simplify: Do ye not know that the saints shall judge the world? and if the world shall be judged by you, are ye unworthy to judge the smallest matters?

Do not you know that Christ’s people will try the world? And if the world is to be tried by you, are you unfit to try the most trivial cases?


rate difficulty: Was he not most honourable of three? and he was their captain; but he did not attain to the [first] three.

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rate difficulty: The writing of Hezekiah king of Judah, when he had been sick, and was recovered of his sickness:

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rate difficulty: And to Joseph were born two sons before the year of famine came, whom Asnath the daughter of Potipherah the priest in On bore to him.

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rate difficulty: for many were bearing false testimony against him, and their testimonies were not alike.

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


simplify: And in Gibeon dwelt the father of Gibeon, Jehiel, whose wife’s name was Maachah:

And in Gibeon was living the father of Gibeon, Jeiel, whose wife's name was Maacah;


simplify: For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

For before certain men came from James, he did take food with the Gentiles: but when they came, he went back and made himself separate, fearing those who were of the circumcision.


simplify: He that turneth away his ear from hearing the law, Even his prayer is an abomination.

As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.


rate difficulty: He giveth power to the faint; and to him that hath no might he increaseth strength.

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


simplify: And whosoever is left, in any place where he sojourneth, let the men of his place help him with silver, and with gold, and with goods, and with beasts, besides the freewill-offering for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.

And whoever there may be of the rest of Israel, living in any place, let the men of that place give him help with offerings of silver and gold and goods and beasts, in addition to the offering freely given for the house of God in Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: He that goeth about talebearing revealeth secrets; therefore meddle not with him that openeth his lips.

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


rate difficulty: Remembered hath Jerusalem <FI>In<Fi> the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation.

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


simplify: but not so shall it be among you, but whoever may will among you to become great, let him be your ministrant;


rate difficulty: Jehovah hath opened his armory, and hath brought forth the weapons of his indignation; for the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, hath a work to do in the land of the Chaldeans.


simplify: These things also belong to the wise. It is not good to have respect of persons in judgment.

These are more sayings of the wise: To have respect for a person's position when judging is not good.


rate difficulty: Is this man Coniah a broken vessel of no value? is he a vessel in which there is no pleasure? why are they violently sent out, he and his seed, into a land which is strange to them?

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


rate difficulty: that ye have said, Thy servants have been men of cattle from our youth, even until now, both we and our fathers, --in order that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen, for the abomination of the Egyptians is every one feeding a flock.'

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


simplify: I have known thy works, and tribulation, and poverty--yet thou art rich--and the evil-speaking of those saying themselves to be Jews, and are not, but <FI>are<Fi> a synagogue of the Adversary.

I know your persecution and your poverty — yet you are rich! I know, too, the slander that comes from those who declare that they are God's people, though they are not, but are a Congregation of Satan.


simplify: And immediately Jesus stretched forth his hand, and took hold of him, and saith unto him, O thou of little faith, wherefore didst thou doubt?

And straight away Jesus put out his hand and took a grip of him, and said to him, O man of little faith, why were you in doubt?


simplify: And when they lifted up their eyes afar off, and knew him not, they lifted up their voice, and wept; and they rent every one his mantle, and sprinkled dust upon their heads toward heaven.

And lifting up their eyes when they were still far off, it did not seem that the man they saw was Job because of the change in him. And they gave way to bitter weeping, with signs of grief, and put dust on their heads.


rate difficulty: And he taketh of the seed of the kingdom, And maketh with him a covenant, And bringeth him in to an oath, And the mighty of the land he hath taken,

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


simplify: And they told to Mordecai Esther’s words.


simplify: but king Joram was returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him, when he fought with Hazael king of Syria.) And Jehu said, If this be your mind, then let none escape and go forth out of the city, to go to tell it in Jezreel.

But King Joram had gone back to Jezreel to get well from the wounds which the Aramaeans had given him when he was fighting against Hazael, king of Aram.) And Jehu said, If this is your purpose, then let no one get away and go out of the town to give news of it in Jezreel.


simplify: the third to Zaccur, his sons and his brethren, twelve:

The third Zaccur, with his sons and his brothers, twelve;


simplify: For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.

For the Lord has said, Make a glad song for Jacob and give a cry on the top of the mountains: give the news, give praise, and say, The Lord has given salvation to his people, even to the rest of Israel.


rate difficulty: And upon the nobles of the children of Israel he laid not his hand: also they saw God, and did eat and drink.

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


simplify: And Moab rebelled against Israel after the death of Ahab.

After the death of Ahab, Moab made itself free from the authority of Israel.


rate difficulty: And God said to Solomon, Because this was in thine heart, and thou hast not asked riches, wealth, or honour, nor the life of thine enemies, neither yet hast asked long life; but hast asked wisdom and knowledge for thyself, that thou mayest judge my people, over whom I have made thee king:

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 9 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad the king of Syria was sick; and it was told him, saying, The man of God is come hither.

And Elisha came to Damascus; and Ben-hadad, king of Aram, was ill; and they said to him, The man of God has come.


simplify: That your generations may know that I made the children of Israel to dwell in booths, when I brought them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

So that future generations may keep in mind how I gave the children of Israel tents as their living-places when I took them out of the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.


rate difficulty: And for a sacrifice of peace offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he goats, five lambs of the first year: this was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.


simplify: So Moses spake unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel.

These are the words which Moses said to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: Son of man, behold, they of the house of Israel say, The vision that he seeth is for many days, and he prophesieth of times that are far off.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore do not pass judgment before the time, but wait until the Lord comes. He will throw light on what is now dark and obscure, and will reveal the motives in people’s minds; and then everyone will receive due praise from God.


rate difficulty: And I heard as a voice in the midst of the four living creatures saying, A choenix of wheat for a denarius, and three choenixes of barley for a denarius: and do not injure the oil and the wine.

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


rate difficulty: So the workmen wrought, and the work was perfected by them, and they set the house ofGod in its state, and strengthened it.

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


simplify: And I will deliver thee and this city out of the hand of the king of Assyria; and I will defend this city.

And I will keep you and this town safe from the hands of the king of Assyria: and I will keep watch over this town.


rate difficulty: And the same holy drink: for they all took of the water from the holy rock which came after them: and the rock was Christ.


rate difficulty: And they will give ear to your voice: and you, with the chiefs of Israel, will go to Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him, The Lord, the God of the Hebrews, has come to us: let us then go three days' journey into the waste land to make an offering to the Lord our God.

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


simplify: And he came in the Spirit into the temple: and when the parents brought in the child Jesus, that they might do concerning him after the custom of the law,

And full of the Spirit he came into the Temple; and when the father and mother came in with the child Jesus, to do with him what was ordered by the law,


rate difficulty: And when the children of Ammon saw the flight of the Aramaeans, they themselves went in flight from Abishai, and came into the town. So Joab went back from fighting the children of Ammon and came to Jerusalem.

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


simplify: And the woman came unto Saul, and saw that he was sore troubled, and said unto him, Behold, thine handmaid hath obeyed thy voice, and I have put my life in my hand, and have hearkened unto thy words which thou spakest unto me.

And the woman came to Saul and saw that he was in great trouble, and said to him, See now, your servant has given ear to your words, and I have put my life in danger by doing what you said.


rate difficulty: and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;

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


simplify: And when the year was expired, king Nebuchadnezzar sent, and brought him to Babylon, with the goodly vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem.

In the spring of the year King Nebuchadnezzar sent and took him away to Babylon, with the beautiful vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah, his father's brother, king over Judah and Jerusalem.


simplify: And he shall offer of the sacrifice of the peace offering an offering made by fire unto the Lord; the fat thereof, and the whole rump, it shall he take off hard by the backbone; and the fat that covereth the inwards, and all the fat that is upon the inwards,

And of the peace-offering, let him give an offering made by fire to the Lord; the fat of it, all the fat tail, he is to take away near the backbone; and the fat covering the inside parts and all the fat on the inside parts,


simplify: Yet ye have forsaken me, and served other gods: wherefore I will deliver you no more.

