over a people, and of a chief house in Midian.

And the woman of Midian who was put to death was Cozbi, the daughter of Zur; he was the head of a family in Midian.


simplify: And ye shall see it, and your heart shall rejoice, and your bones shall flourish like the tender grass: and the hand of Jehovah shall be known toward his servants; and he will have indignation against his enemies.

And you will see it and your heart will be glad, and your bones will get new strength, like young grass: and the hand of the Lord will be seen at work for his servants, and his wrath against his haters.


simplify: As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird: there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

As for Ephraim, their glory will go in flight like a bird: there will be no birth and no one with child and no giving of life.


rate difficulty: It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about: and the name of the city from that day shall be, Jehovah is there.


rate difficulty: Though he slay me, yet will I trust in him: but I will maintain mine own ways before him.


rate difficulty: And now, behold, the cry of the children of Israel is come unto me: moreover I have seen the oppression wherewith the Egyptians oppress them.

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


simplify: When they took hold of thee by thy hand, thou didst break, and rend all their shoulder: and when they leaned upon thee, thou brakest, and madest all their loins to be at a stand.

When they took a grip of you in their hands, you were crushed so that their arms were broken: and when they put their weight on you for support, you were broken and all their muscles gave way.


rate difficulty: Its rooms, its uprights, and its covered way had the same measures, and its covered way had windows all round: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah lift up his countenance upon thee, and give thee peace.

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


simplify: for to me to live <FI>is<Fi> Christ, and to die gain.

for to me life is Christ, and death is gain.


rate difficulty: Therefore dwell do Ziim with Iim, Yea, dwelt in her have daughters of the ostrich, And it is not inhabited any more for ever, Nor dwelt in unto all generations.

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


rate difficulty: He who made the arm of his glory go at the right hand of Moses, by whom the waters were parted before them, to make himself an eternal name;

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


rate difficulty: And in addition you are to give him the first of your grain and wine and oil, and the first wool cut from your sheep.

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


simplify: And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.

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: for the showbread, and for the continual meal-offering, and for the continual burnt-offering, for the sabbaths, for the new moons, for the set feasts, and for the holy things, and for the sin-offerings to make atonement for Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.

For the holy bread, and for the regular meal offering and the regular burned offering on the Sabbaths and at the new moon and the fixed feasts, and for the sin-offerings to take away the sin of Israel, and for all the work of the house of our God.


simplify: The way of the wicked is an abomination unto the Lord: but he loveth him that followeth after righteousness.

The way of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but he who goes after righteousness is dear to him.


simplify: we are pressed on every side, yet not straitened; perplexed, yet not unto despair;

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


simplify: For they are a nation void of counsel, neither is there any understanding in them.

For they are a nation without wisdom; there is no sense in them.


rate difficulty: Again, when the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness that he hath committed, and doeth that which is lawful and right, he shall save his soul alive.

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


rate difficulty: For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden.

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


simplify: And all were weeping, and bewailing her: but he said, Weep not; for she is not dead, but sleepeth.

And all the people were weeping and crying for her; but he said, Do not be sad, for she is not dead, but sleeping.


simplify: (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,)

This good news God promised long ago through his prophets in the sacred scriptures,


simplify: When thou didst terrible things which we looked not for, thou camest down, the mountains flowed down at thy presence.

While you do acts of power for which we are not looking, and which have not come to the ears of men in the past.


simplify: Then shalt thou say, O Lord, thou hast spoken against this place, to cut it off, that none shall remain in it, neither man nor beast, but that it shall be desolate for ever.

And after reading them, say, O Lord, you have said about this place that it is to be cut off, so that no one will be living in it, not a man or a beast, but it will be unpeopled for ever.


simplify: And Aaron said, Let not the anger of my lord wax hot: thou knowest the people, that they are set on evil.

And Aaron said, Let not my lord be angry; you have seen how the purposes of this people are evil.


rate difficulty: there came to him a woman having an alabaster box of ointment, very precious, and she poured on his head as he is reclining (at meat).


rate difficulty: Of Zebulun, Ishmaiah, the son of Obadiah; of Naphtali, Jerimoth, the son of Azriel;

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


rate difficulty: how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And there was with us a young Hebrew, the captain's servant, and when we put our dreams before him, he gave us the sense of them.

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


simplify: And thou shalt sanctify them, that they may be most holy: whatsoever toucheth them shall be holy.

And you are to make them most holy; anything touching them will become holy.


rate difficulty: And he said to them, This is my blood of the testament, which is given for men.

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


simplify: And Jonadab said unto him, Lay thee down on thy bed, and make thyself sick: and when thy father cometh to see thee, say unto him, I pray thee, let my sister Tamar come, and give me meat, and dress the meat in my sight, that I may see it, and eat it at her hand.

Then Jonadab said to him, Go to your bed, and let it seem that you are ill: and when your father comes to see you, say to him, Let my sister Tamar come and give me bread, and get the food ready before my eyes, so that I may see it and take it from her hand.


simplify: My brethren, have not the faith of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory, with respect of persons.

My friends, are you really trying to combine faith in Jesus Christ, our glorified Lord, with the worship of rank?


simplify: And the disciples came, and said unto him, Why speakest thou unto them in parables?

And the disciples came and said to him, Why do you say things to them in the form of stories?


rate difficulty: And of Naphtali he said, O Naphtali, satisfied with favour, and full with the blessing of the Lord: possess thou the west and the south.

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


simplify: And I will bring a sword upon you, that shall avenge the quarrel of my covenant: and when ye are gathered together within your cities, I will send the pestilence among you; and ye shall be delivered into the hand of the enemy.

And I will send a sword on you to give effect to the punishment of my agreement; and when you come together into your towns I will send disease among you and you will be given up into the hands of your haters.


simplify: And there were windows in it and in the arches thereof round about, like those windows: the length was fifty cubits, and the breadth five and twenty cubits.

And there were windows in it and in the covered way all round, like the other windows: it was fifty cubits long and twenty-five cubits wide.


rate difficulty: And I decked thee with ornaments, and I put bracelets upon thy hands, and a chain on thy neck;

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


simplify: Thrice in the year shall all your men children appear before the Lord God, the God of Israel.

Three times in the year let all your males come before the Lord, the God of Israel.


simplify: and not being able to come near to him because of the multitude, they uncovered the roof where he was, and, having broken <FI>it<Fi> up, they let down the couch on which the paralytic was lying,

Being, however, unable to get him near to Jesus, owing to the crowd, they removed the roofing above Jesus; and, when they had made an opening, they let down the mat on which the paralyzed man was lying.


rate difficulty: Who hath formed a god, And a molten image poured out--not profitable?

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the Lord did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

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


simplify: Again he said unto her, Stand in the door of the tent, and it shall be, when any man doth come and enquire of thee, and say, Is there any man here? that thou shalt say, No.

And he said to her, Take your place at the door of the tent, and if anyone comes and says to you, Is there any man here, say, No.


simplify: But even after that we had suffered before, and were shamefully entreated, as ye know, at Philippi, we were bold in our God to speak unto you the gospel of God with much contention.

