simplify: And one of the four beasts gave unto the seven angels seven golden vials full of the wrath of God, who liveth for ever and ever.

One of the four Creatures gave the seven angels seven golden bowls, filled with the wrath of God who lives for ever and ever.


rate difficulty: Now when Joab saw that the battle was set against him before and behind, he chose out of all the choice of Israel, and put them in array against the Syrians.

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simplify: And he made his camels to kneel down without the city by a well of water at the time of the evening, even the time that women go out to draw water.

And he made the camels take their rest outside the town by the water-spring in the evening, at the time when the women came to get water.


simplify: and a plot having been intimated to me against this man--about to be of the Jews--at once I sent unto thee, having given command also to the accusers to say the things against him before thee; be strong.'

Having, however, information of a plot against the man, which was about to be put into execution, I am sending him to you at once, and I have also directed his accusers to prosecute him before you.’


simplify: That which he labored for shall he restore, and shall not swallow it down; According to the substance that he hath gotten, he shall not rejoice.

He is forced to give back the fruit of his work, and may not take it for food; he has no joy in the profit of his trading.


simplify: Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age--let him become a fool, that he may become wise,

Let no one deceive himself. If any one among you imagines that, as regards this world, they are wise, let them become a ‘fool,’ that they may become wise.


simplify: And Gaal the son of Ebed said, Who is Abimelech, and who is Shechem, that we should serve him? is not he the son of Jerubbaal? and Zebul his officer? serve ye the men of Hamor the father of Shechem: but why should we serve him?

And Gaal, the son of Ebed, said, Who is Abimelech and who is Shechem, that we are to be his servants? Is it not right for the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his captain to be servants to the men of Hamor, the father of Shechem? But why are we to be his servants?


rate difficulty: And they journeyed from Hazeroth, and encamped in Rithmah.

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simplify: And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.

And they came to Elim where there were twelve water-springs and seventy palm-trees: and they put up their tents there by the waters.


rate difficulty: And the people stood up all that day, and all that night, and all the next day, and they gathered the quails: he that gathered least gathered ten homers: and they spread them all abroad for themselves round about the camp.

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


rate difficulty: A righteous man hateth lying: but a wicked man is loathsome, and cometh to shame.

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simplify: Yet in the church I had rather speak five words with my understanding, that by my voice I might teach others also, than ten thousand words in an unknown tongue.

But in the church it would be better for me to make use of five words of which the sense was clear, so that others might have profit, than ten thousand words in a strange tongue.


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

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


simplify: And Ezra opened the book in the sight of all the people (for he was above all the people); and when he opened it, all the people stood up.

And Ezra took the book, opening it before the eyes of all the people (for he was higher than the people); and when it was open, all the people got to their feet:


rate difficulty: and having said these things, and having taken bread, he gave thanks to God before all, and having broken <FI>it<Fi> , he began to eat;

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rate difficulty: Then the priest shall wash his clothes, and he shall bathe his flesh in water, and afterward he shall come into the camp, and the priest shall be unclean until the even.

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simplify: a people great, and many, and tall, as the Anakim; but Jehovah destroyed them before them; and they succeeded them, and dwelt in their stead;

They were a great people, tall as the Anakim, and equal to them in number; but the Lord sent destruction on them and the children of Ammon took their place, living in their land;


rate difficulty: Let us give him to these Ishmaelites for a price, and let us not put violent hands on him, for he is our brother, our flesh. And his brothers gave ear to him.


rate difficulty: — this Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which Jehovah theGod of Israel had given. And the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of Jehovah hisGod upon him.


simplify: And they said unto him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of contumely; for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.

And they said to him, Hezekiah says, This day is a day of trouble and punishment and shame; for the children are ready to come to birth, but there is no strength to give birth to them.


rate difficulty: And the smoke of the incense, with the prayers of the saints, went up before God out of the angel’s hand.

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


simplify: And Jehovah appeared in the Tent in a pillar of cloud: and the pillar of cloud stood over the door of the Tent.

And the Lord was seen in the Tent in a pillar of cloud resting by the door of the Tent.


simplify: He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; He that overcometh shall not be hurt of the second death.

Let those who have ears hear what the Spirit is saying to the churches. Those who conquer will suffer no hurt from the Second Death.”


rate difficulty: And his brethren also went and fell down before his face; and they said, Behold, we are thy servants.

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


rate difficulty: And he saith unto me, `To build to it a house in the land of Shinar.' And it hath been prepared and hath been placed there on its base.

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rate difficulty: And David said to Saul, Who am I? and what is my life, [or] my father's family in Israel, that I should be son-in-law to the king?


simplify: This is the word that the Lord hath spoken concerning him; The virgin the daughter of Zion hath despised thee, and laughed thee to scorn; the daughter of Jerusalem hath shaken her head at thee.

This is the word which the Lord has said about him: In the eyes of the virgin daughter of Zion you are shamed and laughed at; the daughter of Jerusalem has made sport of you.


rate difficulty: Ye have sown much, and bring in little; ye eat, but are not satisfied; ye drink, but are not filled with drink; ye clothe yourselves, but there is none warm; and he that earneth wages earneth wages for a bag with holes.

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


rate difficulty: But they cried out with a loud voice, and stopped their ears, and rushed upon him with one accord;

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rate difficulty: And when they had put leather bands round him, Paul said to the captain who was present, Is it the law for you to give blows to a man who is a Roman and has not been judged?


rate difficulty: But Hannah did not go, for she said to her husband, I will not go till the child has been taken from the breast, and then I will take him with me and put him before the Lord, where he may be for ever.

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


simplify: And if he that sanctified it will redeem his house, then he shall add the fifth part of the money of thy estimation unto it, and it shall be his.

And if the owner has a desire to get back his house, let him give a fifth more than your value, and it will be his.


simplify: Forasmuch then as God gave them the like gift as he did unto us, who believed on the Lord Jesus Christ; what was I, that I could withstand God?

If then God gave them, when they had faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, the same as he gave to us, who was I to go against God?


rate difficulty: Wherefore thou art no more a servant, but a son; and if a son, then an heir of God through Christ.


rate difficulty: Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

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


simplify: And it came to pass at the end of two months, that she returned unto her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had vowed: and she knew not man. And it was a custom in Israel,

And at the end of two months she went back to her father, who did with her as he had said in his oath: and she had never been touched by a man. So it became a rule in Israel,


simplify: Hast thou not procured this unto thyself, in that thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, when he led thee by the way?

Has not this come on you because you have given up the Lord your God, who was your guide by the way?


rate difficulty: that say, Let him make speed, let him hasten his work, that we may see it; and let the counsel of the Holy One of Israel draw nigh and come, that we may know it!

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


simplify: Moreover from the possession of the Levites, and from the possession of the city, being in the midst of that which is the prince’s, between the border of Judah and the border of Benjamin, it shall be for the prince.

And the property of the Levites and the property of the town will be in the middle of the prince's property; between the limit of Judah's part and the limit of Benjamin's part will be for the prince.


rate difficulty: So they took up Jonah, and cast him forth into the sea: and the sea ceased from her raging.


rate difficulty: And when he came, behold, Eli was sitting upon the seat by the way-side watching; for his heart trembled for the ark ofGod. And the man came to tell it in the city, and all the city cried out.

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


rate difficulty: Eluzai, and Jerimoth, and Bealiah, and Shemariah, and Shephatiah the Haruphite,

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


simplify: What is man, that he should be clean? and he which 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?


rate difficulty: Now therefore deliver up the men, the base fellows, that are in Gibeah, that we may put them to death, and put away evil from Israel. But Benjamin would not hearken to the voice of their brethren the children of Israel.

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simplify: Eliphelet the son of Ahasbai, the son of the Maachathite, Eliam the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,

Eliphelet, the son of Ahasbai the Maacathite, Eliam, the son of Ahithophel the Gilonite,


simplify: Then the heavens and the earth, and all that is therein, shall sing for joy over Babylon; for the destroyers shall come unto her from the north, saith Jehovah.

