rate difficulty: for which also we do pray always for you, that our God may count you worthy of the calling, and may fulfil all the good pleasure of goodness, and the work of the faith in power,

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rate difficulty: And it came to pass soon afterwards, that he went about through cities and villages, preaching and bringing the good tidings of the kingdom of God, and with him the twelve,

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


rate difficulty: Hear a word of Jehovah, O house of Jacob, And all ye families of the house of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, When thou comest to Babylon, see that thou read all these words;

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


simplify: For our light affliction, which is for the moment, worketh for us more and more exceedingly an eternal weight of glory;

For our present trouble, which is only for a short time, is working out for us a much greater weight of glory;


rate difficulty: And when he came near the tents he saw the image of the ox, and the people dancing; and in his wrath Moses let the stones go from his hands, and they were broken at the foot of the mountain.

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


simplify: So the Lord smote the Ethiopians before Asa, and before Judah; and the Ethiopians fled.

So the Lord sent fear on the Ethiopians before Asa and Judah; and the Ethiopians went in flight.


simplify: And when they go forth into the utter court, even into the utter court to the people, they shall put off their garments wherein they ministered, and lay them in the holy chambers, and they shall put on other garments; and they shall not sanctify the people with their garments.

And when they go out into the outer square to the people, they are to take off the robes in which they do the work of priests, and put them away in the holy rooms, and put on other clothing, so that the people may not be made holy by their robes.


simplify: And Ziza the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;

And Ziza, the son of Shiphi, the son of Allon, the son of Jedaiah, the son of Shimri, the son of Shemaiah;


rate difficulty: Declare and bring [them] near; yea, let them take counsel together: who hath caused this to be heard from ancient time? [who] hath declared it long ago? Is it not I, Jehovah? And there is noGod else beside me; a justGod and a Saviour, there is none besides me.

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


simplify: but I could wish to be present with you now, and to change my tone; for I am perplexed about you.

Truly my desire is to be present with you now, using a changed voice; for I am troubled about you.


rate difficulty: and bring your youngest brother to me, and I shall know that ye are not spies, but are honest. Your brother will I give up to you; and ye may trade in the land.

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


simplify: And the soul that turneth after such as have familiar spirits, and after wizards, to go a whoring after them, I will even set my face against that soul, and will cut him off from among his people.

And whoever goes after those who make use of spirits and wonder-workers, doing evil with them, against him will my face be turned, and he will be cut off from among his people.


rate difficulty: But the people meant by the seed sown on the good ground are those who hear the message, and welcome it, and yield a return, thirty, sixty, and even a hundred fold.”


simplify: And her parents were amazed: but he charged them to tell no man what had been done.

And her father and mother were full of wonder, but he gave orders to them to say nothing about it to anyone.


simplify: and Zerubbabel begat Abiud, and Abiud begat Eliakim, and Eliakim begat Azor,

Zerubbabel of Abiud, Abiud of Eliakim, Eliakim of Azor,


simplify: and did keep back of the price--his wife also knowing--and having brought a certain part, at the feet of the apostles he laid <FI>it<Fi> .

and, with her connivance, kept back some of the proceeds. He brought only a part and laid it at the apostles’ feet.


simplify: And whatsoever place shall not receive you, and they hear you not, as ye go forth thence, shake off the dust that is under your feet for a testimony unto them.

And whatever place will not take you in and will not give ear to you, when you go away, put off the dust from your feet as a witness against them.


rate difficulty: And Herod having heard, said--`He whom I did behead--John--this is he; he was raised out of the dead.'

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


simplify: Aijalon with her suburbs, Gath–rimmon with her suburbs; four cities.

Aijalon and Gath-rimmon with their grass-lands, four towns.


simplify: And he prayed unto Jehovah, and said, I pray thee, O Jehovah, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I hasted to flee unto Tarshish; for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and abundant in lovingkindness, and repentest thee of the evil.

And he made prayer to the Lord and said, O Lord, is this not what I said when I was still in my country? This is why I took care to go in flight to Tarshish: for I was certain that you were a loving God, full of pity, slow to be angry and great in mercy, and ready to be turned from your purpose of evil.


simplify: And Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and Jehovah sent thunder and hail, and fire ran down unto the earth; and Jehovah rained hail upon the land of Egypt.

And Moses put out his rod to heaven: and the Lord sent thunder, and an ice-storm, and fire running down on the earth; the Lord sent an ice-storm on the land of Egypt.


simplify: And they shall bear their shame, and all their trespasses whereby they have trespassed against me, when they shall dwell securely in their land, and none shall make them afraid;

And they will be conscious of their shame and of all the wrong which they have done against me, when they are living in their land with no sense of danger and with no one to be a cause of fear to them;


simplify: And the people believed: and when they heard that the Lord had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

And the people had faith in them; and hearing that the Lord had taken up the cause of the children of Israel and had seen their troubles, with bent heads they gave him worship.


rate difficulty: Lie not one to another, seeing that ye have put off the old man with his deeds;

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


rate difficulty: `And Aaron hath given lots over the two goats, one lot for Jehovah, and one lot for a goat of departure;

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


simplify: Their pillars were twenty, and their brasen sockets twenty; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets were of silver.

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases were brass; and the hooks of the pillars and their bands were of silver.


rate difficulty: and all the company see that Aaron hath expired, and they bewail Aaron thirty days--all the house of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And Abraham gave to his son, to whom Sarah had given birth, the name Isaac.


rate difficulty: And all those falling of Benjamin are twenty and five thousand men drawing sword, on that day--the whole of these <FI>are<Fi> men of valour;

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


rate difficulty: And the men who held him mocked him, beating [him];


simplify: And youdid he make alive, when ye were dead through your trespasses and sins,

And to you did he give life, when you were dead through your wrongdoing and sins,


rate difficulty: But all these are the operations of the one and the same Spirit, giving to every man separately as his pleasure is.

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


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Friend, do that for which thou art come. Then they came and laid hands on Jesus, and took him.

And Jesus said to him, Friend, do that for which you have come. Then they came and put hands on Jesus, and took him.


rate difficulty: But put now a question to the beasts, and get teaching from them; or to the birds of the heaven, and they will make it clear to you;

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


simplify: and all these <FI>are<Fi> the beginning of sorrows;

All this, however, will be but the beginning of the birth pangs!


simplify: And the Chaldeans, that fight against this city, shall come and set fire on this city, and burn it with the houses, upon whose roofs they have offered incense unto Baal, and poured out drink offerings unto other gods, to provoke me to anger.

And the Chaldaeans, who are fighting against this town, will come and put the town on fire, burning it together with the houses, on the roofs of which perfumes have been burned to the Baal, and drink offerings have been drained out to other gods, moving me to wrath.


rate difficulty: A cry over the wine <FI>is<Fi> in out-places, Darkened hath been all joy, Removed hath been the joy of the land.

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


rate difficulty: (And the children of Israel took their journey from Beeroth-Bene-Jaakan to Moserah: there Aaron died, and there he was buried; and Eleazar his son exercised the priesthood in his stead.

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


simplify: Blessed shalt thou be in the city, and blessed shalt thou be in the field.

A blessing will be on you in the town, and a blessing in the field.


rate difficulty: Did I take advantage of you by any one of them whom I have sent unto you?


rate difficulty: A brother of Michah <FI>is<Fi> Ishshiah; for sons of Ishshiah: Zechariah;

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


simplify: But when some were hardened and disobedient, speaking evil of the Way before the multitude, he departed from them, and separated the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus.

But because some of the people were hard-hearted and would not give hearing, saying evil words about the Way before the people, he went away from them, and kept the disciples separate, reasoning every day in the school of Tyrannus.


simplify: And Saul sware to her by the Lord, saying, As the Lord liveth, there shall no punishment happen to thee for this thing.

And Saul made an oath to her by the Lord, saying, By the living Lord, no punishment will come to you for this.


simplify: Wherefore I put thee in remembrance that thou stir up the gift of God, which is in thee by the putting on of my hands.

