simplify: A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

A man to whom God gives money, wealth, and honour so that he has all his desires but God does not give him the power to have joy of it, and a strange man takes it. This is to no purpose and an evil disease.


simplify: And if a man lie not in wait, but God deliver him into his hand; then I will appoint thee a place whither he shall flee.

But if he had no evil purpose against him, and God gave him into his hand, I will give you a place to which he may go in flight.


simplify: And another came, saying, Lord, behold, here is thy pound, which I have kept laid up in a napkin:

And another came, saying, Lord, here is your pound, which I put away in a cloth;


simplify: and a voice came out of the heavens, Thou art my beloved Son, in thee I am well pleased.

And a voice came out of heaven, You are my dearly loved Son, with whom I am well pleased.


simplify: In like manner also, that women adorn themselves in modest apparel, with shamefacedness and sobriety; not with broided hair, or gold, or pearls, or costly array;

And that women may be dressed in simple clothing, with a quiet and serious air; not with twisted hair and gold or jewels or robes of great price;


simplify: And when Hushai was come to Absalom, Absalom spake unto him, saying, Ahithophel hath spoken after this manner: shall we do after his saying? if not, speak thou.

And when Hushai came, Absalom said to him, This is what Ahithophel has said: are we to do as he says? if not, what is your suggestion?


simplify: A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet upon Shigionoth.

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, put to Shigionoth.


simplify: And he removed from thence, and digged another well; and for that they strove not: and he called the name of it Rehoboth; and he said, For now Jehovah hath made room for us, and we shall be fruitful in the land.

Then he went away from there, and made another water-hole, about which there was no fighting: so he gave it the name of Rehoboth, for he said, Now the Lord has made room for us, and we will have fruit in this land.


simplify: And as the people were in expectation, and all men reasoned in their hearts concerning John, whether haply he were the Christ;

And while the people were waiting, and all men were questioning in their hearts about John, if he was the Christ or not,


rate difficulty: Unto the sons of Gershom were given, out of the family of the half-tribe of Manasseh, Golan in Bashan with its suburbs, and Ashtaroth with its suburbs;

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah to Tyre: shall not the isles shake at the sound of thy fall, when the wounded groan, when the slaughter is made in the midst of thee?

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


rate difficulty: And when the messengers of John were departed, he began to say unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to behold? a reed shaken with the wind?

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


rate difficulty: `And concerning those of the nations who have believed, we have written, having given judgment, that they observe no such thing, except to keep themselves both from idol-sacrifices, and blood, and a strangled thing, and whoredom.'

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


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Moses, If her father had but spit in her face, should she not be ashamed seven days? let her be shut up without the camp seven days, and after that she shall be brought in again.

And the Lord said to Moses, If her father had put a mark of shame on her, would she not be shamed for seven days? Let her be shut up outside the tent-circle for seven days, and after that she may come in again.


simplify: Now all the wells which his father’s servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped, and filled with earth.

Now all the water-holes, which his father's servants had made in the days of Abraham, had been stopped up with earth by the Philistines.


simplify: Is the law then against the promises of God? God forbid: for if there had been a law given which could have given life, verily righteousness should have been by the law.

Does that set the law in opposition to God’s promises? Heaven forbid! For, if a law had been given capable of bestowing life, then righteousness would have actually owed its existence to law.


simplify: They say to him, `Why then did Moses command to give a roll of divorce, and to put her away?'

“Why, then,” they said, “did Moses direct that a man should ‘serve his wife with a notice of separation and divorce her’?”


simplify: And Balaam said unto God, Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab, hath sent unto me, saying,

And Balaam said to God, Balak, the son of Zippor, king of Moab, has sent them to me, saying,


simplify: When he made firm the skies above, When the fountains of the deep became strong,

When he made strong the skies overhead: when the fountains of the deep were fixed:


simplify: And when they had called to the king, there came out to them Eliakim the son of Hilkiah, which was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah the son of Asaph the recorder.

And they sent for the king, and Eliakim, the son of Hilkiah, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and Joah, the son of Asaph, the recorder, came out to them.


simplify: And they said one to another, Behold, this dreamer cometh.

Saying to one another, See, here comes this dreamer.


rate difficulty: And the servants of the king of Aram said unto him, `Gods of hills <FI>are<Fi> their gods, therefore they were stronger than we; and yet, we fight with them in the plain--are we not stronger than they?

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


rate difficulty: And I said unto them, Ye are holy unto the Lord; the vessels are holy also; and the silver and the gold are a freewill offering unto the Lord God of your fathers.

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


simplify: Son of man, when the land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then will I stretch out mine hand upon it, and will break the staff of the bread thereof, and will send famine upon it, and will cut off man and beast from it:

Son of man, when a land, sinning against me, does wrong, and my hand is stretched out against it, and the support of its bread is broken, and I make it short of food, cutting off man and beast from it:


simplify: For unto every one that hath shall be given, and he shall have abundance: but from him that hath not shall be taken away even that which he hath.

For to everyone who has will be given, and he will have more: but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away.


simplify: The burden of Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought; for in a night Kir of Moab is laid waste, and brought to nought.

The word about Moab. For in a night Ar of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer; for in a night Kir of Moab has become waste, and is seen no longer.


simplify: And he received them at their hand, and fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf: and they said, These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

And he took the gold from them and, hammering it with an instrument, he made it into the metal image of a young ox: and they said, This is your god, O Israel, who took you out of the land of Egypt.


rate difficulty: And Joshua called for them, and he spake unto them, saying, Wherefore have ye beguiled us, saying, We are very far from you; when ye dwell among us?

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


simplify: And the woman that hath an unbelieving husband, and he is content to dwell with her, let her not leave her husband.

And if a woman has a husband who is not a Christian, and it is his desire to go on living with her, let her not go away from her husband.


rate difficulty: Then the Spirit lifted me up, and I heard behind me the voice of a great rushing, saying, Blessed be the glory of Jehovah from his place.

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


rate difficulty: saying, `If thou be the Christ, tell us.' And he said to them, `If I may tell you, ye will not believe;

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


rate difficulty: And there is again war in Gath, and there is a man of measure, and his fingers and his toes <FI>are<Fi> six and six, twenty and four, and also, he hath been born to the giant.

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


simplify: And their coast was from Aroer, that is on the bank of the river Arnon, and the city that is in the midst of the river, and all the plain by Medeba;

Their limit was from Aroer, on the edge of the valley of the Arnon, and the town in the middle of the valley, and all the table-land by Medeba;


rate difficulty: Speak, ye that ride on white asses, ye that sit in judgment, and walk by the way.


rate difficulty: If a man be found lying with a woman married to an husband, then they shall both of them die, both the man that lay with the woman, and the woman: so shalt thou put away evil from Israel.

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


simplify: Either what woman having ten pieces of silver, if she lose one piece, doth not light a candle, and sweep the house, and seek diligently till she find it?

Or what woman, having ten bits of silver, if one bit has gone from her hands, will not get a light, and go through her house, searching with care till she sees it?


simplify: And he arose from thence, and cometh into the borders of Judæa and beyond the Jordan: and multitudes come together unto him again; and, as he was wont, he taught them again.

And he got up, and went into the country of Judaea on the other side of Jordan: and great numbers of people came together to him again; and, as was his way, he gave them teaching.


rate difficulty: Now for a long season Israel was without the true God, and without a teaching priest, and without law:

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


simplify: This man had been instructed in the way of the Lord; and being fervent in spirit, he spake and taught accurately the things concerning Jesus, knowing only the baptism of John:

This man had been trained in the way of the Lord; and burning in spirit, he gave himself up to teaching the facts about Jesus, though he had knowledge only of John's baptism:


rate difficulty: And he said to them, `Because of this every scribe having been discipled in regard to the reign of the heavens, is like to a man, a householder, who doth bring forth out of his treasure things new and old.'

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


rate difficulty: I have made selection of Bezalel, the son of Uri, by name, the son of Hur, of the tribe of Judah:

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


simplify: To redeem them that were under the law, that we might receive the adoption of sons.