And the heaven and the earth and everything in them, will make a song of joy over Babylon: for those who make her waste will come from the north, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: For I know that after my death ye will utterly corrupt yourselves, and will turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and mischief will befall you at the end of days; because ye do evil in the sight of Jehovah, to provoke him to anger through the work of your hands.

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


simplify: Notwithstanding in this rejoice not, that the spirits are subject unto you; but rather rejoice, because your names are written in heaven.

Yet do not rejoice in the fact that the spirits submit to you, but rejoice that your names have been enrolled in heaven.”


rate difficulty: Only, as the Lord has given to a man, and as is the purpose of God for him, so let him go on living. And these are my orders for all the churches.


simplify: But Amaziah would not hear; for it was of God, that he might deliver them into the hand of their enemies, because they had sought after the gods of Edom.

But Amaziah gave no attention; and this was the purpose of God, so that he might give them up into the hands of Joash, because they had gone after the gods of Edom.


simplify: And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tent of meeting, and shalt wash them with water.

And let Aaron and his sons come to the door of the Tent of meeting, and there let them be washed with water.


simplify: `And this know, that if the master of the house had known what hour the thief doth come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken through;

This you do know, that, had the owner of the house known at what time the thief was coming, he would have been on the watch, and would not have let his house be broken into.


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


simplify: And he said, If Jehovah do not help thee, whence shall I help thee? out of the threshing-floor, or out of the winepress?

And he said, If the Lord does not give you help, where am I to get help for you? from the grain-floor or the grape-crusher?


rate difficulty: And Jehovah said to Gideon, By the three hundred men that lapped will I save you, and give Midian into thy hand; and let all the people go every man to his place.


rate difficulty: For they are life unto those that find them, and health to all their flesh.

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simplify: To give light to them that sit in darkness and in the shadow of death, to guide our feet into the way of peace.

To give light to those in dark places, and in the shade of death, so that our feet may be guided into the way of peace.


rate difficulty: and thou hast said: What <FI>is<Fi> thy mother? --a lioness, Among lions she hath crouched down, In the midst of young lions she hath multiplied her whelps.

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


simplify: Receive him therefore in the Lord with all gladness; and hold such in reputation:

Give him, then, the heartiest of Christian welcomes, and hold such people in great honor.


rate difficulty: and the servants of Saul say unto him, `Lo, we pray thee, a spirit of sadness <FI>from<Fi> God is terrifying thee;

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


rate difficulty: Then said Jonathan unto David, Whatsoever thy soul desireth, I will even do it for thee.

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


simplify: For he said, Surely, they are my people, children that will not deal falsely: so he was their Saviour.

For he said, Truly they are my people, children who will not be false: so he was their saviour out of all their trouble.


simplify: To perform the mercy promised to our fathers, and to remember his holy covenant;

To do acts of mercy to our fathers and to keep in mind his holy word,


simplify: Then Eli called Samuel, and said, Samuel, my son. And he said, Here am I.

Then Eli said, Samuel, my son. And Samuel answering said, Here am I.


rate difficulty: And Mary said,  My soul doth magnify the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers came up with him; and he was much terrified by the archers.

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


simplify: And Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from the presence of Pharaoh, and went throughout all the land of Egypt.

Now Joseph was thirty years old when he came before Pharaoh, king of Egypt. And Joseph went out from before the face of Pharaoh and went through all the land of Egypt.


simplify: Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, When a man shall make a singular vow, the persons shall be for the Lord by thy estimation.

Say to the children of Israel, If a man makes a special oath, you will give your decision as to the value of the persons for the Lord.


simplify: And the king of Egypt spake to the Hebrew midwives, of whom the name of the one was Shiphrah, and the name of the other Puah:

And the king of Egypt said to the Hebrew women who gave help at the time of childbirth (the name of the one was Shiphrah and the name of the other Puah),


simplify: And in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.

And in those days men will be hoping for death, and it will not come to them; and they will have a great desire for death, and death will go in flight from them.


simplify: And I took the little book out of the angel’s hand, and ate it up; and it was in my mouth sweet as honey: and as soon as I had eaten it, my belly was bitter.

I took the little book out of the angel’s hand ‘and ate it, and, while in my mouth, it was like the sweetest honey’; but, when I had eaten it, it was bitter to my stomach.


simplify: Then thou shalt bring her home to thine house; and she shall shave her head, and pare her nails;

Then take her back to your house; and let her hair and her nails be cut;


rate difficulty: that our fathers go down to Egypt, and we dwell in Egypt many days, and the Egyptians do evil to us and to our fathers;

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rate difficulty: For yet a very little while, and the indignation shall cease, and mine anger in their destruction.

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rate difficulty: But when the grain is ready, he quickly sends men to get it cut, because the time for cutting has come.

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simplify: And he said, I will certainly return unto thee when the season cometh round; and, lo, Sarah thy wife shall have a son. And Sarah heard in the tent door, which was behind him.

And he said, I will certainly come back to you in the spring, and Sarah your wife will have a son. And his words came to the ears of Sarah who was at the back of the tent-door.


simplify: Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their own way and by their doings: their way was before me as the uncleanness of a removed woman.

Son of man, when the children of Israel were living in their land, they made it unclean by their way and their acts: their way before me was as when a woman is unclean at the time when she is kept separate.


rate difficulty: nor the seven loaves of the four thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?


simplify: But they know not the thoughts of the Lord, neither understand they his counsel: for he shall gather them as the sheaves into the floor.

But they have no knowledge of the thoughts of the Lord, their minds are not able to see his purpose: for he has got them together like stems of grain to the crushing-floor.


simplify: Wherefore they spake to the king of Assyria, saying, The nations which thou hast carried away, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the law of the god of the land: therefore he hath sent lions among them, and, behold, they slay them, because they know not the law of the god of the land.

So they said to the king of Assyria, The nations whom you have taken as prisoners and put in the towns of Samaria, have no knowledge of the way of the god of the land: so he has sent lions among them, causing their death, because they have no knowledge of his way.


simplify: Honour widows that are widows indeed.

Show consideration for widows — I mean those who are really widowed.


rate difficulty: when John had first preached before his coming the baptism of repentance to all the people of Israel.


simplify: And immediately when Jesus perceived in his spirit that they so reasoned within themselves, he said unto them, Why reason ye these things in your hearts?

And Jesus, having knowledge in his spirit of their thoughts, said to them, Why are you reasoning about these things in your hearts?


simplify: And he from within shall answer and say, Trouble me not: the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; I cannot rise and give thee.

And he, from inside the house, would say in answer, Do not be a trouble to me; the door is now shut, and my children are with me in bed; it is not possible for me to get up and give to you?


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

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


simplify: For if, when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we shall be saved by his life.

For if, when we were God’s enemies, we were reconciled to him through the death of his Son, much more, now that we have become reconciled, will we be saved by virtue of Christ’s life.


rate difficulty: For I have come to set a man at variance with his father, and the daughter with her mother, and the daughter-in-law with her mother-in-law;

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


simplify: And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

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


simplify: And again the anger of Jehovah was kindled against Israel, and he moved David against them, saying, Go, number Israel and Judah.

Again the wrath of the Lord was burning against Israel, and moving David against them, he said, Go, take the number of Israel and Judah.


rate difficulty: If thou prepare thy heart and stretch out thy hands toward him,

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


rate difficulty: Thou hast faith! to thyself have <FI>it<Fi> before God; happy is he who is not judging himself in what he doth approve,

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


rate difficulty: But now, because he hath not visited in his anger, doth not [Job] know [his] great arrogancy?

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


simplify: for we are also in peril of being accused of insurrection in regard to this day, there being no occasion by which we shall be able to give an account of this concourse;'

For I tell you that we are in danger of being proceeded against for today’s riot, there being nothing to account for it; and in that case we will be at a loss to give any reason for this disorderly gathering.”


simplify: and in the place of the boil there is a white rising, or a bright spot, reddish-white, then it shall be showed to the priest;

And on the same place there is a white growth of a bright mark, red and white, then let the priest see it;


simplify: The reward of humility  and  the fear of Jehovah  Isriches, and honor, and life.

