simplify: and he went out to meet Asa, and said unto him, Hear ye me, Asa, and all Judah and Benjamin: Jehovah is with you, while ye are with him; and if ye seek him, he will be found of you; but if ye forsake him, he will forsake you.

And he came face to face with Asa and said to him, Give ear to me, Asa and all Judah and Benjamin: the Lord is with you while you are with him; if your heart's desire is for him, he will be near you, but if you give him up, he will give you up.


simplify: For your obedience is come abroad unto all men. I rejoice therefore over you: but I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple unto that which is evil.

For all have knowledge of how you do what you are ordered. For this reason I have joy in you, but it is my desire that you may be wise in what is good, and without knowledge of evil.


rate difficulty: The porters: the children of Shallum, the children of Ater, the children of Talmon, the children of Akkub, the children of Hatita, the children of Shobai, a hundred thirty and eight.

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


simplify: And the instruments of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the meek with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.

The designs of the false are evil, purposing the destruction of the poor man by false words, even when he is in the right.


rate difficulty: `And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and father child, and children shall rise up against parents, and shall put them to death,

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


simplify: So then neither is he that planteth anything, neither he that watereth; but God that giveth the increase.

So then the planter is nothing, and the waterer is nothing; but God who gives the increase.


rate difficulty: Therefore honour Thee do a strong people, A city of the terrible nations feareth Thee.

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


simplify: And fields shall be bought in this land, whereof ye say, It is desolate, without man or beast; it is given into the hand of the Chaldeans.

And there will be trading in fields in this land of which you say, It is a waste, without man or beast; it is given into the hands of the Chaldaeans.


rate difficulty: And there is no more to the house of Israel A pricking brier, and paining thorn, Of all round about them--despising them, And they have known that I <FI>am<Fi> the Lord Jehovah.

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


simplify: Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.

and it was for this that I was myself appointed a herald and an apostle (I am telling the simple truth and no lie) — a teacher of the Gentiles in the faith and truth.


simplify: For a dream cometh through the multitude of business; and a fool’s voice is known by multitude of words.

As a dream comes from much business, so the voice of a foolish man comes with words in great number.


simplify: Suffer not thy mouth to cause thy flesh to sin; neither say thou before the angel, that it was an error: wherefore should God be angry at thy voice, and destroy the work of thy hands?

Let not your mouth make your flesh do evil. And say not before the angel, It was an error. So that God may not be angry with your words and put an end to the work of your hands.


simplify: and having appointed to them by vote elders in every assembly, having prayed with fastings, they commended them to the Lord in whom they had believed.

They also appointed officers for them in every church, and, after prayer and fasting, commended them to the Lord in whom they had learned to believe.


rate difficulty: So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

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


simplify: And Pharaoh said unto Joseph, I have dreamed a dream, and there is none that can interpret it: and I have heard say of thee, that when thou hearest a dream thou canst interpret it.

And Pharaoh said to Joseph, I have had a dream, and no one is able to give me the sense of it; now it has come to my ears that you are able to give the sense of a dream when it is put before you.


simplify: But I had regard for my holy name, which the house of Israel had profaned among the nations, whither they went.

But I had pity for my holy name which the children of Israel had made unclean wherever they went.


rate difficulty: and it be told thee, and thou hearest of it; then thou shalt make thorough inquiry, and if it be truth [and] the thing be certain, that this abomination hath been wrought in Israel,

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


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after these things, [that] Naboth the Jizreelite had a vineyard, which was in Jizreel, by the side of the palace of Ahab king of Samaria.

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


rate difficulty: As to the sons of Israel, those dwelling in the cities of Judah--over them reign doth Rehoboam.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, Hanameel, the son of Shallum thine uncle, shall come unto thee, saying, Buy for thyself my field which is in Anathoth; for thine is the right of redemption, to buy [it].

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


rate difficulty: And the priest shall look on the sore, and shall shut up [that which hath] the sore seven days.

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


rate difficulty: And they press upon him, till he is ashamed, and he saith, `Send ye;' and they send fifty men, and they seek three days, and have not found him;

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


simplify: Saying, Go unto this people, and say, Hearing ye shall hear, and shall not understand; and seeing ye shall see, and 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.”


rate difficulty: And Moses and the elders of Israel commanded the people, saying, Keep all the commandment which I command you this day.

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


simplify: Then he called for Solomon his son, and charged him to build a house for Jehovah, the God of Israel.

Then he sent for his son Solomon, and gave him orders for the building of a house for the Lord, the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: And Isaac departed thence, and encamped in the valley of Gerar, and dwelt there.

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


rate difficulty: All these were of costly stones, according to the measures of hewed stones, sawed with saws, within and without, even from the foundation unto the coping, and so on the outside toward the great court.

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


rate difficulty: For if the trumpet give an uncertain voice, who shall prepare himself for war?

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


rate difficulty: Great <FI>is<Fi> the Former of all, And He is rewarding a fool, And is rewarding transgressors.


rate difficulty: Also for the sons of Aaron the priests, that were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every city, there were men that were mentioned by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogy among the Levites.

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


rate difficulty: Since the day that I brought forth my people Israel out of Egypt, I chose no city out of all the tribes of Israel to build an house, that my name might be therein; but I chose David to be over my people Israel.

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


simplify: Then shall he say also unto them on the left hand, Depart from me, ye cursed, into everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels:

Then will he say to those on the left, Go from me, you cursed ones, into the eternal fire which is ready for the Evil One and his angels:


simplify: each, according as he received a gift, to one another ministering it, as good stewards of the manifold grace of God;

Whatever the gift that each has received, use it in the service of others, as good stewards of the varied bounty of God.


rate difficulty: Write therefore the things which thou sawest, and the things which are, and the things which shall come to pass hereafter;

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


rate difficulty: Let them not turn aside from thine eyes, Preserve them in the midst of thy heart.

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


simplify: And the sabbath having past, Mary the Magdalene, and Mary of James, and Salome, bought spices, that having come, they may anoint him,

When the Sabbath was over, Mary of Magdala, Mary the mother of James, and Salome bought some spices, so that they might go and anoint the body of Jesus.


simplify: These are the families of the children of Gad according to those that were numbered of them, forty thousand and five hundred.

These are the families of the sons of Gad as they were numbered, forty thousand, five hundred.


simplify: being confident of this very thing, that he who began a good work in you will perfect it until the day of Jesus Christ:

For I am certain of this very thing, that he by whom the good work was started in you will make it complete till the day of Jesus Christ:


simplify: do they not themselves speak evil of the good name that was called upon you?

Is not it they who malign that honorable name which has been bestowed on you?


simplify: And all the days of Seth were nine hundred and twelve years: and he died.

And all the years of Seth's life were nine hundred and twelve: and he came to his end.


simplify: And the men went and passed through the land, and described it by cities into seven parts in a book, and came again to Joshua to the host at Shiloh.

So the men went, travelling through the land, and made a record of it by towns in seven parts in a book, and came back to Joshua to the tent-circle at Shiloh.


simplify: So Job died, being old and full of days.

And Job came to his end, old and full of days.


rate difficulty: Then Saul went up from following the Philistines; and the Philistines went to their own place.

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


simplify: Woe unto them that hide deep their counsel from Jehovah, and whose works are in the dark, and that say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Cursed are those who go deep to keep their designs secret from the Lord, and whose works are in the dark, and who say, Who sees us? and who has knowledge of our acts?


simplify: Likewise reckon ye also yourselves to be dead indeed unto sin, but alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Even so see yourselves as dead to sin, but living to God in Christ Jesus.


simplify: But Peter, standing up with the eleven, lifted up his voice, and said unto them, Ye men of Judea, and all ye that dwell at Jerusalem, be this known unto you, and hearken to my words:

But Peter, getting up, with the eleven, said in a loud voice, O men of Judaea, and all you who are living in Jerusalem, take note of this and give ear to my words.


simplify: Men shall clap their hands at him, And shall hiss him out of his place.