For, although we had experienced suffering and ill treatment, as you know, at Philippi, we had the courage, by the help of our God, to tell you God’s good news in spite of great opposition.


simplify: The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of wisdom; And the knowledge of the Holy One is understanding.

The fear of the Lord is the start of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One gives a wise mind


simplify: And king Solomon made two hundred bucklers of beaten gold; six hundred shekels of gold went to one buckler.

And Solomon made two hundred body-covers of hammered gold, every one having six hundred shekels of gold in it.


simplify: Therefore I will make the heavens to tremble, and the earth shall be shaken out of its place, in the wrath of Jehovah of hosts, and in the day of his fierce anger.

For this cause the heavens will be shaking, and the earth will be moved out of its place, in the wrath of the Lord of armies, and in the day of his burning passion.


simplify: It shall never be inhabited, neither shall it be dwelt in from generation to generation: neither shall the Arabian pitch tent there; neither shall the shepherds make their fold there.

People will never be living in it again, and it will have no more men from generation to generation: the Arab will not put up his tent there; and those who keep sheep will not make it a resting-place for their flocks.


simplify: Then came to him certain of the Sadducees, which deny that there is any resurrection; and they asked him,

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


simplify: Wisdom is better than weapons of war: but one sinner destroyeth much good.

Wisdom is better than instruments of war, but one sinner is the destruction of much good.


simplify: And when the mourning was past, David sent and fetched her to his house, and she became his wife, and bare him a son. But the thing that David had done displeased the Lord.

And when the days of weeping were past, David sent for her, and took her into his house, and she became his wife and gave him a son. But the Lord was not pleased with the thing David had done.


rate difficulty: While the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them,

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


simplify: For the death that he died, he died unto sin once: but the life that he liveth, he liveth unto God.

For his death was a death to sin, but his life now is a life which he is living to God.


rate difficulty: which are a shadow of the things to come; but the body is Christ’s.

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


simplify: Why is my pain perpetual, and my wound incurable, which refuseth to be healed? wilt thou be altogether unto me as a liar, and as waters that fail?

Why is my pain unending and my wound without hope of being made well? Sorrow is mine, for you are to me as a stream offering false hope and as waters which are not certain.


simplify: And out of the smoke came forth locusts to the earth, and there was given to them authority, as scorpions of the earth have authority,

Out of the smoke locusts descended on the earth, and they received the same power as that possessed by scorpions.


simplify: For it is not ye that speak, but the Spirit of your Father which speaketh in you.

for it will not be you who speak, but the Spirit of your Father that speaks within you.


simplify: And Naaman said, Shall there not then, I pray thee, be given to thy servant two mules’ burden of earth? for thy servant will henceforth offer neither burnt offering nor sacrifice unto other gods, but unto the Lord.

Then Naaman said, If you will not, then let there be given to your servant as much earth as two beasts are able to take on their backs; because from now on, your servant will make no offering or burned offering to other gods, but only to the Lord.


simplify: `And he who may receive one such child in my name, doth receive me,

And anyone who, for the sake of my name, welcomes even one little child like this, is welcoming me.


simplify: `And He gave to him a covenant of circumcision, and so he begat Isaac, and did circumcise him on the eighth day, and Isaac <FI>begat<Fi> Jacob, and Jacob--the twelve patriarchs;

Then God made with Abraham the covenant of circumcision; and under it Abraham became the father of Isaac, and circumcised him when he was eight days old; and Isaac became the father of Jacob; and Jacob of the Twelve Patriarchs.


simplify: and Jesus having known, withdrew thence, and there followed him great multitudes, and he healed them all,

Jesus, however, became aware of it, and went away from that place. A number of people followed him, and he cured them all;


simplify: And he also rebelled against king Nebuchadnezzar, who had made him swear by God: but he stiffened his neck, and hardened his heart from turning unto the Lord God of Israel.

And he took up arms against King Nebuchadnezzar, though he had made him take an oath by God; but he made his neck stiff and his heart hard, turning away from the Lord, the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: `And unto the wife of thy fellow thou dost not give thy seed of copulation, for uncleanness with her.

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


simplify: But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

But when Cephas came to Antioch, I made a protest against him to his face, because he was clearly in the wrong.


rate difficulty: Now Herod the tetrarch heard of all that was done: and he was much perplexed, because that it was said by some, that John was risen from the dead;


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that in the place where it was said unto them, Ye are not my people; there shall they be called the children of the living God.

And in the place where it was said to them — “You are not my people”, they will be called sons of the living God.’


rate difficulty: and he saith, `At this season, according to the time of life, thou art embracing a son;' and she saith, `Nay, my lord, O man of God, do not lie unto thy maid-servant.'

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


simplify: And when he had opened the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth beast say, Come and see.

When the Lamb broke the fourth seal, I heard the voice of the fourth Creature crying — ‘Come.’


simplify: The pots also, and the shovels, and the snuffers, and the basins, and the spoons, and all the vessels of brass wherewith they ministered, took they away.

And the pots and the spades and the scissors for the lights and the spoons, and all the brass vessels used in the Lord's house, they took away.


simplify: For God is my record, how greatly I long after you all in the bowels of Jesus Christ.

God will bear me witness how I yearn over you all with the tenderness of Christ Jesus.


simplify: Bless them which persecute you: bless, and curse not.

Give blessing and not curses to those who are cruel to you.


rate difficulty: We know that we have passed out of death into life, because we love the brethren. He that loveth not abideth in death.

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


rate difficulty: And his attendant said, How shall I set this before a hundred men? And he said, Give the people that they may eat; for thus saith Jehovah: They shall eat, and shall have to spare.

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


rate difficulty: For Hezekiah king of Judah did give to the congregation a thousand bullocks and seven thousand sheep; and the princes gave to the congregation a thousand bullocks and ten thousand sheep: and a great number of priests sanctified themselves.

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


rate difficulty: And the doorkeepers, Akkub, Talmon, and their brethren, that kept watch at the gates, were a hundred and seventy-two.

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


rate difficulty: But all these things are the beginning of travail.

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


simplify: And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house that he had built,

And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,


rate difficulty: Or hath God assayed to go and take him a nation from the midst of another nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the Lord your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

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


simplify: Now these are the kings that reigned in the land of Edom before any king reigned over the children of Israel; Bela the son of Beor: and the name of his city was Dinhabah.

Now these are the kings who were ruling in the land of Edom, before there was any king over Israel: Bela, the son of Beor; his town was named Dinhabah.


rate difficulty: Say, I pray thee, thou art my sister: that it may be well with me for thy sake; and my soul shall live because of thee.

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


simplify: and did all eat the same spiritual food;


simplify: But without thy mind would I do nothing; that thy benefit should not be as it were of necessity, but willingly.

But I do not wish to do anything without your consent, because I want your generosity to be voluntary and not, as it were, compulsory.


simplify: And there fell of Benjamin eighteen thousand men; all these were men of valor.

Eighteen thousand men of Benjamin came to their death, all strong men of war.


rate difficulty: `And I have given the men who are transgressing My covenant, who have not established the words of the covenant that they have made before Me, by the calf, that they have cut in two, and pass through between its pieces--

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: medium


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

and, when this sound was heard, numbers of people collected, in the greatest excitement, because each of them heard the disciples speaking in his own language.


rate difficulty: And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

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rate difficulty: In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah.