The reward of a gentle spirit and the fear of the Lord is wealth and honour and life.


rate difficulty: The north wind driveth away rain: so doth an angry countenance a backbiting tongue.

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt be brought down, and shalt speak out of the ground, and thy speech shall be low out of the dust; and thy voice shall be as of one that hath a familiar spirit, out of the ground, and thy speech shall whisper out of the dust.

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


simplify: And when they had set them in the midst, they inquired, By what power, or in what name, have ye done this?

Then sending for Peter and John, they said, By what power and in whose name have you done this?


simplify: And my temptation which was in my flesh ye despised not, nor rejected; but received me as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.

And you did not have a poor opinion of me because of the trouble in my flesh, or put shame on it; but you took me to your hearts as an angel of God, even as Christ Jesus.


simplify: See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

Look at the people of Israel. Do not those who eat the sacrifices share with the altar?


rate difficulty: And there are who are saying, `We have borrowed money for the tribute of the king, <FI>on<Fi> our fields, and our vineyards;

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


simplify: When he arose, he took the young child and his mother by night, and departed into Egypt:

So he took the young child and his mother by night, and went into Egypt;


simplify: And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet have anointed him king in Gihon: and they are come up from thence rejoicing, so that the city rang again. This is the noise that ye have heard.

And Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him and made him king in Gihon; and they came back from there with joy, and the town was all worked up. This is the noise which has come to your ears.


simplify: Also he took away out of all the cities of Judah the high places and the sun-images: and the kingdom was quiet before him.

And he took away the high places and the sun-images from all the towns of Judah; and the kingdom was quiet under his rule.


simplify: And they shall make the ephod of gold, of blue, and purple, scarlet, and fine twined linen, the work of the skilful workman.

And make the ephod of gold and blue and purple and red and the best linen, the work of a designer.


rate difficulty: The tenth day of this seventh month is the day for the taking away of sin; let it be a holy day of worship; you are to keep from pleasure, and give to the Lord an offering made by fire.

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


simplify: Maon, Carmel, and Ziph, and Juttah,


simplify: And it was so, that when Solomon had made an end of praying all this prayer and supplication unto the Lord, he arose from before the altar of the Lord, from kneeling on his knees with his hands spread up to heaven.

Then Solomon, after making all these prayers and requests for grace to the Lord, got up from his knees before the altar of the Lord, where his hands had been stretched out in prayer to heaven;


rate difficulty: And he shall say, Where are their gods, their rock in whom they trusted,


simplify: For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.

As yet we see, in a mirror, dimly, but then — face to face! As yet my knowledge is incomplete, but then I will know in full, as I have been fully known.


simplify: Thou shalt no more be termed Forsaken; neither shall thy land any more be termed Desolate: but thou shalt be called Hephzi–bah, and thy land Beulah: for the Lord delighteth in thee, and thy land shall be married.

You will not now be named, She who is given up; and your land will no longer be named, The waste land: but you will have the name, My pleasure is in her, and your land will be named, Married: for the Lord has pleasure in you, and your land will be married.


simplify: The wife and the virgin have been distinguished: the unmarried is anxious for the things of the Lord, that she may be holy both in body and in spirit, and the married is anxious for the things of the world, how she shall please the husband.

and so his interests are divided. Again, the unmarried woman, whether she is old or young, is anxious about the Master’s cause, striving to be pure both in body and in spirit, while the married woman is anxious about worldly matters, desiring to please her husband.


simplify: Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.


simplify: And he arose, and departed to his house.

And he got up and went away to his house.


rate difficulty: And he shall go before his face in the spirit and power of Elijah, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to walk in the wisdom of the just; to make ready for the Lord a people prepared for him.

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simplify: Yea, and what have ye to do with me, O Tyre, and Zidon, and all the coasts of Palestine? will ye render me a recompence? and if ye recompense me, swiftly and speedily will I return your recompence upon your own head;

And further, what are you to me, O Tyre and Zidon and all the circle of Philistia? will you give me back any payment? and if you do, quickly and suddenly I will send it back on your head,


simplify: He maketh a path to shine after him; one would think the deep to be hoary.

After him his way is shining, so that the deep seems white.


rate difficulty: And they found fat pasture and good, and the land was wide, and quiet, and peaceable; for they of Ham had dwelt there of old.

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


simplify: Then said his sister to Pharaoh’s daughter, Shall I go and call to thee a nurse of the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for thee?

Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, May I go and get you one of the Hebrew women to give him the breast?


simplify: Which was the son of Joanna, which was the son of Rhesa, which was the son of Zorobabel, which was the son of Salathiel, which was the son of Neri,

Johanan, Rhesa, Zerubbabel, Shealtiel, Neriah,


rate difficulty: And the woman said to him, Behold, thou knowest what Saul has done, how he has cut off the necromancers and the soothsayers out of the land; and why layest thou a snare for my life, to cause me to die?

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


rate difficulty: `And if the whole company of Israel err ignorantly, and the thing hath been hidden from the eyes of the assembly, and they have done <FI>something against<Fi> one of all the commands of Jehovah <FI>concerning things<Fi> which are not to be done, and have been guilty;

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


rate difficulty: The buds and the branches were made of the same metal, all together one complete work of the best hammered gold.

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


simplify: And they took their bones, and buried them under the tamarisk-tree in Jabesh, and fasted seven days.

And their bones they put in the earth under a tree in Jabesh; and for seven days they took no food.


simplify: And the apostles and the elders were gathered together to consider of this matter.

And the Apostles and the rulers of the church came together and gave thought to the question.


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

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


rate difficulty: And they may not make common the holy things which the children of Israel give to the Lord,

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


rate difficulty: Their quiver is an open sepulchre, they are all mighty men.

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


rate difficulty: Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.

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


simplify: Mine eyes do fail with tears, my heart is troubled; My liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without strength in the open squares of the town.


simplify: That thou mayest preserve discretion, And that thy lips may keep knowledge.

So that you may be ruled by a wise purpose, and your lips may keep knowledge.


rate difficulty: And they rose early in the morning, and swore one to another; and Isaac sent them away, and they departed from him in peace.


rate difficulty: Whoso keepeth the law is a wise son; But he that is a companion of gluttons shameth his father.

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


simplify: Evil men understand not judgment: but they that seek the Lord understand all things.

Evil men have no knowledge of what is right; but those who go after the Lord have knowledge of all things.


rate difficulty: Do ye not yet perceive, neither remember the five loaves of the five thousand, and how many baskets ye took up?

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


rate difficulty: So that your faith may be in the Lord, I have made them clear to you this day, even to you.


simplify: Thus I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep fled from mine eyes.

This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.


rate difficulty: And now ye think to shew yourselves strong against the kingdom of Jehovah in the hand of the sons of David; and ye are a great multitude, and ye have with you the golden calves that Jeroboam made you forgods.

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


rate difficulty: Moreover Uzziah built towers in Jerusalem at the corner gate, and at the valley gate, and at the turning of the wall, and fortified them.

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


simplify: And when the queen of Sheba had seen all Solomon’s wisdom, and the house that he had built,

And when the queen of Sheba had seen all the wisdom of Solomon, and the house which he had made,


simplify: And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

“You have answered right,”said Jesus; “do that, and you will live.”


rate difficulty: And let death come to you on the mountain where you are going, and be put to rest with your people; as death came to Aaron, your brother, on Mount Hor, where he was put to rest with his people:


simplify: until the day in which he was received up, after that he had given commandment through the Holy Spirit unto the apostles whom he had chosen:

Till the day when he was taken up to heaven after he had given his orders, through the Holy Spirit, to the Apostles of whom he had made selection:


simplify: thou shalt not be afraid of them: thou shalt well remember what Jehovah thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

Have no fear of them, but keep well in mind what the Lord your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt;


simplify: Sound speech, that cannot be condemned; that he that is of the contrary part may be ashamed, having no evil thing to say of you.

Saying true and right words, against which no protest may be made, so that he who is not on our side may be put to shame, unable to say any evil of us.


rate difficulty: And if any one will at all redeem of his tithes, he shall add thereto the fifth thereof.