That he might make them free who were under the law, and that we might be given the place of sons.


rate difficulty: And at the east side four thousand and five hundred reeds, and three gates: even the gate of Joseph, one; the gate of Benjamin, one; the gate of Dan, one.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah saith unto Moses, `Say unto Aaron, Stretch out thy hand, with thy rod, against the streams, against the rivers, and against the ponds, and cause the frogs to come up against the land of Egypt.'

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


rate difficulty: But the Nethinims dwelt in Ophel: and Ziha and Gispa were over the Nethinims.

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


rate difficulty: And a letter came to him from Elijah the prophet, saying, The Lord, the God of your father David, says, Because you have not kept to the ways of your father Jehoshaphat or the ways of Asa, king of Judah,

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


rate difficulty: They came to Jerusalem again. While Jesus was walking about in the Temple Courts, the chief priests, the teachers of the law, and the councillors came up to him.


simplify: and on the day Lot went forth from Sodom, He rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed all.

but, on the very day on which Lot came out of Sodom, it rained fire and sulphur from the skies and destroyed them all.


simplify: From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs, even glory to the righteous. But I said, My leanness, my leanness, woe unto me! the treacherous dealers have dealt treacherously; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

From the farthest part of the earth comes the sound of songs, glory to the upright. But I said, I am wasting away, wasting away, the curse is on me! The false ones go on in their false way, yes, they go on acting falsely.


rate difficulty: And the king went up to the house of the Lord, with all the men of Judah and all the people of Jerusalem, and the priests and the prophets and all the people, small and great; and they were present at his reading of the book of the law which had come to light in the house of the Lord.

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


simplify: For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves:

When Gentiles, who have no law, do instinctively what the law requires, they, though they have no law, are a law to themselves;


simplify: The heart of the righteous studieth to answer; But the mouth of the wicked poureth out evil things.

The heart of the upright gives thought to his answer; but from the mouth of the evil-doer comes a stream of evil things.


simplify: I thank my God upon all my remembrance of you,

I give praise to my God at every memory of you,


rate difficulty: Now will I arise, saith Jehovah; now will I lift up myself; now will I be exalted.

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


simplify: And they found among the inhabitants of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins, that had not known man by lying with him; and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.

Now there were among the people of Jabesh-gilead four hundred young virgins who had never had sex relations with a man; these they took to their tents in Shiloh in the land of Canaan.


rate difficulty: So that is what comes to the man who gets wealth for himself, and has not wealth in the eyes of God.


rate difficulty: And Peter had followed him afar off, even within, into the court of the high priest; and he was sitting with the officers, and warming himself in the light of the fire.


simplify: for when one may say, `I, indeed, am of Paul;' and another, `I--of Apollos;' are ye not fleshly?

When one says ‘I follow Paul,’ and another ‘I follow Apollos,’ are not you like other people?


rate difficulty: and ye have kept the sabbath, for it <FI>is<Fi> holy to you, he who is polluting it is certainly put to death--for any who doeth work in it--that person hath even been cut off from the midst of his people.

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


rate difficulty: `And the person who doth <FI>aught<Fi> with a high hand--of the native or of the sojourner--Jehovah he is reviling, and that person hath been cut off from the midst of his people;

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


simplify: So the field of Ephron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave which was therein, and all the trees that were in the field, that were in all the border thereof round about, were made sure

So Ephron's field at Machpelah near Mamre, with the hollow in the rock and all the trees in the field and round it,


simplify: And there was Mary Magdalene, and the other Mary, sitting over against the sepulchre.

And Mary Magdalene was there, and the other Mary, seated by the place of the dead.


simplify: So David and his men rose up early to depart in the morning, to return into the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.

So David and his men got up early in the morning to go back to the land of the Philistines. And the Philistines went up to Jezreel.


rate difficulty: Jehoshaphat, the son of Paruah, in Issachar;


rate difficulty: Wherefore she went forth out of the place where she had been, and her two daughters-in-law with her; and they went on the way to return to the land of Judah.

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


rate difficulty: Behold, the day cometh for Jehovah, and thy spoil shall be divided in the midst of thee.

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


rate difficulty: The length of one curtain was twenty and eight cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits: the curtains were all of one size.

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


rate difficulty: For out of much trouble and pain of heart and much weeping I sent my letter to you; not to give you sorrow, but so that you might see how great is the love which I have to you.

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


simplify: And from Heshbon unto Ramath–mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim unto the border of Debir;

And from Heshbon to Ramath-mizpeh, and Betonim; and from Mahanaim to the edge of Debir;


rate difficulty: And cinnamon, and odours, and ointments, and frankincense, and wine, and oil, and fine flour, and wheat, and beasts, and sheep, and horses, and chariots, and slaves, and souls of men.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And thou shalt remember that thou wast a bondman in the land of Egypt, and that Jehovah thyGod brought thee out thence with a powerful hand and with a stretched-out arm; therefore Jehovah thyGod hath commanded thee to observe the sabbath day.

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 7 | difficulty: hard


simplify: The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil; my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them.

Egypt said, I will go after them, I will overtake, I will make division of their goods: my desire will have its way with them; my sword will be uncovered, my hand will send destruction on them.


simplify: A sound of a cry cometh from Babylon, and great destruction from the land of the Chaldeans:

There is the sound of a cry from Babylon, and of a great destruction from the land of the Chaldaeans:


rate difficulty: Neither murmur ye, as some of them murmured, and perished by the destroyer.

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


rate difficulty: See, I have made you small among the nations: you are much looked down on.

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


simplify: Who shall also confirm you unto the end, that ye may be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.

Who will give you strength to the end, to be free from all sin in the day of our Lord Jesus Christ.


rate difficulty: Salute Rufus, chosen in [the] Lord; and his mother and mine.


rate difficulty: And David and the captains of the host separated for the service those of the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun who were to prophesy with harps and lutes and cymbals; and the number of the men employed according to their service was:

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


simplify: `Whereupon, king Agrippa, I was not disobedient to the heavenly vision,

After that, King Agrippa, I did not fail to obey the heavenly vision;


rate difficulty: And the King shall answer and say unto them, Verily I say unto you, Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.

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


simplify: The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.


rate difficulty: Have no fear of the things which you will have to undergo: see, the Evil One will send some of you into prison, so that you may be put to the test; and you will have great trouble for ten days. Be true till death, and I will give you the crown of life.


rate difficulty: And Jesus himself was beginning to be about thirty years of age, being, as was supposed, son of Joseph,

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


simplify: Thou shalt not seek their peace nor their prosperity all thy days for ever.

Do nothing for their peace or well-being for ever.


simplify: Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them.

So it is by the fruit of their lives that you will know such people.


rate difficulty: And they removed from Dibon–gad, and encamped in Almon–diblathaim.

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


simplify: Perverse disputings of men of corrupt minds, and destitute of the truth, supposing that gain is godliness: from such withdraw thyself.

and incessant wrangling on the part of these corrupt-minded people who have lost all hold on the truth, and who think of religion only as a source of gain.


rate difficulty: The wealth of the rich <FI>is<Fi> the city of his strength, And as a wall set on high in his own imagination.

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


simplify: For they all saw him, and were troubled. And immediately he talked with them, and saith unto them, Be of good cheer: it is I; be not afraid.

for all of them saw him, and were terrified. But Jesus at once spoke to them. “Courage!”he said, “it is I; do not be afraid!”


simplify: And ye shall be hated of all men for my name’s sake: but he that shall endure unto the end, the same shall be saved.

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


simplify: So because thou art lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spew thee out of my mouth.

So because you are not one thing or the other, I will have no more to do with you.


rate difficulty: Whatever hath been, is far off, and exceeding deep: who will find it out?

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


simplify: And the children of the Levites bare the ark of God upon their shoulders with the staves thereon, as Moses commanded according to the word of the Lord.

And the sons of the Levites took up the ark of God, lifting it by its rods, as the Lord had said to Moses.


rate difficulty: And for about the time of forty years as a nursing-father bare he them in the wilderness.

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


simplify: I clothed thee also with broidered work, and shod thee with badgers’ skin, and I girded thee about with fine linen, and I covered thee with silk.