But, for all this, you have given me up and have been servants to other gods: so I will be your saviour no longer.


simplify: He is come to Aiath, he is passed through Migron; at Michmash he layeth up his baggage;

He has gone up from Pene-Rimmon, he has come to Aiath; he has gone past Migron, at Michmash he puts his forces in order.


simplify: And a capital of brass was upon it; and the height of the one capital was five cubits, with network and pomegranates upon the capital round about, all of brass: and the second pillar also had like unto these, and pomegranates.

And there was a crown of brass on it: the crown was five cubits high, circled with a network and apples all of brass; and the second pillar had the same.


simplify: Let that day be darkness; Let not God from above seek for it, Neither let the light shine upon it.

That day--let it be dark; let not God take note of it from on high, and let not the light be shining on it;


rate difficulty: and say, `Why, O Jehovah, God of Israel, hath this been in Israel--to be lacking to-day, from Israel, one tribe?'

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


simplify: But Jonathan Saul’s son delighted much in David: and Jonathan told David, saying, Saul my father seeketh to kill thee: now therefore, I pray thee, take heed to thyself until the morning, and abide in a secret place, and hide thyself:

And Jonathan said to David, Saul, my father, is purposing your death: so now, take care in the morning, and keep yourself safe in a secret place:


simplify: but appoint thou the Levites over the tabernacle of the testimony, and over all the furniture thereof, and over all that belongeth to it: they shall bear the tabernacle, and all the furniture thereof; and they shall minister unto it, and shall encamp round about the tabernacle.

But to them you are to give the care of the Tent of meeting with its vessels and everything in it: they are to take up the Tent, and be responsible for everything to do with it, and put up their tents round it.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.


simplify: And all the people answered and said, His blood be on us, and on our children.

And all the people made answer and said, Let his blood be on us, and on our children.


rate difficulty: Even as it is written, Jacob I loved, but Esau I hated.


simplify: And it came to pass, on one of the days, as he was teaching the people in the temple, and preaching the gospel, there came upon him the chief priests and the scribes with the elders;

And it came about on one of those days, when he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the good news,


simplify: and I saw him saying to me, Haste and go forth in haste out of Jerusalem, because they will not receive thy testimony concerning me;

and saw Jesus saying to me ‘Make haste and leave Jerusalem at once, because they will not accept your testimony about me.’


simplify: O give thanks unto Jehovah; for he is good; For his lovingkindness endureth for ever.

O give praise to the Lord, for he is good: for his mercy is unchanging for ever.


rate difficulty: But it weighs very little with me that I am judged by you or by any human tribunal. No, I do not even judge myself;

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


simplify: And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast: seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.

On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a feast; for seven days let your food be unleavened cakes.


rate difficulty: In His setting for the sea its limit, And the waters transgress not His command, In His decreeing the foundations of earth,

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


simplify: And, behold, Amariah the chief priest is over you in all matters of Jehovah; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the ruler of the house of Judah, in all the king’s matters: also the Levites shall be officers before you. Deal courageously, and Jehovah be with the good.

And now, Amariah, the chief priest, is over you in all questions to do with the Lord; and Zebadiah the son of Ishmael, the head of the family of Judah, in everything to do with the king's business; and the Levites will be overseers for you. Be strong to do the work; and may the Lord be with the upright.


simplify: So they drew near, and carried them in their coats out of the camp, as Moses had said.

So they came and took them, in their coats, outside the tent-circle, as Moses had said.


simplify: And my people are bent on backsliding from me: though they call them to him that is on high, none at all will exalt him.

My people are given up to sinning against me; though their voice goes up on high, no one will be lifting them up.


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

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


simplify: But if the ox was wont to gore in time past, and it hath been testified to its owner, and he hath not kept it in, but it hath killed a man or a woman; the ox shall be stoned, and its owner also shall be put to death.

But if the ox has frequently done such damage in the past, and the owner has had word of it and has not kept it under control, so that it has been the cause of the death of a man or woman, not only is the ox to be stoned, but its owner is to be put to death.


simplify: And Asa did that which was right in the eyes of the Lord, as did David his father.

Asa did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, as David his father did.


simplify: For yet a very little while, and the indignation against thee shall be accomplished, and mine anger shall be directed to his destruction.

For in a very short time my passion will be over, and my wrath will be turned to their destruction.


rate difficulty: But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in judgment-day than for you.

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


rate difficulty: And he maketh the staves of shittim wood, and overlayeth them with gold;

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


rate difficulty: And ye shall be holy unto me: for I, Jehovah, am holy, and have set you apart from the peoples, that ye should be mine.

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


simplify: And Uzziah prepared for them, even for all the host, shields, and spears, and helmets, and coats of mail, and bows, and stones for slinging.

And Uzziah had all these forces armed with body-covers and spears and head-covers and coats of metal and bows and stones for sending from leather bands.


simplify: For the unbelieving husband is sanctified in the wife, and the unbelieving wife is sanctified in the brother: else were your children unclean; but now are they holy.

For the husband who has not faith is made holy through his Christian wife, and the wife who is not a Christian is made holy through the brother: if not, your children would be unholy, but now are they holy.


rate difficulty: A joyful heart maketh glad the face, And by grief of heart is the spirit smitten.


simplify: wherein ye once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, of the spirit that now worketh in the sons of disobedience;

In which you were living in the past, after the ways of this present world, doing the pleasure of the lord of the power of the air, the spirit who is now working in those who go against the purpose of God;


simplify: I charge you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if ye find my beloved, that ye tell him, that I am sick of love.

I say to you, O daughters of Jerusalem, if you see my loved one, what will you say to him? That I am overcome with love.


simplify: Then the disciples, every man according to his ability, determined to send relief unto the brethren which dwelt in Judea:

So the disciples, without exception, determined, in proportion to their means, to send something to help the followers living in Judea.


rate difficulty: They helped every one his neighbour, and [each] said to his brother, Take courage.

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


simplify: whom it behoveth heaven, indeed, to receive till times of a restitution of all things, of which God spake through the mouth of all His holy prophets from the age.

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


rate difficulty: And he poured of the anointing oil on Aaron's head, and anointed him, to hallow him.

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


simplify: Then spake the Lord to Paul in the night by a vision, Be not afraid, but speak, and hold not thy peace:

And the Lord said to Paul in the night, in a vision, Have no fear and go on preaching:


simplify: For from henceforth there shall be five in one house divided, three against two, and two against three.

For from this time, if there are five people in a house, they will be divided, three against two, and two against three.


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, Verily I say unto thee, To day shalt thou be with me in paradise.

And he said to him, Truly I say to you, Today you will be with me in Paradise.


simplify: One kid of the goats for a sin offering:

One male of the goats for a sin-offering;


simplify: Saul chose him three thousand men of Israel, whereof two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and in the mount of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah of Benjamin: and the rest of the people he sent every man to his tent.

And Saul took for himself three thousand men of Israel, of whom he kept two thousand with him in Michmash and in the mountain of Beth-el, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gibeah in the land of Benjamin: the rest of the people he sent back to their tents.


rate difficulty: And Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother's son, and all their possessions that they had acquired, and the souls that they had obtained in Haran, and they went out to go into the land of Canaan; and into the land of Canaan they came.

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


simplify: These are the families of the sons of Ephraim according to those that were numbered of them, thirty and two thousand and five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph after their families.

These are the families of Ephraim as they were numbered, thirty-two thousand, five hundred. These are the sons of Joseph by their families.


rate difficulty: I speak, and there is refreshment to me, I open my lips and answer.


rate difficulty: Let your land be worked with the plough, O daughter of Tarshish; there is no longer any harbour.

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


simplify: but days will come, and, when the bridegroom may be taken away from them, then they shall fast in those days.'

But the days will come — a time when the groom will be taken away from them; and they will fast then, when those days come.”


rate difficulty: And David came to the two hundred men, which were so faint that they could not follow David, whom they had made also to abide at the brook Besor: and they went forth to meet David, and to meet the people that were with him: and when David came near to the people, he saluted them.

