simplify: Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah, the son of the Maacathite, came with all their men.


rate difficulty: For with joy ye go forth, And with peace ye are brought in, The mountains and the hills Break forth before you <FI>with<Fi> singing, And all trees of the field clap the hand.

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rate difficulty: and then shall be revealed the Lawless One, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the manifestation of his presence,

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


rate difficulty: And I said to the angel that talked with me, Whither do these carry the ephah?

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


simplify: For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.

For people will come in my name, saying, I am the Christ; and a number will be turned from the true way through them.


rate difficulty: Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us.

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simplify: And when Moses heard that, it was well-pleasing in his sight.

And after hearing this, Moses was no longer angry.


rate difficulty: And Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.

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rate difficulty: for your fellowship in furtherance of the gospel from the first day until now;

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


simplify: one golden spoon of ten shekels, full of incense;

One gold spoon of ten shekels, full of spice for burning;


simplify: and shall cause their voice to be heard over thee, and shall cry bitterly, and shall cast up dust upon their heads; they shall wallow themselves in the ashes:

And their voices will be sounding over you, and crying bitterly they will put dust on their heads, rolling themselves in the dust:


simplify: For that ye ought to say, If the Lord will, we shall both live, and do this or that.

But the right thing to say would be, If it is the Lord's pleasure and if we are still living, we will do this and that.


simplify: The earth also is polluted under the inhabitants thereof; because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

The earth has been made unclean by those living in it; because the laws have not been kept by them, the orders have been changed, and the eternal agreement has been broken.


rate difficulty: And from Miletus, having sent to Ephesus, he called for the elders of the assembly,


simplify: But Peter said, Ananias, why hath Satan filled thy heart to lie to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?

But Peter said, Ananias, why has the Evil One put it into your heart to be false to the Holy Spirit, and to keep back part of the price of the land?


rate difficulty: Therefore, from His presence I am troubled, I consider, and am afraid of Him.

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


rate difficulty: And last of all the woman came to her end.

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


rate difficulty: And I will take you to me for a people, and will be yourGod; and ye shall know that I, Jehovah yourGod, am he who bringeth you out from under the burdens of the Egyptians.

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


rate difficulty: But David could not go before it to inquire of God; for he was afraid because of the sword of the angel of Jehovah.


rate difficulty: And in that day, the eyes of the nations will be turned to the root of Jesse which will be lifted up as the flag of the peoples; and his resting-place will be glory.


simplify: For the body is not one member, but many.

For the body is not one part, but a number of parts.


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eliakim the son of Hilkiah:


rate difficulty: He that regards the day, regards it to [the] Lord. And he that eats, eats to [the] Lord, for he givesGod thanks; and he that does not eat, [it is] to [the] Lord he does not eat, and givesGod thanks.


rate difficulty: ‘We wipe off the dust of your town which has clung to Our feet; still, be assured that the kingdom of God is close at Hand.’


rate difficulty: His bones have been full of his youth, And with him on the dust it lieth down.


simplify: Egypt is like a very fair heifer, but destruction cometh; it cometh out of the north.

Egypt is a fair young cow; but a biting insect has come on her out of the north.


simplify: and having seen him, the husbandmen reasoned among themselves, saying, This is the heir; come, we may kill him, that the inheritance may become ours;

But, on seeing him, the tenants consulted with one another. ‘Here is the heir!’ they said. ‘Let us kill him, and then the inheritance will become ours.’


simplify: So being affectionately desirous of you, we were willing to have imparted unto you, not the gospel of God only, but also our own souls, because ye were dear unto us.

Even so, being full of loving desire for you, we took delight in giving you not only God's good news, but even our lives, because you were dear to us.


rate difficulty: And Azubah died, and Caleb took unto him Ephrath, who bare him Hur.

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


simplify: Every thing devoted in Israel shall be thine.

Everything given by oath to the Lord in Israel is to be yours.


rate difficulty: This is the heritage of the children of Gad by their families, with its towns and its unwalled places

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


simplify: and he saith to me, `It behoveth thee again to prophesy about peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings--many.'

And I was told — ‘You must prophesy again about men of many peoples, and nations, and languages, and about many kings.’


rate difficulty: How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that announceth glad tidings, that publisheth peace; that announceth glad tidings of good, that publisheth salvation, that saith unto Zion, ThyGod reigneth!

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


simplify: And I saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth, and to every nation, and kindred, and tongue, and people,

And I saw another angel in flight between heaven and earth, having eternal good news to give to those who are on the earth, and to every nation and tribe and language and people,


rate difficulty: So, too, that the older women should be reverent in their demeanor, and that they should avoid scandal, and beware of becoming slaves to drink;

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


rate difficulty: And upon all the high mountains, and upon all the hills that are lifted up,


simplify: Many things having to write to you, I did not intend through paper and ink, but I hope to come unto you, and speak mouth to mouth, that our joy may be full;

Though I have a great deal to say to you, I would rather not trust it to paper and ink, but I am hoping to come and see you, and to speak with you face to face, so that your joy may be complete.


rate difficulty: And you, O son of man, by day, before their eyes, get ready the vessels of one who is taken away, and go away from your place to another place before their eyes: it may be that they will see, though they are an uncontrolled people.

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


rate difficulty: who will not receive a hundred times as much, even now in the present — houses, and brothers, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and land — though not without persecutions, and, in the age that is coming, eternal life.

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


simplify: not as Cain was of the evil one, and slew his brother. And wherefore slew he him? Because his works were evil, and his brother’s righteous.

Not being of the Evil One like Cain, who put his brother to death. And why did he put him to death? Because his works were evil and his brother's works were good.


simplify: Then said Ahaziah the son of Ahab unto Jehoshaphat, Let my servants go with thy servants in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not.

Then Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, said to Jehoshaphat, Let my men go with yours in the ships. But Jehoshaphat would not let them.


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

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


rate difficulty: And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that had been beheaded for the testimony of Jesus, and for the word of God, and such as worshipped not the beast, neither his image, and received not the mark upon their forehead and upon their hand; and they lived, and reigned with Christ a thousand years.

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


simplify: They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field.

Those who have been put to the sword are better off than those whose death is caused by need of food; for these come to death slowly, burned up like the fruit of the field.


rate difficulty: for there is no acceptance of persons withGod.

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


simplify: Receive, I pray thee, the law from his mouth, And lay up his words in thy heart.

Be pleased to take teaching from his mouth, and let his words be stored up in your heart.


rate difficulty: Even by the God of thy father, who shall help thee, And by the Almighty, who shall bless thee, With blessings of heaven above, Blessings of the deep that coucheth beneath, Blessings of the breasts, and of the womb.

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


simplify: And he shall prepare a meat offering of an ephah for a bullock, and an ephah for a ram, and an hin of oil for an ephah.

And he is to give a meal offering, an ephah for every ox and an ephah for every sheep and a hin of oil to every ephah.


simplify: for he was a good man, and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and much people was added unto the Lord.

For he was a good man and full of the Holy Spirit and of faith: and a great number were joined to the Lord.


rate difficulty: And they went out into the field, and gathered their vineyards, and trodthe grapes, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and did eat and drink, and cursed Abimelech.

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


simplify: Henceforth, brethren, rejoice; be made perfect, be comforted, be of the same mind, be at peace, and the God of the love and peace shall be with you;

And now, friends, goodbye. Aim at perfection; take courage; agree together; live in peace. And then God, the source of all love and peace, will be with you.


simplify: And all they that were about them strengthened their hands with vessels of silver, with gold, with goods, and with beasts, and with precious things, beside all that was willingly offered.

And all their neighbours gave them help with offerings of vessels of silver and gold and goods and beasts and things of great value, in addition to what was freely offered.


simplify: Ye are the salt of the earth: but if the salt have lost his savour, wherewith shall it be salted? it is thenceforth good for nothing, but to be cast out, and to be trodden under foot of men.

You are salt for the world. But if salt becomes tasteless, how can it be made salty again? It is no longer good for anything, but is thrown away, and trampled underfoot.


simplify: And he made the breastplate of cunning work, like the work of the ephod; of gold, blue, and purple, and scarlet, and fine twined linen.

The priest's bag was designed like the ephod, of the best linen worked with gold and blue and purple and red.


rate difficulty: Gold and glass cannot equal it, Neither shall it be exchanged for jewels of fine gold.