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rate difficulty: Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not inquire wisely concerning this.

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


rate difficulty: Would he plead against me with [his] great power? Nay; but he would give heed unto me.

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


simplify: And Joshua the son of Nun was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had laid his hands upon him: and the children of Israel hearkened unto him, and did as the Lord commanded Moses.

And Joshua, the son of Nun, was full of the spirit of wisdom; for Moses had put his hands on him: and the children of Israel gave ear to him, and did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: And another of the disciples said unto him, Lord, suffer me first to go and bury my father.

And another of the disciples said to him, Lord, let me first go and give the last honours to my father.


simplify: Thou shalt part it in pieces, and pour oil thereon: it is a meal-offering.

Let it be broken into bits, and put oil on it; it is a meal offering.


simplify: A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

A time for weeping and a time for laughing; a time for sorrow and a time for dancing;


simplify: And he made the staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.

The rods he made of the same hard wood, plating them with gold.


simplify: The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

They were covered by the deep waters: like a stone they went down under the waves.


rate difficulty: Then are the sons of Israel parted into halves; half of the people hath been after Tibni son of Ginath to cause him to reign, and the half after Omri;

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


simplify: where their worm dieth not, and the fire is not quenched.

Where their worm is ever living and the fire is not put out.


simplify: and if in the light we may walk, as He is in the light--we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ His Son doth cleanse us from every sin;

But, if our lives are lived in the light, as God himself is in the light, we have communion with one another, and the blood of Jesus, his Son, purifies us from all sin.


simplify: And there was a widow in that city; and she came unto him, saying, Avenge me of mine adversary.

And there was a widow in that town, and she kept on coming to him and saying, Give me my right against the man who has done me wrong.


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

Then Peter recalled what had occurred. “Look, Rabbi,” he exclaimed, “the fig-tree which you doomed is withered up!”


simplify: And at this house, which is high, every one that passeth by it shall be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Why hath the Lord done thus unto this land, and to this house?

And this house will become a mass of broken walls, and everyone who goes by will be overcome with wonder at it and make whistling sounds; and they will say, Why has the Lord done so to this land and to this house?


simplify: A voice was heard in Ramah, Weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children; And she would not be comforted, because they are not.

In Ramah there was a sound of weeping and great sorrow, Rachel weeping for her children, and she would not be comforted for their loss.


simplify: Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh Moses had given possession in Bashan: but unto the other half thereof gave Joshua among their brethren on this side Jordan westward. And when Joshua sent them away also unto their tents, then he blessed them,

Now to the one half of the tribe of Manasseh, Moses had given a heritage in Bashan; but to the other half, Joshua gave a heritage among their brothers on the west side of Jordan. Now when Joshua sent them away to their tents, he gave them his blessing,


simplify: And the cities which ye shall give unto the Levites, they shall be the six cities of refuge, which ye shall give for the manslayer to flee unto: and besides them ye shall give forty and two cities.

And the towns which you give the Levites are to be the six safe places to which the taker of life may go in flight; and in addition you are to give them forty-two towns.


rate difficulty: If his master give him a wife and she bear him sons or daughters; the wife and her children shall be her master’s, and he shall go out by himself.

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


rate difficulty: These are the statutes and the ordinances which ye shall observe to do in the land which Jehovah, the God of thy fathers, hath given thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Then the king arose, and sat in the gate. And they told unto all the people, saying, Behold, the king is sitting in the gate: and all the people came before the king. Now Israel had fled every man to his tent.

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


rate difficulty: And God was not pleased with this thing; so he sent punishment on Israel.


rate difficulty: And the first of all the first-fruits of all, and every heave-offering of all, of all your heave-offerings, are the priests': and the first of your dough ye give to the priest, to cause a blessing to rest on thy house.

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


simplify: and Abdon, and Zichri, and Hanan,


simplify: So Moses went down unto the people, and told them.

So Moses went down to the people and said this to them.


rate difficulty: And Hannah, in prayer before the Lord, said, My heart is glad in the Lord, my horn is lifted up in the Lord: my mouth is open wide over my haters; because my joy is in your salvation.


rate difficulty: Then Isaac came to his end and was put to rest with his father's people, an old man after a long life: and Jacob and Esau, his sons, put him in his last resting-place.


rate difficulty: Do you still not see, or keep in mind the five cakes of bread of the five thousand, and the number of baskets you took up?

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


simplify: `And if the herb of the field, that to-day is, and to-morrow is cast to the furnace, God doth so clothe--not much more you, O ye of little faith?

If God so clothes even the grass of the field, which is living today and tomorrow will be thrown into the oven, will not he much more clothe you, you of little faith?


rate difficulty: Me are they provoking to anger? an affirmation of Jehovah, Is it not themselves, For the shame of their own faces?


simplify: Who can stand before his indignation? and who can abide in the fierceness of his anger? his wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken asunder by him.

Who may keep his place before his wrath? and who may undergo the heat of his passion? his wrath is let loose like fire and the rocks are broken open by him.


simplify: Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of understanding.

Give up the simple ones and have life, and go in the way of knowledge.


simplify: And he slew an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian’s hand was a spear like a weaver’s beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian’s hand, and slew him with his own spear.

And he made an attack on an Egyptian, a very tall man about five cubits high, armed with a spear like a cloth-worker's rod; he went down to him with a stick, and pulling his spear out of the hand of the Egyptian, put him to death with that same spear.


rate difficulty: Remember therefore whence thou art fallen, and repent, and do the first works: but if not, I am coming to thee, and I will remove thy lamp out of its place, except thou shalt repent.

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


simplify: and the Lord make you to increase and abound in love one toward another, and toward all men, even as we also do toward you;

And the Lord give you increase of love in fullest measure to one another and to all men, even as our love to you;


rate difficulty: But the princes of the children of Ammon said to Hanun, Thinkest thou that David doth honour thy father, that he hath sent comforters unto thee? are not his servants come unto thee for to search, and to overthrow, and to spy out the land?

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


simplify: And David smote them from the twilight even unto the evening of the next day: and there escaped not a man of them, save four hundred young men, which rode upon camels, and fled.

And David went on fighting them from evening till the evening of the day after; and not one of them got away but only four hundred young men who went in flight on camels.


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel that were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Jehovah day by day, singing with loud instruments unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Being full of the fruits of righteousness, which are through Jesus Christ, to the glory and praise of God.

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


simplify: Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,

For at the coming of the Lord there will be great activity on the part of Satan, in the form of all kinds of deceptive miracles, signs, and marvels, as well as of wicked attempts to delude —


simplify: But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.

But, no sooner has this son of yours come, who has eaten up your property in the company of prostitutes, than you have killed the fattened calf for him.’


rate difficulty: This is the punishment of the evil-doer from God, and the heritage given to the cruel by the Ruler of all.


rate difficulty: Hear us, my lord: thou art a mighty prince among us: in the choice of our sepulchres bury thy dead; none of us shall withhold from thee his sepulchre, but that thou mayest bury thy dead.

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


simplify: Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?