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


rate difficulty: Then will they make answer, saying, Lord, when did we see you in need of food or drink, or wandering, or without clothing, or ill, or in prison, and did not take care of you?

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


rate difficulty: And Jehovah put forth his hand and touched my mouth; and Jehovah said unto me, Behold, I have put my words in thy mouth.

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


simplify: And they departed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month; on the morrow after the passover the children of Israel went out with an high hand in the sight of all the Egyptians.

On the fifteenth day of the first month they went out from Rameses; on the day after the Passover the children of Israel went out by the power of the Lord before the eyes of all the Egyptians,


rate difficulty: and I bring a piece of bread, and support ye your heart; afterwards pass on, for therefore have ye passed over unto your servant;' and they say, `So mayest thou do as thou has spoken.'

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


simplify: And he shall make amends for the harm that he hath done in the holy thing, and shall add the fifth part thereto, and give it unto the priest: and the priest shall make an atonement for him with the ram of the trespass offering, and it shall be forgiven him.

And he is to make payment to the priest for what he has done wrong in relation to the holy thing, together with a fifth part of its value in addition; and the priest will take away his sin by the sheep of his offering, and he will have forgiveness.


simplify: Nevertheless Josiah would not turn his face from him, but disguised himself, that he might fight with him, and hearkened not unto the words of Neco from the mouth of God, and came to fight in the valley of Megiddo.

However, Josiah would not go back; but keeping to his purpose of fighting against him, and giving no attention to the words of Neco, which came from God, he went forward to the fight in the valley of Megiddo.


rate difficulty: that Jeremiah goeth out from Jerusalem to go <FI>to<Fi> the land of Benjamin, to receive a portion thence in the midst of the people.

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


simplify: And David came to Baal-perazim, and David smote them there; and he said, Jehovah hath broken mine enemies before me, like the breach of waters. Therefore he called the name of that place Baal-perazim.

And David went to Baal-perazim, and overcame them there; and he said, The Lord has let the forces fighting against me be broken before me as a wall is broken by rushing waters. So that place was named Baal-perazim.


rate difficulty: And thou shalt take two onyx stones, and grave on them the names of the children of Israel:

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


simplify: Thine head upon thee is like Carmel, and the hair of thine head like purple; the king is held in the galleries.

Your head is like Carmel, and the hair of your head is like purple, in whose net the king is prisoner.


simplify: King Agrippa, believest thou the prophets? I know that thou believest.

King Agrippa, have you faith in the prophets? I am certain that you have.


simplify: And there ran a young man, and told Moses, and said, Eldad and Medad do prophesy in the camp.

And a young man went running to Moses and said, Eldad and Medad are acting as prophets in the tent-circle.


simplify: And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot.


simplify: And there were gathered unto him worthless men, base fellows, that strengthened themselves against Rehoboam the son of Solomon, when Rehoboam was young and tender-hearted, and could not withstand them.

And certain foolish and good-for-nothing men were joined with him, and made themselves strong against Rehoboam, the son of Solomon, when he was young and untested and not able to keep them back.


simplify: And he said unto him, Thou hast answered right: this do, and thou shalt live.

And he said, You have given the right answer: do this and you will have life.


rate difficulty: And Abner the son of Ner, and the servants of Ish–bosheth the son of Saul, went out from Mahanaim to Gibeon.

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


simplify: And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all manner of sickness and all manner of disease among the people.

And Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their Synagogues and preaching the good news of the kingdom, and making well those who were ill with any disease among the people.


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

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


rate difficulty: And Solomon had forty thousand stalls of horses for his chariots, and twelve thousand horsemen.

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


rate difficulty: Again, do not you know that your body is a shrine of the Holy Spirit that is within you – the Spirit which you have from God?

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


rate difficulty: And it shall be, when these signs shall come to thee, thou shalt do as thy hand shall find; forGod is with thee.

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


rate difficulty: And he called his ten servants, and delivered them ten pounds, and said unto them, Occupy till I come.


rate difficulty: Thou shalt also take the one ram; and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands upon the head of the ram.

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


rate difficulty: And Eleazar died, and had no sons, but daughters; and their brethren the sons of Kish took them.

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


simplify: For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:

This is God's purpose for you: because Jesus himself underwent punishment for you, giving you an example, so that you might go in his footsteps:


simplify: Little children, guard yourselves from the idols! Amen.

My children, guard yourselves against false ideas of God.


rate difficulty: And it came to pass that when our enemies heard that it was known to us, and thatGod had defeated their counsel, we returned all of us to the wall, every one to his work.

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


rate difficulty: Also we certify you, that touching any of the priests and Levites, the singers, porters, Nethinim, or servants of this house of God, it shall not be lawful to impose tribute, custom, or toll, upon them.

reading_level: 10 | vocab_complexity: high | archaic_forms: 0 | difficulty: hard


rate difficulty: The beasts of the field also cry unto thee; for the water-courses are dried, and the fire hath devoured the pastures of the wilderness.

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


simplify: As I live, saith the King, whose name is Jehovah of hosts, surely like Tabor among the mountains, and like Carmel by the sea, so shall he come.

By my life, says the King, whose name is the Lord of armies, truly, like Tabor among the mountains and like Carmel by the sea, so will he come.


rate difficulty: Of her nobles who should proclaim the kingdom, none are there; and all her princes shall be nought.

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


simplify: What doest thou here? and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out here a sepulchre? hewing him out a sepulchre on high, graving a habitation for himself in the rock!

Who are you, and by what right have you made for yourself a resting-place here?


rate difficulty: And Elijah saith to him, `Abide, I pray thee, here, for Jehovah hath sent me to the Jordan;' and he saith, `Jehovah liveth, and thy soul liveth, if I leave thee;' and they go on both of them,

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


simplify: Ye have feared the sword; and I will bring a sword upon you, saith the Lord God.

You have been fearing the sword, and I will send the sword on you, says the Lord.


rate difficulty: Then said Hezekiah unto Isaiah, Good is the word of the Lord which thou hast spoken. And he said, Is it not good, if peace and truth be in my days?

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


rate difficulty: for it is consecrated by God’s blessing and by prayer.


simplify: For thou wilt heap coals of fire upon his head, And Jehovah will reward thee.

For so you will put coals of fire on his head, and the Lord will give you your reward.


rate difficulty: but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.


simplify: All they shall speak and say unto thee, Art thou also become weak as we? art thou become like unto us?

They all make answer and say to you, Have you become feeble like us? have you been made even as we are?


simplify: And he sent Eliakim, who was over the household, and Shebna the scribe, and the elders of the priests, covered with sackcloth, unto Isaiah the prophet the son of Amoz.

And he sent Eliakim, who was over the house, and Shebna the scribe, and the chief priests, dressed in haircloth, to Isaiah the prophet, the son of Amoz.


simplify: So the realm of Jehoshaphat was quiet; for his God gave him rest round about.

So the kingdom of Jehoshaphat was quiet, for the Lord gave him rest on every side.


simplify: Children’s children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.


rate difficulty: and the ark of God hath been taken, and the two sons of Eli have died, Hophni and Phinehas.

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


rate difficulty: And the veil of the temple was rent in two from the top to the bottom.


simplify: There the prisoners rest together; they hear not the voice of the oppressor.

There the prisoners are at peace together; the voice of the overseer comes not again to their ears.


simplify: And Jehovah spake unto Moses, Go in unto Pharaoh, and say unto him, Thus saith Jehovah, Let my people go, that they may serve me.

And this is what the Lord said to Moses: Go to Pharaoh and say to him, The Lord says, Let my people go so that they may give me worship.


simplify: And one of you say unto them, Depart in peace, be ye warmed and filled; notwithstanding ye give them not those things which are needful to the body; what doth it profit?

and one of you were to say to them — “Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves,” and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them?


simplify: Now Eli was very old, and heard all that his sons did unto all Israel; and how they lay with the women that assembled at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

Now Eli was very old; and he had news from time to time of what his sons were doing to all Israel.


rate difficulty: And the king said to the woman, Go to thy house, and I will give charge concerning thee.