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


rate difficulty: And truly my ears are open to the cry of the children of Israel whom the Egyptians keep under their yoke; and I have kept in mind my agreement.

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


simplify: So then they which be of faith are blessed with faithful Abraham.

And, therefore, those whose lives are based on faith share the blessings bestowed on the faith of Abraham.


simplify: And the children of Heth answered Abraham, saying unto him,

And in answer the children of Heth said to Abraham,


simplify: When Moses saw it, he wondered at the sight: and as he drew near to behold it, the voice of the Lord came unto him,

And Moses, seeing it, was full of wonder, and when he came up to have a nearer view of it, the voice of the Lord came to him, saying,


simplify: And they said unto Moses, Thy servants have taken the sum of the men of war which are under our charge, and there lacketh not one man of us.

And said to him, Your servants have taken note of the number of all the fighting-men under our orders, and every one is present;


rate difficulty: Surely then shalt thou lift up thy face without spot, and thou shalt be stedfast and shalt not fear:

reading_level: 7 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 6 | difficulty: hard


simplify: And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael; and Mehujael begat Methushael; and Methushael begat Lamech.

And Enoch had a son Irad: and Irad became the father of Mehujael: and Mehujael became the father of Methushael: and Methushael became the father of Lamech.


simplify: And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Jehovah hath delivered Sisera into thy hand; is not Jehovah gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.


simplify: We who are Jews by nature, and not sinners of the Gentiles,

We, though we are Jews by birth and not outcasts of Gentile origin, know that no one is pronounced righteous as the result of obedience to law, but only through faith in Christ Jesus.


simplify: And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father’s house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons.

And all the glory of his father's family will be hanging on him, all their offspring, every small vessel, even the cups and the basins.


rate difficulty: And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers overtook him; and he was distressed by reason of the archers.


rate difficulty: And they related what [had happened] on the way, and how he was made known to them in the breaking of bread.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah hath put man far off, And great <FI>is<Fi> the forsaken part in the heart of the land.

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


rate difficulty: And of Naphtali he said,  O Naphtali, satisfied with favor, And full with the blessing of Jehovah, Possess thou the west and the south.

reading_level: 6 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 1 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And as for the man from a strange land, who is not of your people Israel but comes from a far country because of the glory of your name and your strong hand and your outstretched arm; when he comes to make his prayer, turning to this house:

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


simplify: And Abimelech came unto the tower, and fought against it, and went hard unto the door of the tower to burn it with fire.

And Abimelech came to the tower and made an attack on it, and got near to the door of the tower for the purpose of firing it.


rate difficulty: And because of the wrath of the Lord this came about in Jerusalem and Judah, till he had sent them away from before him: and Zedekiah took up arms against the king of Babylon.

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


rate difficulty: And Saul said to David, Behold, my elder daughter Merab, her will I give thee to wife: only be thou valiant for me, and fight Jehovah’s battles. For Saul said, Let not my hand be upon him, but let the hand of the Philistines be upon him.

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


simplify: but we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel, until we have brought them unto their place: and our little ones shall dwell in the fortified cities because of the inhabitants of the land.

But we ourselves will be ready armed to go before the children of Israel till we have taken them to their place: but our little ones will be safe in the walled towns against the people of the land.


simplify: And Peter thinking about the vision, the Spirit said to him, `Lo, three men do seek thee;

Peter was still pondering over the vision, when the Spirit said to him: “There are two men looking for you at this moment.


rate difficulty: Who can open the doors of his face? Round about his teeth is terror.

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


rate difficulty: And the congregation sent thither twelve thousand men of the valiantest, and commanded them, saying, Go and smite the inhabitants of Jabesh–gilead with the edge of the sword, with the women and the children.

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


rate difficulty: and out of it came the seven angels with the seven curses. They were adorned with precious stones, pure and bright, and had golden girdles around their breasts.


rate difficulty: (Or if she goes away from him, let her keep unmarried, or be united to her husband again); and that the husband may not go away from his wife.

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


rate difficulty: The baptism of John, was it of heaven or of men?


simplify: Then Elisha said, Hear ye the word of the Lord; Thus saith the Lord, To morrow about this time shall a measure of fine flour be sold for a shekel, and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the gate of Samaria.

Then Elisha said, Give ear to the word of the Lord: the Lord says, Tomorrow, about this time, a measure of good meal will be offered for the price of a shekel and two measures of barley for a shekel, in the market-place of Samaria.


rate difficulty: From the voice of the horseman, And of him shooting with the bow, all the city is fleeing, They have come into thickets, And on cliffs they have gone up, All the city is forsaken, And there is no one dwelling in them.

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


rate difficulty: But the lad knew not anything: only Jonathan and David knew the matter.

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


rate difficulty: For this they wilfully forget, that there were heavens from of old, and an earth compacted out of water and amidst water, by the word of God;

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


rate difficulty: Ahimaaz, in Nephtali; he also took Basmath the daughter of Solomon as wife.


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

Even the one whose coming is marked by the working of Satan, with all power and signs and false wonders,


rate difficulty: saying, Men, I perceive that the navigation will be with disaster and much loss, not only of the cargo and the ship, but also of our lives.

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


rate difficulty: And it shall come to pass in that day, that Jehovah shall beat out from the flood of the river unto the torrent of Egypt, and ye shall be gathered one by one, [ye] children of Israel.

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


rate difficulty: And three of the thirty chiefs went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam, when the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.

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


simplify: What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?

What is man, that he may be clean? and how may the son of woman be upright?


simplify: And he took him by the right hand, and lifted him up: and immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength.

And he took him by his right hand, lifting him up; and straight away his feet and the bones of his legs became strong,


simplify: And ye shall know that I am Jehovah, when I have dealt with you for my name’s sake, not according to your evil ways, nor according to your corrupt doings, O ye house of Israel, saith the Lord Jehovah.

And you will be certain that I am the Lord, when I take you in hand for the honour of my name, and not for your evil ways or your unclean doings, O children of Israel, says the Lord.


simplify: And he made ten bases of brass; four cubits was the length of one base, and four cubits the breadth thereof, and three cubits the height of it.

And he made ten wheeled bases of brass; every one four cubits long, four cubits wide, and three cubits high.


simplify: Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?

Look at the wild birds — they neither sow, nor reap, nor gather into barns; and yet your heavenly Father feeds them! Are not you more precious than they?


rate difficulty: And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram; and, lo, a horror of great darkness fell upon him.


rate difficulty: `I say to you, In that night, there shall be two men on one couch, the one shall be taken, and the other shall be left;

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


simplify: And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

You say, too, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, their oath counts for nothing, but, if anyone swears by the offering placed on it, their oath is binding on them’!


simplify: for we have heard him saying, That this Jesus the Nazarean shall overthrow this place, and shall change the customs that Moses delivered to us;'

indeed, we have heard him declare that this Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place, and change the customs handed down to us by Moses.”


simplify: If I have beheld the sun when it shined, Or the moon walking in brightness,

If, when I saw the sun shining, and the moon moving on its bright way,


rate difficulty: And after that went the Levites in to do their service in the tabernacle of the congregation before Aaron, and before his sons: as the Lord had commanded Moses concerning the Levites, so did they unto them.

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


simplify: And David distributed them, both Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, according to their offices in their service.

And David, with Zadok of the sons of Eleazar, and Ahimelech of the sons of Ithamar, made distribution of them into their positions for their work.


simplify: A roll of the birth of Jesus Christ, son of David, son of Abraham.

A genealogy of Jesus Christ, a descendant of David and Abraham.


rate difficulty: and conspire against him doth his servant Zimri (head of the half of the chariots) and he <FI>is<Fi> in Tirzah drinking--a drunkard in the house of Arza, who <FI>is<Fi> over the house in Tirzah.

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


rate difficulty: And the chief fathers and princes of the tribes of Israel, and the captains of thousands and of hundreds, and the comptrollers of the king's business, offered willingly.

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


simplify: Then I went on to the gate of the fountain, and to the king’s pool: but there was no place for the beast that was under me to pass.

Then I went on to the door of the fountain and to the king's pool: but there was no room for my beast to get through.


simplify: And the chief priests and the scribes sought to lay hands on him in that hour, and they feared the people, for they knew that against them he spake this simile.