And I had you clothed with needlework, and put leather shoes on your feet, folding fair linen about you and covering you with silk.


rate difficulty: and saith, `If Esau come in unto the one camp, and have smitten it--then the camp which is left hath been for an escape.'

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


rate difficulty: He was followed by large crowds from Galilee, the district of the Ten Towns, Jerusalem, Judea, and from beyond the Jordan.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah <FI>is<Fi> a God of truth, He <FI>is<Fi> a living God, and a king age-during, From His wrath shake doth the earth, And nations endure not His indignation.

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


simplify: Giving thanks always for all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;

Always give thanks for everything to our God and Father, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ;


rate difficulty: Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help: we have been watching for a nation unable to give salvation.

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


simplify: Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy sons of the rest.

So she came to the man of God and gave him word of what she had done. And he said, Go and get money for the oil and make payment of your debt, and let the rest be for the needs of yourself and your sons.


simplify: And they went up out of Egypt, and came into the land of Canaan unto Jacob their father.

So they went up from Egypt and came to the land of Canaan, to their father Jacob.


rate difficulty: `And if the man-slayer at all go out <FI>from<Fi> the border of the city of his refuge whither he fleeth,

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


simplify: If she be a wall, we will build upon her a palace of silver: and if she be a door, we will inclose her with boards of cedar.

If she is a wall, we will make on her a strong base of silver; and if she is a door, we will let her be shut up with cedar-wood.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord, The labour of Egypt, and merchandise of Ethiopia and of the Sabeans, men of stature, shall come over unto thee, and they shall be thine: they shall come after thee; in chains they shall come over, and they shall fall down unto thee, they shall make supplication unto thee, saying, Surely God is in thee; and there is none else, there is no God.

The Lord says, The workmen of Egypt, and the traders of Ethiopia, and the tall Sabaeans, will come over the sea to you, and they will be yours; they will go after you; in chains they will come over: and they will go down on their faces before you, and will make prayer to you, saying, Truly, God is among you; and there is no other God.


simplify: And they said unto him, From a very far country thy servants are come because of the name of the Lord thy God: for we have heard the fame of him, and all that he did in Egypt,

And they said to him, Your servants have come from a very far country, because of the name of the Lord your God: for the story of his great name, and of all he did in Egypt has come to our ears,


simplify: And Jesus answered him, saying, It is written, That man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word of God.

And Jesus made answer to him, It has been said in the Writings, Bread is not man's only need.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass when Isaac had ended blessing Jacob, and when Jacob was only just gone out from Isaac his father, that Esau his brother came from his hunting.

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


simplify: But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.

But, as things are, I say that you are not to associate with anyone who, although a follower of Christ in name, is immoral, or covetous, or an idolater, or abusive, or a drunkard, or grasping — no, not even to sit down to eat with such people.


simplify: He that saith unto the wicked, Thou art righteous, Peoples shall curse him, nations shall abhor him;

He who says to the evil-doer, You are upright, will be cursed by peoples and hated by nations.


simplify: In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all mankind.

In whose hand is the soul of every living thing, and the breath of all flesh of man.


rate difficulty: For neither was there among them any that lacked: for as many as were possessors of lands or houses sold them, and brought the prices of the things that were sold,

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


rate difficulty: For we know that the law is spiritual: but I am fleshly, sold under sin.


simplify: Take good heed therefore unto yourselves, that ye love the Lord your God.

So keep watch on yourselves, and see that you have love for the Lord your God.


simplify: When it goeth well with the righteous, the city rejoiceth; And when the wicked perish, there is shouting.

When things go well for the upright man, all the town is glad; at the death of sinners, there are cries of joy.


simplify: And the spirits of the prophets are subject to the prophets.

And the spirits of the prophets are controlled by the prophets;


simplify: It is actually reported that there is fornication among you, and such fornication as is not even among the Gentiles, that oneof you hath his father’s wife.

It is said, in fact, that there is among you a sin of the flesh, such as is not seen even among the Gentiles, that one of you has his father's wife.


simplify: For Zion’s sake will I not hold my peace, and for Jerusalem’s sake I will not rest, until the righteousness thereof go forth as brightness, and the salvation thereof as a lamp that burneth.

Because of Zion I will not keep quiet, and because of Jerusalem I will take no rest, till her righteousness goes out like the shining of the sun, and her salvation like a burning light.


rate difficulty: And the king said, Is it well with the young man Absalom? And Ahimaaz said in answer, When Joab sent me, your servant, I saw a great outcry going on, but I had no knowledge of what it was.

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rate difficulty: And Jehovah said unto Moses, See, I have made thee as God to Pharaoh; and Aaron thy brother shall be thy prophet.

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rate difficulty: In his strength he goes out against the arms of war, turning not away from the sword.


rate difficulty: And those that encamp by him shall be the tribe of Asher; and the prince of the sons of Asher shall be Pagiel the son of Ocran;

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


simplify: And the Lord’s tribute of the sheep was six hundred and threescore and fifteen.

Of which the Lord's part was six hundred and seventy-five.


simplify: If those ordinances depart from before me, saith the Lord, then the seed of Israel also shall cease from being a nation before me for ever.

If the order of these things before me is ever broken, says the Lord, then will the seed of Israel come to an end as a nation before me for ever.


simplify: And if I by Beelzebub cast out demons, by whom do your sons cast them out? therefore shall they be your judges.

And if I, by Beelzebul, send out evil spirits, by whose help do your sons send them out? so let them be your judges.


simplify: Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.

And in this purpose he gave you a part through the good news of which we were the preachers, even that you might have part in the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.


simplify: These are the sons of Bilhah, which Laban gave unto Rachel his daughter, and she bare these unto Jacob: all the souls were seven.

These were the children of Bilhah, whom Laban gave to his daughter Rachel, seven persons.


simplify: Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.

And again he said to me, Be a prophet to these bones, and say to them, O you dry bones, give ear to the word of the Lord.


simplify: But the houses of the villages which have no wall round about them shall be counted as the fields of the country: they may be redeemed, and they shall go out in the jubile.

But houses in small unwalled towns will be the same as property in the country; they may be got back, and they will go back to their owners in the year of Jubilee.


rate difficulty: Hallohesh, Pilha, Shobek,

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


simplify: A wise king winnoweth the wicked, And bringeth the threshing-wheel over them.

A wise king puts evil-doers to flight, and makes their evil-doing come back on them.


simplify: And your feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace;

Be ready with the good news of peace as shoes on your feet;


simplify: And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink;

And in the fields they saw an Egyptian whom they took to David, and they gave him bread, and he had a meal, and they gave him water for drink;


simplify: If he set his heart upon man, if he gather unto himself his spirit and his breath;

If he made his spirit come back to him, taking his breath into himself again,


simplify: And it came to pass on the morrow, when the Philistines came to strip the slain, that they found Saul and his sons fallen in mount Gilboa.

Now the day after, when the Philistines came to take their goods from the dead, they saw Saul and his sons dead in Mount Gilboa.


rate difficulty: And they knew not that Joseph understood them; for there was an interpreter between them.


simplify: And he brought the meat offering, and took an handful thereof, and burnt it upon the altar, beside the burnt sacrifice of the morning.

And he put the meal offering before the Lord, and taking some of it in his hand he had it burned on the altar, separately from the burned offering of the morning.


simplify: And it came to pass, when Ben–hadad heard this message, as he was drinking, he and the kings in the pavilions, that he said unto his servants, Set yourselves in array. And they set themselves in array against the city.

Now when this answer was given to Ben-hadad, he was drinking with the kings in the tents, and he said to his men, Take up your positions. So they put themselves in position for attacking the town.


simplify: And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus, and called to him the elders of the church.

And from Miletus he sent to Ephesus for the rulers of the church.


simplify: Finally, brethren, farewell. Be perfected; be comforted; be of the same mind; live in peace: and the God of love and peace shall be with you.

Let this be my last word, brothers; be glad; be complete; be comforted; be of the same mind; be at peace with one another: and the God of love and peace will be with you.


rate difficulty: For I say unto you, that to every one that has shall be given; but from him that has not, that even which he has shall be taken from him.

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


simplify: but the soul that eateth of the flesh of the sacrifice of peace-offerings, that pertain unto Jehovah, having his uncleanness upon him, that soul shall be cut off from his people.