For this reason I say to you, Let that grace of God which is in you, given to you by my hands, have living power.


rate difficulty: And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in his feet, sat, [being] lame from his mother's womb, who had never walked.

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


simplify: And ye shall eat it in the holy place, because it is thy due, and thy sons’ due, of the sacrifices of the Lord made by fire: for so I am commanded.

It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.


simplify: And these were their names: Of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua the son of Zaccur.

And these were their names: of the tribe of Reuben, Shammua, the son of Zaccur.


simplify: And her prophets have daubed them with untempered morter, seeing vanity, and divining lies unto them, saying, Thus saith the Lord God, when the Lord hath not spoken.

And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.


rate difficulty: But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.

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


simplify: And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs, when she is shaken of a mighty wind.

‘The stars of the heavens fell’ to the earth, as when a fig-tree, shaken by a strong wind, drops its unripe fruit.


rate difficulty: Jesus looking upon them saith, With men it is impossible, but not with God: for all things are possible with God.


simplify: And there were shepherds in the same region, lodging in the field, and keeping the night-watches over their flock,

In that same country-side were shepherds out in the open fields, watching their flocks that night,


simplify: Again, he sent other servants more than the first: and they did unto them likewise.

Again, he sent other servants more in number than the first: and they did the same to them.


rate difficulty: If I look for Sheol as my house; If I have spread my couch in the darkness;


rate difficulty: Of the tribe of Judahweresealed twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Reuben twelve thousand; Of the tribe of Gad twelve thousand;


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

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


simplify: And the chief captain answered, With a great sum obtained I this citizenship. And Paul said, But I am a Roman born.

And the chief captain said, I got Roman rights for myself at a great price. And Paul said, But I had them by birth.


rate difficulty: When he hath made plain the face thereof, doth he not cast abroad the fitches, and scatter the cummin, and cast in the principal wheat and the appointed barley and the rie in their place?

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


simplify: And the residue in the length, answerable unto the holy oblation, shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward; and it shall be answerable unto the holy oblation; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that labor in the city.

And the rest, in measure as long as the holy offering, will be ten thousand to the east and ten thousand to the west: and its produce will be for food for the workers of the town.


simplify: And it came to pass, that he tarried many days in Joppa with one Simon a tanner.

And Peter stayed some days at Jaffa with a tanner named Simon.


rate difficulty: then thou hast cut off her hand, thine eye doth not spare.

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


simplify: And thou shalt make a veil of blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen: with cherubim the work of the skilful workman shall it be made:

And you are to make a veil of the best linen, blue and purple and red, worked with designs of winged ones by a good workman:


simplify: I rejoice, therefore, that in everything I have courage in you.

I am glad that I can feel perfect confidence in you.


simplify: And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests’ garments.

And that which the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand darics of gold, and two thousand pounds of silver, and sixty-seven priests' robes.


rate difficulty: And when the flesh hath in the skin thereof a boil, and it is healed,

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


simplify: And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:

And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:


simplify: My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon; and he is like to die in the place where he is, because of the famine; for there is no more bread in the city.

My lord the king, these men have done evil in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have put into the water-hole; and he will come to his death in the place where he is through need of food: for there is no more bread in the town.


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

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


rate difficulty: ‘I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob’? He is not the God of dead people, but of living.”

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


simplify: Then said she, Sit still, my daughter, until thou know how the matter will fall: for the man will not be in rest, until he have finished the thing this day.

Then she said, Do nothing now, my daughter, till you see what will come of this; for the man will take no rest till he has put this thing through.


rate difficulty: These things speak, and exhort, and rebuke with all authority. Let no one despise thee.

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


rate difficulty: Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

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


rate difficulty: even he shall build the temple of Jehovah; and he shall bear the glory, and shall sit and rule upon his throne; and he shall be a priest upon his throne; and the counsel of peace shall be between them both.


rate difficulty: then shalt thou turn it into money, and bind up the money in thy hand, and shalt go unto the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose:

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


rate difficulty: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, set to Shigionoth.

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


simplify: And she took it up, and went into the city; and her mother-in-law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth and gave to her that which she had left after she was sufficed.

And she took it up and went into the town; and she let her mother-in-law see what she had got, and after taking enough for herself she gave her the rest.


simplify: And they shall eat those things wherewith the atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them: but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.

All those things which were used as offerings to take away sin, and to make them holy to be priests, they may have for food: but no one who is not a priest may have them, for they are holy food.


simplify: and he spread it before me: and it was written within and without; and there were written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.

And he put it open before me, and it had writing on the front and on the back; words of grief and sorrow and trouble were recorded in it.


simplify: And he said, Nay; but as captain of the host of the Lord am I now come. And Joshua fell on his face to the earth, and did worship, and said unto him, What saith my lord unto his servant?

And he said, No; but I have come as captain of the armies of the Lord. Then Joshua, falling down with his face to the earth in worship, said, What has my lord to say to his servant?


rate difficulty: And Joab and the people that were with him drew near in front of the Syrians to the battle; and they fled before him.


simplify: And she said unto her husband, Behold now, I perceive that this is a holy man of God, that passeth by us continually.

And she said to her husband, Now I see that this is a holy man of God, who comes by day after day.


rate difficulty: And they that are far off shall come and build at the temple of Jehovah: and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me unto you. And [this] shall come to pass, if ye will diligently hearken to the voice of Jehovah yourGod.

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


rate difficulty: And Ephah, Caleb's servant-wife, had Haran and Moza and Gazez; and Haran was the father of Gazez.

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


simplify: saying, Go on unto this people and say, With hearing ye shall hear, and ye shall not understand, and seeing ye shall see, and ye shall not perceive,

‘Go to this nation and say — “You will hear with your ears without ever understanding, And, though you have eyes, you will see without ever perceiving.”


simplify: He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck Shall suddenly be destroyed, and that without remedy.

A man hating sharp words and making his heart hard, will suddenly be broken and will not be made well again.


simplify: They are like a palm-tree, of turned work, and speak not: they must needs be borne, because they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither is it in them to do good.

It is like a pillar in a garden of plants, and has no voice: it has to be lifted, for it has no power of walking. Have no fear of it; for it has no power of doing evil and it is not able to do any good.


rate difficulty: And I will put my spirit within you, and cause you to walk in my statutes, and ye shall keep my judgments, and do them.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


simplify: and they abode there not a little time with the disciples.

and at Antioch they stayed with the disciples for a considerable time.


simplify: And these are they by the way side, where the word is sown; but when they have heard, Satan cometh immediately, and taketh away the word that was sown in their hearts.

And these are they by the wayside, where the word is planted; and when they have given ear, the Evil One comes straight away and takes away the word which has been planted in them.


simplify: And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.

and he will send his angels, with a great trumpet, and they will gather his people around him from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.


rate difficulty: Now after John was delivered up, Jesus came into Galilee, preaching the gospel of God,

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


simplify: Ye were running well; who did hinder you--not to obey the truth?

You were once making good progress! Who has hindered you from obeying the truth?


rate difficulty: Bend yourselves, yea, bend ye, O nation not desired,

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus having been born in Beth-Lehem of Judea, in the days of Herod the king, lo, mages from the east came to Jerusalem,

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


simplify: and having taken them in his arms, having put <FI>his<Fi> hands upon them, he was blessing them.

Then he folded the children in his arms, and, placing his hands on them, gave them his blessing.


rate difficulty: For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

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


rate difficulty: But he answering said to him that spoke to him, Who is my mother, and who are my brethren?


rate difficulty: And if thine eye serve as a snare to thee, cast it out: it is better for thee to enter into the kingdom ofGod with one eye, rather than having two eyes to be cast into the hell of fire,

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


simplify: Then he turned his face to the wall, and prayed unto Jehovah, saying,

Then, turning his face to the wall, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying,


simplify: And that ye put on the new man, which after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.

and that you must clothe yourselves in that new nature which was created to resemble God, with the righteousness and holiness springing from the truth.


simplify: lo, I will cast her into a couch, and those committing adultery with her into great tribulation--if they may not repent of their works,

Therefore I am laying her on a bed of sickness, and bringing great suffering on those who are unfaithful with her, unless they repent and turn from a life like hers.


simplify: which indeed is less than all seeds; but when it is grown, it is greater than the herbs, and becometh a tree, so that the birds of the heaven come and lodge in the branches thereof.