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


rate difficulty: `And in your reaping the harvest of your land ye do not completely reap the corner of thy field, and the gleaning of thy harvest thou dost not gather,

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


simplify: Go ye therefore unto the partings of the highways, and as many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage feast.

Go then to the cross-roads, and get all those whom you see to come to the bride-feast.


rate difficulty: Sons of Shobal: Alian, and Manahath, and Ebal, Shephi, and Onam. And sons of Zideon: Aiah and Anah.

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


simplify: Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.


rate difficulty: And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfulness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary unto me,

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


rate difficulty: Out of his mouth go burning torches, And sparks of fire leap forth.


simplify: And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned, I saw seven golden candlesticks;

I turned to see what voice it was that spoke to me; and when I turned, I saw seven golden lamps,


simplify: For he saith, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I am prudent: and I have removed the bounds of the people, and have robbed their treasures, and I have put down the inhabitants like a valiant man:

For he has said, By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my knowledge, for I am wise: and I have taken away the limits of the peoples' lands, and the stores of their wealth have become mine; and I have made towns low in the dust, sending destruction on those living in them;


rate difficulty: Then in bitter grief they put the bags on the asses again and went back to the town.

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


simplify: for a man is not of a woman, but a woman <FI>is<Fi> of a man,

For it was not man who was taken from woman, but woman who was taken from man.


simplify: Thus saith the Lord God; In the first month, in the first day of the month, thou shalt take a young bullock without blemish, and cleanse the sanctuary:

This is what the Lord has said: In the first month, on the first day of the month, you are to take a young ox without any mark on him, and you are to make the holy place clean.


rate difficulty: And I have given them for a trembling, For evil--to all kingdoms of the earth, For a reproach, and for a simile, For a byword, and for a reviling, In all the places whither I drive them.

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


rate difficulty: Cursed be he that taketh a bribe to slay an innocent person. And all the people shall say, Amen.

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


rate difficulty: Therefore is my harpturnedto mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

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


rate difficulty: Furthermore Jehovah spake unto me, saying, I have seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiffnecked people:

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


simplify: Seest thou a man that is hasty in his words? there is more hope of a fool than of him.

Have you seen a man who is quick with his tongue? There is more hope for a foolish man than for him.


rate difficulty: and the sons of Zilpah, Leah’s handmaid: Gad and Asher: these are the sons of Jacob, that were born to him in Paddan-aram.


rate difficulty: and <FI>one<Fi> slaughtereth, and Moses taketh of its blood, and putteth on the tip of the right ear of Aaron, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot;

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


simplify: And he saith unto them, Come ye after me, and I will make you fishers of men.

And he said to them, Come after me, and I will make you fishers of men.


simplify: and Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.

And Enoch went on in God's ways: and he was not seen again, for God took him.


rate difficulty: I come quickly: hold fast what thou hast, that no one take thy crown.

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


rate difficulty: For neither at any time were we found using words of flattery, as ye know, nor a cloak of covetousness, God is witness;

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


simplify: and Eleazar the priest shall take of her blood with his finger, and sprinkle her blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven times.

Then let Eleazar the priest take some of her blood on his finger, shaking the blood seven times in the direction of the front of the Tent of meeting:


simplify: And the king turned his face about, and blessed all the assembly of Israel: and all the assembly of Israel stood.

Then, turning his face about, the king gave a blessing to all the men of Israel; and they were all on their feet together.


rate difficulty: So again have I thought in these days to do well unto Jerusalem and to the house of Judah: fear ye not.

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


simplify: and Jehovah have removed men far away, and the forsaken places be many in the midst of the land.

And the Lord has taken men far away, and there are wide waste places in the land.


rate difficulty: The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:


simplify: and there withstood them Elymas the magian--for so is his name interpreted--seeking to pervert the proconsul from the faith.

But Elymas, the astrologer (for that is the meaning of the word), opposed them, eager to divert the Governor’s attention from the faith.


rate difficulty: And turned aside hath the envy of Ephraim, And the adversaries of Judah are cut off, Ephraim doth not envy Judah, And Judah doth not distress Ephraim.

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


rate difficulty: And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.

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


simplify: Thorns and snares are in the way of the froward: he that doth keep his soul shall be far from them.

Thorns and nets are in the way of the twisted: he who keeps watch over his soul will be far from them.


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

and if I send them away to their homes hungry, they will break down on the way; and some of them have come a long distance.”


simplify: And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and sang praises unto God: and the prisoners heard them.

But about the middle of the night, Paul and Silas were making prayers and songs to God in the hearing of the prisoners;


simplify: But put forth thy hand now, and touch his bone and his flesh, and he will renounce thee to thy face.

But now, if you only put your hand on his bone and his flesh, he will certainly be cursing you to your face.


simplify: Why gaddest thou about so much to change thy way? thou also shalt be ashamed of Egypt, as thou wast ashamed of Assyria.

Why do you go about so much for the purpose of changing your way? you will be shamed on account of Egypt, as you were shamed on account of Assyria.


rate difficulty: (and He manifested in proper times His word,) in preaching, which I was entrusted with, according to a charge of God our Saviour,

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


simplify: But to each one is given the manifestation of the Spirit to profit withal.

But to every man some form of the Spirit's working is given for the common good.


simplify: And all Israel buried him, and mourned for him, according to the word of Jehovah, which he spake by his servant Ahijah the prophet.

And all Israel put his body to rest, weeping over him, as the Lord had said by his servant Ahijah the prophet.


simplify: Shepherds with their flocks shall come unto her; they shall pitch their tents against her round about; they shall feed every one in his place.

Keepers of sheep with their flocks will come to her; they will put up their tents round her; everyone will get food in his place.


rate difficulty: Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.

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


simplify: Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

This is what the Lord has said: Do what is right, judging uprightly, and make free from the hands of the cruel one him whose goods have been violently taken away: do no wrong and be not violent to the man from a strange country and the child without a father and the widow, and let not those who have done no wrong be put to death in this place.


simplify: Which did eat the fat of their sacrifices, Anddrank the wine of their drink-offering? Let them rise up and help you, Let them be your protection.

Who took the fat of their offerings, and the wine of their drink offering? Let them now come to your help, let them be your salvation.


rate difficulty: For you will be in agreement with the stones of the earth, and the beasts of the field will be at peace with you.

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


rate difficulty: `And thy heavens which <FI>are<Fi> over thy head have been brass, and the earth which <FI>is<Fi> under thee iron;

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


rate difficulty: Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity: because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee.

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


simplify: And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.

On reaching Salamis, they began to tell the message of God in the Jewish Synagogues; and they had John with them as an assistant.


rate difficulty: Listen to me, you who say ‘Today or tomorrow we will go to such and such a town, spend a year there, and trade, and make money,’

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


rate difficulty: And thou shalt make loops of blue upon the edge of the one curtain from the selvedge in the coupling; and likewise shalt thou make in the edge of the curtain that is outmost in the second coupling.

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


simplify: Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.

Out of heaven itself his voice came to you, teaching you; and on earth he let you see his great fire; and his words came to your ears out of the heart of the fire.


simplify: But me, even me thy servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and thy servant Solomon, hath he not called.

But me, your servant, and Zadok the priest, and Benaiah, the son of Jehoiada, and your servant Solomon, he has not sent for.


rate difficulty: and didst shew signs and wonders upon Pharaoh, and upon all his servants, and upon all the people of his land; for thou knewest that they dealt proudly against them, and thou didst make thee a name, as it is this day.

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


simplify: And Haman recounted unto Zeresh his wife and all his friends everything that had befallen him. Then said his wise men and Zeresh his wife unto him, If Mordecai, before whom thou hast begun to fall, be of the seed of the Jews, thou shalt not prevail against him, but shalt surely fall before him.

And Haman gave his wife Zeresh and all his friends an account of what had taken place. Then his wise men and his wife Zeresh said to him, If Mordecai, who is starting to get the better of you, is of the seed of the Jews, you will not be able to do anything against him, but you will certainly go down before him.


simplify: And the porch that was in the front of the house, the length of it was according to the breadth of the house, twenty cubits, and the height was an hundred and twenty: and he overlaid it within with pure gold.