Men make signs of joy because of him, driving him from his place with sounds of hissing.


simplify: And Asa begat Josaphat; and Josaphat begat Joram; and Joram begat Ozias;

And the son of Asa was Jehoshaphat; and the son of Jehoshaphat was Joram; and the son of Joram was Uzziah;


rate difficulty: Then Amaziah the priest of Beth–el sent to Jeroboam king of Israel, saying, Amos hath conspired against thee in the midst of the house of Israel: the land is not able to bear all his words.

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


rate difficulty: And the children of Israel, the priests and the Levites, and the rest of the children of the captivity, kept the dedication of this house of God with joy.

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


rate difficulty: Did not Achan the son of Zerah commit a trespass in the accursed thing, and wrath fell on all the congregation of Israel? and that man perished not alone in his iniquity.

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


simplify: And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to buffet him, and to say unto him, Prophesy: and the servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.

And some put shame on him and, covering his face, gave him blows and said to him, Now say what is to come: and the captains took him and gave him blows with their hands.


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

When the Christ, who is our life, appears, then you also will appear with him in glory.


simplify: Now therefore, as the Lord liveth, which hath established me, and set me on the throne of David my father, and who hath made me an house, as he promised, Adonijah shall be put to death this day.

Now by the living Lord, who has given me my place on the seat of David my father, and made me one of a line of kings, as he gave me his word, truly Adonijah will be put to death this day.


simplify: And when he came upon the stairs, so it was, that he was borne of the soldiers for the violence of the people.

And when he came on to the steps, he was lifted up by the armed men, because of the force of the people;


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not wrest judgment; thou shalt not respect persons, neither take a bribe; for the bribe blindeth the eyes of the wise, and perverteth the words of the righteous.

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


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Lo, I come unto thee in a thick cloud, that the people may hear when I speak with thee, and believe thee for ever. And Moses told the words of the people unto the Lord.

And the Lord said to Moses, See, I will come to you in a thick cloud, so that what I say to you may come to the ears of the people and they may have belief in you for ever. And Moses gave the Lord word of what the people had said.


simplify: The sting of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:

The pain of death is sin; and the power of sin is the law:


simplify: And when any one offereth an oblation of a meal-offering unto Jehovah, his oblation shall be of fine flour; and he shall pour oil upon it, and put frankincense thereon:

And when anyone makes a meal offering to the Lord, let his offering be of the best meal, with oil on it and perfume:


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to me, Amos, what do you see? And I said, A weighted line. Then the Lord said, See, I will let down a weighted line among my people Israel; never again will my eyes be shut to their sin:

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


simplify: And judgment is come upon the plain country; upon Holon, and upon Jahazah, and upon Mephaath,

And punishment has come on the lowlands; on Holon and Jahzah, and on Mephaath,


rate difficulty: And Judas, the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, he who was false to him.

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


simplify: or ministry, let us give ourselves to our ministry; or he that teacheth, to his teaching;

Or the position of a Deacon of the church, let a man give himself to it; or he who has the power of teaching, let him make use of it;


simplify: And David was displeased, because the Lord had made a breach upon Uzzah: and he called the name of the place Perez–uzzah to this day.

And David was angry because of the Lord's outburst of wrath against Uzzah: and he gave that place the name Perez-uzzah, which is its name to this day.


simplify: Now I would have you all speak with tongues, but rather that ye should prophesy: and greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

Now though it is my desire for you all to have the power of tongues, it would give me more pleasure to be hearing the prophet's word from you; for this is a greater thing than using tongues, if the sense is not given at the same time, for the good of the church.


simplify: And laid their hands on the apostles, and put them in the common prison.

And they took the Apostles and put them in the common prison.


rate difficulty: All these were the sons of Heman the king’s seer in the words of God, to lift up the horn. And God gave to Heman fourteen sons and three daughters.

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


simplify: Shall I not visit for these things? saith the Lord: and shall not my soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?


simplify: And he charged him to tell no man: but go, and shew thyself to the priest, and offer for thy cleansing, according as Moses commanded, for a testimony unto them.

and then Jesus impressed on him that he was not to say a word to anyone, “but,”he added, “set out and show yourself to the priest, and make the offerings for your cleansing, in the manner directed by Moses, as evidence of your cure.”


simplify: And he taught in their synagogues, being glorified of all.

and he began to teach in their Synagogues, and was honored by everyone.


rate difficulty: as Moses, servant of Jehovah, commanded the sons of Israel, as it is written in the book of the law of Moses--an altar of whole stones, over which he hath not waved iron--and they cause to go up upon it burnt-offerings to Jehovah, and sacrifice peace-offerings;

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt bring the Levites before Jehovah; and the children of Israel shall put their hands upon the Levites.

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


rate difficulty: because the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men;

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


simplify: And the Lord shall deliver me from every evil work, and will preserve me unto his heavenly kingdom: to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.

The Lord will rescue me from all evil, and bring me safe into his Heavenly kingdom. All glory to him for ever and ever! Amen.


simplify: And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.

And the spirits collected the kings at the place called in Hebrew ‘Har-Magedon.’


simplify: Do they provoke me to anger? saith Jehovah; do they not provoke themselves, to the confusion of their own faces?

Are they moving me to wrath? says the Lord; are they not moving themselves to their shame?


simplify: And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape.

There will be no way of flight for the keepers of sheep, no road for the chiefs of the flock to get away safely.


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

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


simplify: The children of thy elect sister greet thee. Amen.

The children of your noble sister, who is of God's selection, send you their love.


rate difficulty: Non his son, Jehoshua his son.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding ye have well done, that ye did communicate with my affliction.

But you did well to have care for me in my need.


simplify: And Manoah said unto his wife, We shall surely die, because we have seen God.

And Manoah said to his wife, Death will certainly be our fate, for it is a god whom we have seen.


simplify: And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, which is in the edge of the wilderness.

And they went on from Succoth and put up their tents in Etham on the edge of the waste land.


simplify: Moreover Abishai the son of Zeruiah smote of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt eighteen thousand.

And when he came back from putting to the sword eighteen thousand of the Edomites in the Valley of Salt,


rate difficulty: apart from the burnt-offering of the month, and its present, and the continual burnt-offering, and its present, and their libations, according to their ordinance, for sweet fragrance, a fire-offering to Jehovah.

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


simplify: And Ahab said unto Obadiah, Go into the land, unto all fountains of water, and unto all brooks: peradventure we may find grass to save the horses and mules alive, that we lose not all the beasts.

And Ahab said to Obadiah, Come, let us go through all the country, to all the fountains of water and all the rivers, and see if there is any grass to be had for the horses and the transport beasts, so that we may be able to keep some of the beasts from destruction.


rate difficulty: For this is what the Lord has said about Shallum, the son of Josiah, king of Judah, who became king in place of Josiah his father, who went out from this place: He will never come back there again:

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


rate difficulty: and the one detachment turneth the way of Beth-Horon, and the one detachment turneth the way of the border which is looking on the valley of the Zeboim, toward the wilderness.

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


simplify: And if I send them away fasting to their own houses, they will faint by the way: for divers of them came from far.

If I send them away to their houses with no food, they will be overcome by weariness on the way; and some of them have come from far.


simplify: And Moses built an altar, and called the name of it JEHOVAH–nissi:

Then Moses put up an altar and gave it the name of Yahweh-nissi:


simplify: Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his ways, whose heart thou knowest; (for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men;)

Give ear in heaven your living-place, acting in mercy; and give to every man whose secret heart is open to you, the reward of all his ways; for you, and you only, have knowledge of the hearts of all the children of men:


rate difficulty: And I will execute vengeance in anger and in fury upon the nations, such as they have not heard of.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of Samuel came to all Israel. Now Israel went out against the Philistines to battle, and pitched beside Eben–ezer: and the Philistines pitched in Aphek.


rate difficulty: he hath turned aside the high places, and broken in pieces the standing-pillars, and cut down the shrine, and beaten down the brazen serpent that Moses made, for unto these days were the sons of Israel making perfume to it, and he calleth it `a piece of brass.'

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


rate difficulty: They went out from us but they were not of us; if they had been of us they would still be with us: but they went out from us so that it might be made clear that they were not of us.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto Moses, Go down, charge the people, lest they break through unto the Lord to gaze, and many of them perish.