Which is smaller than all seeds; but when it has come up it is greater than the plants, and becomes a tree, so that the birds of heaven come and make their resting-places in its branches.


simplify: I have planted, Apollos watered; but God gave the increase.

I planted, and Apollos watered, but it was God who caused the growth.


rate difficulty: And all the men of Judah answered the men of Israel, Because the king is near of kin to us: wherefore then be ye angry for this matter? have we eaten at all of the king’s cost? or hath he given us any gift?

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


rate difficulty: and of you--even the hairs of the head are all numbered;

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


rate difficulty: And they made a cover of sheepskins coloured red, to go over the tent, and a cover of leather over that.

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


simplify: all things it beareth, all it believeth, all it hopeth, all it endureth.

love bears with all things, every trustful, ever hopeful, ever patient.


rate difficulty: for the Amalekites and the Canaanites are there before you, and ye shall fall by the sword; for as ye have turned away from Jehovah, Jehovah will not be with you.

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


simplify: But Sihon king of Heshbon would not let us pass by him: for the Lord thy God hardened his spirit, and made his heart obstinate, that he might deliver him into thy hand, as appeareth this day.

But Sihon, king of Heshbon, would not let us go through; for the Lord your God made his spirit hard and his heart strong, so that he might give him up into your hands as at this day.


simplify: And of the Levites were divisions in Judah, and in Benjamin.

And of the Levites, certain divisions in Judah were joined to Benjamin.


rate difficulty: Go to the house of the Rechabites, and speak with them, and bring them into the house of Jehovah, into one of the chambers, and give them wine to drink.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And they establish the altar on its bases, because of the fear upon them of the peoples of the lands, and he causeth burnt-offerings to ascend upon it to Jehovah, burnt-offerings for the morning and for the evening.

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


rate difficulty: and David heareth that Nabal <FI>is<Fi> dead, and saith, `Blessed <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah who hath pleaded the cause of my reproach from the hand of Nabal, and His servant hath kept back from evil, and the wickedness of Nabal hath Jehovah turned back on his own head;' and David sendeth and speaketh with Abigail, to take her to him for a wife.

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


rate difficulty: And king Solomon offered a sacrifice of twenty and two thousand oxen, and a hundred and twenty thousand sheep. So the king and all the people dedicated the house of God.

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


rate difficulty: as well as father of the circumcised — to those who are not only circumcised, but who also follow our father Abraham in that faith which he had while still uncircumcised.

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


rate difficulty: No, but what does it say? ‘The message of faith’ which we proclaim.


simplify: And he gave him the covenant of circumcision: and so Abraham begat Isaac, and circumcised him the eighth day; and Isaac begat Jacob; and Jacob begat the twelve patriarchs.

And he made with him the agreement of which circumcision was the sign. And so Abraham had a son, Isaac, and gave him circumcision on the eighth day; and Isaac had a son, Jacob, and Jacob was the father of the twelve heads of the families of Israel.


simplify: Now Absalom in his lifetime had taken and reared up for himself a pillar, which is in the king’s dale: for he said, I have no son to keep my name in remembrance: and he called the pillar after his own name: and it is called unto this day, Absalom’s place.

Now Absalom, before his death, had put up for himself a pillar in the king's valley, naming it after himself; for he said, I have no son to keep my name in memory: and to this day it is named Absalom's pillar.


rate difficulty: By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God, and keep his commandments.

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


rate difficulty: On seeing this, everyone began to complain: “He has gone to stay with a man who is an outcast.”


rate difficulty: And certain of the chief of Asia, which were his friends, sent unto him, desiring him that he would not adventure himself into the theatre.

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


simplify: that the manslayer that killeth any person unwittingly and unawares may flee thither: and they shall be unto you for a refuge from the avenger of blood.

So that any man who in error and without design has taken the life of another, may go in flight to them: and they will be safe places for you from him who has the right of punishment for blood.


simplify: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto Jehovah: it is a trespass-offering.

They are to be burned by the priest on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord: it is an offering for wrongdoing.


simplify: And he took and put the testimony into the ark, and set the staves on the ark, and put the mercy seat above upon the ark:

And he took the law and put it inside the ark, and put the rods at its side and the cover over it;


rate difficulty: See Israel according to flesh: are not they who eat the sacrifices in communion with the altar?

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


simplify: In the resurrection therefore whose wife shall she be of the seven? for they all had her.

When they come back from the dead, then, whose wife will she be of the seven? because they all had her.


simplify: And when David heard of it, he sent Joab, and all the host of the mighty men.

And hearing of this, David sent Joab and all the army and the best fighting-men.


simplify: And they went from Kehelathah, and pitched in mount Shapher.

And they went on from Kehelathah, and put up their tents in Mount Shepher.


simplify: And, behold, I lay bands upon thee, and thou shalt not turn thee from one side to the other, till thou hast accomplished the days of thy siege.

And see, I will put bands on you; and you will be stretched out without turning from one side to the other till the days of your attack are ended.


simplify: And if men strive together, and hurt a woman with child, so that her fruit depart, and yet no harm follow; he shall be surely fined, according as the woman’s husband shall lay upon him; and he shall pay as the judges determine.

If men, while fighting, do damage to a woman with child, causing the loss of the child, but no other evil comes to her, the man will have to make payment up to the amount fixed by her husband, in agreement with the decision of the judges.


rate difficulty: And all these things Noah did; as God said, so he did.


rate difficulty: And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.

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


simplify: Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.

Let not your springs be flowing in the streets, or your streams of water in the open places.


simplify: So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of Jehovah.

So he put it before them, and they had a meal and there was more than enough, as the Lord had said.


rate difficulty: And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him in fetters, and carried him to Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: And the sons of Judah: Er and Onan and Shelah and Perez and Zerah: but Er and Onan had come to their death in the land of Canaan; and the sons of Perez were Hezron and Hamul.


rate difficulty: and he is before all things, and in him all things consist.


rate difficulty: and Joseph is the ruler over the land, he who is selling to all the people of the land, and Joseph's brethren come and bow themselves to him--face to the earth.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: They shall not hunger any more, neither shall they thirst any more, nor shall the sun at all fall on them, nor any burning heat;

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


simplify: I also will do this unto you: I will appoint terror over you, even consumption and fever, that shall consume the eyes, and make the soul to pine away; and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

This will I do to you: I will put fear in your hearts, even wasting disease and burning pain, drying up the eyes and making the soul feeble, and you will get no profit from your seed, for your haters will take it for food.


rate difficulty: There was also a Prophetess named Hannah, a daughter of Phanuel and of the tribe of Asher. She was far advanced in years, having lived with her husband for seven years after marriage,

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


simplify: And Moses brought Aaron’s sons, and put coats upon them, and girded them with girdles, and put bonnets upon them; as the Lord commanded Moses.

Then he took Aaron's sons, clothing them with the coats, and putting the bands round them, and the head-dresses on their heads, as the Lord had given him orders.


simplify: The hands of the witnesses shall be first upon him to put him to death, and afterward the hands of all the people. So thou shalt put the evil away from among you.

The hands of the witnesses will be the first to put him to death, and after them the hands of all the people. So you are to put away the evil from among you.


rate difficulty: Have you not seen a vision without substance and have you not falsely made use of secret arts, when you say, The Lord has said; though I have said nothing?

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


rate difficulty: For you have taken my silver and my gold, putting in the houses of your gods my beautiful and pleasing things.