After this the teachers of the law and the chief priest were eager to lay hands on Jesus then and there, but they were afraid of the people; for they saw that it was at them that he had aimed this parable.


simplify: Exalt her, and she shall promote thee: she shall bring thee to honour, when thou dost embrace her.

Put her in a high place, and you will be lifted up by her; she will give you honour, when you give her your love.


rate difficulty: Lest I strip her naked, and set her as in the day that she was born, and make her as a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and slay her with thirst.

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


simplify: I know a man in Christ, fourteen years ago (whether in the body, I know not; or whether out of the body, I know not; God knoweth), such a one caught up even to the third heaven.

I have knowledge of a man in Christ, fourteen years back (if he was in the body, or out of the body, I am not able to say, but God only), who was taken up to the third heaven.


simplify: Men do not despise a thief, if he steal To satisfy himself when he is hungry:

Men do not have a low opinion of a thief who takes food when he is in need of it:


simplify: Then rose up certain of the elders of the land, and spake to all the assembly of the people, saying,

Then some of the responsible men of the land got up and said to all the meeting of the people,


rate difficulty: Have the gates of death been revealed unto thee? and hast thou seen the gates of the shadow of death?

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


rate difficulty: What time they wax warm, they vanish; When it is hot, they are consumed out of their place.

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


rate difficulty: What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

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


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

For God is my witness, how my love goes out to you all in the loving mercies of Christ Jesus.


simplify: But I will send a fire upon Judah, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem.

And I will send a fire on Judah, burning up the great houses of Jerusalem.


simplify: Also I said, The thing that ye do is not good: ought ye not to walk in the fear of our God, because of the reproach of the nations our enemies?

And I said, What you are doing is not good: is it not the more necessary for you to go in the fear of our God, because of the shame which the nations may put on us?


simplify: And I said unto them, We after our ability have redeemed our brethren the Jews, that were sold unto the nations; and would ye even sell your brethren, and should they be sold unto us? Then held they their peace, and found never a word.

And I said to them, We have given whatever we were able to give, to make our brothers the Jews free, who were servants and prisoners of the nations: and would you now give up your brothers for a price, and are they to become our property? Then they said nothing, answering not a word.


simplify: And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.

By their side Meremoth, the son of Uriah, the son of Hakkoz, was making good the walls. Then Meshullam, the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabel; and by him, Zadok, the son of Baana.


simplify: And Jesus said unto him, This day is salvation come to this house, forsomuch as he also is a son of Abraham.

And Jesus said to him, Today salvation has come to this house, for even he is a son of Abraham.


rate difficulty: In conclusion, friends, pray for us — pray that the Lord’s message may spread rapidly, and be received everywhere with honor, as it was among you;

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


rate difficulty: Who put Abimelech, the son of Jerubbaal, to death? did not a woman send a great stone down on him from the wall, putting him to death at Thebez? why did you go so near the wall? Then say to him, Your servant Uriah the Hittite is among the dead.


simplify: The sons of Merari were Mahli and Mushi: the sons of Jaaziah; Beno.

The sons of Merari: Mahli and Mushi; the sons of Jaaziah.


rate difficulty: And Ehud came unto him; and he was sitting by himself alone in the cool upper room. And Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. And he arose out of his seat.

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


simplify: And another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven, he also having a sharp sickle.

And another angel came out from the house of God which is in heaven, having a sharp curved blade.


simplify: Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king, who knoweth not how to receive admonition any more.

A young man who is poor and wise is better than a king who is old and foolish and will not be guided by the wisdom of others.


rate difficulty: And he shall offer an oblation, an ephah for the bullock, and an ephah for the ram, and for the lambs according to what his hand may attain unto; and oil, a hin for an ephah.

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


simplify: And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

Then Balak said to Balaam, What have you done to me? I sent for you so that my haters might be cursed, and see, you have given them a blessing.


rate difficulty: And at Tehaphnehes the day shall be darkened, when I break there the yokes of Egypt, and the pride of her strength shall cease in her; as for her, a cloud shall cover her, and her daughters shall go into captivity.

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


simplify: The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.

The sons of Hebron: Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, and Jekameam the fourth.


simplify: Then said I, Lord, how long? And he answered, Until cities be waste without inhabitant, and houses without man, and the land become utterly waste,

Then I said, Lord, how long? And he said in answer, Till the towns are waste and unpeopled, and the houses have no men, and the land becomes completely waste,


rate difficulty: and the Lord <FI>saith<Fi> unto him, `Having risen, go on unto the street that is called Straight, and seek in the house of Judas, <FI>one<Fi> by name Saul of Tarsus, for, lo, he doth pray,

reading_level: 11 | vocab_complexity: medium | archaic_forms: 4 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: And he said, Why does my lord go armed against his servant? what have I done? or what evil is there in me?

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


rate difficulty: Though these three men, Noah, Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God.

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


simplify: And the sons of Tola; Uzzi, and Rephaiah, and Jeriel, and Jahmai, and Jibsam, and Shemuel, heads of their father’s house, to wit, of Tola: they were valiant men of might in their generations; whose number was in the days of David two and twenty thousand and six hundred.

And the sons of Tola: Uzzi and Rephaiah and Jeriel and Jahmai and Ibsam and Shemuel, heads of their families; they were men of war; in the record of their generations their number in the time of David was twenty-two thousand, six hundred.


rate difficulty: And Saul commanded his servants, Speak with David secretly, saying, Behold, the king has delight in thee, and all his servants love thee: now therefore be the king's son-in-law.

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


rate difficulty: Who doth make me as <FI>in<Fi> months past, As <FI>in<Fi> the days of God's preserving me?

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


rate difficulty: and now, lo, we <FI>are<Fi> in thy hand, as <FI>it is<Fi> good, and as <FI>it is<Fi> right in thine eyes to do to us--do.'


rate difficulty: and he doth that which is right in the eyes of Jehovah, and walketh in the ways of David his father, and hath not turned aside--right or left.

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


simplify: And it came to pass, as he went to Jerusalem, that he passed through the midst of Samaria and Galilee.

On the way to Jerusalem Jesus passed between Samaria and Galilee.


rate difficulty: No! Those parts of the body that seem naturally the weaker are indispensable;

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


simplify: Your memorable sayings are proverbs of ashes, Your defences are defences of clay.

Your wise sayings are only dust, and your strong places are only earth.


simplify: Go, enquire of the Lord for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book that is found: for great is the wrath of the Lord that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord, to do after all that is written in this book.

Go and get directions from the Lord for me and for those who are still in Israel and for Judah, about the words of this book which has come to light; for great is the wrath of the Lord which has been let loose on us, because our fathers have not kept the word of the Lord or done what is recorded in this book.


simplify: for he who hath died hath been set free from the sin.

For the man who has so died has been pronounced righteous and released from sin.


rate difficulty: and the land is defiled, and I charge its iniquity upon it, and the land vomiteth out its inhabitants:

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


simplify: But if the truth of God through my lie abounded unto his glory, why am I also still judged as a sinner?

But if, because I am untrue, God being seen to be true gets more glory, why am I to be judged as a sinner?


rate difficulty: And now I say unto you, Refrain from these men, and let them alone: for if this counsel or this work be of men, it will come to nought:

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


rate difficulty: Then at the sound of your voice I will give answer; or let me put forward my cause for you to give me an answer.


rate difficulty: Hallow unto me every firstborn, whatever breaketh open the womb among the children of Israel, of man and of cattle: it is mine.

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


rate difficulty: About an hour later another man declared positively: “This man also was certainly with him. Why, he is a Galilean!”


simplify: Of fine linen with broidered work from Egypt was thy sail, that it might be to thee for an ensign; blue and purple from the isles of Elishah was thine awning.

The best linen with needlework from Egypt was your sail, stretched out to be a flag for you; blue and purple from the sea-lands of Elishah gave you shade.


rate difficulty: and He doth give to thee the blessing of Abraham, to thee and to thy seed with thee, to cause thee to possess the land of thy sojournings, which God gave to Abraham.'