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


rate difficulty: So in the morning you are to come near, tribe by tribe; and the tribe marked out by the Lord is to come near, family by family; and the family marked out by the Lord is to come near, house by house; and the house marked out by the Lord is to come near, man by man.


rate difficulty: for Delaiah the three and twentieth, for Maaziah the four and twentieth.

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


simplify: and he said, When ye do the office of a midwife to the Hebrew women, and see them upon the birth-stool; if it be a son, then ye shall kill him; but if it be a daughter, then she shall live.

When you are looking after the Hebrew women in childbirth, if it is a son you are to put him to death; but if it is a daughter, she may go on living.


rate difficulty: And they came down to Ephesus and he left them there: and he himself went into the Synagogue and had a discussion with the Jews.


rate difficulty: And the house which king Solomon built for the Lord, the length thereof was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof twenty cubits, and the height thereof thirty cubits.

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


rate difficulty: For thy Maker <FI>is<Fi> thy husband, Jehovah of Hosts <FI>is<Fi> His name, And thy Redeemer <FI>is<Fi> the Holy One of Israel, `God of all the earth,' He is called.

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


simplify: Ye shall walk after the Lord your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

But keep on in the ways of the Lord your God, fearing him and keeping his orders and hearing his voice, worshipping him and being true to him.


rate difficulty: (For you have in mind how we were living in the land of Egypt; and how we came through all the nations which were on your way;

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


simplify: And Mesha king of Moab was a sheepmaster, and rendered unto the king of Israel an hundred thousand lambs, and an hundred thousand rams, with the wool.

Now Mesha, king of Moab, was a sheep-farmer; and he gave regularly to the king of Israel the wool from a hundred thousand lambs and a hundred thousand sheep.


simplify: As for their rings, they were so high that they were dreadful; and their rings were full of eyes round about them four.

And I saw that they had edges, and their edges, even of the four, were full of eyes round about.


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

And their meal offering, the best meal mixed with oil: let three tenth parts of an ephah be offered for an ox and two tenth parts for a male sheep;


simplify: And they shall come from the cities of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowland, and from the hill-country, and from the South, bringing burnt-offerings, and sacrifices, and meal-offerings, and frankincense, and bringing sacrifices of thanksgiving, unto the house of Jehovah.

And they will come from the towns of Judah, and from the places round about Jerusalem, and from the land of Benjamin, and from the lowlands, and from the mountains, and from the South, with burned offerings and offerings of beasts and meal offerings and perfume and offerings of praise, to the house of the Lord.


simplify: And all the days of Mahalaleel were eight hundred ninety and five years: and he died.

And all the years of Mahalalel's life were eight hundred and ninety-five: and he came to his end.


rate difficulty: And the house of Joseph, they also went up against Beth-el; and Jehovah was with them.


simplify: And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron: and the whole congregation said unto them, Would God that we had died in the land of Egypt! or would God we had died in this wilderness!

And all the children of Israel, crying out against Moses and Aaron, said, If only we had come to our death in the land of Egypt, or even in this waste land!


simplify: And Joseph said unto them, Fear not: for am I in the place of God?

And Joseph said, Have no fear: am I in the place of God?


simplify: The posts went out, being hastened by the king’s commandment, and the decree was given in Shushan the palace. And the king and Haman sat down to drink; but the city Shushan was perplexed.

The runners went out quickly by the king's order, and a public statement was made in Shushan: and the king and Haman took wine together: but the town of Shushan was troubled.


rate difficulty: To gather its pieces unto it, every good piece, Thigh and shoulder, the choice of the bones to fill in.

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


rate difficulty: and prepare me a savoury dish such as I love, and bring it to me that I may eat, in order that my soul may bless thee before I die.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, How is it that ye do not understand?

“Do not you understand now?”he repeated.


simplify: `For there is not a good tree making bad fruit, nor a bad tree making good fruit;

There is no such thing as a good tree bearing worthless fruit, or, on the other hand, a worthless tree bearing good fruit.


rate difficulty: and thou hast done kindness, to thy servant, for into a covenant of Jehovah thou hast brought thy servant with thee; --and if there is in me iniquity, put thou me to death; and unto thy father, why is this--thou dost bring me in?'

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


rate difficulty: that the waters stand; those coming down from above have risen--one heap, very far above Adam the city, which <FI>is<Fi> at the side of Zaretan; and those going down by the sea of the plain, the Salt Sea, have been completely cut off; and the people have passed through over-against Jericho;

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


simplify: except it be for this one voice, that I cried standing among them, Touching the resurrection of the dead I am called in question before you this day.

But only this one thing which I said among them in a loud voice, I am this day being judged on the question of the coming back from the dead.


simplify: Then the word of the Lord came to Jehu the son of Hanani against Baasha, saying,

And the word of the Lord came to Jehu, son of Hanani, protesting against Baasha and saying,


rate difficulty: Then Jehu took his bow in his hand, and with all his strength sent an arrow, wounding Joram between the arms; and the arrow came out at his heart, and he went down on his face in his carriage.

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


rate difficulty: You are to put the cover on the ark of the law, inside the most holy place.

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


simplify: But know this, that if the goodman of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up.

But be certain of this, that if the master of the house had had knowledge of the time when the thief was coming, he would have been watching, and would not have let his house be broken into.


rate difficulty: And God's eyes were turned to the children of Israel and he gave them the knowledge of himself.


simplify: And it came to pass, when the judge was dead, that they returned, and corrupted themselves more than their fathers, in following other gods to serve them, and to bow down unto them; they ceased not from their own doings, nor from their stubborn way.

But whenever the judge was dead, they went back and did more evil than their fathers, going after other gods, to be their servants and their worshippers; giving up nothing of their sins and their hard-hearted ways.


simplify: `Consider the lilies, how do they grow? they labour not, nor do they spin, and I say to you, not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these;

Think of the lilies, and how they grow. They neither toil nor spin; yet, I tell you, even Solomon in all his splendor was not robed like one of these.


simplify: Delilah therefore took new ropes, and bound him therewith, and said unto him, The Philistines be upon thee, Samson. And there were liers in wait abiding in the chamber. And he brake them from off his arms like a thread.

So Delilah took new thick cords, knotting them tightly round him, and said to him, The Philistines are on you, Samson. And men were waiting secretly in the inner room. And the cords were broken off his arms like threads.


simplify: And likewise for the north side in length there shall be hangings of an hundred cubits long, and his twenty pillars and their twenty sockets of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets of silver.

And on the north side in the same way, hangings a hundred cubits long, with twenty pillars of brass on bases of brass; their hooks and their bands are to be of silver.


rate difficulty: We grope for the wall like the blind; yea, we grope as they that have no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the twilight; among them that are lusty we are as dead men.

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


rate difficulty: Fair I have made him in the multitude of his thin shoots, And envy him do all trees of Eden that <FI>are<Fi> in the garden of God.

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


rate difficulty: I had made him fair by the multitude of his branches; and all the trees of Eden, that were in the garden ofGod, envied him.


rate difficulty: For food do mountains bear for him, And all the beasts of the field play there.


simplify: What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?


simplify: His bones are full of the sin of his youth, which shall lie down with him in the dust.

His bones are full of young strength, but it will go down with him into the dust.


simplify: they indeed, then, having been sent forward by the assembly, were passing through Phenice and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the nations, and they were causing great joy to all the brethren.

The church, therefore, sent them on their journey, and they made their way through Phoenicia and Samaria, telling the story of the conversion of the Gentiles, to the great joy of all the followers.


rate difficulty: Not that I did already obtain, or have been already perfected; but I pursue, if also I may lay hold of that for which also I was laid hold of by the Christ Jesus;


simplify: I therefore so run, not as uncertainly; so fight I, not as one that beateth the air:

So then I am running, not uncertainly; so I am fighting, not as one who gives blows in the air:


simplify: And Moses and Eleazar the priest spake with them in the plains of Moab by the Jordan at Jericho, saying,

So Moses and Eleazar the priest gave them the order in the lowlands of Moab by Jordan at Jericho, saying,


simplify: Behold, I am against the prophets, saith the Lord, that use their tongues, and say, He saith.