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


rate difficulty: The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor; he hath sent me to heal the brokenhearted, to preach deliverance to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind, to set at liberty them that are bruised,

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


simplify: And Joseph said unto his brethren, I am Joseph; doth my father yet live? And his brethren could not answer him; for they were troubled at his presence.

And Joseph said to his brothers, I am Joseph: is my father still living? But his brothers were not able to give him an answer for they were troubled before him.


simplify: great in counsel, and mighty in work; whose eyes are open upon all the ways of the sons of men, to give every one according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings;

Great in wisdom and strong in act: whose eyes are open on all the ways of the sons of men, giving to everyone the reward of his ways and the fruit of his doings:


simplify: Then the soldiers cut off the ropes of the boat, and let her fall off.

So the soldiers cut the ropes which held the boat, and let her drift away.


simplify: That every one of you should know how to possess his vessel in sanctification and honour;

So that every one of you may keep his body holy and in honour;


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, Hew thee two tables of stone like unto the first: and I will write upon the tables the words that were on the first tables, which thou brakest.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make two other stones like the first two; and I will put on them the words which were on the first stones, which were broken by you.


simplify: And the drinking was according to the law; none did compel: for so the king had appointed to all the officers of his house, that they should do according to every man’s pleasure.

And the drinking was in keeping with the law; no one was forced: for the king had given orders to all the chief servants of his house to do as was pleasing to every man.


simplify: Now after this he built an outer wall to the city of David, on the west side of Gihon, in the valley, even to the entrance at the fish gate; and he compassed Ophel about with it, and raised it up to a very great height: and he put valiant captains in all the fortified cities of Judah.

After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of Judah.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Behold, evil shall go forth from nation to nation, and a great whirlwind shall be raised up from the coasts of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: Is there any number of his troops? and upon whom doth not his light arise?

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


simplify: And Joshua spake unto the priests, saying, Take up the ark of the covenant, and pass over before the people. And they took up the ark of the covenant, and went before the people.

Then Joshua said to the priests, Take up the ark of the agreement and go over in front of the people. So they took up the ark of the agreement and went in front of the people.


simplify: And one kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the continual burnt offering, his meat offering, and his drink offering.

And one he-goat for a sin-offering; in addition to the regular burned offering, and its meal offering, and its drink offering.


simplify: And they sent and called him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came, and they spake to Rehoboam, saying,

And they sent for him; and Jeroboam and all Israel came to Rehoboam and said,


rate difficulty: And Jeroboam the son of Nebat, an Ephrathite of Zeredah, Solomon's servant (whose mother's name was Zeruah, a widow woman), even he lifted up his hand against the king.

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


simplify: Then the elders of his city shall call him, and speak unto him: and if he stand to it, and say, I like not to take her;

Then the responsible men of the town will send for the man, and have talk with him: and if he still says, I will not take her;


simplify: And Moses said unto Korah, Be thou and all thy company before the Lord, thou, and they, and Aaron, to morrow:

And Moses said to Korah, You and all your band are to come before the Lord tomorrow, you and they and Aaron:


rate difficulty: And the dead body of Jezebel will be like waste dropped on the face of the earth in the heritage of Jezreel; so that they will not be able to say, This is Jezebel.

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


simplify: When thou goest, thy steps shall not be straitened; and when thou runnest, thou shalt not stumble.

When you go, your way will not be narrow, and in running you will not have a fall.


rate difficulty: He did evil in the eyes of the Lord, as his father had done.

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


rate difficulty: The choice of the flock to take, And also to pile of the bones under it, Boil it thoroughly, yea, cook its bones in its midst.

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


rate difficulty: And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:

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


simplify: for scarcely for a righteous man will any one die, for for the good man perhaps some one also doth dare to die;

Even for an upright person scarcely anyone will die. For a really good person perhaps some one might even dare to die.


rate difficulty: But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is the darkness!

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


simplify: But the tongue can no man tame; it is an unruly evil, full of deadly poison.

But the tongue may not be controlled by man; it is an unresting evil, it is full of the poison of death.


simplify: And their brethren the sons of Merari stood on the left hand: Ethan the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,

And on the left their brothers, the sons of Merari: Ethan, the son of Kishi, the son of Abdi, the son of Malluch,


simplify: Now when they heard this, they were pricked in their heart, and said unto Peter and to the rest of the apostles, Men and brethren, what shall we do?

When the people heard this, they were conscience-smitten, and said to Peter and the rest of the apostles: “Friends, what can we do?”


simplify: Then shalt thou understand the fear of the Lord, and find the knowledge of God.

Then the fear of the Lord will be clear to you, and knowledge of God will be yours.


simplify: and the chief priest and the principal men of the Jews made manifest to him <FI>the things<Fi> against Paul, and were calling on him,

There the chief priests and the leading men among the Jews laid an information before him against Paul,


simplify: The love unfeigned: abhorring the evil; cleaving to the good;

Let your love be sincere. Hate the wrong; cling to the right.


rate difficulty: Do not go after other gods to be their servants and to give them worship, and do not make me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.

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


rate difficulty: He hath smitten Edom, in the valley of salt--ten thousand, and seized Selah in war, and <FI>one<Fi> calleth its name Joktheel unto this day,

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


simplify: And Asa slept with his fathers, and died in the one and fortieth year of his reign.

So Asa went to rest with his fathers, and death came to him in the forty-first year of his rule.


simplify: And having departed thence, he went to their synagogue,

Passing on, Jesus went into their synagogue,


simplify: Let your women keep silence in the churches: for it is not permitted unto them to speak; but they are commanded to be under obedience, as also saith the law.

At the meetings of the church married women should remain silent, for they are not allowed to speak in public; they should take a subordinate place, as the law itself directs.


rate difficulty: I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, taking away captive your horses; and I made the stench of your camps to come up, even into your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.

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


simplify: `And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I <FI>go<Fi> , sir, and went not;

Then the father went to the second son, and said the same. ‘I will not,’ he answered; but afterwards he was sorry and went.


rate difficulty: Her cities are a desolation, a dry land, and a wilderness, a land wherein no man dwelleth, neither doth any son of man pass thereby.

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


simplify: And Rebekah lifted up her eyes, and when she saw Isaac, she lighted off the camel.

And when Rebekah, looking up, saw Isaac, she got down from her camel,


simplify: And not only so, but we also joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have now received the atonement.

And not only so, but we have joy in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we are now at peace with God.


simplify: But glory, honour, and peace, to every man that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gentile:

But there will be glory, honor, and peace for everyone who does right — for the Jew first, but also for the Greek,


rate difficulty: A disciple is not greater than his master, or a servant than his lord.

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


rate difficulty: Be it known to the king that we went into the province of Judah, to the house of the greatGod, which is being built with great stones, and timber is laid in the walls, and this work is being carried on with diligence, and prospers in their hand.

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


simplify: Then shall it be for a man to burn: for he will take thereof, and warm himself; yea, he kindleth it, and baketh bread; yea, he maketh a god, and worshippeth it; he maketh it a graven image, and falleth down thereto.

Then it will be used to make a fire, so that a man may get warm; he has the oven heated with it and makes bread: he makes a god with it, to which he gives worship: he makes a pictured image out of it, and goes down on his face before it.


simplify: They shall hold the bow and the lance: they are cruel, and will not shew mercy: their voice shall roar like the sea, and they shall ride upon horses, every one put in array, like a man to the battle, against thee, O daughter of Babylon.

Bows and spears are in their hands; they are cruel and have no mercy; their voice is like the thunder of the sea, and they go on horses; everyone in his place like men going to the fight, against you, O daughter of Babylon.


simplify: Nay, my lord, hear me: the field give I thee, and the cave that is therein, I give it thee; in the presence of the children of my people give I it thee: bury thy dead.

No, my lord, I will give you the field with the hollow in the rock; before all the children of my people will I give it to you for a resting-place for your dead.


simplify: Then cometh the end, when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God, even the Father; when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power.