Then the responsible men of the meeting said, What are we to do about wives for the rest of them, seeing that the women of Benjamin are dead?


rate difficulty: And they were reasoning with themselves, saying, `If we may say, From heaven, he will say, Wherefore, then, did ye not believe him?

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


rate difficulty: He shall not return into the land of Egypt, but the Assyrian shall be his king; for they refused to return [to me];

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


simplify: and the inhabitants of one city shall go to another, saying, Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Jehovah, and to seek Jehovah of hosts: I will go also.

And the people of one town go to another and say, Let us certainly go with a request for grace from the Lord, and to give worship to the Lord of armies, then I will go with you.


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

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


rate difficulty: and become ye doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves,

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rate difficulty: And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him and made him king in Gihon; and they came back from there with joy, and the town was all worked up. This is the noise which has come to your ears.


simplify: The sluggard saith, There is a lion without; I shall be slain in the streets.

The hater of work says, There is a lion outside: I will be put to death in the streets.


rate difficulty: For this cause have I sent unto you Timothy, who is my beloved and faithful child in the Lord, who shall put you in remembrance of my ways which are in Christ, even as I teach everywhere in every church.

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


rate difficulty: and two rings of gold he hath made for it under its wreath, at its two corners, at its two sides, for places for staves to bear it with them.

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


simplify: Which in his times he shall shew, who is the blessed and only Potentate, the King of kings, and Lord of lords;

Which at the right time he will make clear, who is the eternal and only Ruler, King of kings, and Lord of lords;


simplify: And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.

Then the king said to Doeg, You are to put the priests to death. And Doeg the Edomite, turning on the priests and attacking them, put to death that day eighty-five men who took up the ephod.


simplify: He that is of a proud heart stirreth up strife: but he that putteth his trust in the Lord shall be made fat.

He who is ever desiring profit is a cause of fighting; but he who puts his faith in the Lord will be made fat.


simplify: And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his first-born, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.

And the sons of Eshek his brother: Ulam his oldest son, Jeush the second, and Eliphelet the third.


rate difficulty: For there are many — of whom I have often told you, and now tell you even with tears — who are living in enmity to the cross of the Christ.

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simplify: For as the body without the spirit is dead, so faith without works is dead also.

Exactly as a body is dead without a spirit, so faith is dead without actions.


simplify: A wise man is strong; yea, a man of knowledge increaseth strength.

A wise man is strong; and a man of knowledge makes strength greater.


rate difficulty: Abominate me do all the men of my counsel, And those I have loved, Have been turned against me.

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simplify: And he restored the eleven hundred pieces of silver to his mother; and his mother said, I verily dedicate the silver unto Jehovah from my hand for my son, to make a graven image and a molten image: now therefore I will restore it unto thee.

And he gave back the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, and his mother said, I have made the silver holy to the Lord from me for my son, to make a pictured image and a metal image.


rate difficulty: And David inquired of Jehovah, saying, Shall I pursue after this troop? shall I overtake them? And he said to him, Pursue; for thou shalt assuredly overtake [them] and shalt certainly recover.

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


simplify: And he brought into the house of God the things that his father had dedicated, and that he himself had dedicated, silver, and gold, and vessels.

He took into the house of God all the things which his father had made holy and those which he himself had made holy, silver and gold and vessels.


simplify: Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a merchant seeking goodly pearls:

Again, the kingdom of heaven is like a trader searching for beautiful jewels.


simplify: Then I spake unto them of the captivity all the things that the Lord had shewed me.

Then I gave an account to those who had been taken prisoners of all the things which the Lord had made me see.


simplify: Of their flesh ye shall not eat, and their carcasses ye shall not touch; they are unclean unto you.

Their flesh may not be used for food, and their dead bodies may not even be touched; they are unclean to you.


rate difficulty: Howbeit at that time, not knowing God, ye were in bondage to them that by nature are no gods:

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


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

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


rate difficulty: for I tell you all that not one of those people who were invited will taste my dinner.’”

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


rate difficulty: So Joshua gave Ai to the flames, and made it a waste mass of stones for ever, as it is to this day.


simplify: it seemed good to us, having come together with one accord, chosen men to send unto you, with our beloved Barnabas and Paul--

We met and decided to choose certain men and send them to you with our dear friends Barnabas and Paul,


simplify: And he, casting away his garment, rose, and came to Jesus.

The man threw off his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.


rate difficulty: But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.


simplify: And Ephraim is as an heifer that is taught, and loveth to tread out the corn; but I passed over upon her fair neck: I will make Ephraim to ride; Judah shall plow, and Jacob shall break his clods.

And Ephraim is a trained cow, taking pleasure in crushing the grain; but I have put a yoke on her fair neck; I will put a horseman on the back of Ephraim; Judah will be working the plough, Jacob will be turning up the earth.


simplify: And all the host of heaven shall be dissolved, and the heavens shall be rolled together as a scroll; and all their host shall fade away, as the leaf fadeth from off the vine, and as a fading leaf from the fig-tree.

And the heavens will be rolled together like the roll of a book: and all their army will be gone, like a dead leaf from the vine, or a dry fruit from the fig-tree.


simplify: And let us bring again the ark of our God to us: for we enquired not at it in the days of Saul.

And let us get back for ourselves the ark of our God: for in the days of Saul we did not go to it for directions.


rate difficulty: the two tribes and the half-tribe have received their inheritance beyond the Jordan at Jericho eastward, toward the sunrising.

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simplify: and they beckoned to the partners, who <FI>are<Fi> in the other boat, having come, to help them; and they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were sinking.

So they signaled to their partners in the other boat to come and help them; and they came and filled both the boats so full of fish that they were almost sinking.


rate difficulty: Thus also [is] the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruptibility.


simplify: Now therefore, behold, Jehovah hath put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets; and Jehovah hath spoken evil concerning thee.

And now, see, the Lord has put a spirit of deceit in the mouth of all these your prophets; and the Lord has said evil against you.


rate difficulty: She will give to thy head a chaplet of grace; A crown of beauty will she deliver to thee.

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


rate difficulty: And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna write; These things saith the first and the last, which was dead, and is alive;


rate difficulty: to Urban, our fellow worker in the cause of Christ, and to my dear friend Stachys;

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


rate difficulty: Jehovah will cut off, to the man that doeth this, him that waketh and him that answereth, out of the tents of Jacob, and him that offereth an offering unto Jehovah of hosts.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 5 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: For every man's life and every man's death has a relation to others as well as to himself.

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


simplify: And all the people that heard him, and the publicans, justified God, being baptized with the baptism of John.