See, I am against the prophets, says the Lord, who let their tongues say, He has said.


rate difficulty: When, however, Jesus saw this, he was indignant. “Let the little children come to me,”he said, “do not hinder them; for it is to the childlike that the kingdom of God belongs.

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


simplify: But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said unto his servants, Is the child dead? And they said, He is dead.

But when David saw that his servants were talking together quietly, he was certain that the child was dead: and he said to his servants, Is the child dead? and they said, He is.


rate difficulty: but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men.

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


rate difficulty: They were gone out of the city, [and] not [yet] far off, when Joseph said to him who was over his house, Up! follow after the men; and when thou overtakest them, thou shalt say to them, Why have ye rewarded evil for good?

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


rate difficulty: And he said unto him, What is thy name? And he said, Jacob.

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


simplify: And he wrote there upon the stones a copy of the law of Moses, which he wrote in the presence of the children of Israel.

And he made there on the stones a copy of the law of Moses, writing it before the eyes of the children of Israel.


simplify: And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.

And old stores long kept will be your food, and you will take out the old because of the new;


simplify: I have commanded my sanctified ones, I have also called my mighty ones for mine anger, even them that rejoice in my highness.

I have given orders to my holy ones, I have sent out my men of war, those of mine who take pride in their power, to give effect to my wrath.


rate difficulty: Then the king of Syria warred against Israel, and took counsel with his servants, saying, In such and such a place shall be my camp.


simplify: And in this confidence I was minded to come unto you before, that ye might have a second benefit;

And being certain of this, it was my purpose to come to you before, so that you might have a second grace;


simplify: Thus saith the Lord; If ye can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, and that there should not be day and night in their season;

The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,


rate difficulty: Now there was a certain disciple at Damascus, named Ananias; and the Lord said unto him in a vision, Ananias. And he said, Behold, I am here, Lord.


simplify: For the arrows of the Almighty are within me, the poison whereof drinketh up my spirit: the terrors of God do set themselves in array against me.

For the arrows of the Ruler of all are present with me, and their poison goes deep into my spirit: his army of fears is put in order against me.


rate difficulty: A remnant shall return, eventhe remnant of Jacob, unto the mighty God.

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


rate difficulty: chief Magdiel, chief Iram. These are the chiefs of Edom, according to their dwelling-places in the land of their possession. This is Esau, the father of Edom.

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


rate difficulty: Let thy fountain be blessed; And rejoice in the wife of thy youth.

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


rate difficulty: thus saith thy Lord, Jehovah, and thyGod, who pleadeth the cause of his people, Behold, I take out of thy hand the cup of bewilderment, the goblet-cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:

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


rate difficulty: and let us arise, and go up to Beth-el; and I will make there an altar unto God, who answered me in the day of my distress, and was with me in the way which I went.

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


simplify: Behold, I go forward, but he is not there; and backward, but I cannot perceive him:

See, I go forward, but he is not there; and back, but I do not see him;


rate difficulty: And the sons of Asher: Jimnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah, and Sarah, their sister; and the sons of Beriah: Heber and Malchiel.


simplify: So stood the two companies of them that gave thanks in the house of God, and I, and the half of the rulers with me;

So the two bands of those who gave praise took up their positions in the house of God, and I and half of the chiefs with me:


rate difficulty: And the sons of Benjamin gather themselves together after Abner, and become one troop, and stand on the top of a certain height,

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


rate difficulty: Let me sow--and another eat, And my products let be rooted out.

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


rate difficulty: Abstain from all appearance of evil.


simplify: The words of a talebearer are as wounds, and they go down into the innermost parts of the belly.

The words of one who says evil of his neighbour secretly are like sweet food, and go down into the inner parts of the stomach.


simplify: thou, then, if thou mayest bow before me--all shall be thine.'

If you worship me, it will all be yours.”


simplify: Or suffer them to bear the iniquity of trespass, when they eat their holy things: for I the Lord do sanctify them.

So causing sin to come on them when they take their holy things for food: I am the Lord who make them holy.


simplify: for before these days rose up Theudas, saying, that himself was some one, to whom a number of men did join themselves, as it were four hundred, who was slain, and all, as many as were obeying him, were scattered, and came to nought.

For not long ago Theudas appeared, professing to be somebody, and was joined by a body of some four hundred men. But he was killed; and all his followers scattered and dwindled away.


simplify: that say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me, for I am holier than thou. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day.

Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.


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

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


rate difficulty: I will not keep quiet about the parts of his body, or about his power, and the strength of his frame.

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


simplify: Then hear thou from the heavens, even from thy dwelling place, and do according to all that the stranger calleth to thee for; that all people of the earth may know thy name, and fear thee, as doth thy people Israel, and may know that this house which I have built is called by thy name.

Then give ear from heaven your living-place, and give him his desire, whatever it may be; so that all the peoples of the earth may have knowledge of your name, worshipping you as do your people Israel, and may see that this house which I have made is truly named by your name.


rate difficulty: And Hezekiah and the heads come in and see the heaps, and bless Jehovah and His people Israel,

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


rate difficulty: He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

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


simplify: And in all the land of your possession ye shall grant a redemption for the land.

Wherever there is property in land, the owner is to have the right of getting it back.


simplify: Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Israel, From everlasting even to everlasting.  And all the people said, Amen, and praised Jehovah.

Praise be to the Lord, the God of Israel, for ever and for ever. And all the people said, So be it; and gave praise to the Lord.


rate difficulty: To a despiser of his friends <FI>is<Fi> shame, And the fear of the Mighty he forsaketh.

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


simplify: Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:

The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;


simplify: why saidst thou, She is my sister, so that I took her to be my wife? now therefore behold thy wife, take her, and go thy way.

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


simplify: You only have I known of all the families of the earth: therefore I will visit upon you all your iniquities.

You only of all the families of the earth have I taken care of: for this reason I will send punishment on you for all your sins.


rate difficulty: Destruction and death say, We have heard its report with our ears.

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


rate difficulty: and they, having taken him, did severely beat <FI>him<Fi> , and did send him away empty.

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


simplify: and Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph,

And Bakbakkar, Heresh, and Galal, and Mattaniah, the son of Mica, the son of Zichri, the son of Asaph;


rate difficulty: Everything which is high goes in fear of him; he is king over all the sons of pride.


simplify: but ye said, No, for we will flee upon horses; therefore shall ye flee: and, We will ride upon the swift; therefore shall they that pursue you be swift.

Saying, No, for we will go in flight on horses; so you will certainly go in flight: and, We will go on the backs of quick-running beasts; so those who go after you will be quick-footed.


rate difficulty: And he shall offer the ram for a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord, with the basket of unleavened bread: the priest shall offer also his meat offering, and his drink offering.

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


rate difficulty: and the mother-in-law of Simon was lying fevered, and immediately they tell him about her,


rate difficulty: Which are black by reason of the ice, And wherein the snow hideth itself:

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


rate difficulty: Stand therefore, having your loins girt about with truth, and having on the breastplate of righteousness;

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


simplify: and their sayings appeared before them as idle talk, and they were not believing them.

What they said seemed to the apostles mere nonsense, and they did not believe them.


rate difficulty: As the host of the heavens cannot be numbered, nor the sand of the sea measured, so will I multiply the seed of David my servant, and the Levites that minister unto me.

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


simplify: Son of man, what is this proverb that ye have in the land of Israel, saying, The days are prolonged, and every vision faileth?

Son of man, what is this saying which you have about the land of Israel, The time is long and every vision comes to nothing?


simplify: then he appeared to James; then to all the apostles;

Then he was seen by James; then by all the Apostles.


simplify: And it was so, that, when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to fetch Jephthah out of the land of Tob;

And when the children of Ammon made war against Israel, the responsible men of Gilead went to get Jephthah back from the land of Tob;


rate difficulty: For as the lightning cometh forth from the east, and is seen even unto the west; so shall be the coming of the Son of man.