Then will come the end — when he surrenders the kingdom to his God and Father, having overthrown all other rule and all other authority and power.


simplify: And Abimelech said unto Abraham, What sawest thou, that thou hast done this thing?

And Abimelech said to Abraham, Why did you do this thing?


simplify: And Absalom set Amasa over the host instead of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man, whose name was Ithra the Israelite, that went in to Abigal the daughter of Nahash, sister to Zeruiah, Joab’s mother.

And Absalom put Amasa at the head of the army in place of Joab. Now Amasa was the son of a man named Ithra the Ishmaelite, who had been the lover of Abigail, the daughter of Jesse, sister of Zeruiah, Joab's mother.


rate difficulty: And Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:

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


simplify: And the altar of burnt offering with all his vessels, and the laver and his foot.

And on the altar of burned offerings with its vessels, and on the washing-vessel and its base.


rate difficulty: And after these things I saw, and the temple of the tabernacle of the testimony in heaven was opened:

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


simplify: And all the fat thereof shall he burn upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace-offerings; and the priest shall make atonement for him as concerning his sin, and he shall be forgiven.

And all the fat of it is to be burned on the altar like the fat of the peace-offering; and the priest will take away his sin and he will have forgiveness.


simplify: These are they which spake to Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the children of Israel from Egypt: these are that Moses and Aaron.

These are the men who gave orders to Pharaoh to let the children of Israel go out of Egypt: these are the same Moses and Aaron.


simplify: And there was again war at Gath, where was a man of great stature, that had on every hand six fingers, and on every foot six toes, four and twenty in number; and he also was born to the giant.

And again there was war at Gath, where there was a very tall man, who had twenty-four fingers and toes, six fingers on his hands and six toes on his feet; he was one of the offspring of the Rephaim.


simplify: when one told me, saying, Behold, Saul is dead, thinking to have brought good tidings, I took hold of him, and slew him in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his tidings.

When one came to me with the news of Saul's death, in the belief that it would be good news, I took him and put him to death in Ziklag, which was the reward I gave him for his news:


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make an altar to burn incense upon: of acacia wood shalt thou make it.

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


simplify: The west side also shall be the great sea from the border, till a man come over against Hamath. This is the west side.

And the west side will be the Great Sea, from the limit on the south to a point opposite the way into Hamath. This is the west side.


rate difficulty: Let it not be possible for men to say evil about your good:

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


rate difficulty: But it was all given to the workmen who were building up the house.

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


rate difficulty: Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Assyria sent Tartan and Rab-saris and Rabshakeh from Lachish to king Hezekiah with a great army unto Jerusalem. And they went up and came to Jerusalem. And when they were come up, they came and stood by the conduit of the upper pool, which is in the highway of the fuller’s field.

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


simplify: Nevertheless mine eye spared them from destroying them, neither did I make an end of them in the wilderness.

But still my eye had pity on them and I kept them from destruction and did not put an end to them completely in the waste land.


simplify: And Samuel came no more to see Saul until the day of his death; for Samuel mourned for Saul: and Jehovah repented that he had made Saul king over Israel.

And Samuel never saw Saul again till the day of his death; but Samuel was sorrowing for Saul: and it was no longer the Lord's pleasure for Saul to be king over Israel.


rate difficulty: I always thank God about you for the blessing bestowed on you in Christ Jesus.


simplify: because thy heart was tender, and thou didst humble thyself before God, when thou heardest his words against this place, and against the inhabitants thereof, and hast humbled thyself before me, and hast rent thy clothes, and wept before me; I also have heard thee, saith Jehovah.

And your heart was soft, and you made yourself low before God, on hearing his words about this place and its people, and with weeping and signs of grief have made yourself low before me, I have given ear to you, says the Lord God.


simplify: And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.

and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and began to speak with strange ‘tongues’ as the Spirit prompted their utterances.


rate difficulty: Paul and Silvanus and Timothy, to the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ:

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


simplify: `Hearken, lo, the sower went forth to sow;


rate difficulty: And it hath been, as a roe driven away, And as a flock that hath no gatherer, Each unto his people--they turn, And each unto his land--they flee.

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


rate difficulty: Teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you: and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world. Amen.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall take gold, and blue, and purple, and scarlet, and twined byssus,


simplify: Shall not their cattle and their substance and all their beasts be ours? only let us consent unto them, and they will dwell with us.

Then will not their cattle and their goods and all their beasts be ours? so let us come to an agreement with them so that they may go on living with us.


rate difficulty: Madmenah is a fugitive; the inhabitants of Gebim flee for safety.

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


simplify: If one man sin against another, God shall judge him; but if a man sin against Jehovah, who shall entreat for him? Notwithstanding, they hearkened not unto the voice of their father, because Jehovah was minded to slay them.

If one man does wrong to another, God will be his judge: but if a man's sin is against the Lord, who will take up his cause? But they gave no attention to the voice of their father, for it was the Lord's purpose to send destruction on them.


rate difficulty: And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?

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


simplify: And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah: and the sons of Izrahiah; Michael, and Obadiah, and Joel, Ishiah, five: all of them chief men.

And the sons of Uzzi; Izrahiah; and the sons of Izrahiah: Michael and Obadiah and Joel and Isshiah, five; all of them chiefs.


rate difficulty: so also ye, when ye may see these things happening, ye know that near is the reign of God;

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


rate difficulty: And so with you, my friends; as far as the law was concerned, you underwent death in the crucified body of the Christ, so that you might be united to another, to him who was raised from the dead, in order that our lives might bear fruit for God.


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

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


rate difficulty: He made walled towns in Judah, for the land was quiet and there were no wars in those years, because the Lord had given him rest.

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


simplify: And Mary abode with her about three months, and returned to her own house.

Mary stayed with Elizabeth about three months, and then returned to her home.


rate difficulty: For from a house of prisoners he hath come out to reign, for even in his own kingdom he hath been poor.

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


rate difficulty: He taketh up all of them with the hook, he catcheth them in his net, and gathereth them into his drag; therefore he rejoiceth and is glad:

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


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

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


simplify: and he answering said to them, `Evening having come, ye say, Fair weather, for the heaven is red,

But Jesus answered: “In the evening you say ‘It will be fine weather, for the sky is as red as fire.’


simplify: For if the ministration of condemnation be glory, much more doth the ministration of righteousness exceed in glory.

For if the operation of the law, producing punishment, had its glory, how much greater will be the operation of the Spirit causing righteousness?


simplify: Greet one another with an holy kiss.


simplify: But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.

And let man and beast be covered with haircloth, and let them make strong prayers to God: and let everyone be turned from his evil way and the violent acts of their hands.


simplify: and all the same spiritual drink did drink, for they were drinking of a spiritual rock following them, and the rock was the Christ;

and all drank the same supernatural water, for they used to drink from a supernatural rock which followed them, and that rock was the Christ.


simplify: And blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine linen, and goats’ hair,

And blue and purple and red, and the best linen, and goats' hair;


simplify: But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice unto idols, eat not for his sake that shewed it, and for conscience sake: for the earth is the Lord’s, and the fulness thereof:

But, if anyone should say to you ‘This has been offered in sacrifice to an idol,’ then, for the sake of the speaker and his scruples, do not eat it.


simplify: And the Lord said, Whereunto then shall I liken the men of this generation? and to what are they like?

What comparison am I to make of the men of this generation? what are they like?


simplify: When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them; that there be no plague among them, when thou numberest them.

When you are taking the number of the children of Israel, let every man who is numbered give to the Lord a price for his life, so that no disease may come on them when they are numbered.


simplify: And they did not receive him, because his face was as though he would go to Jerusalem.

But they would not have him there, because he was clearly going to Jerusalem.


simplify: And the apostles said unto the Lord, Increase our faith.

“Give us more faith,” said the apostles to the Master;


simplify: And again he sent another; and him they killed, and many others; beating some, and killing some.

He sent another, but him they killed; and so with many others — some they beat and some they killed.


simplify: Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?