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


simplify: And they sacrificed sacrifices unto the Lord, and offered burnt offerings unto the Lord, on the morrow after that day, even a thousand bullocks, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in abundance for all Israel:

And they made offerings to the Lord, and gave burned offerings to the Lord, on the day after, a thousand oxen, a thousand sheep, and a thousand lambs, with their drink offerings, and a great wealth of offerings for all Israel.


rate difficulty: And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he entered into the Pharisee’s house, and sat down to meat.

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


simplify: And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he slew the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down also and slew a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.

And Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, a fighting man of Kabzeel, had done great acts; he put to death the two sons of Ariel of Moab: he went down into a hole and put a lion to death in time of snow:


simplify: And his brother’s name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all players on instruments of music.


rate difficulty: And thorns shall come up in its palaces, nettles and thistles in the fortresses thereof; and it shall be a habitation of jackals, a court for ostriches.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, when he was come back again, having received the kingdom, that he commanded these servants, unto whom he had given the money, to be called to him, that he might know what they had gained by trading.

And when he came back again, having got his kingdom, he gave orders for those servants to whom he had given the money to come to him, so that he might have an account of what business they had done.


simplify: then shalt thou bring forth that man or that woman, who hath done this evil thing, unto thy gates, even the man or the woman; and thou shalt stone them to death with stones.

Then you are to take the man or woman who has done the evil to the public place of your town, and they are to be stoned with stones till they are dead.


simplify: And it came to pass, when he had been there a long time, that Abimelech king of the Philistines looked out at a window, and saw, and, behold, Isaac was sporting with Rebekah his wife.

And when he had been there for some time, Abimelech, king of the Philistines, looking through a window, saw Isaac playing with Rebekah his wife.


simplify: Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all that he did, and his might, how he warred, and how he recovered Damascus, and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, for Israel, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?

Now the rest of the acts of Jeroboam, and all he did, and his power, and how he went to war with Damascus, causing the wrath of the Lord to be turned away from Israel, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Israel?


rate difficulty: and if any man shall take away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God shall take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

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


rate difficulty: and it was while engaged in this that they found me in the Temple, after completing a period of purification, but not with any crowd or disorder.

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


simplify: And there was given them to each one a white robe; and it was said unto them, that they should rest yet for a little time, until their fellow-servants also and their brethren, who should be killed even as they were, should have fulfilled their course.

And there was given to every one a white robe, and they were ordered to take their rest for a little time, till the number was complete of the other servants, their brothers, who would be put to death, even as they had been.


rate difficulty: but I have a baptism to be baptized with, and how am I pressed till it may be completed!


rate difficulty: Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.

reading_level: 8 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


simplify: My brethren, hold not, in respect of persons, the faith of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ,

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


simplify: The proud beasts have not trodden it, Nor hath the fierce lion passed thereby.

The great beasts have not gone over it, and the cruel lion has not taken that way.


rate difficulty: and the Lord shall free me from every evil work, and shall save <FI>me<Fi> --to his heavenly kingdom; to whom <FI>is<Fi> the glory to the ages of the ages! Amen.


simplify: And when he came, lo, Eli was sitting upon his seat by the wayside watching; for his heart trembled for the ark of God. And when the man came into the city, and told it, all the city cried out.

And when he came, Eli was seated by the wayside watching: and in his heart was fear for the ark of God. And when the man came into the town and gave the news, there was a great outcry.


simplify: Hast thou entered the treasuries of the snow, Or hast thou seen the treasures of the hail,

Have you come into the secret place of snow, or have you seen the store-houses of the ice-drops,


simplify: In the day of our king the princes have made him sick with bottles of wine; he stretched out his hand with scorners.

On the day of our king, the rulers made him ill with the heat of wine; his hand was stretched out with the men of pride.


rate difficulty: and all Israel do hear and fear, and add not to do like this evil thing in thy midst.

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


simplify: Destroyers are come upon all the bare heights in the wilderness; for the sword of Jehovah devoureth from the one end of the land even to the other end of the land: no flesh hath peace.

Those who make waste have come on all the open hilltops in the waste land; for the sword of the Lord sends destruction from one end of the land to the other end of the land: no flesh has peace.


rate difficulty: Six days thou shalt work, but on the seventh day thou shalt rest: in plowing time and in harvest thou shalt rest.

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


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

I have made you a tester among my people, so that you may have knowledge of their way and put it to the test.


rate difficulty: As well their love, as their hatred and their envy, is perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion for ever in anything that is done under the sun.

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


simplify: all the valiant men arose, and took away the body of Saul, and the bodies of his sons, and brought them to Jabesh, and buried their bones under the oak in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

All the fighting-men came up and took away Saul's body and the bodies of his sons, and took them to Jabesh, and put their bones to rest under the oak-tree in Jabesh, and took no food for seven days.


simplify: And all the people were at strife throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king saved us out of the hand of our enemies, and he delivered us out of the hand of the Philistines; and now he is fled out of the land for Absalom.

And through all the tribes of Israel the people were having arguments, saying, The king made us safe from the hands of those who were against us and made us free from the hands of the Philistines; and now he has gone in flight from the land, because of Absalom.


simplify: no great thing, then, if also his ministrants do transform themselves as ministrants of righteousness--whose end shall be according to their works.

It is not surprising, therefore, if his servants also disguise themselves as servants of righteousness. But their end will be in accordance with their actions.


simplify: But he that hateth his brother is in darkness, and walketh in darkness, and knoweth not whither he goeth, because that darkness hath blinded his eyes.

while the person who hates others is in the darkness, and is living in the darkness, and does not know where they are going, because the darkness prevents them seeing.


simplify: But have renounced the hidden things of dishonesty, not walking in craftiness, nor handling the word of God deceitfully; but by manifestation of the truth commending ourselves to every man’s conscience in the sight of God.

No, we have renounced the secrecy prompted by shame, refusing to adopt crafty ways, or to tamper with God’s message, and commending ourselves to everyone’s conscience, in the sight of God, by our exhibition of the truth.


simplify: And he said, What hast thou done? the voice of thy brother’s blood crieth unto me from the ground.

And he said, What have you done? the voice of your brother's blood is crying to me from the earth.


simplify: And Huram sent him by the hands of his servants ships, and servants that had knowledge of the sea; and they went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir, and took thence four hundred and fifty talents of gold, and brought them to king Solomon.

And Huram sent him, by his servants, ships and experienced seamen, who went with the servants of Solomon to Ophir and came back with four hundred and fifty talents of gold, which they took to King Solomon.


simplify: Then said David, Ye shall not do so, my brethren, with that which the Lord hath given us, who hath preserved us, and delivered the company that came against us into our hand.

Then David said, You are not to do this, my brothers, after what the Lord has given us, who has kept us safe and given up the band which came against us into our hands.


rate difficulty: But when they persecute you in this city, flee to the other; for verily I say to you, Ye shall not have completed the cities of Israel until the Son of man be come.

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


simplify: If one bear holy flesh in the skirt of his garment, and with his skirt do touch bread, or pottage, or wine, or oil, or any meat, shall it be holy? And the priests answered and said, No.

If anyone has some holy flesh folded in the skirt of his robe, will bread or soup or wine or oil or any other food be made holy if touched by his skirt? And the priests answering said, No.


simplify: At that time Herod the tetrarch heard of the fame of Jesus,

At that time Prince Herod heard of the fame of Jesus,


rate difficulty: And she goeth up, and layeth him on the bed of the man of God, and shutteth <FI>the door<Fi> upon him, and goeth out,

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


rate difficulty: But be increased in grace and in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. May he have glory now and for ever. So be it.

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


rate difficulty: This, however, I do acknowledge to you, that it is as a believer in the cause which they call heretical, that I worship the God of my ancestors. At the same time, I believe everything that is in accordance with the law and that is written in the prophets;

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: Stand in the ways and see, and ask for the ancient paths, which is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your souls. But they said, We will not walk [therein].