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


simplify: Both for the shewbread, and for the fine flour for meat offering, and for the unleavened cakes, and for that which is baked in the pan, and for that which is fried, and for all manner of measure and size;

The holy bread was in their care, and the crushed grain for the meal offering, of unleavened cakes or meal cooked over the fire or in water; they had control of all sorts of weights and measures;


simplify: Let us not become vainglorious, provoking one another, envying one another.

Let us not be full of self-glory, making one another angry, having envy of one another.


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

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


simplify: The God of Abraham, and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, judge betwixt us. And Jacob sware by the fear of his father Isaac.

May the God of Abraham and the God of Nahor, the God of their father, be our judge. Then Jacob took an oath by the Fear of his father Isaac.


simplify: and let thy house be like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which Jehovah shall give thee of this young woman.

May your family be like the family of Perez, the son whom Tamar gave to Judah, from the offspring which the Lord may give you by this young woman.


simplify: And when the people heard these evil tidings, they mourned: and no man did put on him his ornaments.

Hearing this bad news the people were full of grief, and no one put on his ornaments.


simplify: So the king of Israel went, and the king of Judah, and the king of Edom; and they made a circuit of seven days’ journey: and there was no water for the host, nor for the beasts that followed them.

So the king of Israel went with the king of Judah and the king of Edom by a roundabout way for seven days: and there was no water for the army or for the beasts they had with them.


simplify: A man shall not take his father’s wife, nor discover his father’s skirt.

A man may not take his father's wife or have sex relations with a woman who is his father's.


simplify: But Peter said unto him, Thy money perish with thee, because thou hast thought that the gift of God may be purchased with money.

“A curse on you and on your money,” Peter exclaimed, “for thinking that God’s free gift can be bought with gold!


rate difficulty: the coloured clothes to minister in the sanctuary, the holy garments for Aaron the priest, and the garments of his sons, to act as priest in.

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


rate difficulty: And the coast reacheth to Tabor, and Shahazimah, and Beth–shemesh; and the outgoings of their border were at Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

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


rate difficulty: Ye shall walk after Jehovah your God, and fear him, and keep his commandments, and obey his voice, and ye shall serve him, and cleave unto him.

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


simplify: And all the people saw the pillar of cloud stand at the door of the Tent: and all the people rose up and worshipped, every man at his tent door.

And all the people saw the cloud at the door of the Tent, and they went down on their faces, everyone at the door of his tent.


simplify: How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, which murmur against me? I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they murmur against me.

How long am I to put up with this evil people and their outcries against me? The words which they say against me have come to my ears.


simplify: Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

I will give your wealth and your stores to your attackers, without a price, because of all your sins, even in every part of your land.


simplify: But he answered and said, It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God.

But Jesus answered: “Scripture says —  ‘It is not on bread alone that a person is to live, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”


simplify: This day will I begin to put the dread of thee and the fear of thee upon the peoples that are under the whole heaven, who shall hear the report of thee, and shall tremble, and be in anguish because of thee.

From now on I will put the fear of you in all peoples under heaven, who, hearing of you, will be shaking with fear and grief of heart because of you.


simplify: And they shall fill thy houses, and the houses of all thy servants, and the houses of all the Egyptians; which neither thy fathers, nor thy fathers’ fathers have seen, since the day that they were upon the earth unto this day. And he turned himself, and went out from Pharaoh.

And your houses will be full of them, and the houses of your servants and of all the Egyptians; it will be worse than anything your fathers have seen or their fathers, from the day when they were living on the earth till this day. And so he went out from Pharaoh.


rate difficulty: Every day they devoted themselves to meeting together in the Temple Courts, and to the breaking of bread at their homes, while they partook of their food in simple-hearted gladness, praising God, and winning the goodwill of all the people.

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


simplify: Thus God rendered the wickedness of Abimelech, which he did unto his father, in slaying his seventy brethren:

In this way Abimelech was rewarded by God for the evil he had done to his father in putting his seventy brothers to death;


rate difficulty: The nations have heard of thy shame, and thy cry hath filled the land: for the mighty man hath stumbled against the mighty, and they are fallen both together.

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


simplify: And his sister stood afar off, to wit what would be done to him.

And his sister took her place at a distance to see what would become of him.


simplify: And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as an heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

By your breath the waves were massed together, the flowing waters were lifted up like a pillar; the deep waters became solid in the heart of the sea.


simplify: But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given her for a covering.

But if a woman has long hair, it is a glory to her: for her hair is given to her for a covering.


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


rate difficulty: before thy wickedness was discovered, as at the time of the reproach of the daughters of Syria, and of all that are round about her, the daughters of the Philistines, who despise thee on every side.

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


rate difficulty: Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect: yet not the wisdom of this world, nor of the princes of this world, that come to nought:

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


simplify: And they kept the charge of their God, and the charge of the purification, and so did the singers and the porters, according to the commandment of David, and of Solomon his son.

And they kept the watch of their God, and were responsible for making things clean, and so did the music-makers and the door-keepers, as it was ordered by David and Solomon his son.


rate difficulty: And they besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

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


simplify: If the sun be risen upon him, there shall be bloodguiltiness for him; he shall make restitution: if he have nothing, then he shall be sold for his theft.

But if it is after dawn, he will be responsible.


rate difficulty: And who is he that overcometh the world, but he that believeth that Jesus is the Son of God?

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


rate difficulty: And they mourned, and wept, and fasted until even for Saul, and for Jonathan his son, and for the people of Jehovah, and for the house of Israel; because they were fallen by the sword.

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


rate difficulty: And he presented the other ram, the ram of consecration: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

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


simplify: Neither shall any of the priests drink wine, when they enter into the inner court.

The priests are not to take wine when they go into the inner square.


rate difficulty: Trouble and sorrow on all whose works are evil, to the Jew first and then to the Greek;

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


simplify: But Jesus said unto them, Ye know not what ye ask: can ye drink of the cup that I drink of? and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?

But Jesus said to them, You have no knowledge of what you are saying. Are you able to take of my cup? or to undergo the baptism which I am to undergo?


rate difficulty: In the third month of the going out of the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, in this day they have come into the wilderness of Sinai,

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


rate difficulty: Take great stones in thine hand, and hide them in the clay in the brickkiln, which is at the entry of Pharaoh’s house in Tahpanhes, in the sight of the men of Judah;

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


simplify: together with Onesimus, the faithful and beloved brother, who is one of you. They shall make known unto you all things that are done here.

And with him I have sent Onesimus, the true and well-loved brother, who is one of you. They will give you word of everything which is taking place here.


simplify: and to wait for His Son from the heavens, whom He did raise out of the dead--Jesus, who is rescuing us from the anger that is coming.

and are now awaiting the return from heaven of his Son whom he raised from the dead — Jesus, our deliverer from the coming wrath.


simplify: And he spake also unto the men of Penuel, saying, When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower.

So he said to the men of Penuel, When I come back in peace, I will have this tower broken down.


simplify: She looketh well to the ways of her household, And eateth not the bread of idleness.

She gives attention to the ways of her family, she does not take her food without working for it.


simplify: Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of David according to the flesh;

About his Son who, in the flesh, came from the family of David,


rate difficulty: armed with bows, using both the right hand and the left with stones and with arrows on the bow; [they were] of Saul's brethren of Benjamin:

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


rate difficulty: A time to seek, and a time to lose; A time to keep, and a time to cast away;


rate difficulty: But ye, brethren, after the pattern of Isaac, are children of promise.


rate difficulty: You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.

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


simplify: Then came the same Sheshbazzar, and laid the foundations of the house of God which is in Jerusalem: and since that time even until now hath it been in building, and yet it is not completed.

Then this same Sheshbazzar came and put the house of God in Jerusalem on its bases: and from that time till now the building has been going on, but it is still not complete.


simplify: And no marvel; for even Satan fashioneth himself into an angel of light.