But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.


simplify: save that the Holy Spirit in every city doth testify fully, saying, that for me bonds and tribulations remain;

except that in town after town the Holy Spirit plainly declares to me that imprisonment and troubles await me.


simplify: And wheresoever he taketh him, he teareth him: and he foameth, and gnasheth with his teeth, and pineth away: and I spake to thy disciples that they should cast him out; and they could not.

And wherever it takes him, it puts him down violently, streaming at the lips and twisted with pain; and his strength goes from him; and I made a request to your disciples to send it out, and they were not able.


simplify: There is therefore now no condemnation to them which are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

There is, therefore, now no condemnation for those who are in union with Christ Jesus;


rate difficulty: Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches.”

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


simplify: and all the multitudes who were come together to this sight, beholding the things that came to pass, smiting their breasts did turn back;

All the people who had collected to see the sight watched what occurred, and then went home beating their breasts.


rate difficulty: Furthermore he made the court of the priests, and the great court, and doors for the court, and overlaid the doors of them with brass.

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


rate difficulty: And he said, Thy brother came with guile, and hath taken away thy blessing.

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


rate difficulty: And David inquired of God, saying, Shall I go up against the Philistines? and wilt thou deliver them into my hand? And Jehovah said unto him, Go up; for I will deliver them into thy hand.

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


rate difficulty: Let favour be shewed to the wicked, yet will he not learn righteousness: in the land of uprightness will he deal unjustly, and will not behold the majesty of the Lord.

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


simplify: Now go and smite Amalek, and utterly destroy all that they have, and spare them not; but slay both man and woman, infant and suckling, ox and sheep, camel and ass.

Go now and put Amalek to the sword, putting to the curse all they have, without mercy: put to death every man and woman, every child and baby at the breast, every ox and sheep, camel and ass.


rate difficulty: The children of Jericho, three hundred forty and five.

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


rate difficulty: But I say to you, that I will not at all drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.

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


simplify: then shalt thou inquire, and make search, and ask diligently; and, behold, if it be truth, and the thing certain, that such abomination is wrought in the midst of thee,

Then let a full search be made, and let questions be put with care; and if it is true and certain that such a disgusting thing has been done among you;


rate difficulty: And his servant-wife was angry with him, and went away from him to her father's house at Beth-lehem-judah, and was there for four months.

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


simplify: I told you before, and foretell you, as if I were present, the second time; and being absent now I write to them which heretofore have sinned, and to all other, that, if I come again, I will not spare:

I have said it, and I say it again before I come, just as if I were with you on my second visit, though for the moment absent, I say to those who have been long sinning, as well as to all others — that if I come again, I will spare no one.


simplify: But woe to them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

And alas for pregnant women, and for those who are nursing infants in those days!


simplify: Erastus abode at Corinth: but Trophimus have I left at Miletum sick.

Erastus was stopping at Corinth; but Trophimus, when I last saw him was at Miletus, ill.


rate difficulty: They prevented me in the day of my calamity: but the Lord was my stay.


rate difficulty: Whereas I have not dwelt in any house since the time that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but have walked in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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


rate difficulty: Go on living with us, and the country will be open to you; do trade and get property there.


rate difficulty: It is like a grain of mustard seed, which a man took, and cast into his garden; and it grew, and waxed a great tree; and the fowls of the air lodged in the branches of it.


rate difficulty: Give no occasion of stumbling, either to Jews, or to Greeks, or to the church of God:


simplify: My soul refuseth to touch them; They are as loathsome food to me.

My soul has no desire for such things, they are as disease in my food.


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

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


rate difficulty: that thou mayest fear Jehovah thyGod, to keep all his statutes and his commandments which I command thee, thou, and thy son, and thy son's son, all the days of thy life; and that thy days may be prolonged.

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


simplify: And Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle from the ascent of Heres.

Then Gideon, the son of Joash, went back from the fight:


simplify: Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:

Then a winged one came to me with a burning coal in his hand, which he had taken from off the altar with the fire-spoon.


rate difficulty: And Jesus answered and said unto them, Are ye come out, as against a robber, with swords and staves to seize me?

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


simplify: not boasting of the things not measured, in other men's labours, and having hope--your faith increasing--in you to be enlarged, according to our line--into abundance,

Our boasting, therefore, is not unlimited, nor does it extend to the labors of others; but our hope is that, as your faith grows, our influence among you may be very greatly increased — though still confined to our sphere —


rate difficulty: And he put the altar of burnt offering by the door of the tabernacle of the tent of the congregation, and offered upon it the burnt offering and the meat offering; as the Lord commanded Moses.

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


rate difficulty: For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.


simplify: The wicked earneth deceitful wages; But he that soweth righteousness hath a sure reward.

The sinner gets the payment of deceit; but his reward is certain who puts in the seed of righteousness.


simplify: For we cannot but speak the things which we have seen and heard.

For it is not possible for us to keep from saying what we have seen and have knowledge of.


simplify: Yet ye have not hearkened unto me, saith the Lord; that ye might provoke me to anger with the works of your hands to your own hurt.

But you have not given ear to me, says the Lord; so that you have made me angry with the work of your hands, causing evil to yourselves.


rate difficulty: Because God has put it in their hearts to do his purpose, and to be of one mind, giving their kingdom to the beast, till the words of God have effect and are complete.


simplify: And when he had broken down the altars and the groves, and had beaten the graven images into powder, and cut down all the idols throughout all the land of Israel, he returned to Jerusalem.

He had the altars and the pillars of wood pulled down and the images crushed to dust, and all the sun-images cut down, through all the land of Israel, and then he went back to Jerusalem.


simplify: Palal the son of Uzai, over against the turning of the wall, and the tower which lieth out from the king’s high house, that was by the court of the prison. After him Pedaiah the son of Parosh.

Palal, the son of Uzai, made good the wall opposite the angle and the tower which comes out from the higher part of the king's house, by the open space of the watch. After him was Pedaiah, the son of Parosh.


simplify: And Samuel lay until the morning, and opened the doors of the house of Jehovah. And Samuel feared to show Eli the vision.

And Samuel kept where he was, not moving till the time came for opening the doors of the house of God in the morning. And fear kept him from giving Eli an account of his vision.


rate difficulty: And Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, turned back from the Jordan, and was brought in the Spirit to the wilderness,

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


simplify: They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands.

They will no longer be building for the use of others, or planting for others to have the fruit: for the days of my people will be like the days of a tree, and my loved ones will have joy in full measure in the work of their hands.


simplify: Knowing, brethren beloved, your election of God.

Friends, whom God loves, we know that he has chosen you,


simplify: Will God hear his cry, When trouble cometh upon him?

Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?


rate difficulty: And the ruler of the synagogue answered with indignation, because that Jesus had healed on the sabbath day, and said unto the people, There are six days in which men ought to work: in them therefore come and be healed, and not on the sabbath day.

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


simplify: for that is his only covering, it is his garment for his skin: wherein shall he sleep? and it shall come to pass, when he crieth unto me, that I will hear; for I am gracious.

For it is the only thing he has for covering his skin; what is he to go to sleep in? and when his cry comes up to me, I will give ear, for my mercy is great.


rate difficulty: And Saul encampeth in the height of Hachilah, which <FI>is<Fi> on the front of the desert, by the way, and David is abiding in the wilderness, and he seeth that Saul hath come after him in to the wilderness;

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


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

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


simplify: Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man-child is born unto thee; making him very glad.

A curse on the man who gave the news to my father, saying, You have a male child; making him very glad.


rate difficulty: and now, indeed, <FI>are<Fi> many members, and one body;

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


rate difficulty: And Abijah and his people slew them with a great slaughter: so there fell down slain of Israel five hundred thousand chosen men.

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


simplify: Thou hast indeed smitten Edom, and thy heart hath lifted thee up: glory thereof, and abide at home; for why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt, that thou shouldest fall, even thou, and Judah with thee?