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


rate difficulty: But they are together like beasts and foolish: the teaching of false gods is wood.

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


rate difficulty: And some of the Philistines took offerings to Jehoshaphat, and made him payments of silver; and the Arabians gave him flocks, seven thousand, seven hundred sheep, and seven thousand, seven hundred he-goats.


simplify: And the angel of the Lord appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.

And the angel of the Lord was seen by him in a flame of fire coming out of a thorn-tree: and he saw that the tree was on fire, but it was not burned up.


simplify: And, behold, as thy life was much set by this day in mine eyes, so let my life be much set by in the eyes of Jehovah, and let him deliver me out of all tribulation.

And so, as your life was dear to me today, may my life be dear to the Lord, and may he make me free from all my troubles.


rate difficulty: When the heavens are shut up, and there is no rain, because they have sinned against thee; if they pray toward this place, and confess thy name, and turn from their sin, because thou hast afflicted them;


simplify: And Tamar put ashes on her head, and rent her garment of divers colours that was on her, and laid her hand on her head, and went on crying.

And Tamar, in her grief, put dust on her head; and she put her hand on her head and went away crying loudly.


simplify: He made him ride on the high places of the earth, that he might eat the increase of the fields; and he made him to suck honey out of the rock, and oil out of the flinty rock;

He put him on the high places of the earth, his food was the increase of the field; honey he gave him out of the rock and oil out of the hard rock;


simplify: and he saith to them, `Whoever may put away his wife, and may marry another, doth commit adultery against her;

and he said: “Anyone who divorces his wife and marries another woman is guilty of adultery against his wife;


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

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


simplify: And Hezekiah spake comfortably unto all the Levites that taught the good knowledge of the Lord: and they did eat throughout the feast seven days, offering peace offerings, and making confession to the Lord God of their fathers.

And Hezekiah said kind words to the Levites who were expert in the ordering of the worship of the Lord: so they kept the feast for seven days, offering peace-offerings and praising the Lord, the God of their fathers.


simplify: Surely there shall not one of these men of this evil generation see that good land, which I sware to give unto your fathers,

Truly, not one of this evil generation will see that good land which I said I would give to your fathers,


rate difficulty: The children of Azmaveth, forty-two.

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


simplify: Behold, even the moon hath no brightness, And the stars are not pure in his sight:

See, even the moon is not bright, and the stars are not clean in his eyes:


rate difficulty: They shout to the tambour and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.


simplify: Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men.

“glory to God on high, And on earth peace among those in whom he finds pleasure.”


rate difficulty: A worthless person, a man of iniquity, Is he that walketh with a perverse mouth;

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


rate difficulty: You, as living stones, are being made into a house of the spirit, a holy order of priests, making those offerings of the spirit which are pleasing to God through Jesus Christ.

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


rate difficulty: then beware lest thou forget Jehovah, who brought thee forth out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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


rate difficulty: And from thence they journeyed to Beer: that is the well whereof Jehovah said unto Moses, Gather the people together, and I will give them water.


simplify: Let them be put to shame that persecute me, but let not me be put to shame; let them be dismayed, but let not me be dismayed; bring upon them the day of evil, and destroy them with double destruction.

Let them be put to shame who are attacking me, but let me not be shamed; let them be overcome with fear, but let me not be overcome: send on them the day of evil, and put them to destruction twice over.


simplify: The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites: and in his course were twenty and four thousand.

The ninth captain for the ninth month was Abiezer the Anathothite, of the Benjamites; and in his division were twenty-four thousand.


simplify: And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him, into the South.

And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.


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.


rate difficulty: And Moses said to his father-in-law, Because the people come to me to enquire ofGod.

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


rate difficulty: I have not spoken in secret, in a place of the land of darkness; I said not unto the seed of Jacob, Seek ye me in vain: I, Jehovah, speak righteousness, I declare things that are right.

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


rate difficulty: `And if he is a poor man, thou dost not lie down with his pledge;


simplify: `Ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not commit adultery;

You have heard that it was said — ‘You must not commit adultery.’


rate difficulty: And if your offering is of meal cooked in fat over the fire, let it be made of the best meal mixed with oil.

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


rate difficulty: and it cometh to pass in the morning, that Balak taketh Balaam, and causeth him to go up the high places of Baal, and he seeth from thence the extremity of the people.

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


rate difficulty: When it shall hail, coming down on the forest; and the city shall be low in a low place.

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


rate difficulty: but this thing I commanded them, saying, Hearken unto my voice, and I will be your God, and ye shall be my people; and walk ye in all the way that I command you, that it may be well with you.

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


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

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


simplify: And Mary Magdalene and Mary the mother of Joses beheld where he was laid.

Mary of Magdala and Mary, the mother of Joseph, were watching to see where he was laid.


rate difficulty: O thou inhabitant of Lachish, bind the chariot to the swift beast: she is the beginning of the sin to the daughter of Zion: for the transgressions of Israel were found in thee.

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


simplify: then the priest shall go out of the house to the door of the house, and shut up the house seven days.

Then the priest will go out of the door of the house, and keep the house shut up for seven days:


simplify: For their vine is of the vine of Sodom, and of the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are grapes of gall, their clusters are bitter:

For their vine is the vine of Sodom, from the fields of Gomorrah: their grapes are the grapes of evil, and the berries are bitter:


simplify: Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign when all these things shall be fulfilled?

“Tell us when this will be, and what will be the sign when all this is drawing to its close.”


rate difficulty: And Asher did not take the land of the people of Acco, or Zidon, or Ahlab, or Achzib, or Helbah, or Aphik, or Rehob, driving them out;

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


rate difficulty: And a messenger of Jehovah goeth up from Gilgal unto Bochim,

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


rate difficulty: And Jephthah sent messengers unto the king of the children of Ammon, saying, What hast thou to do with me, that thou art come unto me to fight against my land?

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


rate difficulty: And Laban said, See these stones and this pillar which I have put between you and me;

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


rate difficulty: Because thy raging against me and thine arrogance is come up into mine ears, I will put my ring in thy nose, and my bridle in thy lips, and I will make thee go back by the way by which thou camest.

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


simplify: Ye also helping together by prayer for us, that for the gift bestowed upon us by the means of many persons thanks may be given by many on our behalf.

You at the same time helping together by your prayer for us; so that for what has been given to us through a number of persons, praise may go up to God for us from all of them.


rate difficulty: And I will scatter thee among the nations, and disperse thee through the countries; and I will consume thy filthiness out of thee.

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


rate difficulty: And David gat him a name when he returned from smiting of the Syrians in the valley of salt, being eighteen thousand men.


simplify: I said, Days should speak, And multitude of years should teach wisdom.

I said to myself, It is right for the old to say what is in their minds, and for those who are far on in years to give out wisdom.


rate difficulty: And when the man rose up to depart, he, and his concubine, and his servant, his father-in-law, the damsel’s father, said unto him, Behold, now the day draweth toward evening, I pray you tarry all night: behold, the day groweth to an end, lodge here, that thy heart may be merry; and to-morrow get you early on your way, that thou mayest go home.

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


simplify: For Jehovah your God dried up the waters of the Jordan from before you, until ye were passed over, as Jehovah your God did to the Red Sea, which he dried up from before us, until we were passed over;

For the Lord your God made the waters of Jordan dry before you till you had gone across, as he did to the Red Sea, drying it up before us till we had gone across:


simplify: But Abijah waxed mighty, and married fourteen wives, and begat twenty and two sons, and sixteen daughters.

But Abijah became great, and had fourteen wives, and became the father of twenty-two sons and sixteen daughters.


rate difficulty: In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof there is no death.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, All is well. My master hath sent me, saying, Behold, even now there be come to me from mount Ephraim two young men of the sons of the prophets: give them, I pray thee, a talent of silver, and two changes of garments.

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


simplify: And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.

And at the end of three years they took it; in the sixth year of Hezekiah's rule, which was the ninth year of Hoshea, king of Israel, Samaria was taken.


rate difficulty: And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

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


simplify: After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.