And the covered way in front of the house was twenty cubits long, as wide as the house, and a hundred and twenty cubits high, all plated inside with the best gold.


rate difficulty: They next went through the Phrygian district of Galatia, but were restrained by the Holy Spirit from delivering the message in Roman Asia.

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


rate difficulty: Whoso loveth discipline loveth knowledge, but he that hateth reproof is brutish.

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


rate difficulty: This we will do to them, and let them live, lest wrath come upon us, because of the oath which we swore unto them.

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


rate difficulty: But Jesus took him by the hand, and raised him up; and he arose.

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


simplify: Moreover as for me, far be it from me that I should sin against Jehovah in ceasing to pray for you: but I will instruct you in the good and the right way.

And as for me, never will I go against the orders of the Lord by giving up my prayers for you: but I will go on teaching you the good and right way.


rate difficulty: And he shall sit [as] a refiner and purifier of silver; and he will purify the children of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver; and they shall offer unto Jehovah an oblation in righteousness.

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


rate difficulty: These people are like springs without water, or mists driven before a gale; and for them the blackest darkness has been reserved.

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


simplify: And Jesus said to him, `Why me dost thou call good? no one <FI>is<Fi> good except One--God;

“Why do you call me good?”answered Jesus. “No one is good but God.


rate difficulty: The desire of the evil-doer is fixed on evil: he has no kind feeling for his neighbour.

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


rate difficulty: And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:


simplify: And as soon as he knew that he belonged unto Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who himself also was at Jerusalem at that time.

and, having satisfied himself that Jesus came under Herod’s jurisdiction, he sent him to Herod, who also was at Jerusalem at the time.


simplify: And next to him was Jehohanan the captain, and with him two hundred and fourscore thousand.

Second to him Jehohanan, the captain, and with him two hundred and eighty thousand;


simplify: And when they drew nigh unto Jerusalem, and were come to Bethphage, unto the mount of Olives, then sent Jesus two disciples,

And when they were near Jerusalem, and had come to Beth-phage, to the Mountain of Olives, Jesus sent two disciples,


simplify: Meraioth begat Amariah, and Amariah begat Ahitub,

Meraioth was the father of Amariah, and Amariah was the father of Ahitub,


simplify: A trespass-offering mocketh fools; But among the upright there is good will.

In the tents of those hating authority there is error, but in the house of the upright man there is grace.


simplify: Hollow with boards shalt thou make it: as it was shewed thee in the mount, so shall they make it.

The altar is to be hollow, boarded in with wood; make it from the design which you saw on the mountain.


simplify: But bade them farewell, saying, I must by all means keep this feast that cometh in Jerusalem: but I will return again unto you, if God will. And he sailed from Ephesus.

And went from them, saying, I will come back to you if God lets me; and he took ship from Ephesus.


rate difficulty: Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,

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


rate difficulty: But truly I say to you, Some of those who are here now will have no taste of death till they see the kingdom of God.


simplify: But meat commendeth us not to God: for neither, if we eat, are we the better; neither, if we eat not, are we the worse.

But God's approval of us is not based on the food we take: if we do not take it we are no worse for it; and if we take it we are no better.


simplify: And Jehovah said unto Gideon, The people that are with thee are too many for me to give the Midianites into their hand, lest Israel vaunt themselves against me, saying, Mine own hand hath saved me.

And the Lord said to Gideon, So great is the number of your people, that if I give the Midianites into their hands they will be uplifted in pride over me and will say, I myself have been my saviour.


rate difficulty: And he made the great deep open and a smoke went up from it, like the smoke of a great oven; and the sun and the air were made dark because of the smoke.


rate difficulty: And the Lord said to Jehu, Because you have done well in doing what is right in my eyes and effecting all my purpose for the family of Ahab, your sons will be kings of Israel to the fourth generation.

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


simplify: and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt-offerings unto Baal; which I commanded not, nor spake it, neither came it into my mind:

And they have put up the high places of the Baal, burning their sons in the fire; a thing which was not ordered by me, and it was never in my mind:


rate difficulty: and Moses saith unto them, `If the sons of Gad and the sons of Reuben pass over with you the Jordan, every one armed for battle, before Jehovah, and the land hath been subdued before you, then ye have given to them the land of Gilead for a possession;

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


simplify: And they cast lots, as well the small as the great, according to the house of their fathers, for every gate.

And the families were taken by the decision of the Lord for every door; the small family had the same chance as the great.


simplify: saying, The prison-house we found shut in all safety, and the keepers standing at the doors: but when we had opened, we found no man within.

Saying, The doors of the prison were safely shut, and the keepers were at the doors, but when they were open, there was nobody inside.


simplify: And Jehovah thy God will put all these curses upon thine enemies, and on them that hate thee, that persecuted thee.

And the Lord your God will put all these curses on those who are against you, and on your haters who put a cruel yoke on you.


simplify: And this they did, not as we hoped, but first gave their own selves to the Lord, and unto us by the will of God.

And that, not only in the way we had expected; but first they gave themselves to the Lord, and to us also, in accordance with God’s will.


simplify: Remember that thou magnify his work, Whereof men have sung.

See that you give praise to his work, about which men make songs.


simplify: and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.

And Heman and Jeduthun had horns and brass instruments sounding loudly, and instruments of music for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun were to be at the door.


simplify: so, then, brethren, stand ye fast, and hold the deliverances that ye were taught, whether through word, whether through our letter;

Stand firm then, friends, and hold fast to the truths that we taught you, whether by word or by letter.


simplify: A man that flattereth his neighbour spreadeth a net for his feet.

A man who says smooth things to his neighbour is stretching out a net for his steps.


rate difficulty: And there were more chiefs among the sons of Eleazar than among the sons of Ithamar; and this is how they were grouped: of the sons of Eleazar there were sixteen, all heads of families; and of the sons of Ithamar, heads of families, there were eight.

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


rate difficulty: Thou shalt not be afraid of them: but shalt well remember what the Lord thy God did unto Pharaoh, and unto all Egypt;

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


simplify: in whom are all the treasures of the wisdom and the knowledge hid,

even Christ himself, in whom all treasures of wisdom and knowledge lie hidden.


rate difficulty: For David, after he had in his own generation served the counsel of God, fell asleep, and was laid unto his fathers, and saw corruption:

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


rate difficulty: Pharaoh king of Egypt, and his servants, And his heads, and all his people,


simplify: It is high as heaven; what canst thou do? Deeper than Sheol; what canst thou know?

They are higher than heaven; what is there for you to do? deeper than the underworld, and outside your knowledge;


rate difficulty: And he took the crown of their king from off his head, the weight of which was a talent of gold with [the] precious stones; and it was [set] on David's head; and he brought forth the spoil of the city in great abundance.


rate difficulty: The two pillars, the great water-vessel, and the twelve brass oxen which were under it, and the ten wheeled bases, which King Solomon had made for the house of the Lord: the brass of all these vessels was without weight.

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


simplify: And their border was Jazer, and all the cities of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, unto Aroer that is before Rabbah;

And their limit was Jazer, and all the towns of Gilead, and half the land of the children of Ammon, to Aroer before Rabbah;


rate difficulty: And Samuel saith to the cook, `Give the portion which I gave to thee, of which I said unto thee, `Set it by thee?'

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


simplify: And certain of them did believe, and attached themselves to Paul and to Silas, also of the worshipping Greeks a great multitude, of the principal women also not a few.

Some of the people were convinced, and threw in their lot with Paul and Silas, as did also a large body of Greeks who were accustomed to join in the Jewish services, and a great number of leading women.


rate difficulty: For a great door and effectual is opened unto me, and there are many adversaries.

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


rate difficulty: And the word of Jehovah came to him saying,

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


rate difficulty: and no man cometh up with thee, and also no man is seen in all the mount, also the flock and the herd do not feed over-against that mount.'

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


simplify: Now the God of patience and consolation grant you to be likeminded one toward another according to Christ Jesus:

Now may the God who gives comfort and strength in waiting make you of the same mind with one another in harmony with Christ Jesus:


simplify: Sing unto the Lord, all the earth; shew forth from day to day his salvation.