It is true that you have overcome Edom and your heart is uplifted; let that glory be enough for you, and keep in your country; why do you make causes of trouble, putting yourself, and Judah with you, in danger of downfall?


simplify: then will I bring thee down with them that descend into the pit, to the people of old time, and will make thee to dwell in the nether parts of the earth, in the places that are desolate of old, with them that go down to the pit, that thou be not inhabited; and I will set glory in the land of the living.

Then I will make you go down with those who go down into the underworld, to the people of the past, causing your living-place to be in the deepest parts of the earth, in places long unpeopled, with those who go down into the deep, so that there will be no one living in you; and you will have no glory in the land of the living.


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

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


simplify: And Israel sent messengers unto Sihon king of the Amorites, saying,

And Israel sent men to Sihon, king of the Amorites, saying,


simplify: But I say unto you, I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of the vine, until that day when I drink it new with you in my Father’s kingdom.

I tell you that I will never, after this, drink of this juice of the grape, until that day when I will drink it new with you in the kingdom of my Father.”


rate difficulty: And after this did Jehoshaphat king of Judah join himself with Ahaziah king of Israel, who did very wickedly:

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


rate difficulty: The length of one curtain shall be thirty cubits, and the breadth of one curtain four cubits — one measure for the eleven curtains.

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


simplify: Thus will I make mount Seir most desolate, and cut off from it him that passeth out and him that returneth.

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


simplify: And Moses and Eleazar the priest did as Jehovah commanded Moses.

So Eleazar and Moses did as the Lord had given orders to Moses.


simplify: And when he was come into the ship, he that had been possessed with the devil prayed him that he might be with him.

As Jesus was getting into the boat, the possessed man begged him to let him stay with him.


rate difficulty: Now I wish all men to be even as myself: but every one has his own gift ofGod: one man thus, and another thus.

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


rate difficulty: For nation will be moved against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and men will be without food, and the earth will be shaking in different places;

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


simplify: what she could she did, she anticipated to anoint my body for the embalming.

She has done what she could; she has perfumed my body beforehand for my burial.


simplify: And Beth–zur, and Shoco, and Adullam,


simplify: And thou sayest, How doth God know? can he judge through the dark cloud?

And you say, What knowledge has God? is he able to give decisions through the deep dark?


rate difficulty: and called and asked whether Simon, who was surnamed Peter, were lodging there.

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


simplify: Hearken unto me now therefore, O ye children, and attend to the words of my mouth.

So now, my sons, give ear to me; give attention to the sayings of my mouth;


rate difficulty: And from now, there will be no need for the House of the Lord, and the vessels used in it, to be moved about by the Levites.

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


simplify: And if a stranger sojourn with thee in your land, ye shall not do him wrong.

And if a man from another country is living in your land with you, do not make life hard for him;


rate difficulty: In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius, came the word of the Lord unto Zechariah, the son of Berechiah, the son of Iddo the prophet, saying,

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


simplify: And Jesus answering said unto him, It is said, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God.

But Jesus answered him: “It is said — ‘You must not tempt the Lord your God.’”


rate difficulty: And whatsoever more shall be needful for the house of thy God, which thou shalt have occasion to bestow, bestow it out of the king’s treasure-house.

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


rate difficulty: And David went up the slopes of the Mount of Olives weeping all the way, with his head covered and no shoes on his feet: and all the people who were with him, covering their heads, went up weeping.

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


simplify: Be subject to every ordinance of man for the Lord’s sake: whether to the king, as supreme;

Keep all the laws of men because of the Lord; those of the king, who is over all,


rate difficulty: who have received the law as ordained by [the] ministry of angels, and have not kept [it].


rate difficulty: And it came to pass after these things, [that] the cup-bearer of the king of Egypt and the baker offended their lord the king of Egypt.

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


simplify: And what is the exceeding greatness of his power to us-ward who believe, according to the working of his mighty power,

And how unlimited is his power to us who have faith, as is seen in the working of the strength of his power,


simplify: That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;

Who are resting on beds of ivory, stretched out on soft seats, feasting on lambs from the flock and young oxen from the cattle-house;


rate difficulty: A voice is crying--in a wilderness--Prepare ye the way of Jehovah, Make straight in a desert a highway to our God.

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


simplify: For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.


simplify: Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard, who stood before the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem.

Now in the fifth month, on the tenth day of the month, in the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, a servant of the king of Babylon, came into Jerusalem.


rate difficulty: Therefore fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith Jehovah; neither be dismayed, O Israel: for, lo, I will save thee from afar, and thy seed from the land of their captivity; and Jacob shall return, and shall be quiet and at ease, and none shall make him afraid.

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


rate difficulty: And whatever goeth on its paws, among all manner of beasts that go upon all four, those are unclean unto you: whoever toucheth their carcase shall be unclean until the even.

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


simplify: and turn ye not aside; for then would ye go after vain things which cannot profit nor deliver, for they are vain.

And do not go from the right way turning to those false gods in which there is no profit and no salvation, for they are false.


rate difficulty: And Israel taketh all these cities, and Israel dwelleth in all the cities of the Amorite, in Heshbon, and in all its villages;

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


rate difficulty: and one kid of the goats, a sin-offering; apart from the continual burnt-offering, its present, and its libation.

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


rate difficulty: For, if God did not have mercy on the natural branches, he will not have mercy on you.

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


rate difficulty: And when the Philistines heard that the children of Israel were gathered together to Mizpah, the lords of the Philistines went up against Israel. And when the children of Israel heard it, they were afraid of the Philistines.

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


rate difficulty: till there arose another king over Egypt, who knew not Joseph.

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


rate difficulty: whose winnowing shovel <FI>is<Fi> in his hand, and he will thoroughly cleanse his floor, and will gather the wheat to his storehouse, and the chaff he will burn with fire unquenchable.'

reading_level: 9 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


simplify: Who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us from this present evil world, according to the will of God and our Father:

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


rate difficulty: The rich had very many flocks and herds;


rate difficulty: I cry to the grave, Thou art my father! to the worm, My mother, and my sister!

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


rate difficulty: to proclaim the year of Jehovah’s favor, and the day of vengeance of our God; to comfort all that mourn;

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


simplify: From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members?

What is the cause of the fighting and quarreling that goes on among you? Is not it to be found in the desires which are always at war within you?


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

And they put the sons of Zedekiah to death before his eyes, and then they put out his eyes, and chaining him with iron bands, took him to Babylon.


simplify: and if they have not continence--let them marry, for it is better to marry than to burn;

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


simplify: He lodgeth with one Simon a tanner, whose house is by the sea side: he shall tell thee what thou oughtest to do.

He is lodging with a tanner named Simon, who has a house near the sea.”


rate difficulty: Therefore hear the counsel of Jehovah, which he hath taken against Edom, and his purposes which he hath purposed against the inhabitants of Teman: The little ones of the flock shall certainly draw them away; he shall certainly make their habitation desolate for them.

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


rate difficulty: Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.


rate difficulty: And not only [that], but we also boast in tribulations, knowing that tribulation works endurance;


simplify: For now I had put forth my hand, and smitten thee and thy people with pestilence, and thou hadst been cut off from the earth:

For if I had put the full weight of my hand on you and your people, you would have been cut off from the earth:


simplify: The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.

The men of Anathoth, a hundred and twenty-eight.


simplify: Take thou also unto thee the chief spices: of flowing myrrh five hundred shekels, and of sweet cinnamon half so much, even two hundred and fifty, and of sweet calamus two hundred and fifty,

Take the best spices, five hundred shekels' weight of liquid myrrh, and of sweet cinnamon half as much, that is, two hundred and fifty shekels, and two hundred and fifty shekels of sweet calamus,


simplify: And a seasonable day having come, when Herod on his birthday was making a supper to his great men, and to the chiefs of thousands, and to the first men of Galilee,

A suitable opportunity, however, occurred when Herod, on his birthday, gave a dinner to his high officials, and his generals, and the foremost men in Galilee.


simplify: And walk in love, as Christ also hath loved us, and hath given himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God for a sweetsmelling savour.

and live a life of love, following the example of the Christ, who loved you and gave himself for you as ‘an offering and a sacrifice to God, that should be fragrant and acceptable.’


simplify: And they that dwell upon the earth shall rejoice over them, and make merry, and shall send gifts one to another; because these two prophets tormented them that dwelt on the earth.