And it is no wonder; for even Satan himself is able to take the form of an angel of light.


rate difficulty: Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.


simplify: then they came to Gilead, and to the land of Tahtim-hodshi; and they came to Dan-jaan, and round about to Sidon,

Then they came to Gilead, and to the land of the Hittites under Hermon; and they came to Dan, and from Dan they came round to Zidon,


rate difficulty: But the Lord said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.

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


rate difficulty: When Paul reached the steps, he was actually being carried by the soldiers, owing to the violence of the mob;

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt beat him with the rod, And shalt deliver his soul from Sheol.

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


simplify: And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him.

All this was said within hearing of the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, and they began to sneer at Jesus.


simplify: for it hath been written--To His messengers He will give charge concerning thee, to guard over thee,

for scripture says — ‘He will give his angels commands about you, to guard you safely,’


rate difficulty: They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.

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simplify: So Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria; and Ahab his son reigned in his stead.

So Omri went to rest with his fathers, and was put into the earth in Samaria; and Ahab his son became king in his place.


simplify: And Moses called Bezalel and Oholiab, and every wise-hearted man, in whose heart Jehovah had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:

Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:


simplify: And the twenty pillars thereof and their twenty sockets shall be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their fillets shall be of silver.

Their twenty pillars and their twenty bases are to be of brass; the hooks of the pillars and their bands are to be of silver.


rate difficulty: And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.

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


rate difficulty: And now, behold, Jehovah has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these thy prophets, and Jehovah has spoken evil concerning thee.

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


simplify: And all the angels stood round about the throne, and about the elders and the four beasts, and fell before the throne on their faces, and worshipped God,

And all the angels were round about the high seat, and about the rulers and the four beasts; and they went down on their faces before the high seat, and gave worship to God, saying,


rate difficulty: For mine own sake, for mine own sake, will I do [it]; for how should [my name] be profaned? and I will not give my glory unto another.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,


simplify: because blood of saints and prophets they did pour out, and blood to them Thou didst give to drink, for they are worthy;'

for men shed the blood of Christ’s people and of the prophets, and you have given them blood to drink. It is what they deserve.’


simplify: Then said Jesus unto them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it?

and Jesus said to them: “I ask you, is it allowable to do good on the Sabbath — or harm? To save a life, or let it perish?”


rate difficulty: Howbeit he shook off the creature into the fire, and took no harm.


rate difficulty: whom resist, stedfast in the faith, having known the same sufferings to your brotherhood in the world to be accomplished.

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


simplify: Whom hast thou defied and blasphemed? and against whom hast thou exalted thy voice and lifted up thine eyes on high? even against the Holy One of Israel.

Against whom have you said evil and bitter things? against whom has your voice been loud and your eyes lifted up? even against the Holy One of Israel.


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

And the word of the Lord came to me a second time, saying,


simplify: And Saul said, There shall not a man be put to death this day; for to-day Jehovah hath wrought deliverance in Israel.

And Saul said, Not a man is to be put to death today: for today the Lord has made Israel safe.


So he appointed the Twelve — Peter (which was the name that Jesus gave to Simon),


simplify: For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle’s eye, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.

It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.


rate difficulty: But Sihon trusted not Israel, to let him pass through his border, and Sihon gathered all his people, and they encamped in Jahzah; and he fought with Israel.

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


simplify: And Isaac loved Esau, because he did eat of his venison: but Rebekah loved Jacob.

Now Isaac's love was for Esau, because Esau's meat was greatly to his taste: but Rebekah had more love for Jacob.


simplify: Keep therefore and do them; for this is your wisdom and your understanding in the sight of the peoples, that shall hear all these statutes, and say, Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.

So keep these laws and do them; for so will your wisdom and good sense be clear in the eyes of the peoples, who hearing all these laws will say, Truly, this great nation is a wise and far-seeing people.


simplify: Anathoth with her suburbs, and Almon with her suburbs; four cities.

Anathoth and Almon with their grass-lands, four towns.


rate difficulty: seeing we have heard that certain having gone forth from us did trouble you with words, subverting your souls, saying to be circumcised and to keep the law, to whom we did give no charge,

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


simplify: And the king appointed the lord on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trode upon him in the gate, and he died, as the man of God had said, who spake when the king came down to him.

And the king gave authority to that captain, on whose arm he was supported, to have control over the doorway into the town; but he was crushed to death there under the feet of the people, as the man of God had said when the king went down to him.


simplify: `And in my beginning to speak, the Holy Spirit did fall upon them, even as also upon us in the beginning,

I had but just begun to speak,” continued Peter, “when the Holy Spirit fell on them, exactly as on us at the first;


rate difficulty: Sons of Kohath: Amminadab his son, Korah his son, Assir his son,

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


rate difficulty: We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at midday as in the twilight; amongst the flourishing we are as the dead.

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


simplify: Greet Mary, who bestowed much labour on us.


simplify: And the foolish said unto the wise, Give us of your oil; for our lamps are gone out.

and the foolish said to the prudent ‘Give us some of your oil; our lamps are going out.’


simplify: and our seemly things have no need; but God did temper the body together, to the lacking part having given more abundant honour,

Yes, God has so constructed the body — by giving a special honor to the part that lacks it —


rate difficulty: As to the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ, and our being gathered to meet him, we beg you, friends,


simplify: Whereas ye know not what shall be on the morrow. For what is your life? It is even a vapour, that appeareth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

And yet you do not know what your life will be like tomorrow! For you are but a mist appearing for a little while and then disappearing.


simplify: but I will remove far off from you the northern army, and will drive it into a land barren and desolate, its forepart into the eastern sea, and its hinder part into the western sea; and its stench shall come up, and its ill savor shall come up, because it hath done great things.

I will send the one from the north far away from you, driving him into a dry and waste land, with his front to the sea of the east and his back to the sea of the west, and the smell of him will go up, even his evil smell will go up.


simplify: And the taskmasters hasted them, saying, Fulfil your works, your daily tasks, as when there was straw.

And the overseers went on driving them and saying, Do your full day's work as before when there were dry stems for you.


simplify: He that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.

Nothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.


rate difficulty: Wherefore, my brethren, when ye come together to eat, tarry one for another.

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


simplify: Now the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem; in the name of the God of Israel prophesied they unto them.

Now the prophets Haggai and Zechariah, the son of Iddo, were preaching to the Jews in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel.


rate difficulty: And the king said to me, Why is your face sad, seeing that you are not ill? this is nothing but sorrow of heart. Then I was full of fear;

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


rate difficulty: And the Spirit of Jehovah came upon Gideon, and he blew the trumpet, and the Abi-ezrites were gathered after him.

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


simplify: (Touch not; taste not; handle not;

to such ordinances as ‘Do not handle, or taste, or touch’?


rate difficulty: And they made designs, all of them together, to come and make an attack on Jerusalem, causing trouble there.


rate difficulty: and the demons were calling on him, saying, `If thou dost cast us forth, permit us to go away to the herd of the swine;'

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


simplify: And king Zedekiah the son of Josiah reigned instead of Coniah the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon made king in the land of Judah.

And Zedekiah, the son of Josiah, became king in place of Coniah, the son of Jehoiakim, whom Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, made king in the land of Judah.


simplify: I tell thee, thou shalt not depart thence, till thou hast paid the very last mite.

I say to you, You will not come out of it till you have made payment to the very last farthing.


rate difficulty: And the women, answering one another in their song, said, Saul has put to death his thousands and David his tens of thousands.

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


rate difficulty: But the angel, addressing the women, said; “You need not be afraid. I now that it is Jesus, who was crucified, for whom you are looking.


simplify: And the man of God was wroth with him, and said, Thou shouldest have smitten five or six times; then hadst thou smitten Syria till thou hadst consumed it: whereas now thou shalt smite Syria but thrice.

Then the man of God was angry with him and said, If you had done it five or six times, then you would have overcome Aram completely; but now you will only overcome them three times.


rate difficulty: She doeth him good, and not evil, all the days of her life.

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


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


simplify: Every one that cometh unto me, and heareth my words, and doeth them, I will show you to whom he is like:

Everyone who comes to me and gives ear to my words and does them, I will make clear to you what he is like:


simplify: And it came to pass, that when Zedekiah the king of Judah saw them, and all the men of war, then they fled, and went forth out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, by the gate betwixt the two walls: and he went out the way of the plain.