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


rate difficulty: And Jonathan caused David to swear again, because he loved him: for he loved him as he loved his own soul.


simplify: they are zealous for you--<FI> yet<Fi> not well, but they wish to shut us out, that for them ye may be zealous;

Certain people are seeking your favor, but with no honorable object. No, indeed, they want to isolate you, so that you will have to seek their favor.


simplify: And he stretched himself upon the child three times, and cried unto the Lord, and said, O Lord my God, I pray thee, let this child’s soul come into him again.

And stretching herself out on the child three times, he made his prayer to the Lord, saying, O Lord my God, be pleased to let this child's life come back to him again.


rate difficulty: Doth not His excellency terrify you? And His dread fall upon you?


simplify: And there were seven steps to go up to it, and the arches thereof were before them; and it had palm-trees, one on this side, and another on that side, upon the posts thereof.

And there were seven steps up to it, and its covered way went inside: and it had palm-trees, one on this side and one on that, on its uprights.


rate difficulty: From there we made our way to Philippi, which is the principal city of that part of Macedonia, and also a Roman Settlement.  In that city we spent several days.


simplify: Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A damsel, two damsels to every man; To Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, A spoil of dyed garments embroidered, Of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?

Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?


rate difficulty: And when she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of meal, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of Jehovah in Shiloh: and the child was young.

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


simplify: Yea doubtless, and I count all things but loss for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord: for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung, that I may win Christ,

More than that, I count everything as loss, for the sake of the exceeding value of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord. And for his sake I have lost everything, and count it as refuse, if I may but gain Christ and be found in union with him;


simplify: Overthrow not for meat’s sake the work of God. All things indeed are clean; howbeit it is evil for that man who eateth with offence.

Do not let the work of God come to nothing on account of food. All things are certainly clean; but it is evil for that man who by taking food makes it hard for another.


rate difficulty: Whence should I have flesh to give unto all this people? for they weep unto me, saying, Give us flesh that we may eat!


rate difficulty: And one said to him, See, your mother and your brothers are outside, desiring to have talk with you.

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


simplify: And Mishma, and Dumah, and Massa,


rate difficulty: Peoples will be in fear before his strength, his arm will be on great nations: his king will be higher than Agag, and his kingdom made great in honour.

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


simplify: And he sent yet another servant: and him also they beat, and handled him shamefully, and sent him away empty.

And he sent another servant, and they gave blows to him in the same way, and put shame on him, and sent him away with nothing.


rate difficulty: An abomination to Jehovah <FI>are<Fi> thoughts of wickedness, And pure <FI>are<Fi> sayings of pleasantness.

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


rate difficulty: and the sentence of the king that he maketh hath been heard in all his kingdom--for it <FI>is<Fi> great--and all the wives give honour to their husbands, from great even unto small.'

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


simplify: Wherefore, my beloved, flee from the idolatry;

Therefore, my dear friends, shun the worship of idols.


simplify: Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, And the spark of his fire shall not shine.

For the light of the sinner is put out, and the flame of his fire is not shining.


simplify: And it came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren.

Now when Moses had become a man, one day he went out to his people and saw how hard their work was; and he saw an Egyptian giving blows to a Hebrew, one of his people.


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

Because they have given me up, burning offerings to other gods and moving me to wrath by all the works of their hands; so my wrath is let loose on this place and will not be put out.


rate difficulty: And they asked Baruch, saying, Tell us now, How didst thou write all these words at his mouth?

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


rate difficulty: Ascribe unto Jehovah the glory due unto his name: Bring an offering, and come before him; Worship Jehovah in holy array.

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


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

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


rate difficulty: And they arose, and went to Ziph before Saul: but David and his men were in the wilderness of Maon, in the Arabah on the south of the desert.


rate difficulty: and Benjamin turneth back at that time, and they give to them the women whom they have kept alive of the women of Jabesh-Gilead, and they have not found for <FI>all of<Fi> them so.

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


rate difficulty: And the Lord was no longer able to put up with the evil of your doings and the disgusting things you did; and because of this your land has become a waste and a cause of wonder and a curse, with no one living in it, as at this day.

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


rate difficulty: And king Solomon made two hundred targets of beaten gold: six hundred shekels of beaten gold went to one target.


rate difficulty: and his servants carry him in a chariot to Jerusalem, and bury him in his burying-place, with his fathers, in the city of David.

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


rate difficulty: Then Eliphaz the Temanite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite, went and did according as Jehovah had said unto them; and Jehovah accepted Job.

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


rate difficulty: And now, see, the king is before you: and I am old and grey-headed, and my sons are with you: I have been living before your eyes from my early days till now.


simplify: And the children of Israel journeyed, and came unto their cities on the third day. Now their cities were Gibeon, and Chephirah, and Beeroth, and Kiriath-jearim.

And the children of Israel went forward on their journey, and on the third day came to their towns. Now their towns were Gibeon and Chephirah and Beeroth and Kiriath-jearim.


rate difficulty: But contrariwise, when they saw that the gospel of the uncircumcision was committed unto me, as the gospel of the circumcision was unto Peter;

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


simplify: Thou art the anointed cherub that covereth; and I have set thee so: thou wast upon the holy mountain of God; thou hast walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.

I gave you your place with the winged one; I put you on the mountain of God; you went up and down among the stones of fire.


rate difficulty: And thou, profane, wicked prince of Israel, whose day is come, at the time of the iniquity of the end,

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


rate difficulty: (who for my life staked their own neck; to whom not I only am thankful, but also all the assemblies of the nations,)

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


rate difficulty: And they offered him wine [to drink] medicated with myrrh; but he did not take [it].

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


simplify: And they brought him upon horses, and buried him with his fathers in the city of Judah.

And they took his body on horseback and put it into the earth with his fathers in the town of David.


rate difficulty: And there went forth a wind from Jehovah, and brought quails from the sea, and let them fall by the camp, about a day’s journey on this side, and a day’s journey on the other side, round about the camp, and about two cubits above the face of the earth.

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


rate difficulty: For we are going to destroy this place, because the cry of them is great before Jehovah, and Jehovah has sent us to destroy it.

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


simplify: His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself.

His eyes are flaming fires; on his head there are many diadems, and he bears a name, written, which no one knows but himself;


simplify: And they dwelt at Beer–sheba, and Moladah, and Hazar–shual,

And they were living at Beer-sheba and Moladah and Hazar-shual,


simplify: Which was the son of Aminadab, which was the son of Aram, which was the son of Esrom, which was the son of Phares, which was the son of Juda,

The son of Amminadab, the son of Arni, the son of Hezron, the son of Perez, the son of Judah,


simplify: And Jehoiada appointed the officers of the house of Jehovah under the hand of the priests the Levites, whom David had distributed in the house of Jehovah, to offer the burnt-offerings of Jehovah, as it is written in the law of Moses, with rejoicing and with singing, according to the order of David.

And Jehoiada put the work and the care of the house of the Lord into the hands of the priests and the Levites, who had been grouped in divisions by David to make burned offerings to the Lord, as it is recorded in the law of Moses, with joy and song as David had said.


simplify: and the hole of the robe in the midst thereof, as the hole of a coat of mail, with a binding round about the hole of it, that it should not be rent.

With a hole at the top in the middle, like the hole in the coat of a fighting-man, edged with a band to make it strong.


simplify: Also Jehovah was angry with me for your sakes, saying, Thou also shalt not go in thither:

And, in addition, the Lord was angry with me because of you, saying, You yourself will not go into it:


simplify: Observe thou that which I command thee this day: behold, I drive out before thee the Amorite, and the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Perizzite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite.

Take care to do the orders which I give you today; I will send out from before you the Amorite and the Canaanite and the Hittite and the Perizzite and the Hivite and the Jebusite.


simplify: Be ye also patient; establish your hearts: for the coming of the Lord is at hand.

Be as calm in your waiting; let your hearts be strong: because the coming of the Lord is near.


simplify: and having taken them, in that hour of the night, he did bathe <FI>them<Fi> from the blows, and was baptized, himself and all his presently,

And that very hour of the night he took them and washed their wounds, and he himself and everyone belonging to him were baptized without delay.


simplify: Many of them therefore believed; also of the Greek women of honorable estate, and of men, not a few.

And a number of them had faith, and no small number of the Greek women of high position and of the men.


rate difficulty: And of the Levites, Ahijah <FI>is<Fi> over the treasures of the house of God, even for the treasures of the holy things.