Now after these things, the Lord made selection of seventy others and sent them before him, two together, into every town and place where he himself was about to come.


simplify: But on the first day of the week, at early dawn, they came unto the tomb, bringing the spices which they had prepared.

But on the first day of the week, at dawn, they came to the place where his body had been put, taking the spices which they had got ready.


simplify: And, behold, there came up out of the river seven well favoured kine and fatfleshed; and they fed in a meadow.

And out of the Nile came seven cows, good-looking and fat, and their food was the river-grass.


rate difficulty: And they reasoned one with another, saying, We have no bread.


simplify: I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?

I made an agreement with my eyes; how then might my eyes be looking on a virgin?


simplify: And if a man borrow ought of his neighbour, and it be hurt, or die, the owner thereof being not with it, he shall surely make it good.

If a man gets from his neighbour the use of one of his beasts, and it is damaged or put to death when the owner is not with it, he will certainly have to make payment for the loss.


rate difficulty: And he spoke to his sons saying, Saddle me the ass; and they saddled it.

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


rate difficulty: Your designs will be without profit, and their effect will be nothing: you will be burned up by the fire of my breath.


simplify: And walked in the statutes of the heathen, whom the Lord cast out from before the children of Israel, and of the kings of Israel, which they had made.

Living by the rules of the nations whom the Lord had sent out from before the children of Israel.


simplify: And the sons of Onam were, Shammai, and Jada. And the sons of Shammai; Nadab, and Abishur.

And the sons of Onam were Shammai and Jada; and the sons of Shammai: Nadab and Abishur.


rate difficulty: That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the stranger which flattereth with her words.

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


rate difficulty: And as a saviour he will come to Zion, turning away sin from Jacob, says the Lord.


simplify: and the priest shall wave them for a wave-offering before Jehovah; this is holy for the priest, together with the wave-breast and heave-thigh: and after that the Nazirite may drink wine.

Waving them for a wave offering before the Lord; this is holy for the priest, together with the waved breast and the leg which is lifted up; after that, the man may take wine.


simplify: And your eyes shall see, and ye shall say, Jehovah be magnified beyond the border of Israel.

And your eyes will see it; and you will say, The Lord is great even outside the limits of Israel.


simplify: And Jacob dwelt in the land wherein his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

Now Jacob was living in the land where his father had made a place for himself, in the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: And Kattath and Nahalal and Shimron and Idalah and Beth-lehem; twelve towns with their unwalled places.

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


simplify: And Israel said unto Joseph, I had not thought to see thy face: and, lo, God hath shewed me also thy seed.

And Israel said to Joseph, I had no hope of seeing your face again, but God in his mercy has let me see you and your children.


rate difficulty: who in time past were no people, but now are the people of God: who had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.

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


rate difficulty: and happy is he whoever may not be stumbled in me.'


simplify: For they know not to do right, saith the Lord, who store up violence and robbery in their palaces.

For they have no knowledge of how to do what is right, says the Lord, who are storing up violent acts and destruction in their great houses.


simplify: nor things about to be, nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, shall be able to separate us from the love of god, that <FI>is<Fi> in Christ Jesus our Lord.

nor Height, nor Depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God revealed in Christ Jesus, our Lord!


rate difficulty: He that testifies these things says, Yea, I come quickly. Amen; come, Lord Jesus.

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


simplify: And now, O inhabitants of Jerusalem, and men of Judah, judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard.

And now, you people of Jerusalem and you men of Judah, be the judges between me and my vine-garden.


simplify: Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites; of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites.

Of the sons of Beriah: of Heber, the family of the Heberites: of Malchiel, the family of the Malchielites:


rate difficulty: And it shall be, if thou wilt hearken unto all that I command thee, and wilt walk in my ways, and do that which is right in my sight, in keeping my statutes and my commandments, as David my servant did, that I will be with thee, and build thee a lasting house, as I built for David, and will give Israel unto thee.

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he slew the burnt offering; and Aaron’s sons presented unto him the blood, which he sprinkled round about upon the altar.

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


simplify: And all they that heard them laid them up in their hearts, saying, What manner of child shall this be! And the hand of the Lord was with him.

and all who heard it kept it in mind, asking one another — “What can this child be destined to become?” For the Power of the Lord was with him.


rate difficulty: and he having spoken, immediately the leprosy went away from him, and he was cleansed.

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


rate difficulty: And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.

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


simplify: He that loveth pleasure shall be a poor man: He that loveth wine and oil shall not be rich.

The lover of pleasure will be a poor man: the lover of wine and oil will not get wealth.


simplify: I say, then, Did God cast away His people? let it not be! for I also am an Israelite, of the seed of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin:

I ask, then, ‘Has God rejected his people?’ Heaven forbid! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.


rate difficulty: And I went to the angel, saying to him to give me the little book. And he says to me, Take and eat it up: and it shall make thy belly bitter, but in thy mouth it shall be sweet as honey.

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


rate difficulty: His offering was one silver dish of the weight of a hundred and thirty [shekels], one silver bowl of seventy shekels, according to the shekel of the sanctuary, both of them full of fine flour mingled with oil for an oblation;

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Master, which is the great commandment in the law?


rate difficulty: And he said to them, Let us go to other parts into the nearest towns, so that I may give teaching there, because for this purpose I came.

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


rate difficulty: We are thine: thou never barest rule over them; they were not called by thy name.

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


rate difficulty: See therefore, and take knowledge of all the lurking-places where he hideth himself, and come ye again to me of a certainty, and I will go with you: and it shall come to pass, if he be in the land, that I will search him out among all the thousands of Judah.

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


simplify: Then Joseph could not refrain himself before all them that stood by him; and he cried, Cause every man to go out from me. And there stood no man with him, while Joseph made himself known unto his brethren.

Then Joseph, unable to keep back his feelings before those who were with him, gave orders for everyone to be sent away, and no one was present when he made clear to his brothers who he was.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make an image of a snake and put it on a rod, and anyone who has been wounded by the snakes, looking on it will be made well.


simplify: Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.

Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Cephas, and was there with him fifteen days.


simplify: And when he hath made an end of reconciling the holy place, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and the altar, he shall bring the live goat:

And when he has done whatever is necessary to make the holy place and the Tent of meeting and the altar free from sin, let him put the living goat before the Lord;


rate difficulty: And if ye should salute your brethren only, what do ye extraordinary? Do not also the Gentiles the same?

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


simplify: Thine, O Jehovah, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty: for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Jehovah, and thou art exalted as head above all.

Yours, O Lord, is the strength and the power and the glory, and the authority and the honour: for everything in heaven and on earth is yours; yours is the kingdom, O Lord, and you are lifted up as head over all.


rate difficulty: and they rise early in the morning, and go up unto the top of the mountain, saying, `Here we <FI>are<Fi> , and we have come up unto the place which Jehovah hath spoken of, for we have sinned.'

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


rate difficulty: Then Samuel gave him an account of everything, keeping nothing back. And he said, It is the Lord; let him do what seems good to him.

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


simplify: Did ye suffer so many things in vain? if it be indeed in vain.

Did you undergo such a number of things to no purpose? if it is in fact to no purpose.


simplify: to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan unto God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among them that are sanctified by faith in me.

To make their eyes open, turning them from the dark to the light, and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may have forgiveness of sins and a heritage among those who are made holy by faith in me.


rate difficulty: Straightway I was in the Spirit: and behold, there was a throne set in heaven, and one sitting upon the throne;

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


simplify: To preach the gospel in the regions beyond you, and not to boast in another man’s line of things made ready to our hand.

So that we may be able to go on and take the good news to countries still farther away than you are, and not take credit for another man's work in making things ready to our hand.


simplify: And the king Herod heard, (for his name became public,) and he said--`John the Baptist out of the dead was raised, and because of this the mighty powers are working in him.'

Now King Herod heard of Jesus; for his name had become well known. People were saying — “John the Baptizer must have risen from the dead, and that is why these miraculous powers are active in him.”


rate difficulty: And the soldiers' counsel was that they should kill the prisoners, lest any one having swam out should escape,

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


rate difficulty: for nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there shall be earthquakes in divers places, and there shall be famines and troubles; beginnings of sorrows <FI>are<Fi> these.