And those who are on the earth will have pleasure and delight over them; and they will send offerings one to another because these two prophets gave great trouble to all on the earth.


simplify: But Jehoshaphat said, Is there not here a prophet of Jehovah, that we may inquire of Jehovah by him? And one of the king of Israel’s servants answered and said, Elisha the son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.

But Jehoshaphat said, Is there no prophet of the Lord here, through whom we may get directions from the Lord? And one of the king of Israel's men said in answer, Elisha, the son of Shaphat, is here, who was servant to Elijah.


simplify: And why stand we in jeopardy every hour?


simplify: And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

And at the death of Husham, Hadad, the son of Bedad, who overcame Midian in the field of Moab, became king; his town was named Avith.


rate difficulty: Then Nebuzar–adan the captain of the guard carried away captive certain of the poor of the people, and the residue of the people that remained in the city, and those that fell away, that fell to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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


simplify: And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,

And to the rest of the Levites, that is, the families of the children of Merari, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam and Kartah with their grass-lands;


simplify: Therefore let all the house of Israel know assuredly, that God hath made that same Jesus, whom ye have crucified, both Lord and Christ.

So let the whole nation of Israel know beyond all doubt, that God has made him both Lord and Christ — this Jesus whom you crucified.”


simplify: And Moses said unto them, If ye will do this thing, if ye will go armed before the Lord to war,

Then Moses said to them, If you will do this, arming yourselves to go before the Lord to the war,


simplify: And there went up with him both chariots and horsemen: and it was a very great company.

And carriages went up with him and horsemen, a great army.


simplify: And his servants carried him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and buried him in his sepulchre with his fathers in the city of David.

And his servants took him in a carriage to Jerusalem, and put him into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.


simplify: The captive exile shall speedily be loosed; and he shall not die and go down into the pit, neither shall his bread fail.

The prisoner, bent under his chain, will quickly be made free, and will not go down into the underworld, and his bread will not come to an end.


simplify: But their scribes and Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, Why do ye eat and drink with publicans and sinners?

The Pharisees and the teachers of the law belonging to their party complained of this to the disciples of Jesus.”


simplify: and he shall make the woman drink the water of bitterness that causeth the curse; and the water that causeth the curse shall enter into her and become bitter.

And he will give to the woman the bitter water for drink; and the bitter water causing the curse will go into her.


rate difficulty: The righteous knoweth the life of his beast, And the mercies of the wicked <FI>are<Fi> cruel.

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


simplify: And he brought his household man by man; and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.

Then the house of Zabdi came forward man by man, and Achan, the son of Carmi, the son of Zabdi, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was taken.


rate difficulty: Now Peter sat without in the palace: and a damsel came unto him, saying, Thou also wast with Jesus of Galilee.

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


rate difficulty: And in Shushan the fortress the Jews slew and destroyed five hundred men.

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


rate difficulty: the king of Tappuah, one; the king of Hepher, one;

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


simplify: Salute Amplias, my beloved in the Lord;


rate difficulty: And they say not in their heart, Let us now fear Jehovah ourGod, that giveth rain, both the early and the latter, in its season; who preserveth unto us the appointed weeks of harvest.

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


simplify: The Lord will be terrible unto them: for he will famish all the gods of the earth; and men shall worship him, every one from his place, even all the isles of the heathen.

The Lord will let himself be seen by them: for he will make all the gods of the earth feeble; and men will go down before him in worship, everyone from his place, even all the sea-lands of the nations.


rate difficulty: And when ye sacrifice a sacrifice of thanksgiving to Jehovah, ye shall sacrifice it for your acceptance.

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


simplify: And he saw a certain poor widow casting in thither two mites.

And he saw a certain poor widow putting in a farthing.


simplify: And the Lord said unto Moses, Get thee up into this mount Abarim, and see the land which I have given unto the children of Israel.

And the Lord said to Moses, Go up into this mountain of Abarim so that you may see the land which I have given to the children of Israel.


simplify: A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

A little leaven makes a change in all the mass.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, saying,


rate difficulty: and standing at his feet behind [him] weeping, began to wash his feet with tears; and she wiped them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed [them] with the myrrh.

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


rate difficulty: The king of Kedesh, one; the king of Jokneam of Carmel, one;


simplify: And he said, Men, brethren, and fathers, hearken; The God of glory appeared unto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he dwelt in Charran,

And he said, My brothers and fathers, give hearing. The God of glory came to our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia, before he was living in Haran,


rate difficulty: And now engage, I pray thee, with my master the king of Assyria, and I will give thee two thousand horses, if thou be able on thy part to set riders upon them.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel: Add your burnt-offerings unto your sacrifices, and eat ye flesh.

These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.


simplify: Am I not an apostle? am I not free? have I not seen Jesus Christ our Lord? are not ye my work in the Lord?

Am I not free? am I not an Apostle? have I not seen Jesus our Lord? are you not my work in the Lord?


rate difficulty: He that has ears to hear, let him hear.

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


rate difficulty: He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him;

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


rate difficulty: And Moses called to Joshua, and said to him in the sight of all Israel, Be strong and courageous, for thou must go with this people into the land which Jehovah hath sworn unto their fathers to give them; and thou shalt cause them to inherit it.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso is loving transgression is loving debate, Whoso is making high his entrance is seeking destruction.

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


simplify: holding--according to the teaching--to the stedfast word, that he may be able also to exhort in the sound teaching, and the gainsayers to convict;

who hold doctrine that can be relied on as being in accordance with the accepted teaching; so that they may be able to encourage others by sound teaching, as well as to refute our opponents.


rate difficulty: with all prayer and supplication praying at all seasons in the Spirit, and watching thereunto in all perseverance and supplication for all the saints,

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


simplify: And these were the chief of king Solomon’s officers, even two hundred and fifty, that bare rule over the people.

Now these were the chief men in authority whom King Solomon had: two hundred and fifty of them, in authority over the people.


rate difficulty: And I made treasurers over the treasuries, Shelemiah the priest, and Zadok the scribe, and of the Levites, Pedaiah: and next to them was Hanan the son of Zaccur, the son of Mattaniah: for they were counted faithful, and their office was to distribute unto their brethren.

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


rate difficulty: And every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness unto Jehovah of hosts; and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and seethe therein. And in that day there shall be no more a Canaanite in the house of Jehovah of hosts.

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


rate difficulty: A servant will not be corrected by words: for though he understand he will not answer.

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


simplify: For we are God’s fellow-workers: ye are God’s husbandry, God’s building.

For we are workers with God: you are God's planting, God's building.


simplify: For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

For we are conscious that all living things are weeping and sorrowing in pain together till now.


simplify: Till Jehovah look down, and behold from heaven.

Till the Lord's eye is turned on me, till he sees my trouble from heaven.


simplify: But if any provide not for his own, and specially for those of his own house, he hath denied the faith, and is worse than an infidel.

Anyone who fails to provide for their own relations, and especially for those under their own roof, has disowned the faith, and is worse than an unbeliever.


rate difficulty: So now Jehovah, the God of Israel, hath dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel, and shouldest thou possess them?

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


rate difficulty: And the tabernacle was taken down; and the sons of Gershon and the sons of Merari set forward bearing the tabernacle.

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


simplify: The husbandman that laboureth must be first partaker of the fruits.

It is right for the worker in the fields to be the first to take of the fruit.


rate difficulty: Thus saith the Lord Jehovah, Behold, I am against the shepherds; and I will require my sheep at their hand, and cause them to cease from feeding the sheep; neither shall the shepherds feed themselves any more; and I will deliver my sheep from their mouth, that they may not be food for them.


simplify: Behold, this is the joy of his way; And out of the earth shall others spring.

Such is the joy of his way, and out of the dust another comes up to take his place.


rate difficulty: for great <FI>is<Fi> Mordecai in the house of the king, and his fame is going into all the provinces, for the man Mordecai is going on and becoming great.

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


simplify: and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached unto Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.

And from Janoah down to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and touching Jericho, it goes on to Jordan.


rate difficulty: And to knowledge temperance; and to temperance patience; and to patience godliness;


rate difficulty: This is the same Moses, who said to the children of Israel, God will give you a prophet from among your brothers, like me.