And when Zedekiah, king of Judah, and all the men of war saw it, they went in flight from the town by night, by the way of the king's garden, through the doorway between the two walls: and they went out by the Arabah.


rate difficulty: and from thence it passed along eastward to Gath-hepher, to Eth-kazin; and it went out at Rimmon which stretcheth unto Neah;

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


rate difficulty: because now we live, if ye may stand fast in the Lord;

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


rate difficulty: Does not even nature itself teach you, that man, if he have long hair, it is a dishonour to him?

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


rate difficulty: Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

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


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

And when he had said this, he sent the meeting away.


simplify: And they came in, and possessed it; but they obeyed not thy voice, neither walked in thy law; they have done nothing of all that thou commandedst them to do: therefore thou hast caused all this evil to come upon them:

And they came in and took it for their heritage, but they did not give ear to your voice, and were not ruled by your law; they have done nothing of all you gave them orders to do: so you have made all this evil come on them:


simplify: My tabernacle also shall be with them: yea, I will be their God, and they shall be my people.

And my House will be over them; and I will be to them a God, and they will be to me a people.


simplify: It shall have the two shoulderpieces thereof joined at the two edges thereof; and so it shall be joined together.

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


simplify: And Peter remembered the word of Jesus, which said unto him, Before the cock crow, thou shalt deny me thrice. And he went out, and wept bitterly.

and Peter remembered the words which Jesus had said — ‘Before a cock has crowed, you will disown me three times’;and he went outside, and wept bitterly.


rate difficulty: and it was given to them that they may not kill them, but that they may be tormented five months, and their torment <FI>is<Fi> as the torment of a scorpion, when it may strike a man;

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


simplify: burning for burning, wound for wound, stripe for stripe.

Burning for burning, wound for wound, blow for blow.


rate difficulty: and they say unto him, `Thus said Hezekiah, A day of distress, and rebuke, and despising, <FI>is<Fi> this day; for come have sons unto the birth, and power there is not to bear.

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


simplify: And Moses called Bezaleel and Aholiab, and every wise hearted man, in whose heart the Lord had put wisdom, even every one whose heart stirred him up to come unto the work to do it:

Then Moses sent for Bezalel and Oholiab, and for all the wise-hearted men to whom the Lord had given wisdom, even everyone who was moved by the impulse of his heart to come and take part in the work:


rate difficulty: Ye shall not do after all the things that we do here this day, every man whatsoever is right in his own eyes;

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


simplify: And of this measure shalt thou measure a length of five and twenty thousand, and a breadth of ten thousand: and in it shall be the sanctuary, which is most holy.

And of this measure, let a space be measured, twenty-five thousand long and ten thousand wide: in it there will be the holy place, even the most holy.


rate difficulty: Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the manner of the God of the land.

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


simplify: And when they were come in, they went up into the upper chamber, where they were abiding; both Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James the son of Alphæus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas the son of James.

And when they came in, they went up into the room where they were living; Peter and John and James and Andrew, Philip and Thomas, Bartholomew and Matthew, James, the son of Alphaeus, and Simon the Zealot, and Judas, the son of James.


simplify: Let him that stole steal no more: but rather let him labour, working with his hands the thing which is good, that he may have to give to him that needeth.

Let the person who steals steal no longer, but rather let them toil with their hands at honest work, so that they may have something to share with anyone in need.


rate difficulty: In no way: but let God be true, though every man is seen to be untrue; as it is said in the Writings, That your words may be seen to be true, and you may be seen to be right when you are judged.

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


rate difficulty: But when they deliver you up, be not careful how or what ye shall speak; for it shall be given to you in that hour what ye shall speak.

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


rate difficulty: And all thy children shall be taught of the Lord; and great shall be the peace of thy children.


simplify: The field is laid waste, the land mourneth; for the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, the oil languisheth.

The fields are wasted, the land has become dry; for the grain is wasted, the new wine is kept back, the oil is poor.


simplify: Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Be not judges of others, and you will not be judged.


simplify: For thus saith the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel; In returning and rest shall ye be saved; in quietness and in confidence shall be your strength: and ye would not.

For the Lord, the Holy One of Israel, said, In quiet and rest is your salvation: peace and hope are your strength: but you would not have it so.


rate difficulty: and Salmon begat Boaz of Rahab, and Boaz begat Obed of Ruth, and Obed begat Jesse,

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


simplify: and Me-jarkon, and Rakkon, with the border over against Joppa.


simplify: to which I was placed a preacher and an apostle, and a teacher of nations,

of which I was myself appointed a herald and apostle, and teacher.


rate difficulty: Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

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


simplify: that ye shall say, Thy servants have been keepers of cattle from our youth even until now, both we, and our fathers: that ye may dwell in the land of Goshen; for every shepherd is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

You are to say, Your servants have been keepers of cattle from our early days up to now, like our fathers; in this way you will be able to have the land of Goshen for yourselves; because keepers of sheep are unclean in the eyes of the Egyptians.


rate difficulty: `And a man who lieth with his father's wife--the nakedness of his father he hath uncovered--both of them are certainly put to death; their blood <FI>is<Fi> on them.


simplify: He did powerfully with His arm, He scattered abroad the proud in the thought of their heart,

Mighty are the deeds of his arm; He scatters the proud with their own devices,


simplify: For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of Jehovah, as the waters cover the sea.

For the earth will be full of the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the sea is covered by the waters.


rate difficulty: besides that which the traders brought, and the traffic of the merchants, and of all the kings of the mingled people, and of the governors of the country.

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


simplify: But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them, because they fainted, and were scattered abroad, as sheep having no shepherd.

But when he saw all the people he was moved with pity for them, because they were troubled and wandering like sheep without a keeper.


rate difficulty: Israel hath sinned, and they have also transgressed my covenant which I commanded them: for they have even taken of the accursed thing, and have also stolen, and dissembled also, and they have put it even among their own stuff.

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


rate difficulty: And all the people went their way to eat, and to drink, and to send portions, and to make great mirth, because they had understood the words that were declared unto them.

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


simplify: and he said, `I say to thee, Peter, a cock shall not crow to-day, before thrice thou mayest disown knowing me.'

“I tell you, Peter,”replied Jesus, “the cock will not crow today until you have disowned all knowledge of me three times.”


rate difficulty: For my palate shall meditate truth, and wickedness is an abomination to my lips.

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


simplify: I have confidence in you through the Lord, that ye will be none otherwise minded: but he that troubleth you shall bear his judgment, whosoever he be.

I, through my union with the Lord, am persuaded that you will learn to think with me. But the man who is disturbing your minds will have to bear his punishment, whoever he may be.


rate difficulty: And they do not say in their hearts, Now let us give worship to our God, who gives the rain, the winter and the spring rain, at the right time; who keeps for us the ordered weeks of the grain-cutting.

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


simplify: If thou prepare thine heart, and stretch out thine hands toward him;

But if you put your heart right, stretching out your hands to him;


simplify: Be ye angry, and sin not: let not the sun go down upon your wrath:

‘Be angry, yet do not sin.’ Do not let the sun go down on your anger;


simplify: For the Lord shall judge his people, and repent himself for his servants, when he seeth that their power is gone, and there is none shut up, or left.

For the Lord will be judge of his people, he will have pity for his servants; when he sees that their power is gone, there is no one, shut up or free.


rate difficulty: Verily I say unto you, Whosoever shall say unto this mountain, Be thou taken up and cast into the sea; and shall not doubt in his heart, but shall believe that what he saith cometh to pass; he shall have it.

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


simplify: And ye shall point out your east border from Hazar–enan to Shepham:

And on the east, your limit will be marked out from Hazar-enan to Shepham,


rate difficulty: This philosophy is not known to any of the leaders of today; for, had they known it, they would not have crucified our glorified Lord.