(And all the people, and the tax-farmers, to whom John had given baptism, when they had knowledge of these things, gave glory to God.


simplify: If any man trespass against his neighbour, and an oath be laid upon him to cause him to swear, and the oath come before thine altar in this house:

If a man does wrong to his neighbour, and has to take an oath, and comes before your altar to take his oath in this house:


simplify: When a man shall take hold of his brother of the house of his father, saying, Thou hast clothing, be thou our ruler, and let this ruin be under thy hand:

When one man puts his hand on another in his father's house, and says, You have clothing, be our ruler and be responsible for us in our sad condition:


rate difficulty: And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin-offering first, and wring off its head from its neck, but shall not divide it asunder:

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


simplify: They that see thee shall gaze at thee, they shall consider thee, saying, Is this the man that made the earth to tremble, that did shake kingdoms;

Those who see you will be looking on you with care, they will be in deep thought, saying, Is this the troubler of the earth, the shaker of kingdoms?


simplify: and ye have known, even ye Philippians, that in the beginning of the good news when I went forth from Macedonia, no assembly did communicate with me in regard to giving and receiving except ye only;

And you at Philippi know, as well as I, that in the early days of the good news — at the time when I had just left Macedonia — no church, with the one exception of yourselves, had anything to do with me as far as giving and receiving are concerned.


simplify: And the wild beasts of the desert shall meet with the wolves, and the wild goat shall cry to his fellow; yea, the night-monster shall settle there, and shall find her a place of rest.

And the beasts of the waste places will come together with the jackals, and the evil spirits will be crying to one another, even the night-spirit will come and make her resting-place there.


simplify: for all these do the nations seek for, for your heavenly Father doth know that ye have need of all these;

All these are the things for which the nations are seeking, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them all.


simplify: For God, who commanded the light to shine out of darkness, hath shined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.

Seeing that it is God who said, Let light be shining out of the dark, who has put in our hearts the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look on the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall grow old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner; but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

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


simplify: Because thou wilt not leave my soul in hell, neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

For you will not let my soul be in hell and you will not give up your Holy One to destruction.


rate difficulty: For stayed for good hath the inhabitant of Maroth, For evil hath come down from Jehovah to the gate of Jerusalem.

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


rate difficulty: I have had Esau searched out, uncovering his secret places, so that he may not keep himself covered: his seed is wasted and has come to an end, and there is no help from his neighbours.


simplify: And it shall come to pass, that when any shall yet prophesy, then his father and his mother that begat him shall say unto him, Thou shalt not live; for thou speakest lies in the name of the Lord: and his father and his mother that begat him shall thrust him through when he prophesieth.

And if anyone goes on acting as a prophet, then his father and his mother who gave him life will say to him, You may not go on living, for you are saying what is false in the name of the Lord; and his father and his mother will put a sword through him when he does so.


simplify: And because I doubted of such manner of questions, I asked him whether he would go to Jerusalem, and there be judged of these matters.

And, as I was at a loss how to enquire into questions of this kind, I asked Paul if he were willing to go up to Jerusalem, and be put on trial there.


rate difficulty: `Teacher, which <FI>is<Fi> the great command in the Law?'

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


rate difficulty: And he made the cloak of the ephod of woven work, all of blue;


simplify: But the word of God came unto Shemaiah the man of God, saying,

But the word of God came to Shemaiah, the man of God, saying,


rate difficulty: The children of Pahath–moab, of the children of Jeshua and Joab, two thousand and eight hundred and eighteen.

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simplify: And the children of Israel gave by lot unto the Levites these cities with their suburbs, as Jehovah commanded by Moses.

All these towns with their grass-lands the children of Israel gave by the decision of the Lord to the Levites, as the Lord had given orders by Moses.


simplify: And at the stream of the brooks that goeth down to the dwelling of Ar, and lieth upon the border of Moab.

The slope of the valleys going down to the tents of Ar and touching the edge of Moab.


simplify: As we said before, so say I now again, If any man preach any other gospel unto you than that ye have received, let him be accursed.

We have said it before, and I repeat it now — If anyone tells you a ‘good news’ other than that which you received, may he be accursed!


simplify: And Jehovah will do unto them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and unto their land; whom he destroyed.

The Lord will do to them as he did to Sihon and to Og, the kings of the Amorites, and to their land, whom he put to destruction.


rate difficulty: and it came to pass in those days she, having ailed, died, and having bathed her, they laid her in an upper chamber,


simplify: For what should a man give in exchange for his life?

And what would a man give in exchange for his life?


simplify: Wherefore the Lord said unto Solomon, Forasmuch as this is done of thee, and thou hast not kept my covenant and my statutes, which I have commanded thee, I will surely rend the kingdom from thee, and will give it to thy servant.

So the Lord said to Solomon, Because you have done this, and have not kept my agreement and my laws, which I gave you, I will take the kingdom away from you by force and will give it to your servant.


rate difficulty: Now the hole into which Ishmael had put the dead bodies of the men whom he had put to death, was the great hole which Asa the king had made for fear of Baasha, king of Israel: and Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, made it full of the bodies of those who had been put to death.

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


simplify: And Joseph, having risen from the sleep, did as the messenger of the Lord directed him, and received his wife,

When Joseph woke up, he did as the angel of the Lord had directed him.


simplify: Concerning Damascus. Hamath is confounded, and Arpad: for they have heard evil tidings: they are fainthearted; there is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

About Damascus. Hamath is put to shame, and Arpad; for the word of evil has come to their ears, their heart in its fear is turned to water, it will not be quiet.


rate difficulty: And in My speaking with thee, I do open thy mouth, and thou hast said unto them: Thus said the Lord Jehovah; the hearer doth hear, and the forbearer doth forbear; for a rebellious house <FI>are<Fi> they.

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


rate difficulty: And David said to Ittai, Go and pass over. And Ittai the Gittite passed over, and all his men, and all the little ones that were with him.


rate difficulty: and thou dost not raise up to thee any standing image which Jehovah thy God is hating.

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


rate difficulty: Give ear, O sea-lands, to me; and take note, you peoples from far: I have been marked out by the Lord from the first; when I was still in my mother's body, he had my name in mind:


rate difficulty: And Reu lived thirty-two years, and begot Serug.

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


rate difficulty: For Parbar westward, four at the causeway, and two at Parbar.

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


simplify: Swear now therefore unto me by Jehovah, that thou wilt not cut off my seed after me, and that thou wilt not destroy my name out of my father’s house.

So give me your oath by the Lord, that you will not put an end to my seed after me or let my name be cut off from my father's family.


simplify: And God said, Let the earth bring forth living creatures after their kind, cattle, and creeping things, and beasts of the earth after their kind: and it was so.

And God said, Let the earth give birth to all sorts of living things, cattle and all things moving on the earth, and beasts of the earth after their sort: and it was so.


rate difficulty: because her sins did follow--unto the heaven, and God did remember her unrighteousness.


simplify: My sheep wandered through all the mountains, and upon every high hill: yea, my sheep were scattered upon all the face of the earth; and there was none that did search or seek after them.

And my sheep went out of the way, wandering through all the mountains and on every high hill: my sheep went here and there over all the face of the earth; and no one was troubled about them or went in search of them.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Samuel went to Ramah; and Saul went up to his house to Gibeah of Saul.

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


rate difficulty: Go not forth to strive, haste, turn, What dost thou in its latter end, When thy neighbour causeth thee to blush?

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


simplify: The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when thine eye is evil, thy body also is full of darkness.

The lamp of the body is your eye. When your eye is unclouded, your whole body, also, is lit up; but, as soon as your eye is diseased, your body, also, is darkened.


simplify: And Ben-hadad hearkened unto king Asa, and sent the captains of his armies against the cities of Israel, and smote Ijon, and Dan, and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth, with all the land of Naphtali.