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


rate difficulty: that your faith might not stand in men's wisdom, but inGod's power.


rate difficulty: Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves:

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


simplify: And Joseph made haste; for his bowels did yearn upon his brother: and he sought where to weep; and he entered into his chamber, and wept there.

Then Joseph's heart went out to his brother, and he went quickly into his room, for he was overcome with weeping.


simplify: And Jesus answering said, O faithless and perverse generation, how long shall I be with you, and suffer you? Bring thy son hither.

And Jesus said, O generation without faith and false in heart, how long will I have to be with you and put up with you? let your son come here.


simplify: yet if they shall bethink themselves in the land whither they are carried captive, and turn again, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have dealt wickedly;

And if they take thought, in the land where they are prisoners, and are turned again to you, crying out in prayer to you in that land, and saying, We are sinners, we have done wrong, we have done evil;


rate difficulty: For see, the days are coming, says the Lord, when I will let the fate of my people Israel and Judah be changed, says the Lord: and I will make them come back to the land which I gave to their fathers, so that they may take it for their heritage.


rate difficulty: And, behold, one of them which were with Jesus stretched out his hand, and drew his sword, and struck a servant of the high priest’s, and smote off his ear.

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


simplify: And his servants said unto him, Behold now, we have heard that the kings of the house of Israel are merciful kings: let us, we pray thee, put sackcloth on our loins, and ropes upon our heads, and go out to the king of Israel: peradventure he will save thy life.

Then his servants said to him, It is said that the kings of Israel are full of mercy: let us then put on haircloth, and cords on our heads, and go to the king of Israel; it may be that he will give you your life.


simplify: And they shall no more offer their sacrifices unto devils, after whom they have gone a whoring. This shall be a statute for ever unto them throughout their generations.

And let them make no more offerings to evil spirits, after which they have gone, turning away from the Lord. Let this be a law to them for ever, through all their generations.


rate difficulty: And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

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


simplify: And the children of Israel saw the face of Moses, that the skin of Moses’ face shone: and Moses put the veil upon his face again, until he went in to speak with him.

And the children of Israel saw that the face of Moses was shining: so Moses put the veil over his face again till he went to the Lord.


simplify: The wicked is driven away in his wickedness: but the righteous hath hope in his death.

The sinner is overturned in his evil-doing, but the upright man has hope in his righteousness.


rate difficulty: And Judah also shall fight at Jerusalem; and the wealth of all the nations round about shall be gathered together — gold, and silver, and garments, in great abundance.

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


rate difficulty: that ye may walk becomingly toward them that are without, and may have need of nothing.

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


rate difficulty: And Ahab son of Omri hath reigned over Israel in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah, and Ahab son of Omri reigneth over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years,

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And lo, a certain lawyer stood up, trying him, and saying, `Teacher, what having done, life age-during shall I inherit?'

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


rate difficulty: And he that was dead sat up, and began to speak. And he gave him to his mother.

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


rate difficulty: Peoples <FI>to<Fi> the mountain they call, There they sacrifice righteous sacrifices; For the abundance of the seas they suck, And hidden things hidden in the sand.

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


rate difficulty: (When thither have all the droves been gathered, and they have rolled the stone from off the mouth of the well, and have watered the flock, then they have turned back the stone on the mouth of the well to its place.)

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


rate difficulty: Neither shall Pharaoh with his mighty army and great company help him in the war, when they cast up mounds and build forts, to cut off many persons.

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


rate difficulty: And I will send the sword, and need of food, and disease, among them till they are all cut off from the land which I gave to them and to their fathers.

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


rate difficulty: The first of the first-fruits of thy ground thou shalt bring into the house of Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother’s milk.

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


simplify: And Jacob came unto Isaac his father unto Mamre, unto the city of Arbah, which is Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac sojourned.

And Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, at Kiriath-arba, that is, Hebron, where Abraham and Isaac had been living.


rate difficulty: But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain.

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


rate difficulty: The full soul loatheth a honeycomb; But to the hungry soul every bitter thing is sweet.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.

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


simplify: In the fourth year was the foundation of the house of Jehovah laid, in the month Ziv.

In the fourth year the base of the house was put in its place, in the month Ziv.


simplify: And when she knew Peter’s voice, she opened not the gate for gladness, but ran in, and told how Peter stood before the gate.

And hearing the voice of Peter, in her joy she went running, without opening the door, to say that Peter was outside.


rate difficulty: And his disciples, questioning him, said, Why then do the scribes say that Elijah has to come first?

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


simplify: Let us therefore, as many as be perfect, be thus minded: and if in any thing ye be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you.

Then let us all, who have come to full growth, be of this mind: and if in anything you are of a different mind, even this will God make clear to you:


rate difficulty: And he sent for ten of his servants and gave them ten pounds and said to them, Do business with this till I come.

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


rate difficulty: And the messenger of Jehovah turneth back a second time, and cometh against him, and saith, `Rise, eat, for the way is too great for thee;'

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


rate difficulty: And I said, Should such a man as I flee? and who is there, that, being as I am, could go into the temple, and live? I will not go in.


simplify: And Peter having put them all forth without, having bowed the knees, did pray, and having turned unto the body said, `Tabitha, arise;' and she opened her eyes, and having seen Peter, she sat up,

But Peter sent everybody out of the room, and knelt down and prayed. Then, turning to the body, he said: “Tabitha! Stand up.”  She opened her eyes, and, seeing Peter, sat up.


rate difficulty: Israel hath cast off that which is good: the enemy shall pursue him.


rate difficulty: For a nation is come up upon my land, strong and without number: his teeth are the teeth of a lion, and he hath the cheek teeth of a lioness.

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


simplify: And he carried out thence all the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king’s house, and cut in pieces all the vessels of gold which Solomon king of Israel had made in the temple of the Lord, as the Lord had said.

And he took away all the stored wealth of the Lord's house, and the goods from the king's store-house, cutting up all the gold vessels which Solomon, king of Israel, had made in the house of the Lord, as the Lord had said.


simplify: And ye have profaned me among my people for handfuls of barley and for pieces of bread, to slay the souls that should not die, and to save the souls alive that should not live, by your lying to my people that hearken unto lies.

And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.


simplify: Woe unto thee, Chorazin! woe unto thee, Bethsaida! for if the mighty works had been done in Tyre and Sidon, which were done in you, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

A curse is on you, Chorazin! A curse is on you, Beth-saida! For if such works of power had been done in Tyre and Sidon as have been done in you, they would have been turned from their sins, in days gone by, seated in the dust.


simplify: And what concord hath Christ with Belial? or what part hath he that believeth with an infidel?

And what agreement is there between Christ and the Evil One? or what part has one who has faith with one who has not?


rate difficulty: and ye shall say to the master of the house, The Teacher saith to thee, Where is the guest-chamber where the passover with my disciples I may eat?


simplify: Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock:

Everyone, then, to whom my words come and who does them, will be like a wise man who made his house on a rock;


rate difficulty: And Nebuzar-adan the captain of the body-guard carried away captive the rest of the people that were left in the city, and the deserters that had deserted to the king of Babylon, and the rest of the multitude.

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


rate difficulty: And the glowing sand shall become a pool, and the thirsty ground springs of water: in the habitation of jackals, where they lay, shall be grass with reeds and rushes.

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


simplify: And if thou wilt walk in my ways, to keep my statutes and my commandments, as thy father David did walk, then I will lengthen thy days.

And if you go on in my ways, keeping my laws and my orders as your father David did, I will give you a long life.


simplify: And Jesus said unto them, See ye not all these things? verily I say unto you, There shall not be left here one stone upon another, that shall not be thrown down.

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


simplify: But whensoever it shall turn to the Lord, the veil is taken away.

But when it is turned to the Lord, the veil will be taken away.


simplify: Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.


simplify: Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.

Practice these things, devote yourself to them, so that your progress may be plain to everyone.


simplify: Gather the pieces thereof into it, even every good piece, the thigh, and the shoulder; fill it with the choice bones.

And get the bits together, the fat tail, every good part, the leg and the top part of it: make it full of the best bones.


rate difficulty: And the angel of the Lord said unto her, Return to thy mistress, and submit thyself under her hands.