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


simplify: nor to give heed to fables and endless genealogies, that cause questions rather than the building up of God that is in faith: --

nor to devote their attention to legends and interminable genealogies, which tend to give rise to argument rather than to further that divine plan which is revealed in the faith.


simplify: foreknown, indeed, before the foundation of the world, and manifested in the last times because of you,

Destined for this before the beginning of the world, he has been revealed in these last days for your sakes,


simplify: and not only is there danger that this our trade come into disrepute; but also that the temple of the great goddess Diana be made of no account, and that she should even be deposed from her magnificence whom all Asia and the world worshippeth.

And there is danger, not only that our trade may be damaged in the opinion of men, but that the holy place of the great goddess Diana may be no longer honoured, and that she to whom all Asia and the world give worship, will be put down from her high position.


simplify: But the younger widows refuse: for when they have begun to wax wanton against Christ, they will marry;

But to the younger widows say No: for when their love is turned away from Christ, they have a desire to be married;


simplify: Woe to the bloody city! it is all full of lies and robbery; the prey departeth not;

A curse is on the town of blood; it is full of deceit and violent acts; and there is no end to the taking of life.


simplify: That strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.

Who sends sudden destruction on the strong, so that destruction comes on the walled town.


simplify: Ye shall not afflict any widow, or fatherless child.

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.


simplify: Thou shalt make no covenant with them, nor with their gods.

Make no agreement with them or with their gods.


simplify: He who testifieth these things saith, Yea: I come quickly. Amen: come, Lord Jesus.

He who gives witness to these things says, Truly, I come quickly. Even so come, Lord Jesus.


rate difficulty: And after they had passed throughout Pisidia, they came to Pamphylia.


rate difficulty: to go into the clefts of the rocks, and into the fissures of the cliffs, from before the terror of Jehovah, and from the glory of his majesty, when he shall arise to terrify the earth.

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


simplify: Now when the centurion, and they that were with him, watching Jesus, saw the earthquake, and those things that were done, they feared greatly, saying, Truly this was the Son of God.

The Roman captain, and the men with him who were watching Jesus, on seeing the earthquake and all that was happening, became greatly frightened and exclaimed: “This must indeed have been God’s Son!”


rate difficulty: If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to testify against him of wrong-doing,

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


simplify: And I will rejoice in Jerusalem, and joy in my people: and the voice of weeping shall be no more heard in her, nor the voice of crying.

And I will be glad over Jerusalem, and have joy in my people: and the voice of weeping will no longer be sounding in her, or the voice of grief.


rate difficulty: and he that sat was to look upon like a jasper stone and a sardius: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, like an emerald to look upon.


rate difficulty: And she fell down immediately at his feet, and gave up the ghost: and the young men came in and found her dead, and they carried her out and buried her by her husband.


rate difficulty: And they removed from Hor-hagidgad, and encamped in Jotbathah.

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


rate difficulty: As for the living bird, he shall take it, and the cedar wood, and the scarlet, and the hyssop, and shall dip them and the living bird in the blood of the bird that was killed over the running water:

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


simplify: Likewise greet the church that is in their house. Salute my wellbeloved Epenetus, who is the firstfruits of Achaia unto Christ.

Give my greeting, also, to the church that meets at their house, as well as to my dear friend Epaenetus, one of the first in Roman Asia to believe in Christ;


simplify: And he preached in their synagogues throughout all Galilee, and cast out devils.

And he went into their Synagogues in every part of Galilee, preaching and driving out evil spirits.


rate difficulty: I have raised him up in righteousness, and I will make straight all his ways: he shall build my city, and he shall let my exiles go free, not for price nor reward, saith Jehovah of hosts.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: Is he thankful to the bondman because he has done what was ordered? I judge not.

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


rate difficulty: And the Philistines fought, and Israel was smitten, and they fled every man into his tent: and there was a very great slaughter; for there fell of Israel thirty thousand footmen.

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


simplify: All this was done, that it might be fulfilled which was spoken by the prophet, saying,

Now this took place so that these words of the prophet might come true,


simplify: And when Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of a physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners.

And Jesus, hearing it, said to them, Those who are well have no need of a medical man, but those who are ill: I have come not to get the upright but sinners.


rate difficulty: The children of Hariph, a hundred and twelve.


simplify: And I will bring the blind by a way that they know not; in paths that they know not will I lead them; I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. These things will I do, and I will not forsake them.

And I will take the blind by a way of which they had no knowledge, guiding them by roads strange to them: I will make the dark places light before them, and the rough places level. These things will I do and will not give them up.


simplify: And thou shalt put the mitre upon his head, and put the holy crown upon the mitre.

And let the head-dress be placed on his head and the holy crown on the head-dress.


rate difficulty: that say to the seers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things, prophesy deceits,

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


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


simplify: And when he met with us at Assos, we took him in, and came to Mitylene.

So, when he met us at Assos, we took him on board and went on to Mitylene.


simplify: And they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five months.

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


rate difficulty: For I will take you out from among the nations, and get you together from all the countries, and take you into your land.

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


rate difficulty: And they shall put upon it all the vessels thereof, wherewith they minister about it, even the censers, the fleshhooks, and the shovels, and the basons, all the vessels of the altar; and they shall spread upon it a covering of badgers’ skins, and put to the staves of it.

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


simplify: For the promise, that he should be the heir of the world, was not to Abraham, or to his seed, through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.

For God's word, that the earth would be his heritage, was given to Abraham, not through the law, but through the righteousness of faith.


rate difficulty: And the abundance of a land is for all. A king for a field is served.

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


rate difficulty: Now when Athaliah, the mother of Ahaziah, saw that her son was dead, she had all the rest of the seed of the kingdom of Judah put to death.

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


rate difficulty: And his servants said to him, What thing is this which thou hast done? thou didst fast and weep for the child alive; but as soon as the child is dead, thou dost rise and eat bread.

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


simplify: Then said Hushai unto Zadok and to Abiathar the priests, Thus and thus did Ahithophel counsel Absalom and the elders of Israel; and thus and thus have I counselled.

Then Hushai said to Zadok and Abiathar, the priests, This is the suggestion made by Ahithophel to Absalom and the responsible men of Israel, and this is what I said to them.


rate difficulty: Giving her his hand, Peter raised her up, and, calling in the widows and others of Christ’s people, presented her to them alive.

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


rate difficulty: In whom are all the secret stores of wisdom and knowledge.

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


simplify: His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.

His breath puts fire to coals, and a flame goes out of his mouth.


simplify: And when we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.

On our reaching Rome, Paul was allowed to live by himself, except for the soldier who was in charge of him.


rate difficulty: And he saith, `I have sinned; now, honour me, I pray thee, before the elders of my people, and before Israel, and turn back with me; and I have bowed myself to Jehovah thy God.'

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


rate difficulty: And having taken [the] cup, when he had given thanks, he gave [it] to them, and they all drank out of it.

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


simplify: and to another in-workings of mighty deeds; and to another prophecy; and to another discernings of spirits; and to another <FI>divers<Fi> kinds of tongues; and to another interpretation of tongues:

to another the gift of preaching; to another the gift of distinguishing between true and false inspiration; to another varieties of the gift of ‘tongues’; to another the power to interpret ‘tongues.’


rate difficulty: Then David went over to the other side, and took his place on the top of a mountain some distance away, with a great space between them;


simplify: I was at ease, but he hath broken me asunder: he hath also taken me by my neck, and shaken me to pieces, and set me up for his mark.

I was in comfort, but I have been broken up by his hands; he has taken me by the neck, shaking me to bits; he has put me up as a mark for his arrows.


rate difficulty: And the priest is to put on his linen robes and his linen trousers, and take up what is over of the offering after it has been burned on the altar, and put it by the side of the altar.

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


rate difficulty: And he went on his journeys from the south even to Beth–el, unto the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beth–el and Hai;

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


simplify: But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord.


simplify: And Hiram king of Tyre sent his servants unto Solomon; for he had heard that they had anointed him king in the room of his father: for Hiram was ever a lover of David.

Now Hiram, king of Tyre, hearing that Solomon had been made king in place of his father, sent his servants to him; for Hiram had ever been a friend to David.