Do you not see that you are God's holy house, and that the Spirit of God has his place in you?


rate difficulty: and they come in unto the districts of the Jordan, which <FI>are<Fi> in the land of Canaan, and the sons of Reuben, and the sons of Gad, and the half of the tribe of Manasseh, build there an altar by the Jordan--a great altar for appearance.

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


rate difficulty: So must the Beast that was, but is not. He counts as an eighth king , although he is one of the seven, and is on his way to destruction.

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


rate difficulty: For Jacob my servant’s sake, and Israel mine elect, I have even called thee by thy name: I have surnamed thee, though thou hast not known me.

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


rate difficulty: Not that I speak as regards privation, for as to me I have learnt in those circumstances in which I am, to be satisfied in myself.

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


rate difficulty: Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land of Canaan; (this is the land which is to be your heritage, the land of Canaan inside these limits,)

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


simplify: And they will tell it to the inhabitants of this land: for they have heard that thou Lord art among this people, that thou Lord art seen face to face, and that thy cloud standeth over them, and that thou goest before them, by day time in a pillar of a cloud, and in a pillar of fire by night.

And they will give the news to the people of this land: they have had word that you, Lord, are present with this people, letting yourself be seen face to face, and that your cloud is resting over them, and that you go before them in a pillar of cloud by day and in a pillar of fire by night.


simplify: and Jesus said to them, `Do ye not see all these? verily I say to you, There may not be left here a stone upon a stone, that shall not be thrown down.'

“Do you see all these things?” was his answer. “I tell you, not a single stone will be left here on another, which will not be thrown down,”


rate difficulty: And Moses commanded them, saying, At the end of every seven years, in the set time of the year of release, in the feast of tabernacles,


simplify: And it shall be unto them as a false divination in their sight, to them that have sworn oaths: but he will call to remembrance the iniquity, that they may be taken.

And this answer given by secret arts will seem false to those who have given their oaths and have let them be broken: but he will keep the memory of evil-doing so that they may be taken.


simplify: As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,

As for all the rest of the Hittites and the Amorites and the Perizzites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, who were not of Israel:


simplify: But since we left off to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

But from the time when we gave up burning perfumes to the queen of heaven and draining out drink offerings to her, we have been in need of all things, and have been wasted by the sword and by need of food.


simplify: When Jehovah thy God shall enlarge thy border, as he hath promised thee, and thou shalt say, I will eat flesh, because thy soul desireth to eat flesh; thou mayest eat flesh, after all the desire of thy soul.

When the Lord your God makes wide the limit of your land, as he has said, and you say, I will take flesh for my food, because you have a desire for it; then you may take whatever flesh you have a desire for.


rate difficulty: He had been well-instructed in the cause of the Lord, and with burning zeal he spoke of, and taught carefully, the facts about Jesus, though he knew of no baptism but John’s.


rate difficulty: watching him, [and seeking] to catch something out of his mouth, [that they might accuse him].

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


simplify: and his brethren, chiefs of fathers’houses, two hundred forty and two; and Amashsai the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,

And his brothers, heads of families, two hundred and forty-two; and Amashsai, the son of Azarel, the son of Ahzai, the son of Meshillemoth, the son of Immer,


rate difficulty: And Samuel told him all the words, and kept nothing back from him. And he said, It is Jehovah: let him do what is good in his sight.

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


rate difficulty: This then is the message which we have heard of him, and declare unto you, that God is light, and in him is no darkness at all.

reading_level: 4 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: that in the name of Jesus every knee should bow, of things in heaven and things on earth and things under the earth,

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


simplify: Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.

So take me for your example, even as I take Christ for mine.


simplify: For Tophet is ordained of old; yea, for the king it is prepared; he hath made it deep and large: the pile thereof is fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of brimstone, doth kindle it.

For a place of fire has long been ready; yes, it has been made ready for the king; he has made it deep and wide: it is massed with fire and much wood; the breath of the Lord, like a stream of fire, puts a light to it.


rate difficulty: and that which He hath done to you in the wilderness, till your coming in unto this place;

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


simplify: And it shall be, that every soul that shall not hearken to that prophet, shall be utterly destroyed from among the people.

And every soul who does not give attention to that prophet, will be cut off from among the people.


simplify: For sin, taking occasion by the commandment, deceived me, and by it slew me.

sin took advantage of the Commandment to deceive me, and used it to bring about my death.


simplify: They shall call the nobles thereof to the kingdom, but none shall be there, and all her princes shall be nothing.

The jackals will be there, and her great ones will be gone; they will say, There is no longer a kingdom there, and all her chiefs will have come to an end.


simplify: Her prophets are light and treacherous persons; her priests have profaned the sanctuary, they have done violence to the law.

Her prophets are good-for-nothing persons, full of deceit: her priests have made the holy place unclean and have gone violently against the law.


rate difficulty: The thieves also, which were crucified with him, cast the same in his teeth.

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


simplify: This man having been taken by the Jews, and being about to be killed by them--having come with the soldiery, I rescued him, having learned that he is a Roman;

The man whom I send with this had been seized by some Jews, and was on the point of being killed by them, when I came upon them with the force under my command, and rescued him, as I learned that he was a Roman citizen.


rate difficulty: And he said to Gehazi his servant, Call this Shunammite. And when he had called her, she stood before him.

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


simplify: `And he said, I pray thee, then, father, that thou mayest send him to the house of my father,

‘Then, Father,’ he said, ‘I beg you to send Lazarus to my father’s house —


rate difficulty: And Attai begat Nathan, and Nathan begat Zabad,

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


simplify: Every one who is believing that Jesus is the Christ, of God he hath been begotten, and every one who is loving Him who did beget, doth love also him who is begotten of Him:

Everyone who believes that Jesus is the Christ has received the new life from God; and everyone who loves him who gave that life loves him who has received it.


rate difficulty: Then he will be gracious unto him, and say, Deliver him from going down to the pit: I have found a ransom.

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


simplify: Speak, and say, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.

Say to them, These are the words of the Lord: See, I am against you, Pharaoh, king of Egypt, the great river-beast stretched out among his Nile streams, who has said, The Nile is mine, and I have made it for myself.


simplify: This is the land which ye shall divide by lot unto the tribes of Israel for inheritance, and these are their portions, saith the Lord God.

This is the land of which distribution is to be made by the decision of the Lord, among the tribes of Israel for their heritage, and these are their heritages, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: yet these two things shall come upon thee in a moment, in one day, loss of children and widowhood; they shall come upon thee in full measure for the multitude of thy sorceries, for the great abundance of thine enchantments.

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


simplify: not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

Teach them not to contradict or to pilfer, but to show such praiseworthy fidelity in everything, as to recommend the teaching about God our Savior by all that they do.


simplify: And the ass said unto Balaam, Am not I thine ass, upon which thou hast ridden all thy life long unto this day? was I ever wont to do so unto thee? and he said, Nay.

And the ass said to Balaam, Am I not your ass upon which you have gone all your life till this day? and have I ever done this to you before? And he said, No.


rate difficulty: And of Manasseh there have fallen unto David in his coming with the Philistines against Israel to battle--and they helped them not, for by counsel the princes of the Philistines sent him away, saying, `With our heads he doth fall unto his master Saul.' --

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


rate difficulty: And Saul had a concubine, whose name was Rizpah, the daughter of Aiah: and Ish–bosheth said to Abner, Wherefore hast thou gone in unto my father’s concubine?

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


simplify: Therefore thus saith the Lord Jehovah: Your slain whom ye have laid in the midst of it, they are the flesh, and this city is the caldron; but ye shall be brought forth out of the midst of it.

For this reason the Lord has said: Your dead whom you have put down in its streets, they are the flesh, and this town is the cooking-pot: but I will make you come out from inside it.


rate difficulty: Thus dwelt Esau in mount Seir: Esau is Edom.

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


simplify: According to the custom of the priest’s office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of the Lord.