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


rate difficulty: saying, This [man] persuades men to worshipGod contrary to the law.

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


rate difficulty: And the beast which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion: and the dragon gave him his power, and his seat, and great authority.

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


simplify: And I will take thee, and thou shalt reign according to all that thy soul desireth, and shalt be king over Israel.

And you I will take, and you will be king over Israel, ruling over whatever is the desire of your soul.


rate difficulty: And her father said, I verily thought that thou didst utterly hate her; therefore I gave her to thy companion. Is not her younger sister fairer than she? Let her, I pray thee, be thine instead of her.

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


simplify: We then that are strong ought to bear the infirmities of the weak, and not to please ourselves.

We, the strong, ought to take on our own shoulders the weaknesses of those who are not strong, and not merely to please ourselves.


rate difficulty: Better it is to have a gentle spirit with the poor, than to take part in the rewards of war with men of pride.

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


simplify: And Jesus stood, and commanded him to be brought unto him: and when he was come near, he asked him,

And Jesus, stopping, gave orders that he was to come to him, and when he came near, he said to him,


simplify: And the sons of Hebron; Jeriah the first, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.

And the sons of Hebron: Jeriah the chief, Amariah the second, Jahaziel the third, Jekameam the fourth.


simplify: And behold, Elisabeth thy kinswoman, she also hath conceived a son in her old age; and this is the sixth month with her that was called barren.

Even now Elisabeth, who is of your family, is to be a mother, though she is old: and this is the sixth month with her who was without children.


simplify: If thou canst, answer thou me; Setthy wordsin order before me, stand forth.

If you are able, give me an answer; put your cause in order, and come forward.


simplify: And the priests the sons of Levi shall come near; for them Jehovah thy God hath chosen to minister unto him, and to bless in the name of Jehovah; and according to their word shall every controversy and every stroke be.

Then the priests, the sons of Levi, are to come near; for they have been marked out by the Lord your God to be his servants and to give blessings in the name of the Lord; and by their decision every argument and every blow is to be judged:


simplify: And they said unto him, We neither received letters out of Judea concerning thee, neither any of the brethren that came shewed or spake any harm of thee.

And they said to him, We have not had letters from Judaea about you, and no one of the brothers has come to us here to give an account or say any evil about you.


rate difficulty: And the locusts went up over all the land of Egypt, and rested in all the borders of Egypt, very grievous; before them there were no such locusts as they, neither after them will be such.

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


simplify: Speak not evil one of another, brethren. He that speaketh evil of his brother, and judgeth his brother, speaketh evil of the law, and judgeth the law: but if thou judge the law, thou art not a doer of the law, but a judge.

Do not say evil against one another, my brothers. He who says evil against his brother or makes himself his brother's judge, says evil against the law and is judging the law: and in judging the law you become, not a doer of the law but a judge.


simplify: Where then is my hope? And as for my hope, who shall see it?

Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?


simplify: And Bezaleel made the ark of shittim wood: two cubits and a half was the length of it, and a cubit and a half the breadth of it, and a cubit and a half the height of it:

And Bezalel made the ark of hard wood, two and a half cubits long, a cubit and a half wide and a cubit and a half high;


simplify: And the soul of king David longed to go forth unto Absalom: for he was comforted concerning Amnon, seeing he was dead.

And the heart of David was wasted with desire for Absalom: for he was comforted for the death of Amnon.


rate difficulty: And Shechem spoke to his father Hamor, saying, Take me this girl as wife.

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


rate difficulty: for David, indeed, his own generation having served by the will of God, did fall asleep, and was added unto his fathers, and saw corruption,

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


rate difficulty: For there shall be no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; because everything is already forgotten in the days which come. And how dieth the wise even as the fool?

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


simplify: and Hilen with its suburbs, Debir with its suburbs,

And Hilen with its outskirts, Debir with its outskirts,


rate difficulty: And the waters are healed unto this day, according to the word of Elisha, that he spake.

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


rate difficulty: Now, harden not your necks, as your fathers; yield yourselves to Jehovah, and come to his sanctuary, which he has sanctified for ever; and serve Jehovah yourGod, that the fierceness of his anger may turn away from you.


rate difficulty: I am Jehovah thy God, who brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

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


simplify: And the children of Dan sent of their family five men from their whole number, men of valor, from Zorah, and from Eshtaol, to spy out the land, and to search it; and they said unto them, Go, search the land. And they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, unto the house of Micah, and lodged there.

So the children of Dan sent five men from among their number, strong men, from Zorah and from Eshtaol, to take a look at the land and make a search through it; and they said to them, Go and make a search through the land; and they came to the hill-country of Ephraim, to the house of Micah, where they made a stop for the night.


rate difficulty: If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

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


rate difficulty: And so with you; since your are striving for spiritual gifts, be eager to excel in such as will build up the faith of the church.


simplify: and I will bring them, and they shall dwell in the midst of Jerusalem; and they shall be my people, and I will be their God, in truth and in righteousness.

And I will make them come and be living in Jerusalem and they will be to me a people and I will be to them a God, in good faith and in righteousness.


rate difficulty: Go, inquire of Jehovah for me, and for them that are left in Israel and in Judah, concerning the words of the book which is found; for great is the wrath of Jehovah that is poured out upon us, because our fathers have not kept the word of Jehovah, to do according to all that is written in this book.

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


rate difficulty: and he saith, `I am not mad, most noble Festus, but of truth and soberness the sayings I speak forth;

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


simplify: And it was so, that all that saw it said, There was no such deed done nor seen from the day that the children of Israel came up out of the land of Egypt unto this day: consider it, take counsel, and speak.

And he gave orders to the men whom he sent, saying, This is what you are to say to all the men of Israel, Has ever an act like this been done from the day when the children of Israel came out of Egypt to this day? Give thought to it, turning it over in your minds, and give your opinion of it.


simplify: And Jesus said, Let her alone; why trouble ye her? she hath wrought a good work on me.

But Jesus said, Let her be; why are you troubling her? she has done a kind act to me.


rate difficulty: And by him shall be the tribe of Manasseh; and the prince of the sons of Manasseh shall be Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur;


simplify: then shall there enter in by the gates of this city kings and princes sitting upon the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they, and their princes, the men of Judah, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and this city shall remain for ever.

Then through the doors of this town there will come kings and princes, seated on the seat of David, going in carriages and on horseback, they and their princes, and the men of Judah and the people of Jerusalem: and this town will keep its place for ever.


rate difficulty: and bring your youngest brother to me, in order that your words be verified, and that ye may not die. And they did so.

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


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


rate difficulty: The standard of the camp of Reuben <FI>is<Fi> southward, by their hosts; and the prince of the sons of Reuben <FI>is<Fi> Elizur son of Shedeur;

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


simplify: The sons of Joseph after their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.

The sons of Joseph by their families: Manasseh and Ephraim.


simplify: How much then is a man better than a sheep? Wherefore it is lawful to do well on the sabbath days.

Of how much more value is a man than a sheep! For this reason it is right to do good on the Sabbath day.


simplify: He went to Pilate, and begged the body of Jesus. Then Pilate commanded the body to be delivered.

He went to see Pilate, and asked for the body of Jesus. Pilate ordered it to be given him.


simplify: And on this manner did Absalom to all Israel that came to the king for judgment: so Absalom stole the hearts of the men of Israel.

And this Absalom did to everyone in Israel who came to the king to have his cause judged: so Absalom, like a thief, took away the hearts of the men of Israel.


simplify: And they said unto him, There came up a man to meet us, and said unto us, Go, turn again unto the king that sent you, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that thou sendest to inquire of Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore thou shalt not come down from the bed whither thou art gone up, but shalt surely die.

And they said to him, On our way we had a meeting with a man who said, Go back to the king who sent you and say to him, The Lord says, Is it because there is no God in Israel that you send to put a question to Baal-zebub, the god of Ekron? For this reason, you will not come down from the bed on to which you have gone up, but death will certainly come to you.


simplify: And whosoever lieth carnally with a woman, that is a bondmaid, betrothed to an husband, and not at all redeemed, nor freedom given her; she shall be scourged; they shall not be put to death, because she was not free.