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


simplify: For I suppose I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles.

For in my opinion, I am in no way less than the most important of the Apostles.


simplify: And see, and, behold, if the daughters of Shiloh come out to dance in dances, then come ye out of the vineyards, and catch you every man his wife of the daughters of Shiloh, and go to the land of Benjamin.

And watching; and if the daughters of Shiloh come out to take part in the dances, then come from the vine-gardens and take a wife for every one of you from among the daughters of Shiloh, and go back to the land of Benjamin.


simplify: Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye peoples, from far: Jehovah hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name:

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


simplify: and many of the sons of Israel he shall turn to the Lord their God,

and will reconcile many of the Israelites to the Lord their God.


rate difficulty: And they entered into a covenant to seek the Lord God of their fathers with all their heart and with all their soul;

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


simplify: Take fast hold of instruction; let her not go: Keep her; for she is thy life.

Take learning in your hands, do not let her go: keep her, for she is your life.


simplify: `I did sin, having delivered up innocent blood;' and they said, `What--to us? thou shalt see!'

“I did wrong in betraying a good man to his death,” he said. “What has that to do with us?” they replied. “You must see to that yourself.”


simplify: Wilt not thou possess that which Chemosh thy god giveth thee to possess? So whomsoever the Lord our God shall drive out from before us, them will we possess.

Do you not keep the lands of those whom Chemosh your god sends out from before you? So we will keep all the lands of those whom the Lord our God sends out from before us.


simplify: And Joseph and his mother were wondering at the things spoken concerning him,

While the child’s father and mother were wondering at what was said about him,


rate difficulty: And he took a broken bit of a pot, and, seated in the dust, was rubbing himself with the sharp edge of it.

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


rate difficulty: and he said,  Jehovah is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer, even mine;

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said, Thus shall ye say to David: The king does not desire any dowry, but a hundred foreskins of the Philistines, to be avenged of the king's enemies. But Saul thought to make David fall by the hand of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: And Jesus said, Somebody hath touched me: for I perceive that virtue is gone out of me.

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


simplify: And ye shall say unto the goodman of the house, The Master saith unto thee, Where is the guestchamber, where I shall eat the passover with my disciples?

and you will say to the owner of the house ‘The teacher says to you — Where is the room where I am to eat the Passover with my disciples?’


simplify: And Jeroboam said to his wife, Arise, I pray thee, and disguise thyself, that thou be not known to be the wife of Jeroboam; and get thee to Shiloh: behold, there is Ahijah the prophet, who spake concerning me that I should be king over this people.

And Jeroboam said to his wife, Now come, put on different clothing so that you may not seem to be the wife of Jeroboam, and go to Shiloh; see, Ahijah is there, the prophet who said I would be king over this people.


simplify: And Peter without was sitting in the court, and there came near to him a certain maid, saying, `And thou wast with Jesus of Galilee!'

Peter, meanwhile, was sitting outside in the courtyard; and a maidservant came up to him, and exclaimed: “Why, you were with Jesus the Galilean!”


rate difficulty: But news of him went out all the more, in every direction, and great numbers of people came together to give hearing to his words and to be made well from their diseases.

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


rate difficulty: And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

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


simplify: And of the Shilonites; Asaiah the firstborn, and his sons.

And of the Shilonites: Asaiah the oldest, and his sons.


rate difficulty: Also king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel that were assembled unto him before the ark, sacrificed sheep and oxen, which could not be told nor numbered for multitude.

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


simplify: Then were assembled unto me every one that trembled at the words of the God of Israel, because of the transgression of those that had been carried away; and I sat astonied until the evening sacrifice.

Then everyone who went in fear of the words of the God of Israel, because of the sin of those who had come back, came together to me; and I kept where I was, overcome with grief, till the evening offering.


simplify: That the wise man may hear, and increase in learning; And that the man of understanding may attain unto sound counsels:

(The wise man, hearing, will get greater learning, and the acts of the man of good sense will be wisely guided:)


simplify: and Jehovah said unto Moses, Write this for a memorial in a book, and rehearse it in the ears of Joshua: that I will utterly blot out the remembrance of Amalek from under heaven.

And the Lord said to Moses, Make a record of this in a book, so that it may be kept in memory, and say it again in the ears of Joshua: that all memory of Amalek is to be completely uprooted from the earth.


rate difficulty: And his servant Reumah gave birth to Tebah and Gaham and Tahash and Maacah.

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


simplify: And I am very sore displeased with the heathen that are at ease: for I was but a little displeased, and they helped forward the affliction.

And I am very angry with the nations who are living untroubled: for when I was only a little angry, they made the evil worse.


rate difficulty: By his hand hath Uzziel son of Harhaiah of the refiners strengthened; and by his hand hath Hananiah son of <FI>one of<Fi> the compounders strengthened; and they leave Jerusalem unto the broad wall.

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


simplify: A wise man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:


simplify: he shall dwell with thee, in the midst of thee, in the place which he shall choose within one of thy gates, where it pleaseth him best: thou shalt not oppress him.

Let him go on living among you in whatever place is most pleasing to him: do not be hard on him.


rate difficulty: and having risen, the younger men wound him up, and having carried forth, they buried <FI>him<Fi> .

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


simplify: And this, knowing the time, that for us, the hour already <FI>is<Fi> to be aroused out of sleep, for now nearer <FI>is<Fi> our salvation than when we did believe;

This I say, because you know the crisis that we have reached, for the time has already come for you to rouse yourselves from sleep; our salvation is nearer now than when we accepted the faith.


rate difficulty: And at the return of the year king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of Jehovah, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And offered at the dedication of this house of God an hundred bullocks, two hundred rams, four hundred lambs; and for a sin offering for all Israel, twelve he goats, according to the number of the tribes of Israel.

And they gave as offerings at the opening of this house of God a hundred oxen, two hundred sheep, four hundred lambs; and for a sin-offering for all Israel, twelve he-goats, being the number of the tribes of Israel.


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

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


rate difficulty: Speak not thou in thy heart, after that Jehovah thy God hath thrust them out from before thee, saying, For my righteousness Jehovah hath brought me in to possess this land; whereas for the wickedness of these nations Jehovah doth drive them out from before thee.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 8 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Because they have forsaken me, and have burned incense unto othergods, that they might provoke me to anger with all the works of their hands; therefore my fury shall be poured out upon this place, and shall not be quenched.

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


rate difficulty: The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

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


simplify: All the generations, therefore, from Abraham unto David <FI>are<Fi> fourteen generations, and from David unto the Babylonian removal fourteen generations, and from the Babylonian removal unto the Christ, fourteen generations.

So the whole number of generations from Abraham to David is fourteen; from David to the Exile to Babylon fourteen; and from the Exile to Babylon to the Christ fourteen.


simplify: And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:

and bring the fattened calf and kill it, and let us eat and make merry;


simplify: For a servant when he is king; And a fool when he is filled with food;

A servant when he becomes a king; a man without sense when his wealth is increased;


rate difficulty: And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as the Lord commanded Moses.


simplify: And he shall offer of it all the fat thereof: the fat tail, and the fat that covereth the inwards,

And all the fat of it, the fat tail and the fat covering the inside parts, is to be given as an offering.


simplify: And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another, and all the kingdoms of the world, which are upon the face of the earth: and the king of Sheshach shall drink after them.

And all the kings of the north, far and near, one with another; and all the kingdoms of the world on the face of the earth.


rate difficulty: and Jesus having seen her, did call <FI>her<Fi> near, and said to her, `Woman, thou hast been loosed from thy infirmity;'

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


rate difficulty: Were you a slave when you were called? Do not let that trouble you. No, even if you are able to gain your freedom, still do your best.


simplify: Their children also multipliedst thou as the stars of heaven, and broughtest them into the land concerning which thou didst say to their fathers, that they should go in to possess it.

And you made their children as great in number as the stars of heaven, and took them into the land, of which you had said to their fathers that they were to go in and take it for themselves.


rate difficulty: And he maketh a force, and smiteth Amalek, and delivereth Israel out of the hand of its spoiler.