So Ben-hadad did as King Asa said, and sent the captains of his armies against the towns of Israel, attacking Ijon and Dan and Abel-beth-maacah, and all Chinneroth as far as all the land of Naphtali.


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

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


rate difficulty: As all things to us His divine power (the things pertaining unto life and piety) hath given, through the acknowledgement of him who did call us through glory and worthiness,

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


simplify: yea, they shall be afraid of that which is high, and terrors shall be in the way; and the almond-tree shall blossom, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his everlasting home, and the mourners go about the streets:

And he is in fear of that which is high, and danger is in the road, and the tree is white with flower, and the least thing is a weight, and desire is at an end, because man goes to his last resting-place, and those who are sorrowing are in the streets;


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

So Nathan gave David an account of all these words and this vision.


simplify: And it was said unto them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth, neither any green thing, neither any tree, but only such men as have not the seal of God on their foreheads.

And they were ordered to do no damage to the grass of the earth, or any green thing, or any tree, but only to such men as have not the mark of God on their brows.


rate difficulty: and the residue of the number of the archers, the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, shall be diminished: for Jehovah, theGod of Israel, hath spoken.

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


simplify: And the king hath sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites, and the Pelethites, and they have caused him to ride upon the king’s mule:

And he sent with him Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites; and they put him on the king's beast:


simplify: and Beth-arabah, and Zemaraim, and Beth-el,

And Beth-arabah and Zemaraim and Beth-el


rate difficulty: My net will be stretched out over him, and he will be taken in my cords, and I will send him to Babylon, and there I will be his judge for the wrong which he has done against me.

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


simplify: And Ehud escaped while they tarried, and passed beyond the quarries, and escaped unto Seirah.

But Ehud had got away while they were waiting and had gone past the stone images and got away to Seirah.


simplify: And he that burneth her shall wash his clothes in water, and bathe his flesh in water, and shall be unclean until the even.

And he who does the burning is to have his clothing washed and his body bathed in water and be unclean till evening.


rate difficulty: and Pharaoh is wroth against his two eunuchs, against the chief of the butlers, and against the chief of the bakers,

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Go and tell John the things which ye hear and see:

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Take heed to yourselves, that your heart be not deceived, and ye turn aside, and serve other gods, and worship them;

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


rate difficulty: And the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, as a lion among the beasts of the forest, as a young lion among the flocks of sheep: who, if he go through, treadeth down, and teareth in pieces, and there is none to deliver.

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


simplify: the baptism of John--from heaven was it? or from men? answer me.'

It is about John’s baptism. Was it of divine or human origin? Answer me that.”


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass afterward, that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh; and your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions:

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


simplify: Lo, I will bring a nation upon you from far, O house of Israel, saith the Lord: it is a mighty nation, it is an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither understandest what they say.

See, I will send you a nation from far away, O people of Israel, says the Lord; a strong nation and an old nation, a nation whose language is strange to you, so that you may not get the sense of their words.


rate difficulty: and the seventh thou dost release it, and hast left it, and the needy of thy people have eaten, and their leaving doth the beast of the field eat; so dost thou to thy vineyard--to thine olive-yard.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And they said not, Where is Jehovah, that brought us up out of the land of Egypt, that led us in the wilderness, in a land of deserts and of pits, in a land of drought and of the shadow of death, in a land that no one passeth through, and where no man dwelleth?

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


simplify: And they, having heard these things, were silent, and were glorifying God, saying, `Then, indeed, also to the nations did God give the reformation to life.'

On hearing this statement, they said no more, but broke out into praise of God. “So even to the Gentiles,” they exclaimed, “God has granted the repentance which leads to life!”


simplify: Watch therefore: for ye know not when the lord of the house cometh, whether at even, or at midnight, or at cockcrowing, or in the morning;

So you are to keep watch: because you are not certain when the master of the house is coming, in the evening, or in the middle of the night, or at the cock's cry, or in the morning;


rate difficulty: Surely there was not holden such a passover from the days of the judges that judged Israel, nor in all the days of the kings of Israel, nor of the kings of Judah;

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And also, burnt-offerings <FI>are<Fi> in abundance, with fat of the peace-offerings, and with oblations for the burnt-offering; and the service of the house of Jehovah is established,


rate difficulty: And Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore, thus said the Lord Jehovah: Have I not, in the fire of My jealousy, Spoken against the remnant of the nations, And against Edom--all of it, Who gave My land to themselves for a possession, With the joy of the whole heart--with despite of soul, For the sake of casting it out for a prey?

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


rate difficulty: And the princes were wroth with Jeremiah, and smote him, and put him in prison in the house of Jonathan the scribe; for they had made that the prison.

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


rate difficulty: And there are men who have been defiled by the body of a man, and they have not been able to prepare the passover on that day, and they come near before Moses, and before Aaron, on that day,

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


rate difficulty: Make melody to the Lord, give praise to the Lord: for he has made the soul of the poor man free from the hands of the evil-doers.

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


simplify: For which things’ sake the wrath of God cometh on the children of disobedience:

Because of which the wrath of God comes on those who go against his orders;


simplify: Therefore I will make Samaria as a heap of the field, and as places for planting vineyards; and I will pour down the stones thereof into the valley, and I will uncover the foundations thereof.

So I will make Samaria into a field and the plantings of a vine-garden: I will send its stones falling down into the valley, uncovering its bases.


simplify: And last of all the woman died also.

And last of all the woman came to her end.


rate difficulty: And when he came to him, behold, he stood by his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said unto him, What hath the Lord spoken?

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


rate difficulty: And Satan stood up against Israel, and provoked David to number Israel.

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


simplify: So the king commanded Benaiah the son of Jehoiada; which went out, and fell upon him, that he died. And the kingdom was established in the hand of Solomon.

So the king gave orders to Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada; and he went out and, falling on him, put him to death. And Solomon's authority over the kingdom was complete.


rate difficulty: `And these <FI>are<Fi> the judgments which thou dost set before them:

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


simplify: The fear of Jehovah prolongeth days; But the years of the wicked shall be shortened.

The fear of the Lord gives long life, but the years of the evil-doer will be cut short.


simplify: his oblation was one silver platter, the weight whereof was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for a meal-offering;

His offering was one silver plate, a hundred and thirty shekels in weight, one silver basin of seventy shekels, by the scale of the holy place; the two of them full of the best meal mixed with oil for a meal offering;


simplify: And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked?

And Abraham came near, and said, Will you let destruction come on the upright with the sinners?


simplify: Because they turned aside from following him, And would not have regard in any of his ways:

Because they did not go after him, and took no note of his ways,


rate difficulty: And as David came to Ornan, Ornan looked and saw David, and went out of the threshing-floor, and bowed himself to David with his face to the ground.


simplify: That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

So that you may be the sons of your Father in heaven; for his sun gives light to the evil and to the good, and he sends rain on the upright man and on the sinner.


rate difficulty: Then again lifting up my eyes I saw a roll in flight through the air.

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


simplify: Behold, the tempest of Jehovah, even his wrath, is gone forth, yea, a whirling tempest: it shall burst upon the head of the wicked.