And as was the way of the priests, he had to go into the Temple to see to the burning of perfumes.


rate difficulty: Then Shephatiah the son of Mattan, and Gedaliah the son of Pashur, and Jucal the son of Shelemiah, and Pashur the son of Malchiah, heard the words that Jeremiah had spoken unto all the people, saying,

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


simplify: Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou rulest over all; and in thy hand is power and might; and in thy hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all.

Wealth and honour come from you, and you are ruler over all, and in your hand is power and strength; it is in your power to make great, and to give strength to all.


rate difficulty: For we are labourers together with God: ye are God’s husbandry, ye are God’s building.

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


simplify: Zion shall be redeemed with judgment, and her converts with righteousness.

Upright acts will be the price of Zion's forgiveness, and by righteousness will men be living there.


rate difficulty: And the Philistines put themselves in array against Israel; and the battle spread, and Israel was routed before the Philistines; and they slew in battle array in the field about four thousand men.

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


rate difficulty: And all the people of the land went into the house of Baal, and brake it down; his altars and his images brake they in pieces thoroughly, and slew Mattan the priest of Baal before the altars. And the priest appointed officers over the house of the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the glory and honour of the nations will come into it:

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


simplify: For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.

For the Lord has given comfort to Zion: he has made glad all her broken walls; making her waste places like Eden, and changing her dry land into the garden of the Lord; joy and delight will be there, praise and the sound of melody.


rate difficulty: And their whole body, and their backs, and their hands, and their wings, and the wheels, were full of eyes round about, even the wheels that they four had.

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


simplify: That I may be delivered from them that do not believe in Judea; and that my service which I have for Jerusalem may be accepted of the saints;

Pray that I may be rescued from those in Judea who reject the faith, and that the help which I am taking to Jerusalem may prove acceptable to Christ’s people;


simplify: But an angel of the Lord spake unto Philip, saying, Arise, and go toward the south unto the way that goeth down from Jerusalem unto Gaza: the same is desert.

But an angel of the Lord said to Philip, Get up, and go to the south, to the road which goes from Jerusalem to Gaza, through the waste land.


simplify: In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away unto Assyria, and placed them in Halah, and on the Habor, the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.

In the ninth year of Hoshea, the king of Assyria took Samaria, and took Israel away to Assyria, placing them in Halah and in Habor on the river Gozan, and in the towns of the Medes.


rate difficulty: And lo, the planted thing--doth it prosper? When come against it doth the east wind, Doth it not utterly wither? On the furrows of its springing it withereth.'

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


rate difficulty: and hath not brought it unto the door of the tent of meeting, to offer it as an oblation unto Jehovah before the tabernacle of Jehovah: blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

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


simplify: And they reasoned among themselves, saying, It is because we have no bread.

And they said to one another, We have no bread.


simplify: Ye see that by works a man is justified, and not only by faith.

You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.


simplify: Though I am like a rotten thing that consumeth, Like a garment that is moth-eaten.

Though a man comes to nothing like a bit of dead wood, or like a robe which has become food for the worm.


simplify: That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God.

and so will live the rest of his earthly life guided, not by human passions, but by the will of God.


simplify: Now when Festus was come into the province, after three days he ascended from Cesarea to Jerusalem.

Three days after Festus had arrived in his province, he left Caesarea and went up to Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: And they say, `If ye are sending away the ark of the God of Israel, ye do not send it away empty; for ye do certainly send back to Him a guilt-offering; then ye are healed, and it hath been known to you why His hand doth not turn aside from you.'

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


simplify: He answered and said unto them, He that soweth the good seed is the Son of man;

And he made answer and said, He who puts the good seed in the earth is the Son of man;


simplify: `Having yet therefore one son--his beloved--he sent also him unto them last, saying--They will reverence my son;

He had still one son, who was very dear to him; and him he sent to them last of all. ‘They will respect my son,’ he said.


simplify: Then on that day did David first ordain to give thanks unto Jehovah, by the hand of Asaph and his brethren.

Then on that day David first made the giving of praise to the Lord the work of Asaph and his brothers.


simplify: And the Lord came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men builded.

And the Lord came down to see the town and the tower which the children of men were building.


simplify: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

And I saw a thing more bitter than death, even the woman whose heart is full of tricks and nets, and whose hands are as bands. He with whom God is pleased will get free from her, but the sinner will be taken by her.


rate difficulty: Now John’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting, and people came and asked Jesus: “Why is it that John’s disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, while yours do not?”

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


simplify: And the angel answered and said unto me, These are the four spirits of the heavens, which go forth from standing before the Lord of all the earth.

And the angel, answering, said to me, These go out to the four winds of heaven from their place before the Lord of all the earth.


rate difficulty: If we have only hoped in Christ in this life, we are of all men most pitiable.

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


simplify: And he said unto him, Say now unto her, Behold, thou hast been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for thee? wouldest thou be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? And she answered, I dwell among mine own people.

And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.


simplify: For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.

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


simplify: All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

All these, under the direction of their father, made music in the house of the Lord, with brass and corded instruments, for the worship of the house of God; Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman being under the orders of the king.


rate difficulty: And I have been with thee whithersoever thou hast walked, and have cut off all thine enemies from before thee, and have made thee a name like the name of the great men that are in the earth.

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


simplify: Whom the heaven must receive until the times of restitution of all things, which God hath spoken by the mouth of all his holy prophets since the world began.

But heaven must be his home, until the days of the Universal Restoration, of which God has spoken by the lips of his holy prophets from the very first.


simplify: forbidding us to speak to the nations that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always, but the anger did come upon them--to the end!

for they try to prevent us from speaking to the Gentiles with a view to their salvation, and so are always ‘filling up the measure of their iniquity.’ But the wrath of God has come upon them to the full!


rate difficulty: and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:

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


simplify: Let him give his cheek to him that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach.

Let his face be turned to him who gives him blows; let him be full of shame.


rate difficulty: For thou hast forgotten theGod of thy salvation, and hast not been mindful of the rock of thy strength; therefore shalt thou plant pleasant plantations, and shalt set them with foreign slips:

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


rate difficulty: For we will not inherit with them on the other side of the Jordan, and forward; because our inheritance is fallen to us on this side of the Jordan eastward.


simplify: And they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel that year: eighteen years oppressed they all the children of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead.

And that year the children of Israel were crushed under their yoke; for eighteen years all the children of Israel on the other side of Jordan, in the land of the Amorites which is in Gilead, were cruelly crushed down.


rate difficulty: From the brightness before Him Were brands of fire kindled!


rate difficulty: And they said, Thy servant our father is well, he is yet alive. And they bowed the head, and made obeisance.

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


simplify: Thou also hast delivered me from the strivings of my people; Thou hast kept me to be the head of the nations: A people whom I have not known shall serve me.

You have made me free from the fightings of my people; you have made me the head of the nations: a people of whom I had no knowledge will be my servants.


rate difficulty: Having knowledge that because Christ has come back from the dead, he will never again go down to the dead; death has no more power over him.

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


simplify: The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and dust shall be the serpent’s food. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith Jehovah.

The wolf and the lamb will take their food together, and the lion will make a meal of grass like the ox: but dust will be the snake's food. There will be no cause of pain or destruction in all my holy mountain, says the Lord.


simplify: and the smoke of their torment doth go up to ages of ages; and they have no rest day and night, who are bowing before the beast and his image, also if any doth receive the mark of his name.

The smoke from their torture rises for ever and ever, and they have no rest day nor night — those who worship the Beast and its image, and all who are branded with its name.’


simplify: And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And he turned in unto her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.

And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.


rate difficulty: These are the two olive trees and the two candlesticks, standing before the Lord of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: And the king of Israel said unto his servants, Know ye that Ramoth-gilead is ours, and we are still, and take it not out of the hand of the king of Syria?