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


rate difficulty: And he shall besiege thee in all thy gates, until thy high and fenced walls come down, wherein thou trustedst, throughout all thy land: and he shall besiege thee in all thy gates throughout all thy land, which the Lord thy God hath given thee.

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


rate difficulty: For the nation or kingdom which will not be your servant will come to destruction; such nations will be completely waste.


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

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


simplify: And thou shalt be profaned in thyself, in the sight of the nations; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.

And you will be made low before the eyes of the nations; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.


simplify: And spake to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, and I will add to your yoke: my father also chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.

But giving them the answer put forward by the young men, saying, My father made your yoke hard, but I will make it harder; my father gave you punishment with whips, but I will give it with snakes.


rate difficulty: And it came about that whenever Jehudi, in his reading, had got through three or four divisions, the king, cutting them with his penknife, put them into the fire, till all the book was burned up in the fire which was burning in the fireplace.

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


simplify: long time, indeed, therefore, did they abide speaking boldly in the Lord, who is testifying to the word of His grace, and granting signs and wonders to come to pass through their hands.

Therefore Paul and Barnabas spent a long time there, and spoke out fearlessly, relying on the Lord, who confirmed the message of his love by permitting signs and wonders to take place at their hands.


simplify: Or else let him take hold of my strength, that he may make peace with me; yea, let him make peace with me.

Or let him put himself under my power, and make peace with me.


simplify: In that day there came near to him Sadducees, who are saying there is not a rising again, and they questioned him, saying,

That same day some Sadducees came up to Jesus, maintaining that there is no resurrection. Their question was this: —


simplify: Then the tabernacle of the congregation shall set forward with the camp of the Levites in the midst of the camp: as they encamp, so shall they set forward, every man in his place by their standards.

Then the Tent of meeting is to go forward, with the tents of the Levites, in the middle of the armies; in the same order as their tents are placed, they are to go forward, every man under his flag.


rate difficulty: And that he was seen of Cephas, then of the twelve:

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


simplify: And Israel set liers-in-wait against Gibeah round about.

So Israel put men secretly all round Gibeah to make a surprise attack on it.


simplify: For my people is foolish, they have not known me; they are sottish children, and they have none understanding: they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

For my people are foolish, they have no knowledge of me; they are evil-minded children, without sense, all of them: they are wise in evil-doing, but have no knowledge of doing good.


simplify: run, I pray thee, now to meet her, and say unto her, Is it well with thee? is it well with thy husband? is it well with the child? And she answered, It is well.

Go quickly to her, and on meeting her say to her, Are you well? and your husband and the child, are they well? And she said in answer, All is well.


simplify: And he put all upon Aaron’s hands, and upon his sons’ hands, and waved them for a wave offering before the Lord.

And he put them all on the hands of Aaron and on the hands of his sons, waving them for a wave offering before the Lord.


rate difficulty: And the boy's cry came to the ears of God; and the angel of God said to Hagar from heaven, Hagar, why are you weeping? have no fear, for the child's cry has come to the ears of God.


simplify: Therefore the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,

For this reason the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,


rate difficulty: and sold their possessions and substance, and distributed them to all, according as any one might have need.

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


simplify: And to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery, which from the beginning of the world hath been hid in God, who created all things by Jesus Christ:

and to make clear what is God’s way of working out that hidden purpose which from the first has been concealed in the mind of the Creator of all things;


simplify: and they were conversing with one another about all these things that have happened.

talking together, as they went, about all that had just taken place.


simplify: There dwelt men of Tyre also therein, who brought in fish, and all manner of wares, and sold on the sabbath unto the children of Judah, and in Jerusalem.

And there were men of Tyre there, who came with fish and all sorts of goods, trading with the children of Judah and in Jerusalem on the Sabbath.


rate difficulty: But since we left off burning incense to the queen of heaven, and pouring out drink-offerings unto her, we have wanted all things, and have been consumed by the sword and by the famine.

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


rate difficulty: The third Zaccur, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;

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


rate difficulty: and the rest of men, who were not killed in these plagues, neither did reform from the works of their hands, that they may not bow before the demons, and idols, those of gold, and those of silver, and those of brass, and those of stone, and those of wood, that are neither able to see, nor to hear, nor to walk,

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


simplify: for they all saw him, and were troubled. But he straightway spake with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.

For they all saw him, and were troubled. But straight away he said to them, Take heart, it is I, have no fear.


rate difficulty: And he said to her, What wilt thou? She says to him, Speak [the word] that these my two sons may sit, one on thy right hand and one on thy left in thy kingdom.

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


rate difficulty: And the priests and the prophets speak unto the heads, and unto all the people, saying, `Judgment of death <FI>is<Fi> for this man, for he hath prophesied against this city, as ye have heard with your ears.'

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord said unto David my father, Whereas it was in thine heart to build an house unto my name, thou didst well that it was in thine heart.

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


rate difficulty: Thus shall mine anger be accomplished, and I will cause my wrath toward them to rest, and I shall be comforted: and they shall know that I, Jehovah, have spoken in my zeal, when I have accomplished my wrath upon them.

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


rate difficulty: and you will be hated by everyone because of me. Yet the person who endures to the end will be saved.

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


simplify: And Hamor and Shechem his son came unto the gate of their city, and communed with the men of their city, saying,

Then Hamor and Shechem, his son, went to the meeting-place of their town, and said to the men of the town,


simplify: In his days did Hiel the Beth–elite build Jericho: he laid the foundation thereof in Abiram his firstborn, and set up the gates thereof in his youngest son Segub, according to the word of the Lord, which he spake by Joshua the son of Nun.

In his days Hiel made Jericho; he put its base in position at the price of Abiram, his oldest son, and he put its doors in place at the price of his youngest son Segub; even as the Lord had said by Joshua, the son of Nun.


simplify: Therefore hearken not ye to your prophets, nor to your diviners, nor to your dreamers, nor to your enchanters, nor to your sorcerers, which speak unto you, saying, Ye shall not serve the king of Babylon:

And you are not to give attention to your prophets or your readers of signs or your dreamers or those who see into the future or those who make use of secret arts, who say to you, You will not become servants of the king of Babylon:


rate difficulty: And David said to Abiathar the priest, the son of Ahimelech, I pray thee, bring me hither the ephod. And Abiathar brought thither the ephod to David.

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


rate difficulty: and two olive-trees by it, one upon the right side of the bowl, and the other upon the left side thereof.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And the days of Israel are near to die, and he calleth for his son, for Joseph, and saith to him, `If, I pray thee, I have found grace in thine eyes, put, I pray thee, thy hand under my thigh, and thou hast done with me kindness and truth; bury me not, I pray thee, in Egypt,

reading_level: 12 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: `Treasure not up to yourselves treasures on the earth, where moth and rust disfigure, and where thieves break through and steal,

Do not store up treasures for yourselves on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal.


simplify: and the jailor having come out of sleep, and having seen the doors of the prison open, having drawn a sword, was about to kill himself, supposing the prisoners to be fled,

Roused from his sleep, and seeing the prison doors open, the Governor drew his sword intending to kill himself, in the belief that the prisoners had escaped.


simplify: The queen of the south shall rise up in the judgment with the men of this generation, and condemn them: for she came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and, behold, a greater than Solomon is here.

The queen of the South will come up on the day of judging and give her decision against the men of this generation: for she came from the ends of the earth to give ear to the wisdom of Solomon; and now something greater than Solomon is here.


rate difficulty: The two pillars, the one sea, and the bases, which Solomon had made for the house of Jehovah, the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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


simplify: For verily, when we were with you, we told you beforehand that we are to suffer affliction; even as it came to pass, and ye know.

And when we were with you, we said to you that trouble was before us; and so it came about, as you see.


rate difficulty: A son of twenty and two years <FI>is<Fi> Ahaziah in his reigning, and one year he hath reigned in Jerusalem, and the name of his mother <FI>is<Fi> Athaliah daughter of Omri;

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


simplify: And the Lord was very angry with Aaron to have destroyed him: and I prayed for Aaron also the same time.