See, the storm-wind of the Lord, even the heat of his wrath, has gone out, a rolling storm, bursting on the heads of the evil-doers.


rate difficulty: And Paul, looking fixedly at the Sanhedrin, said, My brothers, my life has been upright before God till this day.

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


simplify: And he said, This is Wickedness: and he cast her down into the midst of the ephah; and he cast the weight of lead upon the mouth thereof.

And he said, This is Sin; and pushing her down into the ephah, he put the weight of lead on the mouth of it.


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

He who is not with me is against me, and he who will not give me help in getting people together is driving them away.


simplify: Now therefore, behold, the Lord bringeth up upon them the waters of the river, strong and many, even the king of Assyria, and all his glory: and he shall come up over all his channels, and go over all his banks:

For this cause the Lord is sending on them the waters of the River, deep and strong, even the king of Assyria and all his glory: and it will come up through all its streams, overflowing all its edges:


rate difficulty: And when they had set the people, even all the host that was on the north of the city, and their liers in wait on the west of the city, Joshua went that night into the midst of the valley.

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


rate difficulty: I had heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; But now mine eye seeth thee:

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


rate difficulty: And Saul went on this side of the mountain, and David and his men on that side of the mountain: and David made haste to get away for fear of Saul; for Saul and his men compassed David and his men round about to take them.


rate difficulty: For as <FI>at<Fi> mount Perazim rise doth Jehovah, As <FI>at<Fi> the valley in Gibeon He is troubled, To do His work--strange <FI>is<Fi> His work, And to do His deed--strange <FI>is<Fi> His deed.'

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


simplify: Open ye the gates, that the righteous nation which keepeth faith may enter in.

Let the doors be open, so that the upright nation which keeps faith may come in.


simplify: Wherefore, I will not be careless always to remind you concerning these things, though, having known them, and having been established in the present truth,

I will, therefore, always be ready to remind you of all this, even though you know it and are firmly established in the truth that you now hold.


rate difficulty: And answerable unto the border of the priests, the Levites shall have five and twenty thousand in length, and ten thousand in breadth: all the length shall be five and twenty thousand, and the breadth ten thousand.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel shall pitch their tents, every man by his own camp, and every man by his own standard, throughout their hosts.

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


simplify: And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing with milk and honey; unto the place of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

And I have come down to take them out of the hands of the Egyptians, guiding them out of that land into a good land and wide, into a land flowing with milk and honey; into the place of the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Amorite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


rate difficulty: Come down, and sit on the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon, Sit on the earth, there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans, For no more do they cry to thee, `O tender and delicate one.'

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


rate difficulty: And Elijah took his mantle, and wrapped it together, and smote the waters, and they were divided hither and thither, so that they two went over on dry ground.

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


rate difficulty: and the omer is a tenth of the ephah.


simplify: Therefore seeing we have this ministry, even as we obtained mercy, we faint not:

For this reason, because we have been made servants of this new order, through the mercy given to us, we are strong:


simplify: And the sockets of the court round about, and the sockets of the court gate, and all the pins of the tabernacle, and all the pins of the court round about.

And the bases for the open space all round and for its doorway, and all the nails for the House and for the open space.


simplify: and we in regard to the unmeasured things will not boast ourselves, but after the measure of the line that the God of measure did appoint to us--to reach even unto you;

We, however, will not give way to unlimited boasting, but will confine ourselves to the limits of the sphere to which God limited us, when he permitted us to come as far as Corinth.


rate difficulty: For the rest, brethren, pray for us, that the word of the Lord may run and be glorified, even as also with you;

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


simplify: Who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asked an alms.

Seeing Peter and John on the point of entering, he asked them to give him something.


simplify: I have become a fool--boasting; ye--ye did compel me; for I ought by you to have been commended, for in nothing was I behind the very chiefest apostles--even if I am nothing.

I have been “playing the fool!” It is you who drove me to it. For it is you who ought to have been commending me! Although I am nobody, in no respect did I prove inferior to the most eminent apostles.


simplify: And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and I saw out of the sea a beast coming up, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon its horns ten diadems, and upon its heads a name of evil speaking,

Then I saw, ‘rising out of the sea, a wild Beast with ten horns’ and seven heads. On its horns were ten diadems, and on its heads were blasphemous names.


simplify: And it shall be upon Aaron to minister: and the sound thereof shall be heard when he goeth in unto the holy place before Jehovah, and when he cometh out, that he die not.

Aaron is to put it on for his holy work; and the sound of it will be clear, when he goes into the holy place before the Lord, and when he comes out, keeping him safe from death.


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

The soldiers, too, came up in mockery, bringing him common wine,


simplify: And Aaron shall make an atonement upon the horns of it once in a year with the blood of the sin offering of atonements: once in the year shall he make atonement upon it throughout your generations: it is most holy unto the Lord.

And once every year Aaron is to make its horns clean: with the blood of the sin-offering he is to make it clean once every year from generation to generation: it is most holy to the Lord.


rate difficulty: These are the generations of the heaven and the earth when they were made.

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


rate difficulty: My words to you are without fear, I am full of pride on account of you: I have great comfort and joy in all our troubles.

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


simplify: `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> the Lord, the God of Israel, Because He did look upon, And wrought redemption for His people,

“Blessed is the Lord, the God of Israel, Who has visited his people and wrought their deliverance,


simplify: And the men pursued after them the way to the Jordan unto the fords: and as soon as they that pursued after them were gone out, they shut the gate.

So the men went after them on the road to Jordan as far as the river-crossing: and when they had gone out after them, the door into the town was shut.


simplify: And now I stand and am judged for the hope of the promise made of God unto our fathers:

Even now, it is because of my hope in the promise given by God to our ancestors that I stand here on my trial —


simplify: His troops come on together, And cast up their way against me, And encamp round about my tent.

His armies come on together, they make their road high against me, and put up their tents round mine.


rate difficulty: a blessing, if ye obey the commandments of Jehovah yourGod, which I command you this day;

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


simplify: Whiles by the experiment of this ministration they glorify God for your professed subjection unto the gospel of Christ, and for your liberal distribution unto them, and unto all men;

For when, through this work of giving, they see what you are, they give glory to God for the way in which you have given yourselves to the good news of Christ, and for the wealth of your giving to them and to all;


rate difficulty: And they sent out a number of evil spirits, and put oil on a great number who were ill, and made them well.

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


rate difficulty: That I might make thee know the certainty of the words of truth; that thou mightest answer the words of truth to them that send unto thee?

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


rate difficulty: I have another request to make of you, friends. You remember Stephanas and his household, and that they were the first-fruits gathered in from Greece, and set themselves to serve Christ’s people.

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


rate difficulty: The sons of Levi, the chief of the fathers, were written in the book of the chronicles, even until the days of Johanan the son of Eliashib.

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


rate difficulty: But I say to you, my friends, Fear not those who kill the body and after this have no more that they can do.


simplify: And he said unto them, The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:

And he said to them, The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath;


rate difficulty: And all the trees of the field shall know that I, Jehovah, have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I, Jehovah, have spoken and have done it.

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


simplify: And king David sent to Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, saying, Speak unto the elders of Judah, saying, Why are ye the last to bring the king back to his house? seeing the speech of all Israel is come to the king, even to his house.