Make songs to the Lord, all the earth; give the good news of his salvation day by day.


simplify: Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?

Was it not necessary for the Christ to go through these things, and to come into his glory?


rate difficulty: And Moses saith unto them, `If ye do this thing: if ye are armed before Jehovah for battle,

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


rate difficulty: Now these are their dwelling-places according to their encampments in their borders: to the sons of Aaron, of the families of the Kohathites (for theirs was the first lot),

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


simplify: Or if the raw flesh turn again, and be changed unto white, he shall come unto the priest;

Or if the diseased flesh is turned again and changed to white then he is to come to the priest,


simplify: Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? But in the time of his old age he was diseased in his feet.

Now the rest of the acts of Asa, and his power, and all he did, and the towns of which he was the builder, are they not recorded in the book of the history of the kings of Judah? But when he was old he had a disease of the feet.


simplify: In Jehovah shall all the seed of Israel be justified, and shall glory.

In the Lord will all the seed of Israel get their rights, and they will give glory to him.


simplify: Wherefore tongues are for a sign, not to them that believe, but to them that believe not: but prophesying serveth not for them that believe not, but for them which believe.

Therefore the gift of the ‘tongues’ is intended as a sign, not for those who believe in Christ, but for those who do not, while the gift of preaching is intended as a sign, not for those who do not believe in Christ, but for those who do.


rate difficulty: And let the maiden which pleaseth the king be queen instead of Vashti. And the thing pleased the king; and he did so.

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


simplify: for, if in the green tree they do these things--in the dry what may happen?'

If what you see is done while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”


rate difficulty: Now therefore, I pray thee, pardon my sin, and turn again with me, that I may worship Jehovah.


simplify: And out of them shall proceed thanksgiving and the voice of them that make merry: and I will multiply them, and they shall not be few; I will also glorify them, and they shall not be small.

And from them will go out praise and the sound of laughing: and I will make them great in number, and they will not become less; and I will give them glory, and they will not be small.


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


rate difficulty: And if he have no daughter, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his brethren.

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


simplify: But thine eyes and thy heart are not but for thy covetousness, and for shedding innocent blood, and for oppression, and for violence, to do it.

But your eyes and your heart are fixed only on profit for yourself, on causing the death of him who has done no wrong, and on violent and cruel acts.


rate difficulty: Hear ye this word that Jehovah hath spoken concerning you, O sons of Israel, concerning all the family that I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:

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


simplify: And the name of the daughter of Asher was Sarah.

And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.


rate difficulty: Receive, I pray thee, from His mouth a law, And set His sayings in thy heart.

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


simplify: for he that hath died is justified from sin.

Because he who is dead is free from sin.


rate difficulty: and hath extended lovingkindness unto me before the king, and his counsellors, and before all the king’s mighty princes. And I was strengthened according to the hand of Jehovah my God upon me, and I gathered together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.

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


simplify: But the men put forth their hand, and brought Lot into the house to them, and shut to the door.

But the men put out their hands and took Lot into the house to them, shutting the door again.


rate difficulty: For I deliver the afflicted who is crying, And the fatherless who hath no helper.

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


rate difficulty: And next unto them repaired Meremoth the son of Urijah, the son of Koz. And next unto them repaired Meshullam the son of Berechiah, the son of Meshezabeel. And next unto them repaired Zadok the son of Baana.

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


rate difficulty: What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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


simplify: And he said unto them, Is it well with him? And they said, It is well: and, behold, Rachel his daughter cometh with the sheep.

And he said to them, Is he well? And they said, He is well, and here is Rachel his daughter coming with the sheep.


rate difficulty: and Zacharias, having seen, was troubled, and fear fell on him;

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


simplify: As soon as the morning was light, the men were sent away, they and their asses.

And at dawn the men, with their asses, were sent away.


rate difficulty: even so ye also, when ye see these things coming to pass, know ye that he is nigh, even at the doors.

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


rate difficulty: For the Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was preached among you by us, even by me and Silvanus and Timotheus, was not yea and nay, but in him was yea.

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


rate difficulty: ... So give thought to your spirit, and let no one be false to the wife of his early years.


simplify: And there shall be no curse any more: and the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be therein: and his servants shall serve him;

And there will be no more curse: and the high seat of God and of the Lamb will be there; and his servants will be worshipping him;


simplify: For the Lord thy God walketh in the midst of thy camp, to deliver thee, and to give up thine enemies before thee; therefore shall thy camp be holy: that he see no unclean thing in thee, and turn away from thee.

For the Lord your God is walking among your tents, to keep you safe and to give up into your hands those who are fighting against you; then let your tents be holy, so that he may see no unclean thing among you, and be turned away from you.


simplify: and let these also first be proved, then let them minister, being unblameable.

They should be tested first, and only appointed to their office if no objection is raised against them.


rate difficulty: and Nogah, and Nepheg, and Japhia,

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


rate difficulty: Have ye suffered so many things in vain? if it be yet in vain.

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


rate difficulty: Water shall flow from his buckets, And his seed shall be in many waters, And his king shall be higher than Agag, And his kingdom shall be exalted.

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


simplify: And he opened the bottomless pit; and there arose a smoke out of the pit, as the smoke of a great furnace; and the sun and the air were darkened by reason of the smoke of the pit.

He opened the bottomless pit, and from the pit rose a smoke like the smoke of a great furnace. The sun and the air grew dark because of the smoke from the pit.


simplify: So, then, as through one offence to all men <FI>it is<Fi> to condemnation, so also through one declaration of `Righteous' <FI>it is<Fi> to all men to justification of life;

Briefly then, just as a single offense resulted for all humanity in condemnation, so, too, a single decree of righteousness resulted for all humanity in that declaration of righteousness which brings life.


simplify: The wilderness and the solitary place shall be glad for them; and the desert shall rejoice, and blossom as the rose.

The waste land and the dry places will be glad; the lowland will have joy and be full of flowers.


simplify: I say unto you, that even so there shall be joy in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine righteous persons, who need no repentance.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.


rate difficulty: Then indeed also those who have fallen asleep in Christ have perished.

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


rate difficulty: Your ox will be put to death before your eyes, but its flesh will not be your food: your ass will be violently taken away before your face, and will not be given back to you: your sheep will be given to your haters, and there will be no saviour for you.

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


simplify: Surely such are the dwellings of the wicked, and this is the place of him that knoweth not God.

Truly, these are the houses of the sinner, and this is the place of him who has no knowledge of God.


simplify: And she conceived, and bare a son; and he called his name Er.

And she gave birth to a son, and he gave him the name Er.


simplify: Then said Joab to Cushi, Go tell the king what thou hast seen. And Cushi bowed himself unto Joab, and ran.

Then Joab said to the Cushite, Go and give the king word of what you have seen. And the Cushite, making a sign of respect to Joab, went off running.


rate difficulty: And so they may get themselves free from the net of the Evil One, being made the prisoners of the Lord's servant, for the purpose of God.

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


simplify: And the sword shall fall upon their cities, and shall consume their bars, and devour them, because of their own counsels.

And the sword will go through his towns, wasting his children and causing destruction because of their evil designs.


simplify: And their feet were straight feet; and the sole of their feet was like the sole of a calf’s foot: and they sparkled like the colour of burnished brass.

And their feet were straight feet; and the under sides of their feet were like the feet of oxen; and they were shining like polished brass.


simplify: Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.

Before his shining light his dark clouds went past, raining ice and coals of fire.


simplify: And when he was come to the king, the king said unto him, Micaiah, shall we go to Ramoth-gilead to battle, or shall we forbear? And he answered him, Go up and prosper; and Jehovah will deliver it into the hand of the king.

When he came to the king, the king said to him, Micaiah, are we to go to Ramoth-gilead to make war or not? And in answer he said, Go up, and it will go well for you; and the Lord will give it into the hands of the king.


simplify: have ye not known that ye are a sanctuary of God, and the Spirit of God doth dwell in you?