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


simplify: As many as I love, I rebuke and chasten: be zealous therefore, and repent.

‘All whom I love I rebuke and discipline.’ Therefore be in earnest and repent.


simplify: Thus did the children of Israel; according to all that Jehovah commanded Moses, so they encamped by their standards, and so they set forward, every one by their families, according to their fathers’ houses.

So the children of Israel did as the Lord said to Moses, so they put up their tents by their flags, and they went forward in the same order, by their families, and by their fathers' houses.


simplify: and this one had four daughters, virgins, prophesying.

He had four unmarried daughters, who had the gift of prophecy.


simplify: Now Joab the son of Zeruiah perceived that the king’s heart was toward Absalom.

Now it was clear to Joab, the son of Zeruiah, that the king's heart was turning to Absalom.


rate difficulty: For this word [is] of promise, According to this time I will come, and there shall be a son to Sarah.

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


simplify: Shout against her round about: she hath submitted herself; her bulwarks are fallen, her walls are thrown down; for it is the vengeance of Jehovah: take vengeance upon her; as she hath done, do unto her.

Give a loud cry against her on every side; she has given herself up, her supports are overturned, her walls are broken down: for it is the payment taken by the Lord; give her payment; as she has done, so do to her.


rate difficulty: Let not kindness and truth forsake thee, Bind them on thy neck, Write them on the tablet of thy heart,

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


simplify: And one of the same place answered and said, And who is their father? Therefore it became a proverb, Is Saul also among the prophets?

And one of the people of that place said in answer, And who is their father? So it became a common saying, Is even Saul among the prophets?


simplify: The sluggard will not plow by reason of the winter; Therefore he shall beg in harvest, and have nothing.

The hater of work will not do his ploughing because of the winter; so at the time of grain-cutting he will be requesting food and will get nothing.


simplify: And Elisha said unto them, This is not the way, neither is this the city: follow me, and I will bring you to the man whom ye seek. And he led them to Samaria.

And Elisha said to them, This is not the way, and this is not the town: come after me so that I may take you to the man you are searching for. And he took them to Samaria.


rate difficulty: and for the sacrifice of peace-offerings, two oxen, five rams, five he-goats, five he-lambs a year old: this was the oblation of Abidan the son of Gideoni.

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


rate difficulty: For ye have brought hither these men, who are neither robbers of temples nor blasphemers of our goddess.

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


simplify: Then Jeremiah the prophet spake all these words unto Zedekiah king of Judah in Jerusalem,

Then Jeremiah the prophet said all these things to Zedekiah, king of Judah, in Jerusalem,


simplify: And the chief of the house of the father of the families of Merari was Zuriel the son of Abihail: these shall pitch on the side of the tabernacle northward.

The chief of the families of Merari was Zuriel, the son of Abihail: their tents are to be placed on the north side of the House.


simplify: The changeable suits of apparel, and the mantles, and the wimples, and the crisping pins,

The feast-day dresses, and the robes, and the wide skirts, and the handbags,


simplify: that aged men be temperate, grave, sober-minded, sound in faith, in love, in patience:

That old men are to be simple in their tastes, serious, wise, true in faith, in love, and of a quiet mind.


simplify: And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition?

His reply was: “How is it that you on your side break God’s commandments out of respect for your own traditions?


rate difficulty: For I have not dwelt in a house since the day that I brought up the children of Israel out of Egypt, even to this day, but I went about in a tent and in a tabernacle.

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simplify: and Jesse begat David the king. And David the king begat Solomon, of her <FI>who had been<Fi> Uriah's,

Jesse of David the King. David was the father of Solomon, whose mother was Uriah’s widow,


simplify: Go, tell Jeroboam, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel, Forasmuch as I exalted thee from among the people, and made thee prince over my people Israel,

Go, say to Jeroboam, These are the words of the Lord, the God of Israel: Though I took you from among the people, lifting you up to be a ruler over my people Israel,


rate difficulty: Their drink is sour: they have committed whoredom continually: her rulers with shame do love, Give ye.

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rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah: For three transgressions of Gazah, and for four, I will not revoke its sentence; because they carried away captive the whole captivity, to deliver [them] up to Edom.

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simplify: Who hath divided a watercourse for the overflowing of waters, or a way for the lightning of thunder;

By whom has the way been cut for the flowing of the rain, and the flaming of the thunder;


rate difficulty: Take a man's clothing if he makes himself responsible for a strange man, and get an undertaking from him who gives his word for strange men.

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rate difficulty: All that you learned and received and heard and saw in me put into practice continually; and then God, the giver of peace, will be with you.

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simplify: Yet if thou warn the wicked, and he turn not from his wickedness, nor from his wicked way, he shall die in his iniquity; but thou hast delivered thy soul.

But if you give the evil-doer word of his danger, and he is not turned from his sin or from his evil way, death will overtake him in his evil-doing; but your life will be safe.


simplify: And whence is this to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me?

How is it that the mother of my Lord comes to me?


rate difficulty: And Reuben heard it, and delivered him out of their hand, and said, Let us not take his life.


simplify: To satisfy the waste and desolate ground, And to cause the tender grass to spring forth?

To give water to the land where there is waste and destruction, and to make the dry land green with young grass?


simplify: But I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, saith the Lord: and I will kindle a fire in the forest thereof, and it shall devour all things round about it.

I will send punishment on you in keeping with the fruit of your doings, says the Lord: and I will put a fire in her woodlands, burning up everything round about her.


simplify: So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David until the carrying away into Babylon are fourteen generations; and from the carrying away into Babylon unto Christ are fourteen generations.

So all the generations from Abraham to David are fourteen generations; and from David to the taking away to Babylon, fourteen generations; and from the taking away to Babylon to the coming of Christ, fourteen generations.


simplify: And the children of Judah and the children of Israel shall be gathered together, and they shall appoint themselves one head, and shall go up from the land; for great shall be the day of Jezreel.

And the children of Israel and the children of Judah will come together and take for themselves one head, and will go up from the land, for great will be the day of Jezreel.


simplify: And Paul having remained yet a good many days, having taken leave of the brethren, was sailing to Syria--and with him <FI>are<Fi> Priscilla and Aquilas--having shorn <FI>his<Fi> head in Cenchera, for he had a vow;

Paul remained there some time after this, and then took leave of the followers, and sailed to Syria with Priscilla and Aquila, but not before his head had been shaved at Cenchreae, because he was under a vow.


rate difficulty: Hath he favour to that servant because he did the things directed? I think not.

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rate difficulty: Moreover thou hast not brought us into a land that floweth with milk and honey, or given us inheritance of fields and vineyards: wilt thou put out the eyes of these men? we will not come up.

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rate difficulty: And they stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.

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rate difficulty: His archers compass me round about, he cleaveth my reins asunder, and doth not spare; he poureth out my gall upon the ground.

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simplify: For Israel hath forgotten his Maker, and builded palaces; and Judah hath multiplied fortified cities: but I will send a fire upon his cities, and it shall devour the castles thereof.

For Israel has no memory of his Maker, and has put up the houses of kings; and Judah has made great the number of his walled towns. But I will send a fire on his towns and put an end to his great houses.


rate difficulty: The words of the wise in quiet are heard, More than the cry of a ruler over fools.

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rate difficulty: If, then, during her husband’s lifetime, she unites herself to another man, she will be called an adulteress; but, if her husband dies, the law has no further hold on her, nor, if she unites herself to another man, is she an adulteress.

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simplify: And I heard a great voice out of the throne saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he shall dwell with them, and they shall be his peoples, and God himself shall be with them, and betheir God:

And there came to my ears a great voice out of the high seat, saying, See, the Tent of God is with men, and he will make his living-place with them, and they will be his people, and God himself will be with them, and be their God.


rate difficulty: And all the people answered together, and said, All that Jehovah has spoken will we do! And Moses brought the words of the people back to Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And he made posts, sixty cubits, and by the post was the court of the gate round about.


simplify: The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.

The wise man's eyes are in his head, but the foolish man goes walking in the dark; but still I saw that the same event comes to them all.