And King David sent word to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, Say to the responsible men of Judah, Why are you the last to take steps to get the king back to his house?


rate difficulty: You will not have forgotten, friends, our labor and toil. Night and day we used to work at our trades, so as not be a burden to any of you, while we proclaimed to you God’s good news.

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


simplify: then, brethren, we are not a maid-servant's children, but the free-woman's.

And so, friends, we are not children of a slave, but of her who is free.


simplify: A land which the Lord thy God careth for: the eyes of the Lord thy God are always upon it, from the beginning of the year even unto the end of the year.

A land cared for by the Lord your God: the eyes of the Lord your God are on it at all times from one end of the year to the other.


rate difficulty: And for them the words of Isaiah have come true, Though you give ear, you will not get knowledge; and seeing, you will see, but the sense will not be clear to you:

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass the same day, that Isaac’s servants came, and told him concerning the well which they had digged, and said unto him, We have found water.

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


rate difficulty: And if anyone says to him, What are these wounds between your hands? then he will say, Those with which I was wounded in the house of my friends.

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


rate difficulty: I am of them that are peaceable and faithful in Israel: thou seekest to destroy a city and a mother in Israel: why wilt thou swallow up the inheritance of Jehovah?

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


simplify: Give glory to Jehovah your God, before he cause darkness, and before your feet stumble upon the dark mountains, and, while ye look for light, he turn it into the shadow of death, and make it gross darkness.

Give glory to the Lord your God, before he makes it dark, and before your feet are slipping on the dark mountains, and, while you are looking for a light, he makes it into deep dark, into black night.


rate difficulty: And over the division of the second month was Dodai the Ahohite; and in his division was Mikloth ruler; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


rate difficulty: And he made staves of acacia-wood and overlaid them with gold.


simplify: (for they are thy people, and thine inheritance, which thou broughtest forth out of Egypt, from the midst of the furnace of iron);

For they are your people and your heritage, which you took out of Egypt, out of the iron fireplace;


simplify: Thus will I make mount Seir an astonishment and a desolation; and I will cut off from it him that passeth through and him that returneth.

And I will make Mount Seir a cause for wonder and a waste, cutting off from it all comings and goings.


simplify: But Absalom fled. And the young man that kept the watch lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, there came much people by the way of the hill side behind him.

But Absalom went in flight. And the young man who kept the watch, lifting up his eyes, saw that a great band of people was coming down the slope by the way of the Horons; and the watchman came and gave word to the king, saying, I saw men coming down by the way of the Horons, from the hillside.


simplify: And no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.

No one could say a word in answer; nor did anyone after that day venture to question him further.


simplify: And that the passages are stopped, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are affrighted.

And the ways across the river have been taken, and the water-holes ... burned with fire, and the men of war are in the grip of fear.


rate difficulty: And they come unto Bethsaida. And they bring to him a blind man, and beseech him to touch him.

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


rate difficulty: Of oaks of Bashan they made thine oars, Thy bench they have made of ivory, A branch of Ashurim from isles of Chittim.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,

And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing;


rate difficulty: Whoso is covering transgression is seeking love, And whoso is repeating a matter Is separating a familiar friend.

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


simplify: But his countenance fell at the saying, and he went away sorrowful: for he was one that had great possessions.

But his face became sad at the saying, and he went away sorrowing: for he was one who had much property.


simplify: And he saith unto them, Is it lawful on the sabbath day to do good, or to do harm? to save a life, or to kill? But they held their peace.

And he said to them, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to put to death? But they said nothing.


simplify: And Zedekiah king of Judah shall not escape out of the hand of the Chaldeans, but shall surely be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, and shall speak with him mouth to mouth, and his eyes shall behold his eyes;

And Zedekiah, king of Judah, will not get away from the hands of the Chaldaeans, but will certainly be given up into the hands of the king of Babylon, and will have talk with him, mouth to mouth, and see him, eye to eye.


simplify: And it was told Laban on the third day that Jacob was fled.

And on the third day Laban had news of Jacob's flight.


simplify: For it was little which thou hadst before I came, and it hath increased unto a multitude; and Jehovah hath blessed thee whithersoever I turned: and now when shall I provide for mine own house also?

For before I came you had little, and it has been greatly increased; and the Lord has given you a blessing in everything I have done; but when am I to do something for my family?


rate difficulty: And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

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


rate difficulty: I have made thee a trier and a fortress among my people; that thou mayest know and try their way.

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


rate difficulty: And I took my concubine, and cut her in pieces, and sent her throughout all the country of the inheritance of Israel; for they have committed lewdness and folly in Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And strengthen doth an artisan the refiner, A smoother <FI>with<Fi> a hammer, Him who is beating <FI>on<Fi> an anvil, Saying, `For joining it <FI>is<Fi> good,' And he strengtheneth it with nails, it is not moved!

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


rate difficulty: And when he had thus spoken, he dismissed the assembly.

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


simplify: and if any one may will to injure them, fire doth proceed out of their mouth, and doth devour their enemies, and if any one may will to injure them, thus it behoveth him to be killed.

When anyone wishes to harm them, ‘fire comes from their mouths and consumes their enemies’; and whoever wishes to harm them will, in this way, inevitably perish.


simplify: If David then calleth him Lord, how is he his son?

If David then gives him the name of Lord, how is he his son?


simplify: Wherefore David blessed the Lord before all the congregation: and David said, Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our father, for ever and ever.

So David gave praise to the Lord before all the people; and David said, Praise be to you, O Lord the God of Israel, our father for ever and ever.


simplify: And afterward Moses and Aaron came, and said unto Pharaoh, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of Israel, Let my people go, that they may hold a feast unto me in the wilderness.

And after that, Moses and Aaron came to Pharaoh, and said, The Lord, the God of Israel, says, Let my people go so that they may keep a feast to me in the waste land.


rate difficulty: My loved one, it is my prayer that you may do well in all things, and be healthy in body, even as your soul does well.

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


simplify: When the heaven is shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; yet if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, when thou dost afflict them;

When heaven is shut up and there is no rain, because of their sin against you: if they make prayers with their faces turned to this place, honouring your name and turning away from their sin when you send trouble on them:


simplify: And there were made on them, on the doors of the temple, cherubim and palm-trees, like as were made upon the walls; and there was a threshold of wood upon the face of the porch without.

And on them were pictured winged ones and palm-trees, as on the walls; and a ... of wood was on the front of the covered way outside.


simplify: For verily in this we groan, longing to be clothed upon with our habitation which is from heaven:

For in this we are crying in weariness, greatly desiring to be clothed with our house from heaven:


simplify: For thou art our Father, though Abraham knoweth us not, and Israel doth not acknowledge us: thou, O Jehovah, art our Father; our Redeemer from everlasting is thy name.

For you are our father, though Abraham has no knowledge of us, and Israel gives no thought to us: you, O Lord, are our father; from the earliest days you have taken up our cause.


rate difficulty: and God doth give to thee of the dew of heaven, and of the fatness of the earth, and abundance of corn and wine;

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


simplify: Now I will come unto you, when I shall pass through Macedonia: for I do pass through Macedonia.

I will come to you as soon as I have been through Macedonia — for I am going through Macedonia —