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


simplify: When the even was come, there came a rich man of Arimathea, named Joseph, who also himself was Jesus’ disciple:

And in the evening, there came a man of wealth from Arimathaea, Joseph by name, who was a disciple of Jesus:


rate difficulty: Do they not say evil of the holy name which was given to you?


simplify: And his mouth was opened immediately, and his tongue loosed, and he spake, and praised God.

and immediately Zechariah recovered his voice and the use of his tongue, and began to bless God.


simplify: A naughty person, a wicked man, walketh with a froward mouth.

A good-for-nothing man is an evil-doer; he goes on his way causing trouble with false words;


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


rate difficulty: And they besought him that he would not command them to go out into the deep.


simplify: Jehoshaphat the son of Paruah, in Issachar:

Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;


rate difficulty: Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands.

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


rate difficulty: Hearken unto me, ye stout-hearted, that are far from righteousness:

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


simplify: But Abram said unto Sarai, Behold, thy maid is in thy hand; do to her as it pleaseth thee. And when Sarai dealt hardly with her, she fled from her face.

And Abram said, The woman is in your power; do with her whatever seems good to you. And Sarai was cruel to her, so that she went running away from her.


simplify: Be not a terror unto me: thou art my hope in the day of evil.

Be not a cause of fear to me: you are my safe place in the day of evil.


rate difficulty: And he made the veil of blue and purple and red, of the best linen, worked with winged ones.


simplify: what think ye? They answered and said, He is worthy of death.

What is your opinion? They made answer and said, It is right for him to be put to death.


simplify: Salute you do the assemblies of Asia; salute you much in the Lord do Aquilas and Priscilla, with the assembly in their house;

The churches in Roman Asia send you their greetings. Aquila and Prisca and the church that meets at their house send you many Christian greetings.


simplify: Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.

For the rest, my brothers, whatever things are true, whatever things have honour, whatever things are upright, whatever things are holy, whatever things are beautiful, whatever things are of value, if there is any virtue and if there is any praise, give thought to these things.


rate difficulty: But the woman came, and, bowing to the ground before him, said: “Master, help me.”

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


simplify: and to each one of you was given the grace, according to the measure of the gift of Christ,

Everyone of us, however, has been entrusted with some charge, each in accordance with the extent of the gift of the Christ.


simplify: And the arches thereof were toward the outward court; and palm trees were upon the posts thereof, on this side, and on that side: and the going up to it had eight steps.

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


simplify: For, behold, I will shake my hand over them, and they shall be a spoil to those that served them; and ye shall know that Jehovah of hosts hath sent me.

For at the shaking of my hand over them, their goods will be taken by those who were their servants: and you will see that the Lord of armies has sent me.


rate difficulty: And if a Levite come from any of thy gates out of all Israel, where he sojourned, and come with all the desire of his mind unto the place which the Lord shall choose;

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


rate difficulty: but of the rest durst no man join them, but the people magnified them;


simplify: Now the men of Israel had sworn in Mizpeh, saying, There shall not any of us give his daughter unto Benjamin to wife.

Now the men of Israel had taken an oath in Mizpah, saying, Not one of us will give his daughter as a wife to Benjamin.


simplify: We are confident, I say, and willing rather to be absent from the body, and to be present with the Lord.

We are without fear, desiring to be free from the body, and to be with the Lord.


simplify: And let them make me a sanctuary; that I may dwell among them.

And let them make me a holy place, so that I may be ever present among them.


simplify: And Moses returned unto Jehovah, and said, Lord, wherefore hast thou dealt ill with this people? why is it that thou hast sent me?

And Moses went back to the Lord and said, Lord, why have you done evil to this people? why have you sent me?


rate difficulty: lest the avenger of blood pursue the manslayer, while his heart is hot, and overtake him, because the way is long, and smite him mortally; whereas he was not worthy of death, inasmuch as he hated him not in time past.

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


rate difficulty: And the ripe fruits which were the lust of thy soul have departed from thee, and all fair and splendid things have perished from thee, and they shall not find them any more at all.

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


rate difficulty: And he kissed all his brethren, and wept upon them; and after that his brethren talked with him.

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


rate difficulty: And he maketh the ten candlesticks of gold, according to their ordinance, and placeth in the temple, five on the right, and five on the left.

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


simplify: Come with me from Lebanon, my spouse, with me from Lebanon: look from the top of Amana, from the top of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions’ dens, from the mountains of the leopards.

Come with me from Lebanon, my bride, with me from Lebanon; see from the top of Amana, from the top of Senir and Hermon, from the places of the lions, from the mountains of the leopards.


simplify: And he saith unto me, Write, Blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper of the Lamb. And he saith unto me, These are the true sayings of God.

Then a voice said to me ‘Write — “Blessed are those who have been summoned to the marriage feast of the Lamb.”’ And the voice said — ‘These words of God are true.’


simplify: for the secret of the lawlessness doth already work, only he who is keeping down now <FI>will hinder<Fi> --till he may be out of the way,

Wickedness, indeed, is already at work in secret; but only until he who at present restrains it is removed out of the way.


rate difficulty: the son of Ethan, the son of Zimmah, the son of Shimei,

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


simplify: And the child Samuel grew on, and was in favour both with the Lord, and also with men.

And the young Samuel, becoming older, had the approval of the Lord and of men.


simplify: And if the latter husband hate her, and write her a bill of divorcement, and giveth it in her hand, and sendeth her out of his house; or if the latter husband die, which took her to be his wife;

And if the second husband has no love for her and, giving her a statement in writing, sends her away; or if death comes to the second husband to whom she was married;


simplify: And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.


simplify: His lord said unto him, Well done, good and faithful servant: thou hast been faithful over a few things, I will set thee over many things; enter thou into the joy of thy lord.

His lord said to him, Well done, good and true servant: you have been true in a small thing, I will give you control over great things: take your part in the joy of your lord.


simplify: It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.

It is in my power to do you damage: but the God of your father came to me this night, saying, Take care that you say nothing good or bad to Jacob.


rate difficulty: Then their eyes were opened and they recognized him; but he disappeared from their sight.


rate difficulty: Have no feeling of hate for him, but take him in hand seriously as a brother.

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


rate difficulty: And the men were afraid because they were brought into Joseph's house, and said, Because of the money that was returned to us in our sacks at the beginning are we brought in, that he may turn against us, and fall upon us and take us for bondmen, and our asses.

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


simplify: His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire;

‘The hair of his head was as white as wool, as white as snow; his eyes were like flaming fire;


rate difficulty: You are of God, my little children, and you have overcome them because he who is in you is greater than he who is in the world.

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


rate difficulty: And he gave us orders to give news of this to the people, and to give public witness that this is he whom God has made judge of the living and the dead.

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


simplify: Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alpheus, and Simon called Zelotes,

Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon known as the Zealot,


rate difficulty: Be patient, then, friends, until the coming of the Lord. Even the farmer has to wait for the precious fruit of the earth, watching over it patiently, until it has had the spring and summer rains.

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


simplify: To translate the kingdom from the house of Saul, and to set up the throne of David over Israel and over Judah, from Dan even to Beer–sheba.

And if I do not take away the kingdom from the family of Saul and make David ruler over Israel and Judah from Dan as far as Beer-sheba!


rate difficulty: And Samlah died; and Saul of Rehoboth on the river reigned in his stead.

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


rate difficulty: In the selfsame day entered Noah, and Shem, and Ham, and Japheth, the sons of Noah, and Noah’s wife, and the three wives of his sons with them, into the ark;

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


simplify: The burden upon Arabia. In the forest in Arabia shall ye lodge, O ye travelling companies of Dedanim.

The word about Arabia. In the thick woods of Arabia will be your night's resting-place, O travelling bands of Dedanites!


rate difficulty: And he said to her, Daughter, thy faith has healed thee; go in peace, and be well of thy scourge.

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


simplify: And the inhabitants of Jebus said to David, Thou shalt not come hither. Nevertheless David took the castle of Zion, which is the city of David.

And the people of Jebus said to David, You will not come in here. But still, David took the strong place of Zion, which is the town of David.