If any man has sex relations with a servant-woman who has given her word to be married to a man, and has not been made free for a price or in any other way, the thing will be looked into; but they will not be put to death because she was not a free woman.


simplify: Then he said unto me, See, I have given thee cow’s dung for man’s dung, and thou shalt prepare thy bread thereon.

Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's waste in place of man's waste, and you will make your bread ready on it.


simplify: And there happened to be there a base fellow, whose name was Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he blew the trumpet, and said, We have no portion in David, neither have we inheritance in the son of Jesse: every man to his tents, O Israel.

Now by chance there was present a good-for-nothing person named Sheba, the son of Bichri, a Benjamite: and he, sounding the horn, said, We have no part in David, or any interest in the son of Jesse: let every man go to his tent, O Israel.


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

Do not, therefore, be afraid of them. There is nothing concealed which will not be revealed, nor anything hidden which will not become known.


simplify: and he began to speak boldly in the synagogue. But when Priscilla and Aquila heard him, they took him unto them, and expounded unto him the way of God more accurately.

And he was preaching in the Synagogue without fear. But Priscilla and Aquila, hearing his words, took him in, and gave him fuller teaching about the way of God.


simplify: But them that are without God judgeth. Put away the wicked man from among yourselves.

As for those who are outside, God is their judge. So put away the evil man from among you.


rate difficulty: And the people say, `Thou dost not go out, for if we utterly flee, they do not set <FI>their<Fi> heart upon us; and if half of us die, they do not set <FI>their<Fi> heart unto us--for now like us <FI>are<Fi> ten thousand; and now, better that thou be to us from the city for an helper.'

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


simplify: And I will prepare destroyers against thee, every one with his weapons; and they shall cut down thy choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.

And I will make ready those who will send destruction on you, everyone armed for war: by them your best cedar-trees will be cut down and put in the fire.


simplify: And thou shalt set the laver between the tent of the congregation and the altar, and shalt put water therein.

And let the washing-vessel, with water in it, be put between the Tent of meeting and the altar.


simplify: come, let us make our father drink wine, and we will lie with him, that we may preserve seed of our father.

Come, let us give our father much wine, and we will go into his bed, so that we may have offspring by our father,


rate difficulty: their meal-offering and their drink-offerings for the bullock, for the ram, and for the lambs, shall be according to their number, after the ordinance:

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


simplify: We have heard the report thereof; our hands wax feeble: anguish hath taken hold of us, and pangs as of a woman in travail.

The news of it has come to our ears; our hands have become feeble: trouble has come on us and pain, like the pain of a woman in childbirth.


simplify: Our mouth hath been open unto you, O Corinthians, our heart hath been enlarged!

We have been speaking freely to you, dear friends in Corinth; we have opened our heart;


simplify: and her father heareth her vow, and her bond wherewith she hath bound her soul, and her father holdeth his peace at her; then all her vows shall stand, and every bond wherewith she hath bound her soul shall stand.

If her father, hearing of her oath or the undertaking she has given, says nothing to her, then all her oaths and every undertaking she has given will have force.


simplify: He that heareth you heareth me; and he that despiseth you despiseth me; and he that despiseth me despiseth him that sent me.

Whoever gives ear to you, gives ear to me; and whoever is against you, is against me; and whoever is against me, is against him who sent me.


rate difficulty: Give ear to this, you old men, and take note, you people of the land. Has this ever been in your days, or in the days of your fathers?

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


simplify: Come, let us take our fill of love until the morning; Let us solace ourselves with loves.

Come, let us take our pleasure in love till the morning, having joy in love's delights.


simplify: Cease not to give thanks for you, making mention of you in my prayers;

have never omitted to thank God on your behalf, whenever I make mention of you in my prayers.


simplify: Jehovah hath accomplished his wrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; And he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof.

The Lord has given full effect to his passion, he has let loose his burning wrath; he has made a fire in Zion, causing the destruction of its bases.


simplify: And it came to pass, when they brought forth those kings unto Joshua, that Joshua called for all the men of Israel, and said unto the chiefs of the men of war that went with him, Come near, put your feet upon the necks of these kings. And they came near, and put their feet upon the necks of them.

And when they had made those kings come out to Joshua, Joshua sent for all the men of Israel, and said to the chiefs of the men of war who had gone with him, Come near and put your feet on the necks of these kings. So they came near and put their feet on their necks.


simplify: Ye shall keep the sabbath therefore; for it is holy unto you: every one that defileth it shall surely be put to death: for whosoever doeth any work therein, that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

So you are to keep the Sabbath as a holy day; and anyone not honouring it will certainly be put to death: whoever does any work on that day will be cut off from his people.


simplify: From that time forth began Jesus to shew unto his disciples, how that he must go unto Jerusalem, and suffer many things of the elders and chief priests and scribes, and be killed, and be raised again the third day.

At that time Jesus Christ began to explain to his disciples that he must go to Jerusalem, and undergo much suffering at the hands of the councillors, and chief priests, and teachers of the law, and be put to death, and rise on the third day.


simplify: For as many of you as have been baptized into Christ have put on Christ.

For all of you who were baptized into union with Christ clothed yourselves with Christ.


simplify: And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes; all these he brought to Babylon.

And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.


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

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


rate difficulty: And the chief priests and scribes sought how they might kill him; for they feared the people.


rate difficulty: For man also knoweth not his time: as the fishes that are taken in an evil net, and as the birds that are caught in the snare, even so are the sons of men snared in an evil time, when it falleth suddenly upon them.

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


rate difficulty: but if as a christian, let him not be ashamed, but glorifyGod in this name.


rate difficulty: Send me also cedar trees, fir trees, and algum trees, out of Lebanon: for I know that thy servants can skill to cut timber in Lebanon; and, behold, my servants shall be with thy servants,

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


simplify: That which dieth of itself, or is torn with beasts, he shall not eat to defile himself therewith: I am the Lord.

That which comes to a natural death, or is attacked by beasts, he may not take as food, for it will make him unclean: I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: And in the morning Jacob saw that it was Leah: and he said to Laban, What have you done to me? was I not working for you so that I might have Rachel? why have you been false to me?


rate difficulty: For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

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


rate difficulty: Who had been carried away from Jerusalem with the captivity which had been carried away with Jeconiah king of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon had carried away.

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


simplify: Then Laban and Bethuel answered and said, The thing proceedeth from Jehovah: we cannot speak unto thee bad or good.

Then Laban and Bethuel said in answer, This is the Lord's doing: it is not for us to say Yes or No to you.


simplify: Take the sum of the sons of Kohath from among the sons of Levi, after their families, by the house of their fathers,

Let the sons of Kohath, from among the sons of Levi, be numbered by their families, in the order of their fathers' houses;


rate difficulty: You did not give me one kiss, but she, from the moment I came in, has not ceased to kiss my feet.

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


rate difficulty: the censers of these sinners who have forfeited their life; and they shall make them into broad plates for the covering of the altar; for they presented them before Jehovah, therefore they are hallowed; and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel.


rate difficulty: The crowds that led the way, as well as those that followed behind, kept shouting: “God save the Son of David! Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord! God save him from on high!”

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


rate difficulty: The priests: the children of Jedaiah, of the house of Jeshua, nine hundred and seventy-three.


simplify: And they tarried till they were ashamed: and, behold, he opened not the doors of the parlour; therefore they took a key, and opened them: and, behold, their lord was fallen down dead on the earth.

And they went on waiting till they were shamed, but the doors were still shut; so they took the key, and, opening them, saw their lord stretched out dead on the floor.


rate difficulty: And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer-fruit. And Jehovah said unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

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


rate difficulty: And there is a famine in the days of David three years, year after year, and David seeketh the face of Jehovah, and Jehovah saith, `For Saul and for the bloody house, because that he put to death the Gibeonites.'

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


rate difficulty: For the wages of sin is death; but the free gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord.


rate difficulty: And I saw the seven angels who stand beforeGod, and seven trumpets were given to them.

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


rate difficulty: They are dead, they shall not live; they are deceased, they shall not rise: therefore hast thou visited and destroyed them, and made all remembrance of them to perish.

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


simplify: And every base had four brasen wheels, and plates of brass: and the four corners thereof had undersetters: under the laver were undersetters molten, at the side of every addition.