And the Lord, in his wrath, would have put Aaron to death: and I made prayer for Aaron at the same time.


rate difficulty: He who has the Son has the life; he who has not the Son of God has not the life.


simplify: And I will make thy windows of agates, and thy gates of carbuncles, and all thy borders of pleasant stones.

I will make your towers of rubies, and your doors of carbuncles, and the wall round you will be of all sorts of beautiful stones.


simplify: Now I pray to God that ye do no evil; not that we should appear approved, but that ye should do that which is honest, though we be as reprobates.

We pray God that you may do nothing wrong, not that we may be seen to stand the test, but that you may do what is right, even though we may seem not to stand the test.


simplify: But when they persecute you in this city, flee ye into another: for verily I say unto you, Ye shall not have gone over the cities of Israel, till the Son of man be come.

But when they are cruel to you in one town, go in flight to another: for truly, I say to you, You will not have gone through the towns of Israel before the Son of man comes.


simplify: And he carried away Jehoiachin to Babylon, and the king’s mother, and the king’s wives, and his officers, and the mighty of the land, those carried he into captivity from Jerusalem to Babylon.

He took Jehoiachin a prisoner to Babylon, with his mother and his wives and his unsexed servants and the great men of the land; he took them all as prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.


rate difficulty: Ahaz was twenty years old when he began to reign; and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem: and he did not that which was right in the eyes of Jehovah, like David his father;

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


rate difficulty: All things have been given to me by my Father: and no one has knowledge of the Son, but only the Father: and of the Father, but only the Son, and he to whom the Son will make it clear.

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


simplify: And sent Timotheus, our brother, and minister of God, and our fellowlabourer in the gospel of Christ, to establish you, and to comfort you concerning your faith:

and sent Timothy, our dear friend and God’s minister of the good news of the Christ, to strengthen you, and to encourage you in your faith,


rate difficulty: And Moses spoke to the people, saying, Arm from amongst you men for military service, that they go against Midian to execute Jehovah's vengeance upon Midian.

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


simplify: For thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will extend peace to her like a river, and the glory of the Gentiles like a flowing stream: then shall ye suck, ye shall be borne upon her sides, and be dandled upon her knees.

For the Lord says, See, I will make her peace like a river, and the glory of the nations like an overflowing stream, and she will take her children in her arms, gently caring for them on her knees.


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

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


simplify: Whereof I was made a minister, according to the gift of the grace of God given unto me by the effectual working of his power.

Of which I was made a preacher, through that grace of God which was given to me in the measure of the working of his power.


simplify: Seeing what shall they do who are baptized for the dead, if the dead do not rise at all? why also are they baptized for the dead?

Again, what good will they be doing who are baptized on behalf of the dead? If it is true that the dead do not rise, why are people baptized on their behalf?


simplify: Tell it not in Gath, weep not at all: at Beth-le-aphrah have I rolled myself in the dust.

Give no word of it in Gath, let there be no weeping at all: at Beth-le-aphrah be rolling in the dust.


rate difficulty: They will fall by the edge of the sword, and will be taken prisoners to every land, and ‘Jerusalem will be under the heel of the Gentiles,’ until their day is over — as it will be.

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


simplify: Take it of them, that they may be to do the service of the tabernacle of the congregation; and thou shalt give them unto the Levites, to every man according to his service.

Take the things from them, to be used for the work of the Tent of meeting; and give them to the Levites, to every man what is needed for his work.


simplify: And he said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer:

And he said, I have had a great desire to keep this Passover with you before I come to my death;


simplify: And mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Jehovah descended upon it in fire; and the smoke thereof ascended as the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mount quaked greatly.

And all the mountain of Sinai was smoking, for the Lord had come down on it in fire: and the smoke of it went up like the smoke of a great burning; and all the mountain was shaking.


simplify: Then the priest shall reckon unto him the worth of thy estimation, even unto the year of the jubile: and he shall give thine estimation in that day, as a holy thing unto the Lord.

Then the value fixed by you up to the year of Jubilee will be worked out for him by the priest, and in that day he will give the amount of your value as holy to the Lord.


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

And the Rab-shakeh said to them, Say now to Hezekiah, These are the words of the great king, the king of Assyria: In what are you placing your hope?


rate difficulty: `Son of man, lift up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, And thou hast said to him: Thus said the Lord Jehovah: Thou art sealing up a measurement, Full of wisdom, and perfect in beauty.

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


simplify: saying, Give me also this power, that on whomsoever I lay my hands, he may receive the Holy Spirit.

Give me this power, so that when I put my hands on anyone he may get the Holy Spirit.


simplify: But when it was day, the magistrates sent the serjeants, saying, Let those men go.

But when it was day, the authorities sent the police, saying, Let these men go.


simplify: And all the people departed every man to his house: and David returned to bless his house.

And all the people went away, every man to his house; and David went back to give a blessing to his family.


rate difficulty: And Aholah played the harlot when she was mine; and she doted on her lovers, on the Assyrians her neighbours,

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


simplify: What mean ye that ye beat my people to pieces, and grind the faces of the poor? saith the Lord God of hosts.

By what right are you crushing my people, and putting a bitter yoke on the necks of the poor? This is the word of the Lord, the Lord of armies.


simplify: `And after a long time cometh the lord of those servants, and taketh reckoning with them;

After a long time the master of those servants returned, and settled accounts with them.


rate difficulty: And the king sent and called for Shimei, and said unto him, Build thee a house in Jerusalem, and dwell there, and go not forth thence any whither.

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


rate difficulty: by this ye are proved: Pharaoh liveth! if ye go out from this--except by your young brother coming hither;

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


simplify: Again the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And it was given unto her that she should array herself in fine linen, bright and pure: for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

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


rate difficulty: Fear them not therefore: for there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known.

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


simplify: And the Lord spake unto the fish, and it vomited out Jonah upon the dry land.

And at the Lord's order, the fish sent Jonah out of its mouth on to the dry land.


rate difficulty: And ye shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God, and none else: and my people shall never be ashamed.

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


simplify: And they sent away Rebekah their sister, and her nurse, and Abraham’s servant, and his men.

So they sent their sister Rebekah and her servant with Abraham's servant and his men.


simplify: Whom shall he teach knowledge? and whom shall he make to understand doctrine? them that are weaned from the milk, and drawn from the breasts.

To whom will he give knowledge? and to whom will he make clear the word? Will it be to those who have newly given up milk, and who have only now been taken from the breast?


rate difficulty: And they were astonished at his doctrine, for he taught them as having authority, and not as the scribes.

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


simplify: Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus, that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body.

We always bear on our bodies the marks of the death that Jesus died, so that the life also of Jesus may be exhibited in our bodies.


rate difficulty: have ye not known that those running in a race--all indeed run, but one doth receive the prize? so run ye, that ye may obtain;


rate difficulty: But praise be to God who makes us strong to overcome in Christ, and makes clear through us in every place the value of the knowledge of him.

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt; for all the men are dead that sought thy life.

And the Lord said to Moses in Midian, Go back to Egypt, for all the men are dead who were attempting to take your life.


simplify: Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, that I will punish all them that are circumcised in their uncircumcision:

See, the day is coming, says the Lord, when I will send punishment on all those who have circumcision in the flesh;


simplify: So Jacob went down into Egypt, and died, he, and our fathers,

and so Jacob went down into Egypt. There he died, and our ancestors also,


rate difficulty: I gave word in the past of the things which came about; they came from my mouth, and I made them clear: suddenly I did them, and they came about.


rate difficulty: and thy houses shall be filled, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; as neither thy fathers nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned, and went out from Pharaoh.

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


simplify: How much less man, that is a worm? and the son of man, which is a worm?

How much less man who is an insect, and the son of man who is a worm!


simplify: And the crowns shall be to Helem, and to Tobijah, and to Jedaiah, and to Hen the son of Zephaniah, for a memorial in the temple of the Lord.

And the crown will be for grace to Heldai and Tobijah and Jedaiah and the son of Zephaniah, to keep their memory living in the house of the Lord.