Do not you know that you are God’s Temple, and that God’s Spirit has his home in you?


simplify: till we all attain unto the unity of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a fullgrown man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Christ:

Till we all come to the harmony of the faith, and of the knowledge of the Son of God, to full growth, to the full measure of Christ:


rate difficulty: And we build the wall, and all the wall is joined--unto its half, and the people have a heart to work.

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


rate difficulty: And as they were loosing the colt, the owners thereof said unto them, Why loose ye the colt?

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


rate difficulty: Where is then the blessedness ye spake of? for I bear you record, that, if it had been possible, ye would have plucked out your own eyes, and have given them to me.

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


simplify: I say then, Did they stumble that they might fall? God forbid: but by their fall salvation is come unto the Gentiles, to provoke them to jealousy.

So I say, Were their steps made hard in order that they might have a fall? In no way: but by their fall salvation has come to the Gentiles, so that they might be moved to envy.


simplify: Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord,

When I went to the district around Troas to tell the good news of the Christ, even though there was an opening for serving the Master,


rate difficulty: Doth a virgin forget her ornaments, a bride her attire? But my people have forgotten me days without number.

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


simplify: I say unto you, that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and nine just persons, which need no repentance.

I say to you that even so there will be more joy in heaven when one sinner is turned away from his wrongdoing, than for ninety-nine good men, who have no need of a change of heart.


simplify: And cast ye the unprofitable servant into outer darkness: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

As for the useless servant, ‘put him out into the darkness’ outside, where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.’


simplify: And they found written in the law which the Lord had commanded by Moses, that the children of Israel should dwell in booths in the feast of the seventh month:

And they saw that it was recorded in the law that the Lord had given orders by Moses, that the children of Israel were to have tents for their living-places in the feast of the seventh month:


simplify: Yea, the hind also calved in the field, and forsook it, because there was no grass.

And the roe, giving birth in the field, lets her young one be uncared for, because there is no grass.


rate difficulty: In yet three days will Pharaoh lift up thy head from off thee, and hang thee on a tree; and the birds will eat thy flesh from off thee.

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


rate difficulty: `A generation evil and adulterous doth seek a sign, and a sign shall not be given to it, except the sign of Jonah the prophet;' and having left them he went away.

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


simplify: And David said unto Nathan, I have sinned against Jehovah. And Nathan said unto David, Jehovah also hath put away thy sin; thou shalt not die.

And David said to Nathan, Great is my sin against the Lord. And Nathan said to David, The Lord has put away your sin; death will not come on you.


simplify: And if she be not able to bring a lamb, then she shall bring two turtles, or two young pigeons; the one for the burnt offering, and the other for a sin offering: and the priest shall make an atonement for her, and she shall be clean.

And if she has not money enough for a lamb, then let her take two doves or two young pigeons, one for a burned offering and the other for a sin-offering, and the priest will take away her sin and she will be clean,


simplify: And he said unto them, `Take nothing for the way, neither staff, nor scrip, nor bread, nor money; neither have two coats each;

“Do not,”he said to them, “take anything for your journey; not even a staff, or a bag, or bread, or any silver, or a change of clothes with you.


rate difficulty: To the children of Gershom [were given] out of the family of the half tribe of Manasseh: Golan in Bashan and its suburbs, and Ashtaroth and its suburbs;

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


simplify: And it came to pass on the day when Jehovah spake unto Moses in the land of Egypt,

And on the day when the word of the Lord came to Moses in the land of Egypt,


rate difficulty: The king that faithfully judgeth the poor, His throne shall be established for ever.

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


rate difficulty: And when the days of his mourning were past, Joseph spake unto the house of Pharaoh, saying, If now I have found grace in your eyes, speak, I pray you, in the ears of Pharaoh, saying,

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


rate difficulty: And God said unto him in a dream, Yea, I know that thou didst this in the integrity of thy heart; for I also withheld thee from sinning against me: therefore suffered I thee not to touch her.

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


rate difficulty: for Jehovah your God is he that goeth with you, to fight for you against your enemies, to save you.

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


rate difficulty: and crying with a great voice, saying, `The salvation <FI>is<Fi> to Him who is sitting upon the throne--to our God, and to the Lamb!'

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


rate difficulty: Then Abner looked behind him, and said, Art thou Asahel? And he answered, I am.

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


simplify: Rob not the poor, because he is poor; Neither oppress the afflicted in the gate:

Do not take away the property of the poor man because he is poor, or be cruel to the crushed ones when they come before the judge:


simplify: Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.


rate difficulty: And this one hath called unto that, and hath said: `Holy, Holy, Holy, <FI>is<Fi> Jehovah of Hosts, The fulness of all the earth <FI>is<Fi> His glory.'

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


rate difficulty: Moreover at the time when the seventh angel will speak, when he is ready to blow his blast, then the hidden purposes of God, of which he told the good news to his servants, the prophets, are at once fulfilled.

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


simplify: Then let mine arm fall from my shoulder blade, and mine arm be broken from the bone.

May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.


rate difficulty: And Ishmael the son of Nethaniah went forth from Mizpah to meet them, weeping all along as he went; and it came to pass when he met them, he said unto them, Come to Gedaliah the son of Ahikam.


rate difficulty: And no sin will be yours on account of it, when the best of it has been lifted up on high; you are not to make a wrong use of the holy things of the children of Israel, so that death may not overtake you.

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


simplify: Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the Lord.

And I will make my name great and make myself holy, and I will make myself clear to a number of nations; and they will be certain that I am the Lord.


rate difficulty: But the Lord is in his holy Temple: let all the earth be quiet before him.

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


simplify: And the tongue is a fire, a world of iniquity: so is the tongue among our members, that it defileth the whole body, and setteth on fire the course of nature; and it is set on fire of hell.

And the tongue is a fire; it is the power of evil placed in our bodies, making all the body unclean, putting the wheel of life on fire, and getting its fire from hell.


simplify: Lo, their prosperity is not in their hand: The counsel of the wicked is far from me.

Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)


simplify: `And I say to you, Every one--whoever may confess with me before men, the Son of Man also shall confess with him before the messengers of God,

Everyone, I tell you, who publicly acknowledges me, the Son of Man, also, will acknowledge before God’s angels;


simplify: And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the Lord overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:

And that all the land is a salt and smoking waste, not planted or giving fruit or clothed with grass, but wasted like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, on which the Lord sent destruction in the heat of his wrath:


simplify: And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.

But there were still seven tribes among the children of Israel who had not taken up their heritage.


simplify: Saying, This man began to build, and was not able to finish.

And saying, This man made a start at building and is not able to make it complete.


rate difficulty: Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall the sun be darkened, and the moon shall not give her light, and the stars shall fall from heaven, and the powers of the heavens shall be shaken:

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


rate difficulty: For I say that Jesus Christ became a minister of [the] circumcision for [the] truth ofGod, to confirm the promises of the fathers;

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


rate difficulty: And I said to the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may set me forward till I come into Judah;

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


simplify: Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.

Therefore submit to God; but resist the devil, and he will flee from you.


simplify: And straightway there fell from his eyes as it were scales, and he received his sight; and he arose and was baptized;

And straight away it seemed as if a veil was taken from his eyes, and he was able to see; and he got up, and had baptism;


simplify: And he went away, and communed with the chief priests and captains, how he might deliver him unto them.

And he went away and had a discussion with the chief priests and the rulers, about how he might give him up to them.


simplify: Ye shall make you no idols nor graven image, neither rear you up a standing image, neither shall ye set up any image of stone in your land, to bow down unto it: for I am the Lord your God.

Do not make images of false gods, or put up an image cut in stone or a pillar or any pictured stone in your land, to give worship to it; for I am the Lord your God.


simplify: And the children of Israel were fruitful, and increased abundantly, and multiplied, and waxed exceeding mighty; and the land was filled with them.

And the children of Israel were fertile, increasing very greatly in numbers and in power; and the land was full of them.


simplify: We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance in the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.

We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have given birth to wind; no salvation has come to the earth through us, and no children have come into the world.


rate difficulty: Because of this I will give you praise, O Lord, among the nations, and will make a song of praise to your name.

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