Every base had four wheels of brass, turning on brass rods, and their four angles had angle-plates under them; the angle-plates under the base were of metal, and there were ornaments at the side of every one.


rate difficulty: I was eyes to the blind, and feet was I to the lame;


simplify: And if those days were not shortened, no flesh would have been saved; but because of the chosen, shall those days be shortened.

Had not those days been limited, not a single soul would escape; but for the sake of ‘God’s people’ a limit will be put to them.


simplify: And ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that ye have brought an offering unto your God: it shall be a statute for ever throughout your generations in all your dwellings.

And you may take no bread or dry grain or new grain for food till the very day on which you have given the offering for your God: this is a rule for ever through all your generations wherever you are living.


rate difficulty: Then said Absalom, Call now Hushai the Archite also, and let us hear likewise what he saith.

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


simplify: But if all prophesy, and there come in one that believeth not, or one unlearned, he is convinced of all, he is judged of all:

But if all are teaching as prophets, and a man without faith or knowledge comes in, he is tested by all, he is judged by all;


rate difficulty: And so, putting away false words, let everyone say what is true to his neighbour: for we are parts one of another.


rate difficulty: And the other lamb thou shalt offer at even, and shalt do thereto according to the meal-offering of the morning, and according to the drink-offering thereof, for a sweet savor, an offering made by fire unto Jehovah.

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


rate difficulty: Shall his recompense be as thou wilt, that thou refusest it? For thou must choose, and not I: Therefore speak what thou knowest.

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


simplify: So Tamar went to her brother Amnon’s house; and he was laid down. And she took flour, and kneaded it, and made cakes in his sight, and did bake the cakes.

So Tamar went to her brother Amnon's house; and he was in bed. And she took paste and made cakes before his eyes, cooking them over the fire.


simplify: Then hear thou from the heavens their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their cause.

Then give ear from heaven to their prayer and their cry for grace, and see right done to them.


rate difficulty: And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death: and ye shall slay the beast.

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


simplify: The length of one curtain was thirty cubits, and four cubits was the breadth of one curtain: the eleven curtains were of one size.

Every curtain was thirty cubits long and four cubits wide, all of the same measure.


simplify: Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ:

Blessed is the God and Father of Jesus Christ, our Lord, who has blessed us on high with every spiritual blessing, in Christ.


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

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


rate difficulty: But he shall say, I tell you, I know you not whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.


simplify: He hath swallowed down riches, and he shall vomit them up again; God will cast them out of his belly.

He takes down wealth as food, and sends it up again; it is forced out of his stomach by God.


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

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


rate difficulty: And all the congregation of the children of Israel departed from the presence of Moses.

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


simplify: And the multitude cometh together again, so that they could not so much as eat bread.

And he went into a house. And the people came together again, so that they were not even able to take bread.


simplify: My beloved put in his hand by the holeof the door, And my heart was moved for him.

My loved one put his hand on the door, and my heart was moved for him.


simplify: And every man that hath this hope in him purifieth himself, even as he is pure.

And everyone who has this hope with regard to Christ tries to make themselves pure — as Christ is pure.


rate difficulty: Because of the ground which is cracked, for that no rain hath been in the land, the plowmen are put to shame, they cover their heads.

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


simplify: And another also said, `I will follow thee, sir, but first permit me to take leave of those in my house;'

“Master,” said another, “I will follow you; but first let me say goodbye to my family.”


rate difficulty: And he smote them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and dwelt in the top of the rock Etam.

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


rate difficulty: only that the generations of the children of Israel might know war by learning it, at the least those who before had known nothing thereof:


rate difficulty: As a little thing I have been all evil, In the midst of an assembly and a company.

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah had made a covenant with them, and charged them saying, Ye shall not fear othergods, nor bow down yourselves to them, nor serve them, nor sacrifice to them;

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


simplify: Prepare the table, watch in the watchtower, eat, drink: arise, ye princes, and anoint the shield.

They make ready the table, they put down the covers, they take food and drink. Up! you captains; put oil on your breastplates.


simplify: But foolish and ignorant questionings refuse, knowing that they gender strifes.

And put away foolish and uncontrolled questionings, seeing that they are a cause of trouble.


rate difficulty: while Paul said in his defence, Neither against the law of the Jews, nor against the temple, nor against Cæsar, have I sinned at all.

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


simplify: He remembereth his nobles: they stumble in their march; they make haste to the wall thereof, and the mantelet is prepared.

He takes the record of his great men: they go falling on their way; they go quickly to the wall, the cover is made ready.


rate difficulty: And the little owl and the cormorant and the great owl;


rate difficulty: These were the chiefs of the overseers of Solomon's work, five hundred and fifty, in authority over the people who did the work.


rate difficulty: before the decree bring forth, before the day pass as the chaff, before the fierce anger of Jehovah come upon you, before the day of Jehovah’s anger come upon you.

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


simplify: And said unto him, Hearest thou what these say? And Jesus saith unto them, Yea; have ye never read, Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise?

and said to him: “Do you hear what these boys are saying?”   “Yes,” answered Jesus; “but did you never read the words — ‘Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings you have called forth perfect praise’?”


simplify: Then were going forth unto him Jerusalem, and all Judea, and all the region round about the Jordan,

At that time Jerusalem, and all Judea, as well as the whole district of the Jordan, went out to him


rate difficulty: And Aaron said unto them, Break off the golden earrings, which are in the ears of your wives, of your sons, and of your daughters, and bring them unto me.

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


simplify: And Mordecai came again to the king’s gate. But Haman hasted to his house mourning, and having his head covered.

And Mordecai came back to the king's doorway. But Haman went quickly back to his house, sad and with his head covered.


simplify: Now this I say, that every one of you saith, I am of Paul; and I of Apollos; and I of Cephas; and I of Christ.

That is, that some of you say, I am of Paul; some say, I am of Apollos; some say, I am of Cephas; and some say, I am Christ's.


simplify: journeyings many times, perils of rivers, perils of robbers, perils from kindred, perils from nations, perils in city, perils in wilderness, perils in sea, perils among false brethren;

My journeys have been many. I have been through dangers from rivers, dangers from robbers, dangers from my own people, dangers from the Gentiles, dangers in towns, dangers in the country, dangers on the sea, dangers among people pretending to be followers of the Lord.


simplify: And Judah went with Simeon his brother, and they slew the Canaanites that inhabited Zephath, and utterly destroyed it. And the name of the city was called Hormah.

And Judah went with Simeon, his brother, and overcame the Canaanites living in Zephath, and put it under the curse; and he gave the town the name of Hormah.


simplify: And thou shalt make forty sockets of silver under the twenty boards; two sockets under one board for its two tenons, and two sockets under another board for its two tenons:

With forty silver bases under the twenty boards, two bases under every board to take its tongues.


simplify: And it came to pass that, when the army of the Chaldeans was broken up from Jerusalem for fear of Pharaoh’s army,

And it came about that when the Chaldaean army outside Jerusalem had gone away for fear of Pharaoh's army,


simplify: The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old.

The Lord made me as the start of his way, the first of his works in the past.


simplify: An example take ye of the suffering of evil, my brethren, and of the patience, the prophets who did speak in the name of the Lord;

Friends, as an example of the patient endurance of suffering, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.


simplify: And when he was disposed to pass into Achaia, the brethren wrote, exhorting the disciples to receive him: who, when he was come, helped them much which had believed through grace:

When he wanted to cross to Greece, the followers furthered his plans, and wrote to the disciples there to welcome him. On his arrival he proved of great assistance to those who had, through the loving kindness of God, become believers in Christ,


rate difficulty: and brought his head upon a dish, and gave it to the damsel, and the damsel gave it to her mother.

reading_level: 3 | vocab_complexity: low | archaic_forms: 2 | difficulty: easy


rate difficulty: And we went before to ship, and sailed unto Assos, there intending to take in Paul: for so had he appointed, minding himself to go afoot.

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


simplify: And he said, What meanest thou by all this drove which I met? And he said, These are to find grace in the sight of my lord.

And he said, What were all those herds which I saw on the way? And Jacob said, They were an offering so that I might have grace in my lord's eyes.


rate difficulty: But the centurion, and they who were with him on guard over Jesus, seeing the earthquake and the things that took place, feared greatly, saying, Truly this [man] was Son ofGod.

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


simplify: Become as I <FI>am<Fi> --because I also <FI>am<Fi> as ye brethren, I beseech you; to me ye did no hurt,

I entreat you, friends, to become like me, as I became like you. You have never done me any wrong.


rate difficulty: And the seventh angel poured out his vial into the air; and there came a great voice out of the temple of heaven, from the throne, saying, It is done.

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


simplify: And she vowed a vow, and said, O Lord of hosts, if thou wilt indeed look on the affliction of thine handmaid, and remember me, and not forget thine handmaid, but wilt give unto thine handmaid a man child, then I will give him unto the Lord all the days of his life, and there shall no razor come upon his head.

And she made an oath, and said, O Lord of armies, if you will truly take note of the sorrow of your servant, not turning away from me but keeping me in mind, and will give me a man-child, then I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life, and his hair will never be cut.


rate difficulty: I would that ye all spake with tongues, but rather that ye prophesied: for greater is he that prophesieth than he that speaketh with tongues, except he interpret, that the church may receive edifying.

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


simplify: But new wine must be put into new bottles; and both are preserved.

But new wine has to be put into new wine-skins.


rate difficulty: But they that are minded to be rich fall into a temptation and a snare and many foolish and hurtful lusts, such as drown men in destruction and perdition.

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


simplify: Huz his firstborn, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel the father of Aram,

Uz the oldest, and Buz his brother, and Kemuel, the father of Aram,


simplify: And God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas: and God saw that it was good.

And God gave the dry land the name of Earth; and the waters together in their place were named Seas: and God saw that it was good.


simplify: And Ehud put forth his left hand, and took the sword from his right thigh, and thrust it into his body:

And Ehud put out his left hand, and took the sword from his right side, and sent it into his stomach;


rate difficulty: And having come, she was bowing to him, saying, `Sir, help me;'

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


simplify: And they brought that which Moses commanded before the tent of meeting: and all the congregation drew near and stood before Jehovah.

And they took the things ordered by Moses, before the Tent of meeting, and all the people came near, waiting before the Lord.


simplify: Cease, my son, to hear instruction Onlyto err from the words of knowledge.

A son who no longer gives attention to teaching is turned away from the words of knowledge.


simplify: Or, Who shall descend into the deep? (that is, to bring up Christ again from the dead.)

‘or “Who will go down into the depths below?”’ — which means to bring Christ up from the dead.


simplify: and they brought him word that Jesus the Nazarene doth pass by,

and, when people told him that Jesus of Nazareth was passing,


rate difficulty: And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.

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


rate difficulty: with him will I speak mouth to mouth, even manifestly, and not in dark speeches; and the form of Jehovah shall he behold: wherefore then were ye not afraid to speak against my servant, against Moses?

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


rate difficulty: Thus saith Jehovah, thy Redeemer, and he that formed thee from the womb: I am Jehovah, that maketh all things; that stretcheth forth the heavens alone; that spreadeth abroad the earth (who is with me?);

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


simplify: And after them went Hoshaiah, and half of the princes of Judah,

And after them went Hoshaiah and half of the rulers of Judah,


simplify: Now therefore thus shalt thou say unto my servant David, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, I took thee from the sheepcote, from following the sheep, that thou shouldest be prince over my people Israel:

So now, say to my servant David, The Lord of armies says, I took you from the fields, from keeping sheep, so that you might be a ruler over my people Israel;


rate difficulty: And if you give a meal offering of first-fruits to the Lord, give, as your offering of first-fruits, new grain, made dry with fire, crushed new grain.

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simplify: and last of all, as to the child untimely born, he appeared to me also.

And last of all, as by one whose birth was out of the right time, he was seen by me.


rate difficulty: and I will make them one nation in the land, upon the mountains of Israel; and one king shall be king to them all; and they shall be no more two nations, neither shall they be divided into two kingdoms any more at all;


simplify: And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he blessed him there.

Then Jacob said, What is your name? And he said, What is my name to you? Then he gave him a blessing.


simplify: And Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.

And Barnabas and Saul came back from Jerusalem, when their work was ended, taking with them John named Mark.


rate difficulty: For which reason it was put to his account as righteousness.


rate difficulty: And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.


simplify: ye were freed from the Christ, ye who in law are declared righteous; from the grace ye fell away;

You have severed yourselves from Christ — you who are seeking to be pronounced righteous through law; you have fallen away from love.


rate difficulty: And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,

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rate difficulty: `Thou dost not oppress thy neighbour, nor take plunder; the wages of the hireling doth not remain with thee till morning.

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rate difficulty: And Jonathan, uncle of David, <FI>is<Fi> counsellor, a man of understanding, he is also a scribe; and Jehiel son of Hachmoni <FI>is<Fi> with the sons of the king;

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simplify: And the Lord said, `Who, then, is the faithful and prudent steward whom the lord shall set over his household, to give in season the wheat measure?

“Who, then,”replied the Master, “is that trustworthy steward, the careful man, who will be placed by his master over his establishment, to give them their rations at the proper time?


simplify: Whosoever doth not bear his own cross, and come after me, cannot be my disciple.

Whoever does not take up his cross and come after me may not be my disciple.


simplify: Therefore shall the strong people glorify thee, the city of the terrible nations shall fear thee.

For this cause will the strong people give glory to you, the town of the cruel ones will be in fear of you.


simplify: The domestics! be subjecting yourselves in all fear to the masters, not only to the good and gentle, but also to the cross;

Those of you who are domestic servants should always be submissive and respectful to their masters, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those who are arbitrary.


simplify: Where is boasting then? It is excluded. By what law? of works? Nay: but by the law of faith.

What, then, becomes of our boasting? It is excluded. By what sort of law? A law requiring obedience? No, a law requiring faith.


simplify: For we are bondmen; yet our God hath not forsaken us in our bondage, but hath extended lovingkindness unto us in the sight of the kings of Persia, to give us a reviving, to set up the house of our God, and to repair the ruins thereof, and to give us a wall in Judah and in Jerusalem.

For we are servants; but our God has not been turned away from us in our prison, but has had mercy on us before the eyes of the kings of Persia, to give us new strength to put up again the house of our God and to make fair its waste places, and to give us a wall in Judah and Jerusalem.


simplify: Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.

Come out from among this people, so that I may send sudden destruction on them.


rate difficulty: For these orders which I have given you today are not strange and secret, and are not far away.

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rate difficulty: And there is a word of Jehovah unto Zechariah, saying:

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simplify: And Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days:

And when Moses' hand was stretched out, dark night came over all the land of Egypt for three days;


rate difficulty: Set up a standard against the walls of Babylon, make the watch strong, set the watchmen, prepare the ambushes; for Jehovah hath both purposed and done that which he spake concerning the inhabitants of Babylon.

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simplify: And in the fourteenth day of the first month is the passover of the Lord.

And in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, is the Lord's Passover.


simplify: Howbeit then, when ye knew not God, ye did service unto them which by nature are no gods.

Yet formerly, in your ignorance of God, you became slaves to ‘gods’ which were no gods.


rate difficulty: And her mother in law said unto her, Where hast thou gleaned to day? and where wroughtest thou? blessed be he that did take knowledge of thee. And she shewed her mother in law with whom she had wrought, and said, The man’s name with whom I wrought to day is Boaz.

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simplify: I would declare unto him the number of my steps; as a prince would I go near unto him.

I would make clear the number of my steps, I would put it before him like a prince! The words of Job are ended.


simplify: And do this thing, Take the kings away, every man out of his place, and put captains in their rooms:

This is what you have to do: take away the kings from their positions, and put captains in their places;


simplify: Pridegoethbefore destruction, And a haughty spirit before a fall.

Pride goes before destruction, and a stiff spirit before a fall.


simplify: For I am a man under authority, having soldiers under me: and I say to this man, Go, and he goeth; and to another, Come, and he cometh; and to my servant, Do this, and he doeth it.

For I myself am a man under the orders of others, with soldiers under me; and, if I say to one of them ‘Go,’ he goes, and to another ‘Come,’ he comes, and to my slave ‘Do this,’ he does it.”


simplify: Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned:

The object of all instruction is to call forth that love which comes from a pure heart, a clear conscience, and a sincere faith.